Milky said:
My post was not an attack at investing money in Pokemon, although I am making a statement that rogue decks are bad. I personally think the high prices of certain Pokemon Cards are appropriate because they PREVENT the twelve year olds who do netdeck everything. My comment was a shot at the fact Pokemon has a much younger playerbase. If Darkrai were the price of dirt, our meta would look a lot like PlayTCG, where you can play any deck you want at no cost. It's pathetic really, I can't get much play testing against CMT etc. because it is filled with noobs and their free Darkrai decks roaming about. I personally have invested a lot of money into my ZekEels deck IRL and think the tins were a bad move. Thank god Darkrai and Mewtwo won't be so dominant post rotation, it's the Rayquaza I'm worried about.
Silver is correct in saying that there will be top tier decks that will trump rogue decks, because the top tier stuff performs the best and the rogues are decks nobody plays because they are t mainstream, nor viable in a meta full of top tier decks, because they get ROFLstomped. I don't think any deck can be called rogue when it reaches Tier 1 - 1.5.
If I MUST acknowledge Deckbuilding skill, it'd be a very small factor. Current format deck building works a lot like this: "Oh 4 Junk Arm and Catcher are staples so I'm definitely putting these in!" and I speculate not much will change in the new format.
First of all, there's nothing wrong with people playing the best deck regardless of cost. You shouldn't win simply because you were willing to invest money into a more expensive deck, although I do understand having to buy something more than a theme deck, but "whoever paid the most wins" is not the kind of game that most people want to play. If the people in your area aren't playing the best decks like the people on playtcg and you want to test against other decks, simply ask around for someone willing to use the deck you want to test against-its not that hard.
And you're worried about Rayquaza next format.
This is the part that makes it evident that you haven't tested it all. Rayquaza is, frankly, trash. It does poorly against every top tier deck in the format. Garchomp gets easy OHKOs on it for 2 prizes in one turn without giving Rayquaza any chances to keep up in the prize exchange. Darkrai 2HKOs Rayquaza and Rayquaza needs 4-5 energy, burning 3-4, to KO it-not something it can do reliably when Darkrai is killing off the the Eels starting t2. Big basics such as Terrakion and Zekrom just cause Rayquaza to burn a ton of energy for a single prize and can keep up an even prize trade at the same time.
And seriously, you don't seem to know what you're saying with rogue decks either. Rogue decks are decks nobody plays because they are too mainstream? Somebody give me another desk because I just facedesked the one I'm using so hard that it broke. The whole point of a rogue deck is that its
not mainstream. You don't think a deck can be rogue and tier 1-1.5 at the same time? So, considering that google Cawthon, who t2ed worlds in masters last year, was the only person in the whole event running The Truth, you either consider a deck that 1 person in the whole worlds tournament runs not a rogue, or you consider the deck that t2ed worlds not tier 1-1.5. Or both.
So you're saying that having staples is bad because it takes away skill? On top of the thought of a game without staples being fairly ridiculous, it actually requires skill in deckbuilding. First of all, if there are no cards in the format necessary to success, this means that practically anything can be good regardless of the decklist. While we want rogue decks, we do not want a format where you can add basically any cards and the decklist is still competitive because then there's no skill in deckbuilding. In addition, having certain spots in your decklist that
must be used for a certain card gives you less space to work with, therefore making deckbuilding more difficult because you cannot simply go 3-4 of every card you could want in the deck, you must carefully decide which cards are worth the space.
