Subject: Re: Has the Dojo changed Magic?
Date: Tue, 05 May 1998 12:31:30 +0200
From: sroselier@mmm.com (Stephane)
Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.misc

> Now, It seems that people are accused of copying/making variants of Dojo
> decks, even if they've never seen the place in their lives.  Nobody ever
> takes into consideration that, in a world of 5 billion or so people, it's
> highly likely that 2 or more people will have the same idea somewhere on
> this planet at the same time.  Once the deck is posted, every variant
> becomes nothing more than a variant of that particular deck, even if the
> deck is new and innovative to the person playing it.

You'd better learn to live with it, it has happened so much to me I just don't
hear it anymore. Well, it's true I did not design the deck in the first place,
but I did not xerox it from the dojo or whatever group on the net (hell, I've
had internet access only for a couple of month...).BTW, I would like to know
what you think about that little story, i.e am I a xeroxer or not???
After being trashed by "dojodeck" (even if it did not exist at that time) for
the zillionth time with my rogue deck, I thought: "well it's time to try a more
proven concept". So Lo and Behold, I try a deck with lot's of small creature,
since they were my main source of trashing. I like to play white, so white is
the color, with w knight, savannah lions, javelineers, orders...
Then, I put in a few crusades, working so well in that deck, and because I
quickly learned that I needed to stop other decks cold in their track, I also
put a few armagueddons.
First tourney I went, I got a few good first turn, then got thoroughly trashed
by some experienced player, who knew just what to do against my deck.... And got
dubbed the equivalent of "scrub playing dojo white weenie deck", but by those I
beat in the first round, not the other way...
Then with the new expansions, stp got dropped, protected shadow/flyers replaced
the disappeared orders/lions... because I just used my two working brain cell to
know what was good in my deck...

So what do we have now? I play a VERY common white weenie, could even be called
your staple ww... Did I copy it from the dojo? No. Is it on the dojo? Yes, or
very nearly. Do I get called dojo-xeroxer-scrub ? Yes. Do I care? Not on my
life. Why? because those who call me that are those I best with my deck, because
I've played it countless time (between other decks), because I know how it
plays, what I can do with it. Those who play the dojo-deck-of-the-day, not
knowing half of it, always (well nearly) ends up on the wrong side of the
beating, then whine about loosing to my dojo deck, because That Card is so
broken, how they were mana screwed, how their deck was so much better than mine,
whatever... The REAL good player hand me my head on a plater on a regular basis,
then we shake hands on a good match.

Yes I worked hard to improve my deck to the dojo level it has, and yes it irks
me sometimes to see your common brainless zombie playing dojo-slight or
whatever. But hey, what do I care? I just trash them and get done with it...
Copying a good deck does not make one a good player. Playing does.

I just do not give a pig's fart about "recognition", or to those calling me
scrub. Anyway, the really good and interesting player will recognize a good
player from a zombie.

Huh, I got lost again.

Sorry for the long rambling...

Stephane Roselier, the scrubiest scrub ever.

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