Subject: RE: publishing Deck lists.
Date: Fri, 26 Jun 1998 05:55:06 EDT
From: IMeagherUK@aol.com
To: fkusumot@ix.netcom.com

Frank,

I disagree with Dorian, when he says that publishing deck lists are ruining
the game as a whole.  I would like to point out another point.

Having the decklists published, espcailly for successful decks, not only makes
the good decks available for anyone to play, (poviding they have the cards of
course), but because the decks are widly available to anyone with internet
access, the whole "metagame" part of deck creation would not exist.  It also
weeds out the poorer players.  Ok, anyone can ick up a SRB and play it well,
but a more complicated deck like U5Donais or ProsBloom, requires a much higher
level of play.

For example if I take the U5Donais to a tournament and met Mike Donais,
playing the exact same deck, who would win?  Mike Donais would, (at least I
expect him to), because not only is he the creator of the deck, but he is also
by far the better player.

Having the deck lists widely available is a good thing in my opinion, as it
gives everybody the chance that many to play "the deck that won the Atlanta
Protour" and find out some of the extra little quirks and tricks that make
Pro-tour players better than us average scrubs, thus bettering our own game.

I think that it's a selfish idea for some people to ban deck listings
altogether, while they might be able to create excellent decks that do very
well in tournament, there are many more that fail miserably to make a deck
that preforms consistantly in tournament play.

So the Dojo Decklists are a good idea, keep them up!!!

My two pennies,

Ian