City Championship: First Place Report

Well, in the interest of not starting a flame war, I’m sorry you feel that I net-decked. It wasn’t my intention to make it come across that way if I had suggested it in any way.

Mach- Im really not interested in gettin into an argument either.
dillz-Yes, I can say this.If you play with a list or idea that was already put together you have net-decked.
It isnt like it is a bad thing to do. It is the easiest way to play games.Play the deck that does well and it has.
The two best SP decks are Blazeray and Dialga tank. The only two that have won anything.
I think you people need to learn the terms of card games before you lose it for the wrong reason.

To be honest, I think the Skuntank G-Stadium thing is extremely situational, I used it at my first CC’s, and it did nothing but become dead cards in my deck because there was so much SP.
Against SP, everything becomes neutralized basically, if you gain +20 HP from Snowpoint, so does your opponent.
Galactic HQ becomes deader than dead.
The only one I consider playing if I do decide on doing the Poison Structure thing, is Conductive Quarry to retrieve special metals back into my hand which is more selfish and guarantees more usefulness for myself than my opponent, unless it’s the mirror. =/

You didn’t read what I said. I said I’d want to explain my list, and that would turn it into a strategy article. Give a list, and someone complains about how bad it is. Therefore, I don’t write strategy articles. To be honest, I think the ones that are complaining about the lack of a list are the ones who net-deck.

I have a problem with your definition of net-decking. See, if your definition is correct, then every deck that isn’t some random rogue is net-decked. However, when someone does built that random rogue and does badly with it, I bet people who spout that definition are the first ones saying “Kingdra/Gengar/Luxape does this better”.

Going on your claim that SP decks require no creativity, lets look at percentages for metagame decks as a whole. You have 4 Bebe’s, 4 Roseanne’s, 4 Rare Candy, a Luxury Ball, a Uxie, and a 2-2 Claydol line. That’s 18 cards there, not even including stuff that are still considered techs like Warp Point and Call Energy, and standard draw supporters like Cynthia’s Feelings. 18 cards comes out to be 30 % of your deck. Subtract the Rare Candy and 2 Bebe’s and add in the SP engine (4 Energy Gain, 4 PokeTurn, 3 SP Radar, 4 Power Spray, and 4 Cyrus with 2 in some combination of Galactic HQ/Snowpoint/Champion’s Room) along with the single Crobat G that almost all SP’s are sure to run and you have 34. Which is 57% of the deck. I guess if you think about it that way, sure, they require no creativity. How about you pick some random list up off ‘Gym or somewhere and see how many X-1′s it gets you at tournaments? I mean, they’re all the same, right?

Building a deck based on a concept you’ve heard of is different from net-decking. Net-decking generally means when one builds a list that you see online and run it card-for-card, or with very little variation. Given that I had never even seen a Dialga/Garchomp list before I ran it, that seems unlikely, no?

Well, in the interest of not starting a flame war, I’m sorry you feel that I net-decked. It wasn’t my intention to make it come across that way if I had suggested it in any way.

Mach- Im really not interested in gettin into an argument either.
dillz-Yes, I can say this.If you play with a list or idea that was already put together you have net-decked.
It isnt like it is a bad thing to do. It is the easiest way to play games.Play the deck that does well and it has.
The two best SP decks are Blazeray and Dialga tank. The only two that have won anything.
I think you people need to learn the terms of card games before you lose it for the wrong reason.

To be honest, I think the Skuntank G-Stadium thing is extremely situational, I used it at my first CC’s, and it did nothing but become dead cards in my deck because there was so much SP.
Against SP, everything becomes neutralized basically, if you gain +20 HP from Snowpoint, so does your opponent.
Galactic HQ becomes deader than dead.
The only one I consider playing if I do decide on doing the Poison Structure thing, is Conductive Quarry to retrieve special metals back into my hand which is more selfish and guarantees more usefulness for myself than my opponent, unless it’s the mirror. =/

You didn’t read what I said. I said I’d want to explain my list, and that would turn it into a strategy article. Give a list, and someone complains about how bad it is. Therefore, I don’t write strategy articles. To be honest, I think the ones that are complaining about the lack of a list are the ones who net-deck.

I have a problem with your definition of net-decking. See, if your definition is correct, then every deck that isn’t some random rogue is net-decked. However, when someone does built that random rogue and does badly with it, I bet people who spout that definition are the first ones saying “Kingdra/Gengar/Luxape does this better”.

Going on your claim that SP decks require no creativity, lets look at percentages for metagame decks as a whole. You have 4 Bebe’s, 4 Roseanne’s, 4 Rare Candy, a Luxury Ball, a Uxie, and a 2-2 Claydol line. That’s 18 cards there, not even including stuff that are still considered techs like Warp Point and Call Energy, and standard draw supporters like Cynthia’s Feelings. 18 cards comes out to be 30 % of your deck. Subtract the Rare Candy and 2 Bebe’s and add in the SP engine (4 Energy Gain, 4 PokeTurn, 3 SP Radar, 4 Power Spray, and 4 Cyrus with 2 in some combination of Galactic HQ/Snowpoint/Champion’s Room) along with the single Crobat G that almost all SP’s are sure to run and you have 34. Which is 57% of the deck. I guess if you think about it that way, sure, they require no creativity. How about you pick some random list up off ‘Gym or somewhere and see how many X-1′s it gets you at tournaments? I mean, they’re all the same, right?

Building a deck based on a concept you’ve heard of is different from net-decking. Net-decking generally means when one builds a list that you see online and run it card-for-card, or with very little variation. Given that I had never even seen a Dialga/Garchomp list before I ran it, that seems unlikely, no?