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People always are asking me, "Hey Scott, what do you think about Prop 15-3C?"  Well, I am now going to answer this question for the whole world....

PROP 15-3C SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now, just in case a few of you out there are still a little confused as to my feelings on this environment, allow me to repeat myself again:

PROP 15-3C SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I figure that clears up everything for everyone.  Now what does it suck?  Allow me to tell you.

I consider myself a good player.  I think I build good decks and I play them reasonably well.  But, Prop 15-3C does something I don't like:

It takes the skill out of the environment

Yes, I will still beat Joe Scrub off the street, but the advantage I used to have over "good" players, is now gone.  

WotC tried to make Prop 15 to eliminate Haymaker and Wigglytuff decks from the environment.  Well guess what, guys:  YOU FAILED!!!!!!!!!!!!!   I don't care what kind of "internal playtesting" you are doing showing some really terrible decks winning.  I promise you, all you have done is make it so that the true "original" decks have no chance for survival in the environment.  Trust me - I have probably tried at LEAST a dozen or more "original" decks in the environment, and while they perform better, they still get their butts kicked by a good 'ole fashioned Potpourri deck.  

This is a message to WotC:  If you want to make a serious tournament environment, bite the bullet: ban and restrict individual cards.  Errata cards.  Do what I have been screaming about since day 1.....issue the following errata

To be issued to Lass, Rocket Sneak Attack, Impostor Oaks's Revenge, The Rocket's Trap, and Psyduck's "Headache" attack:

"This card/attack can not be played on the very first turn of the game."

That's all you have to do, and you "fix" the whole environment.  Give both players a chance to play their trainers, and you have "fixed" the environment.  Prop 15-3C is a joke.  It takes the real skill away from the player by making it a game of top-decking.  Who draws Oak first.  Heck, I love the card, but if you're so worried about broken Oak, kill it.  Ban it.  Remove it from the tournament environment.  I'll hate it, but I hated it when you banned Balance too (M:TG reference) - we'll all get over it. 

Until you are ready to make the real steps to fixing the environment, i.e. individual card bannings/restrictings and/or individual card errata, please do not throw this joke of a tournament environment at us.  I for one would pay $1,000 to go to New Jersey and play a skill-less environment.  Fat chance.  This is why I will more than likely not go to New Jersey unless someone feels like sponsoring me.  I do not want to waste my money going to a tournament where my one advantage in the environment is gone:  skill.

Some of you may agree with me, some of you may disagree.  That's your right, but know that I have playtested this format to DEATH and this is what I have come up with.

***END OF RANT***

  :-)   - Scott

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