Monday, November 19, 2012

YCS Seattle 2012 Analysis

Well, Inzektors won YCS Seattle, and the winner was a player that no one has every heard of previously. It’s obvious that the deck was a good meta call, and that’s why its success was paramount. I’ll just go right into discussion regarding why Inzektors won.


1. For some reason, a lot of players were not playing Effect Veiler. I don’t understand why though… Veiler at the right time terminates Mermails, Dino-Rabbit, Agents, and many more decks. Expecting that Mermails would take the event by storm, I would be maining at least 2 Veiler, and probably 1 or 2 Maxx “C”. I’m suspecting that Mermail players, specifically, didn’t play Veiler because of deck-space, and because many players thought Maxx “C” was superior. I disagree with this logic, but whatever.

2. Threatning Roar is a good card. Should an explosive deck explode, Inzektors can make a comeback, specifically with Hornet, if the Inzektor player survives. Threatning Roar allows survival. It was definitely a great idea.

3. Many decks didn’t play a lot of traps, primarily Mermails, Agents, Chaos Dragons, etc. Inzektors triumph with less traps around, in a different way than other decks. Don’t forget 3 Call of the Haunted is broken. Also, facing a DAD with no traps is frightening.

Of course, there are other important factors to take out of Seattle. Mermails did exceptionally well, unquestionably earning Tier 1 status. This was expected, and everyone had their side-decks ready for them.

Macro Dino-Rabbit made a splash in the Top 32. Although it typically had a bad match-up to first-turn Wind-Up explosions, it has a general good match-up against almost everything else, specifically Mermails.

Wind-Ups did well at this event, as expected. They were a little overwhelmed by Mermails, but besides that, Wind-Ups are good.

Geargias didn’t make a grand showing in this event. This could possibly be because Mermails have a great match-up against them. Also, I found that many side-decks were well equipped with cards to take them down.

Agents and Chaos Dragons also made a slight appearance. Those decks have the aggressive power to pound the crap out of any deck. Overall, I’m not surprised.

Finally, I want to address Dark Worlds. They didn’t do that well this event. Besides the deck being terrible and luck-based, Dark World players were crushed by the side-deck choices for Mermails (Soul Drain). Of course, they will continue to do random things for the next little while, but they shouldn’t be as challenging now, especially games 2 and 3.

That’s my basic analysis of YCS Seattle 2012. Overall, the results weren’t particularly surprising, with the exception of Inzektors winning the entire thing.

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