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Offline Gabe

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Re: Kony/Coney (Children of Light T1 Deck)
« Reply #75 on: August 07, 2017, 10:20:54 AM »
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I'm pretty confident Josh Knitt would have beaten JD's CoL offense in the final round if it wasn't for a mistake followed by a bad decision when he was on tilt from said mistake.

The CoL offense is very good but it's also very beatable. The thing is that most players are either inexperienced against it and/or unprepared to deal with it. CoL takes advantage of that better than most decks.

One thing I noticed at Nationals is that our community as a whole is of the mindset that they should be able to play competitively with very little practice and preparation. The game as it currently stands rewards those that practice and prepare. I know that Jay worked hard to prepare and spent hours practicing against what he though would be popular. So did the top 2 finishers who used CoL. But the majority of the T1-2P field had played against CoL two or fewer games.
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Re: Kony/Coney (Children of Light T1 Deck)
« Reply #76 on: August 07, 2017, 10:25:40 AM »
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Re: Kony/Coney (Children of Light T1 Deck)
« Reply #77 on: August 07, 2017, 11:09:29 AM »
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Quote from: Gabe on August 07, 2017, 10:20:54 AM
I'm pretty confident Josh Knitt would have beaten JD's CoL offense in the final round if it wasn't for a mistake followed by a bad decision when he was on tilt from said mistake.

The CoL offense is very good but it's also very beatable. The thing is that most players are either inexperienced against it and/or unprepared to deal with it. CoL takes advantage of that better than most decks.

One thing I noticed at Nationals is that our community as a whole is of the mindset that they should be able to play competitively with very little practice and preparation. The game as it currently stands rewards those that practice and prepare. I know that Jay worked hard to prepare and spent hours practicing against what he though would be popular. So did the top 2 finishers who used CoL. But the majority of the T1-2P field had played against CoL two or fewer games.

I agree for the most part. I absolutely love playing the deck and the design of the card in that it encourages you to build your deck in a drastically different way than a normal deck and it is definitely more beatable that many people think and there are lots of annoying to deal with cards that very few people were running. The only downside is that it does force the opponent into a very abnormal playstyle and if it gets the right draws it just wins on turn 2 or 3 before the opponent can do anything. Also, Hypocrisy/Mayhem is one of the most unfun things to experience and this deck pulls it off with a bit higher consistency than I would like a deck to be able to do (6 out of my 8 T1 games).
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Re: Kony/Coney (Children of Light T1 Deck)
« Reply #78 on: August 07, 2017, 11:58:38 AM »
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Quote from: Gabe on August 07, 2017, 10:20:54 AM
I'm pretty confident Josh Knitt would have beaten JD's CoL offense in the final round if it wasn't for a mistake followed by a bad decision when he was on tilt from said mistake.

Indeed, though playing CM when I thought JD was forcing me to didn't matter since Claudia would have never been able to band again (JD still had 3 Woes). The game was over when Claudia hit the table and I didn't realize the Forsaken Soul was out.  :doh:

My loss was mainly a compilation of a few different factors:

1. My not recognizing the Forsaken Soul
2. JD's first turn or two of soul drought to begin the game in a stressed mindset
3. The lingering bad taste in my mouth from my prior 3 games (Dom-blitzing Jay, ripping a plot to win against Drew, and being denied the full win against Josiah)
4. My overall tiredness combined with the high pressure by that point

Pretty much, I accept all of the blame, and my mistake in JD's game was my own.  :P

Despite what people think, I don't think of myself as an ultra-competitive player. Plaques and awards aren't why I play- the only reason I'd play at such a tense high-level tournament anymore is for the chance to make cards; otherwise I'd probably sit out and play games on the side. I would actually say I'm one of the most competitive casual players you could ever play.  ;)
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Re: Kony/Coney (Children of Light T1 Deck)
« Reply #79 on: August 08, 2017, 08:42:39 PM »
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Kony is not bad for the game because of it's power level but because it disposes of the battle phase after we just spent three expansions getting it back.
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Re: Kony/Coney (Children of Light T1 Deck)
« Reply #80 on: August 08, 2017, 10:04:19 PM »
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Quote from: soul seeker on July 06, 2017, 10:14:32 PM
What does Kony and/or Coney stand for?  Why name the deck that?
I finally got around to reading the article on landofredemption and doing some more research on this deck.

In regular tcg lingo this would be a voltron deck. Aka a deck where you beef up a character with a billion cards and you roll in to win the game with one super big dude.
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