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so you would use the sites defensively rather than offensively?

im surprised to see no hormah if using that strategy. however, you're essentially screwed if they use teal, silver, or blue. considering mass site stealing is also used, i find mass multi sites to be the most appropriate for the situation.

I'm telling you, build any deck you want. Then sideboard the TGT band, John, TGT, and 5 sites, and you will be prepared to beat any meta between your deck and sideboard.

I understand that TGT is 1 of the best and most common stratgies out there but can't someone just side in a card that stops a good fortress which would break the syngery of a TGT deck such as a "Destructive Sin" card? Then, all the other support cards for TGT wouldn't be so powerful then.

It wouldn't seem too wise to completely base a "sideboard" on 1 style of a deck when you know there are ways to stop it. If anything it would seem good to see what's appearing at the current tournament you're at and base it around that. Remember, once a person registers a deck... that's it they can't add cards to it. These ideas are ideal for small tournaments. Besides that, it's the numerous Local tournaments that are the blood of Redemption and it's community that keeps it going which in 1 reason why this could be effective. Unlike more large tournaments, it'll be more hard to keep up with what you may face out there when it comes to building decks that are well suited against the metagame other there.

most TGT fails to site lock so play that.

not even true.

Quote from: Alex_Olijar on April 03, 2010, 10:43:26 PM

I'm telling you, build any deck you want. Then sideboard the TGT band, John, TGT, and 5 sites, and you will be prepared to beat any meta between your deck and sideboard.

I understand that TGT is 1 of the best and most common stratgies out there but can't someone just side in a card that stops a good fortress which would break the syngery of a TGT deck such as a "Destructive Sin" card? Then, all the other support cards for TGT wouldn't be so powerful then.

it ultimately depends on how your deck normally matches up with tgt without hard counters. decks that use lots of same colored ec's wont need that many counters to tgt, while others that are spread thin will. if your worse matchup against your deck is tgt, then by all means put in as many hard counters as you can. normally most top tier decks only have 1 or 2 weaknesses, so putting in as many hard counters against those decks to smash them is the best option.