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Well so far my 133 carder has won two games in an hour or less, and lost two due to some seriously messed up draws. I've used this defense in the same size deck for a while, and those draws were just flat out ugly (Ask smokey, both happened against him. His amazing offense draws didn't help either.)

Still, the two relatively fast wins make me happy. It's working so far.  

From my experience yesteday playing both Lambo and Prof A, I can say that I think smaller (50-63) and larger (70-100+) have an even advantage to win assuming even draws and well built decks, although faster decks still get dominants much quicker and tend to have better draws.  

Quote from: crustpope on August 03, 2010, 02:23:23 PM

There have been some VERY competitive 100+ card decks used here in Ohio.  Uthminister is leading the way and gathering a small army of converts as he beats them.

Nothing against Uthminister, but I've played in tourneys with him for years and never seen him place at any of them.  Granted, placing isn't his goal, and his decks are always unique, and he is really fun as a opponent.

My decks have become more viable and with the new set (Fishing Boat especially) they will continue to get better. The thing that I just can't drag myself away from is having three of every good enhancement in my deck. It's like playing Redemption with the best of Type-1 and Type-2 at the same time. I guess you could say I am having my Redemption cake and eating it too...

I think you will see more 63-70 card decks, but not more than that.

60 mins? You don't play 45 min rounds?

I don't think it was said earlier, but my decks are exclusively 154 cards. Probably the best drawing deck I had with that layout was a crimson/orange defense along with a red offense with a splash of gold. Lots of drawing cards and then since my defense was so beastly (about 2/3 of the deck) I would create sidebattles where my opponents enhancements were negated but mind could not be. That way my defense did all of the heavy lifting for my deck and my offense could walk in with a huge banding chain FTW...