@TobiR:
At first: The most important sentence from my previous speaker you should take with you is: "Paul Templin is the most skillfull with this deck.". However, that's primary because he designed the deck and Paul overall performs very well. Already with Mono Red Paul regularly came to the top of the standings. To what extent the 82-83% (which were admittedly calculated with a lot of gut feeling) are justified by the Deck or the player, I leave to the imagination of the reader.
I also was one of the FNM players yesterday and there was a heated debate about this topic. Because even in Berlin not everyone of us find the deck as excessively strong. Some fun facts:
On the MGM#4 Paul only reached place 24 of 45.
The first place yesterday was determined by the third Tiebreaker (together with Scapeshift, which in contrast to Artifact Combo Control only occurred 2 times in MGM 5 and had a Top 8 presence of 2 decks).
The scenario with 50 Mana against Scapeshift developed in the late game (ca. turn 12). To be fair it should be mentioned that the deck is able to produce indefinite Mana on turn 2. However, this is dependent on many factors and is by far not the rule.
The reason, why my previous speaker hears so often, that this is a local phenomenon, is in the first case that it is a local phenomenon. Fact is that the deck is only played in Berlin on a regular base. Therefore you will find no arguments above against this fact, but only a "And I dont care about "local phenomenon", I really dont.".
Assuredly you have noticed, Tobi, that the deck presence of the most powerful deck in the world even in Berlin is very low. Indeed 3 other persons tried to play the deck on the MGM (place 22, 35 and 39 out of 52), however you will again only find Paul in the final standings with this deck this week. Also concerning the question why don't play more people Artifact Combo-Control, our detractors only react with lack of understanding. The answer "It doesn't make fun. I only play what is fun for me.", you may also find unsatisfying like half of the FNM players yesterday. Also additional answers don't want to be integrated in the deck, because they are "dead" against other decks. Of course this conflicts with the wish to play the own Pet deck.
You see, we have to differentiate here. Tonytahiti is maybe right with the point to not only use data from the bigger events. But he doesn't speak for the whole Berlin.
Regards!
At first: The most important sentence from my previous speaker you should take with you is: "Paul Templin is the most skillfull with this deck.". However, that's primary because he designed the deck and Paul overall performs very well. Already with Mono Red Paul regularly came to the top of the standings. To what extent the 82-83% (which were admittedly calculated with a lot of gut feeling) are justified by the Deck or the player, I leave to the imagination of the reader.
I also was one of the FNM players yesterday and there was a heated debate about this topic. Because even in Berlin not everyone of us find the deck as excessively strong. Some fun facts:
On the MGM#4 Paul only reached place 24 of 45.
The first place yesterday was determined by the third Tiebreaker (together with Scapeshift, which in contrast to Artifact Combo Control only occurred 2 times in MGM 5 and had a Top 8 presence of 2 decks).
The scenario with 50 Mana against Scapeshift developed in the late game (ca. turn 12). To be fair it should be mentioned that the deck is able to produce indefinite Mana on turn 2. However, this is dependent on many factors and is by far not the rule.
The reason, why my previous speaker hears so often, that this is a local phenomenon, is in the first case that it is a local phenomenon. Fact is that the deck is only played in Berlin on a regular base. Therefore you will find no arguments above against this fact, but only a "And I dont care about "local phenomenon", I really dont.".
Assuredly you have noticed, Tobi, that the deck presence of the most powerful deck in the world even in Berlin is very low. Indeed 3 other persons tried to play the deck on the MGM (place 22, 35 and 39 out of 52), however you will again only find Paul in the final standings with this deck this week. Also concerning the question why don't play more people Artifact Combo-Control, our detractors only react with lack of understanding. The answer "It doesn't make fun. I only play what is fun for me.", you may also find unsatisfying like half of the FNM players yesterday. Also additional answers don't want to be integrated in the deck, because they are "dead" against other decks. Of course this conflicts with the wish to play the own Pet deck.
You see, we have to differentiate here. Tonytahiti is maybe right with the point to not only use data from the bigger events. But he doesn't speak for the whole Berlin.
Regards!