B/W tokens is like a standard deck Wizards R&D is building for you. Now, it may or may not do well in Standard. But the fact is that 90%+ of the deck, including the entire manabase, is eligible for ISD contrcuted. That seems pretty powerful: a competitive standard deck that is legal in Block.
Do you think that it will be the most powerful deck in a vacuum for the new ISD Block meta? If so, does that mean that if you play any other deck, the first thing you have to consider is whether you have a positive match vs. B/W tokens (much like you had to first consider your Tempered Steel mathc in Scars Block)?
If so, will the meta come down to B/W tokens and decks designed to beat it? Will B/W Tokens be easier to hate on and hate out than TS was in SOM Block?
B/W tokens is like a standard deck Wizards R&D is building for you. Now, it may or may not do well in Standard. But the fact is that 90%+ of the deck, including the entire manabase, is eligible for ISD contrcuted. That seems pretty powerful: a competitive standard deck that is legal in Block.
Do you think that it will be the most powerful deck in a vacuum for the new ISD Block meta? If so, does that mean that if you play any other deck, the first thing you have to consider is whether you have a positive match vs. B/W tokens (much like you had to first consider your Tempered Steel mathc in Scars Block)?
If so, will the meta come down to B/W tokens and decks designed to beat it? Will B/W Tokens be easier to hate on and hate out than TS was in SOM Block?
Here's to hoping that ISD block will have some form of a competitive combo deck. That way, control will be inevitable to stop the combo, and ISD block tokens doesn't seem like it will be fast enough to dominate a control deck, but would kill the crap out of agro.
If that were the case, then you'd have a format that was more like this:
Control > Combo
Combo > Midrange
Midrange > Agro
Agro > Control
Control about even with Midrange; Combo about even with Agro.
(Assume that "Agro" means "really fast Agro" and not some kind of deck that would reasonably fall into the Midrange category; also, "about even" would imply roughly 40-60% based on player skill, specific card choices, etc.).
BW Tokens would essentially be considered a Midrange deck. I do think, though, that without some kind of combo element in the mix, Block will mostly boil down to BW Tokens and Control decks designed to beat BW Tokens.
Those are good points about the classic rock/paper/scissors of deck styles.
But two other factors, especially in Block, is card quality and mana base. More to the point, the interaction of the two.
B/W tokens seems to have standard level card quality with a near standard level manabase. This could be tough to beat in block unless you are specifically geared towards beating it. One thing that might make things a bit more dynamic is that B/W tokens might be a lot easier to hate than Tempered Steel was.
I think there will be as many different takes on B/W tokens as I've seen different takes on wolf ramp in standard. I've was running a white wolf ramp before DKA came out My LGS is going to block constructed after this weeks draft because most of our players either just started playing or returned to playing in the last few months.
Do you think that it will be the most powerful deck in a vacuum for the new ISD Block meta? If so, does that mean that if you play any other deck, the first thing you have to consider is whether you have a positive match vs. B/W tokens (much like you had to first consider your Tempered Steel mathc in Scars Block)?
If so, will the meta come down to B/W tokens and decks designed to beat it? Will B/W Tokens be easier to hate on and hate out than TS was in SOM Block?
Here's to hoping that ISD block will have some form of a competitive combo deck. That way, control will be inevitable to stop the combo, and ISD block tokens doesn't seem like it will be fast enough to dominate a control deck, but would kill the crap out of agro.
If that were the case, then you'd have a format that was more like this:
Control > Combo
Combo > Midrange
Midrange > Agro
Agro > Control
Control about even with Midrange; Combo about even with Agro.
(Assume that "Agro" means "really fast Agro" and not some kind of deck that would reasonably fall into the Midrange category; also, "about even" would imply roughly 40-60% based on player skill, specific card choices, etc.).
BW Tokens would essentially be considered a Midrange deck. I do think, though, that without some kind of combo element in the mix, Block will mostly boil down to BW Tokens and Control decks designed to beat BW Tokens.
But two other factors, especially in Block, is card quality and mana base. More to the point, the interaction of the two.
B/W tokens seems to have standard level card quality with a near standard level manabase. This could be tough to beat in block unless you are specifically geared towards beating it. One thing that might make things a bit more dynamic is that B/W tokens might be a lot easier to hate than Tempered Steel was.
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The only deck here that isn't a token deck can be reasonably classified as counter-tokens. What fun! A tournament of mirror matches!
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