I think it's pretty interesting none of them played it MB -- kinda shows the strength of coming out with Golems/Inferno.
I think that they're not playing it main is that in a deck like RUG, you really want to be aggressive to force your opponent into playing defensively.
I don't think the slime was meant as an answer to Caw-Blade in general as you can just play an early inferno and clear out all equip targets.
It was probably played as a way to punish weak manabases, or against Tezzeret decks, as it would hurt them severely and most wouldn't want to block a 2/2 deathtoucher and wont want to waste removal on something thats not a titan.
I've only started playing EDH so foiling the deck isn't as important to me as actually getting a working deck together but for my standard decks, I usually just pick up foils of what I'm using when trading and I can't find anything else to even up a trade.
As for all foil decks - I personally like foils but having everything (Lands + Alt art judge foils) is something that I wouldn't actively try to achieve except in certain situations
eg. the judge foil for Survival of the Fittest is much prettier than the normal art
Nobody likes the red ranger D:
Finally got the numbers =]
/in
I think that they're not playing it main is that in a deck like RUG, you really want to be aggressive to force your opponent into playing defensively.
I don't think the slime was meant as an answer to Caw-Blade in general as you can just play an early inferno and clear out all equip targets.
It was probably played as a way to punish weak manabases, or against Tezzeret decks, as it would hurt them severely and most wouldn't want to block a 2/2 deathtoucher and wont want to waste removal on something thats not a titan.
As for all foil decks - I personally like foils but having everything (Lands + Alt art judge foils) is something that I wouldn't actively try to achieve except in certain situations
eg. the judge foil for Survival of the Fittest is much prettier than the normal art