Someone will play CS with Apoc and new tech. Control/Stall like Doom and X-Men will do very very well.(Maybe even win) LoA and Darksied will be played by skillful players. Lots of rush decks from the dumb players that are not expecting lots of Doom. Only one person will play Avengers. lol

CS will just run Search and Destroy and topple Avengers because being able to stun Black Panther and Finishing Move it on your off initiative is hot.

edit: not to mention its good against Tbolts and swarm decks like Titans or Squadron Rush.

Just watch. My precious Common Enemy will Top 8. =P

I still think Mono X-static will win the PC

Brotherhood.

Some form of LoA will t8. Sadly, as I didn't Q, it won't be mine. Will Poisoned be legal by then?

Brotherhood.

Post Dec 1 in Golden Age.
Brotherhood will rise again.

CS will auto-include multiple copies of S&D so they can tell cards like Tchalla, Shimmer, and Elektra (as well as other various 3 drops off initiative) to suck it.

Most CS players will drop Null Time Zone, counting on fear of that card to minimize Titans play. It's so pointless playing NTZ in an environment where you can get smacked by so many other plot twists, and with how unpredictable the PCLA meta is, it's not a smart choice.

Avengers will see a lot of play, and Doom is obviously going to love that. Kang will say "kiss it" to Lost City and the Conquerer will make people groan. Isn't Entangled fun?

Doom will reign SUPREME!

Unless someone makes that next jump in metagaming.

In which case Bots with Null-Time Zone wins!

Unless someone makes that next jump in metagaming...

an avengers deck will win this tournament since they will be about 35-45% of the field.

if u play S+D,why not play NTZ?u can see what ur opponent has and what may be vital to ur opponents strategy,even if its a rogue deck,a good player can tell by the look on an opponents face if hes screwed anyway,or if he knows the deck.


PS-u can use S+D and write the cards in an opponents hand down on paper.u are allowed to take notes during matchups if the notes are visible by both players,but cannot bring notes to ur matchups

I also predict that David Leader will not win money at Socal (unless its in the 10k) as no Pro Circuit champion has ever won money in the PC following the one that they were victorious.

That's a very good point, actually. Definitely worth considering when deciding on what to run.

"Why run 1 or the other if it's far more annoying to run both? Triple the tenacious pain"

I either made that up or heard it from somewhere >_>
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Here is an interesting pattern that some of use might be aware. No golden age deck that won a PC has top-8ed in the following PC.
PC Indy 05: okay, so it is the first PC. But Big Bro was the favorite going into this PC, and it didn't top 8. Common Enemy wins it

PC LA 05: Common Enemy did not top 8, Teen Titans wins it

PC NY: Teen Titans did not top 8, Curved Sentinel wins it.


Looks like Curved Sentinel isn't going to top 8 this time.