Whatsa matter, stu? You lose a twenty on the Ain'ts yesterday?

Shouldn't we be talking about previews or something cool instead of clockwatching UDE? This is the most excitement about a non-event that I've seen since Geraldo opened Al Capone's vault.

OK, NOW you are officially on my poop list, cc. :angry:

Allright kids, back to more love for your fellow VS player and more hate for the ##### that is ruining VS, Frankie Raye.

Combo decks have been shown that are completly "over the top"; the engine easily fits in; the premier deckbuilder of VS Jason Haeger gave a VERY strong hint that the degeneracy goes far beyond what even the combo deck shows. It's obvious the card is not healthful; yes I'm sad for heralds losing a solid card, but it was a mistake to begin with.

Rest well Frankie. May your optimism never fade.

Couldn't face the mirror? Understandable. (luv ya KC!)

You haven't heard? It's "balls-out" Monday! Anything and everything is fair game until sundown...

Anyone seeing a connection that if you died at least once in continuity, you get banned?

Valeria-Killed by Doom
Fiddler-Dead
Dr. Light-Might as well be
Talia-That pit sure is useful

and now Frankie-KBH (Killed by Herald)

Well I'd think that the people who write for Metagame would be top-level players, or at least top-level deckbuilders, or at least people with something more interesting to say than what I see written on VSU. From reading his articles, Rian doesn't look like a pro, but he writes for Metagame, which makes me think he must have some quality about him that UDE likes, and I hope that they'd choose people who are good at the game to write for them over average-joe-player.






There is a huge difference between being good at the game and good for the game.

Not every player who is good at the game is good for it. I don't need to drop any names, we'll all played against rules lawyers, guys who revel in drawing a new player in a tournament and have no concern about whether this kid will ever play again, and guys that aren't even good but think they are and engage in general jackassery.

People like Stu may not have won millions on the Pro Circuit but the game can't exist without them. It's guys like Stu that will buy VS cards even if the Pro Circuit dries up completely, and keep promoting the game in the process.

Should Metagame endeavor to employ more pros to write strategy? Don't know that they haven't. Remember that pro players are well aware they play the game at a higher level than most. Some feel it is their responsibility to help out other players, even knowing they may someday sit across from them with money on the line. Others would rather play noobs for as long as they can on Day 1 and plan to do nothing to increase the no. of people that will be able to beat them consistently.

To be honest, while I would like to think I would be the kind of pro that helps other people along I can't say what would happen unless I was in that situation. When money's on the line, people act differently than they would otherwise. After all, NFL players run camps for kids in grades elementary school up to maybe college. You don't see Peyton Manning putting on a QB clinic to share his secrets with other NFL QB's.


I think we need to be appreciative of everybody that bothers to take the time to provide content for us. Whether it's Stu espousing his love of 1-drops, Foilball teasing us with previews of previews or a pro giving us hardcore strategy articles, all are doing it for the same reason. The love of the game.

Naw, just a weak attempt at injecting a little levity.

Oh, yeah. Like just a little more hate her way is gonna tip the scales. This thread should have been locked at twenty pages.

Wait. Change that. We needed a party like this around here.

More hate for Frankie!

Now THAT is a post worth pursuing. 20 rep points en route...

@Locke: Actually, you have to do the discards for Frankie before drawing the cards, so you don't get to take the 2 cards into your hand and discard the least desirable. If the 2 cards you drew were the "least desirable", well then you're SOL. That brings me to another point I wanted to make about Frankie: She doesn't make the cards go where you want. Cards like Willworld and Worthington Industries can put cards in the KOed Pile for you to bring back later with Slaughter Swamp or other stuff (or just use from there with cards like Phoenix Rising and so forth). I agree with you that the "random search" factor is better than the "if you miss, you miss" factor of Worthington and its ilk, but on the other hand by turn 3 if you hit Willworld or Cerebro on 2 (not using Worthington because Worthington creates 2 cards of quality advantage per turn), you've created as much quality advantage as Frankie, and everything else is gravy, so you can essentially create 3 or 4 times the advantage of Frankie per game. On the other hand, you could miss those quality cards because they're not the right type or something...I'm still not convinced that 2 cards of possible quality advantage (because the cards you pitch could be better than the cards you get) outweighs the ability to turn those 2 cards into strict card advantage.

@kansashoops: lol.

@Rian: I fail to see how I'm not being a productive member of the community. I'm having discussions with other people while you just sit about and complain about me clockwatching UDE. Regardless of whether I am or not (and I'll admit that I am cause I really have nothing better to do at work since I work help desk and no one's calling), I'm at least trying to give some input. Try it yourself, and stop being such a cranky old man. People don't like cranky old men.

I said I was done with you, and I meant it. You may resume your countdown, but keep me out of it. Call a truce, tell yourself you won the arguement, go back to the other site. I don't care.

(Going back to the other site sounds really good.)

kansashoops: Sorry man...left you off the list of comprehensible writers at VSU. I forgot about Mark Slack, as well if it makes you feel any better.

Back to Frankie Hate....

lol good to know I'm "comprehensible". That's quite a compliment there, cc :P

So, all of my Spiderman cards are going to be banned soon? And superman? And wolverine?

Death isn't a terminal disease in comics.