I think it's simpler and safer just to ban her in general. Political Pressure shouldn't become a must-play in Golden just to deal with decks like these.

And I think I have to second the call for the banhammer on Attend or Die! So long as there are free characters with discard costs, it's simply too easy to break.

This is amusing to me cuz one of the decks we're working on would utterly destroy this deck. Your engine actually assists our engine.

But that said, yeah, Frankie is pretty bad. She needs to say "When Frankie Raye comes into play, you cannot recruit characters named Frankie Raye this turn."

Thats nothing I got owned by a deck that went off on ther turn 4. NEGA BOOM there whole deck drawn out to there hand via 0 drop charactors like haywire +Frakie + Strange + STTG + piosion Ivy + dead shoot + kree press Charactors . He recruted 15 Charactors Via Frankie 13 times turn 4 than 2 drop kree with press another 2 drop kree with press and 3 drop kree press to make 16 recrutes on There turn 4 play nega boom for free that end game right there . So ya I don't think she needs to be banned I think a simple eriata of ONCE PER TURN FREE RECRUTE is fine.

Kid this deck is just MEAN. I love it.

Never underestimate the human capacity for GREED.

PCQ win = $250 bucks.

PCQ this weekend will have Frankie.dec in it regardless of the ban stick.

Time to pull out those Political Pressures.

Sigh.

CC

Mission accomplished. Well said. 19 rep points en route.

The YMG revelation shows that the Nega-Bomb deck isn't necessarily the most concerning abuse of Frankie. For every deck that's revealed by teams, there are usually many many more better ones in the wings. Frankie Raye is obviously going to be abused at the PC even more, and that's not going to help anyone.

Could someone post or PM how the deck works? im trying to play it, but I'm not sure if I'm getting the play order right just yet...

As much as I'd like to see Frankie go, this is one situation where I'd like to see UDE have to "face the music" in regards to their R & D's card design. Let PC Sydney break down into coin flips and total degeneration. An attendence of, say, less than 100 players will teach them something (hopefully).

The problems with Frankie have been pointed out almost since the Heralds Prerelease. "Pushing the envelope" is not a good enough reason to print abusable, nay, degenerate cards that will wind up as useless cardboard as soon as the format changes.

I think the YMG deck basically wants to play Frankie a bunch of time and then use Hala to do huge amounts of BEL - hence the need for Null Time Zone.

You can't NTZ Hala :(

I'm assuming you'd NTZ a 'blindsided' effect, which would be used to ensure that hala works.

I should've been more clear. You want NTZ so you can lock your opponent out of System Failuring your Hala'd guy.

Why let it get to that point? If it can be demonstrated that the format is broken, what reason is there to let it continue and ruin a PC? UDE's players are going to get a lot more excited about an interesting and varied metagame than they are a combo winter, and promotion of the game is what the PC is all about.

PCLA 06 turned out fine after several cards were banned. Most of the players said it was one of the best PCs of the year. It seems like it'd be better for the game to go ahead and ban Frankie (and maybe Attend or Die) and have another good PC.

true, i agree wit u markslack, if frankie raye was banned b4 pcla, doomcrisis would have probally won or tnbr