It was just over one year ago that we cooked up some seriously spicy recipes for Sea Creatures:

http://fullbodytransplant.wordpress....l-with-prizes/

If you check out the comments in that thread, you will find a slew of seahorse decks called "Fry for Darkseid", "Bad Shrimp", "Billy Elliot 2 - Pony lovin'", "Sleeping with the Fishes", "Revenge Squid", "Watery Grave", "pLOCK", and many more.

So I ask you, what are the juiciest creative uses of Vs. System that you remember from the past 12 months?

The sickest deck this past year imo in MA is B. Euginio's Worlds deck. Soo good!

In recent memory, I've been trying to get the Runaways up and running ... Emperor Joker 2.0. I have an Exiles deck together, nothing fancy, not crazy team ups or anything, but it's something that I'm probably going to put on the "only for a big event or playtesting" shelf since it's downright nasty good.

I need more copies of Mr. Sinister's legend card that eats people's deck, otherwise he doesn't get to hang out with the Runaways and the Secret Society any more. Trying to find the right way to mix the Society's couple of cards to help eat the opponent's deck (not to mention Master Plan which not only helps me get my curve, but in a pinch, I can just steal one of my opponent's drops instead).

Unfortunately, the deck's only been used so far against my pal's Deadpool deck (and Exended Monologue > Runaways) and his Gambit/Mystique deck (It's hard to deck the opponent when they steal Victor and start decking you).

And to think it was a Stu contest that got me started doing Lost Hemisphere almost 12 months ago...

And WHAT a 12 months it has been at Lost Hemisphere, eh?

I guess sometimes I inspire more than contempt!

Back to the creative juices, Rietze's Simmer deck cooks the Squirrel Girl just right. She even got to swing for the Gen Con championship. I especially liked his comments about the card choices...

In some ways, especially since we don't have the big playtesting teams to build the archetypes anymore, I consider that the pinnacle of creativity in the winner's circle at a major championship. Ever.

I still can't believe Squirrel Girl got to be in it.

walterkovacs just wondering if you would be willing to share your deck list i have been trying to put together a good exiles build.

Re: the GenCon deck

Does anyone shuffle!?!

I swear, I see these decks and wonder how they get off the drawing board.

I saw this happen with YGO, which admittedly had a LOT more netdecking but I really can't see this deck being that consistent if everyone is shuffling the deck.

That's hilarious. You know he won the tournament, right? Against people like Big Spooky? Including the finals against John Hall?

It is a creative deck that demands massive brain power, but it is genius.

http://vsrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60437

The most creative thing I've seen this year. Mad money props to lordoflimbo.

Nah, I missed the '2008 Gen Con Indianapolis Champion' part.

Sarcasm asside, I wonder if availablity is or isn't a factor in shaping the metagame. From what I've seen, (and not just in YGO, Magic, or VS) there is always that one jank deck that someone has that beats the best deck at a tournament but gets destroyed by everything else.

Based on numbers alone this deck should have seen at least one, anti swarm, control, or quicker-win-condition deck in the top 8. The numbers simply don't make sense to me. I'm not saying it's not good, I just don't see the consistency factor not being a problem here.

I could have been more consise with my observation but I was a little out-of-it earlier.

If someone would be so kind as to post a link to the match write up, I'd love to see how this worked consistently that many times against world championship level competition.

1. You know that a Vs. System tournament has swiss rounds followed by Top 8, right? He had to beat a whole range of deck types for the championship.

2. You know that this is a thread about creativity, right? Your quote is a perfect example of a creative deck.

3. The match reports were on the front page of Realms, fatalsync did a great job with the coverage. I can't find them right now, but if they are still accessible since the crash I will post a link later.

Yes!!! I found it:

http://www.vsrealms.com/forum/showthread.php?p=930129

Thanks Morpheus, I had been wanting to get ahold of that.

Squirrel Girl swings for the Championship Rings!

Word.

1) I realize this and that is the reason why I find it so hard to believe there were not more 'counter measure' decks at this big a tournament or even a bad match up. Before your later post I found this very hard to imagine.

2) I also realize this but was suprised again by the subject of your previous post.

3) [Later post covers this]

Edit: nevermind