The New Cookie Cutter...

Status
Not open for further replies.
Dillie-O

Dillie-O

Council of Heroes
So here's the deal...

You stumble out of bed late Sunday morning, hop on to the Internet and hit up your favorite Yugi site. News of the latest Yugi Grand Championship is in and in a surprising move, Joe Duelist made quite a scene at this tournament by beating out 300 duelists with a deck that looks EXACTLY LIKE YOURS! This is your hard thought out deck that took you months to put together and you haven't seen anybody in your area remotely try to build.

Shocked, you quickly jump into the Deck Depot section of the site and notice that there are about 5 different decks posted that are all netdecks of your, with the obvious change of a card or two to their particular favorite.

As the week progresses, you notice more and more decks like yours showing up on the net and even in your local card shop. Results from the regional tournament during that weekend show the top 5 of 8 decks are running your deck variant now.

Congratulations! You're the new Cookie Cutter Deck! Read into that the immense loathing and debate that Chaos brought to the meta over the past year or so.

So the important question/discussion here is: What do you do?

Do you immediately ditch the deck and come up with a new deck?

Do you continue to play the deck, quite proud of your innovation, making sure to let others know that you were the originator of this deck style long before Joe Duelist thought to win with it?

Do you care less about the whole situation and continue with business as usual?

Or do you do something completely different?

I'd like to say that I've "been around" the game long enough to see some definitive changes in game and deck styles. It always fascinates me to see what it does in the face of innovation and uniqueness that people like to put into this game.
 
Personally, I'd be honored if I was net-decked. But I think I'd feel both a sense of pride, but also a sense of shame.

Pride in the sense that I came up with something worthwhile and highly competitive :king: . Shame in the sense that "oh crap, what horror have i unleashed." :tssk: Not only that, but... "How do I stop what I've created?"

But hey, make lightning strike twice. Come up with something else and change the meta again.

EDIT: Interestingly enough, I'm totally in this boat. I've been working on this deck now for a good while and I think I have it where it needs to be. And I have a regional on Saturday in Butler, PA. I'll be sure to let everyone know how it goes.
 
The ideal is to run something that looks bad that no one in their right mines would copy it. Believe me most of my decks look like junk on paper but actually work.
 
I usually change stuff out in my deck every week, whether I win or lose, just to keep from being stagnant and predictable. Well, that and to keep the guys at my store from being able to sidedeck against me.
 
Most often netdecking is a side effect of "broken cards" as much as a problem of unoriginality. Anybody that didn't see Chaos coming a mile away didn't have their eyes open when the Envoys were released. Same was true of the Mirage/MST combo, the Trinity, D.D. Warrior Lady, Jinzo, the list just goes on and on.

Yes it is quite nice to say "I put a deck together with killer combos without the benefit of anybody else telling me about them". But if they are great cards that work well together you have got to expect others to see the potential too. In the event you are seeing your favorite deck being run by 8 out of 10 players you probably should have enough familiarity to know the anti-deck that will crush it. That is of course the smart thing to run in the next tournament.
 
I couldn't care less if no-one, or a million people ran the same deck as me tbh.

I play a certain deck because it works for me and I enjoy it, not "just to be different". I won't run off and change my deck everytime it catches on.
 
I try to change my deck strategy completely every 2-4 weeks anyway so fat chance of anyone getting to memorise one of my decks! :D
Do have a few unique ones that I keep as secondary decks though, e.g. since IOC came out I've been running a water with 3 Granadoras & 3 Barrel Behind the Doors, no-one else is willing to risk it in my area.
 
I'd have to definitely say that if someone copied one of my decks, I'd be thoroughly annoyed. Still, there's no way to change that, as some poeple can't do the dirty work for themselves. Oh well... :so:

But I do indeed change my decks every once and a while so that I don't get bored with them.
 
When I build a deck and perfect it to no end and it turns out to be something rather annoyingly effective against people. I make sure I have methods to stopping it too.

If you create a Cookie Cutter you should have the knowledge, power, and resources to come up with a solution in destroying your own creation. I've made some pretty deadly decks that people copied and used against me. None of which first worked for them cause of my deck design and secondly I had a strategy to destroy my own deck creation.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top