TimmerB123 wrote:
audrisampson wrote:
TimmerB123 wrote:
urbanjedi wrote:
Overall I had a blast and I think Mace has a couple very good squad types and some good matchups but isn't the super power that some have claimed him to be.
Yeah - was this the point of the MI crew? To prove Mace is Tier 1.5? 3 guys playing the exact same squad (give or take an uggie). Interesting.
It happens all the time in Magic so seeing it here really isn't all that surprising.
Yes, but we are NOT Magic.
I think much more highly of our community.
audrisampson wrote:
Na for Magic its more like were all adults and not kids. But it isn't all that crazy for a location to get behind one squad. It worked very well in Lansing and instead of designing something new they brought what they knew would work. I also bet this was a bit of a GenCon playtest for the squad to see how it held up. This happens locally sometimes here in Danville. You know about everyone has showed up to a local event here with Mando SS. The only difference in mine was that I added Jaster Mareel but he wasn't around when others were playing the squad.
We share the results here of nearly every tourney that matters. It is nothing to log on and find a great squad to play with. Heck I considered Mace in the face for Kokomo myself before this event went down. And before that my Mando squad was a mash up of Aaron Cook's and what we have played here in Danville forever.
People are going to take what they think has the best chance of victory. If for some reason or another the Lansing crew felt that Mace in the face was it and all decided to rock it. It couldn't have been that bad of a squad to get so many top spots.
Actually, it had nothing to do with proving anything to anyone. As J has said repeatedly, he wanted to play the squad at the Michigan Regional (not because it's powerful, but because it's FUN), but I wouldn't let him because I wanted to debut it. I told him after Michigan, he could play it at whatever other event he wanted. He was always going to play it in PA.
Eric wanted something new to play, so Jason suggested it to him, as well. Lou played it and liked it, so he decided to play it too. That's it. It's a fun squad, decently powered, different from the other Mace builds out there. No one was proving anything, no one was trying to flood the meta with Maces. They thought it would be fun to play, so they played it. Also, I can't speak for Lou or Eric, but I happen to know that J will not be playing it again.