Subject: Re: The Dojo Effect Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 08:09:30 -0700 From: Jason Barker Newsgroups: rec.games.trading-cards.magic.strategy Yesterday I was going into a type II tournament. I decided to play White Weenie armor. So I went to the dojo to copy a good white weenie deck, but I couldn't find any white weenies at all, so I sat down and built this on my own 10 plains 4 islands 3 salt flats (there are perishes in the sideboard) 3 city of brass 1 adarkar wastes 4 wasteland 1 tithe 2 disenchant 4 impulse 4 mana leak 2 wrath of god 4 armageddon 4 Empyrial Armor 2 Soltari Foor Soldier 4 Soltari Monk 4 Soltari Priest 4 White Knight This took me about 10 minutes to put together (it's all I had before the tournament) and I never playtested at all prior to the tournament. I have never played a deck like this before either, so I was just guessing on what to add. I ended up going 4-1 which was 4th out of 28 people. While I was at the tournament I got many comments like "Oh, that deck again, everyone played that last week" I let someone look through my deck in between rounds and he said it was almost exactly what he and his friends played at regionals. My point is that even though i couldn't use the dojo I still built a deck which is identical to a lot of other people's white weenies. I don't think the dojo is responsible for repitition, I think the fact that there are so few great cards out there is the reason. We all put the best cards for a certain archtype into our decks, so of course they will always look the same. jason