Weiss & Ramblings

Welcome back to the Bushiroad show ladies, gentlemen, and others- today I want to switch gears from game-focused content to take a moment to reflect on, praise, and condemn some very interesting decisions made by our overlords at Bushiroad Southeast Asia, henceforth referred to in this article as BushiSEA. Since getting back from Japan, and honestly even before I left, there’s been a growing resentment both in myself and in my fellow players, and even though I know for a fact that no one at BushiSEA will ever read something like this, I feel it necessary to put pen-to-page on some of these issues. It’s not like I make much video content anymore, and I’m already on the “content blacklist” where the company would never directly work with me anyway, so what better format than this to highlight just a smattering of the sentiment that I’ve both held myself and heard from many other members of the community, at all levels. If you are someone who typically rolls their eyes at such commisera...

and yet my snout descends Welcome back folks- it’s been quite a bit since I’ve put pen-to-page or voice-to-mic on any topic, but in the few times I have crawled out of my hole lately, you may have heard me use the phrase “1k1 slop” to describe many decks in the current EN Weiss meta. While I didn’t think too much about it when I first started using the phrase, I’ve had a lot of people ask me exactly what I meant by this, and some of them even taking offense to my use of it. To that point, I want to state for the record that I mean no ill will when I call a deck “slop”, and even that some “slop” decks can be incredibly powerful or even difficult to play. In the interest of time, let's hop right into a definition, then I’ll give a couple examples, and then we will have a fun little QUIZ for y’all at the end. WHAT IS SLOP Other than being Merriam-Webster’s new “word of the year”, I’d define a slop-deck in Weiss as having the following core properties: Presents no other threat to oppo...