Weiss & Ramblings

This is a deck profile I wrote for a now-defunct community project. Even if that project starts back up again, these decks are no longer meta relevant. I didn't want to lose the writing, so I'm copy-pasting them here. Enjoy over coffee at your leisure. --- Reflection Blue changed a lot for Summer Pockets. No longer shackled to the now dicey investment of Shiroha , the set became free to explore more stable and traditional options. SMP quickly rocketed to the status of tournament threat in the current metagame due to the utilization of its unique older options while receiving quite a few new ones, but determining which of them to build around proved to be a bit of challenge. An expanded high-quality card pool allows SMP to fairly easily adapt to the ebb and flow of a changing metagame, so today I’ll be running down a generalized build that aims to answer a “blind” field. I’ll also cover alternative choices, so you can tune your personal build of Pockets to best respond to your o...

This is a deck profile I wrote for a now-defunct community project. Even if that project starts back up again, these decks are no longer meta relevant. I didn't want to lose the writing, so I'm copy-pasting them here. It's practically just an English adaptation of MilkTea's 8 Book profile, which is linked in the article itself. Enjoy over coffee at your leisure. --- Sometimes, the most interesting cards in a set can be deckbuilding traps. Unique profiles with the potential to create powerful boards and present unanswerable threats are what players, myself included, usually will start with when trying to craft a “meta” deck. This typically works out; Weiss Schwarz is a game where available shells are pretty obvious to brewers before a set even comes out. Many sets come out of the gate with a canned build available that sticks to the meta like glue. However, there are times where this isn’t the case. The community can miss the proverbial forest for a set’s stand-out trees...