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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...