Slickshot Showoff

[Hannah Barbara]

If you have no skill in this game you play this card.

[Hannah Barbara]

I don't know what moron is designing cards down at Wizards of the Coast but it turns the game completely binary. You either remove it or you just lose.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

It's not that different from balmor

[Hannah Barbara]

Yeah except you know being way better and having plot and haste and +1 damage.

[Hannah Barbara]

And also you know being way way way easier to cast. But sure. It's exactly like that card you mentioned.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

Ok. Cry more

[Hannah Barbara]

I'm not hearing a refutation.

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

If you plot it they know to keep mana open for removal. Its heavily telegraphed. I don't see how that's any better unless you are running counterspells or things to protect your guy, which means you are splashing another color anyway, but I'm sure they are willing more than one card to remove it, as it would keep card parity.

You seem to be describing aggro versus aggro, well whoever goes first has the advantage then. That's how those decks work. Taking a turn to do nothing isn't very aggro. What are you seeing with it? Monstrous rages stacked turn 3. That's still turn 3 though

[BEEN]

Go for the Throat

If you have a brain you play this card.

[mwesthoff]

We just discussed this in detail a month ago if you had searched "Slickshot" ... Oh well, I guess it must be that time of the month again.

[Malvastor]

Ah yes, playing good cards, the telltale sign of a bad player.

[Hannah Barbara]

Yeah just be in mono black and have that in your hand constantly from the start of the game. Oh you are so smart!

[ʍolɟ ǝɥʇ ǝsɹǝʌǝɹ]

Removal comes in every color, it's just harder in green

[Hannah Barbara]

Guess what. I put in cut down in my mono black deck load up the game. I never see a single mono red player. Protected class much?

[Malvastor]

Originally posted by Hannah Barbara:

Guess what. I put in cut down in my mono black deck load up the game. I never see a single mono red player. Protected class much?

Yep, you caught them. The game is designed so RDW players are never matched with a deck that could beat them. They need it, poor blighters. Ignore anyone who says they've beat a red deck, they're lying.

On the plus side, hey! You've found a perfect way to never face another Slickshot Showoff! Just include a couple removal cards in each deck that could shut it down, and The Algorithm will keep you from ever matching against a red player!

[Hannah Barbara]

I mean it's what CBG says. Are you telling me he's wrong?