Alright, what's in and what's out of the META?

[Rutarete]

Turns out Nightmare Singularity was only mentioned. I didn't find a deck.

[eaglgenes101]

The concept is still out there while the AI is still stupid enough to play it.

[furballdn]

The concept is still out there while the AI is still stupid enough to play it.

Yup, but that only works if the AI even uses in the first place. On the other hand, this makes some FGs quite laughable in the trainer. Zanz will probably make AI not play singularities when the new verison rolls out.

[Time_lord_victorius]

going back on subject, can you guys give me an idea of the meta?

[mesaprotector]

going back on subject, can you guys give me an idea of the meta?

PvP2 (Which is IMO a pretty good way to tell how the meta's going) is at present something like this:

40% SN-Speedbows
20% Rainbow Stalls (Like CCYB or the old FFQ/Otyugh/Druid thing)
20% Mono-darkness
10% Mono-death (Mostly with SoSa, seems to be more common in the arena)
10% Random other stuff (Fire rushes, Pestal, etc.)

After this patch I expect SN-bows to go down and mono-death to rise even further.

[Silver]

I dunno about you but I see Firestall in the few BL games I've played. From the time where it was reputedly rampant the only nerfs have been the +1 Deflag cost and the quanata cap- neither of which hurt it that much.

[swishy]

The new shards (the good ones at least) are also rather dominant in the current meta. Shard of sacrifice makes poison stalls incredibly powerful (especially with SoD) and shard of serendipity makes SNbows a lot more powerful/fun (SoSe is very popular in pvp at the moment). Also, the current top FG grinder is Instosis (not sure how to link, it's in the rainbow decks section).

[Jenkar]

I dunno about you but I see Firestall in the few BL games I've played. From the time where it was reputedly rampant the only nerfs have been the +1 Deflag cost and the quanata cap- neither of which hurt it that much.

Thing is with the add of SoX, rushes lost popularity, Stalls gained some, CC in firestall became much less useful, also, monolight became popular (SoD + miracle is a nice gg for firebolts, not to mention mirror), and denial based on eq too due to the decline of rushes. So Firestall lost some of it's power because meta shifted. Still a very strong deck, unupped.