Alright, the bad news is that we went 0-5 last round - the good news is that we're still in third place. We need a lot of discussion this round, last round was lacking, and I feel like most of that is my fault for not pushing the team and allowing jcj to make a lot of points that might have discouraged others from participating in discussion. No one's done anything wrong, but we can't get any worse than last round, so let's get better.
First of all, we need to look at the decks our opponents have used so far this war (something jcj and Rulac said they'd do), and then go back through our ideas against them in Rounds 1 and 2 (barring Entropy since this is the first time we play them) and figure out if any of those still sound viable, then introduce new ideas. Last round we only had 1 or 2 ideas pitched out for most teams, which is a steep drop from Round 1. The more ideas we have, the more likely that one of them is the right choice, and the more likely we pick it and thus win the match.
Then we need to decide discards. We do lose large chunks of those decks, but on the bright side only one team had a net gain last round, and we do have a good card pool to choose from relative to other teams even with our losses. I think we can safely drop to one SoP deck, for example, we can safely discard some Novas and other grabbow cards because we have backups of them, etc.
Also we really need to discuss the event card this round. I'll make the thread for that shortly, but we need to have a strategy in place for that. I'm also realizing, looking at our vault, that we can make a mono-darkness with water splash with Tinkerer, as dirty as I feel for suggesting it, it'd be powerful and it'd probably also catch teams off guard. There's a couple other drastic uses of Tinkerer possible but that one strikes me the most. We should also consider decks like our adrenastaves, AM/flooding, air stall, SoP flayers/silence, AW splashes, etc that might not be as predictable.
Finally, I have to talk about subbing. I don't think what happened last round with Spiel's match is anyone's fault per se, but it needs addressed regardless. I'd like to talk to Spiel about it beforehand, whether that be through PM or in the Match Times thread where it's most relevant, but I do think it's connected our lack of communication in Round 2.
