I personally can't wait until Fossil.  You know why?  Haymakers are 
everywhere.  And I mean everywhere.  Have we lost all originality?  Can we 
not think of something else?  I don't care how much pride is involved or how 
big the tourney prize is, make new decks.  Test them.  Don't bring the same 
deck every tourney, with maybe a few modifications.  I know it works, if you 
know how to play it, but this is turning out to be the Necropotence of 
Magic, or the Mains and Toys of Star Wars...it isn't fun for the others, who 
actually make new decks and play them.  We can't all make the same deck and 
play each other, it would suck.
   Some people are just neurotic, and can't help but play their Haymaker, or 
their 15 tourney winning deck.  And those people need help.  I know I sound 
bitter, but I face the same decks every tourney, and there are no ways I 
know to defeat them.  I sometimes wonder why I even bother going.  I 
ususally place Top 3, with the exception of my last tourney, but its no fun 
going and knowing you will place 3rd.
   My final plea is, people, please, don't play the Haymaker, or various 
versions, (which I will not mention the neurotic Gerhardt's Haymaker's 
Potpourri, or Chipmunk's Hyro-Shoten-Haaa....cough...cough).  I know these 
decks are good, but MAKE SOMETHING NEW FOR PETE'S SAKE!!!
   Speaking of which, Gerhardt's Potpourri is the best deck I have seen, 
Chippy's Hyro placing a close 2nd.  Me....I've been left in the dust.  I 
can't tell you how bad I wan't that expansion, or just an omen for a great 
deck.


           El Ravager  (E.R.)


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