Anteaus! Originality!




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From: ObnoxiousCelt@aol.com
Date:  Wed, 30 Mar 2005 01:28:08 EST

Anteaus! Time for the second wave of big guns! ORGINIALITY!

Cookie cutter! Original! Themes! Hybrids! Blah blah blah! You know what 
this really is? A whole bunch of fighting over nothing. NOTHING! How so? 
Well lets take a looks. 

we'll start with Cookie cutters. Okay, fine. You know wha, I'm going to 
make a deck based around Skull Servant! SKULL SERVANT! I then proceed to 
win the World Championship with this happy little Skull Servant! I'm hailed 
as Lord of Original! Suddenly Skull Servant decks spring up everywhere! EEK! 
Now my beautiful SKull Servant deck is called cookie cutter even though I 
MADE IT! 

See, the truth of cookie cutters is there is no such thing. You got themes. 
Be it Chaos, Warrior, ALO, FTK, Burn, ETC. Look at FTK Scientist. It took 
somebody with a good brain to figure his combo out. And it spread because 
it work. 
SImple as that. So cookie cutters dont exisist. ALl what you call a cookie 
cutter is, is really just a theme. 

Oh but all Chaos/Warrior/Burn/blah blah are the same! I can make them! They 
arent original! BLAH BLAH BLAH *Insert more pro-originality babble here* Okay. 
Fine. So all Chaos has BLS. SO? Thats Chaos theme and thats how it is. BLS is 
the backbone! As for the rest of the cards, lets look at your deck! Snatch 
Steal?? Torential? Premature? Call of the Haunted? Lis goes on and on! YOU 
GOT MOST OF THEM TO! Seriously, you preach on originality but you run almost 
he exact same cards a Chaos user does! HA! THATS REAL ORIGINAL ISNT IT?!

You want to know what original truly is? When you build your own deck, be it 
Chaos/Warrior/Burn/whatever and make it what you want. Sure it will be accused 
of being a cookie cutter, but you know what? I run Chaos.  I run burn. I run 
beatdown. I run ALO. Does that make them all unoriginal because theyve been 
done already? No it doesnt because no matter how similiar they are to other 
decks, I will twak how I see fit and that is the difference. That is what 
originality is. Being able to make what you want.

But theese pro-originality people are not happy with any of this. They want 
all decks to be completely new and blah blah blah even though they themselves 
run all the staples. You know what? Fine. You wantto be so original, I challenge 
you to make a deck that works without Snatch, Premature, PoG, CotH, Torrential, 
Scapegoat, MST, HEavy Storm, and all the rest of your deck that is found in 
almost all tournement level decks! YOU CANT! If you want to wage a war in the 
name of Originality, then do it and show us your working deck without the 
staples!

As for the much fought after Chaos, you know what? Chaos is almost dead. In 
todays game Chaos can not stand alone. Chaos MUST be hybred with another series, 
usually beatdown or warrior, to survive. So why do the originality people still 
pick on Chaos? 

SImple. Because if they went after any of the other themes, theyd lose and they 
know it. Chaos use to reign supreme so people still are mad at it. THAT AND ONLY 
THAT IS WHY CHAOS IS STILL PICKED ON!

Now you know hwo I stand on orginality. I am for it because thats what all decks 
are. As for you heavy originality pushers, I challenge you to make me the original 
deck without all of the staples!

Antem out
animorphs17@hotmail.com