Guys, I actually spoke with Sam at the event and he constantly referred to his deck as Angel Stompy. If he believes that he's playing an Angel Stompy deck, I'm not sure what right we have to rename his deck for him.
He actually told me he believed Miracles was no longer favored in the meta and switched to an Angel Stompy build as a last minute audible - obviously a smart move that won him the event. I honestly think the fact that Angel Stompy won a major event is something we should celebrate, since it shows the diversity of legacy. Clumping everything into the category 'Miracles' just because the decks share a few cards is lazy and misleading.
So the rest of the top 8 was Dredge, False Cure, Angel Stompy, Sneak Show, Merfolk, Elves, and Quinn the Eskimo? Those are about as accurate of names as Angel Stompy is to his Miracles list.
If the players wanted to name their decks those things, that would be their right. I think those names would be a little more confusing than Angel Stompy, because Sam's deck genuinely was a beatdown deck that won with angels. But I think people have the right to name their deck anything that they want.
I don't want to live in a country where people don't have basic naming rights over their own things. That's not a road we want to go down.
I don't get what your fixation on card choices are. Play style is a MAJOR component of Stompy decks.
If you watch the games, Sam doesn't play his cards like a Miracles player would. He throws down a fast YOLO Counterbalance lock piece and then gets his beat on, Stompy style, with angels. Many of, if not the majority of the choices he makes during these games would be *terrible* if he were a Miracles player. But as a Stompy player, they were great decisions.
And just as you can play cards that are traditionally 'Miracles' in a Stompy manner, you can play cards that are traditionally 'Stompy' in a Miracles manner. E.g. You still slam down t1 Chalice, but you can also play a Top for later in the game, card filtering etc. Being so fixated on card choices makes you miss a lot of the subtle things in the game, it doesn't matter what cards you play, just how you play them.
Originally Posted by Ace/Homebrew to MiraclesWizard via PM at 3:28 PM
Nice house Brah! You get good internetz there?
maybe it should be called snappy stompy
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