Quote Originally Posted by Sage View Post
On the subject of CB/top, I also personally think that CB/top isn't that great at the moment for the following reasons;

-Everyone is playing arround it
-It is hard to assemble the combo
(although I agree that top is amazing by itself)
-It slows the game down considerably (more draws)
People playing around it means they aren't playing optimally, which is awsome for you.

Assembling the combo is piece of cake, specially because the combo requires only Counterbalance, since Top is an improvement, but not a necessity. With 8 Brainstorms+Ponders, Counterbalance will be effective almost all the time.

As long as you can imprint a mid/late game aggressivity, after taking control of the game, you shouldn't be getting ties. Countertop does very little if you can't deal with what your opponent plays while dodging it or before it becomes online. With O-Ring (1-2), STP (4), EE (0-2) and a Huge Flying Thing (1), you shouldn't have problems with that.