Point taken, but I think big zoo is over preparing for control and small aggro, because traditional Zoo is struggling against those archetypes now, which is why no one has fun playing Zoo anymore. Marverick is more fundamentally prepared to play Grove/Fires, and benefits from it to a much greater degree, and has a better matchup against a lot of deck right now than any build of Zoo.

I have no doubt that a player with skill can still win with the deck, but the odds just seem to be against Grove/Fires, like, when you're getting ported and wasted by Goblins or D&T and you are left with one or two Groves and a bunch of 1/1s. The strategy that should have won the match-up kicks you in the nuts.

Also, there was a time when a deck had to top 8 to be considered impressive. Sure, in a huge tourney, top 16 is pretty impressive, but I see way to many instances lately where top 16s are used to justify pretty average decks.