The Spoils: Daniel Hanson's invitational win

http://www.thespoils.com/spoils/view.php?pg=article_hanson

Daniel Hanson wrote a report from the Washington Invitational on thespoils.com a few days ago and I thought I'd review it. Here was his deck:

	4 Pluck 4 Quotidian Ejector 4 Heist Planner 4 Servile Centipede 4 Swarm of Gnats 4 Swashbuckler 4 Rummaging Millipede 4 Violating Anomaly 4 Martial Artist 4 Obsessive Compulsion 1 Yoink! 4 Quotidian Assassination 4 Scrag 4 Forget 4 Rapine 1 Grand Theft All 15 Deception 2 Obsession

Just a basic Arcanist/Rogue control deck with the tech Grand Theft All for the random win. Obviously, you'll need to know your decks to play this, because you don't just go discarding cool looking things with Heist Planner and Quotidian Assassinating anything that hits the board. The deck seems solid, and the inclusion of 4 Pluck is also very key. With all the discard control cards, Pluck is going to win games by itself. Martial Artist seems to be the best Rogue beatstick, along with Swashbuckler. The rest is mostly obvious as to why it's there.

With Heist Planner it's important to know what to get rid of and how to keep it discarded. For example, don't discard beefy characters out of a Banker deck when they can simply Postmortem Debenture it back for free, that's virtually letting them have access to it for free. So discard any cards that can recover cards. Discard all Heist Planner and Pluck you find, maybe even Pluck their Heist Planners to disable them further. All the bounce in the deck is great, psuedo-removal and a way to replay Rogue characters or Swarm of Gnats.

"It was a unique experience, seeing the metagame shape up after having worked on Part II. Decks I thought were good while working on Part II ended up being not as good due to the metagame. For example, I really liked mono Arcanist Unnatural Alteration but the metagame has too many Micromajigs for it to be good. I can’t wait to see what Seed: Children of the Lingamorph does to the metagame, especially being that I wasn’t as involved in the testing of constructed for it. I do know one thing for sure, it’s going to be fun and I’m going to be there to see it."

Basically Daniel's thoughts on the tournament. Good job to Daniel and good luck at future events.