I eagerly awaited the results of the US, Canadian, French, and Italian nationals. UB Faeries, Reivellarks and Demigod Reds posted impressive finishes during the events. There were no discarder decks in the top-eights. Perfect. This was the go-signal I was waiting for. I was to play a discarder deck for the 2008 Philippine National Championships the following week.
A lot would say that the current Standard metagame is a rock-paper-scissors game. If the rock were UB Faeries, the paper would be Mono-Red Aggro, and the scissors multi-color Reivellark. My strategy for the Standard portions of the nationals was simple: use a deck than can beat the rocks, the papers, and the scissors. Discarder it is.
The funny thing is, discarder decks are one of those decks which are easiest to beat after sideboarding. Any deck can pack three to four copies of Dodecapod in the board. Not every discarder player can handle well the Dodecapod mind-games. But I knew not one soul in the tournament would be using the 3/3 artifact creature. After all, no discarder decks went into the top eight of recent national championship events. Most Magic players here are "net-deckers". They would be using and expecting decks similar to those which were successful in other countries. I had to take advantage of that net-decking mentality.
In this age of information, the Internet's impact on the Magic metagame can not be ignored. While most would simply copy successful decks from the Net, I took a different approach to "net-decking". The Net helped me correctly predict the metagame. All I needed to do was use a deck which can break the metagame decks. My strategy paid off well.
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