Crime Pays (1st, Emerald Knights Season 2 Store Championship

I've always been a fan of "Ser Gabe" or as I call them GabeKnight decks. I still feel most at home playing this style. You've made some of the more natural evolutions that I made, including peacock. I think E3 is a super strong add for me. Due to its power against HB. You also run bank job and indexing. It's like you copied me!

I also added crash space instead of plascrete, and 2 inside jobs. Your seems a little slower, mine runs Eshutdown and very aggressively. I also created a variant that has successful run things built into it (called Gabe Knight HP I think...search my deck history)

I say this to make it clear I play this extensively, and understand GabeKnight very well. Your build looks very solid, and ready for the post lotus field world. If you wanted up the tempo a little, 1 clone chip saves you from PS and allows you to recur knight of faerie as needed. E3 saves you on successive knight breaks, and is faster vs HB. I feel like eshutdown is still necessary, since gabe functions a lot better in early game state. Perhaps you're just hitting more siphons than me though.

Congrats on the win.

Thanks x3r0h0ur. I'm a big fan of your decks, I'm playing a version of your Blue Control right now.

I certainly considered e3, but haven't used it much. That might have been influenced by my local meta. This version of the deck only runs 2 Knights also, and I find that people trash them pretty quickly. I'll give it a try some time.

Emergency Shutdown is much more tempting. I think that was the last card that got cut from the deck. Looking at it again, I think I'd take out a Planned Assault and maybe an Infiltration for 2 of them. The deck has enough draw that it doesn't need 3 Planned Assaults, but the Infiltration is more of a meta call. I've been seeing a lot of traps lately.

I used to run Clone Chip, but it wasn't working great for me. Faerie blocks the first Power Shutdown and I run 2 copies of all the breakers. When I was running one copy of each it was a problem, but I was also not drawing them fast enough. Still, I can totally understand including Clone Chip, but I didn't feel like I needed it.

Thanks for the feedback, it's great to hear your take! =D

Yea clearly you're doing something right with the deck as is. I think this archtype has a lot of playstyle play in it, so thats good.

Not the best place to ask this, but how has the Blue Control worked out? Any flaws? My local play partner and I are testing a new blackmail noise deck that I think he might win the tournament we're going to with it. Have you found any obvious flaws in it? Changes?

I totally agree. This is a very flexible playstyle that rewards experience and fine tuning to each player's preferences.

I'll go post up some feedback on your Blue Control deck. =)