Seeing so many Tazer Lage discourse on my timeline. The way i see it, Prison hasn't done well consistently for couple months, maybe some top 8. But then, they got top 2 when Prison players realize that Tazer Lage is very helpful against the meta, which they don't play it before. But isn't that normal that people tech correctly into the environment and got rewarded for it? Similar to One Piece where bad matchup is a thing and people tech cards to help them boost their winrate. For me it doesn't make sense when people wants it to be banned just because it prevents your deck do what you want it to do. Now, let's assume Prison will gain more popularity because of this. I think it's important on how you respond, deckbuilding wise maybe adding cards that can retire on MP if you play DE, or changing your playstyle if you're playing Stoich if you don't have retire, etc. It will stop Estacion or Rezael to do 5 attacks, but you can always go RG RG swing to it before calling right? Prison handsize is not big so you're forcing them to commit resource in hand to defend it or let it go. And if for some reason, your deck completely got shut off by it and no way to play around or build around it due to limited card pool. Then the question should be, "Should I bring this deck when Tazer is popular knowing that my deck will lose to Prison?" I understand that some people wants to play their pet deck and do well, and it's not a wrong thing because I want to do so as well. And due to the level of variance in VG, any deck has a chance to win. It comes back to what do you want to achieve. If your deck cannot keep up with the meta and need extra extra luck to win, you gotta be realistic when you're fighting a losing battle and lose. And if you just wanna have fun, feel free to play any deck you want. The key point is instead of wanting a card to be banned because it counters your deck, there are some way to play around it, or worse case, choose a deck that has the highest chance to win in the current meta if YOU WANT TO WIN. There is a reason why as much as I love Varga i never bring it to regionals because I always want to win, but if i go 2nd in an aggresive meta full of Aichi, I know I am gonna get rolled 100%.

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