The Bird is Back — I Should Have Played Pidgeot Control for NAIC

[PMJ]

When I first made this Pidgeot ex Control deck a couple weeks ago, I thought there was no way it was actually going to be good. Pidgeot is harder to set up than it used to be and the opposing meta decks are too powerful and varied.


I started by forming a strategy to counter each and every one of the meta decks and figuring out what cards I would need to do so. Unsurprisingly, this ended up taking a lot of deck space. There were inevitably going to be many cards that were useless in a good portion of matchups, which is always how it goes with anti-meta decks. The rest of the remaining slots went towards consistency, as the deck needs to set up Pidgeot in order to navigate through its menagerie of one-of cards.
My expectations for this dubious looking deck were about as low as possible. When I...

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[Grim Thoughts]

I think control decks in general will make a large resurgence come Worlds. Our current meta seems set up for them to succeed as long as the core control strategy is strong enough, with how much time decks are given to set up each game nowadays