Vanguard Random: Net-Decking

Hey Cardfighters,

Lately with all the buzz about net-decking I wanted to give my two cents on the topic.

Starting off, what is net-decking? 

Net-decking is the practice of copying a winning/popular decklist from online tournament results.

I personally see nothing wrong with this practice, but I believe there are two sides to it and the more negative one attracts a lot of the stigma associated with Net-Decking.

Here are some attributes of what I refer to as unhealthy and healthy net-decking. (Not all of these will apply at one time and some may be a little ambiguous)

Unhealthy Net-Decking

• Primary objective is winning
• Seeing a winning deck, copying the decklist and then changing cards in it because you think they are bad. 
• Complaining when losing, because "I have the best deck I shouldn't lose"

Healthy Net-Decking

• Primary objective is learning and improvement of ones skills (deck building or playing)
• Trying to understand why a person chose the cards they did.

From these points I think you can see that I believe net-decking should be used for improving you own abilities rather than for the sake of winning. For example take my blog. I'm not suggesting that my decks will win you every single game in fact I give you some quick testing results showing that isn't the case. What I want to give you, my readers, is a cheap deck that you can learn how to use, understand and improve when you want to add more money into it.

What are your opinions on net-decking? Do you think its good, bad or somewhere in the middle? Leave a comment and let me know what you think.

Thanks for reading,

~Bambi