Talk:Sixth Omni Storm Lord, Variable Cord/@comment-26538151-20150801104913/@comment-1755882-20150801162010

You say there's so many ways to protect your monsters...but SDW's biggest flaw is that it can't do that. Its only methods are with Barret and Speculight, both of which are quite easily played around. So, yes, how easy it is for your opponent to get off attacks against your 2k defense is hugely relevant.

You say not every world has a card like Rolling Stone, and while that's true to a point...many decks actually have easier and more versatile answers than Rolling Stone.

Double Katar, Loki, Oberon, Great Fate, Artiliger, Begone, Mat Flipping Technique are all cards that, like Rolling Stone, instantly kill off Cord, and the abundance of destruction in decks that don't possess these allow most decks to rip through this card. And those that don't have either of those, tend to have high-crit backed by Penetrate, or be able to rush you down quickly with numerous attacks per turn (which in turn allows them to tear through Cord himself). And when they've done so, you'll have set yourself back so much with the investment that you're done.

The Deus Trio is not even a factor. SDW lacks the draw to set up a 3-card combo consistently, and with nothing to protect their cards from effect destruction, its easy for the combo to be disrupted before you can even benefit from it.

Finally, its use an Omni Lord, as brought up by JCThundar. That would be a fair point, if it was something that could be gotten consistently. He's only good as an Omni Lord against decks that are vulnerable to Penetrate, and due to the forced 1-of nature, only decks with ridiculous draw can really abuse that factor. The only deck that has that, and doesn't really have a better way of doing such a thing, is Wizards, who can actually make decent use of it, but its really only a sideboard thing.