User blog comment:Drago0661/Jack Bond - My Jackknife Deck/@comment-10483040-20140617131223/@comment-1755882-20140619034609

I may have accidentally claimed it as a -1 initially, but I haven't been saying that for awhile. My entire point is that -1 from your hand means nothing if you don't end up using those resources. You also have plenty of other ways of gaining that gauge, which all wash BEFORE giving you gauge, and the gauge gained is pure benefit. As Blaz has mentioned, when most cards are dead in hand, its because you're unable to play it, but when a card like Dragonic Charge is dead in hand, its because it won't do anything for you in the situation. Cards like those really aren't things that should be Mained.

Of course, these are all points that have already been made previously by Blaz or myself, but it seems they need to be restated as you haven't seen fit to address them at all.

And yes, you're right about tournaments. People DO win for a reason. However, we don't have any clue what any of those reasons are. It could be because their Worlds got overrepresented, and they just happened to be the one who got to the top by chance. It could be that - regardless of deck quality - they were just more skilled than everyone else and won because of that. It could be because they sacked everyone to death (even if this is far less likely here than in Vanguard, due to Best of 3 and the much lower luck factor, it is still very possible and because we don't have the information, we can't cross it out). It could be because the high quality players and/or decks got knocked out earlier because the tournaments are elimination. Are you getting my point? Even people at the tournaments themselves do not have anywhere near enough data to give us the information we would need to validate the tournament as good for testing, and even if we compiled enough information from tons of players at the tournament the low sample size would STILL make it invalid as test data.

I don't just theorycraft. As I said in my initial post referring to tournament results, I was specifically mentioning how tournaments do not compare in the slightest to actual controlled, extensive testing. That's how you figure this stuff out, not by looking at tournament results and acting like its automatically a good deck just because it won/topped at a tournament.