Why Permanent Waves?
At the end of my previous article, I said that the Permanent Waves deck might have been an excellent metagame choice. In this article, I start with a discussion of why Permanent Waves is worth considering and playing. Then I discuss my recent attempts to tune the deck, and show some of the results of my recent testing. There are several strengths the deck has going for it. First, like all storm-based combo decks, it plays a game that is virtually unlike any other strategy in the format. This means in practical terms that many decks, especially aggressive decks, have no effective way of disrupting its game plan. Aggro decks must simply race and hope that they can deal lethal damage to the Permanent Waves player before it can assemble the combo. This race is usually a losing endeavor, because Permanent Waves can usually assemble the combo by turn 4, and sometimes as early as turn 3. Most aggressive decks cannot win that early under most circumstances. Secondly, unlike some of the other c
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