Ok, so I did this out of curiosity... I basically tallied up how many of what cards were used in the 16 person MWCC regional, and with US Nats coming up I wasn't sure if some people would find this to be useful or not (WI does have an odd meta). Some of these numbers surprised me a little, but anyways:

28x Seal of Cessation
27x Tag Along
25x Bitter Rivals
22x Chester’s Backing
19x Olcadan’s Mentoring
19x The Red Lotus of the Sun
17x Blinding Rage
17x Pommel Smash
16x Lord of the Makai
15x Adoration
15x Soul of Ling-Sheng Su
14x Rejection
12x Blood Runs True
12x Cutting Edge
12x Inhuman Perception
11x Oral Dead
11x The King of Fighters 2006
10x Chinese Boxing
10x Empire’s Ruin
10x Hope for One’s People
09x Healer
08x Altered Mind and Body
08x Aquakinesis
08x Backhanded Axe Slash
08x Battle Prowess
08x Dead for One Thousand Years
08x Enraged Golem
08x Envoy of the Queen
08x Get Up and Go
08x Huge Wrestling Army
08x Ichi No Tachi
08x Kung-Fu Training
08x Manifest Destiny
08x Resourceful
08x Transference
07x Amy’s Assistance
07x Billiard Player
07x Cursed Blood
07x Dragon’s Flame
07x Fight or Flight
07x Heel Snipe
07x Saikyo-Ryu
07x Shooting Capoera
07x Tira’s Contract
07x Trapped in a Nightmare
06x Destiny
06x Experienced Combatant
06x Nine Lives
06x Program Malfunction
06x Revenant’s Calling
06x Stand Off
06x Tyr’s Warding Smash
06x Willful
05x Astrid’s Wolf Strike
05x Communing With the Ancients
05x Defender
05x Fire Shadow
05x Kabuki Artist
05x Lynette’s Shop
05x Midnight Launcher
05x Shadow Blade
04x A Samurai’s Life
04x Abelia’s Friendship
04x Antisocial
04x Astaroth’s Body Splash
04x Bereaved
04x Big Dreams
04x Blind Loyalty
04x Buddhist Devotion
04x Burning Hatred
04x Consumer of Planets
04x Controller of Souls
04x Dark Bite
04x Deadly Ground
04x Evil Plans
04x Explosive Power
04x Fei Long’s Forward Kick
04x Flames of Fame
04x Flashy Leg Work
04x Flooded-Nile Throw
04x Flowing Strikes
04x Flying Power Bomb
04x Forethought
04x Gaishiki Lunar Rebellion
04x Hiogi
04x Holding Ground
04x Hoyoko-Sen
04x Hulking Brute
04x Hungry for Battle
04x Ira-Spinta
04x Irrevocably Changed
04x Jealously Guarded Secret
04x Journey of Repentance
04x Leg Slash
04x Lynx Tail
04x Makai High Noble
04x Mega Spike
04x Might Makes Right
04x Mighty Knee Strike
04x Mirror Drop
04x Nefarious Deeds
04x No Memories
04x Origin’s Unknown
04x Powerful Style
04x Queen’s Champion
04x Realm of Midnight
04x Reaver’s Axe
04x Red Cyclone of Mother Russia
04x Relentless
04x Researching the Past
04x Return to Southtown
04x Sandstorm Throw
04x Schoolgirl Innocence
04x Seeking a Challenge
04x Shredding Vibrato
04x Spiritual Center
04x The Anti-K’
04x The Glare from the Abyss
04x The Gorgeous Team
04x The Street Life
04x The Tae Kwon Do Zephyr
04x The Ways of Punishment
04x Tiger Fury
04x Tough Outer Shell
04x Twilight Embrace
04x Ultimate and Immortal
04x Valued But Not Trusted
04x Visions of Destiny
04x White Magic
04x Wild Fang
04x Ymirfang
04x Yoga Adept
04x Zi Mei’s Wheel Kick
03x Ancient Fighting Style
03x Big Cyclone
03x Charlie’s Fierce Punch
03x Criminal Past
03x Dancing Battle Kabuki
03x Driven by Fear
03x Feline Spike
03x Impressive Physique
03x King’s Games
03x Lone Wolf
03x Make a Difference
03x Memories of a Nightmare
03x Menuett Dance
03x N-Type Human
03x Oratorio Halcyon
03x Perfect Sense of Balance
03x Raw Talent
03x Reunited
03x Savage Fighter
03x Sazan
03x ShadoWar
03x Taking in Students
03x The Bigger They Are...
03x The Ruler of the Shadows
03x Tsuji Hayate
03x Warrior Poet
02x Adopted
02x Annu Mutsube
02x Body of Souls
02x Bounce Back
02x Charismatic
02x Eagle Talon
02x Glanzende Nova and Frisher Himmel
02x High Plasma Beam
02x Lesser of Many Evils
02x Natural Leader
02x Nursing a Grudge
02x Pigeon Games
02x Psycho Style
02x Ready for Anything
02x Seeking Treasure
02x Shield Breaker
02x Stardust Drop
02x Trolling
02x Undercover Agent
02x US Air Base
02x Valkynsverd
02x Voice of the Land
02x Warrior’s Path
02x White Gi
02x Wonderworld Warriors
01x Darkness Blade
01x End it All
01x Gloomy Side
01x High Tide
01x Ikari Warrior
01x Jingu Staff
01x Jolly Side
01x Odin’s Wrath
01x Ryu’s Shin Shoryuken
01x Tenacious

No wonder you were taking so long to respond to my IM's LOL

I lol'd. There were more copies of Schoolgirl Innocence played than Feline Spikes or Menuett Dances.

So much Seal of Cessation!

umm... I guess that means the ruling of SOC vs. COS (Controller of Souls) would have been important in this event... IF THERE WASN'T ONLY 4 OF THE LATTER BEING RUN!!!

I see chaos decks people , COS is the bomb for that symbol (and I'm more vouching for the discard/draw enhance, at the very least you can pretend to be Herr!?!?)

uggh,

Thank you for the work on the list ShadowDragon, it is a neat way of looking at your regional/meta ^^

- dut

That sure is one weird metagame. People use Hiogi?

The Hiogis were run in an Astrid deck, so it's not all that strange in that sense. But yeah, I was kinda shocked at the number of Seals...

15x Adoration
15x Soul of Ling-Sheng Su
14x Rejection

Other than Seal, these were the one's that surprised me the most. Adoration because I don't see it played that much anymore, Soul seems mostly 6 check and helpful ability to spike decks, and, if I may assume for a bit, lots of evil or splashing for rejection.

Not surprised about rejection but spinta only 4 omg and only 19 mentoring kinda odd....

ShadowDragon said:

But the numbers on the bolded bits just evoke a WAT

Finally a regional that didn't have a gill deck.

dutpotd said:

Controller of Souls cannot stop Seal.

Since Seal blows itself up as a cost, it is no longer in the staging area.

CoS states that it must be an asset in the staging area.

Archimedes said:

tannerface said:

nope, not at all. cos > soc

http://www.fantasyflightgames.com/edge_foros_discusion.asp?efpag=1&efid=30&efcid=5&efidt=135032

GouHadou said:

i still dont agree but rules are rules i guess theres not much you can do

do we want to go there again....the ability is played from your staging area, That is the asset is in your staging area when you announce to R with it and pay its cost, ONCE it is DONE being played, it is no longer in the SA...but the wording on CoS is "After your opponent plays an ability on an asset in their staging area" not "after your opponent plays an ability on an asset that is currently in their staging area"

Yay for the ambiguities of the english language.

It's a lot more obvious than people think.

Player A: I activate Seal of Cessation
Player B: R with CoS, because it stops an asset's ability that was played from the staging area (where the f--k else would an asset's ability be played from?)

Pretty simply really.