Name: Jayden Green

Age: 25

Place of Residence: Ottawa

Profession: Card Store Owner

Team affiliation, if any: N.W.O.

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Two PCQ wins

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Squadron Fate-o-tron, because it wins.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? Fate-o-tron after July 1; Ivy League until then.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? The future is uncertain.

What do you think of the recent bannings? They’re good.

Name: Paul Bernard

Age: 23

Place of Residence: Montreal, Quebec

Profession: Doing a masters in financial mathematics

Team affiliation, if any: Team AttaQc

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Top 8 at $10K Toronto

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Mental, because it wins against Checkmate and Squadron pretty consistently.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? Until July 1, Ivy League. After that, mine.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? For now, Checkmate all the way, unless they get hurt too much by the loss of Enemy of My Enemy. Good Guys could be a good choice.

What do you think of the recent bannings? They’re okay. Not allowing your opponent to play a resource is just not the idea of the game.

Name: Nicolas Javier Cuenca

Age: 21

Place of Residence: Somerville, MA

Profession: Hater of Humpherys

Team affiliation, if any: Your Move Games

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Top 32 in a few PCs

What deck did you play this weekend and why? JLI / Masters of Evil. It has a good matchup against Good Guys, Checkmate, and Squadron.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? I think the format is wide open. It’s like rock-paper-scissors.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? We already broke the format, so stay tuned.

What do you think of the recent bannings? I hate Humpherys.

Name: Mike Brierley

Age: 16

Place of Residence: Stittsville, Ontario

Profession: Canine Custodial Engineer

Team affiliation, if any: The A-Team

Previous Vs. accomplishments: PCQ win

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Secret Sauce, because it’s a metagame toolbox which I created.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? Other than Secret Sauce, the FTN deck is pretty crazy.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? Villains United and Good Guys.

What do you think of the recent bannings? I think they were necessary.

Name: Jason Bagari

Age: 23

Place of Residence: Toronto, ON

Profession: Student

Team affiliation, if any: Team AA

Previous Vs. accomplishments: none

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Checkmate, because of its versatility.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? A properly built Checkmate deck, because of its ability to adapt to new situations.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? Lots and lots of Fate Artifacts.

What do you think of the recent bannings? A necessary step to control the game.

Name: David Weitz

Age: 29

Place of Residence: Mineral Ridge, Ohio

Profession: Card Player

Team affiliation, if any: The I-Hope-To-Barn-A-Deck-For-Indy Club

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Head Judged three $10K events, Top 20 in two $10K events

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Checkmate / League

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? The new X-Men Mental deck whips my deck.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? Lots of Fate and Straight to the Grave.

What do you think of the recent bannings? Good, but ban the Fate stuff too.

Name: Michael Jacob

Age: 22

Place of Residence: Farmington Hills, MI

Profession: Gamer

Team affiliation, if any: RIW Hobbies and The Donkey Club

Previous Vs. accomplishments: two PC Top 8s, six $10K Top 8s, three $10K wins

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Ivy League because it’s the best deck in the format.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? Ivy League. It survives and thrives through the hate cards easily. Sage is a joke.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? My lips are sealed.

What do you think of the recent bannings? Not enough; why not ban Enemy of My Enemy?

Name: Maximilien Bouchard

Age: 22

Place of Residence: Sagvenay, Quebec

Profession: Student / Bookseller

Team affiliation, if any: Team AttaQc

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Two $10K Top 8s, 23rd in PC: Atlanta

What deck did you play this weekend and why? Mental, because we found out at 3:15 AM that Alley-Oop! was broken. Nobody could see it coming because it was unique.

What do you think is the best deck in the format and why? Until July 1, Ivy League. After July 1, my deck.

What do you anticipate the Pro Circuit Indy metagame will look like? Checkmate, Checkmate, Checkmate.

What do you think of the recent bannings? The Parademon and Research Base errata were good. I would have preferred that Justice League of Arkham were simply errata’d.