Name: Colby Gerrish

Age: 19

Place of Residence: Woodstock, GA

Profession: Car Driver

Team affiliation, if any: none

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Winner of multiple PCQs, multiple $10K Top 24 finishes

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Knight’s Inn

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? Good Guys and Checkmate variants, because of the answers they have to the other decks in the format.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Fate-atron

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? In Modern Age, yes, due to no way to control them. In other formats, they’re fine.

Name: Dusty Hostutler

Age: 20

Place of Residence: West Virginia

Profession: Student

Team affiliation, if any: none

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Won a t-shirt at a Sneak Preview

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Deep Green, has both control and beatdown aspects. Your guys are just big.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? X-Statix / Villains—it was the only deck to wreck me.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Fate Artifacts in every deck.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? No, Jester is too good.

Name: Graham Van Leeuwen

Age: 13

Place of Residence: Chapel Hill, NC

Profession: Student / Writer

Team affiliation, if any: Team Last Resort

Previous Vs. accomplishments: 50th at PC: Atlanta

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Checkmate / Villains; it’s consistent, good at both attacking and defending, and I’ve had the most practice with it.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? Anything with Checkmate; Ahmed Samsarra is just too good.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Good Guys, Fate Artifacts, Checkmate, and some kind of off-curve deck.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? Not too good. They’re annoying but don’t need to be errata’d or banned.

Name: David De Michele

Age: 27

Place of Residence: Tampa, FL

Profession: Artist, Waiter, Bum

Team affiliation, if any: The Sinister Six

Previous Vs. accomplishments: 3rd at $10K Atlanta, 5th at $10K Orlando, multiple PC money finishes

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Mexican Hardware Store—it crushed my Checkmate deck 8-0 in testing last night, so I switched at the last moment.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? MHS and Checkmate are pretty equal because MHS is more powerful, but Checkmate is more consistent.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Good Guys and Fate Artifacts.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? Only in certain formats, because there is very little equipment removal and untargetability is ridiculous.

Name: Matthew Frankl

Age: 17

Place of Residence: Dover, DE

Profession: The Most Ignorant

Team affiliation, if any: TMI

Previous Vs. accomplishments: A lot of PCQ Top 8s

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Good Guys, because my friends forced me to. The only games I have ever played with the deck were today.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? Chimp and Light Show, because you play Chimp, you play Light, and they put on a show.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Since there’s no equipment hate, Good Guys and Fate Artifacts.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? Yeah, they’re pretty absurd. You just can’t deal with the pimp suit.

Name: Stephen Silverman

Age: 19

Place of Residence: Philadelphia

Profession: The Most Ignorant

Team affiliation, if any: TMI

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Won a $10K

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Good Guys, because it’s easy.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? No idea.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Fate Artifacts plus X, where X is your favorite team.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? Yeah, obviously. Defend Yourself and Removed From Continuity isn’t a good answer.

Name: Billy Postlethwait

Age: 20

Place of Residence: Orlando, FL

Profession: Student

Team affiliation, if any: The Sinister Six

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Five PC Top 32 finishes

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? Checkmate / League. It  seemed like the best control deck, and it won the PC.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why?  Deep Green, the same deck I played. Ahmed allows you to search up anything you need. It’s very consistent.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? Lots of cards from Crisis; it’s more powerful than Justice League.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? No, they can be dealt with.

Name: David Leader

Age: 30

Place of Residence: Atlanta

Profession: Contract Programmer

Team affiliation, if any: FTN

Previous Vs. accomplishments: Winner of several local PCQs

What deck did you play this weekend, and why? X-Statix because I wanted to have some fun.

What do you think is the best deck in the format, and why? Good Guys and Checkmate variants are both really strong, but the format is wide open.

What do you anticipate the PC: Indy metagame will look like? If I was to answer this, I’d end up lying about it, and I don’t like to do that.

Do you think the Fate Artifacts are too good? Nah. They’re strong, they give interesting possibilities, but I don’t think they’re too powerful.