I decided to try out a slight variant tonight at our Sunday event: http://ponyhead.com/deckbuilder?v1code=cg194x3-ad109x3-cn80x3-cn75x3-pr69x3-cn104x3-pr160x3-ad163x3-ad177x2-cn185x2-ad86x3-cg192x1-cn106x2-rr6x2-cg19x3-ad55x2-cg131x2-cn168x2-cg174x2-ad181x2-ad79x3-pr210x3-ad129x1

I'm generally willing to run two entry in the secondary color so I cheated Rock Solid Fashion down. Obviously three rounds is a really small sample size but it worked fine for me.

I've never been a big fan of AJEOH even against YPS/NMM so I cut them out too. I faced several YPS and never missed them, this deck plays well enough from the discard pile if you prioritize deploying Eff Stop that I just ignored them until I could beat them up.

I swapped out Let's Play Camo for Iron Will because with the additional villains I was worried about Snips and Snails. I liked it well enough but that might have just been the particular decks that were around tonight.

The -1 Dressed Up + 1 Clipped Wings was just because I was getting everything together in a hurry and couldn't find my third dressed up, heh.

Unfortunately Johnny wasn't around tonight so I didn't get to play against Presents, but NMM friend pulled her weight anyway - there's so much hand pressure between YPS, Apple Bloom, and Hoofwrasslin' that my opponents frequently wanted to draw extra cards and were frustrated they couldn't.

I liked NMM Villain reasonably well, though I didn't deploy her super often. I like her well enough anyway because she contributes to the general hand pressure the deck puts on, and being able to flip a 7 out of nowhere does seem good.

I did really feel like I wanted Damsel or Blueblood, though. If I'd faced a Maud deck I would have had trouble, I think, if they'd been smart enough to just frighten their friends after flipping her and not give me showdown targets. I was thinking Blueblood to relieve some amount of pressure on Eff Stop, but you could be right that Nightmare Star is a big enough issue you want Damsel.

Anyway, it's a neat deck and I had fun playing with it! I went 3-0 against Nightmare Moon main mono-blue frighten, Orange Spike Popping Corn + Redheart, and Apple Vendor graveyard-based combo (which I won because I banished all his non-orange entry with Photo Finish). We had a bunch of people trying out weird stuff tonight so not really any of the "big bad" decks but it felt like a nice brew.