Miska Saari: Difference between revisions

Miska Saari has played the TCG from the age of six<ref>[http://plaza.fi/viihdeuutiset/miska-saari-on-pokemon-korttipelin-maailmanmestari Miska Saari on Pokémon-korttipelin maailmanmestari] (Finnish). Plaza. Published 24 August 2006.</ref> and is considered to have been active in the TCG scene since 2005.<ref name="deckout" />

Prior to the 2006 World Championships, Saari was active in a players' group in Hyvinkää, Finland. In the Finnish National Championships, he placed third.<ref>[http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1288339190218.html Suomalaispojasta tuli Pokemon-maailmanmestari] (Finnish). Ilta-Sanomat. Published 23 August 2006.</ref>

Saari has stated that he tends to play decks that have an advantage over the types of decks typical in the metagame at a given time.<ref name="deckout" /> In a training camp in the summer of 2006, Saari decided to use a LunaRock type deck in the upcoming championships. The reasoning was that the deck would have an advantage over the then-dominant deck archetype {{TCG|LBS}}. As predicted, in the World Championships he faced LBS decks each round except for the final.<ref>''Pokémon – Virallinen pelilehti'' 5/2006 (Finnish). Egmont Kustannus Oy Ab 2006.</ref>