I think that healthy treat helped out the Zombology teacher and going viral quite a bit. I have been playing plants a little more often lately, because for the most part the wait times are quite a bit shorter, and I have noticed that hearty trait is way more popular nowadays, and I don't like using this comparison, but it is pretty much the same as when clique peas were unveiled to everyone, and the vast majority of the games I played were vs megagrow.
I have to say though, I played against a couple decks yesterday, and both were Zmech, and neither of them used fossilhead or going viral during our games, and both had really good decks. The one I wanted to mention was using a variation of the strategy deck "stop hitting yourself" and I wanted to message them after to tell them how much I was impressed by his/her deck.
Those are my favourite decks, to play with and against, and I think it's mainly because of the bit of original thought going into the decks and many of them are really good without having to take the easy way to victory, and just go with the meta of the moment.
One thing that everyone who has struggled with playing vs these decks needs to realize, and remember when you get frustrated...is that the more you play against those decks, the better you get defending. Every deck has a bit of a weakness, and the more you see them, the more likely that you may expose that weakness, and eventually when you see those cards come out, they are basically an annoyance more than anything.
Of course there are still going to be times when you get throttled, but it happens to all of us.
Yesterday while playing with one of what I consider to be my top plant decks, I was annihilated by yet another Zmech. This time, it was while I had nothing to play till round three, and he just waited and then plopped down back to back stompadons and then played a cone zone environment on my planet of the grapes, followed by a fossilhead, although it didn't last long as I have a set of jellybeans in the deck, but I couldn't get anything going. And while I made them work for it, in my opinion, I had lost turn four when I was unable to remove either stompadon and then a flock of annoying hearty zombies lol
