My Kayorigins

Shirking the meta as our team is often known to do, I played Kano for ProTour Los Angeles and the preceding Road to Nationals season. I did not Top 4 a single RTN and I bombed out of the ProTour hard enough to crater my ELO and failed to qualify for that year's U.S. Nationals in Minneapolis. After failing to day two the Calling, I decided to stop outsmarting the meta and pick up the most popular deck: Kayo. It went swimmingly. I won a couple of ProQuests and Top 8'd a Battle Hardened (don't look up what hero knocked me out), but then the worst thing happened: Part the Mistveil was released.

I took Kayo to Calling Minneapolis and just barely missed making Top 8, getting knocked out by a Zen in the penultimate round. Zen's domination was just beginning, but I figured we could tech for it. Regrouping, I brought Kayo to ProTour Amsterdam with most of my sideboard dedicated to beating Zen. I lost every game I played against him that weekend. It wasn't only Zen; Enigma and Nuu were no pushovers and Part the Mistveil was followed by Rosetta which contained three heroes that were also favored against Kayo. Zen was eventually nerfed, so I brought Kayo to the AGE Players' Championship where I ultimately fell in the semifinals to Enigma. Reluctantly, I shelved the deck.

Since then, I've felt like Charlie Brown and Kayo is Lucy holding the football. Part the Mistveil is finally gone, time to play Kayo? Sorry, Earth heroes still exist. Superslam gives Kayo a ton of new tools? Gravy and his army of goons stand in your way. The top four heroes in the meta all get substantial bans? They continue to win tournaments. In Classic Constructed, Kayo will continue to limp his way toward Living Legend, winning a handful of RTNs and PQs every season but nothing bigger than that. Instead of going for one last hurrah in CC, I decided permanently to move on from the deck. Here enters Silver Age.