maybe? It didn't affect the end of the game, and he straight up told me he had a bunch of GB cards in hand, so I didn't want him to respite again to unbrick his hand. It would have made the DAD drop able to pop stuff, but he would have had the solemn anyways so it didn't matter too much. I don't see much of a reason to not flip drain there even knowing the DAD drop might be coming. It just lets him find more ways to out the drain.
I actually did not pre-play him. I mind controlled and saw his set samnite. I was honestly surprised too, I did not expect a GB deck. It's actually why I set two bottomless instead of holding one, I expected him to flip samnite -> eat bottomless -> summon gb -> eat bottomless and I was in a good spot. I was not in fact in a good spot.
90% of sets in this format are ryko/hamster. If I don't mind con it, then my recruiters just get blown up for free and I never recover because now I'm behind like 2-3 turns to him with no real plays still trying to get the engine going. It's a standard play when you go second with zombies if you don't have anything that matches up well in to ryko like sangan/goblin zombie. It's not a great use of mindcon, but it's literally do or die when you go second into a ryko set if you don't have another play otherwise you just lose quickly to decks like vayu because you're so far behind on making a play while they start churning out plays. But otherwise, the only other outs zombies has to a possible ryko set going second is literally either just set backrow with no monster and pass, and hope they spend the ryko on the backrow, yolo ram the recruiter into it and take the L which loses to two backrow, or spend the mindcon to try to get control back. I just didn't know it was GBs until the exact moment I mind con'd it and saw the samnite.
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