Jophiel wrote:
I'll just note again that the person who leapt to the defense of netdecking had admitted to being weak in construction (especially in a random setting as opposed to 'pick 4 of any card') and my observation of other people leads me to conclude that generally they're not skilled builders
And let's be honest, neither are you.
What I'm mostly trying to get across is that netdecking isn't copying a list and grabbing your creditcard, you still have to put in the effort to understand every card in the deck and why it's a 1 off or a 4 off, why sideboard cards are in the sideboard and when to bring them in, whether cards work in your metagame or not etc.
If you don't build your own decks you're never going to be good at playing Magic because building decks gives you a better understanding of the game but if you never netdeck you've got the same problem.