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Love your take on this! Yeah, I can see your point. The players on the top Leaderboard most of the time use decks that can finish games quickly, which the sword class has the deck archetypes to fulfill this and definitely is proof that the class itself and its archetypes are pretty strong to compete in this meta. The deck that was Tier 1 in the DBNE mini expansion meta is still really strong in BotS. Aggro Forest only lost Beetle Warrior from the rotation of Tempest of the Gods, and people were already cutting that card in some lists. This deck has been consistently high tier or better since the Starforged Legends meta, so it is a decent investment.
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Your first sentence is really contradicting. If it does well on ladder then it's a good deck. It's also being brought into tournaments. If it was as ass as you say no one would be playing it.Also N Rune certainly does not lose to everything. I was using it during GP and to climb ladder. I've seen people streaming using the deck to climb ladder and doing just fine.
My friend who just started playing the game during the end of the last expansion used the deck for GP and got into Group A finals with it. Won 3 of her matches with it in said finals. I'm not sure where this mentality comes from. It's also being brought into tournamentsyes.
I was one of those people. It sounds weird but yea the deck is still ass. Its the best bad deck ive ever played.beating up people on GP or ladder does not really mean much. I beat shadow with evo sword on ladder the vast majority of the time but i still know the matchup is favored for shadow. In terms of having good players who are approximately equally skilled play natura rune vs stuff, a lot of things are going to have a positive winrate against natura rune. I did exaggerate when i said everything because natura rune is favored against dragon and cforest since they are so slow.
I do think all the other popular decks rn aside from those 2 are favored against natura rune. That awkward moment when you realize you picked up Tree Shadow just as it got removed from the tier list on Altema (Well. I still have to run Ginsetsu and friends because the other fill-in cards for the deck did not age well, holy crap. RIP Aisha and Khawy)And I have to mention the disrespect towards Albert, with his deck getting bumped off from the Tier list like thatI do wonder, however, what stuff Altema is on to put NTR Rune in Tier 3. Maybe it's traumatized Portal main bias speaking here, but I do feel like that deck should be in Tier 2.Overall, the tier list looks a bit wonky. Although, I do think Altema is closer on the money, even with the questionable decision to drop NTR Rune to tier 3. Natura generally can't even answer a good T5 board.They have literally the best board clear follower in the game with evolved Karyl available from 6pp.Smaller boards with Demoncaller etc can still taken out with pyromancer and Apex.Kuon on 6 happens about half the time and is an insta win in that matchup.T6 Kuon doesn't even happen 'half the time' against tempo decks who leave tokens for paper Shikigami to crash into.
It's very rare to see it on N Rune.The rest of the time you're still getting wide boards every turn + Zealot/Clarke burn while Natura does virtually nothing.Building their wincon and removing big threats, obviously. Travelers Respite heals back some of the Clarke burn.Honestly against Spellboost Rune the first 3-4 turns are free anyway.
Insight-Magic Missile-Core-Colonel Sanders or Kyoka.Matchup-wise there is only one reason to play Riley right now, and that's because it has the best matchup against Roach - and even then, it's not free at all.N Rune also has good matchups against Sword, thanks to their plethora of stall/removals and ability to break through wards and otk with Karyl.
So no link to Shadowlog today since with a days worth of data i don't think it'll be worth much this time around. Next week though. Which also means that for a meta report it's going to be a little more fast and loose as we're dealing with a lot of day 1 decks and things can easily change over the coming weeks. So i may miss some decks and such and i would advise some caution about crafting some of them. Anyways here we go!ForestcraftIn the oaken halls of Forestcraft that Greenwoods are on the march as their Guardians can suddenly been seen everywhere with Selwyn joking about a Guardians of the Greenwood movie coming up next though a sharp look from Arisa shuts that joke down fast.
You're not invoking Riley until turn 8, 7 at the earliest. As long as you've drawn Karyl before evolve turns she'll always be ready on-time, setting up for the OTK very consistently.
Luckily the deck's early/mid-game isn't the strongest, but it's a very consistent kill combo if you last long enough. Not much different from playing a Riley from hand while Invoking a second, just fast enough to be competitive now.i'm not calling it broke or anything but Karyl definitely has that Shadowverse Official Seal of Approval.
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It's not an easy time to do that as the meta is volatile. I'm still meeting a lot of gimme matchups (Guardian Forest, Aggro Dragon), old expansioners (vanilla Valdain, Natura Shadow) and people throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks. Oh and Runecraft.As for Machina Sword, it doesn't have an awful lot of wiggle room. I'm remiss enough as it is to drop Tsubaki, who has such good synergy with token decks in general, never mind something else. Dane might have a few ideas outside the box though, we'll see.
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