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@cheeserdudeLOR@10Stews as someone who tried extensively to make gutter palace work, I’m really intrigued with the list. What is the thought process behind the sideboard? What goes in and when?
I've spent a lot of time the past couple days thinking about how Dazzling Aurora affects Riftbound.
"Ramp" is a good strategy for a TCG to have, the problem with this in Riftbound is that all of the ramp requires you to effectively lose points tempo at all stages in the game.
What does that mean? That means your payoff has to effectively have some crazy ability (think Elder Dragon) in order for you to combat the loss of points tempo but even in the current environment it's too slow on its own.
Elder Dragon isn't the issue, the problem is that it's getting cheated into play almost two turns ahead of schedule, and if you don't answer the Aurora that comes on t4 you are pretty much instantly dead on the spot.
That being said there are a lot of non-games when it comes to current ramp strategies because of how it operates in Riftbound, sometimes you don't see Aurora and since the ramp kills your tempo you die instantly and other times you have the nuts and your opponent just explodes to the fast Aurora.
There are not enough in-between games that are compelling enough to keep Aurora around. Dazzling Aurora has to go, and I don't think it's that close. That being said without it's existance there is not really any compelling reason to play ramp.
I don't know if this solves the issue, but I would love to see ramp attached to competitive energy cost / might units, Primeval Titan was an absolute beast in MTG, but I feel like a 4 drop (think Solemn Simulacrum) or a 6 drop (think Primeval Titan but maybe a little less broken) would be great for a ramp strategy to be able to actually play the Elder Dragon / Baron / Vilemaws of the world while offering some amount of midgame protection while also meaning the deck will / can run out of cards which a deck like ramp should do.
I would be shocked if Aurora survives another two sets, but I hope to see the strategy of ramp be a competitive archtype in Riftbound. 😀
This whole aurora skill or not debate is useless and besides the issue
Playing vs Aurora feels like a complete waste of time and that’s the problem
You miss turn 1 => you lose
They miss aurora => they lose
They see aurora t3 => you lose
They see gust + aurora and ramp => you lose
You remove aurora from their hand => they lose
You destroy aurora on the spot => they lose
In All of these scenarios the games are boring af and a complete waste of time, neither player has a chance to display any skill
You only play a real game when they get to aurora a bit later and need to be crafty and smart, that’s the « difference in skill » between aurora players
The truth is, that skill diff exists, but the issue is that we went from games being winnable vs t4 aurora to almost unwinnable if you don’t draw your immediate out
Aurora is too strong right now so this problem is very apparent, but it’s just a design issue and the card should be banned imo because of how unfun it is to play against and how it limits design and deckbuilding for orange
Ps dont come at me with skilled aurora players win without it its complete cope only aurora yi could do that into spell decks because of deadbloom+zhonya set 1
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