Maëlan Royer

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[Maëlan Royer @MaelanRoyer]

@MomSkyRB For what kind of match up you put Darius? I almost remove him every game to put aside aha

[RiftboundCN @DeanZ0911]

🇨🇳 Mainland China: Players question why Stacked Deck was banned to target Kennen when other purple decks may suffer more.
Diana, Jinx and Ezreal players feel caught in the crossfire, while green’s strongest tools remain untouched.
Many wanted targeted restrictions and clearer notice.

📍 HK/Macau/Taiwan: Players had already built decks and chosen legends for upcoming Macau and Taiwan tournaments.
The sudden bans threw their preparation and tournament plans into chaos.

#Riftbound #RiftboundTCG

[mashallah @MomSkyRB]

Long post about why I dislike Jayce so much after being fine with Aurora until now

Before Elder dragon we had aurora. It had 4 variants at the time

🟣🟠: Mind splitter, volibear, and dead bloom. Deck could play a mid range style until aurora came down. Last Rites was a big upgrade to introduce unit recycling. One of the better decks in set 1 and 2

🟠🟢: master yi playing with tasty/deadbloom and was again playable even pre aurora as just a ramping high end deck. One of the better decks in set 1

🟠🟡: slightly cheesier version with harnessed. Weaker might values but unit kills made it good against other "vertical decks" at the expense of worse combat

🟠🔴: worse unit protection and tricks but more removal and mid range units from red. Often less reliant on the aurora package and was moreso just an additional value engine

All of these variants had varying levels of strength, but the core was quite similar. You sacrifice your first few turns of tempo and then ramp into huge might totals and some tricks in an attempt to hold repeatedly.

The counterplay was either killing the aurora to turn off the value engine, point racing, or beating them in combat (which draven/irelia/watcher could occasionally do). You could amass might in base, run them out of units, etc

Now we have elder dragon

Elder Dragon made it so all combat was automatically losing against Aurora. They stopped playing midrange and hard casting units. They swapped to full card selection and finding aurora. A turn 3 hit playing a dragon in base now meant every single unit you owned died. Any future units would also die. If you attempted to engage in combat a 1/0 Flurry of Blades would kill everything.

So post elder dragon a turn 3 aurora was essentially just an automatic loss for many decks in the format. If we waited until turn 4 we had some cheeky options like flash/star cross/thrill of the hunt/etc to cause the elder to mistarget. A turn 4 aurora meant we played a game where the aurora player had to decide on a game plan. A turn 5 aurora meant a loss because there was no backup mid range plan.

The deck quickly became deck cut gambling. If they hit turn 3 you conceded. If they hit turn 4 you got hand checked. If they hit turn 5+ you won. It was a bit silly and scripted, but it wasn't egregious. Some decks could try to build might in base and play around Flurry. Dragons could occasionally be killed to force a win

Now enter Jayce.

Jayce breaks aurora in three ways:

1. Promising Future in game 1 means Aurora and thus Elder can enter the board turn 2, with another turn 3. Pre sideboard this is basically an auto loss for >90% of decks.

2. Platewyrm egg means a turn 3 aurora can also be backed up by removal. This was not the case previously where at least turn 3 aurora meant no sabo of your gear hate, no flurry, etc. Previously a turn 3 slam could lose to gear kill or tricks. Now it's almost impossible.

3. Bellows Breath is obnoxiously fucking stupid. For 2/2 Jayce can kill SIX UNITS IN BASE. Precasting this is so fucking dumb!!! I literally cannot win if they bellows! Many decks can't! There's no backup plan, everything just dies!!!

They can then sit their big unit in base, spawn kill your units, and put sprites or bird tokens on battlefields that can win combat vs anything. They risk nothing.

Aurora decks have gone from actually PLAYING Riftbound to playing a solitaire deck where they or their opponent concede turn 3 if they can't remove a turn 3 elder in base. Even Lux would let us live until turn 5. The deck is overpowered, thoroughly unfun, and uninteractive.

When I go to a Riftbound event be it a Nexus Night, Skirmish, Showdown RQ, or RC, my #1 objective is not to win money or boost my ego or whatever. It's to play Riftbound, the game I deeply enjoy.

Against Jayce that does not happen.

Save Us

[Maëlan Royer @MaelanRoyer]

@dunctcg @TurnThemSide @ColinXlr aller ! Favorite card is vex Apathic

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my Lonely Poro being gusted back into my hand

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[Maëlan Royer @MaelanRoyer]

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Nigga was so bored he became God

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[Maëlan Royer @MaelanRoyer]

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[Maëlan Royer @MaelanRoyer]

@Tennis4Cast_ no stats for today? :(

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