Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ

I play WoW, League, and Riftbound with friends and do Cybersecurity work. GM for Painted Dogs on US-Illidan

[Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ @SentroxNA]

@KennedHeat Whats your list if you dont mind me asking? I've been experimenting and settled on a list for Draven I like and would love to compare it.

[Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ @SentroxNA]

@MomSkyRB Calmest reaction to playing against Aurora Jayce.

[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

[heyimtazz 🔜 RQLA @heyimtazz]

stayed up last night rebuilding my Khazix list but this is all I came up with

[🇬🇾 @geekedgoob]

Forgot I was stalking her page and started liking her reposts thinking it was my fyp

[Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ @SentroxNA]

@MomSkyRB Didn't even consider Zed since that deck feels borderline unsupported. Agreed though, like if most of the stronger purple decks outside of Kennen were roughly 50% winrate or lower decks at the RQs WITH stacked deck consistency, it doesn't make sense to hurt them because of Kennen

[mashallah @MomSkyRB]

It's kinda funny that besides kennen the best purple combo was prob green/purple yet it's the combo with the least usage of stacked deck due to Stella/vex passive

Red, orange, and blue combos almost always have 3x copies and the decks were pretty mid. Now they're worse 😅

[toxifix @toxifix]

going back home after 2 days of blizzcon

[Cam @camscastl3]

My story about to expire and she hasn’t looked at it

[Tactyks @tactyks]

THIS IS A REMINDER TO ALL RAIDERS, READ CLOSELY, IF WE SEE ANYONE PLAYING FOREVER WE WILL TAKE THAT AS YOUR RESIGNATION TO THE GUILD AND YOU WILL BE REMOVED FROM
DISCORD AND THE GUILD, YOU ARE HERE TO RAID AND PLAY ON MIDNIGHT, WE WILL NOT TOLERATE OUR RAIDERS PLAYING OTHER GAMES

[Dillom Millonario @Dillomillonario]

Fui a comer a un sushi libre con mi novia, ella se comió 20 piezas y yo 85

[tate @StankyTate]

my fucking gf got injured and while taking care of her i said "do you need any ibuprofen?" and without hesitation, literally while crying, she says "you be what?" 🥲

[Greg the Sorcerer @gregthesorcerer]

My adventuring companions watching in horror as I use my “magic barrier” like a weed whacker to shred the level one goblin bridge guard who just wanted to ask us a simple riddle

[Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ @SentroxNA]

Once again @Imfiredup and @LiquidGuild dancing on their graves after 1% wipes man they cant keep getting away with it.

[Aadion @AadionLoR]

Free my man. I just want to see what happens.

[Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ @SentroxNA]

@LSXYZ9 GOATED

[Wost🕷️ @mosthiphop]

I DRIVE THE FOREIGN LIKE IT WAS A CHEVY

[Fred Figglehorn @mirbartierr]

When shorty ask u “What did u eat today?” And u gotta lie cuz u ate
12 icecream sandwiches

[Ethan/Sentrox @ Blizzcon + LA Riftbound RQ @SentroxNA]

@sydragosa Was tempted to try and pull that off this year but didn't wanna risk it but Dragoncon is incredible.