Let's go!! First time masters
Big up @Arag_ornn for inspiring me to use the aggressive variant of red gwen.
Cutting glimpse and focusing less on the free attack rally combo fit very well with my playstyle, having previously hit Diamond with pirates and Draven Azir burn in 2021
Here’s how we punted the finals of the RQ.
I’ve seen a lot of “you should’ve Hard Bargain’d Ride the Wind” takes but the real mistake happened earlier: not leading with Falling Star.
Some key context people might be missing:
We are going to 7 runes for the turn and had already mapped out our line on Prismat’s turn based on our hand. We knew he had Annie (we Rebuked it earlier), which meant Forerunner wasn’t holding once Annie picks up Rebuke. So the plan was to play Draven and double hold.
Then we draw Falling Star for turn and this is where we mess up.
We tunnel on our pre-planned line and don’t fully re-evaluate with the new information.
The better line: lead with Falling Star → Conquer → then still deploy Draven on Battlefield, forcing Prismat to answer two threats.
Instead, we attacked first and gave him the window to Ride the Wind. The second it happened, we realized the mistake.
Now we re-evaluate. What do we do here? If we burn our hard bargain, we can’t double hold with Draven.
At that point, we’re just praying he doesn’t find Rengar in two draws (Merchant + Conquer). We’re pretty confident he doesn’t already have Rengar since he had opportunities to play him earlier but didn’t have it.
From there: Falling Star, hope he bricks, and hold for game.
Also worth noting, we didn’t know we’d hit a second Hard Bargain off Conquer. If we did, then we can have a discussion on if we should Hard Bargain the Ride the Wind.
Credit to @Prismaticismism for playing to his outs, well deserved.
@Minh_Wins , @Collinka , and I are going to VOD review this and more from the event soon for a tournament recap video. Excited to break it all down further.
Shoutout to @Challengertcg for all the boys just crushing this weekend. So proud of us.
@CasanovaCasts@TurnThemSide The site is great. Can I suggest using cookies to preserve the Sort By option when browsing cards? It defaults to Card ID but I'd prefer it stays on Sort by Energy
@TurnThemSide@CasanovaCasts something to do with Temporary units, or Purple's insane bounce effects e.g. Pyke replaying the unit that makes you discard 1.
This just in: we got L3 Judge @grentontv to help break down all the Core and Tournament rules update. You definitely don't want to miss out on this video!
Big day in Riftbound! Rules updates for Unleashed, and also our first bans with reasoning. Please read!
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