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Fun, thanks for bringing it to everyone's attention, I wasn't aware there was such a community challenge going down.
Lovin' the idea

The curve of Taric Poppy is not really awkward considering that Taric + Golden Aegis is a round 5 play anyways so you play Poppy on round 4 and follow up with taric + Golden Aegis the following round . (4 unit mana + 4 unit mana + 4 mana (1 unit mana +3 spell mana))

Poppy Taric looks strong but I think it feels awkward to play two champs that both come down on 4) (makes combo-ing them a bit awkward).  Fizz/Nami makes sense as a combo for obvious reasons.   Sion will probably get buffed slightly in some way (lower mana cost or more stats possibly?) to make him different from Draven.  Xerath needs buffs.  I don't know how.  I'm a little peeved cause I was so excited for Xerath too.  His only relevant form his level 3, which means you need to run Sun Disc, which means you either run landmark advancement cards (in addition to the other landmark synergy stuff) or you need to run mono shurmia...

...which I haven't tried yet, but I don't see miraculously working out of the blue.  

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Scaled Nightmare is effectively worse Maexxna, except for dragon synergies. Otherwise set looks pretty cool, although I'm not sure about making 'expansion' directly supporting one tribe, that feels kinda unfair. That is, unless you pla on making some new packages of other minion types.

Ah yes, good point about Maexxna. Might make it tier 5 in a later revision of the set. And yes, I do intend to revamp other tribes as well.

except they play quest reward the same turn they get it... Mutanus can never hit it... also they play it on turn 5 maybe 6... mutanus is too expensive

So lets lock in my predictions:

Raise Dead to 2 mana

Stealer of Souls to 7 mana 4/7

Tier 3 at best at most rank brackets, according to the data. Poison Rogue is only tier-2 at brackets with lots of Warlock and Mage. Check out the matchup spreads in the latest Vicious Syndicate report or the matchup spreads of Quest Rogue and Poison Rogue on HSReplay if you doubt--Quest loses to every playable meta deck except Handbuff Paladin, Fel DH, and the Warrior decks; and Poison loses HARD to every deck that tries to develop a board by the midgame.

Along with the last patch, there is a new secret achievement:

"Get to turn 6 without being *turned into a beautiful butterfly*"

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Mod edit: removed profanity. -Sinti

Do we still get 2 packs if we got them last week also?

I didn't think so, but I've been doing other things and I've kind of lost track :)

Jambre grew a lot of hair since this shot was taken ;)

Rogue haves 2 tier 2 decks so you talking nonsese

There's no need to eat them if you kill them before ;)

Nice, EU get a decent start time this time compared to Masters Tour Dalaran 

The only reason that rogue deck has a positive winrate is because it beats warlock, which is extremely popular at the 1% bracket. The deck hard loses to nearly everything else and is extremely polarizing.

Sorry to burst your bubble but rogue really isn't in a good spot right now. Although the nerfs might make questline rogue viable again.

no Mutanus? It could be tricky to eat Rokara or C'thun =)

This takes all overloaded crystals you have accumulated and will deal that much damage to 1 target. It is affected by spell damage too.

I think thah Sion Draven sooner or later will drop Sion in favour of an more aggressive curve. It turns out that a Darius, that is arguably harder to level for 1 extra mana but with a Backup wincondition is not carrying well... which could explain why nobody played Darius before.

In general however nexus got great additions and will rule quite well.

Poppy is strong no matter how you play her it seems which isn't too surprising given here repeated bannerman effect that doesn't require alligiance and therefore doesn't need more than a vaguely wide going strategy to do it's thing.

My Poppy Taric deck looks quite busted but I think most Poppy decks just work because her lvl 1 is far too strong.

Fizz Nami is... annoying and I think it will end up being one of the better archetypes if one figures the best spell spamming shell for it(which proably won't be pranks).

And about multiregion nonsens. It's.... doing it's thing I guess and refined versions will proably be an agressive midrange deck with a lategame wincondition. Is it tier 1 material ? I doubt that but tier 2 maybe. 

Darkness will proably also be a central deck in the meta simply because it has pretty cheap removal for days and is hard to disrupt. 

In general it is way too early to give actually accurate predictions on the meta so i will stop doing so now :).

Oh and better buff Darius

I would buy this deck if it is available in battle-ready package.

Honestly, I'm surprised how well Darkness Control is doing right now. I knew that it won't be terrible, but I'm still surprised that it has a dominant winrate over other newer decks. I've played against it quite a bit but I've stomped it every time so I guess I just faced bad players.

Fizz Nami elusives feels like the new TF/Fizz. A lot of burst damage coming out of nowhere but a lot more unit based than burn. Deck feels like a hard deck to play so I'm actually not that surprised by a lower winrate. Also it loses pretty hard to removals and pings. Probably going to be tier 2 in the end.

Draven Sion is good but don't run it in SI that's kinda meme. PnZ discard with Poro Cannons and Get Excited!. The deck has a lot of grindy tools while having enough pressure early that it feels pretty good. Sion levels insanely quick as well, I've never seen it played as level 1.

Teemo Caitlyn is RNG-reliant but it can definitely steamroll if you don't have removal for their engines.

Poppy seems to be the most versatile champion and I dig it. A lot of ways to play it and they're similar in playstyle yet not too similar. MF/Poppy Scout Suppressor, Poppy Teemo Allegiance, Poppy Lulu, Poppy Zed, Poppy Taric (personally the strongest one). Poppy's pretty good.

Xerath is crying in a corner. Ziggs is being tested out a lot but yeah no solid decks thus far. I wonder if it's best to not run either and go for Taliyah/X again.

I know a lot of people build BC Allegiance using The Bandle Tree, but has anyone tried using Yordles in Arms? I've like smashed most matchups using a more aggressive swarm gameplan and slotting in Bandle Tree only as a secondary wincon. I'm... going for a huge prediction and I'm calling this deck tier 1. Just don't run Tristana lmao.

I kind of dislike how Team 5 has been pushing decks and archetypes instead of letting a meta evolve naturally. They push it by releasing cards that make a archetype really strong (All the elemental cards that dropped the past few sets and self damage cards for warlock are good examples) then they have to balance around it which creates metas people find unfun.

Just add a mutanus to your deck; I have rubbed out many quest rewards when I got it just right.

Frankly the numbers are super early and I don't think there's very much firm Intel to gain, but we can have some fun for sure.

https://lor.mobalytics.gg/stats/archetypes

1. Ziggs as it's being built right now is doing badly its somewhere between 40%

2. Darkness control is very good 56%

3. Fizz has a 51% winrate

4. Temo Catalyn has a 41% winrate

5. Burst meta decks are strong, Sivir, Zed, Akshan, Lu Lu, Azir Irelia

6. Draven Sion is probably worse than Draven Jinx, but they are both good

7.  Poppy and Tristana are good at 56%

8. Pirate Aggro still does aggro things 

So based on my previous predictions I was wrong there are solid control, aggro, midrange and combo lists so overall things feel healthy. 

We're never gonna have a state in this game where all champions and decks are equal, but as long as there are valid archetypes that represent each playstyle that's good enough.

Now show Wild lol