You see the thing about casual is you can play whatever you want.

There's no fear of defeat so you can just snipe and game hop and it doesn't matter

So I can just play elites with vanilla 4/4 bodies and because your decks dont do anything because they are 100% hard counter messes I'm winning which means I can play anything and beat your builds 

Thats pretty sad, maybe stop que hopping and sniping on casual and play a good deck and do your best climbing impression.

Unless you've been doing that all this time and you're losing anyway in case GG either way 

Meme and hardcounter and I'll midrange with garbage

Play me for real and I'll bring out my hyper competitive lists 

Either way you lose.

3 - rearguard

3 - elegant edge

3 - pigeon

3 - butcher

1 - saboteur

3 - demos

3- rains

3 - 3 pirottes

3 - Samara

3 - Miss Fortune

3 - Noxian Furver

3 - barbed chain

3 - eye of nag

3 - decimate

So all the nice players have helped shown me that the weakness this deck had was playing infinite garbage into it.

So now we tech 3 barbed chain on top of the three eyes we already had

Basically means we never run out of cards ever, while having an insanely low and agressive curve, good Champs, and a huge burn finish.

Aka an S+ tier deck that can't even be beat with meme hard counters

There ya go Majin enjoy that for the next Runeterra open!

Ruthless Rumble

Normal BO3

Runeterra Open pt 1 and pt 2

Thats basically the June schedule

So I do have to ask people of Eternal isn't a competitive format and doesn't matter to players in LOR

How come the release of what we already had (full card pool ladder) is being treated like a massive event.

It's almost like the whole standard is LOR now is kinda bs.

Yes standard is LOR but so is eternal deal with it!

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https://masteringruneterra.com/top-four-eternal-cards-from-each-region/

Let's talk about their card choices for the "best" eternal cards:

Pokey - can't get this one wrong

Shellfolk - yeah no way you can make shellfolk competitive you'll get otked or aggroed or sundiscd or a million other things

Allof traveler- a lot of Nora decks cut allof now, like amazing if you hit ramp and not much else

Inventive chemist - not a lot of midrange landmark running around either

Bilgewater:

Tf: a little slow now you  wont find a ton of tf

Gangplank: midrange plunder will always be a deck I just dont think it's the best deck anymore to be running with midrange suffering in general

Fortune croaker: healing decks? Maybe? Idk

Allegience: yeah just a plunder card so one deck it hits and I haven't seen it in eternal yet

Demacia:

Lux: jayce lux isn't the scourge it used to be and while it will always be good aggro got a loooot of tools to out pace lazer

Rangers resolve: don't play this card its usually more effective to use equipment now

Sharpsight: they straight up printed a better version of this card

Bannerman: yes elites will always be playable but once again midrange is suffering

Freijord:

Feel the rush: this one is correct because even Jack turbo levels when this spell is played so it's combo uses are only increasing with time

Spirits unleashed: a little slow but I've played with this card before and it's not bad but again haven't seen it do much in eternal yet

Trundle: yeeeeeeep obviously

Troll chant: best burst in the game pound for pound

Ionia:

Deep med: there are straight up better draw cards printed even Ryze will usually pass on this now

Twin: you won't see a ton of twin these days like trying.to turbo a master yi or whatever usually they play the one mana equipment burst

Homecoming: best card in the ryze deck if they highroll multiple landmarks early not as good in other decks

Health potion: no

Noxious: 

Legion rearguard - yeah best aggro card

House spider - still gets played in yassao because it's desperate for board presence that's about it, maybe Annie?

Flock - yeah best removal card in the game

Stun spider - sure pretty okay staple not amazing or anything

P and z:

Ezreal - yes very much so enables a unique wincon not found in other Champs

Viktor - has no home right now and nobody cares

Thermo - very good card

Get excited - Jinx only basically

Shadow:

Vile feast: not as amazing as it used to be as more and more one drops get printed that will out value it, you almost would rather tech quietus plus the new culling strike

Elise: has no real home right now iceborn legacy spiders sucks, and go hard sucks

Attrocity: doesn't get run after the nerf ever

The box: ummmmm no

Shurima:

Absolver - the game has moved beyond this card like you can play akshan Samara and instant rally with glave the power curve is just too high for one overwhelm spell to matter

Sivir - doesn't have a home right now, along with cards like Ash, undir, just slower midrange wincons

Endless devout - mono shurima staple so it gets a pass

Presavarium - sure always relavent 

Targon:

Aphelios - gonna feel very bad with how slow he is

Zoe - yes because she's a free cycle so her dying doesn't matter, but her wincon is fairly irrelevant

Mountain goat - meh like very meh by today's standards

Sketcher - just no you can do better

This article gets a D+ from me 50% obvious picks 50% I haven't played eternal at all and am not an authority on this format.

They'll see once ladder starts in a week, have fun trying to climb with aphelios and spacey sketcher when people are otking you, aggroing you by turn 4, or doing some insanely broken combo.

Thats what this format really is LOR modern.

Here's a list of the games that might give some traction if featured, at least according to my tastes:

Battle brothers, Wartales, Rimworld (+mods!), Jagged Alliance 3 (upcoming), Spaceborne 2 (very active dev and complex game), Age of Wonders 4, Humankind, Distant worlds 2, maybe other Paradox titles.

Curious to see what other people like :)

KARMA TOO OP especially with Sett.
Can you they at least have limited duplicate spell per round??

It's probably past your mind before. What if there was an event where quests were offered maybe..... 25% of the time. Or 100 if we're going nuts. And you'd be offered a random of the 3 quests for every class (sorry dh) and a higher chance of receiving the necessary support cards for them if you do select to take it. On paper it sounds really fun. Do you think it would work?

Competition Theme: Prismatic Parlance

This week, we're giving the term "colorful language" a new meaning.

• You must make a class card with a keyword that the class doesn't normally use. For the purposes of establishing defined boundaries, as long as the class has less than 5 collectible cards that utilize that keyword, it will count.
  • Keywords that are exclusive to certain expansions or years (like Inspire or Echo) will not count as uncommon keywords for the class regardless of how few cards in that class use it.
  • Using class-exclusive keywords (like Combo or Outcast) on cards in other classes will also not count.

This week, Wailor wants the classes to step a little bit outside of their keyword comfort zone.

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Just like a "pro player" we are going to go through every inclusion in my deck and why it's top tier:

3 all out - if people remember shurima had a 2+1 burst and it was top tier and demanded a nerf, well here we are good card

3 pigeons - another 3/3 for one that is sometimes a 4/4

3 saboteur - I've come around on this card since vile feast and pokey aren't the auto includes they used to be, it's very good for what this deck is trying to do - board presence plus burn

3 Rearguard - required a nerf at one point it was so good, staple aggro card

3 Butchers - another staple card 3/3 for 1

3 Make It rain - on its own in a vacuum it's okay, but really shines as a set up for pirotte plus butcher

3 pirouette - might be op it's so good, imagine if guile and parlay had a baby and you're halfway there

3 Samara- what doesn't she do, she burns, she Diana's, she has a good champ spell, and ocassionally you level her

3 mf - she complicates board math and pushes a bit of burn, and has a good champ spell but probably the most "fair" card in the deck

3 noxian furver - complicates board and face math while burning. You can probably measure winrate by number drawn

3 zap sprayfin - basically elusive tf as far as this deck is concerned

3 eyes of nox - they nerfed it to focus speed and that effects aggro not at all because you'll always use it preemptively

3 decimate - they nerfed it and still doesn't matter when you consider how low thr mana curve is of this new and improved pirate aggro shell

So there is the S tier shell, a lot of things have got cut, demolitionist felt too slow, I knew that I didn't need any more go wide tools, I learned the power of all out, but largely the strategy stays the same

Spam high value one drops, wait for opponents response, leverage make it rain and piroette to win on tempo, push as much dmg as possible, then burn them out.

1 tech - I'm gonna use farron because having 15 one cost cards can deplete your resources fast and this gives the deck unexpected staying power.

All in all it's very hard to beat without a hard counter. Like yes you can run Elise, but then have fun beating all the solitaire decks out there.

Nora probably faires a little better but you'd be surprised, and they can't statistically hit Nora on curve every game even if it seems like it

You can spam healing but I guarantee I win that matchup everytime, so yes its basically hard counter or nothing, and then your hard counter loses to everything else.

Nifty aggro is the eternal meta now, and even pro players will have no choice but to admit it's impact. I'm basically the new Swim now sorry.

Typically the meta cycle goes like this:

Rage -> denial -> bargaining -> acceptance 

So now that everyone has moved into the acceptance stage I basically just get insta conceded in eternal.

All the best players in LOR tried to step up to the plate and make Nifty Eternal aggro look bad

Mostly by board spamming good trading followers like that's some kind of answer

But eventually I won enough matches anyway that everyone has accepted the S tier status of Samara MF

And it will hit top of S tier for Eternal tier lists

It was bound to happen eventually, I've been absolutely raking good players over the coals with my off meta builds that my one foray into meta territory was bound to be unstopable.

So yeah discussion over, thanks for playing.

I am the king of eternal and I'll let you know the next time I build an S tier list for the format.

----rant----

Pro players will try to deceive you into thinking ratioing matters, that by moving 1 card they somehow "fixed" your deck and can take credit for it.

No that bullshit, it's the shell that matters.

The person who decided to cheat out Nasus with a landmark first made that deck.

Just like I learned that Samara was all in all a more efficient inclusion over TF in pirate aggro hence its my shell 

Or inefficient memey print decks are Sunnys claim to fame.

Or Grapplr keep trying to make Karma work, who may be unironically good now in standard.

Or Majin made Ryze cancer

Those are their decks and this is mine plain and simple 

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Eternal is a very broad meta, to the point that it becomes difficult to objectively talk about decks without inserting a little personal bias but let's try our best by using last season as a base:

1. Elites - I do not think that elites are broken anymore, as someone who used them to easily hit masters in record time last season, they actually feel quite slow by eternal standards.

- you can cast your big 9 cost rally and opponents will have no problem chumping 6 times in one turn by the time the spell is online

2. Annie Jhin - this is objectively not the best way to run aggro anymore, once again it feels slow and inflexible. Spamming 4/2 stuns is not good enough

- you'll feel that turn 1 Annie isn't the terror she used to be, and I dont even know the last time I saw tibers

3. Jayce - objectively not the best control shell anymore, spamming 3/3s and pinging for 3 used to be the only good answer to elites. But as we mentioned if elites are too slow then jayce is way too slow

What's gotten better:

Pirate aggro - Samara as amazing as she has been for standard, is way better in eternal where you essentially have an unlimited supply of high value one drops.

- It's not a complicated deck essentially being the LOR equivalent of mtg humans, just cheap good units with good effects at a low mana cost plus some cheap spells.

Ryze - it's hard to argue that with Ionia getting its own version of tavern keeper plus mana cheating that ryze isn't very good now. It will always be a high variance deck but it remains a scary matchup.

Turbo Nasus - easy wincon that got better control spells in the form of shadow isles very own culling strike, plus the already existing quietus makes that 1 ->2 control spell formula very consistent so you can play solitaire all you want.

- good tech options as well for board clears, and healing means that this sneaky last season deck will be top tier this season

Sundisc - speaking of uninteractive wincons, while remaining an off meta pick in eternal it will have its place as the ultimate solitaire deck. While it's weak into aggro (very weak) it's simultaneously a very reliable way to punish a large variety of deck builds

Ramp - you'll notice a bit of a trend here where your deck is either A (very ******* fast) or (very uninteractive) eternal is essentially going to be LOR modern and thats the trend you notice in expanded card pools.

- I love midrange, and straight up control but you will find it struggle to make a home on the external tier list. So 20/20 on mana 7 kinda good. Along with infinite free card value.

Lurk - the ultimate highroll deck will always have a place, and while statically it will be tier 3 it won't feel that way when they hit the dreded double champ setups.

Nora - Nora isn't a deck Nora is legion. It doesnt matter how well you think you've prepped the marchup, or your winrate record into this champion sometimes she will just bs you, and you'll get real salty, and there will be nothing you can do about king granny.

So yeah in conclusion the "competitive decks" from last season are bad in eternal, the uninteractive garbage from last season are good! 

And the only aggro decks that are worth playing are fast enough to kill your opponent before they can play solitaire.

Thats my eternal tier list so you're welcome Majin for your introduction to this messy, messy and beautiful format.

Yeah so turns out people are just gonna run my deck and rotate 1 card.

You know that thing I said would happen

Thanks for shopping from the nifty deck school

Have a nice day

So in card games there is what is commonly referred to as a deck shell.

Essentially the central theme of your deck that let's you win games.

It consists of things like synergy, a curve, draw for deck thinning, wincons, creatures, and legendaries.

Then you have your tech, your answers to the current meta game, they can be landmarks (artifacts), or spells, or creatures with aura effects or on play abilities.

The mistake I commonly see in eternal is that people either build a deck with 100% tech or 100% shell they can't mix the two.

Lurk is lurk and does lurk things

This is a ping deck it pings and does ping things.

In reality you have one handful of tech, and one handful of shell and not a lot of laddering flexibility.

When I build my decks I try to be as flexible as possible.

Yes this is a ramp deck but it has 3 avalanches, 3 blighted, 3 harsh winds, and 3 tavern keepers.

Thats the tech ^ but that doesn't stop me from turbo leveling asol on mana 7

So if you want to build a p and z ping spam deck, then your "shell" is Annie Ezreal sometimes splashes Katarina.

Includes 3 conservatory, and 3 broadmanes for wincons.

Even if you're trying to build something original you need to follow the "shell" and tech formula.

Too much shell in eternal and your deck is inflexibile, too much tech and now you insta lose certain ladder matchups.

The key to being good at winning in a large cardpool is not mastering matchups or win tables its being able to go into 90% of games with confidence that you will win regardless of the 500 cards your opponent might use.

Flexibility + Adaptability

Thats what makes me king 👑 

By now I think everyone is pretty sick of me rolling over the LOR community.with my S tier aggro deck in eternal.

So the question remains how do you build a consistent ladder counter.

Well nifty has you covered because I spent most of my time in LOR being anti-meta before I became the new.meta.

 Step 1 counter the deck you want consistently, this one is obvious

Step 2 be able to actually win against every other deck, because unless the play rate is literally 20% you will still face other players the majority of the time

Step 3 don't jank, it might seek funny to play duplicate crystal with kittans to counter aggro but what happens when you wiff?

Follow these 3 steps and you will defeat meta Nifty just as easily as Nifty used to defeat the meta.

And also I'm sorry like Swim I never wanted my decks to be as good as they are.

They are just good...and they've only gotten better with time

Competition Theme: Stop! Doomhammer Time!

This week we're honoring a mighty weapon of Warcraft lore. Hit 'em hard, then hit 'em again!

• You must make a "package" of three (3) Shaman cards that work together to form the start of a "Doomhammer archetype" in a theoretical expansion.
  
  • At least one of them must reference Doomhammer by name in the text, in a supportive/synergistic way.
    • The others can have general weapon-synergy traits, but should still encourage the use of Doomhammer.

Chegwin and Linkblade91 are getting ready to drop the hammer on their enemies. Let's join in the fray!

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• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, May 13 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, May 14 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, May 14 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, May 15 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
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12 game winstreaks aside and massive solo casual climbing potential.

People sometimes forget that I'm not actually an aggro player, or at least I don't identify as one.

I actually prefer synergy decks and I can absolutely destroy on midrange and ramp.

So come at me with your treasured trash, feel free to identify as garbage.

I'll identify as a world ending dragon 😋

And if you ever want to play for reals, yes 12 game winstreaks, and masters level deck building without tier lists will make your life fairly difficult.

So eventually eternal ladder will be coming and this format will actually become important to pro players again.

But as someone who essentially already has had a 90% winrate in this format for the last two months I thought I'd talk about one of the best decks available.

Pirate aggro, while deck has never been bad it has been overshadowed by Annie Jhin statistically.

That all changed with the release of pirouette, Samara, and the new fearsome 1 drop.

I've played this exact matchup and my deck was faster, and most of it is thanks to the flexibility of the new champion being both a burn piece and a removal option.

she is insanely good, even offering the ability to ping block ping on the defensive.

So yes Nifty pirate aggro is format definer and if I see any eternal tier lists without its because your judgement is clouded with disliking me as opposed to objectively weighing the strength of the deck.