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.
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.
Case and point someone was trying to play a nice little timelines equipment deck
I've seen it before...wait dead by turn 5
And if they weren't dead by turn 5 they would be dead by turn Ryze
Fast fast meta in eternal high power curve
Now it's possible they were running a grindly deck to punish all the players who teched anti-aggro then you get punished by aggro tho no winning.
The meta is what it is can't change it