Legends of Runeterra

https://masteringruneterra.com/eternal-tier-list/

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

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

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

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.

So, apparently I cannot read dates properly. The Runeterra Open that is coming up this weekend is in the Standard format. The one that will be in the Eternal format is on June 17/18. 

So, either I didn't read that properly a couple of weeks ago, or they changed it since then (which seems unlikely). 

Anyways, I'm sure none of the competitive players are surprised, but the casual-player-that-is-me was surprised.

can someone explain to me why are they like this?

all i wanted is to get the items i lost because of their bug

did anyone experienced anything like this?

Okay I'm just getting bored now, I literally can't be beaten with poppy yordles for God sake.

Like what you want me to move onto poros?

I already did that and I won a ton.

So how do you beat me?

The king of eternal?

Let's talk about tech cards.

Soul harvest - yes its just a slow speed culling strike, but it's in shadow isles and that matters.

Eradication - low key one of the best anti aggro cards recently printed.

Vile feast - there's a reason this got rotated its nuts

Tavern keeper - the best frijord 3 drop

Blighted ravine- still the best frijord removal

Again good cards are in large supply in eternal and for some reason ya'll keep brewing like chumps.

Has standard scrambled your brains cuz ya'll playing bronze tier right now.

Everyone's forgotten how to play Nifty Eternal again.

I keep drilling into everyone's heads wincons wincons.wincons.

Synergy, synergy, synergy and all I see when I come back from a small break is do nothing garbage.

And not the good kind of do nothing garbage like Nora.

But press F to concede garbage that literally shouldn't be built in the first place.

I know it's still a long time till Eternal ladder but I expect more from all of you.

Cuz Nifty is forever, he comes back same list he's been playing for what 6 months now, and you can't beat yordles!

Rofl omg you guys are so bad.

Yeeeep, new golden rule if you can't beat meme tribal decks its time to learn how to deck build...sorry but thats how it is.

And you guys call yourself good players or something.

You see Nifty grow up on the hard streets of brew Town. No deck trackers, no tier lists, no help, no getting carried by better players or stats analytics. Just me, me, and more me.

Thats why I'm the king of Eternal

Basically the stuff I said would be good.

Nora, Ryze, Ramp, high synergy brews.

Standard is all about one thing and one thing only, playing high value followers and open attacking.

Eternal is all about one thing and one thing only.

Wincons, wincons, wincons.

If I'm pirate aggro better believe I'm developing 3  one drops on turn 3 instead of open attacking.

If you're Ryze main deck that healing potion you crazy stud you.

If you're ramp, then create that 18 power overwhelm jack for the lolz you have infinite mana.

Like frankly I don't care what you play in Eternal as long as you prioritize synergy, and wincons.

Leave the value garbage for standard, where there are no good decks or wincons and you can main 3 copies of chunker bandle gunner and thats actually good.

You can check out the current situation after the recent patch here:

https://masteringruneterra.com/tuesday-meta-report-may-2nd/

It must be frustrating to essentially throw everything you have at a player, knowing that they have 0 inside knowledge of your deck

You can play any card, any list, any tech, and I will know nothing

and you will know everything

and despite that I will win 90% of my games.

I'm sorry it must be frustrating, but think of me as Eternal Majin, right I did the DBZ thing I hit my next form

You guys don't stand a chance. 

Once again put your gamer tags in the comments for private eternal tutoring

https://masteringruneterra.com/meta-stats/

For those that don't know, every region in LOR has a 10 mana chunker.

Typically they all read the same, I cost one less when x condition is met.

These cards are historically terrible and haven't been played competitively for as long as I've been playing so lets say 2 years plus.

But right now the top deck in standard is bandle gunner...you know that 10 mana card you have never looked at or seen before and basically wrote off immediately.

That is the card that is dominating standard right now lol!

yeah man these players are gonna be in for a rude awakening when they play Eternal in Runeterra open.

They'll be like man why is my garbage not working anymore?

Like I have to build high synergy decks with clear wincons?

That's nuts!

bandle gunner...hahahahahaha standard is such a joke.

So it's been confirmed that the next Runeterra open is going to be in Eternal to celebrate the unlocking of eternal ladder in 30 days.

One interesting problem tho, with all pro players busy arrogantly dismissing this format nobody actually knows what's good right now.

I might come the closest because I've literally spent all of this season playing and winning in Eternal casual with no ladder available.

But I was masters last season and that was as close as we've gotten to the eternal card pool thus far.

So  for all the pro players out there let me illuminate you by starting with updating the old tier lists:

1. Jayce - still a fine deck but the difference from eternal to last season is that aggro got all the tools

2. Elites - also a fine deck but it will feel quite midrange compared to the most aggresive options out there

3. Anna - I'm not convinced anna is better than the new pirate aggro, just the fact that pirotte exists and now you can have a cheap stun outside  of Runeterra region, so probably 50/50 for ana vs Samira

4. Ramp - while there were no competitive ramp lists last season except the ones I piloted this is an archetype that has massively advanced with the addition of Jack. Coins, plus trundle, plus auto level for 12 mana, plus regular ramp tools equals a deck that is probably faster then ASOL.

5. Ryze - Another deck that keeps getting better as the card pool expands I wouldn't be surprised to see the winrate of this deck go from 50/50 last season to 53% this season

6. Nora - while there is no such thing as an amazing Nora deck, she shows up in so many lists that I'll just say the Nora deck that gets played this eternal season

7. Sett - sett is one of the best new ionia control tools available he's very strong and there's a decent chance he will have an eternal list worth playing

8. Shadow control - I think shadow control has changed quite a bit from it's previous iterations just because it got new control spells. There's the mini ruination for 6 mana that will help quite a bit with the more aggressive matchups. I will say Heimer has felt very bad for my opponents every time they play that old list into my new aggro decks.

But like that's kind of it, this is all uncharted territories here and it doesn't matter if your name is Majin Bae, or Mogwai, because honestly they will have no idea what the Runeterra Open is going to look like with all their recent standard experience being practically useless.

Megam0gwai is back on LoR streaming, planning to do the Runeterra Open in 2 weeks, etc.

Apparently Snap's biggest cheerleader has jumped ship.

https://app.mobalytics.gg/lor/meta-tier-list

So low and behold I'm browsing current standard tier list to admire the shit show.

What do I see in A tier.

Illoi Jarvan a deck that hasn't been popular since initial release and that I've been playing competitively ever since.

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It's got the one of nakaboros from my list, they replaced the 3 mana buff with cataclysm thats a meta decision, and added single which again is a meta decision.

So all told they rotated two cards for strikes and jammed two copies of Riptide.

So yes better for standard where there's more agressive targets and you need 8 removal cards but Jesus this is literally just my deck and not even in the format I like.

This is getting saj guys if you're gonna steal from the king at least say so. What's next 30 days from now I look at eternal tier lists and its like copy paste 5 of my decks you run into on ladder?

So on a possitive note even though we are 30 days away from competitive I'm gonna talk about the only format I care about and that's eternal.

Specifically the decks I think got better with the last set additions. I'm gonna skip over the obvious  ones like pirate aggro, like we know this last set was huge for bilge noxious.

What else we got?

1. Star springs - pretty dope with eight punch Pablo. Providing both a good body with attune, a healing activator cuz of strike, and potentially contributing to removal efforts is amazing value for this deck. Cosmic youngling is less great but good into hyper aggro, where star springs usually suffered. So now it's do you want toad for the draw or youngling for the sustain?

2. Echo - the fact that shurima got its own version of a 4 mana tutor follower is insanely good for echo. Clocking predicts and draws and gives you that annoying little body all at once.

3. Shen - I personally believe Shen Sett is the new Shen Jarvan, or Shen Fiora once you see that interaction of Sett getting barrier on attack triggering a.cascade of effects and generally being cheaper and harder to kill then jarvan you won't go back.

4. Azir Irelia - fallen sands general is a pretty solid finisher for this deck when sometimes it feels like your deck doesn't do enough on its own and you just need that little extra late game. Not a deck I play but pretty sure you can just copy paste a list and add him.

Again, this is just the beginning for me. While a lot of players will A use old tier lists for Eternal or B meme with a dumb otk wincon I will continue to provide quality decks that win not because they are amazing but because they are well balanced and durable.

So the 3 year anniversary celebration for Runeterra is happening right now.

It's a great chance for new players to get old champions, and for established players to get free currency.

One problem though Nora and Bard are essentially unplayable in standard.

In eternal they are solid cards bard can turbo buff elusives with Zoe, and Nora can easily slot into grindy control decks with her infinite board value.

It's just another case out of 10,000 why Runeterra standard is less a "format" for an established game and more a quick trimming of the card pool to keep a small subsect of players happy while screwing the long term fans who helped it reach 3 years in the first place.

Here's a 3 year anniversary idea, we are making eternal ladder ever green to support the player base the helped make our game great

There's an announcement I can get behind.

Don't get me wrong casual eternal is amazing but winning every game does nothing for me, when it should be just as valuable as it is in standard.