Meming With Bard In Eternal

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Bard is often considered one of the worst Champs in LOR

And that reputation is in some respects well deserved and others not so much

Pros:

He levels easily

Cons:

Leveling doesn't really help you win games

So logically the best Bard decks are decks that can essentially win on their own and Bard is just a supporting piece along for the ride

Obvious synergies with cards like Siren song will be ignored we don't want to be that sweaty 

So what else we got?

Well Demacia basically

Using 6 mana cythtia to buff our full board of junk we don't care about and swing to place chimes deal dmg etc

And single combats allow us to "cash out" on our over stated units

Honestly Bard is probably fine for what he is

He doesn't win games he just gives you a little numbers boost to your midrange deck and thats all he needs to be

I even thought about using dawnspeakers but it literally didn't trigger once after play so the draw is probably better

It should activate chime give you another unit etc

Yeah you can't just play house spider house spider arena dude to simulate the impact of bard cythria

I might have understated bard impact

He lands a chime he a 3/6, you buff with elusive that's a 4/7 he plants more chimes

He trades he dies whatever

You play another, cythria comes down

All of a sudden you're just getting grinded out and you don't even realize it

So yeah bard is doing a little something if you know how to use him

Beyond going wide and providing a small buff

Now the actual thing that is preventing bard from.being competitive isn't his board presence, his level condition, or his effect 

It's flock and disintegrate, again these cards are important they will be the only thing preventing siren song from running over the meta in eternal

But it also just happens to be really bad for bard

When your opponent pie tosses (half a card)

And disintegrates bard before you get chimes in, so now your second bard is also doing nothing

So typically that's what happens you snap remove and he can't do bard thing

But if he does do bard things he's not bad

Yeah its good, it's about on the level of eternal poro king

Probably above level because you have better burst and removal, and honestly a cheaper numbers grind

The best way to play poros right now is kind of the best way to play anything which is buff and pitch

You buff your cards to demand answers from your opponent and then pitch them to their death

Each time they are running lower on cards lower on resources lower on life

So you'll see this with Nora, Viktor, aphelios, and so they actually grind you out through death

Bard grinds you out through living and that's always gonna be worse

But hey it sure is easy to turbo him eh?

Burst for 4 towards level at 2 mana, for demacia 18 towards level, garen 6 towards level etc

So in that perfect world bard can do work and I like that there are Champs like that in the game

Heckarim is another good example, just swing and close your eyes and sometimes you'll win

Play that siren song and swing and sometimes you'll win

What's your opponent gonna do spend 5 mana on a harsh winds just so they can not die?

Assuming they aren't gonna be competitive with ping spam disintegrate 

I'll always be a champ first player and that's why I'll always be bottom of masters and you know what that's okay with me

So I did win fairly easily there with bard garen into karma sett

But  thats because you couldn't buff pitch set

Which is what that deck does

Only Sett doesn't die when you pitch him making him the ultimate close your eyes and swing champ

Meanwhile I fought you tooth and nail for every inch and had a leveled bard

So of course I would win before you could start pitching for value

I dont want to condemn that style of play, which is to say leverage your champions for trade value at any expense.

I will say however that isn't the style of play I enjoy. Naaah I gonna flip, I gonna make 4 mana 7/7 that buffs for 2/2 I gonna do that with bard cuz that's what bard does.

But most would just swing and trade with him all day and that's probably better 90% of the time.

Now unfortunately this deck is 100% eternal

13 cards out of 40 are rotated

So you won't be seeing thing kinds of results on the "competitive but actually less balanced" format.

But man this is why eternal is fun. You take these dumb unplayable cards like bard like Laurent blade master and together you make them legendary

But then you have to face down 18/18 stats with quick attack across 3 bodies for 0 mana so pick your poison I guess

Yeah you're pitching again so I'll swap out

Wow I just snap removed your pitches and you lost?

Welcome to eternal

Oh no I shromed you through your champ pitches?

Welcome to Nifty land

Every strategy has a weakness and while we can sit here and talk about which Champs are better to suicide is it zillian or is it Sett

The reality is you don't want to be pigeon holed into one play pattern.

Cuzz yeah someone will just Catlyn your face in. I think thats why I like eternal so much its literally impossible to say hmmm this one.broke strategy is so broken it can't be stopped 

Thats a standard thing only.

Wait I just found the next great eternal deck Zillian Sett!

You just suicide in all your Champs for value and then time bomb or elusive them to death

Wait don't give them any ideas 😅

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I'm willing to run the one condense from the standard tech instead of the officer squad

There is that one scenario where you double Corina, or even just get your extra mushrooms. But I'm not gonna allow myself to draw 3

That being said I won't do sump monument or condense as a 3 of when that list is literally 50/50 which I can see based on rationing alone

Just give me decent cards the 3 pokey, the 3 concologist, the 3 thermos I'm fairly confident I can survive with that alone

Because I just wrecked Jax orn

Why do these decks keep dropping catlyn?!

You literally just conceded on level because you didn't have her

Respect my girl!

People think you run ava because it doubles Corina trigger and they are right but the real reason you run 3 ava is catlyn

Want to know how much dmg she does after 6 puffcaps and 3 flashbombs? Half your life total

So running ava without catlyn is a little sus

Because you want that open attack with Corina backup 50/50

Can you 1) stun/frostbite leveled catlyn 2) hold up the deny mana for Corina

Otherwise you basically have to condense Corina cuz you have 0 attack pressure, and you're literally waving a flag saying don't spend your mana and hold up your deny

So now you're 100% all in on combo and I dont play that way personally it's too...gimmicky? Unreliable? Like what are the chances sump monument keeps you alive? I would personally run sump in the freijord shell, so now we are saying okay you can't kill us with chip dmg and we will frostbite the big stuff

That seems good