Talking About Why Ionia Is Still Suffering

Ionia is a cool region, I once said that LOR is at its least fun when Ionia is strong

But maybe we are over compensating a bit

Pretty much every region had playable decks in standard and eternal right now

But despite the inclusion of what's on paper some of the best draw and even a 1 mana deny

They just aren't really getting anywhere right now

Do we want to see the return of Ionia allegience for kenin spam?

Or do they need more low curve options like dragon priestess

Either way it would be nice to see decks other than Evelyn, illoi, kaisa, scissors, and aggro be playable in standard

And it would be nice in eternal if ping spam wasn't the go to control solution for every deck

But what do I know I'm just the eternal king, who can win with hilarious brews in both formats

It just so happens that in one format that's a viable masters strategy and the other not so much things are too narrow

So its actually really really hard to win with memes

I wouldnt recommend it for bad players

Like for example chamilion works in my eternal transform list because of his high value optimization

He either transforms into a 4 mana regen creature that draws a card meaning you draw 2 cards or he transforms into two ping birds for double pings

It's not just hey look I ran a bad card funny

Or hey look I just owned you with frostbite wolves in standard how funny

I actually built it function optimally that way

Ooooh Evelyn poros really stretched your noggin with that one

Maybe build so it doesn't suck tho?

Again memes = hard

And I win at hard

Okay you gonna run 49% nasus in standard?

Go nuts you could probably do better

But big boy be big is a deck 

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Omg that darkness deck was so bad what was that 20 turns of nothing?

Play anything else

Was that your jayce deck too?

Blaaaaaaah

And you know what hilarious?

Doesn't matter how many games I let you guys win

I still have the masters medals for the last two seasons

And I can just grow my collection whenever I want :)

You see a lot of players they meta grind, they burn out and leave, they really don't contribute anything memorable

But the reason every struggles with Nifty as an established part of the LOR community

Is that I generally don't give a fuck

No deck trackers, no counters, no net decking, no nothing

Just me and my brain and my decks

And the fact that works drives people crazy

Well unfortunately I got the medals, most people don't proofs in the pudding