Legends of Runeterra
[GUIDE] Taliyah/TF
Last updated 3 years, 8 months ago- Archetype Control
- Deck Type Theorycraft
- Crafting Cost 30400
- Your Cost 30400
3/2/2021 UPDATE
Cut 1x Stoneweaving and 1x Ancient Preparations for 2x Rite of Negation: Man, having a counterspell to protect our champions is so good. It's unfortunate we will almost always be using the destroy a mana gem version due to our lack of heavy board presence, but its necessary for sure. I want to run three copies, but that might be overkill, so I'm starting with two.
2/22/2021 UPDATE
Cut two Sai Scout for two Zap Sprayfin: Sai Scout is not very good. the body is pretty terrible for elusive and I'd rather have the card draw from Zap for one more mana and a worse body than jump through hoops for +2 health.
GUIDE
Hello everyone! I honestly think a landmark deck is going to be one of the strongest shells to put in TF in because of how much incidental draw the deck has, plus the bonus of being able to use the predict mechanic to increase the value of your draws. I'm going to be going through each card in the deck and what role it serves. I'm aware the Shurima spoilers aren't finished, and I will be updating this deck as spoilers continue to come out.
-Ancient Preparations: Without the synergies with Taliyah, I wouldn't play this card. However, it's a nice card to manipulate your early draws, be a landmark for Taliyah's level-up condition, and later provides a 2/2 blocker.
Shaped Stone: A great combat trick that we can utilize to protect our lowly-statted champions.
Stoneweaving: This is mostly here just to be a one-cost spell for TF's upgraded side, but it also has utility by tutoring some of the best cards in the game. Star Spring can be useful as a way to remove damage from our units, Hexcore can turbo level-up TF, and Veiled Temple is simply insane in this deck.
Ancient Hourglass: Most of our units are play effects, so we lose some value there, but this is honestly just a very efficient way to protect units, especially since it summons exact copies of them when it pops open. It goes without saying that is insane to duplicate with Taliyah too.
Hibernating Rockbear: Our main Taliyah target is we want to put stats on the field. This is quite slow, so be careful about playing this against aggro.
Preservarium: This is why TF should be played in this deck. It draws cards when copied by Taliyah as well.
Rock Hopper: You definitely don't want top copy the Sands with Taliyah, but this card mainly serves to be an early value and level Taliyah.
Quicksand: This card is probably worse than Hush, but Hush is insane so this is excusable. For now, I'd run two and see how good it is.
Sai Scout: The elusive is cool and all, but just a well-statted body that fixes your draws sounds good enough for now. Probably one of the first cards I'd cut.
Unraveled Earth: Helps level both of our champions, so it goes in the deck.
Desert Naturalist: A 4 mana 2/4 that summons a 5/4 is insane, even at the cost of an Ancient Preparations or Preservarium. The fact that it also can double up as enemy landmark removal makes it a staple in Taliyah decks for sure.
Golden Ambassador: Both of our champions are ultra critical to the deck working, so a tutor that also inflates their low stats and also is a suitable chump blocker is welcome.
Twisted Fate: There is so much random card draw attached to these landmark synergy cards, I just had to shove TF in there. I had to cut a lot of the cards usually run in a TF deck to make Ambassador reliable, which might be incorrect. I would consider putting Zap in the deck, but it would be difficult to utilize its strengths, especially since Shurima lacks Targon and PnZ's ability to reliable spend spell mana.
Taliyah: This card is so cool. I've always loved clone effects. Anyways, Taliyah is a very powerful win condition for the deck, oddly similar to Swain, but with more upfront utility and less finishing power. I think the deck will be good, but not as good as some of TF's other decks.
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- 1 Ancient Preparations 2
- 1 Shaped Stone 3
- 1 Stoneweaving 2
- 2 Hibernating Rockbear 3
- 2 Preservarium 3
- 2 Rock Hopper 3
- 3 Ancient Hourglass 3
- 3 Quicksand 2
- 3 Unraveled Earth 3
- 4 Desert Naturalist 3
- 4 Golden Ambassador 3
- 4 Rite of Negation 2
- 4 Twisted Fate 3
- 4 Zap Sprayfin 2
- 5 Taliyah 3
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Honestly, if I were to cut anything, it would be Zap - your allegiance is pretty crucial, so you probably want to limit yourself to only 3x TF and no other Bilgewater cards at all. I'd go so far as to say this is one of those decks that just loses immediately if you whiff on allegiance.
We're not done with reveals - there is very likely some other card in Shurima that fits as well as Zap.
True! I feel like Azir will probably have the 'value' cards that we haven't really seen in Shurima yet.
Interesting deck! If I were to make any changes, I would probably cut some of the worse cards like Hibernating Rock Bear to fit in more of the good Bilgewater options. Salvage is just so good in TF decks that I don't think you can afford to not run it. It does make the Golden Ambassador a little worse, but if you add more of the Shurima Predict cards you can get a reliable turn 5-6 Golden Ambassador without sacrificing the essential TF cards.
Thanks for the comment! I would cut Rockbear, but its the only consistent landmark to copy with Taliyah by turn 5. While I agree Salvage is quite good in most decks, I don't think it's necessary here. Preservarium and Unraveled Earth are good enough for reliable card draw. TF is mostly here to supplment the deck by having an amazing play effect and occasionally winning the game when he levels.