In best case scenario you should have around 10 patience students. Keep them in Round 3.įirst round is very important to our strategy, you play students and then try to manage to stick Leticia on board so she can double your patience on students. Always toss back Alumni and Practice Makes Perfect in Round 1. Raffard’s Vengeance, Leticia Charbonneau, Amphibious Assault (or John Natalis), Students, Winch. The deck is vulnerable to control decks as you can’t get zeal on Alumnies or even neither points from them, so your only win condition left is spam of Spellweavers. Long round is also extremely dangerous if you don’t have a lot of control to remove engines. Though it’s engine deck you have strong short round too, especially if you manage to keep Alumnies/Chapter to replay them again with spells. The deck cointains engine non-dependent control tools like Margarita, Boiling Oil and Seltkirk, and if we talk about him – if you have Chapter of Wizards and two leader charges, you can remove big unit instantly, so it’s like Ivar for NR. The whole strategy is to play Students and get as many patience value as you can to get carryover on Alumnies and then you restore their order or replay them to get a lot of points by using PMP or Casting Contest. With Raffard’s Vengeance and reworked Siege Master we have even more thinning to Northern Realms than ever before to get our key mages. And Hyperthin is slowly getting powercreeped, although the recent buffs to the best bois, Roach and Knickers are welcomed.įollow us on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram, join our Discord, or support us on Patreon. Assimilate does what it does best, beating you with your own cards.
Nilfgaard’s decks of choice are Assimilate and Hyperthin. Siege has also made an appearence, with the reworked Siege Engines, the deck gained a lot of power. The deck is as strong as it ever was, though the inability to pull Raffard’s Vengeance from Amphibious Assault has led to many people breaking devotion for Royal Decree.
While the buff to Istredd was welcome, the nerfs to the movement-based removal deck were the biggest boon to this deck full of rowlocked engines. The meta has gotten so greedy that Alumni has returned to tier1 after some hiatus. Pair these powerful engines with a pointslam finisher like Regis, and you have the perfect combination for a round 2 bleed. While it requires some setup to pull off properly, they are still particularly resistant to removal since they are so easy to boost on the turn they are played. The beloved vampires archetype slowed down on the all-in Fleder spam, and now has a more midrangey approach.