I used to love Sinciro's playstyle so much and the fuse mechanic on loot.

That board clear and face damage with 2 Octrice's spell is just chef's kiss. It feels amazingly good when I pull that 18 damage to the face at T8.

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Dragon has always had a reputation for being a highroll class. If Dragon double-ramped, you got highrolled. If Dragon somehow had the exact early curve to fight off your aggro opening while still ramping, you got highrolled. If they hit their big payoff right after ramping, you got highrolled.

A lot of that reputation came from early Dragon historically having to choose between mulling for ramp or to contest the board. If they ended up doing both, the term "highroll" gets thrown around.

That description no longer fits current Dragon anymore. The current decks Ramp Dragon runs let them do these things consistently enough that a lot of the so called "highrolls" are just normal Dragon games now. Of course, they still have their "highrolls" where everything just lines up perfectly, but that's a discussion for another time.

Won't show calcs here, but you're free to do them yourself.

1. Dragon runs a lot of early-game cards now.

Current Dragon lists tend to run around 14 2-drops, give or take a couple. The old stereotype of Dragon spending its first few turns doing nothing and hoping to draw the right cards no longer fits. With that much early-game curve density, Dragon will almost always still have a 2-drop to play early, even while hard mulling for ramp. Which leads us to the second point...

2. If Dragon is hard-mulling for ramp, it has roughly an 84% chance of finding at least one ramp card by turn 2, and around 87% by turn 3.

At that point, seeing ramp on curve is natural. It is the expected outcome. You can still get unlucky and miss it, but dread it, run from it, Ramp on curve arrives all the same.

Looping back to point 1 and the 14 2-drops, even if you hard-mull every non-ramp card looking specifically for ramp, statistically, Dragon still has a roughly ~92% chance of having something to play on 2. And that's just if they're going first. If they're going second, they don't even need that 2-drop, since they can just epp ramp.

3. And finally, the chance of Dragon having double ramp by 5pp, given that the player hard-mulls for 3pp ramp, is about ~71%

Throwing Zoey into the mix, or just drawing a second 3pp ramp by 5pp. That's Dragon double ramping every 7/10 games. Think about it for a bit.

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

TL;DR: Having a 2-drop + double ramp isn't really a highroll anymore. It's just a somewhat normal Dragon opening now.

Now, if they do all that and then go Normag → Burnite → Erntz, then alright, I suppose you're allowed to get mad.

Enemy had 19 health. I wasn't a believer and didn't search for lethal during the game. Enemy played Pekomama sevo next turn, but thankfully I wasn't punished for missing this lethal.

Pirate's life for me. Stealing a win when I should've been punished. Lol.

I guess I’ll practice more. Also I love this leader she has a very smug personality lol. Gildaria is cooler but lacks personality compared to Barbaros.

Been trying to play forest because I got Magachio leader. I've been trying various combo decks I find online, but it's been frustrating because (maybe it's my bad luck) Thestae is 70% of the time in the bottom 10 cards of my deck. So I'm thinking of trying Evo after school today, but Im unsure how good it is right now. So I'm asking what people here think is stronger between the two.

I was struggling with pirate sword, dropped from diamond to topaz, then topaz to Diamond in almost 1 and a half day with this deck

Despite I call this midrange Abyss, this deck can dominate early game with aggro, hold its ground In the mid game, and dominate again in late game

My logic when playing: You want Lieutenant in your starting hand at least one copy, great early game aggro and control but most importantly, so you reanimate them with Istyndet, to create an impossible to kill board. If Lieutenant refuses to show up in your hand and early game, try to play Adahime and pull it out the deck

Highwire Feline is a must keep against other aggressive decks, and mirror abyss matches. Important to note that almost every abyss deck runs this card, so in a mirror match make sure your feline always stay at 7 health against the opponent, so that they can't double 3 damage to clear your copy

Void colonel is disgusting paired with Istyndet but I personally don't keep it in my hand, there are other cards you want early game, but if it ends up in your hand it's still a solid set up, and can be extremely annoying when paired up with Adahime SVO.

Gardoth is purely filth incarnate, 11 storm lethal wins has been so easy with this deck it feels like cheating. Not to mention 8 damage board wipe with Ward is just as strong of an option against certain decks

Istyndet might just be my favourite card in the deck for how fun it is. Ideally you don't even want to SVO them, as they are purely there to create annoying boards to deal chip damage, that can extend into Adahime or Gardoth lethal

Macmillan not much to say. Stalls and kills for you, and in this deck I have never once struggled with shadow for Macmillan, most often easily able to drop two in a row no worries.

Itsrugi ppl say is replaceable, I honestly don't think so. 5 damage board wipe plus free Evo into draw 2 is way too versatile to pass on.

Speaking of replaceable, ppl might think the 2 copies of lilith might not be needed but it's necessary. It simply increase the chance of Adahime pulling one of the Lilith that can get a bat to heal. It's last words can also just act as a suicide bomb with Istyndet crest

I personally think this is the best deck I have played in this format. It can deal with almost any situation, and any time I lost, I feel like it's just my skill issue and misplays

i like dragoncraft, i truly do, but 4 months of running the same strategy has grown boring to me and by the look of it, this next 2 months will be the same.

Is it that difficult for Cygames to give dragon another gameplan aside "ramp ramp burnite enrtz"? i am trying since release to make the aggro package work but... it just doesnt, to be more precise it sort of does: you play and continue go face, over and over while trying to kill as much as possible on board, neat in theoty and by some miracle sometimes it works but there is a tiny little problem, PEOPLE HEAL AND WARD, why do Antemaria not have storm herself and just gain the ability to bypass wards with her effect? they took away her drain at least give her that.

i am stubborn as a mule and will, I REPEAT WILL, find a way to play this set of cards because i am so tired of running the same damn strategy for months on end. (i play other crafts by the way, i even play puppet portal for god sake, AND IT IS MORE CONSISTENT)

How strong is she considered in the shadowverse?

If I look like just tourist for Powerscaling.. I'm quite opposite as I'm very interested in her character..

Portal gameplay doesn’t change much in this set but it got pretty nice buff in the form of Aizeden. The most clear synergy is that he add one more artifact name for either Myuu or Scarlet, Scarlet in particular now have a very easy time to reach 4 name. The other one is giving it pretty good board clear capability in the midgame. This deck used to really struggle to clear big board in the big game namely Cesar in rally sword. Aizeden solve that issue completely. Regarding the card choice there are 2 builds that floating around with more early game piece but prefer the one with Yog for stronger end game

Haven is the worst matchup for Abyss, so you got to do what you have to do. Turns out, early aggro to prevent them from playing too many amulets is pretty good.

Last expansion they removed odin and then added 50 storm cards, this expansion gilneise went away and now everyone (minus sword and portal) is healing for a minimum of 25 health every game...are thet over-correcting the rotation of certain neutral cards?

As you can see his abilities are not once per turn. So if you can destroy 5 amulets. You can heal 4 hp. And if you destroy 6. You get another falcon.

I have been experimenting running most of the spellboost package with sephie runecraft in order to take advantage of the raw healing and draw power that spellboost provides, slimming down the sephie package to its bare minimum essentials.

It seems to be that the recent tournament has an effect in ranked right now. No wonder people want to use the best deck to GM ASAP.

Really enjoying combo forest this set but I think hien is probably one of my favorite cards so far
Having a permanent body just leads to some funny stuff like this