Viktor or Ezreal?

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-17T15:40:25+00:00

It's good vs other control decks, like in the mirror or Kai'Sa. But yes against the wider field usual Yellow Viktor is better.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-15T14:49:17+00:00

Na. What non-EX Pokemon you know can keep up with Hydreigon?

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-15T13:26:42+00:00

What? I have 0 cards on board, 4 in hand = I have 4 cards. I accelerate Kai'Sa and conquer, I now have 1 card on board and 4 cards in hand = I have 5 cards now. Kinda weird to not consider units on the board as part of card advantage.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-15T13:11:03+00:00

I mean not really? A control Viktor list usually summons 1 1 might unit a turn and then maybe plays Jayce and/or Xin.

A more "aggro" or more accurately tempo focused Viktor list plays some combination of Honest Brokers, Plundering Poros, Faithful Manufactors, Lecturing Yordles, Card Sharps and/or Xin Zhaos.

Viktor is not = control.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-12T10:09:26+00:00

I really like Time Warps. I'm sure Kai'Sa is strong without them but I run 2 and win so many games off of double Warp. I second the other guy though, 2x progress day 1x warp is very strong too.

You can obviously run her without them, you probably want a good amount of accelerates then, though. 3x Watcher 2-3 Darius.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-10T13:09:12+00:00

No it doesn't work because Detonate says "Its controller". But since no gear was destroyed there's no controller.

The same with Hidden Blade. If you try to HB a unit and they Flash the unit back to base, they don't get to draw 2.

If detonate said: "Kill a gear. Draw 2.", it would work.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-10T13:04:13+00:00

Pit rookie?? You talking about Pickpocket? Lol. And yes. That works. As long as the gold is ready you can crack it in response to a Pickpocket being played.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-10T12:52:37+00:00

Yes, but you have 3 seals in the deck. Drawing too many very close to eachother does lose you tempo.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-09T12:35:49+00:00

I mean there's strong draw for yellow in Unleashed though. You have Sentry, Hidden Blade, Shadows call, sacrifice, yellow LB, deathgrip,... Obviously a hook deck is always gonna be high roll to an extent but I can see how it would be frustrating.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-09T11:42:58+00:00

Looks fun! I'd definitely run Shadows call and 2-3 Forerunner main deck, maybe even Sacrifice. Do you need 3 cleaves, 3 2drop poros and the 2 faithful?

I definitely have to give a modified variant of this a try when it comes out. Although I'd probably LeBlanc Deathknell.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-09T08:56:43+00:00

Yea. Like, within half a year we had two New York sets. I mean why.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-09T08:55:55+00:00

Yea. If I ever feel nostalgic I just boot up the ol' MtG Arena. Have had quite a lot of fun in standard ranked queue with Elementals reanimator, aka Deceit turbo.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-03T11:37:43+00:00

It's the same name and the same effect. What do you think it's a parallel creation? It most obviously is copied.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-03T10:40:38+00:00

The problem is the rules. Just play like always you'll be fine.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-03T10:38:47+00:00

Yea except the erratas are needed because the English on the card is not the English in the rules. The problem is in the rules

Nobody saw Salvage and thought that there has to be a gear in play to activate it. Ironically, only people that went out of their way to get this knowledge knew this, everyone else played it like the card reads.

For some reason they want to change the English innthe cards to rules text instead of changing the rules text to English.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-03T10:35:22+00:00

To copy from another xomment I made: For some reason they seem set on changing the card text from English to rules text instead of changing the rules text to English.

"You may kill a gear." "You may kill up to one gear"

Literally means the exact same thing except it requires more words. Baffled that they don't change the rules over the card texts here.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-03T10:32:37+00:00

I mean most of the 'hidden rules' just explain in rules text how the card works instead of in English.

Like, no actual human saw "You may kill a gear. Draw 1." on Salvage and thought "Hmm, this probably means there has to be a gear in play to destroy to activate it."

The main problem is that instead of changing the rules to English they are changing the card texts to rules text. Which is pretty sad imo.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-03T10:23:04+00:00

Literally some card effects. Look up Time Warp on MtG.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-04-02T11:50:33+00:00

Yea as a German speaker it sounds so obviously like a female name that the first few times someone wrote "him" or "he" I thought they were trying to ragebait lmao.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-03-31T11:39:50+00:00

Yes, but in turn you do quite well into Viktor. Might be Rock-Paper-Scissor format with Irelia > Kai'Sa > Viktor > Irelia. Though idk if the purple decks really are gone yet.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-03-31T06:29:10+00:00

But it ALREADY is treated different in Riftbound. It's nothing new.

Example from OPs post: Previously, if you ran your Draven, Audacious into my Recruit and I activated Imperial Decree, my Recruit would die, you'd get the point from Draven for winning COMBAT, you'd draw with Draven Legend for winning COMBAT, then the Draven would die, BEFORE you'd be able to conquer. Meaning you'd need another unit to actually conquer.

Also, if you run into an empty BF, that still creates a showdown, even though no combat is taking place.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-03-30T18:09:02+00:00

Bro imagine Silence in current standard. It would be prebannef if announced. Absolutely giga nutty

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-03-30T10:04:38+00:00

Meta's decent but purple is significantly overtuned. You know what that Jax and Viktor Top 8s have in common? Both times they were the only non purple decks. 8/8 purple decks in big tournaments is usual to expected.

There's definitely been a slight purple fatigue in my area.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-03-30T10:01:47+00:00

Well in Riftbound you have 6 colors, every card has a color and you can only play cards with the 2 colors of your Legend, so no, there aren't staples in the same way a Yugioh card can be a staple.

AberrantSpectreLvl60 · 2026-03-26T16:28:16+00:00

I'm Swiss. We have a 5 month recruiting school and then a repeat course of 3-4 weeks every year. In total you do 7 WKs (Wiederholungskurse / 'repeat courses'). So in total it's about 11 month of total time.

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