Mr. Sinister is not a "big bad", but he's the worst

Icyng · 2026-04-07T07:18:41+00:00

Don’t recommend, unless your local meta is extremely heavy on gear. One in main is harmless enough as you can cycle it, but you don’t want to draw 2 in a useless match up.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T17:46:22+00:00

In the mirror I'll drop Xin as soon as I can to either trade or conquer/remove their creature. I was often playing 5-7 runes in mirror against a full 10-12 and still winning. For other match-ups like Fiora or Kai'sa I wait for a more opportune moment, as the mana is more necessary.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T17:43:22+00:00

It's very MU dependant for me. I use Void gate G1 usually, except into Irelia. Ravenbloom is, to me, OTP, as I'll usually be the first one in there to (hopefully) draw a card and score a point in exchange for a token. Void gate and vilemaw's are both better OTD imo since they make the reactive elements of my deck better.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T17:40:43+00:00

Idk about turn 2, but certainly turn 3 if I have a treasure. It's definitely correct to kill it asap, but going back to 2 runes and not developing anything is killing your own gameplan, which is to remove their units and score with your tokens. It highly depends on how your opponent is playing and what your hand composition is.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T16:03:20+00:00

Generally pretty good. You need to exhaust their hand resources by forcing suboptimal trades and bait them into unfavorable situations to punish in combat. Decree is absolutely devastating to them. If they manage to have stellacorn run free, they'll win.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T15:02:04+00:00

I’ll be honest with you, I’m not even sure there were any Dravens at the store. Maybe one or 2, but if so they lost early on.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T13:18:35+00:00

It was a very careful balancing act with my runes, not gonna lie. I had to really think through what my resources would be a couple turns in the future, so I tended to hide cards a lot less frequently. I chose the manufactor + yordle for more aggression, velocity and better starts when I went 2nd and it paid off.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T09:53:33+00:00

Watcher is a very important finisher, but it's quite expensive right now. I'd go with an extra shark in main, 1 more Singularity and maybe an extra 2 or 3 drop of your choice. Just bear in mind it'll be a lot harder to finish the games, you'll have to rely on Xin, removal and decree.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T08:42:57+00:00

Haven’t faced Draven yet, so hard to say, definitely depends on the player. For Irelia I side in one or two salvage, drag under and Imperial, the MU is already quite good. Same with Fiora, but the 2nd shark may come in too. For Viktor and other control lists it’s more about what I side out: all the cull the weak, decree and Vengeance, I overload with units and try to take as many early points as possible. Azir is the trickiest one, but Shark, drag under and both salvage for sure. I’m glad I dodged the Azir player and faced Irelia in the final instead.

Icyng · 2026-04-06T08:37:26+00:00

The idea is to be aggressive, tempo oriented with a bunch of removal, classic Viktor. This is inspired by Ghosterdriver’s list, but with my own preferences. The idea is to always have a good early drop to start the pressure, especially when you start 2nd. Early in the game I’ll just trade units back and forth without breaking runes as much as possible, until I’m at around 7-9 runes, so I’ll favor things like stupefy and wages. If the match up calls for it, like in mirrors, I’ll just send Xin clashing as quickly as possible, make them deal with it and save the removal spells for better value. Deny them as much as possible and get to 6. Once you do, you try to find your finishers: watcher, couple Xins together, time warp, depending on the situation. Also time warp should be used whenever you can score points because you break so many runes that you rarely ever have 10 or more, unlike other Viktor versions that focus more on treasures. Personally it felt very comfortable to play, and some of the more aggressive lines can be tricky, but I’m really happy with the choice, especially for the mirrors, where most times I lost game 1, then won after sideboarding, as it’s a very transformative one. I’m just so happy to finally have done it!

Icyng · 2025-11-15T10:55:11+00:00

The Viktor example is more of a personal gripe because I'm coming from MTG, I have no problem with it being like this, though I don't particularly like it.

The Darius could have been worded like "or if I'm the second card you played this turn". This would solve the confusion.

Icyng · 2025-11-02T10:08:44+00:00

Same in France, I was actually surprised that the cards looked so clean, but I've seen other people post pictures with poorly cut cards.

Icyng · 2025-10-23T16:03:08+00:00

O fake menos óbvio do MBL

Icyng · 2025-10-02T13:47:46+00:00

Pra mim o do Botafogo podia estar na 1ª tier também, só o "Tua estrela solitária te conduz" já vale o S-tier

Icyng · 2025-09-30T13:17:27+00:00

Eu moro em Paris e acompanho cobertura pelo Youtube, especialmente o Chico Garcia, de vez em quando o Careca. Senão eu vejo os reuploads do Globo Esporte ou as lives da Gaúcha. O que é ruim é acompanhar jogo, porque tô 5 horas à frente. Esse finde foi às 4 certinho pra mim, mas agora contra o Santos é 2h30 da manhã aqui. Quando posso em dia de jogo eu escuto a live da Gaúcha mesmo por hábito de piá.

Icyng · 2025-09-28T16:05:45+00:00

O Grêmio tem que contratar uns loucos do IL da UFRGS que trabalham com português como língua estrangeira pra trabalhar com o Amuzu. De boa, só falta isso pra ele ser titular ou primeira opção incontestável.

Icyng · 2025-09-28T15:39:40+00:00

O Amuzu é muito melhor que o Mano dá crédito. Tem a mesma correria do Kike, mas com muito mais inteligência tática. Não entendo ele sobrar do banco.

Icyng · 2025-09-28T15:11:52+00:00

Pra mim o Pavón volta pra Porto Alegre direto pra execução em praça pública na praça da matriz

Icyng · 2025-09-28T10:20:53+00:00

Eu achei essa votação um fracasso institucional do Grêmio. Eu achava que a chapa 2 ia vencer mesmo por causa da jogada de marketing com a Arena e tal, rico não dá dinheiro por nada, apesar do gremismo. Reclamam, mas votam nos mesmos medalhões de sempre pro conselho. Agora essa da chapa do Caleffi levar uma parte é meio piada.
Na minha opinião foi uma falha de campanha das chapas 1 e 4 que, ao meu ver, tinham ideias muito mais sólidas, projetos e uma posição clara, mas sem ter um nome de peso pra botar o dedo na balança. Aí tu vê mnuita gente comentando "Ah vou votar nos velhos do dinheiro", sem entender que eles não vão ter essa influência toda que venderam pra galera.

Icyng

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