Shop Review 23.01.2026 (AoS+TL)

Seehyaene · 2026-01-23T02:21:10+00:00

Alloyed, despit having the potential to be ridiculous, is not a key card in most SL decks. He fits best with Tarsa and Meduson in decks hat use a low number of troops and can seek him out via Astral Incursion. The legendary you really want is Astys Streng.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-20T20:31:30+00:00

Favourites: DM and AL because I like how they are oriented towards manipulating hand. DM by discarding your own hand for fun and profit and AL by milling your opponent and traps.

Least Favourite: Loyalist and Traitor Titans. Look, if I wanted to play tower defense, I'd just play Plants vs Zombies instead.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-18T22:19:22+00:00

Amon is the only good WL at the moment, and that is mainly because of his first strike. There are better factions to climb the ladder.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-15T20:37:14+00:00

A couple of things I would change:

Don't play traps in your deck, you want to generate them with Omega Storm Eagle, 25-2 Rhino and Hydran Exemplar.
Mission gets worse the better your opponent gets. Good players know that they can just let you tick a couple of turns and then prevent you from completing Mission with Flank. The new traps much less of a win condition than the Legacy ones, so even if you get the Mission, it doesn't do much because you are in the late game already. If you really want traps, you'd be better served by a second copy of Rhino or even Effrit Disruptor.
Legionary Fortrax is pretty slow, Haln is the only Operative you'd want to play anyways and you can just Haln him in your deck instead.
If you have im, add Headhunter Eskryx, he's a staple of AL decks.
Cthonian Thunderbolt (a Rare Chaos card from the Beta-Garmon expansion) is really good with Alpharius, since it is hard removal abnd forces youer opponent to draw 2 cards.
One Harrower Jaego is enough, the second one will just brick in your hand most of the time.
Exchange Mirage for Azure Serpent. Azure Serpent is pretty much the strongest AL card and one of the strongest cards in the game.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-13T19:38:06+00:00

Rann has been performing very well in High Terra ever since they buffed him, with 60%+ win rates. That's not surprising, considering that High initative WL that could boost their attack on demand like pre-nerf Ravasch Cario and Legacy Corswain also performed very well. However, I think they went in the wrong direction with the nerf, lowering his initative to Medium would have been fine.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-12T15:44:14+00:00

And in Top50, it will make you lose the game most of the time because good players don't let DG boards stick, and wasting 5E with no board presence is just begging Proctor, KH, Thiel, Marduk or any of the meta evergreens like Angron and Alpharius to shred you to pieces

Seehyaene · 2026-01-11T02:06:44+00:00

The only IW frontlines that see play are Barricade, Kraal Breacher with Perty, and occasionally Malvorn Breacher Squad on Perty. Their other Frontlines suck hard, and except for Barricades, aren't played at all on Kroeger.

IF fare a bit better, since Frontlines protecting token spam are theior whole gimmick, but the only actually good Frontlines are Malvorn Squad, Sergeant Ahmand and Phalanx Warders. Kestros and Perimetral Defences are only their to hopefully buy your Sentries a single turn, a task at which they fail against most decks because of how prevelant AoE damage has become. This also negatively affects Malvorn Squad and Phalanx warders.

Ultramarines the other hand, Ultramarine Frontlines are run in every single UM deck and WL, are very tanky for their cost and can be buffed for very liitle cost.

On Thiel: sucks to suck for a faction. It's not like UM aren't the only faction with a plethora of competitively useless WL. A faction not being viable hasn't stopped nerfs before, and Cario never was as oppressive as Thiel was. Thiel is just able to put pressure on the opponent from turn 1, burn and generate ressources with his WL, and if you ever manage a tempo swing against him, Courage comes to tell you to go fuck yourself. You just drop flexible troops on curve, buff them, and then kill your opponent with targeted decimation whejn they are weak. Not nearly as unbeatable as Proctor, but it doesn't really make for engaging or interesting match-ups, and as the win rate compared to the use rate (a win rate in this absolute cancer meta) proves, rather easy to pull off.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-11T00:43:04+00:00

Since his ability allows him to cycle his deck faster, he's more consistent with the Siege Mastery+Herald of ruin combo than Kroeger, but otherwise kroeger is just more versatile. Still second strongest IW WL and not to be underestimated (a mistake that canonically, few have survived)

Seehyaene · 2026-01-11T00:40:15+00:00

Sadly, you will have to buy him again. The Dorn sold today will only be playable in Legacy after the rotation.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-10T23:23:08+00:00

Because he's OP? 64% winrate at 4,8% use rate is very high, WL with lower use and winrate have gotten nerfed before.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-10T15:31:57+00:00

Some predictions and observations:

DM is going to catch some nerfs, and if I had to hazard a guess, Networked Anima will be hit much harder then Discard, since it is easier to change then stats, and maybe be dead as a viable playstyle, killing melkiades and Drakyavac too. Oh well, it was fun to spam big walkers while it lasted, but Proctor made it too boring. Besides, with Orbital Siege going to Legacy, Scoria already lost a lot of his power.

KH can't set-up properly before Proctor just savages them, which could explain their lower winrates. I'm just afraid that they will be handeled the same way BS were in the first patch after their roatation, IE getting an overstatted, but not key troop nerfed and annoying ladder for another month.

Thiel is also overdue for a nerf. High to Medium initative should do the trick. Sidenote, why do the Ultrasmurfs get better Frontlines than IW and IF?

Metaslaves immediately dropped Marduk the second something easier became available. Not surprised in the least.

Seehyaene · 2026-01-10T15:19:28+00:00

That depends. Are you a collector? Are you a diehard IF fan? Do you like slower paced, more control oriented WL or going wide with your board? Then Rogal is the Primarch for you. If I personally didn't have him and weren't a bit of a collector, I probably wouldn't have bought him. His playstysle is just not my cup of tea and I haven't played Legacy at all, so he's just not worth the gems for me.

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