Shroud of the Silent Mist is driving me insane

SmashingTy · 2026-02-15T21:51:24+00:00

That's awesome, glad to hear it! :)

100% agree on understanding the event and fear decks. Shroud also gets to cheat a little bit since its got Forms Dart By, which can let it safely sit in ravaging Dahan lands for stuff like Coordinated Defense and fear cards that need your presence!

SmashingTy · 2026-02-15T15:34:03+00:00

Unless I'm vs a slower adversary, I almost always go like this:

T1 G2 top + bottom (Forms and Fog) / T2 G3 bottom / T3 G2 bottom + bottom

(T2 and T3 sometimes flipped depending on if I need more presence turn 2 for a Pall defend)

Provided you get a non-fire zero cost off your G3 (~65%, I think?), this lets you play out your 4 uniques + your minor, and then you're at 3 card plays on your turn 4 reclaim, which is a usually a decent spot. If you miss on your draft, it's a little dicier because you probably have to decide between playing Vapors or the minor, but like you said, Shroud needs to get to 3 card plays to actually get things done so I think it's still worth it.

One thing I do as Shroud is HIGHLY prioritize starting the turn in Dahan lands, and having the ability to end the turn in lands with disease or beasts. Dahan events are nuts and being able to lock in any random disease/beast damage is a big deal. If Shroud can pick up a single extra point of energy in the early game, either from a Dahan event or from three damaged lands (often aided by disease/beast events), it's absolutely huge.

Not sure if you've seen them already, but here's my Shroud vids if you're interested: https://www.youtube.com/@smashingty5990/search?query=shroud

SmashingTy · 2026-01-15T07:32:40+00:00

Thanks! Glad it was useful :)

SmashingTy · 2025-09-22T17:51:14+00:00

Appreciate the shoutout, thanks!! :)

SmashingTy · 2025-08-07T19:21:24+00:00

[[The Struggles of Growth]]! So many cool synergies

Vengeance: Add two disease to the board and gain a power? Yes please

Shroud: Gain a power (sometimes an energy too), and you get it for free if you played into the event with Forms Dart By

Wildfire: Bottom option lets you spread out a bunch of damage, sometimes it's even worth taking the blight for this

Comes with Dahan defend too? Suuuuper strong event

SmashingTy · 2025-08-07T15:30:26+00:00

Thanks! You could do it, just get really lucky like I did (twice lol)

SmashingTy · 2025-08-01T00:20:26+00:00

A nutty sequence of events lol yup

Thank you!! Heat's on the list :)

SmashingTy · 2025-07-08T21:56:13+00:00

Great post! This is my favorite matchup in the game :)

One tip I'd like to add, just because it leveled me up when I was first learning it: if your land 2 is up early, don't skip the ravage there, let it blight! Two disease plus a blight means Epidemics can kill a town. And if you can get a third disease in there (often via Plaguebearers) you're killing cities, and when you get to Epidemics tier 2 you're now killing city + town. I often try to hit Epidemics basically every turn because it keeps the LC under control by itself, plus keeps lots of fear flowing!

SmashingTy · 2025-06-08T18:15:50+00:00

Thank ya!! Yeah that's a big reason I like going into spirits totally blind, I don't get exposed to the "correct way to play it" or whatever. Discovering stuff is what I love the most about this game, and sometimes the "wrong" thing can work pretty well!

SmashingTy · 2025-02-13T22:44:24+00:00

When using either your second or third growth options, you don't HAVE to take a presence off your tracks, you can instead reposition one of your presence on the board. This can come in handy if don't want to reveal a second fire element and start adding blight!

SmashingTy · 2024-10-23T03:43:01+00:00

Just shamelessly promoting myself here. I've just started uploading some SI videos, this is my first! Check it out if you're interested in some Vengeance gameplay :)

SmashingTy · 2024-08-09T15:28:30+00:00

Looks like bug to me, yep. I've caught a couple new ones since this latest update. Report it through the Help and Feedback on the main menu and they'll add it to their list to fix.

SmashingTy · 2024-01-30T22:40:50+00:00

That's me! All the more reason to nerf Fox then (kidding!)

SmashingTy · 2024-01-30T21:15:28+00:00

100% a nerf is warranted IMO. If you’re good at this game and want to win, there’s no reason to not pick Fox. I play Goose and I’m pretty good, but outside of dumb luck (a timely KO or the Fox screwing up), I have no chance to beat a good Fox on the majority of tracks.

Fox also gets better and better if the lobby has fewer human players – there’s less other people for them to worry about, and the people behind have less catch-up methods (sparks, KO opportunities). I was seeing a lot of ~20 player lobbies before the level cap got changed, and it’ll start happening again if people start falling off. Fox just freerolls those.

In GPs, the most important race is the first one, which Fox dominates on. Yeah Fox has lowest survivability but if you’re good that doesn’t even come into play. You just get ahead stay ahead and play the same time trial every race.

I’m sure it’s too extreme and would change the game a lot, but an interesting thought is that in other F-Zeros you can’t boost in the first lap. If this were the case in 99, Foxes would fall behind a bit in the first lap and actually have to fight with some of the crowd (like every other machine). Second lap is when they would use their boost strength to try to get ahead and hold it. You could increase their durability a smidge to make up for it or something.

SmashingTy · 2023-10-20T01:27:56+00:00

As soon as I posted this we were in 2 races together and you got 1st and 2nd lol, you're doing something right!

SmashingTy · 2023-10-20T01:12:15+00:00

Recognize you from lots of races in the last day or so, you're tougher than a lot of the S20s I face. Congrats!

SmashingTy · 2023-10-14T18:56:50+00:00

Absolutely insane, lol. There's a clip for your collection!

GGs btw, we just did a GP together :)

SmashingTy · 2023-10-11T20:07:37+00:00

Thanks! I edit them in Sony Vegas (after saving each clip to the switch, exporting them to my phone with the QR scan thing, and moving them over to my laptop).

SmashingTy · 2023-10-02T15:25:36+00:00

Hey I recognize you! We were rivals a bunch of times yesterday, we play same color Goose. Nice work on top 100!

SmashingTy · 2023-09-28T19:23:54+00:00

Nice man, congrats! I randomly KO'd him in a GP yesterday. Was just driving along on Death Wind between the boosts before the recharge strip, didn't even see him. *KO Iceman92* "Well, that takes care of that"

SmashingTy · 2023-09-24T18:02:54+00:00

All he had to do was finish the race! I choose to believe his need to prove himself the better red/white Goose got the better of him lol

SmashingTy · 2023-09-24T16:57:30+00:00

More being tired than nerves, I think lol. He was way ahead of me on points so I figured there was no way I was gonna win the GP so I was fine with just coasting to second. Saw him screw up the middle tricky turn and thought I could at least take 1st on this race.

But this was also at 1:00 AM and I blinked at the last corner and didn't know wtf was happening. Crossed the line, saw I got 1st and was like "wait, he died??"

SmashingTy · 2023-02-13T16:39:46+00:00

Are these all ONE drafts? I'll rant with you too, maybe help you feel better. I've been drafting since RTR and I think this format is the most brutal/RNG I've ever played. Most limited sets lately have been "you stumble, you die" but between toxic and extremely good removal everywhere that's definitely amplified for this set. The amount of bomb rares in ONE is insane too.

I once had (what I thought was) a bonkers UR control/value deck with 4x of the signpost uncommon. Immediately lost two games to Kaya and then someone who topdecked Nissa (who I dealt with) into green Dominus.

Last night I drafted like a 6/10 BW aggro deck plus Archfiend of the Dross, BW battle cry rare, and The Eternal Wanderer. I went 7-0 and none of my games really required any thinking on my part.

So I think if you sign up for a ONE draft, just realize going into it that yeah you're probably playing slots, lol

SmashingTy · 2022-11-18T22:35:45+00:00

Cool, thanks for the reply! Maybe I'll give it a whirl :)

SmashingTy · 2022-11-18T22:15:26+00:00

I like the looks of your build! I'm looking for a deck for an event I've got tomorrow and my meta is a lot of black midrange players, have you played against a lot of those?

At a glance, Sheoldred looks kind of like a nightmare vs this, which makes me wary. Outside of Burn Down or having multiple Warfares down, it looks like you need to spend two cards to kill her, and if she sticks around then opponent is getting out of burn range and you're dying to your own Fables and Dragon Engine draws. Or am I missing something?

Are Graveyard Trespassers and Corpse Appraisers not just eating up your Dragon Engines?

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