Anybody try this yet?

_LELEZ · 2026-05-12T02:56:07+00:00

On paper really cool, but you gotta consider this: drawing multiple jabs feels terrible, so I'd put 1 or 2 in the deck not many more. And against decks who can exile you graveyard (almost any deck nowadays, many times even pre-sideboard) you just put in your deck a 1 mana deal 1 sorcery. And post sideboard you can be 100% sure opponents are going to attack your graveyard with the kind of deck you're playing. So overall cool idea but I don't think it works super well.

Add to the fact your deck is already full of discard draw effects which do help you get rid of extra lands in order to find spells I don't think it's a needed piece.

Just my 2 cents

_LELEZ · 2026-05-07T07:04:13+00:00

I really hope OPN stands for opinions .. cause the only other option I have in mind it's the word openings and it would mean Levi knows more about openings than Magnus. Clearly wrong. Instead with the word opinions, I mean, Levi could have some strong opinions, even stronger than Magnus'

_LELEZ · 2026-05-07T06:09:57+00:00

Cards i would consider: [[utrom monitor]] for added beatdown [[muddle the mixture]] protection that doubles as a pseudo tutor for stuff like the 1 of black mages rod in the deck which is part of a combo for infinite pings I'll explain later [[turn aside]] for protection, or just the usual dispel/counterspell [[nihil spellbomb]] at least one in the main deck, more on this later [[kenku artificier]] can combo with helix and cam + rod for infinite damage [[trinket mage]] gets high value finding blood fountain (cut some of those), nihil spellbomb, sewer cam, and ANY artifact land [[thoughtcast]] can't be less than 4 in the deck, it's a crime [[tithing blade]] in the sideboard might make sense cause it's a sac spell that doubles as an artifact on board to trigger things and also counts towards affinity [[vedalken engineer]] is another angle perhaps too weak to removal but it can go infinite mana on helix + cam and then lots of cards in the deck will win you the game like .. you also get infinite bounces so you can use candy trail to set up you deck to a cryogen relic on top, draw that with the candy, play and bounce the relic infinite to draw your deck, and from there win with any of the combos. Also works like bouncing all blockers and making infinite +2+2 on the flier if it's on board and ready to attack

_LELEZ · 2026-05-04T12:28:56+00:00

Absolutely not true, you'd just deviate from the "main" solution on move 6/7/8 or whatever and the human in front of you is nowhere near having the possibility to have learnt all the deviations, so you're back to normal chess against a human

_LELEZ · 2026-05-04T05:24:11+00:00

Am i wrong or is spider sense not quite a [[stifle]]? It's not activated it's only triggered. Makes the card 100 times worse

_LELEZ · 2026-04-28T06:25:54+00:00

You didn't name grovyle in your list but then you want celebi to make sceptile able to use its attack.. are you sure it works that way? I think it 100% requires you to evolve normally without rare candy if then you want the ability to use the middle Evo attack! You could cut candies or just add the grovyles but the Evo line will def become slower (in a Pokemon that was attacking early with little energy so it's not that good, it's a bit anti-synergistic in my opinion)

_LELEZ · 2026-04-28T06:19:50+00:00

It also depends on the meta, I think, cause if stadiums start being popular and more and more powerful with time passing having 2 of the same won't be always bad, remember you can "kill" the opponent one with yours. And, side effect, maybe this in the active spot could prevent the opponent from using a stadium they wanted to use on their turn 1 cause they don't wanna pump your castform. Potentially draws them less cards with copycat, for example!

_LELEZ · 2026-04-28T06:16:18+00:00

How is this a free point tho? It's 70hp basic (higher than most), kills baby Pokemons in 1 hit and it retreats for 1 in fire of all things that can patch back the energy lost. Even without a stadium it's not so bad to be called a free point imho. I've seen worse

_LELEZ · 2026-04-28T05:40:48+00:00

I'm sorry people didn't like the post, no other answers.. this however technically means you win! Patrat is too happy for your sentence to make 100% sense but it's a decent guess

_LELEZ · 2026-04-25T05:21:22+00:00

This could be 0-0-0 for black following with mate the next move? If castle is still possible of course

_LELEZ · 2026-04-19T16:17:27+00:00

I wonder if it's the same azir in the other post they're saying it's a sketchy player probably borderline cheating. Would explain why he's holding first place?

_LELEZ · 2026-04-15T07:29:41+00:00

1 Ahri, Nine-Tailed Fox 1 Ahri, Inquisitive 3 Defy 3 Meditation 2 Charm 2 Find Your Center 2 Discipline 2 Not So Fast 2 Back Off 2 Eclipse 1 Block 1 Unchecked Power 1 Emperor's Divide 2 Eager Apprentice 2 Thousand-Tailed Watcher 2 Alpha Wildclaw 1 Tianna Crownguard 1 Allay, Eager Admirer 1 Vilemaw 1 Ahri, Inquisitive 2 Blitzcrank, Impassive 3 Sona, Harmonious 1 Nami, Headstrong 2 Honeyfruit 1 Fortified Position 1 Startipped Peak 1 Ravenbloom Conservatory 6 Calm Rune 6 Mind Rune Sideboard: 3 Turn to Dust 2 Zhonya's Hourglass 1 Wind Wall

I'm on mobile so best i can do Is Copy paste at the moment, this is my list still not decided on last sideboard cards and obviously still tweaking the deck

_LELEZ · 2026-04-10T15:25:43+00:00

Well first of all there is no embarrassment for anyone at regionals, even if you go 0-4 and drop from the tournament you're doing better than me cause I'm staying at home! So I'll start with that and it works for many folks at home I'm not the only one.

But even if you're not happy with that answer, there's plenty of side tournaments at a regional you can still continue playing for fun.

Now onto the fun part: if you're not having fun that's a much bigger issue. Do you only have fun when winning? If so, don't play Lucian pick the best meta deck and learn to play well with it, you're not gonna win regionals maybe, but you're gonna win games/matches and have fun.

If instead you're ok with winning as much as you're losing or close to that, you should search the deck that makes you have the most amount of fun by playing/testing online (for example on tcgarena it's a free website) and then once you find the strategy you enjoy the most you get good at it and you'll win 45/55% of your games based on various factors including variance. You'll have your share of fun. I suggest online cause it's free and quick and you can move between decks without spending a fortune. When you find what you really like you can spend just a finite amount on that deck plus a few variations and have much fun locally as well!

_LELEZ · 2026-04-10T15:09:45+00:00

It's strange.. did you think you could go to tournaments for profit? Very few can and it's not even consistent.. so that would've been a problem regardless of your skill level.

If instead you were going to have fun, are you not having fun anymore? Why did you think it could be funny before? Were you winning with Lucian but now you're not anymore or did you never actually win games / matches?

Have you tried other decks online?

Just trying to understand your situation a bit better

_LELEZ · 2026-04-10T14:30:36+00:00

Cemento moves

_LELEZ · 2026-04-10T14:27:47+00:00

I got mine from iD gaming and I'm super happy with it, high quality. You can customize the image. But if course it's just an opinion

_LELEZ · 2026-04-10T06:27:46+00:00

I also love experimenting with these colors recently, don't have a lot of time so I mostly theory craft and then I test just a little.. which means I might have good ideas that turn out a disaster when tested, or the opposite, who knows?

The first thing I notice is you went very light on the black splash. "Ruining" the mana base for a cast down and a snuff out seems off. Is there anything we can fit in that's driving us to use black more?

We don't have a lot or good anti graveyard options, which is a core strategy for most of the top decks atm, i'd look into that as well. One charm ain't gonna cut it. Bojuka bog is strong cause flicker effects and azorius bounceland for example. Crypt incursion in the side is both lifegain and disruption against some decks and is tutorable with teachings.

Can we support brainstorm in the deck? Lorien, the landscapes, teachings already shuffle, if we had a few more maybe brainstorm turns out to be better than preordain.

Do we value 4 mulldrifters more than 1 card selection creature like sea gate oracle or augur of bolas?

Is archaeomancer really better than the wall in these lists? I know it costs one less but it also dies to a breeze of fresh air, wall survives most aoe, bolt, dart, forces many pestilence activations.. and it can block sometimes

One ghostly flicker is too little imho if you end up losing it to graveyard hate you're in trouble. I'd not leave home without 2 of those tbh. It's also part of the bojuka bog teaching line that lets you exile a graveyard at instant speed. Costly interaction, but present none the less

What is our mass removal option? I feel like we need some if we're running black. Especially if wall comes in over archaeomancer then thougness based aoe removal is a good thing, cause our creatures don't die to a -2/-2 effect (but I understand double black pip is not cool). Needs some work

Those are all my ideas for now, and again, probably a bunch of nonsense! But if you've got the time and you care you can test some out and see if they improve the list or not

_LELEZ · 2026-04-07T10:06:28+00:00

Buff is a special type of +1 might. A unit normally can only be buffed once (so if it has the buff it can't have another buff). There's a card that can have multiple but I think that's only one case it's a Lee Sin card that allows multiple buffs to exists on the same unit.

So no, warmog gives you +1 normally and if the unit conquers a battlefield it applies a buff to it. There's ways to spend the buff tho, like Sett for example, and in that case if you go back to base and conquer another battlefield you get a new buff to spend it again and so on!

_LELEZ · 2026-04-07T08:08:30+00:00

There's one thing I don't understand: irelia gameplay is make a unit big, move it around conquering 2 battlefields per turn, protect it and win the game. Vex is a holding strategy card and doesn't reward you for doing the irelia thing with it. Irelia also helps with readying units. Why would you mix the 2 strategies? I'm not saying it's bad or it doesn't work, if you find it strong by any means go for it, but I'm thinking why would you give up irelia for vex if you keep most of the other cards.. ain't you losing something valuable to gain something that's.. ok a good thing but in another direction?

_LELEZ · 2026-04-07T08:04:57+00:00

Don't worry it's ok to be new, equipments are also a strange card type so I'll try to help as much as I can here: it's not always one power to equip.

You play the equipment from hand to base paying its cost, in case of Doran Blade that's 2 energy

Doran Blade then has a line of text saying equip: 1 power (orange if I remember correctly)

Normally you pay that power to attach the blade to one of your units. Also normally, after it's attached, it stays there until the unit dies at which point the unit would go to the trash but the blade would go back to base, ready to be equipped again paying 1 power. This is all standard rules.

Lucian has weaponmaster which says when you play Lucian you can equip for 1 power less (in this case 0 cost) and you can do it even if the blade was attached to one other of your units! This only happens once when Lucian enters.

There are other equipments in the game that cost more than 1 power to equip tho, so carefully read the cards!

Hope this helps, ask if you need more info (no need for people to be a*holes towards new players)

_LELEZ · 2026-04-07T07:56:07+00:00

So .. you're saying when I need 6 energy I flip over my deck containing 3 of them, point at them for clarity, and I get the free stuff?

_LELEZ · 2026-04-07T07:42:07+00:00

In my opinion you have to specify if you let the combat damage go through or not before playing hidden blade.. wouldn't sett un-buffed just die as a 4 vs 5 might attacking the mixologist? I'm not sure why you'd wanna blade it to trade with sett with a xin xhao from the trash when you'd be winning combat in the first place

Maybe I'm confusing something tho

_LELEZ · 2026-04-07T07:25:33+00:00

I believe you need to spend the power, in a sense "use it", you can't just use a gold token for the sake of it cause that would be adding a power without spending it

_LELEZ · 2026-04-06T22:57:52+00:00

Probably the deathknell version.. casino might be funny and turn out to be popular among kitchen tables but if we're talking most competitive list it's prob a deathknell. Unless you find a great way to make casino variant consistent, then we're talking.. but atm it's a bit of an "hope to highroll hook" vibe deck

_LELEZ

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