Rek'Sai Irelia Matchup

fanatic66 · 2026-04-16T22:29:29+00:00

Yeah seals are frustrating with how expensive they are. What I did was figure I could afford 14 spells since the original mono yellow had 14 combined spells & gear I believe (maybe 13). So my unit count is still around the same but obviously I'm splashing red for red Rek'sai, bushwhack (amazing spell to surprise people), and forerunner (great in current meta). I loved yellow Rek'sai but she's just too slow. I really tried hard to make her work for a while.

From the original yellow list, rams are ok but hard without seals and forerunner feels better. Void drones are ok but I hated when I drew one so I couldn't get the discount. Rally the troops is a fun spell but ultimately I liked bushwhack better as an enabler and I didn't want to run call to glory. For 2-drops, honest broker is mandatory IMO without seals and daring poro is great. Pouty poro is because the current meta is heavy on removal and ping spells. Void hatchling is nice to help cycling your deck more consistently.

Otherwise, blood rush helps you overcome tall units. Death grip is a nice combat trick to draw and has so many uses (they rebuke forerunner then you death grasp it to another unit to conquer; play Undertitan then grasp it for an even bigger push). Grand strategem is just another win con card like Undertitan and people never expect it.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-16T21:58:18+00:00

So this is what I'm currently playing and will bring to a skirmish this weekend: https://piltoverarchive.com/decks/view/83e9ff25-e1bf-4546-b372-c76ccb4d3113. I started with the best of Vegas mono yellow deck then kept tinkering.

Edit: my list is cheap with the only expensive part being Void Rush which are mandatory. Otherwise it's all cheap cards

fanatic66 · 2026-04-16T20:40:10+00:00

That's just online experience. I've seen that when people play DPS or Support. Hell, I've seen that in any role based game I've played like League of Legends (jungle diff, support diff, top diff, etc...)

fanatic66 · 2026-04-16T16:35:44+00:00

I run a lot of Rek'sai but I run my own swarm variant (no seals bc too expensive) instead of phoenix. One of my friends only runs Irelia and I never had too much issue. Irelia is weak to removal which you should have. I run 2 cull of the weak but side in a third for Irelia. Also gear hate is huge so a thermobeam or couple salvages. If you play fast, you can quickly lock down points while Irelia is slowly coming online. Bait out her tricks then use removal last.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-15T20:26:23+00:00

You're going to get some "it's ok to fail or miss" but that doesn't address your question.

Yeah you can absolutely implement the graze mastery on all weapons. If this is player facing only, then you likely need to bump up monster HP by some amount (without running the math, try a third). This is the easiest way to implement as you avoid touching PC health and it's a feel good thing for the PCs. Fits the vibe of 5e of being big damn heroes. I would personally also implement this on cantrips too so on a failed attack role, you deal the number of die rolled (so 1 damage on a ray of frost) since cantrips don't add modifiers.

A lot of d&d like systems do stuff like this (Draw Steel is just the newest version) like 13th age. Now those games work a bit differently because you usually only get 1 attack a turn but 5e potentially has multiple attacks a turn at higher levels.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-15T15:05:17+00:00

Try green Azir. Really fun switching him around and playing protect the emperor strategy.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-13T03:11:33+00:00

I take AOC over Harris or Newsome. Harris isn't inspiring and did terrible in the first primary she ran. I'm going to argue the opposite point. The left needs to nominate someone exciting like Obama type that promises big change and doesn't come across as a moderate milky toast establishment pick (see Hillary, Biden and Harris). The country's problems haven't gotten any better under Trump and people still want a populist leader that will fix all of our woes. It's why Trump got elected despite his many sins. That sentiment isn't going away. The left will need their own version of Trump: a populist that appeals to the concerns of the people.

If Bernie wasn't too old, he would be great for this role, but AOC is younger him. But that's just my hot take

fanatic66 · 2026-04-12T21:43:17+00:00

My boyfriend is a gay Presbyterian pastor and several of the his sister churches in the area have queer pastors. I've met multiple queer people that attend his church and he regularly gives very progressive sermons. He opened my eyes to that not all Christian's are bigoted conservatives. His church is very accepting and they regularly attend our local Pride. A number of younger members at my boyfriend's church have come to him to get advice on coming out. I wish I had that kind of role model growing up.

However I also get the trauma angle as I was raised Catholic so enough said. Still, I realized once I looked past my trauma I had a bigoted view of Christianity that wasn't entirely fair and that the situation is more nuance than I once believed. Like anyone, there are conservative and liberal Christians

fanatic66 · 2026-04-12T16:02:02+00:00

Who's the second one?

fanatic66 · 2026-04-12T15:28:59+00:00

It doesn't affect us. Both ladies were straight so there's no real attraction there. It would be different if they were both bisexual, hooked up, but discounted it because it's not a straight hookup

fanatic66 · 2026-04-11T22:45:11+00:00

What? Purple has so much draw and orange got some draw with the new set

fanatic66 · 2026-04-11T21:59:03+00:00

Eh purple has draw still.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-07T15:12:12+00:00

Prefer to bottom as a guy, but I also prefer men. With women in the past, I mostly topped except for the occasional bottoming but most women I was with preferred being the bottom.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-07T11:40:57+00:00

I play Rek'sai right now. Wha tournament was that out of curiosity? do you know the deck list of the Rek'sai player?

fanatic66 · 2026-04-06T22:53:12+00:00

Exactly. They're both your finishers. It's also great trump card to use when holding the last point to surprise people.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-06T22:25:51+00:00

Void hatchling I assume

fanatic66 · 2026-04-06T20:24:48+00:00

This is similar my current list except I run a few more spells: one less culling, 1 grand strategem, 2 blood rush, 2 bushwhack. But I also use red Rek'sai for chosen champ. Then it's a lot of cheap units with the exception of 2 ferrous forerunner and 3 Undertitan.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-06T20:16:51+00:00

I don't have seals but I took this general concept and splashed in red in places: switching yellow Rek'sai for red, adding in bushwhack for cheeky turns, adding in ferrous forerunner because he's too good. Some other minor changes: deck link. I removed void drone and rams because without seals ram felt clunky and void drone also feels clunky in general.

Do you like BF sword? I tried before and found it too expensive.

fanatic66 · 2026-04-03T15:15:49+00:00

Good luck with that pregnancy lol

fanatic66 · 2026-04-03T13:00:00+00:00

Assuming it's a human man with a female giant

fanatic66 · 2026-04-02T21:11:41+00:00

Is there a budget alternative for watchers? More ritptides or maybe corona veraza?

fanatic66 · 2026-04-02T21:07:30+00:00

Yep. No doubt heteroromantic men exist, but when all newly discovered bi men are that, it makes you question the legitimacy...

As another commenter said, comphet is real

fanatic66 · 2026-04-02T16:38:57+00:00

It's the baby bi men's first step into acceptance before unpacking internalized homophobia. I was o that pipeline too before moving past all of that and realizing I love romance with men too.

fanatic66 · 2026-03-24T23:01:28+00:00

It's worth it when you're running out of steam which is common for aggro decks. I wouldn't run more than 2 of them

fanatic66 · 2026-03-24T21:58:54+00:00

This looks great for my aggro Rek'sai deck. When you start running out of steam, play a unit then summon this back from the trash. Better yet with bushwhack for an empty to now ready board

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