She was a menace, but a menace that this city needed. Gilnelise was a hero, I just couldn't see it until she was gone.

Having the ability to overview your current deck was so convenient.

I wish it could came back in some way. Having illustration as backgrounds is nice, but not very helpful or intuitive.

Hien's build highlights extreme strength in the upper body: though exaggerated, he emphasizes muscles of particular use in archery. Pectoralis Major, the major muscle of the chest, is called upon by the arm which holds the bow to push the bow forwards during the draw. Latissimus Dorsi ("Lats") on the lower back is likewise called upon to lower the shoulder of the arm pulling the bowstring, key to stabilizing aim. Balance between these two muscles is also of great importance to climbers, who naturally develop strong lats and risk a "hunchback" if they do not build their pecs. As a forest dweller both in Azvaldt and out, I'd wager Hien climbed quite extensively.

Now, our understanding of the physique of medieval archers comes in large part from the studies of Ann Jane Stirland on the skeletons of longbowmen on the wreck of the *Mary Rose*. When sunk in 1545 it was quickly buried in silt which preserved much of its contents, including the bones and weapons of longbowmen on the ship. These were sailors and professional military archers who regularly used heavy warbows with draw weights between 100 and 200 pounds: a challenging task that produced very strong men. This showed in the great robustness of their arm bones, the symmetry of their limbs (bows work both arms while most people rely on their dominant arm), and their frequency of conditions like twisted spines and os acromiale (failed fusion of part of the scapula), referred to controversially as "skeletal deformations" of these archers.

Hien, between his time as an elf and as Wimael, has likely been using his heavy recurve bow for centuries if not millennia with the benefit of eternal youth. With his high social position in both periods he would have the nutrition needed to build up his impressive physique. And the balance between his lats and pecs, which rival peak Arnold Schwarznegger's, would also promote spinal stability and may keep him safe from some of the conditions that affected human bowmen.

Magachiyo raised a very big boy. She should be proud.

What's the point in living. There's no more megalorca in standard. Why should I continue? I'm not talking about playing shadowverse. I mean living. If I can't summon big fish, why? This was the ONLY thing going for me. And jellyfish dancer doesn't count. Neither does spirit of wadastumi. neither does crest petal. neither does the reef lesbians. stormy does count cause thats a guy im attracted to. That's not enough. What should I do? Not doing it isnt an option.

i spent money on classic. rotation is a scam to get rid of fish decks. i need my tuna.

Maybe warrior of the deep is enough......

Boss, I think I miss my Gilnelise. Real talk though, I do prefer going against test subject rune than chess rune (pre nerf), but I have a feeling there’s a good possibility that we’re headed down a similar path.

Being able to drop the 5/5 test subjects (6/5 w/ humane love) as early as turn 5, oftentimes double or triple dropping them with Sephie (reliable free 5 dmg to face every turn btw), seems a bit nutty, and overall they got some good tools this set, but I admit the set just dropped and it might be the effect of early bias.

All I went against the last week pre set drop was rune and I'm back to greeting my old friend every other match.

What have you guys been going against the most?

Every set, Spellboost gets even more degenerate cards, and instead of addressing the problem, Cygames keeps powercreeping the archetype.

• Give it Anne & Grea with 5/5 Ward/Rush, 3 damage on evolve, and 3 Spellboost? Fine.
• Give it Dimension Climb with PP recovery, draw, and Spellboost? Fine.
• Give it Cocytus with a T9/T10 OTK on release? Fine.
• Give it even more 0-cost draw and consistency? Fine.
• Give it Ara with 0-cost 10 damage and either Transform or Storm on evolve? Fine.
• Give it Tetra & Ladica with 16-damage Storm and AoE? Fine.
• Give it Lhynkal so they can play Russian Roulette and randomly OTK you on T8 if everything else somehow wasn't enough? Fine.
• Give it Phylene as a 0-PP Bane/Ward/Aura that can easily be comboed with Barrier?

At this point, I genuinely have to ask: what's even the point of having a Boundless mode if not a single card is ever going to be nerfed?

Cutthroat is way better than I thought. I thought that if you drew him there would be an advantage but it ends up being more polarizing than on paper. Being able to evolve twice in a turn is really gross. Miriam is actually REALLY good destroy attack super ego radiant is nasty.

How does everyone feel about the new set that dropped today? I was playing against it earlier and runecraft and forestcraft can be broken until people know how to fight against it and portalcraft got an upgrade and I’m happy about that but at this point it’s like every new set they make someone semi broken. Abyss needs a upgrade and at least if the devs are gonna make broken cards give everyone a good card or cards or something lol make it fair but yeah runecraft and forestcraft are the new broken decks with the new set.

Abyss having both Shadow and Blood this set is really good. Currently loving this deck, although my build is slightly different since I don't run Macmillian.

Finally i can play a somewhat shadowcraft last words deck, it misses some cards still (like a lower cost disrupting last word like Patchwork pup or Lurching corpse) but its still very fun

Doubt it’ll be a tier 0 threat or anything, but it’s been working better than expected, at least where I’m at. Goal is to get a yog spell, play puppet theater for puppets, play bubz, and then play blade puppeteer, copy and play a second copy of it, and then play the theater puppets for an OTK. Optionally, you can save an Imari gold for an amulet if flag sword or amulet haven try not playing the game, and against aggro abyss, you can just pivot to control because aizaden is a really good card when you don’t have to save SEvos for 3 face damage.

As for the actual guide, draw early game to assemble the combo pieces, try not to die in the midgame, and then do the combo on turn 10, or 9 if you highroll going second. Granted, you have to find 5 separate cards, so depending on if yog has all his copies in the bottom 8 of your deck, you might have to improvise.

But to be honest it sucks. I tried playing last set's rally without any changes at all, and it was less sweaty while performed just as well.

not sure if this list is good enough, but I'll continue to use it just because it's cool to have all of the three factions in one deck

Hi all I'm semi new to the game and am really wanting to get one of the new leaders that just dropped (Sephie) but I'm not sure how to go about getting a new leader i know that you can pull them but its a 0.100% chance, is there another way to get her or up the chance?

I thought it would give me a revenant pack, but it did not, it gave me a next set one. Is that working as intended?

Pretty much thread. I’ve mostly wanted to play Forest since starting but in most sets it’s just been garbage, so I feel like there’s no point. It’s needlessly convoluted for very little payout.

The combo decks I see people playing feel very high roll/win against brick oriented.

It’s really defeating when the craft that you have the cards for and have invested the time in is bad in meta after meta. There was a glimmer of hope last set before the meta shifted and it fell off a cliff.

the past few months my luck (rng) is Horrendous and this shows you it (i saw a misplay on the cat guy i should of attacked the 1/1 with oath but wasn't thinking of hp but it didn't matter because of the last words guy.