France has such a great lorcana scene and community!

@@ZefaGames We try to do our best ^^ I hope you'll like the next 300 players tournament coming the April 6th, I'll be casting this on twitch :D ^^

I wish I were half as funny

We can both be lousy together 😮

Definitely do check out Zan Syed’s deck tech on it then

@ZefaGames I did he is super smart and informational I'm a big fan

​@ZefaGames any chance we can get some vids down the road of current meta decks/future ones too in regards to turn by turn how they should play and what you're aiming to do? Feel like that would be both much wanted and needed! Blue/Steel I enjoy alot as a pairing and i feel like I'm going the normal line plays of Turn 1 pawp/hook match dependent Turn 2 Smee or pawp/develop Turn 3 fishbone or benja Turn 4 hiram Trying to gauge where I end up going wrong in particular there, whether its maybe some over inking at times or my mid to late game choices. Any quick tips and comments in regards to what my mid/later game moves should look like/aim for in a general sense? Appreciate your time on it!

Yea, I think BO2 formatting will definitely have impact on people's deck choices and you'd want the deck that's most capable of going 2-0 since ravensburger decided that 2-0 and 0-2 is some how worth more than 1-1 and 1-1.

actually the blue purple i ran also cut hiram pawps from ben's list haha

@@ZefaGamesIt feels pretty good honestly in my testing. Bad matchups versus the decks that want to go super late (lucky dime red/blue moreso than steel/blue). hopefully it continues to fly under the radar!

Lorcana by nature of how questing and lore generation works is very disadvantageous for a defending/reactive player so it should in theory be favored for the on the play player.

@@ZefaGames I totally agree the play is big in the lore race, but as your results show, you can still have a positive win rate on the draw. Just find it odd people aren’t discussing on the draw strategies as the counter to on the play being so strong.

Yea, we need more context on how the 53% number was acquired

i hope u won

@@ZefaGamesit was close! It went 1-2, you won.. love your content, bud!

you're right that including the 20% difference from my opponents was a bit redundant as it'll just mirror my own W/L rates. As for play draw, a lot of different factors affect the %s in play draw. Deck archetype is super important. I find play/draw is not as important in matchups like control vs control, but with aggro decks its unreasonably significant. There are definitely different lines you also go for on the play vs draw. For example, I really want to be keeping fire the cannons on the draw but not so much on the play. Sometimes blue steel lines go aggressively for quick whole new world lines on the play, but go more defensive tinker bell sword lines on the draw. But ultimately, being on the defensive in lorcana is hugely disadvantageous because of how lore generation and questing works so fundamentally, the player who is on the draw and on the defensive will have a bad time.

@@ZefaGames Interesting. I did get hit by a Turn 1 Fire the Cannons last night and I thought of your deck and interview with Lorcana Villain, lol. I wonder if you think this game is Aggro vs. Control type decks, and if Mid Range really isn't too much of a deck type in Lorcana. It would have been nice, even if they are less competitive to have seen the other 6 deck combinations in action, and compile statistics for, even if they would have been losses more than wins. Sapphire/Amber , Emerald/Amber , Amethyst/Amber , Ruby/Emerald, Sapphire/Emerald, and Ruby/Steel. I also would like to see a chart with >> (beats or greater than) symbols that show matchups, like Amy/Ruby > Amber/Amy Aggro, but Amber/Amy beats Ruby/Sapphire, etc. Since the game feels very paper, rock, scissors, right now and locals typically comprise of a lot of similar decks it would be nice to have that information of what are the preferred matchups against each color combination. Great video!

I've seen some crazy mama odie decks go off and get infinite ink but it needs to be built around her pretty heavily. And even then, investing all that tempo to get all the ink, its difficult to find a consistent way to close out the deck before losing. She might have big potential in future sets though.

@@ZefaGamesI agree, I tested sapphire/steel song since last week, and the deck has explosive games but you've to cut a lot of good cards. So, I'd say it's too inconsistent, but it can be worth keeping in mind depending on the future cards... By the way, since you said classical sapphire/steel is hard to pilot, I'd be interested in a guide ^^ Thanks again for your amazing work :)

Long live the king!

Top secret red green meta

When they least expect it...

It's actually so much worse than merfolk but I actually used to play it as a 2-3 of in my green purple. It was to absolutely annihilate the red blue decks that were everywhere on ladder at the time, but now I cut them from my list as the the meta is much less blue red heavy.

Doubtful as i think emo beast still at least has blue fairy synergy in the jafar deck.

every deck has pros and cons, steelsong can definitely fall victim to its uninkable clunky draws

Its match up is terrible with Blue decks. Especially if you run the Bucky version. So I'd advise for now to stay on the faster version running King John.

The different versions of green steel definitely have varying matchup win %s, hard to say though as I haven’t played much GS in set 3. The builds are very meta reactive.

A lot of people are dropping beast from both blue steel and steelsong lists as he’s a bit too slow to get online and keeps dying to medusa or gets hit by spells in a heavy steel meta.

I've only played 1 BO3 Steelsong on hardcore ranked so far and I won the coinflip. Won game 1, lost game 2, won game 3 as expected. Steelsong mirror coinflips feel terrible.

A friend of mine has been suggesting the same thing. 0 cost uninkable action “your next card costs 1 less”

This might be one of the most suggested ideas to help the balance issue and I like the idea of trying it out

@@azarsgp I will suggest our locals try it out next week and see how it goes. lol

Probably red purple, affordable, the most popular deck, and the deck play lines are fairly linear.

@@ZefaGames awesome! Thanks for your feedback Zefa

Heart of the cards, the one ofs will show up when you most need it! But on a more serious note, I play a lot of one ofs in decks when I'm in the experimental/testing stages just to see how each card feels. Also, most of my one ofs are removal so they do similar things

Have you made changes to any of them since?

if you find me on discord (usually on the 20lorepro server) and send me a DM i can send the file to you

I worked on at least 5 iterations of Ruby/Steel and the first tourney I ever went to IRL I played R/S. The problems it has are card draw and early tempo. I mean you have to wait for turn 5 to get out Sad Beast, or you could get shift Red Queen out earlier, but it requires challenging. Sumerian isn't horrible if you plan on dying in a lot of challenges, but isn't great, and Go The Distance is a card replacement, but it won't ready non-damaged characters of yours so it basically does nothing except skip to the next card. It doesn't have a lot of good matchups and can get steam rolled by about everything except Aggro. You want to play Hawkins and John Silver with locations, but if you go against Ruby/Amy they are going to wipe out your locations, if you play against Steel/Song they are going to Zeus your Silver away. You can play some good Red removal like Tremaine, Medusa, and Maui but you don't have Amethyst to safely put them back in your hand to replay them next turn. Sometimes due to low card draw you will get hung up at 5 or 6 ink with 1 card in hand, and nothing to play or you start top decking, while your opponent is drawing just fine and continuing to maximize their play options while you have no options.

just needs more time to cook maybe, or new sets

I like sideboards but a lot of people are against them and I believe ryan miller also stated they have no current plans for sideboard but could always be open to ideas in the future...

Adding a side board wouldn't help the going second problem would help 3rd gm but first gm you start with what deck you have and going second is determined by high roll or whatever and you don't know what they are playing either so if you lose the high roll and go second we'll there is nothing you can do and your side board well it's doing nothing either

@@overurhead2975So until one of the new releases deals with the issue the only option is to build a deck that can wrest the initiative away from the opponent....

Zan Syed published a guide for steel song deck: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12Wc7Eay1iinKvmxhfXCxyt2TwWV2hDl3Slaa36zEvvg/edit#gid=1077990448

I'd check out the list that won the 8k tournament. The player made a mulligan guide for it too.

@@benlarkin857where to find this mulligan guide?

Yes…what Ben Larkin said. And just get a ton of practice in. And if you have no Robin Hood, maybe try a stitch shift package or maybe even kida shift. But robin is definitely a powerhouse.

@@ZefaGames The Stitch Kida version feels like aggro steelsong and I think is a stronger matchup against Ruby/Sapphire (which is the worst matchup).

I'm either 2 weeks ahead of the meta or 2 weeks behind. Can't differentiate between either

@@ZefaGames in game 1 I like to reveal only one, game two they try to play around it and not he other and then hit them with the other/both. Jim Hawkins is a win more card in the deck and was cut. I also don’t play the 2 drop Pinocchio. Only non ink is 3 rabbit 3 of each lady and 4 be prepared.

Gotta stir up controversy for views

I'm still playing, just won 2 stitches in champs. My content creation is pretty slow as I've been busy and set 3 is more or less wrapping up. Set 4, I'll be putting out vids though once the brewing begins again.

Since they are shutting down Pixelborn. Are you still playing in person or are you done or switching to tabletop sim?? ​@ZefaGames

Its just a meta adjustment i made with a very item heavy environment the past week, hardheaded beast gives u +1 card immediately when played sort of if you destroy an item

@@ZefaGames Thank! Valid points

Yea ink and extra card are definitely two of the most suggested solutions to the play draw issue, but without any actual testing and data it’s very difficult to say

The recent versions of green steel that have been popping up have not been playing buckys as much. Maybe he will make a return in future iterations depending on how the meta shapes up.

@@ZefaGames I tried it out without bucky but like you said it felt way more play draw dependent and I like the shift targets from the bucky deck so I'm still playing it, tis why I asked :)

Just the fact that you achieved a 60% win rate with THE outdated RP deck in the current meta says how powerful RP still is Just imagine how much more you could have achieved with a better version of RP

But I am a filthy whole new world lover at heart tho…

@@ZefaGames haha me too, to be honest, I also love playing YS but currently I'm still playing a lot of RP to stay up to date

He's fine but there's a lot more beast hate in the meta right now (zeus and medusa primarily) and so he generally has a much shorter lifespan than before and its hard to rely on him for card draw consistently.

RP doesn’t beat people, people beat people…or something like that

I'm just reporting what I've been seeing on hardcore ladder, don't shoot the messenger

The fact don’t lie lol

If you can find me on discord and just dm me, i'll send you my file.

True, I need to go back to my roots

I am a fan of Judy hops in BR