Truly

I think for me I don't believe that AoW necessarily limits design space since it might be too powerful, but they actively use it as a card to empower certain heroes like Fai, katsu, levia, maybe boltyn with solar plexus etc. The issue is just when a hero takes it too far something needs to be done. Maybe AoW is just too iconic to mess with, and other levers need to be adjusted instead. As for card price/ensuring collection value, I wouldnt put too much stock into it. If in the future they feel AoW needs to go I imagine they'll pick a semi-decent time to do so when the card isn't at the forefront of the meta. Maybe, who knows.

AoW as legendary rule 1of.

Was hoping he'd come back with a bang and win PT Amsterdam, but 35th is no slouch either.

@@AlanLube For sure, especially on a hero noone was taking seriously at the time!

Womp, skill diff.

Actually this. I played Zen a bunch when the set came out because I had all the pieces and 2 of my friends needed testing because they were going to our Nationals, & it actually made me miserable. So many games went exactly the same way, my friend is playing perfectly doing everything right, life totals are either close or I'm behind, then I randomly draw up 4 cards & go "oh cool, you're dead," & throw my armour. Just felt like absolutely nothing they did up to that point mattered at all, & I hate those kinds of games no matter what side of it I'm on.

Not that I know of.

I wanna say he lurks in the assassin channel on purple discord (skyfish), so you can prob find a lot of his tales there. Maybe after Amsterdam I’ll ask for another assassin video :)

@@AlanLube what is the purple discord?

@@SemNem1Nome Just a discord server for Flesh and Blood. I believe it's the largest one, and has a picture of Viserai as the discord picture, hence the name purple discord.

@@AlanLube you got an invite link?

@@SemNem1Nome discord.gg/PsCUhdmy

True but it’s still a tool that’ll help. Although maybe you can argue that not running it at all is more beneficial if the matchup is truly 0%

Only if they don't want to do camera

I haven't asked but I'm 99% sure he'll say "figure it out." I think most lists floating around are culminating to a similar point and is a good starting place, at that point it would come down to personal testing.

Suspended, not banned. But yes, same guy. You can still play lower level events, like armories and such per the store discretion. LSS has very uh, interesting rules regarding suspensions

suspended, yes. cheater, no. mistakes were made, yes.

#FreeTaotao

​@@AlanLube Is this documented anywhere? What acutally happened?

That would no doubt be an invaluable resource, but I doubt Taotao is willing to do that type of content. I'm already massively grateful he comes on my channel with his time. As for written guides, I'd be willing to do that, but I unfortunately don't have the knowledge for Assassin. Maybe in the future if Nuu reels me in.

I believe he might have some gameplay on OK&Y Podcast, deck might be in the description.

No clue tbh. Come back later for my very subjective and likely inaccurate tier list.

You right, I forgot about that part.

Very true, maybe that will come up big in a list. Zen combos overall can do a lot of crazy things, just can't wrap my head around whether it's good or not.

Crack the Zen deck and come on my channel again :)

@@AlanLube Me try

Smack them hard