Let's Learn Verdance

[@ultimantomega]

Cool to see you starting to stream more on youtube. Don't know if it's better than twitch on your end, but it's so much better of a viewing experience (and also just great being able to see Majin play games like the old LoR days.)

[@MajiinBae]

It's better on youtube specifically for FaB because that's where the community is at 😅 It seems people want to watch the VODS as well and on twitch they basically fall into a black hole after stream ends

[@Spiphly]

Yay! More streams! And Verdance! So much fun

[@mariuseza812]

Prism is beatable also because she‘s hard to master and most players don‘t interact with the opponent and just bring out their figments in no specific order or game plan And very nice gameplay! I really like to see someone pushing a hero believed „dead“ to the edge of perfection. I also don‘t see that Prism really performs bad. I was nearly reaching Top 8 in PQ, I slipped by Day 2 in Calling Lyon (you can watch me fail miserably on the Calling stream). The Calling was my 3rd rated event ever and it was pretty fun because I lost my CC side events the day before and the Kayo player really asked me why I’d bring Prism after Tome ban to the Calling and meant she was „dead“ (he wasn’t rude, he was really curious about my gameplan). And then I went 4-0 on table 7 with Pablo Pintor on table 16 and right next to me the Top 4 candidates of the Calling. Sometimes it’s not the deck, but the knowledge of your opponents decks and the effects of your cards. And I’ve choosen to play a rainbow set Angelic Wrath and Suraya from Dynasty which pushed me over the top. But then I lost rightly because I had no reps on Florian. But I learned from my mistakes. And now I go 3-0 against Vynnsets, Viserais, Florians, Kayos and so on. The really hard matchups are Enigma and Boltyn if they know the Prism gameplan. But I wouldn‘t say she‘s doing bad. I think Verdance needs more cards than Prism does (even with the new expansion slot card). But still I would be happy for a new Prism card. But I think, Illusionists don‘t have to be top dog in the Meta all the time. I really enjoyed the Heavy Hitters meta with Dromai still in there

[@Bleezers-fm8ue]

Brother is like dont worry about prism as I load up my nuu blitz deck into talishar and proceed to get hit with 17 damage on turn one

[@MajiinBae]

It really do be like that

[@mike_fpv]

What about Fertile Ground? To me, is a faster version of CYB, you need only 3 slots, 4 earth in banish is fast then 3 or 4 CYB in grave, plus you can get it back with helm or decompose it

[@REALMozared]

I reckon the problem with Fertile Ground is that it heals 1 less than CYB unless you have decomposed twice, and decomposing twice is - at the moment - a higher barrier than "having played 2 CYBs previously in the game". The long-term value of CYB is obviously way better (your 4th yellow CYB breaks even, your 5th and 6th are better), so you'd play Fertile Ground for the short term, but there it's also just numerically worse. It's really only better during that very specific moment in the game where it's late enough for you to have banished 4 earth cards but also so early that you have not yet played out 2-3 CYBs. Of course it depends on how you draw, but that time period is generally very short as decomposing is awkward. The advantage of Fertile Ground, for this build, would be that you *can* decompose it as it is an earth card, so even if your first card is worse, it will get you to 4 (and 8) banished earth cards quicker. That, and also the fact that you can just play a 3-off in Red without needing to play Yellows. But the problem then becomes that you will just hate the card every game where you see it in the first 4-5 turns, because it doesn't pitch, doesn't block, requires a yellow or blue to fire, and only gives you 2 measly points of value. It's similarly bad to seeing a yellow CYB early in the game, but at least those pitch better. I don't think it's unplayable and might actually work in this shell. But it mostly provides you (risky) short term value at long term cost in a deck that, by its very nature, will have games going longer rather than shorter. If you do get to turn 10, executing the 'combo' is just that much better when you CYB for 7 or 8 instead of playing Fertile Ground for 5 - it's 2/3 more HP your opponent can be on for your play to be lethal.

[@mike_fpv]

@@REALMozared this seems to me very good points, thanks for the tip!

[@MajiinBae]

I'm not sure sure about it! I definitely like the higher floor and ceiling of CYB. I'm also a bit worried that having fertile ground to decompose isn't exactly a positive because you don't want to cast it before you're online anyway

[@mike_fpv]

@@MajiinBae could you share a decklist link when available? thanks a lot!!

[@meorazhadmeorzulkarnain804]

Do Oscilio next pleaseee

[@FriteVerte]

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