Ack! The 4x Dungeon Guides got cut off from the decklist image! I apologize - There are 4x Dungeon Guides in the deck as well! Here's the full decklist: build.silvie.org/@Maindeck/H30vbrYsCZgOPYEgA3XY
You should definitely throw a water sword in there, Maybe to replace prismatic. Takes away from the alternate win con but if you can pull off an ascension into a decent arondight buff paired with a rending flame and merlin buff. Thats coming in for 20 plus damage. Food for thought.
Arondight is an interesting idea, but there isn't enough floating memory to reasonably enable it in THIS build. I can see an adjusted build that goes back to cards like Idle Thoughts and Honorable Vanguard to try to have more floating memory for that play, but doing so reduces the amount of Fire cards you'll see for the Rhapsody combo. At the end of the day, since we also have Fireballs and Rhapsodys, in this particular build I find hitting for 12-16 with Rending is plenty!
you misspoke on the halved damage if it is 1 damage it deals one because you round the 0.5 damage UP, same with 3 damage you half to 1.5 rounding up to 2.
Majestic Spirit *prevents* half, rounded up - so if you are dealt 1 damage, it prevents half (0.5) rounded up, so it prevents 1 damage of the 1 dealt - thus you take none from it!
Another Lv 0 sword might not be a bad idea incase your Seeking gets Fracturized or Destroyed in some way - that way you can still go off when you enable Crux
Yep, that's a reasonable option in one of the last slots - though it hasn't been required, even when fighting through things like an early Fracturize. The deck is just as capable of winning at level 2 with a 9 card hand as it was in DOA, or alternatively, if you have enough of the Crux package in hand, you can just hardcast Sword of Avarice and go off that way! But taking a turn to materialize a second sword can sometimes be worse than just setting up Crystal and going for the win right then! Still, YMMV - if your meta is really after your swords and you find yourself needing it, go for it!
@@swagopenings6369 I don't think it matters too much as the intent is to keep it around for Ascension. Ornamental can buff an ally, and Drawn Blade can dig one card deeper, but both would need to be played while you're on Lv 1 Lorraine
And yeah, that's exactly the issue. Sticking on level 1 is not really something you want to do in this deck if possible, because your interaction becomes a lot stronger on level 2. I'd argue that just going to 3 and hardcasting Avarice is going to be the stronger play - it costs you the same number of cards as playing a 0 cost sword on level 1, but lets you keep up your interaction and get an additional level counter from Merlin 3.
Rhapsody is just a very flexible way to deal a lot of damage, but it has tons of counters that you need to play around. Nullifying Lantern hugely reduces the early damage it can deal, Scavenging Raccoon is a new option that will pick up steam as the meta develops, and Merlin's level 2 naturally counteracts some of it as well. Innervate Agility, Beastbond Boots, Spellshield Arcane, Water Barrier, etc all provide ways of forcing the opponent to have additional spells to play into them or additional copies of Rhapsody to win the game with. The game is definitely not unbalanced because of it - Grand Archive is a game in which combo style win conditions are enabled to exist and when decks are unprepared, they are quite powerful, but equally powerful are the aggressive decks, and the control style decks. High level play involves a massive amount of matchup knowledge and skillful play around resolving these. There's a good amount of personal responsibility of knowing when to play more conservatively and how to build your deck to have the outs to powerful win cons.
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Ack! The 4x Dungeon Guides got cut off from the decklist image! I apologize - There are 4x Dungeon Guides in the deck as well!
Here's the full decklist: build.silvie.org/@Maindeck/H30vbrYsCZgOPYEgA3XY
Been focusing on Water Merlin myself but seeing this fire variant makes me wanna build multiple Merlin decks 😂
We've got more Merlin variants coming! She's super flexible! This is definitely not the only playable fire build, either.
@@MaindeckGames love to see your water build!
This deck is sick! Lets go
Make sure to check out the newest version that I played at Ascent!
You should definitely throw a water sword in there, Maybe to replace prismatic. Takes away from the alternate win con but if you can pull off an ascension into a decent arondight buff paired with a rending flame and merlin buff.
Thats coming in for 20 plus damage.
Food for thought.
Arondight is an interesting idea, but there isn't enough floating memory to reasonably enable it in THIS build. I can see an adjusted build that goes back to cards like Idle Thoughts and Honorable Vanguard to try to have more floating memory for that play, but doing so reduces the amount of Fire cards you'll see for the Rhapsody combo. At the end of the day, since we also have Fireballs and Rhapsodys, in this particular build I find hitting for 12-16 with Rending is plenty!
Where is the ruling post for the Viridian Trinket misprint?
It's explained in here: www.gatcg.com/article/fractured-crown-release-notes
Your decklist on Silvie seems to be missing The Majestic Spirit
It's the 7th card in in the material deck!
you misspoke on the halved damage if it is 1 damage it deals one because you round the 0.5 damage UP, same with 3 damage you half to 1.5 rounding up to 2.
Majestic Spirit *prevents* half, rounded up - so if you are dealt 1 damage, it prevents half (0.5) rounded up, so it prevents 1 damage of the 1 dealt - thus you take none from it!
@@MaindeckGames ah different wording than I'm used to seeing. I'm used to "you take half damage rounded down"
Another Lv 0 sword might not be a bad idea incase your Seeking gets Fracturized or Destroyed in some way - that way you can still go off when you enable Crux
What sword exactly?
Yep, that's a reasonable option in one of the last slots - though it hasn't been required, even when fighting through things like an early Fracturize. The deck is just as capable of winning at level 2 with a 9 card hand as it was in DOA, or alternatively, if you have enough of the Crux package in hand, you can just hardcast Sword of Avarice and go off that way! But taking a turn to materialize a second sword can sometimes be worse than just setting up Crystal and going for the win right then!
Still, YMMV - if your meta is really after your swords and you find yourself needing it, go for it!
@@swagopenings6369 I don't think it matters too much as the intent is to keep it around for Ascension. Ornamental can buff an ally, and Drawn Blade can dig one card deeper, but both would need to be played while you're on Lv 1 Lorraine
And yeah, that's exactly the issue. Sticking on level 1 is not really something you want to do in this deck if possible, because your interaction becomes a lot stronger on level 2. I'd argue that just going to 3 and hardcasting Avarice is going to be the stronger play - it costs you the same number of cards as playing a 0 cost sword on level 1, but lets you keep up your interaction and get an additional level counter from Merlin 3.
How did this get posted without hasty messenger, the absolute best card in this deck you forgot 😊
Hasty is the 4th card in from the left!
@@MaindeckGames humanity restored
hey mate can you do a tamer build, i dont see much of tamer build with ftc out now.
Tamer should be up next week!! We've got a pretty good one rolling!
@@MaindeckGames thanks mate
@@MaindeckGames Keen to see tamer build too.
Kinda hoping water or wind ones.
I googled some meta decks and it seems everyone is playing erupting melody.
What is the counter? or is the game just unbalanced?
Rhapsody is just a very flexible way to deal a lot of damage, but it has tons of counters that you need to play around. Nullifying Lantern hugely reduces the early damage it can deal, Scavenging Raccoon is a new option that will pick up steam as the meta develops, and Merlin's level 2 naturally counteracts some of it as well. Innervate Agility, Beastbond Boots, Spellshield Arcane, Water Barrier, etc all provide ways of forcing the opponent to have additional spells to play into them or additional copies of Rhapsody to win the game with.
The game is definitely not unbalanced because of it - Grand Archive is a game in which combo style win conditions are enabled to exist and when decks are unprepared, they are quite powerful, but equally powerful are the aggressive decks, and the control style decks. High level play involves a massive amount of matchup knowledge and skillful play around resolving these. There's a good amount of personal responsibility of knowing when to play more conservatively and how to build your deck to have the outs to powerful win cons.
Is there anywhere people are playing this online? I want to get into the game, but can't find any actual games going on.
We have a webcam league running in the Maindeck discord right now! And there will be more webcam events running very soon in various regions of the world, which you can learn about here: www.gatcg.com/article/online-event-leagues