1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:14,020 Hello and welcome back to the Illumination Podcast, the Disney Lorcanah Podcast. 2 00:00:14,020 --> 00:00:15,500 My name is Max. 3 00:00:15,500 --> 00:00:16,500 And I'm Sam. 4 00:00:16,500 --> 00:00:22,220 And we are here, Episode 23, talking to you about Azurite Sea. 5 00:00:22,220 --> 00:00:24,260 I did that because it rhymed exclusively. 6 00:00:24,260 --> 00:00:26,180 We're talking about specifically one deck. 7 00:00:26,180 --> 00:00:28,280 It is Emerald Amethyst. 8 00:00:28,280 --> 00:00:34,840 It was a deck Sam and I selected for a release day core constructed tournament held by Encounter 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:36,720 Comics and Games on Allentown PA. 10 00:00:36,720 --> 00:00:37,720 Shout out to them. 11 00:00:37,720 --> 00:00:38,840 They ran a great event. 12 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:39,840 49 players. 13 00:00:39,840 --> 00:00:45,400 And I'd say probably at least 25 or so of which have like a good deal of clout, if not 14 00:00:45,400 --> 00:00:50,400 a little more, like playing multiple DLCs, winning multiple store championships, multiple 15 00:00:50,400 --> 00:00:54,680 large scale tournaments, not to mention a good chunk of the Forbidden Mountain being 16 00:00:54,680 --> 00:00:58,240 there who also did coverage for the event as well. 17 00:00:58,240 --> 00:00:59,400 Sam you were on the feature match. 18 00:00:59,400 --> 00:01:01,400 I was the first match of the day. 19 00:01:01,400 --> 00:01:05,600 And that was your very first time ever being on camera playing outside of our content. 20 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:06,600 Yes. 21 00:01:06,600 --> 00:01:08,600 And you were playing against somebody who had a gold Mickey. 22 00:01:08,600 --> 00:01:09,600 Yes. 23 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:12,260 He had a gold Mickey, one second place in Toronto. 24 00:01:12,260 --> 00:01:13,260 That's pretty awesome. 25 00:01:13,260 --> 00:01:15,720 We'll get into a little bit more of that as we go. 26 00:01:15,720 --> 00:01:19,880 But we selected this deck for a plethora of reasons and we want to run you through it. 27 00:01:19,880 --> 00:01:25,180 Not so much a deck tech, but just our thoughts about what Azurite Sea brought into the mix 28 00:01:25,180 --> 00:01:30,400 and why we chose this deck out of the many choices we could have made for Core Constructed. 29 00:01:30,400 --> 00:01:32,920 So Sam, what made you lean towards Green Purple? 30 00:01:32,920 --> 00:01:37,360 Because of the two of us, you were stagnating the most on a deck, I think, for this. 31 00:01:37,360 --> 00:01:39,600 You tried Ruby Sapphire to start off with. 32 00:01:39,600 --> 00:01:40,800 You weren't too thrilled with it. 33 00:01:40,800 --> 00:01:44,600 Then you moved into your go-to deck, Ruby Amethyst. 34 00:01:44,600 --> 00:01:46,720 I mean, we've talked about it multiple times on the podcast. 35 00:01:46,720 --> 00:01:49,400 It's Sam's weapon of choice, I'd say most of the time. 36 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,600 And you tried like two or three different versions of that deck. 37 00:01:52,600 --> 00:01:53,600 Yeah. 38 00:01:53,600 --> 00:01:56,880 I tried wanting, like you said, Ruby Sapphire because of sale. 39 00:01:56,880 --> 00:01:57,880 Sailing the Azurite Sea. 40 00:01:57,880 --> 00:01:58,880 Yes. 41 00:01:58,880 --> 00:02:02,080 It was one of the cards that I thought seemed like it was going to be an awesome upgrade 42 00:02:02,080 --> 00:02:03,080 to the deck. 43 00:02:03,080 --> 00:02:04,560 So that's why I wanted to try it first. 44 00:02:04,560 --> 00:02:06,480 That was the only card in the set review I gave a five. 45 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:07,480 Yeah. 46 00:02:07,480 --> 00:02:08,480 I wasn't playing it well enough. 47 00:02:08,480 --> 00:02:11,880 So then I moved on to Ruby Amethyst because that is what I usually play. 48 00:02:11,880 --> 00:02:13,880 I added a lot of new cards. 49 00:02:13,880 --> 00:02:15,440 I tried different versions of the deck. 50 00:02:15,440 --> 00:02:18,560 I tried to make it a little bit more aggro to see if I liked it that way. 51 00:02:18,560 --> 00:02:20,240 I tried it a little more traditional. 52 00:02:20,240 --> 00:02:25,140 And I just think that at the beginning of the new meta, it wasn't the right choice because 53 00:02:25,140 --> 00:02:27,280 it's more of a control deck. 54 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:29,440 And I think that it just wouldn't have done as well. 55 00:02:29,440 --> 00:02:33,600 So then I went back to what Max was playing and what I played for a good first portion 56 00:02:33,600 --> 00:02:34,600 of Shimmering Skies meta. 57 00:02:34,600 --> 00:02:35,600 Probably six weeks or so. 58 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:36,600 Yeah. 59 00:02:36,600 --> 00:02:38,000 I played it for a while and I really enjoyed it. 60 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,960 So I went back to that deck and what, like two days before the tournament. 61 00:02:41,960 --> 00:02:45,420 Despite me constantly telling you to just go back to play it. 62 00:02:45,420 --> 00:02:46,520 And I really enjoyed the deck. 63 00:02:46,520 --> 00:02:51,440 I knew as we were talking throughout the week that I could easily pivot to this deck though 64 00:02:51,440 --> 00:02:53,900 because I played it so much last set. 65 00:02:53,900 --> 00:02:56,440 So I just was trying to give myself all the options I could. 66 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:57,440 That's well said. 67 00:02:57,440 --> 00:02:58,440 A couple of things I want to call out. 68 00:02:58,440 --> 00:03:03,880 I came to this deck because of certain card upgrades that I think made the deck a significant 69 00:03:03,880 --> 00:03:04,880 chunk better. 70 00:03:04,880 --> 00:03:10,600 I am no Artebax and I think the deck previous to Azure 8c was an extremely skill taxing 71 00:03:10,600 --> 00:03:11,960 deck to play. 72 00:03:11,960 --> 00:03:17,040 Being one of the very few tempo oriented styles of deck that you can play in Disney Lurkana. 73 00:03:17,040 --> 00:03:21,000 I think it's very skill intensive requiring you not only to know the deck very well, but 74 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,000 to know many other decks very well. 75 00:03:23,000 --> 00:03:28,000 I think that now with the power level of some of these cards, I think this deck got a significant 76 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:30,040 power boost early in a meta. 77 00:03:30,040 --> 00:03:31,040 And we've gone over this. 78 00:03:31,040 --> 00:03:32,920 Go back to episode five. 79 00:03:32,920 --> 00:03:36,720 If you want a good fundamental episode on meta games, when a set first comes out and 80 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:41,640 the meta game changes, the first decks that come to surface are traditionally more aggressive 81 00:03:41,640 --> 00:03:44,040 or proactive strategies. 82 00:03:44,040 --> 00:03:49,640 Then the next set of decks that come out are more mid range that are easily answering the 83 00:03:49,640 --> 00:03:51,080 aggressive decks. 84 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:56,020 And then the third deck to kind of take hold of the format or the more slow methodical 85 00:03:56,020 --> 00:04:00,600 controlling decks, because the mid range decks being a little slower, give them time to implement 86 00:04:00,600 --> 00:04:02,680 a slower, more controlling strategy. 87 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:07,480 So the rock paper scissors historically for a lot of trading card games is aggro beats 88 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:11,560 control, control beats mid range and mid range beats aggro. 89 00:04:11,560 --> 00:04:16,920 So I wanted a proactive strategy because if my opponents were playing crazy powerful cards 90 00:04:16,920 --> 00:04:20,980 like Maui half shark, for example, I just wanted to beat them before they had a chance 91 00:04:20,980 --> 00:04:23,960 to do anything scary with those cards. 92 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:29,280 And I also have a good deal of experience piloting these colors, though I've never liked 93 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:34,680 them so much together, though I have played this deck multiple times, usually for a few 94 00:04:34,680 --> 00:04:37,760 days before giving up on it early in a format. 95 00:04:37,760 --> 00:04:41,720 Tim definitely has more experience piloting this deck than I do, but I have been playing 96 00:04:41,720 --> 00:04:46,720 this since I saw the first significant upgrade that was released for the deck and I was like, 97 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:48,240 okay, I know what the list is going to look like. 98 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:50,520 I put it together and started playing it right away. 99 00:04:50,520 --> 00:04:54,960 So I probably had about two and a half weeks lead time testing with this deck of our testing 100 00:04:54,960 --> 00:04:55,960 group. 101 00:04:55,960 --> 00:05:01,280 I was the most consistent with playing one deck and sticking to one deck, which is surprising 102 00:05:01,280 --> 00:05:05,880 giving that we have one player in our group who has played the same deck for like four 103 00:05:05,880 --> 00:05:06,880 sets. 104 00:05:06,880 --> 00:05:09,440 So jumping into that, what are these upgrades you keep talking about? 105 00:05:09,440 --> 00:05:11,320 So those are the three reasons, right? 106 00:05:11,320 --> 00:05:15,840 Upgrades, proactive strategy early in a meta and experience playing the deck. 107 00:05:15,840 --> 00:05:18,200 Those are the reasons we selected this deck. 108 00:05:18,200 --> 00:05:19,200 What were the upgrades? 109 00:05:19,200 --> 00:05:22,840 The card that won me over first, and we're going to walk through the major five cards 110 00:05:22,840 --> 00:05:24,440 here that were selected. 111 00:05:24,440 --> 00:05:28,880 I think we're upgrades, the big one, the bad one, the one you probably know what I'm going 112 00:05:28,880 --> 00:05:32,960 to say is go go Tamago, darting dynamo. 113 00:05:32,960 --> 00:05:37,360 This is a two to one for two inkable with evasive and has the ability stop whining woman 114 00:05:37,360 --> 00:05:38,360 up. 115 00:05:38,360 --> 00:05:42,880 And when you play this character, you can pay two additional ink at that time to gain 116 00:05:42,880 --> 00:05:47,320 lore equal to the damage on chosen opposing character. 117 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:52,460 So you can just like Madam Min Fox, something with five willpower and then put four damage 118 00:05:52,460 --> 00:05:55,920 on it and then play go go Tamago the next turn and gain four lore. 119 00:05:55,920 --> 00:05:57,000 It's as easy as that. 120 00:05:57,000 --> 00:05:58,680 This card is significant. 121 00:05:58,680 --> 00:06:05,040 The other reason this card is so good is because of the stat line being a two to with evasive 122 00:06:05,040 --> 00:06:11,280 for two, which means that it is a reasonable answer against a very specific bird that not 123 00:06:11,280 --> 00:06:17,260 many people in Disney lore kind of like the remainder of them like it a lot. 124 00:06:17,260 --> 00:06:20,520 So you're usually fall on one side of the Diablo debate or the other. 125 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:25,520 I'm not going to get into it here, but at her worst go go Tamago is an answer to Diablo 126 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,120 in the early game or something that can start questing for you right away. 127 00:06:29,120 --> 00:06:34,040 She's able to be picked up on curve with a Madam Min Fox or she's something that can 128 00:06:34,040 --> 00:06:36,480 just outright win you the game. 129 00:06:36,480 --> 00:06:40,560 So what did you think of Tamago from your experience playing in this event? 130 00:06:40,560 --> 00:06:41,560 I thought she was great. 131 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:44,040 I definitely caught some people off guard with go go. 132 00:06:44,040 --> 00:06:46,480 They weren't expecting her just, you know, new meta problems. 133 00:06:46,480 --> 00:06:50,880 I think we heard it in Artabax's podcast that just once they see her, they're afraid of 134 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:51,880 her. 135 00:06:51,880 --> 00:06:55,320 So you get people doing weird things and like taking off their own characters so they don't 136 00:06:55,320 --> 00:06:57,140 have something sitting around with damage. 137 00:06:57,140 --> 00:07:00,280 Something cool that I didn't even think about with her that I noticed if you're going to 138 00:07:00,280 --> 00:07:03,840 take out something, you can hit it, play your go go and then finish taking it out. 139 00:07:03,840 --> 00:07:04,840 Right. 140 00:07:04,840 --> 00:07:05,840 So you gain lore and take out their character. 141 00:07:05,840 --> 00:07:09,440 Part of the elegance of Disney Larkana is you can do each thing in its own. 142 00:07:09,440 --> 00:07:12,160 There's no combat phase or main phase. 143 00:07:12,160 --> 00:07:15,240 There's ready set draw and then your main phase and you can do anything you want in 144 00:07:15,240 --> 00:07:16,240 that phase. 145 00:07:16,240 --> 00:07:21,440 That being said, I wouldn't say she won me most of my games like on her own, but I think 146 00:07:21,440 --> 00:07:22,440 she's a very good card. 147 00:07:22,440 --> 00:07:25,360 I think she really helped the deck come together. 148 00:07:25,360 --> 00:07:29,040 My evaluation is she underperformed from what I thought she could do. 149 00:07:29,040 --> 00:07:34,380 However, she did do something that was really cool that I didn't really take any stock in 150 00:07:34,380 --> 00:07:39,160 is that she dealt severe amounts of psychological damage to my opponents. 151 00:07:39,160 --> 00:07:45,080 They would watch me gain three plus lore off a go go and then go, I cannot let this happen 152 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:46,080 again. 153 00:07:46,080 --> 00:07:54,200 I think they would be so absolutely calculating, careful and conservative, which gave me more 154 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:59,440 time to quest with characters because they were being so conservative. 155 00:07:59,440 --> 00:08:02,560 It let me get away with quests I should have never been able to make because they were 156 00:08:02,560 --> 00:08:07,760 concerned about the repercussions of go go time ago coming down on the board with a damaged 157 00:08:07,760 --> 00:08:08,760 character on their side. 158 00:08:08,760 --> 00:08:12,120 And if you play her and then pick her up, it really deals the psychological damage. 159 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:17,560 Yes, is very, very difficult for the opponent, kind of like a Maui half shark in a way where 160 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:20,120 it's like you don't quest, you don't want to challenge, you don't want to turn things 161 00:08:20,120 --> 00:08:22,440 sideways for fear of damage counters. 162 00:08:22,440 --> 00:08:23,800 So it's a really cool card. 163 00:08:23,800 --> 00:08:27,880 I liked her quite a bit, though I will say she didn't quite live up to the ridiculous 164 00:08:27,880 --> 00:08:30,880 amount of hype that she had coming into the set. 165 00:08:30,880 --> 00:08:35,160 I think she is a very real threat and just her existing. 166 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,400 And if you're playing Emerald, you have to respect this card now. 167 00:08:38,400 --> 00:08:42,280 Next up, another card we got here that I do feel like is an upgrade. 168 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,280 I would understand if you said it's a side grade to me. 169 00:08:45,280 --> 00:08:48,560 It is an upgrade and this is Jeannie wish fulfilled. 170 00:08:48,560 --> 00:08:53,440 Jeannie wish fulfilled is a two four two four four uninkable with evasive and the ability 171 00:08:53,440 --> 00:08:57,640 what comes next, which is when you play this character, draw a card. 172 00:08:57,640 --> 00:09:00,160 So this card is like a Merlin rabbit. 173 00:09:00,160 --> 00:09:04,380 However, it does not draw you a card when you pick it up with your madam, ma'am. 174 00:09:04,380 --> 00:09:05,600 That is a downgrade. 175 00:09:05,600 --> 00:09:06,600 I agree with you, though. 176 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:08,560 Overall, I think this card was an upgrade. 177 00:09:08,560 --> 00:09:12,320 There's certain situations where you definitely want the rabbit because you want to be able 178 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:14,860 to get that card when the rabbit leaves. 179 00:09:14,860 --> 00:09:17,760 So when you bounce it or when it's removed from the board. 180 00:09:17,760 --> 00:09:21,660 Yeah, I think the question comes down to what does your deck value? 181 00:09:21,660 --> 00:09:24,960 I think Ruby Amethyst likes the rabbit more mostly. 182 00:09:24,960 --> 00:09:28,720 I'm not counting the new burn variant, but the traditional style of Ruby Amethyst wants 183 00:09:28,720 --> 00:09:32,440 the rabbit more because the deck is so powerful into the late game. 184 00:09:32,440 --> 00:09:36,240 What you're looking for is card advantage specifically with the rabbit. 185 00:09:36,240 --> 00:09:39,900 Genie in the Emerald Amethyst deck fills a different role. 186 00:09:39,900 --> 00:09:42,180 It does a couple of things you might not realize. 187 00:09:42,180 --> 00:09:45,120 It has the very real ability to take down a Diablo. 188 00:09:45,120 --> 00:09:48,040 It is twice as quick at closing a game. 189 00:09:48,040 --> 00:09:54,080 It has one more willpower than rabbit, which means it is not susceptible to the very cheap 190 00:09:54,080 --> 00:09:55,080 removal. 191 00:09:55,080 --> 00:09:58,440 We're talking about the only removal and steal that really deals with it is the equivalent 192 00:09:58,440 --> 00:10:00,200 costed along came Zeus. 193 00:10:00,200 --> 00:10:02,080 At least it's commonly played. 194 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:05,240 Otherwise it takes a combination of cards to take out. 195 00:10:05,240 --> 00:10:06,340 Genie does have problems. 196 00:10:06,340 --> 00:10:10,600 If Genie gets bounced back to your hand by an opposing character, it can be very annoying 197 00:10:10,600 --> 00:10:13,420 because you really don't want to spend the time putting Genie back down. 198 00:10:13,420 --> 00:10:19,080 You mitigate the speed of Genie closing a game by simply using a cloud kicker ability 199 00:10:19,080 --> 00:10:20,680 to bounce it back to the player's hand. 200 00:10:20,680 --> 00:10:23,360 Then you go, oh great, now I have to redeploy this Genie. 201 00:10:23,360 --> 00:10:24,360 It's going to sit there for a turn. 202 00:10:24,360 --> 00:10:25,880 It might be susceptible to this again. 203 00:10:25,880 --> 00:10:27,480 It definitely has its weaknesses. 204 00:10:27,480 --> 00:10:30,240 However, the other hidden mode is the games. 205 00:10:30,240 --> 00:10:31,300 They play Diablo. 206 00:10:31,300 --> 00:10:32,760 You can cloud kicker it back. 207 00:10:32,760 --> 00:10:35,920 If they replay Diablo and you play Genie, what are they going to do? 208 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:38,680 Quest with the Diablo and let you just eat it with the Genie? 209 00:10:38,680 --> 00:10:41,800 It does a lot of heavy lifting, being able to answer Diablo. 210 00:10:41,800 --> 00:10:45,840 The reason I keep bringing up Diablo specifically is not because I think there's any particular 211 00:10:45,840 --> 00:10:46,840 issue one way or the other. 212 00:10:46,840 --> 00:10:50,820 I'm not going to get into the should Diablo be banned debate here on the podcast, but 213 00:10:50,820 --> 00:10:56,380 I do think that this deck in particular, not having much interaction, really needs to have 214 00:10:56,380 --> 00:10:58,320 a plan to deal with Diablo. 215 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,680 You need to have a thought out actual idea of what you're going to do. 216 00:11:01,680 --> 00:11:04,800 It's very, very important when it comes to a card like Genie. 217 00:11:04,800 --> 00:11:09,480 So I think in this deck specifically, Genie is the weapon of choice over rabbit. 218 00:11:09,480 --> 00:11:12,680 So I definitely could see the argument for rabbit being the better pick. 219 00:11:12,680 --> 00:11:15,880 The deck we played did have one copy of rabbit as well. 220 00:11:15,880 --> 00:11:17,960 I wouldn't bemoan anybody trying. 221 00:11:17,960 --> 00:11:22,080 Artabax at the Battle Bear Tournament had three rabbit and four Genie in his deck. 222 00:11:22,080 --> 00:11:27,480 So I missed seven pieces of four drop uninkable card advantage built onto a character, which 223 00:11:27,480 --> 00:11:28,980 is pretty wild stuff. 224 00:11:28,980 --> 00:11:32,120 So who knows what's going to end up being correct in the abstract, but I beg that you 225 00:11:32,120 --> 00:11:34,260 think about what are you doing? 226 00:11:34,260 --> 00:11:37,960 What is your plans against certain things and how quickly are you looking to close the 227 00:11:37,960 --> 00:11:40,040 game when it comes to the Genie? 228 00:11:40,040 --> 00:11:41,360 Anything else you'd like to say about Genie? 229 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:44,600 I think overall he was an upgrade in our deck. 230 00:11:44,600 --> 00:11:48,240 Specifically, I was definitely a lot happier to see Genie than I was rabbit. 231 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:50,480 Next up is Yzma, conniving chemist. 232 00:11:50,480 --> 00:11:54,880 She is a three, three, two for four, inkable with the ability to feel the power. 233 00:11:54,880 --> 00:11:56,320 You may exert this character. 234 00:11:56,320 --> 00:11:59,620 And if you have fewer than three cards in your hand, draw until you have three cards 235 00:11:59,620 --> 00:12:00,620 in your hand. 236 00:12:00,620 --> 00:12:02,400 Yzma kind of took the place. 237 00:12:02,400 --> 00:12:06,560 I guess Yzma and the additional rabbit took the place of friends on the other side in 238 00:12:06,560 --> 00:12:07,800 the list Sam and I played. 239 00:12:07,800 --> 00:12:13,540 I think that Yzma for the most part is where you want to be, at least from an early perspective 240 00:12:13,540 --> 00:12:14,840 in the Azure 8C meta. 241 00:12:14,840 --> 00:12:17,240 She's a little harder to answer, especially on rate. 242 00:12:17,240 --> 00:12:21,240 You need to have like an ice block in order to brawl it, or you need to have smash or 243 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:24,220 higher in terms of steel removal to answer her. 244 00:12:24,220 --> 00:12:25,600 So I think that she is quite good. 245 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:29,240 And I think her ability to put the cards back into your hand is very powerful. 246 00:12:29,240 --> 00:12:32,360 If you can activate her two times, it's very hard to lose a game. 247 00:12:32,360 --> 00:12:37,280 I guess if you can get five cards out of Yzma between two activations, I can't imagine you 248 00:12:37,280 --> 00:12:38,280 losing this game. 249 00:12:38,280 --> 00:12:42,560 We were testing a lot in the mirror and she was kind of the mirror breaker where almost 250 00:12:42,560 --> 00:12:46,520 as long as you weren't ridiculously far behind, she was able to get you back into the game 251 00:12:46,520 --> 00:12:50,220 super quick because back and forth, it's kind of like contest. 252 00:12:50,220 --> 00:12:53,280 You're just jockeying for position and questing here and there. 253 00:12:53,280 --> 00:12:56,920 So it's very nickel and dimey in the mirror and her adding just a full three cards when 254 00:12:56,920 --> 00:13:00,600 the opponent doesn't have that is a complete and total change. 255 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,240 Yeah, I thought she was really good. 256 00:13:02,240 --> 00:13:04,640 My opponents did not like when I played Yzma. 257 00:13:04,640 --> 00:13:06,160 No, she was a concern. 258 00:13:06,160 --> 00:13:07,160 Yeah. 259 00:13:07,160 --> 00:13:11,120 Something I noticed while playing is even against like an opposing Daisy Duck with having 260 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:14,160 Yzma instead of friend on the other side, you're never getting to putting anything on 261 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:15,160 the bottom. 262 00:13:15,160 --> 00:13:16,160 Right. 263 00:13:16,160 --> 00:13:17,160 You're never getting Ursula. 264 00:13:17,160 --> 00:13:18,160 Everything in this deck is a character. 265 00:13:18,160 --> 00:13:22,680 And I think it was nice going into opposing decks where you normally have to worry about 266 00:13:22,680 --> 00:13:24,720 that and not having to worry about it at all. 267 00:13:24,720 --> 00:13:25,720 Absolutely. 268 00:13:25,720 --> 00:13:26,720 She's well-statted. 269 00:13:26,720 --> 00:13:27,760 She quests when you need her to. 270 00:13:27,760 --> 00:13:29,600 She draws you cards when you need her to. 271 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:30,840 She kind of does it all. 272 00:13:30,840 --> 00:13:34,220 The worst case disaster scenario for you as you play her and she gets dealt with before 273 00:13:34,220 --> 00:13:35,520 you get to do anything. 274 00:13:35,520 --> 00:13:39,420 If you've put your early game, like your first three turns, if you're building to the fourth 275 00:13:39,420 --> 00:13:45,160 turn Yzma, they can kind of knock you on your butt if they deal with the Yzma on time. 276 00:13:45,160 --> 00:13:46,160 Yeah, definitely. 277 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:49,840 And if you feel like she's going to get immediately removed, she's inkable, which is really nice. 278 00:13:49,840 --> 00:13:50,840 Yes. 279 00:13:50,840 --> 00:13:53,800 And in matches you do not want to play her and you just anchor for sure. 280 00:13:53,800 --> 00:13:56,680 Speaking of that, next up is the one drop. 281 00:13:56,680 --> 00:13:58,800 It's Diablo, obedient raven. 282 00:13:58,800 --> 00:14:03,480 This is 0 1 1 for one inkable with the ability of fly my pet. 283 00:14:03,480 --> 00:14:06,060 When this character's banished, you may draw a card. 284 00:14:06,060 --> 00:14:08,900 So this ended up kind of filling in some of the one drop slot. 285 00:14:08,900 --> 00:14:10,920 We played four Turner Boggs followers. 286 00:14:10,920 --> 00:14:16,960 We played four cursed merfolk and we played four Diablo in this deck as the one drop package. 287 00:14:16,960 --> 00:14:21,080 Diablo was good in some matches and not so good in other matches. 288 00:14:21,080 --> 00:14:26,520 Things Diablo does really well, works well with crabs to smash into things much larger 289 00:14:26,520 --> 00:14:30,840 than the bird, knock them out and be able to draw you a card and replace itself. 290 00:14:30,840 --> 00:14:32,000 Huge get for the deck. 291 00:14:32,000 --> 00:14:35,840 Being able to play it against the first turn Cinderella and shrug at them and go, if you 292 00:14:35,840 --> 00:14:39,280 want to use your let storm rage on, you're going to be vulnerable to my next turn. 293 00:14:39,280 --> 00:14:41,680 Banzai is a nice get for this deck areas. 294 00:14:41,680 --> 00:14:45,640 It is not so good is when you need to be able to answer something on your opponent side 295 00:14:45,640 --> 00:14:47,140 of the board quickly. 296 00:14:47,140 --> 00:14:52,040 So like the hyper aggro decks, Diablo is absolutely one of your worst one drops. 297 00:14:52,040 --> 00:14:56,880 It doesn't quest and race like curse merfolk does at least against Lelos and Maleficent 298 00:14:56,880 --> 00:14:57,960 and Daisy ducks. 299 00:14:57,960 --> 00:15:03,120 Cursed merfolk at least can quest as hard as them so you can try to do a race. 300 00:15:03,120 --> 00:15:04,120 Diablo doesn't do that. 301 00:15:04,120 --> 00:15:06,920 It is very slow to remove a character. 302 00:15:06,920 --> 00:15:08,960 It's just not what you want in the matchup. 303 00:15:08,960 --> 00:15:13,320 So if you're trying to be proactive on board and not just trying to gain some lore and 304 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,760 replace itself, I think Diablo can look very shabby. 305 00:15:16,760 --> 00:15:22,440 I do think there was some games where my Diablo got me probably four to five lore though, 306 00:15:22,440 --> 00:15:25,120 because people just were like, okay, just keep questing with it. 307 00:15:25,120 --> 00:15:26,800 I don't want you to draw a card. 308 00:15:26,800 --> 00:15:27,800 Right. 309 00:15:27,800 --> 00:15:29,360 In that way, it's pretty good too. 310 00:15:29,360 --> 00:15:30,640 Yeah, definitely. 311 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,360 Our last card is the white rose jewel of the garden. 312 00:15:33,360 --> 00:15:37,400 This is a three, three, one, four, three, inkable that when you play this character, 313 00:15:37,400 --> 00:15:39,040 you gain one Laura. 314 00:15:39,040 --> 00:15:41,080 That's its ability, a wealth of happiness. 315 00:15:41,080 --> 00:15:42,960 This is just goats, five and six. 316 00:15:42,960 --> 00:15:44,520 They're significantly worse than goat. 317 00:15:44,520 --> 00:15:45,520 They come down a little bit quicker. 318 00:15:45,520 --> 00:15:48,120 So it's not the worst because it lets you curve out nicely. 319 00:15:48,120 --> 00:15:49,980 So you can keep pressure on your opponent. 320 00:15:49,980 --> 00:15:51,360 It's a win when you need it. 321 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:53,280 It can get picked up and put back down again. 322 00:15:53,280 --> 00:15:59,720 It does all of the things you want and just adds some more consistency to the emerald 323 00:15:59,720 --> 00:16:00,720 amethyst deck. 324 00:16:00,720 --> 00:16:03,600 I don't have a lot to say about white rose, but I think having a couple of copies in the 325 00:16:03,600 --> 00:16:04,600 deck felt quite good. 326 00:16:04,600 --> 00:16:05,600 Yeah. 327 00:16:05,600 --> 00:16:08,660 I did like having the three, three on board on three when I needed it. 328 00:16:08,660 --> 00:16:09,660 For sure. 329 00:16:09,660 --> 00:16:10,660 And it's kind of a throwaway threat. 330 00:16:10,660 --> 00:16:12,640 Once it's down to it's like, you don't mind smacking into something with it. 331 00:16:12,640 --> 00:16:14,520 You don't mind just questing with it and throwing it away. 332 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:16,400 It's like, it gave me two Laura, whatever. 333 00:16:16,400 --> 00:16:18,760 The consistency it adds is awesome. 334 00:16:18,760 --> 00:16:21,800 Now that you know that, tell me a little bit about the event, Sam, how did you do? 335 00:16:21,800 --> 00:16:23,360 I think I did pretty well. 336 00:16:23,360 --> 00:16:24,360 I got 10th place. 337 00:16:24,360 --> 00:16:25,640 I was very happy with that. 338 00:16:25,640 --> 00:16:28,300 The feature match we were talking about, I did win. 339 00:16:28,300 --> 00:16:30,240 So that was a good start of the day. 340 00:16:30,240 --> 00:16:31,320 It got me pretty happy. 341 00:16:31,320 --> 00:16:32,960 I think I did pretty well overall. 342 00:16:32,960 --> 00:16:37,700 The only thing I lost two matches and they were both steel matches, which this deck is 343 00:16:37,700 --> 00:16:39,120 going to struggle against. 344 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:40,120 Yes. 345 00:16:40,120 --> 00:16:44,600 The aggressive decks don't want to see a lot of one for one removal if they can help it. 346 00:16:44,600 --> 00:16:48,720 Again, upgrades like Diablo and things help in the matchup, but it's still a very difficult 347 00:16:48,720 --> 00:16:52,040 matchup when you're facing a steel deck, especially an interactive steel deck. 348 00:16:52,040 --> 00:16:54,160 The threats just get a little bigger, a little faster. 349 00:16:54,160 --> 00:16:57,320 And then they have the removal to be able to take care of all the small characters like 350 00:16:57,320 --> 00:16:59,920 Curse Murfolk for no drawback to them. 351 00:16:59,920 --> 00:17:03,800 When they let the Stormrage on a Curse Murfolk, it's about the worst thing. 352 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:07,000 Because not only did they not discard a card, they drew a card. 353 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:10,720 I ended up having a little bit better of a day than Sam because I dodged more steel decks 354 00:17:10,720 --> 00:17:12,440 than you, I think largely. 355 00:17:12,440 --> 00:17:16,440 And I ended up in top four of the event and all of us split the prize. 356 00:17:16,440 --> 00:17:19,120 So we didn't find out who was the quote unquote winner of the tournament. 357 00:17:19,120 --> 00:17:23,680 There were three other decks in the top four that were all rock and steel. 358 00:17:23,680 --> 00:17:27,920 So I am pretty confident I would have stayed somewhere in three or four. 359 00:17:27,920 --> 00:17:30,080 I would probably not have finished one or two. 360 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:32,280 It's possible, but unlikely. 361 00:17:32,280 --> 00:17:36,360 So I felt pretty happy that everybody else wanted to split, but it was an overall good 362 00:17:36,360 --> 00:17:37,360 day. 363 00:17:37,360 --> 00:17:41,600 I just dropped one match and I did an intentional draw. 364 00:17:41,600 --> 00:17:46,000 I lost to Ruby Amber Mufasa, which is a tough matchup because again, the characters are 365 00:17:46,000 --> 00:17:50,760 all pretty well-statted and I have to turn characters sideways in order to interact. 366 00:17:50,760 --> 00:17:54,520 And theirs are better than mine in terms of size. 367 00:17:54,520 --> 00:17:58,400 Real quick overhaul in terms of the deck list, Sam, is there anything you'd want to do differently 368 00:17:58,400 --> 00:18:01,920 now that you've had some reps under your belt with this in a tournament setting? 369 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:06,120 I could potentially see just like changing up some numbers on one jobs, maybe bringing 370 00:18:06,120 --> 00:18:08,960 in a couple brooms just for later in the game. 371 00:18:08,960 --> 00:18:11,920 When you want to draw a card, you can just cycle them and you can hit things early with 372 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:12,920 them. 373 00:18:12,920 --> 00:18:14,880 They do great against Maleficent's and Lilo one drops. 374 00:18:14,880 --> 00:18:17,120 I would possibly consider dropping snakes though. 375 00:18:17,120 --> 00:18:21,580 They looked good in certain matchups for might be a little heavy just because you're not 376 00:18:21,580 --> 00:18:26,840 as invested in picking things up and putting them down as you used to be because the individual 377 00:18:26,840 --> 00:18:28,920 threat quality itself has gone up. 378 00:18:28,920 --> 00:18:31,060 So the threat each card brings is denser. 379 00:18:31,060 --> 00:18:36,800 So I don't think that you are necessarily needing to be on for snakes right now is about 380 00:18:36,800 --> 00:18:38,960 the only change I would make. 381 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:42,460 I could see going to the two snakes, two brooms like we had talked about and just keeping 382 00:18:42,460 --> 00:18:43,760 the rest the same. 383 00:18:43,760 --> 00:18:44,760 Definitely. 384 00:18:44,760 --> 00:18:48,080 And I think that right now the list we played has no locations. 385 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:51,760 As Sam mentioned, it's only characters and I don't necessarily think that you want to 386 00:18:51,760 --> 00:18:55,840 move into locations right now because I think it's on a lot of people's minds to answer 387 00:18:55,840 --> 00:18:56,840 it. 388 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:58,480 And I don't think they do exactly what you need them to do. 389 00:18:58,480 --> 00:19:02,400 I think Yzma does a better job of drawing you cards and or gaining the lure than a castle 390 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:03,400 does right now. 391 00:19:03,400 --> 00:19:04,480 Yeah, I agree. 392 00:19:04,480 --> 00:19:07,920 And my opponents like all weekend were inking their locations. 393 00:19:07,920 --> 00:19:10,520 And I think it's just because they know everybody's ready for them. 394 00:19:10,520 --> 00:19:11,900 There's a lot of crabs out there. 395 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:14,000 So it's not as good right now. 396 00:19:14,000 --> 00:19:20,200 That is our episode overview of the Emerald Amethyst deck for Azureite sea meta. 397 00:19:20,200 --> 00:19:23,920 So minimally, if you see somebody using green and purple, this is might be what they're 398 00:19:23,920 --> 00:19:24,920 doing. 399 00:19:24,920 --> 00:19:27,520 Be aware of the threats and the ways to play around it. 400 00:19:27,520 --> 00:19:32,040 Really consider it in your testing as you're starting to really dive in deep to the new 401 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:34,240 cards and their impact. 402 00:19:34,240 --> 00:19:35,940 Thank you so much again for listening. 403 00:19:35,940 --> 00:19:37,960 We are here every other Wednesday. 404 00:19:37,960 --> 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