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@RiftboundMeta yep also high prob you don't get to remove any card so it can be 1p1e to look at hand

Sabotage is fine. It's perfectly costed for its effect. The power cost on it makes it have a real cost. It also helps keep cards like Aurora from being completely insufferable Limits are also generally a bad idea, except for very niche scenarios or chosen champs

@Doowan_ a) yes b) no, he is defender c) it depends - if the battlefield is controlled by the faefolk guy (eg he has a unit there) then yes but if it was an open battlefield then no

#Riftbound QOTD: Does my enemy Yasuo Remorseful trigger its ability if it is moved to a battlefield that: A) I control and used Charm on. B) was open and I move into it; my enemy uses Ride the Wind after. C) I move Irresistible Faefolk to. (Answer Yes/No and why)

@SamTheHumanTCG @ravster49 lol i did this with an interaction i knew 99.9% worked and i have done multiple times before but i was like fuck it man if i'm wrong here i lose the game and im fried 😭

@ravster49 Sunday I got a lot of calls from players wanting to assure themselves of rules interactions so I would say exhaustion is real for a lot of players

after #RQHartford I have realized that event endurance is a bigger factor than people admit. im used to it due to playing 10-15 games a day from testing and scirms, but for the average player who just plays nexus nights, do you think its a big factor?

@ravster49 there is also a huge diff between testing games with friends/chillin and being giga locked for 12h in a room full of thousands of ppl the constant cortisol spikes rly take a toll on decision fatigue for me since going X-3 in scrims is fine and going X-3 on day1 is dead

@RiftboundGG im guessing this buyout is related to the fact that there were sales for the PSA 10 in the $400-500 range and gem rate is pretty high so buying out at $40 and slabbing them all is +EV

@RiftboundGG rly good card, i also like the sample one

The Jinx rebel release promo is going absolutely crazy with sales as high as $110 for a raw copy. They were only going for about $20 a few months ago. You can still get the Lee Sin and Viktor Origin stamped release promos for around $10 each on TCG player which I think is a steal. #riftbound #investing #tcg #promos #leagueoflegends #origins

think next set i just try to rip a sig and then one trick whatever i rip

the ruling where you gust in response to deceiver and the unit is not alone is interesting to me! in a game, usually leblanc players will say something like “trigger deceiver to make a copy of my leblanc, resolves?” as a shortcut of the two triggers, curious how this would be ruled if there was conflict about the outcome? i suppose it would be up to the opponent to verbalize which trigger they are responding to? eg “deceiver resolves, on the reflexive trigger i will gust leblanc”

I will dedicate a post by going into extreme detail that provides additional context to John’s video. For both Leblanc Deceiver and Mirror Image, there are two windows to react: - The trigger/spell itself - Its reflexive trigger Now here are the possible scenarios on what happens when an enemy reacts with an item that removes your intended unit. Leblanc Deceiver (React to trigger itself & intended unit of target IS alone at BF) - Your intended unit is removed (by enemy reaction). - Trigger resolves; play Reflection token at BF, and add reflexive trigger as pending item. - Finalize reflexive trigger: a choice to target has to be made ("another unit there"). There is no other unit. The trigger fails to finalize and is removed from the chain. - Result: A simple Reflection token that has NO Temporary. Leblanc Deceiver (React to trigger itself & intended unit of target is NOT alone at BF) - Your intended unit is removed (by enemy reaction). - Trigger resolves; play Reflection token at BF, and add reflexive trigger as pending item. - Finalize reflexive trigger: a choice to target has to be made ("another unit there"). There is at least 1 other unit; you select it. The chain item finalizes. - Result: A Reflection token that copies a unit that was NOT the intended unit and has Temporary. Leblanc Deceiver (React to reflexive trigger) - Trigger resolves; play Reflection token at BF, and add reflexive trigger as pending item. - Finalize reflexive trigger: a choice to target has to be made. You choose your intended unit. The chain item finalizes. - Your intended unit is removed (by enemy reaction). - Result: A Reflection token that whiffs its copy (no longer "there") and has Temporary. Mirror Image (React to spell itself) - Your chosen unit is removed (by enemy reaction). - Mirror Image resolves; play Reflection token at base, and add reflexive trigger as pending item. - Finalize reflexive trigger: no choices of targets are made (this is a programmatic determination). The chain item finalizes. - Result: A Reflection token that whiffs its copy ("that unit" is gone) and has Temporary. Mirror Image (React to reflexive trigger itself) - Mirror Image resolves; play Reflection token at base, and add reflexive trigger as pending item. - Finalize reflexive trigger: no choices of targets are made (this is a programmatic determination). The chain item finalizes. - Your chosen unit is removed (by enemy reaction). - Result: A Reflection token that whiffs its copy ("that unit" is gone) and has Temporary. So to summarize this all up, the ONLY time an uncopied Reflection Token will be played without Temporary is when reacting to Leblanc Deceiver trigger and the unit conquered/held alone. That is it. 95% of the time, the enemy player will want it so that the Reflection token will have Temporary and whiff its copy. So if you are playing against a Leblanc (that likes to angle shoot or ruleshark), make it abundantly clear that you are reacting TO THE REFLEXIVE TRIGGER. Thank you for coming to my TED talk.

@KaChowFactor hot take: master yi is a very strong deck with very little potential to actually make top 8 and win an entire RQ. very strong winrate and hard to beat, but his performance ceiling is capped because his game plan is too fair and linear.

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@Challengertcg i think probably yea but not because Lux is particularly problematic this just feels like a card that will limit future design space i think the strongest argument against not banning it is actually that having a combo deck is pretty cool as long as it’s not tooooo powerful

Is it time for this bad boy to go? #Riftbound

@MilkWorldGlobal they rly need to do something about the insane overtimes, avgd like 30 min per overtime for every round they could do 2 more rounds in same time if they cut it down to 15 min OT avg

X-1-1 not topping is kinda ridiculous ngl. If events are gonna stay around this player cap, surely something has to change with the format. Day 2 already ends at almost midnight so asymmetrical sounds unrealistic unless you start earlier. 9 rounds day 1 sounds super chill.

@AliEldrazi @Bloody this is sweet do u think that there’s an argument that MF aurora is stronger than sivir aurora given the ganking and champion ability to ready? baron can triple conquer pretty trivially on MF, harder on sivir

Brewed a sweet list for #RQHartford. @Bloody and I tested together for this event. She got top 16 and best of Sivir with my exact 48, proud of her! This is list was fun to play. Will update the metafy guide next week!

@guubums dude i cannot fathom 11-1-1 bubbling out they need to go to top16 at the least

9th at #RQHartford First ever 11-1-1 to bubble out of an RQ top 8. Staying hungry for the next RQs. Think I have the most tiebreak bubble outs in TFT history too... Did get the best of Irelia though! Gonna try to slam content cus this game is just too fun. #Riftbound

@Prismaticismism you played great man you’ll be back on top soon 🙏

The saddest view of all. Lost in top 8, misplayed in game 3, the turn I played flash and forerunner I should have stayed on battlefields and stacked forerunner so opp couldn’t play hwei for free

i don’t think there was a matchup where i genuinely thought i was the worse player, i certainly got outplayed in some matches but i was never like “that guy is so much better than me” managed 1-1 against previous top8 guys, pretty ok with it! gonna give it another go in LA

overall reflecting on the weekend i’m happy with my play but need to be more proactive on judge calls and missed triggers, just need to be ok with being “that guy”

rq hartford main event thread