Shadowverse

Yesterday, I went to Tier 2 on Rune to farm for the only decent Faction-specific spellboost card + just for fun (lol). To my surprise, I won three very convincing games, one close one, and only lost to Rune with a similar deck. Miraculously, I didn't face Sword, Portal, or Shadow, so the sample isn't 100%, and there were no board-control-focused opponents, who are always the main counter, but I crushed the rest.
Overall, it has become much stronger and more enjoyable on the Arena than before. It turns out the solution was obvious all along. Who would have thought that all it took was to get rid of most of the clunky, terrible spellboost cards, add more nukes with additional effects, create more decent units, and give them nukes and sigil generation?

Yes, Rune has been good on the Arena for some time now, in particular thanks to this card, this card. The day before the expansion was released, I got a 5-0 win with it, and I took a screenshot of the deck:



With the release of the expansion, Chain Lightning rotated out of Tier 2 (which is actually a good thing, because it's not the most fun part of the class), but all the other cards are still relevant.

Abyss Summoner is the main win condition for Rune in this format, so it's almost always an autopick. I think I won almost all of my matches thanks to it. As far as I remember, it was even quite meta in Constructed for a short time... Budding Genius is basically playing a Golem at a standard cost and getting the Evolution back for free, because activating this effect is not a problem in Tier 2. The class also has a whole bunch of other cards that are good in this format, like Graya, Caliostro, but in general, Locken has already described them.



So, this is what you can do with it...

Now you're a Haven main.

It doesn't sound that unbelievable, considering that, judging by the stats, Haven is my second favorite class, lol.



But seriously, I'm not even sure if I really want to make it my main... No, I will definitely try it, but I'm so used to Garuda, I've been using him since time immemorial, and I've never had the desire to change him... The best leader after Mordecai!