Shadowverse

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Today, I decided to do a daily quest for three rune victories in ranked for the first time in six months. I won two in a row, then lost seven or eight in a row. Before that, I was thinking of going to the finals with a rune deck, but after that, I abandoned the idea. They also started countering it with the new burn-rune.

and substitutions (maybe I'm missing something, but what's the point of it now when there's alter-sphere rush?)

No, it's fine now. There are a lot of swords with full boards of ones that are cleared by sub-stabs, and dragons remain on the board after dis-days. It also helps against manaria; they have wide boards, so any extra damage is helpful. But Lyhenna in artifacts is a sign of a netdecking idiot; it doesn't work with them at all for many reasons, plus the banish amulet is in the meta.

Overall, it's a tough time for Parta. I logged in a couple of times this week to play ranked, played a few games, and then quit. It turned out that when you have 12-15 post-Deus zero-cost cards in your deck, plus about 10 high-cost cards (4+), and among the two- and three-cost cards, there are six Chamelions and Miriam, which you draw in the early turns with Ferwents without generators, it's quite bricky. I reworked the deck quite a bit before the finals, which is evident in Paracelsus and Magne in that screenshot. Magne, by the way, still hasn't been useful even once. But the pair of Sapphires that I brought back won me two games in the finals. It seems like it's 2019, you're dying on turn ten, so just spam radicals. But it turns out it's not.