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It could have been some low-level player. They sometimes play with such crazy builds that it's just unbelievable.

Heh. Today, I won 5-0 in the mid-lane with a valkyrie-based deck. It was in Bronze rank, not in Arena, but still. Two tanks, two chimera runes, and another mid-lane deck. Basically, Kurva, the monkey, and the guy with the axe carried. The guy with the axe even managed to break through my defenses twice.

Congrats. I would have crafted them for myself if I had decided to play Sylvan. And in Academy, there would be midswords, pups, and lions.

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Nerfs:

Ipiria's cost increased to 6
Valse's health reduced to 1
Chromatic Duel's enhance cost increased to 8 (as well as the play point recovery)
Sealed Tome's cost increased to 1
Tenko's Shrine's cost increased to 5

Buffs:

Sibyl of the Waterwyrm's attack/defense increased by 1

What's up with the developers? Are they sick? Why are they nerfing cancerous stuff instead of letting it fade away on its own?

Scene: And I just, right before the update, had an extra duel with bots, saying, "Oh well, they won't nerf it, why should I wait?"
Iperia was nerfed for no reason. Although, it's better to nerf her than Blackberry or another tasty card.
Vals deserves it, although I would have preferred to reduce his tokens or cost.
Duels are fine as they are. Although, they should have done this before the rotation of Gawain. Now it's also good. Although, I would have nerfed it a bit more.
They did the right thing with the Haven amulets, Tenke ruined the curve, and increased the tempo loss.
Syvilla was returned to her former glory, woohoo! Although, why woohoo? I wanted to reach GM or top 1000 with an aggro deck, but I was too lazy. I won't reach it anyway, especially with the Vals nerf.
I would also nerf the Lions a bit. Just increase the counters by 1-2. It would be fine.

As for the Vale deck, it’s probably the most expensive playable deck right now. I have a non-optimized list without a full set of Curve cards. An optimized deck needs at least 4 full sets (Insect Lord, Curve, Cassie, Macaque) + Selvin, the guy with the axe (ideally also full sets) + you can add Yggdrasil there (not a must-have, but a decent card) and some other minor cards. And a bunch of gold. But the Sylvan faction has an alternative in the form of an aggro deck, which can function without any legendaries. But things like the Dungeon faction and others are a pain.

Yes, the nerfs are good. I think I have an extra Duel card lying around. It's okay for the Knight, even if it becomes a bit weaker, but I'm not sure how much the Sorceress will recover after this. The buff is also not bad (not that I play with the Dragon in unranked, but it's still nice).

I haven't seen this card since it was announced, even in the arena.

I haven't either. Nevertheless, it was this card that helped the player clear my full board of Brambles, which he couldn't normally deal with using artifacts.

It could have been a guy from the lower ranks. They sometimes play with such crazy decks that it's just unbelievable.

Unless it was a Master from the lower ranks - there was a Master icon there. Although, it's quite possible that this guy has already qualified for the finals and is now just having fun playing with a silly deck.

Something like that can happen. Or maybe it just became too technically complex.

Iperia was definitely nerfed too hard. Although, it’s better to nerf her than Brambles or some other strong card.

Fair enough. This abomination is practically uncounterable, and it can even be played as a barrage. I used to see it occasionally, but now it’s rare because the first-turn agro deck with a decent turn 5 play already kills you with a table full of Leafmen.
And Brambles rotates in two months. And a month before that, the gays will be screaming about a mini-goblin reprint that puts it in your hand or gives it a leader effect.

Valsu deserves it, although I would rather reduce its token count or cost.

You’ll be killing it with Pups, Dragon Riders, or Brambles in the free lane, and it won’t get any advantage.

Duels also deserve it. Although, they should have done this before Gawain rotated. It’s fine now, though. Although I would still nerf it a bit more.

I would remove the full PP refresh on the Enhance, it’s just awful.

I would also nerf Lions. Just increase the counters by 1-2. That would be fine.

They either highroll with one or two Temples from the start, or they lose to half or more of the decks. However, the “nerf” from the textbook also hits them.

I really enjoy it when Sword players get carried away with leveling up the Hedgehog after summoning it with Arthur, and trade with my board instead of trying to win. Maybe 10k players don't do this, but every other Sword player, or even two out of three, does it regularly. Just now, a guy was just killing (endless) Lions with his Arthur's level 2 units for two turns, and even traded a 4-2 Arthur for a Lion, even though I had no more evolutions left, no Phemis, my board was half-filled with weak Amuls, and the other half with vanilla Lion bodies. He suicided units for 12 Face-Damage, but got +4 on the Hedgehog! ...which he lost to a new 4 HP Lion in the very next turn. I didn't even have to play Fil, even though I initially planned to use her to delay my loss by one turn. When he started to suspect something and played Knights and went all-in with them, it was already too late - I just dealt 16 flying damage.
In general, Sword is one of the decent matchups for Lions, unless it destroys your face very early, spams you with Arthur-Fortresses, and plays Latam. In all other cases, you just destroy everything he plays, and at some point, he runs out of cards, and you bring out Storms, which is basically the same as with Artifacts. Phemis also helps; I started playing with one, then added a second, and now I've finally added a third - there are just too many Swords. I realized that I haven't bricked with it even once, but I've often waited for a topdeck.
It's good that there's a budget deck that humiliates this nonsense.

I managed to qualify with a 4-1 record using the Lion deck. I'm considering taking this deck to the finals; it performs very well both in ranked play and here. The loss was in the fifth match against an aggro Sylvan deck, which was a pretty interesting build: with two Magic Lilacs, Suterra, and a Purehearted Singer. I see the first one occasionally in aggro decks, but I saw the other two for the first time.
Before that, I tried 3-2 with Artifacts, 1-4 with Sylvan, and skipped a 0-2 with Artifacts. By the way, I was wondering: for a 0-2, I received 50 rupees. Does that mean that if I don't have time to play a free trial in the Grand Prix on a particular day, I can just claim it, skip it, and still get some kind of bonus? Or will there be no reward for a 0-0?

I was given 30 rupees for a 0-5 score.

A free run taken is saved and applies to the next day, if the stage hasn't changed (otherwise, you simply receive 30 rupees). This means that on the next day, you can play one game more than the limit, as the one taken in advance is not counted as played on that day. Previously, this also worked in cases where the stage changed. This is how I managed to play in an old stage a couple of times, even though the next stage was already active.

This time, it didn't crash right away. It dealt damage with its sword, and it also dulled its own blade, and the opponent weakened.

But the loot was great. I got Spartacus and the third Curva. Also, I saw a great Spartacus-Sword build on Reddit that really takes down one enemy...

I lost the very first one to the infamous agro-Sylvan faction, this time with a fairly standard build (maybe he had some interesting cards, but I didn't get to see them).

The free run you get is saved and continues to the next day, as long as the stage hasn't changed.

Ah, I know that. I'm more talking about situations where you know you won't be playing today and probably not tomorrow, but you want to get value not only from tomorrow's free attempt but also from today's.
The stages are interesting. It reminded me of a situation from Hearthstone, when the Arena was free for some time (= unlimited), and then it was changed to a standard format (= rotation). But even a year later (!), you could easily encounter players with Goblin and Gnome cards in the Arena, which were rotated out before the Arena's transformation. Because if you built a deck and didn't play, it would still have the old cards.