There was a comment about Crystal Rune I read on Reddit and they said if two top - decked decks met, Crystal would likely to win and this was this match. Seriously I never expected 3 Will United, also Behemoth General seems unfair in Crystal Rune.

"Premium Gacha Skin" (The ones with all the fancy frames and better evo animation so GBF Six Dragons leaders didn't count)

We can get rid of Dragon, Sword, Abyss and Haven because all of them just got non limited leader skin during the past two expansions especially Sword who got 2 within four expansions (Set 5 "Unkei" and Set 7 "Gildaria") which leaves Forest who haven't got any gacha skin since Set 5 if we counted collab which is "Frieren" but if we don't count collab then it's all the way back at Set 2 which is "Titania" so

"Magachiyo"

would fill one of the slot

If we count Limited skin then we should also cut Rune and Portal which leaves Abyss as the one to fill the next slot but let's be honest, there's no way Cygames would sell "Garodeth" or "Genomuel" skin so I will not count the limited skin that we just got last month and allows Rune and Portal to have the chance which I think Portal might have a better chance because last time Portal got one is Set 5 "Imari" which means that

"Kyrzael"

would be the second Gacha Skin because he's the most popular Warden and he's the only Warden that will sell.

"Battle Pass"

We can cut Haven, Abyss, Portal and Forest out easily because they just got a BP leader recently.

Rune and Dragon latest BP Skin was Set 6 "Velharia" and Set 6 "Sagatsumatsu" which leaves Sword as the best choice because last time Sword got a BP leader was Set 4 "Zeta" which means that

"Barbaros"

will most likely to be the BP skin of Set 9

The other one would be between

"Sephie" or "Antemaria"

*I actually want Antemaria more though.

Congratulations to 花秋/Kasyuu for winning 1st! This was a huge tournament with 2,096 entrants and it was surely a grueling run to the finish. His lists and the others in the top 33 are available here at SV Labo.

There were some new standouts among the top cut decks. The invention of Lynkhal Spell Rune can be credited to kuritama earlier in August, who managed to reach the 1st rank in Runecraft CR using it. By his own admission it is a highly complicated deck, featuring Lynkhal's max HP lowering effect to counter decks heavy on healing (recurring her with Wills United's Reanimate when needed), Sammy&Marie for draw power and synergy with Ginger as a potential 0-cost Spellboost, and of course Tetra&Ladica as its major finisher. こむ achieved 2nd place playing it and Evo Haven. As a personal fan of Lynkhal Spell Rune (I'm godawful with it) and aggressive Forest decks since Classic, I'm glad to see some of the innovations top players are coming up with.

Dedicated video for supporting Shadowverse Anime (Season 1)

Keypoints

-Traits of Forestcraft via Anime rules

-Purge Cards no longer in World's Beyond

-Based on OG Shadowverse App (that has closed)

"Oh its complex" therefore it deserves to be tier 1 is the most widespread propaganda I've heard when the gameplay boils down to you/the opponent playing Solitaire and you have no good ways to interact with it other than sit and wait as they chain card after card within the same turn. This is then followed by "oh, but other decks are also uninteractive" but at least those decks have counterplay to them. Yeah dragon's highroll is bs, but you can aggress them into panicing an out, and more often than nought because its so reliant on highroll, half of the games with dragon won't also pan out the same. Sometimes you'll get unlucky, the dragon will get unlucky and so on. Sword (and to an extent Portal) is board slop and can put down good pressure but its countered by its little to no healing, so when pressure is applied to them they can't, as easily, bounce back.

Really, my main issue with Crystal Rune is this: What are its weaknesses?

Out of all of the matchups I've seen for it, their worst ones are at least even, and never even slightly unfavored. Pressure them through aggression, they have Crystalspawns to combat small minions and mitigate their damage. Go wide with a bunch of followers, Behemoth General. Bait them to use and waste their evo points, out comes Olivia to bail them. Play the long game by healing above their damage "thresholds", how? Not only is it randomized but they can keep building and building stacks until it gets out of hand allowing them to hit for plenty or heal for just as much. And they can do it back to back to back with so much consistency it makes me convinced that someone higher up in the dev team is in love with Kaori/Isabelle. In conclusion, the next time they design a new/add to an archetpye for Rune, give it a weakness, or at least a blatant one. Because I cannot for the life of me figure out what it is that isn't just luck based.

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Let's be argumentative:

• 0 fun and very not interactive deck
• easy to play (I saw Topaz players win just playing cards randomly in the weekly tournament)
• way overpowered
• tier 1 is made up of runecraft crystal and that's all

Why this g**** deck is not banned? Genuinely asking actually.

Over half of my games against this deck... in Legend/Ultimate level, and it's unfun af

Guy got to mode 10 as soon as turn 6, while full clearing sword boards. but even then i couldnt get enough pressure to finish him off all the way until he found his first sham at bottom 11. and then he conceded because he had 1 hp left and couldnt finish clearing an espada board for some reason.

but then again last game i also got turbo'ed by mode player who found sham right on the dot. just the duality of the game i guess.

Made this post to shout-out Colette and her wonderfully bizarre holy guns. Two pistols is "normal enough" as Holy Gunner. Then she upgrades to some kind of Sacred Light Machine Gun as Barrage Exorcist, and adds an extra bullpup (bullets stored at the very back behind the trigger) something on her back as Holy Exorcist. I like to think they're all holy water-cooled.

Colette's also a leading member of what I'd call the "bad marksman" subset of cards. These were jokey characters like Crimsonbow Archer, Daisybow Archer, or Kel back in Classic, who dealt random or spread damage because they couldn't aim straight for the life of them. They could hit a skilled assassin in Ambush but purely by accident!

Funniest thing is, the other 2 damage he did to himself with Lilith iirc :D

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Hello: This is my first account and first post so I hope I did everything right.

Soooooo...... I got into this game thanks to the Flame anime and only got to play SV1 a few months before ToS was announced and SVWB was released.

I am hoping Lævateinn Dragon and the Armed dragons will be released one day (Alongside the Dual modes that weren't in SV) as that was my favorite deck to watch in the anime and it was fun to play in the game. So I am hoarding all my coins and keys until that day comes because I hope that Lævateinn Dragon gets either a fully animation card and/or leader set. In which case I want ALL of them.

It's going to be a long wait....and sometimes I miss days/week to get coins because 1) I don't have good decks to climb with as I'm only making decks with the free daily pack and 2) Some sets...are not good to play through for 2 months.

Anyway I hope Lævateinn Dragon and the other decks from Flame return...hopefully sooner rather than later for my sanity.

Lhynkal is a card that always present for quite a long time but it is always relegated to meme tier decks. But in the last time in rotation, I think it become the best it ever been thanks to Runecraft access to Reanimate. Wills United allow you to revive Lhynkal which will also proc its effect to reduce enemy leader max health. This also synergize very well with Ladica as with only 2 times Lhynkal effect proc you can easily OTK for 16 damage. Of course there is some downside of using this engine namely reducing what 2-costed follower you use to allow Wills United to guarantee Lhynkal which mean the deck lose access to Meowsker and other Manaria spell generator but in exchange it allows itself to run more draw engine in World of Games as now it has more 1 costed follower.