Legends of Runeterra - Card game by Riot Games

Yeah, these look fairly underwhelming.

Lulu: She can level in hand I think since there isn't a "I've seen...", so should be very easy to level, and might come up in play already leveled up. Her support effect is pretty decent. I think her strength will come from the leveled up "Start of Round" card Help Pix! which is really really good.

Help Pix!: Ok, this is created at the beginning of each round once Lulu is leveled up and it's pretty awesome. 1mana that can either make an enemy Vulnerable or give Barrier to an ally, both of which are very strong effect. It cannot be cast in combat which will only matter for Barrier during an open attack. Great card, gives tons of value to Lulu.

Lulu's Whimsy(Whimsy): I'm confused about this card, you turn a follower into a 1/1 squirrel and silence it. The wording seems to indicate that you would silence the squirrel, so the card would revert back to it's original form with it's text not silenced. I'm thinking the text should be Silence a card and turn it into a 1/1 squirrel. This would mean the card reverts back to it's silence form. In one case it's a good card, in the other it's garbage.

Squirrel: It's the token from whimsy, nothing to say about it.

Fae Guide: It's not that bad, for 4 mana, you get a 3/3 body which isn't great, but you Grant permanently Elusive to an ally which could be pretty good. As mentioned, you won't have a good target on turn 4, but played later it gives you a blocker and possibly a powerful elusive for the rest of the game.

Pix: Looks awful, I don't see any scenarios where I'd want this. Unless getting a 1 mana support is essential for reason.

Startled Stomper: Yeah, this is a good card. Decent stats for a 2 mana with overwhelm which is a pretty good keyword, especially with all the Support permanent buffs Targon has.

Behold is an interesting keyword. Not sure I like the use here where it's all "Behold an 8+ card". It's a mechanic that could be use for many things though.

First impression was that you needed to keep an 8 mana card in your hand during the mulligan phase, otherwise a lot of those low mana cards will be close to useless, how risky is it to keep a dead card in your hand for 8 turns. Trundle changes that somewhat, but still comes in too late. Probably going to see Tryndamere in this Archetype, and you keep him in your initial hand to trigger the behold cards. Probably making a ramp deck a thing too if you need to have a lot of 8+ cards to trigger some of these, ramping into high cost cards might be a thing.

On to the individual cards.

Faces of the Old Ones: Ramp card that does nothing if you don't have an 8 mana card in hand or in play, at 2 mana, you'll most likely going to Behold a card in hand. I don't think it's very good, unless Ramp becomes a thing.

Troll Scavenger: Again a low mana card that requires you to keep a 8+ card in hand to get value. Pretty crappy if you have to play it without Behold.

Troll Ravager: Same as first two, low cost card requiring you to keep an 8+ card in hand. Not a great card, but regen can be annoying to deal with on a 5 health unit. Could be good if the Behold deck works.

Uzgar the Ancient: Not a great card, regen on a 7 health body will be annoying to deal with, since he's a challenger, he's going to pick a unit almost each turn. You generally want more impact on the turn you play an 8+ cost card. He's not a finisher, he's build for long game, so not sure how viable that will be.

Troll Chant: The star of the first reveal, lowing attack of enemy and buffing one unit I think is going to be pretty great card, especially at 2 mana.

Call of the Wild: Meme card for meme decks, it would be good, if the decks it's supposed to help were any good which I don't think they are right now.

Trundle: 4/6 with regen for 5 mana I think is a pretty good card just on stats. He's hard to remove. Leveled up is going to be dangerous, he's gaining overwhelm, and becomes a 5/7 or rather 6/7 since he is guaranteed 1 Behold with Ice Pillar. He might find a place in decks other than Behold I think. He's strong just by himself with no support.

Ice Pillar: Interesting card, refilling 8 mana means it's basically free to play(if you have 8 mana obviously), You can play this, refill your mana, give strongest unit vulnerable, play a Tryndamere on the same turn. Seems pretty strong.

Broadbacked Protector: Lots of health for a 4 mana, but will damage itself if it heals your nexus. Will be good against aggro decks I think. Healing always has a place so this will see play.

Augur of the Old Ones: 5/5 Overwhelm and Regen for 6 mana, not great stats but 2 great keywords, and it grants an ally Overwhelm and Regen. So good card I think.

Revitalizing Roar: Costly and slow, great when enlightened otherwise not to good.

Resplendant Stellacorn: I think it's a decent card, 4/5 for 5 is ok, but with a potential 6 heals I think it's good.

Final thoughts, these 2 reveals kinda scare me to be honest. Dealing with Regen can be very difficult at times, and these are pretty big bodies so they are going to be very hard to remove. With the buffs in Freljord, it could become a very unfun deck to play against if there's a competitive version.

Shittiest hand ever. I had up to this point a single unit.

Shadow Isles



Nightfall could be an interesting keyword.

Stygian Onlooker: Not a very exciting card. Temporary Fearsome means it's only good during your attack phase. Although you could get a blocker with 4 attack for 1 mana. Overall not good in my opinion.

Doombeast: Heal if always hard to evaluate. It's ok, if you trigger the heal it could be good. Will be dependent on the meta I think. The heal is a skill so could be denied.

Duskrider: Interesting use of the Nightfall mechanic. Very poor stats though, probably need to have triggered Nightfall at least 3 times to be worth it. Depends on other Nightfall cards to be released to evaluate properly.

Passage Unearned: Interesting card, not sure what to make of it exactly. I think it will be a tech card, won't see tons of play.

Encroaching Shadows: This is really hard to evaluate. It possibly has some powerful implication for an Ephemeral deck. It will see play in an Ephemeral deck, but nowhere else. Not sure if it's good enough to make the archetype be competitive though.

All in all, disappointing reveal.

Spirit Blossom Event recap for me since I reached 220 tonight. Not too bad for a casual.

i enjoyed the rewards, card back, player emotes, guardians player icons, wildcards and shards which are all nice rewards. It gave me something to work forward too and kept me more engaged than usual. That’s a good thing.

I love the quests at the beginning it pushed me to try decks I wouldn’t usually play and that was the best part, sadly even as a casual I ran out maybe around day 20 or so which removed one of the most fun thing about the event. I‘d like if the reduce the reward from quest but made more of them to last the entire event for more or less the same amount of rewards.

Now for the thing I didn’t like,i mentioned that the event kept me engaged and how I liked that, I also felt forced to play every day for at least 1 win for my 4 petals for the first win. I wish they would allow us to bank 2-3 or days. Like if you skip.a day, you get 4 petals for the first 2 wins the nest day. That would allow for a bit of flexibility on how often you have to play without feeling your losing for taking a day off.

I think it was a pleasant event and looking forward to the next one whenever it is.

Ravishing said:

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I was coming to post that beat me to it by a minute.

A little late but here I go...

Nocturne: He’s pretty good and will see play, his level up version could be pretty sick. Give ennemies -1/0 every time you play a unit. Play 2 cheap units give ennemies -2/0, with all allies having fearsome you could have a lot of attacks with no blockers.

Unspeakable Horror: Great card i think, different use compare to Vile Feast, Vile Feast is about getting a blocker, this is more about getting value in your hand. It can be used on the Nexus so small benefit there. I expect it to be run in Nightfall decks over Vile Feast but otherwise probably run Vile Feast.

Stalking Shadows: Good card but a bit random, you could be totally unlucky and not have a follower in your top 4 cars and it does nothing. On the other hand, if you have 4 followers you chose which you get and get an ephemeral copy of it, that could be pretty good. Select something with Last Breath so you get a benefit from it dying.

Shroud of Darkness: Ok card, helpful to activate Nightfall, or to protect a card. I think it’s going to be. Sry situational.

Risen Mist: 4 mana to summon a 2 mana card at burst speed. Obviously because of the synergy with Mistwraiths, having more is always good. Good card but limited to Mistwraiths decks. No other use.

I wonder what's left, we got 2 Targon Champions, and 1 Freljord, and 1 Shadow Isles and there's 3 left to reveal.

I hope Targon gets at least 2 more this expansion, won't be viable as a region otherwise.

If they get only 2, what faction will the last champion be from? I love playing Noxus and Ionia so I hope it's from there, Piltover and Zaum be fine too. I don't play Demacia so I hope they keep that one for last expansion.