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Competitive Talk - Promotional Actions

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 Hello Realmrunners snd welcome to another Competitive Talk! Today I thought I’d build on my last article about the promo Locations by going into a discussion around the Actions you could get by purchasing £30’s worth of product during each of the respective seasons on the Achroma calendar over the last year; namely Salum Spring , Draco Summer , Spirata Fall and Norso Winter . At face value these cards make excellent ‘blank’ cards in your Palette. What do I mean by a ‘blank’ card? Well say you’re building a custom Palette and you’re stuck on 28 cards but you’re unsure what to add to make it up to 30; these cards slot in quite nicely as a filler for those slots if there’s nothing else you can think of that fits the spot. In terms of cost they’re all essentially free to Deploy, outside of some very niche scenarios, as they Steal the shards back that you spend on them. This means, although they aren’t great Trade fodder like  HAIM Shard Cache , they are usable in Chroma strategies, as t
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Card Highlight - Thrash

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 Hello to you all realmrunners and welcome to another card highlight! Today I was thinking I’d go into a card I discreetly alluded to in my article on  The Unruly  as he’s easily my favourite little cyperpunk of a Pixie to come out of The Secrets of Spirata; its Thrash ! Already sporting a decently healthy stat of 4 Strength & Shard Value, he also turns any Object you deploy into a form of removal. This can hit any card on the Canvas as well, it is not specifically just for Characters, Locations or Objects. This means if you’re building a Palette focused on Objects in Spirata, Thrash is definitely a go-to card to include. This makes him a great tool in dealing with opponents’ Locations, that are otherwise hard to remove, as well as any Characters that have Poisonous without you needing to attack into it and lose a Character or Object of your own which then allows you to develop your Canvas further. In terms of his usability, it may seem a bit strange, but even in a Chroma-focused
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Custom Palette Showcase - Trolls on the Stock Market

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 Hello everyone and welcome to another Custom Palette Showcase! On the topic of the Norso realm, I thought I’d take this opportunity to show my take on the, arguably, most competitive Palette to come out of the realm so far; Norso Traders. So here’s the list I use. As you can guess from the name, the strategy is pretty straightforward; do a lot of Trading to bring yourself up to 30 shards. The recent rules change, which limits the amount you can Trade for in your Start & End steps to a maximum of 6 shards, has made a minor impact on this Palette however there are so many cards in here that either give you extra shards when you Trade or the ability to Trade outside of your Start and End steps that it doesn’t do as much damage to it as it may do other strategies. So let’s look at the individual cards from the list. Knut - Strong prevent effect that turns all of your Trading into card draw so you’re really losing any resources by doing it, must have in any Norso Trade focused Pal
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Competitive Talk - Promotional Locations.... Do you need them to win?

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 Hello guys welcome to another Competitive Talk article! Today I thought I'd go a little into a discussion on the promotional cards that have come with every set of Achroma so far and their relevance in the competitive scene and if there’s any alternatives to them in a pinch. Firstly let's look at the cards themselves At face value, they already have a lot going for them; they're Locations so they're harder to remove; they have a high Shard Value so it makes them great Trade  fodder; the Steal 2 Resolve means they have great applications in both Achrom and Chroma strategies; 4 Shard Value also puts them at a level that means, at the time of writing this, you need multiple cards that inflict shard damage to them to  Erase  them, unless you use a card that just straight Erases  Locations.  As well as this there they have some great syngergies with power cards within their realms, whether they be Actions or other Locations. The two Salum promo locations have both an Achrom
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Card Highlight - Lacringi Catapult

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 Hello and welcome to you realmrunners! Back with another Card Highlight and this time, thinking ahead to the next set to expect, I thought I’d go through all the Norso cards we currently have at our disposal and thought there’s one particular one that I don’t think gets enough exposure for how powerful it can be; Lacringi Catapult . At face value it already seems quite an impactful card; the Action on it allows it to either Erase cards with smaller values, whether they’re Characters, Locations or Objects; finish off damaged Characters from combat that happened earlier in the turn; or weaken stronger Characters so your weaker ones can take them out. But to take this a step further, The Warriors of Wishwell set has in it a whole host of Object support that include Shard Value reduction as well as cards that can Find & Dig them. On top of this it’s quite easy to Find & Dig  those cards too so you can have a proper synergistic package in your Palette that enables you to grab La
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Card Highlight - The Unruly

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Hello guys and welcome to another Card Highlight article! It’s been a hot minute since my last one (apologies for that!) but continuing with looking into The Secrets of Spirata cards I thought I’d go over one that’s quite an underdog as it has some fantastic potential and flexibility whilst also being quite a niche card; The Unruly . At first glance his ability might seem mediocre at best but just take a second to think about it; anytime a card is Erased he immediately steals 1 with no other restrictions. To understand how far this card can go we need to expand on what causes cards to be Erased. Firstly there’s the standard route of Erasing cards through combat; The Unruly already sports a decent Strength of 4 which will allow it to attack over a lot of other Characters in the game, triggering his ability to steal shards with little to no cost involved. Further to this, if there’s ever any Objects involved in combat he Steals additional shards for any of those that are Erased as well,
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Custom Palette Showcase - Secrets; Keep 'em or Reveal 'em?

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 Hello to you all realmrunners and welcome to another Custom Palette Showcase! Today I though I'd take a slightly different approach as I thought I'd share my Secret  palette based around Lord Eldrich Willard  however, given the different ways you can approach utilising Secret  as a strategy, which I discussed in my Keyword Highlight article here , I thought I'd present show the slight differences in each approach that you can take with it. So without further ado let's start with my personal favourite and the original plan for this article; stealing your opponent's resources with Lord Eldrich Willard . As stated earlier, this Palette aims to take advantage of stealing your opponent's resources before they even get to see them and control those they are able to deploy. It has a mixed win condition; although the resolves generally point to a Chroma focus, if you manage to build up enough Secrets  on your canvas you'll find Lord Eldrich Willard 's resolve i
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