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Dragon Rider Day - The Review

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Hello to you all realmrunners! Well last night was a fantastically fun evening with games played, some fun auctioning of graded collectible cards and plenty of players getting the chance to get a whole selection of things signed by some of the team. Everyone who attended got a copy of Dexter Master of Dragons as well as the promo location The Secrets of Spirata and a random pin in the new hex style, which I was lucky enough to snag a Conjurer Otrix!  I personally managed to snag myself graded first edition Countess Issadora Curdle and Darnacusk in the auction and got a copy of Haskus , one of my favourite drake Characters, signed by the artist, Marco!  In the auction we also saw copies of the promo locations;  The Fall of Flutterby ;  The Siege of Draco   Temple ;   and The Curse of Curdle Hill which all got snagged up, with Curdle Hill’s promo going for £35 in the end! Also one particular highlight for me was ending up in a 4-player game, where we all ...

Dragon Riders Day is here!

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Hello realmrunners, hope you’re all doing well - tomorrow is upon us; Dragon Riders Day down at Five Realms Gaming Lounge! I will be down from early on for anyone who fancies getting in a few games throughout the evening. I’ve also put together some boxes full of every card from each of the realms so, if you want to, you can try your hand at putting together a custom palette for a couple of games with complete freedom! If you’re curious about the game but haven’t gone as far as to buy anything just yet it’ll be the perfect time to get stuck into it!  For all the collectors out there it’ll also a great time to try and get your hands on some real prizes, included graded legendaries, alt arts and more! To top it all off we’ll be seeing the creators and artists behind the game present so, if you have a particular favourite card or other collectible, you can even get it signed!    Hope to see you all there tomorrow - the fun starts from 4pm! That's all from me for now guys - i...

Custom Palette Showcase - Sacrificial Tactics

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 Hello realmrunners, well it’s been a fair amount of time hasn’t it! Hope you’ve been doing well since I last wrote! With the upcoming event on the 21st of August dedicated to Dexter Master of Dragons I naturally started to look more into options of custom builds from Draco planum and realised something; one thing I’ve never seriously done is take a crack at a more Sacrifice focused build and, after some tinkering, I quickly remembered why. With the aim of the game being driven by your cards’ resolve effects, using them up as fodder for some of your abilities might seem counter-intuitive as you can’t win as quickly; but building and piloting this style of custom Palette requires you to play with a very different style - absolute control over the Canvas and grinding down your opponents’ best resources. Before we go into any more detail here’s my build below. The overall strategy, as stated above, is to grind through your opponent’s resources and win by being the only player with an...

Monsters of Norso Sneak Peek - Drengora, The Fierce

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 Hello realmrunners - today I'm going to to be taking a deeper delve into a recent reveal from the upcoming set Monsters of Norso; this is Drengora, The Fierce . Along with the art this comes with the flavour line ' The Monsters aren't the only force to be reckoned with in Norso Planum... ' so, whatever faction the Monsters themselves are on (most likely Achrom I'd expect) this will be from a different faction so it's probably quite safe to assume that from the style of the art, along with this bit of text, we can expect that Drengora will be a more Chroma-aligned character, although whether they're mixed or fully Chroma is yet to be seen. What else can we gather from all this though? Well given that it's a named Character they're going to be Heroic for sure and potentially a key one in their faction - whether that be canonically or within the faction's game mechanic is yet to be seen however. It's also highly likely they will be a rare or le...

Custom Palette Showcase - Frozen Wastes of Altari

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 Hello realmrunners and welcome to a look at another of my custom Palette builds! This time I thought I'd look into making one based around arguably one of the strongest keywords in the game so far; Freeze , as, surprisingly, despite all my toying with the cards from The Last Snow Dragons of Altari, I've never actually built a Palette focused on it; its just always been a support ability. So without further ado here's the list. The strategy is pretty obvious from face value; use your built-in synergies within your cards to bring your Shard Bank up to 30 while all your Freeze abilities prevent your opponent from doing the same or doing any significant damage to your shard total. Onto the thought process behind the individual cards. Crackle  - Not an overly popular Legendary for Freeze Palettes but I personally really like how it can completely stop your opponent's lesser cards on their Canvas from resolving whilst building up its own resolve. Whilst it does also affect y...

Card Highlight - Materno’s Egg

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 Hello realmrunners and welcome to another Card Highlight!  Today I thought I’d go into one particular Object that has a couple of interesting applications in the Draco realm; Materno’s Egg . The key thing to take away from this card is how you use it; in a Palette full of dragons it's effectively extra card advantage that then allows you to deploy an extra Character without paying for it and outside of your 3 card deployment limitation. However what I really want to focus on is how this one card makes two particular dragons a lot more consistent to get hold of; enter Harusk and Materno . Both of these cards have some incredible abilities that are made even stronger when taking into account the Dispose effect of Materno's Egg can be used on your opponent's turn, therefore enabling you to get them online in reaction to a play they make rather than waiting for your turn to come round. This means, for example, you can deploy Harusk  when your opponent plays a really powerful...

Competitive Talk - Combo’ing Pairs

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 Good day realmrunners and happy Valentine’s Day! In the spirit of all things couple-y I thought I’d just quickly highlight a few pairs of cards that go really well together as a combo! So without further ado, in realm order, here we go. Salum Countess Issadora Curdle & Occultist Den - Makes Issadora easy Trade fodder or means she effectively pays for herself. Moonveil Harpy & The Bay of Mysteries - With harpy being a ‘Sea’ Character you can Dig it easily to replay it and get repeatable value out of its Action. Captain Cassius & Hinkley the Navigator - Cassius gives all your Characters Divert , Hinkley does the same for your Locations which means Cassius then effectly gives you +1 for almost every card on your Canvas and they can protect each other from targeting abilities. Summon the Kraken & Dark Rainbow - Rainbow curses all your opponents cards then Kraken lets you steal them all for the turn. Draco Crackle & Ice Breaker - Freeze all your cards to gi...