Keyword Highlight - Reveal

 Hello all and welcome to another Keyword Highlight!

Today I’m going to go into one that was introduced in the Rise of the Realmrummers expansions and it can have quite a big effect on palette building especially when you’re looking to build one based around a particular card; Reveal. So to start with here’s the definition of the website.


On the competitive scene, this Keyword sees play mostly through the coloured realm runes that come with one of the expansions from each realm.


 Generally speaking, the Chroma aligned ones; Algiz, Isaz and Kaunan; are used to find a specific card so that you’re effectively running more copies of it at the cost of a rare slot in your palette. While the Achrom aligned Peorth, although some lists use it for the same purpose, is more likely to be utilised as a mass-drain action that just happens to deploy something along with it.

Some of the biggest names to try and Reveal with these runes are ones like Dexter, Master of Dragons, The Lost Fairies or Hex Clunker. I also use a couple of them in my Asa / Apollo palette as Isaz hits either twin while both it and Kaunan will hit Soloman’s Influence which in turn then Reveals the twins as they are the only characters I run.


The risk behind using Reveal like this is you often lose access to powerful cards such as Dark Rainbow or Fireball unless you’re prepared to risk hitting them over your intended card.


Along with the realm runes, in the other half of the expansions, came the realm rifts which are locations that allow you to Reveal a card with their colour in once during your turn and their resolves scale depending on how many cards you control with that colour shard on them.


Although these cards take up your legendary slot they become a source of repeatable card advantage that enable you to either draw faster or make up for the loss in card advantage you’d normally experience when trading once per turn. As a result of this you’ll often find these in palettes that heavily focus on that colour of shard, Achrom Breach being particularly potent in the original Pixies from the Fall of Flutterby.
 

To summarise, from a competitive viewpoint, Reveal is generally used as a more conditional form of Find that just heavily influences your palette-building to improve the consistency of your build. Between all the cards that have the keyword in the Rise of the Realm Runners expansions and A Conjuring at Curdle Cove almost every card and character type have an associated card that can Reveal them so keep an eye out for them as these are the sorts of cards that, in the future, may well be key to making a palette function at its best. Below are just a few examples from different realms that I’ve regularly found use for in my palettes but there are many, many more out there!


 

That's all from me for now guys!

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