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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,...

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...

Custom Palette Showcase - Creatures of Altari

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Good day to you realmrunners and welcome to another Custom Palette Showcase! This time I thought I’d visit a theme that occasionally has some real success and that’s basing your palette around a specific shard colour. With The Last Snow Dragons of Altari came a lot of Cyan-coloured support along with a good amount of creatures that shared some really good synergy as well so I decided to take a shot at building something to take advantage of this so here’s my Cyan based list. Overall it’s a simple plan; put all the Cyan coloured cards out and reap the benefits of all your boosted resolves to win by Chroma. There’s also a small protection package to make your Characters more durable. So let’s go over the individual cards. Yana - Amazing one drop for this palette especially if you have an established board already, remember her resolves counts every individual shard so Snowdrift Sanctuary alone already makes this a +5. Materno - Enables Protection for all your other characters while ha...

Competitive Talk - Palette Archetypes

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Hello realm runners and welcome! It’s been a hot minute since I did any competitive-based articles; since before the last GT actually, so thought it was about time to revisit them. As Achroma’s card-pool expands we start to see palettes across every realm that have similar playstyles or gameplans in how they are going to hit 30 shards or drain their opponents down to 0. For anyone already involved in the competitive scene of card gaming this topic is already a known thing; Archetypes . Generally speaking, when it comes to most card games, there are three main branches of  Archetypes; Aggro , Combo  &  Control . So let's give a general idea of what each one is for those not so familiar with them. Aggro  - Arguably the most simplistic Archetype  and very newbie-friendly; put out a lot of threats quickly so you're opponent is unlikely to be able to deal with everything and win through sheer force. Combo  - Using your cards in a way that they all synergise ...