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T2 kills are uncommon, but totally possible. One of the main ways it’s possible is when you go first as fire Lorraine aggro: T1: materialize spirit, play creative shock discarding a fire card T2: level into Lorraine, materialize sword of adversity. During your recollection, play Hone by Fire targeting sword. Recollect and draw, then play rending flames, attack w/ sword and banish the 3 fire cards to double your dmg from 7 to 14. You have 2 cards left in hand, so you can now play blazing throw, sacrificing the sword to do another 4 dmg. Generally, T2 kills are stopped by any amount of interaction from the opponent, but it’s good to know they’re possible. T3 kills are much more likely, and can easily be done by any competitive aggro list through minimal interaction from the opponent. Lines include wind allies flooding the board, automatons getting a big swing w/ power cells and then waking the dude back up with second wind to hit again, or Fire Zander with poisoned dagger. Some combo decks can also get aggressive kills if they high roll, like rhapsody if they open with all the right pieces and have multiple +1s, or slimes if their opponent doesn’t level up (t3 dg + ethereal + storm slime is 14 dmg on its own)

Yep, this theory was pioneered by Patrick Chapin regarding MTG, we just framed it to be applicable to GA (because it is)

Rex did him dirty for real ;-;

"It's difficult to really find a suitable replacement that still contextually has the same meaning; 'dishonest and honest' may also read in a stigmatized way, and may also be misconstrued, as the player isn't being dishonest as much as not creating substantial room for interaction. That being said, I'm happy to see another fighting game enthusiast in this community! I'm a huge fan of Tekken and Guilty Gear! Thank you for watching, and I hope you'll stick around for future uploads!" - Rex

It’s a topic we’re looking into and have some initial drafts on, but want it to be well polished before publishing anything. Stay tuned!

Stay tuned for how we'd rate every deck and why, but I would describe it as a control deck. Your goal is to draw out the game, playing tons of answers, until you get your shadowstrike kill. You have some good 'combos', like DG into Mastermind + Shadowstrike, but I wouldnt call it a combo deck - Noel

Thank you! Some of it is a carry-over from Chapin's logic on this type of game theory in MTG It just has to do with the fairness in how information is presented. A deck that gives you more of a window to interact with an object on board is more fair than something that either has a short interaction window or is generally harder to interact with I'm personally a bigger fan of more unfair decks at large, usually playing into more combo or control heavy styles I hope the video itself was useful; thank you for watching!

Thanks!

"There are a few follow-up videos planned in relation to this theory and getting deeper into deck-building! We just wanted to test the waters before full-sending. Fairness is based on the presentation of information; a fair deck presents information readily on board and creates several windows for an opposing deck to interact. An unfair deck tends to reserve information by keeping cards in hand or gaining immediate impact from cards with very little room for interaction; this is why control and combo are inherently 'unfair' in nature. I'm a huge fan of unfair decks, personally!" - Rex

Woh

"Sideboarding into midrange as aggro is unfortunately a bit more context-oriented; general recommendations are to include more mixed damage, unpreventable damage, or to fatigue their resources faster than you do your own. You can also push into a small combo package to make the match up slightly more explosive. Since it is generally unfavorable, sometimes all you can do is try to side in the aforementioned effects to mitigate the losing percentage as much as possible" - Rex

@@GAChessClub Amazing insight, think I have ideas for myself and to help the new willies players at locals. Hope to see more videos like this often!!

Glad that it was helpful!

Somewhat yea. So in this list, you have 9 fire cards and 4 water in the side, so after sideboarding into water you’d have 5 dead fire cards in the main deck. But, they aren’t completely dead since you can still use them to pay for reserve costs and banish to level up with Now that we have the new sideboard rules (15 card sideboard but mat deck cards take up 3 slots), the water side can be a lot more effective since you could side say 7 water cards and maindeck only 7 fire in order to have a clean swap. Or like 4 water cards but then some extra generic norm cards, etc

Absolutely you can! Taking advantage of Opportunity at the beginning of your recollection phase is a very good skill to have!

Absolutely! Burner played this deck (not the exact list, but very similar) at the World Championships and placed 3rd. And in the new set, a Serene Luxem build placed in the top 32 of Ascent Taipei just a week ago

Typically you go -3 Academy Guide -3 Seafaring Mercenary - Matt

We found the deck to be quite good against both luxem and Merlin in our testing. You can just race to 3 and then ascension loop cards from them and it’s back breaking. Veiling puts in a lot of work and just making sure you don’t die, and you can just burst kill. Majestic spirit isn’t an issue because you can just zephyr it end of turn

While the deck was built to exploit AG, it isn’t necessary for the deck. It just helps a lot. The Purpose of guide is to discount your level ups, so a somewhat replacement would be bumping up Tide Diviner to 3 (4 would probably be too much), and now you have 3 available slots. You can also cut Take Point now, since it’s purpose was to protect AG. Now you have 6 available slots, but you’ll need to add back in at least 4 cards with Floating Memory for the Tide Diviners to consistently hit. I also think the deck will rework a bit with the new stuff from MRC, but not sure exactly how, so I don’t want to comment on specifics. You can look at TrueChampionGaming’s latest video to get an idea, it’s the similar concept of a deck but they approach it from a very different angle (and also with MRC stuff). - Noel

AG in this deck is to give you extra influence when playing vs decks that cannot remove it, like Rai. Originally it wasn’t in the list, and Burner and Matt just main boarded 3 dream fairy for the ally matchups, but found that it’s value was too good in those less interactive matchups to pass up. But there are no cards that fill the same role that AG does, so there aren’t really any budget replacements. However, it is also the least necessary card in the list imo, and was mostly main boarded (instead of side) because of the meta they were expecting (lots of other lvl 3 decks) for worlds specifically. So I think you can get away with just doing that to be honest, and know that your Rai matchup will just be even worse (but it’s already not great, so… yea haha) Instead of the dream fairy main, you could also choose to main the sweeps, or mess around with some of the new wind tools from MRC - Noel

@@GAChessClub thanks a lot for the reply, i would guess there willbe some drawbacks hahaha. I see i'll see and poke around witht he new mrc tools then. Thanks again :) 😊

Saw your upload and thought “wow, too funny! What timing!” Hopefully these 2 lists will give people lots to think about with this archetype going into MRC! - Noel

Had exactly the same question

Definitely some exciting new tools, but its too early to tell what will make the cut, and we don't want to speculate in order to avoid giving bad advice. If a new card looks good, try it! Experimenting is half the fun

Woh

Stoked to mess around with this in MRC, lots of exciting new options!

Woh, is that *the* World Champion?

Morgan is good vs luxem in this deck, but in our testing we found it unnecessary. You can beat luxem simply by hitting them with prismatic twice on ~t4 while their influence is low and it’s just game over. A lot of luxem players are also trimming the # of Planted Explosives they run, which lowers their burst potential, so you can grind vs then really well just with veiling breeze. Well timed prismatic late in the game can also be super strong There are definitely some really cool tools for wind in MRC, and magistrate and stifling trap do feel powerful. Magistrate has some anti synergy here though because it’s an automaton, not a human

Thank you for the interest, but we aren’t recruiting more members at this time. We’re already a big team haha

Thanks, more are sure to come!

It's a scary matchup, but definitely winnable. You're simultaneous racing Rai, while also holding up your defenses. It can be surprisingly difficult for a Rai to kill you through safeguard + serene + LWA revealing sights. Gawain puts in a ton of work in the matchup as well, ripping whatever key pieces they're lacking. Caliburn is in the side largely for the matchup as well, since it'll turn off Rai's levels for a turn. You can watch Burner play into Rai as Luxem on the Day 2 and Day 3 World Championship Streams on the official GA channel!

@@GAChessClub did he win?

lol yep, card was busted

Burner (Eason C) made top 8, Picklesword and Mr_Mulligan made top 32 Stevo (great player and friend) is not part of chess club, but also made top 8 with a list almost identical to our Ontario list (he adjusted the sideboard slightly to have 3 Gawain instead of 2 Blanche)

That’s the idea! Glad that it’s working as intended

I like Uther a lot, he certainly has a role against allies. The problem with him is that he’s slow, you aren’t getting him on board till t4-5. Generally, we’ve found that early removal is the most important thing against allies, and so we’ve largely been just increasing the focused flames count when needing to deal with an ally heavy field, rather than adding uther’s. But, Uther is still a very good card, and he can help stabilize you a lot *once* you can play him

That’s awesome to hear! Glad you’re enjoying it

Congratulations on your 2nd place finish! Was super awesome to see a different take on the deck doing well! I see your reasoning for cutting planted, but I don’t think I could make the same change. Cutting planted lowers your prepared card count, which makes insignia a lot worse. Fogging ally turns is good, but you still need to clear the board eventually. Running the 6 fog though does interesting so I’ll definitely give it a shot