I brought Sigismar & Wingspan to the AWOL Monday Weekly on 2025-03-24 and the AQZ Championship on 2025-03-27. The list I brought to AWOL included no permanents while the list I brought to AQZ included two copies of Grand Endeavor (R). The Grand Endeavor-less list went 4-3 for 48th of 163 while the Grand Endeavor list went 5-1 for 11th of 119. The decklists The list without Grand Endeavor (R)...
For the first A.W.O.L. tournament after the release of Trial by Frost, I brought the tempo Gulrang list I’d been tweaking since the previous set, updated with some of her new goodies. The deck ended up going 4-2 on the day for 30th of 113. Changes The last time I played Gulrang during Beyond the Gates. Geyser (F) is the biggest upgrade that tempo Gulrang received in Trial by Frost. The defender line on her hero ability is a serious downside, so turning it off a whole turn earlier is massive....
At the end of my last outing with Gulrang & Tocsin, I speculated that some of the hero’s fundamental issues could be solved by thinking of them not as a defensive late-game hero, but as a tempo hero whose finishers come online at 8 mana. I took the end-result of that experiment to the Wednesday A.W.O.L. tournament on 2025-01-08, where the deck went 3-3 to finish 18th out of 36....
Now that Robin Hood, the main offender of Waru & Mack, is no longer the problem it was on release, I hoped I could bring out Waru without making enemies on the other side of the table. What surprised me was how interesting the hero was to play due to the number of choices he offers over the course of a game. I took this deck to two online tournaments this week....
Changes The last time I played this deck An awkwardness I noticed with the previous iteration of the deck was that it was extremely 3-drop heavy, which made for some inefficient curves. This isn’t trivial to fix, since the deck’s premium common (Ordis Gatekeeper (C)), card draw (Baba Yaga (R)), and removal spells (Teamwork Training (R)/Sticky Note Seals (C)/Kelon Burst (F)) are all fighting for the same slot in the curve....
Gulrang & Tocsin’s hero ability offers what I’d argue is the strongest upside among the core set heroes, but it comes with a major drawback. The puzzle they ask you to solve is how to navigate the first five turns when the best cards in your deck prevent you from getting any closer to winning the game. When I started playing the hero, I thought that my task for the early-game was to ignore my own expedition progress and block at all costs....