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)...
This is the Lyra Festival deck I brought to the AQZ Championship on 2025-03-20, where it went 5-1 for 4th of 91. The list was modeled after Nate1DeGreat1’s, which I found more effective than the spell-bounce list I had been testing. Notes I like that this list can threaten an expedition win in addition to a Lyra Festival win. This is primarily due to the ease with which the deck can anchor characters for continuous threats....
Altered is difficult for late-game decks by nature. An early-game progression is equivalent to a late-game progression, and once your opponent is within one expedition of victory, it’s very difficult to block them on both sides indefinitely. Sakarabru is the only card in the game that can undo progress made by your opponent, but its high cost and low stats have historically meant that you’ll usually fall behind when you play it anyway....
I brought this Basira list to the Wednesday A.W.O.L. weekly on 2025-03-05. It ended up going 3-3 for 21st of 71. The last time I played Basira & Kaizaimon. Card changes Akhlut (R): By leading with this and applying the Basira boost, you can shut down your opponent’s reserve for two turns in a row. As back-breaking as that can be, I hesitated to go higher than two since it’s still a slightly situational 4-drop....
This is the Lindiwe list I brought to the Monday A.W.O.L. weekly on 2025-02-17, where it went 5-1 for 5th of 124. The deck The last time I played Lindiwe & Maw. Trial by Frost give Lindiwe access to Moth Lantern, a strong tempo play and late-game win-condition all in one. Alongside Baba’s Isba, she’s now a lot closer to the critical mass of worthwhile sacrifice outlets to make the sacrifice archetype a serious contender....
I pulled a very cool Mighty Simbi (U) from my Trial by Frost opening that ramps when one of your expeditions moves forward due to forest. Not long after, I came across a Cernunnos (U) with the exact same line of text on the Discord Marketplace, and I thought I might have a shot at building around the effect with some consistency. I took this list to the Monday A.W.O.L. weekly on 2025-02-10, where it went 4-2 for 16th of 125....
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....
The deck When I last played Auraq, I thought of the deck as an aggro deck that could sometimes finish the game with Hydracaena (F). This iteration doubles down on winning with Hydracaena by making it easier to play from hand thanks to ramp and cost-reduction support abilities. The aggro gameplan ensures you get as many uses of your hero ability as possible. You want to be able to close out the game before your opponent is able to find removal for your Hydracaenas....
I brought a mostly unchanged version of my Fen spells list to the A.W.O.L. Season 1 Invitational. It’s my favorite deck to play and the one I’m most comfortable with, but I also think it’s well-suited against most of the decks I expected to see: Treyst & Rossum: An early A Cappella Training (C) can grind scrap counter progress to a halt, and Cloth Cocoon (C) can shut down the late-game Haven plan....
The deck Putting this deck together was an exercise in reverse-engineering. To start, Sierra needs three copies of Brassbug Hive (R) as her win-condition. She wants to run three copies of Mechanical Training (C) to close out the game with Brassbug Hive, but they also need to not be dead cards before a Brassbug Hive is online. This means including some combination of Armored Jammer, Haven, Bravos Bastion (R), The Foundry, Axiom Bastion (R), Axiom Reprocessor (R), and The Ouroboros, Lyra Bastion (F)....