Alexiel does look to be VERY strong. Not only can she not be killed by effects, but can only take up to 3 damage at a time. With Heal Haven being a thing, it may be likely that she survives your opponent's turn. It makes sense why they added the requirement of having more evolution points than your opponent by turn 6, which depending on the deck, is difficult. Now the scary thing is at turn 8, where Haven often plays Aether into Jeanne for a 0pp play, if you add Jeanne's "Reduce damage from effects to 0. To an already tanky body that Alexiel possesses, it makes going through her that much harder. Thankfully you can still transform her, or go through her with Dune Surfer.
provide that she even survive the previous turn, we're talking about a 6 6/8 Storm Ward (no i aint gonna talk about her "cant be destroyed" becuz its simply not practical, you will never have more EP than your opponent as Haven unless you brick, and that's a far worse problem than not getting this shiet immunity). She would have been tolerable if she also have cant be targeted, but alas as it stand even a casual 2pp Inverse will stop her, or class specific like Lily. And no, its not "depend on the deck", both Heal and Laina need Evo ASAP for their Leader eff, and Amulet have no business running this brick when they already being threatend by the new Dragon spell.
@@tienvu1282 You saying that, "you'll never have more EP than your opponent as Haven," and that you don't count it because "it's not practical," is just a skill issue of your part. You can totally have more evo points than your opponent, it's the reason why Laina plays the Twins over Kyrie, heck, you can even go Goddess on turn 4 into Alexiel on turn 5. The deck even has Cottontail for a free evolve, and Twofold grace for an extra evo point. While I'll give it to you that it is unlikely that she'll find a home with our current Heal Haven deck, same with Amulet, as neither of them really need her. You also failed to mention Evo Haven, which generally doesn't even use their Evo points due to how most of their cards evolve by themselves. I don't like this mindset that a card is dead in the water because some card immediately counters them, not every deck even runs the counters, they don't automatically have it in their hand, and even if they do, using 2 or more play points to deal with this card can be good enough (since she'll likely hit face for 6/8), considering by next turn they'll have to deal with Jeanne. Do note, I'm not saying she'll be broken, I'm not even saying that she'll be playable.
@@LikeAFemaleDog and where is that Evo Haven you mention? If they can't fit in a decent deck, they might as well not exist. Even in Laina deck, which supposedly could use this, Cottontail is a far better T6 play both by herself or as a Pendulum target. Also, both scenarios that you even mention that she could be decent is highroll at best (2x Twin in hand, Goddess in hand and go 2nd) or detrimental at worst (when will you Evo Laina if its not the first Evo turn you get, unless you're facing Big Dragon which usually don't have any followers until their 10pp turn?). And Evo deck? Pfft, you're mentioning me a deck that could only otk in T9+?
@@tienvu1282 Evo was (decently) popular throughout the introduction of Apostle. It not being popular right now does not mean they can't be once new cards, or new balances changes get introduced. Similar to how Enhance got brought back into the meta with the changes to Judith. Not sure why you're using this as an argument. Laina herself, being a control deck, often only wins past turn 9. So again, not sure why you're using that as an argument to disservice Evo-Haven, when they often win on turn 8-9. Lastly, I wouldn't even call it a highroll, they were just examples against your previous argument, of which you didn't really refute.
Roland on turn 6, Fearful Fighter on turn 7. Now you get untargetable can't be attacked Fearful Fighter. The only way to clear it is random destroy or doing random damage twice.
I feel like finale dragoon would make a good addition to big dragon on relic on 5 or 6 play points. It would make celestial and relic play on the same turn
IMO, Just consider that Alexiel never has fanfare effects, since it really rarely to have UNUSED evo points on T6 since broken leader effect in this craft came from evolving followers.
Holy crap! If that accelerate effect for the first one is right, that's going to be amazing for Artifacts in Unlimited! Getting board locked when they go off is a big issue and being able to clear your board for 1 and killing enemy followers as a bonus?! You also get to trigger all of your death triggers to get more artifacts. Oh gosh! That second one is dumb good! I just realized these cards can't be played in Unlimited. Dang it! I wish that sword follower could be played at least! Sword needs it!
Always liked the art of the Sword token follower, so it's pretty cool to have her back. Her being zero cost and buff ally, that's potentially +10 to Peerless Warrior evo, or 14 if Dei survives. Could this secretly (LOL🤣) be Peerless support?! Roland's anti-targeting also increases board survival rate, so that's kinda Peerless support too? 😂 Otherwise absolutely nothing for UL to play with. 😞
Neutral Sword may become a real deck, finally! Also, just noticed, in Japanese text, it says that Alexiel can't take more than 3 damage, but in English it says more than 4.
Unfortunately I don't think so. Sword will still be bullied out of rotation because buff just outboard them and by turn 5 sword is already dead on board
Roland amulet seem not worth since we know there are alot of board wipes, bane and -/- stat exist and run almost in any deck But roland eff it self is insane But I'm not sure if it enough to push neutral sword to top tier As for alexiel the fanfare eff will hard to pull off since both haven deck is heavy evo point usage and don't have tool to recover evo point Dragon support is insane and I still believe buff dragon will be staying at tier 1 while big dragon will be scarier than ever Day 1 will be full of evo deck
does Dyne complete replace Eon as unboard locking? Other than that, I am happy to see sword getting some good support, hopefully I can (1% maybe) compete against dragon
I’m glad to see another evolve payoff for neutral sword but it’s not what neutral sword needs. Roland doesn’t fix neutral swords problems. The deck is a tempo control deck that lacks finishers if the opponent can consistently clear your board and heal the chip damage. It also doesn’t solve its really awkward turn 7 where all of neutral swords damage cards are even play points (dashing is 2, Alice is 4 or 2, twofold is 2, grim or is 4). She can help the at turn 8 for allowing your Alice hit face by potentially clearing 2-3 wards followed by grimnir for 12-15 damage but that’s not an OTK threshold. She heals for three which helps the staying alive plan with harbinger being Gilnelese at home. Draw 2 is nice but the deck could draw through itself very consistently already since most of the cards cycled already. Like, I have potentially decked myself against under 10 blood. She’s also a commander so it’s hard to say if that’s a good or bad thing since pre-Charlemagne, it makes troya less reliable but post Charlemagne, troya can finally be useful and not pull a deadish card. The amulet can potentially lock opponent’s hands with the notable cards being synthetic eden, Durga and celestial but most of the current meta decks do not target to clear including neutral sword itself. They either crash or deal 5 damage which is a defence threshold that only two cards in the deck get above; dashing with a +1 defence buff and Alice where the former is taking a buffing spell (it happens when you brick or need a ward) and the latter needs to hit something to refund the play points so she goes back under the 5 defence threshold. All the deck needed was a 2 play point 3 damage board clearer that doesn’t need an evo then the deck could finally have a reliable otk turn 8 if you include tsukuyomi coming back which is pretty easy to set up since the opponent needs to always deal with neutrals on the field since they represent 6 damage each.
Rally need board wipes to answer for the current meta especially against buff dragon And since drazael is still in rotation I think it will be hard for rally
@@imnotpatrick4043Yeah. I can’t deal with Heal Haven or Buff Dragon at all. I think it needs a decent burst heal on top of board wipe. Lily just completely destroying the deck also sucks. I dread it when facing Forest and I just have to hope they don’t infinitely recur Lily.
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Alexiel does look to be VERY strong. Not only can she not be killed by effects, but can only take up to 3 damage at a time. With Heal Haven being a thing, it may be likely that she survives your opponent's turn. It makes sense why they added the requirement of having more evolution points than your opponent by turn 6, which depending on the deck, is difficult.
Now the scary thing is at turn 8, where Haven often plays Aether into Jeanne for a 0pp play, if you add Jeanne's "Reduce damage from effects to 0. To an already tanky body that Alexiel possesses, it makes going through her that much harder. Thankfully you can still transform her, or go through her with Dune Surfer.
provide that she even survive the previous turn, we're talking about a 6 6/8 Storm Ward (no i aint gonna talk about her "cant be destroyed" becuz its simply not practical, you will never have more EP than your opponent as Haven unless you brick, and that's a far worse problem than not getting this shiet immunity). She would have been tolerable if she also have cant be targeted, but alas as it stand even a casual 2pp Inverse will stop her, or class specific like Lily. And no, its not "depend on the deck", both Heal and Laina need Evo ASAP for their Leader eff, and Amulet have no business running this brick when they already being threatend by the new Dragon spell.
@@tienvu1282 You saying that, "you'll never have more EP than your opponent as Haven," and that you don't count it because "it's not practical," is just a skill issue of your part.
You can totally have more evo points than your opponent, it's the reason why Laina plays the Twins over Kyrie, heck, you can even go Goddess on turn 4 into Alexiel on turn 5. The deck even has Cottontail for a free evolve, and Twofold grace for an extra evo point.
While I'll give it to you that it is unlikely that she'll find a home with our current Heal Haven deck, same with Amulet, as neither of them really need her. You also failed to mention Evo Haven, which generally doesn't even use their Evo points due to how most of their cards evolve by themselves.
I don't like this mindset that a card is dead in the water because some card immediately counters them, not every deck even runs the counters, they don't automatically have it in their hand, and even if they do, using 2 or more play points to deal with this card can be good enough (since she'll likely hit face for 6/8), considering by next turn they'll have to deal with Jeanne.
Do note, I'm not saying she'll be broken, I'm not even saying that she'll be playable.
@@LikeAFemaleDog and where is that Evo Haven you mention? If they can't fit in a decent deck, they might as well not exist. Even in Laina deck, which supposedly could use this, Cottontail is a far better T6 play both by herself or as a Pendulum target. Also, both scenarios that you even mention that she could be decent is highroll at best (2x Twin in hand, Goddess in hand and go 2nd) or detrimental at worst (when will you Evo Laina if its not the first Evo turn you get, unless you're facing Big Dragon which usually don't have any followers until their 10pp turn?). And Evo deck? Pfft, you're mentioning me a deck that could only otk in T9+?
@@tienvu1282 Evo was (decently) popular throughout the introduction of Apostle. It not being popular right now does not mean they can't be once new cards, or new balances changes get introduced. Similar to how Enhance got brought back into the meta with the changes to Judith. Not sure why you're using this as an argument.
Laina herself, being a control deck, often only wins past turn 9. So again, not sure why you're using that as an argument to disservice Evo-Haven, when they often win on turn 8-9.
Lastly, I wouldn't even call it a highroll, they were just examples against your previous argument, of which you didn't really refute.
gonna cook alexiel on my evo heal haven deck im just not sure what to replace. she definitely gonna be helpful if i overpull aether by the turn 7.
Roland on turn 6, Fearful Fighter on turn 7. Now you get untargetable can't be attacked Fearful Fighter. The only way to clear it is random destroy or doing random damage twice.
I feel like finale dragoon would make a good addition to big dragon on relic on 5 or 6 play points. It would make celestial and relic play on the same turn
IMO, Just consider that Alexiel never has fanfare effects, since it really rarely to have UNUSED evo points on T6 since broken leader effect in this craft came from evolving followers.
Holy crap! If that accelerate effect for the first one is right, that's going to be amazing for Artifacts in Unlimited! Getting board locked when they go off is a big issue and being able to clear your board for 1 and killing enemy followers as a bonus?! You also get to trigger all of your death triggers to get more artifacts.
Oh gosh! That second one is dumb good!
I just realized these cards can't be played in Unlimited. Dang it! I wish that sword follower could be played at least! Sword needs it!
>Sword use Durrandal
>Portal: "ARTIFACTS BLAST!!!"
>Dragon: "NEW LIGHTNING BLAST!!!"
Hope you can vet more Havencraft cards for your dragon to make it stronger.
Always liked the art of the Sword token follower, so it's pretty cool to have her back. Her being zero cost and buff ally, that's potentially +10 to Peerless Warrior evo, or 14 if Dei survives. Could this secretly (LOL🤣) be Peerless support?! Roland's anti-targeting also increases board survival rate, so that's kinda Peerless support too? 😂
Otherwise absolutely nothing for UL to play with. 😞
all the cards revealed has been crazy and there's havencraft reveal
Neutral Sword may become a real deck, finally!
Also, just noticed, in Japanese text, it says that Alexiel can't take more than 3 damage, but in English it says more than 4.
Unfortunately I don't think so. Sword will still be bullied out of rotation because buff just outboard them and by turn 5 sword is already dead on board
@@ShadowWalker-ng1it I'm not sure what are you talking about. Neutral Sword already does just fine against buff by spamming good evo board every turn.
Roland amulet seem not worth since we know there are alot of board wipes, bane and -/- stat exist and run almost in any deck
But roland eff it self is insane
But I'm not sure if it enough to push neutral sword to top tier
As for alexiel the fanfare eff will hard to pull off since both haven deck is heavy evo point usage and don't have tool to recover evo point
Dragon support is insane and I still believe buff dragon will be staying at tier 1 while big dragon will be scarier than ever
Day 1 will be full of evo deck
Alexia definitely I will play her in my Laina/Big Heaven deck
does Dyne complete replace Eon as unboard locking? Other than that, I am happy to see sword getting some good support, hopefully I can (1% maybe) compete against dragon
Can't wait to try out the 3pp dragon in hajimens OTK dragon xD
I’m glad to see another evolve payoff for neutral sword but it’s not what neutral sword needs. Roland doesn’t fix neutral swords problems. The deck is a tempo control deck that lacks finishers if the opponent can consistently clear your board and heal the chip damage. It also doesn’t solve its really awkward turn 7 where all of neutral swords damage cards are even play points (dashing is 2, Alice is 4 or 2, twofold is 2, grim or is 4). She can help the at turn 8 for allowing your Alice hit face by potentially clearing 2-3 wards followed by grimnir for 12-15 damage but that’s not an OTK threshold. She heals for three which helps the staying alive plan with harbinger being Gilnelese at home. Draw 2 is nice but the deck could draw through itself very consistently already since most of the cards cycled already. Like, I have potentially decked myself against under 10 blood. She’s also a commander so it’s hard to say if that’s a good or bad thing since pre-Charlemagne, it makes troya less reliable but post Charlemagne, troya can finally be useful and not pull a deadish card.
The amulet can potentially lock opponent’s hands with the notable cards being synthetic eden, Durga and celestial but most of the current meta decks do not target to clear including neutral sword itself. They either crash or deal 5 damage which is a defence threshold that only two cards in the deck get above; dashing with a +1 defence buff and Alice where the former is taking a buffing spell (it happens when you brick or need a ward) and the latter needs to hit something to refund the play points so she goes back under the 5 defence threshold.
All the deck needed was a 2 play point 3 damage board clearer that doesn’t need an evo then the deck could finally have a reliable otk turn 8 if you include tsukuyomi coming back which is pretty easy to set up since the opponent needs to always deal with neutrals on the field since they represent 6 damage each.
Durandal makes lilis Transformation effect useless, which is un my opinion an absolute win.
I just wanted Rally support 😭
Rally need board wipes to answer for the current meta especially against buff dragon
And since drazael is still in rotation I think it will be hard for rally
@@imnotpatrick4043Yeah. I can’t deal with Heal Haven or Buff Dragon at all. I think it needs a decent burst heal on top of board wipe. Lily just completely destroying the deck also sucks. I dread it when facing Forest and I just have to hope they don’t infinitely recur Lily.
Can they just give spellboost to dragon now? KMR loves dragon so much 😢
Durandalls defo annoying, it might make me pick stampede with dragon shrine
DRAAAAAAAAAAAGON.
Play alexiel then next turn get hit with drazael or heavenscale dragon 💀
Haven gonna be annoying going first