u/Accomplished_Ice2236

We haven't seen all the new cards from IAR yet, but I was thinking about picking up the new Viserai SAGE precon. However, looking at the new 0-cost cards playable from the banish zone, I started wondering if it wouldn't just be better to run them in Chane instead.

The new Viserai banishes cards conditionally and requires yet another condition to trigger "traverse" to give go again to your next attack (which needs to have Blood Debt). After that, if you want to go back to banishing cards, there's another condition to activate traverse and flip back to his main side. It's true that the new cards feature the Usurp mechanic, but whenever I try to map out lines to use Usurp in SAGE, I keep thinking of cards that really need go again—and Chane just enables that way better than the new Viserai, across a wider variety of card types. Viserai's only real upside seems to be that his banish engine is more predictable.

The heavy overlap between these two heroes is almost making me think that Chane—even though he's nowhere near as dominant as people expected—might get benched by LSS.

What do you think?

Using Dice Commando's video as a starting point for discussion.

https://youtu.be/OJ\_Ozh7AF0s?is=w\_xga4lppqmxIlqB

What do you all think the power levels look like in SAGE right now?

Personally, I would have definitely swapped Blaze with Oscilio, and I’d move Aurora down a tier.

What are your thoughts for the Skirmish season?

Che ne pensate del cammino neocatecumenale? Ho sempre avuto un certo pregiudizio nei confronti di coloro che intraprendevano il cammino, soprattutto per quanto riguarda il rilievo dato alle dinamiche settarie. Tuttavia, conoscendo alcuni partecipanti di giovane età ho notato l'esatto opposto: sembra che l'adesione sia frutto più di abitudini familiari che di un forte trasporto ideologico. È come se la carica alla partecipazione si affievolisca nelle generazioni successive. Che ne pensate?

I played Vynnset in Silver Age for the entire last season. Along with Iyslander, Vynnset was the deck I performed best with, so I’d like to think I know how to pilot it well, even if I'm not a veteran. All this to say, I'm already very familiar with the Runegate mechanic and the Runeblade archetype in general.

After the recent bans, I decided to switch to Chane, who is widely considered a powerhouse and a highly polarizing hero. I picked up the most recent post-ban community lists from Fabrary, but I just can't seem to feel that level of power everyone talks about. Honestly, Vynnset felt like she was better at both attacking and defending.

What could be the reason behind this?

Am I just not skilled enough to pilot Chane? Are the current lists not fully optimized yet? Or did the bans actually succeed in keeping his power level in check?