u/Dependent_Note7548

I've hit 100 games with my take on Panda Songs and have made a few tweaks from the traditional list that I wanted to highlight that I have found have made the deck more resillient against the meta. My version is currently at a 55% win rate over the 100 games, with a 62% wr on the play and a 49% wr on the draw, which I think are not particularly bad stats for an off meta brew. Here are the changes I've made.

- Removing most of the low cost Singers: Ive found most of the songs in the deck either can't or don't want to be cast earlier than turn 4 in the deck, and even if they do a shifted meilin or Sun Yee can do that job, so I've found no real reason to keep these in and therefore have other fun things I can include.

- Using the 3 cost Powerline as well as the 2 Cost: The Powerline Shift is how you set up a massive board clear early game and gain an enormous amount of tempo. Since this is the primary goal of the deck, getting down a shift target is crucial. Since playing the shift target on turn 3 is most optimal as it gives the least room to interact with it, playing the 2 cost powerline is a waste of ink (and the singer isn't super relavent as mentioned earlier.) The final piece that makes it worthwhile (besides the rush which comes in handy sometimes) when thinking of the meta is Angel. On times when you are on the draw and the opponent has the t4 Angel, that one extra point of willpower is a godsend.

- Be Our Guest and Moon Lullaby instead of Akood: I kept getting uninkable screwed plain and simple. Ok, its not actually that simple. The copies of Be Our Guest help pad out the likelyhood of a powerline or a meilin shift early in case of emergency, and hitting off of a Mash Up Trigger from Big Powerline has felt much better than hitting Akood. Finally, it helps you find Mowglis in the instance of a potential Under the Sea crisis or the halves of the Pocahontas shift (which I'll get to in a second.) As for Della's Moon Lullaby, It also feels nicer to hit off of Mashup since it protects your exerted powerline while drawing a card, and it also can be backbreaking in tandem with grab you bow, feeling almost like a mini Under the Sea.

- The Pocahontas Shiftline and Aurora: Purple Steel Droids was the bane of this decks existance, After being brickwalled enough times with a pile of Look at this families and be our guests in my hand I realized "what if these occasionally spun into something that shut down the board control for a turn?" and that flipped the script. Both halves of the shift are inkable so they make for great early ink accumulation, and you already see so much of your deck at a time that finding the two halves isn't all that difficult. With the inclusion of the two princesses, I added a few copies of Aurora to cheapen them in a pinch, as well as getting an early boosted Ariel every once and awhile. I believe including them in the songs list is the optimal move at the monent for the sheer power spike potential (at least until Hyperia City drops)

If you've made it this far thank you for reading my breakdown of a deck I truly love and have faith in for my trek to set championships Please be sure to leave me any thoughts or suggestions!

So after getting in to full brewing mode I decided to take a crack at building myself an aggro deck. Turns out the princess package meshes pretty well with the Meilin package. It also turns out having turn 1 besties assemble to find any missing pieces, turn 2 small Poca play a free small Meilin, turn 3 shift and sing whatever big dumb song I want while still gaining lore and potentially removing things is a string gameplay loop. Additionally, the large Poca shift to protect the smaller Meilins and keep the songs churning is a powerful late game slam.

I loved playing Lorcana during the first four sets, but fell off of the game for the middle for sets until I got a job at an LGS and needed a deck for play night. After looking at the meta a bit and knowing how I like to play I designed a version of the Ruby Steel Location deck that had a more control shell to it, being able to leverage cards I was pitching to pick off threats in the discard piles with Merida and Fergus, while also having inevitable lore generation ticking up with locations and obnoxious threats like Lilo. The deck has been pretty consistent and solid on play nights and has been a blast to play, so I was just wondering if anyone had an suggestions for small tweaks for post rotation even including attack of the vine.