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Added a deck list, maybe discard combod with marine? Not getting much luck though. I'd like to avoid ramp and focus on marine even if it's worse.

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Got 100 packs from chest and back to back to back 3 tickets

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(Forest deck taken from SVLabo, Sword deck taken from ShadowverseWins.)

I've been trying out lots of decks ever since this new set came out, and, win streak wise, I have most success with Forest and Sword (Funny enough, both streaks ended at 8 wins). At first, I wanted to share my experience with Forest (cause I have more fun with it), but I figured I'm just going to compare Forest with Sword because I saw a post asking which one is 'better'.

Essentially, at its core, both decks are essentially the same: they flood the board, they go face. One with pixies, one with officers. They both have storm finishers too. Also, from my experience, they're both strong decks. (Disclaimer: Still early week in set, who knows how meta will change in the future.)

I believe that these two decks are different in basically three things: strength, difficulty, and fun.

Q: Which deck is stronger?

A: Sword. Simply because I don't think Sword has any clear weakness. Unless I missed any matchup, generally Sword always has a chance to win. Meanwhile, when I played Forest, I just lost when I met Haven (they have lots of heals, Zoe for board clear, lots of sevo). Forest, imo, has a clear weakness while Sword don't. (Though, at the same time, Forest has strengths to it that makes it different from Sword, which I'll get into later.)

Q: Which deck is more difficult?

A: Forest. But there and then when I say difficult, it's not like it's Roach level of difficulty. It's just that, to me, Sword deck is a pretty autopilot deck. Every turn, it seems that there's always a clear best play, and you just gotta play it.

Q: Which deck is more fun?

A: If we define fun as having more interesting decision making, Forest. Again, Sword is autopilot imo. Forest meanwhile, there are uncertainties and reads that make the decision more interesting. E.g.: The 5pp summon 2 2 cost follower is random, figuring out whether it's worth it risk playing it is fun. Also, there are some situations where you need to figure out when best to attack with ambush followers. Do you attack now? Or let it stay so you can buff them next turn at the risk of enemy possibly clearing it? Also, for the evo, do you save it for Althenia, or do you use it for the 5pp lego? There's just more decisions to be made. When you make the right decision and the luck is aligned, the game can end way faster than Sword. One game, I won against Dragon on t5 lol. (If you hate Dragon, I'm quite sure Forest basically 'counters' dragon, or just a favorable matchup.)

As to which deck is better overall, it's like... watching a movie I guess. If you want an action movie without deep plot, watch John Wick, it's enjoyable. That's sword. If you want an action movie with (relative) deeper plot, watch Mission Impossible, it's also enjoyable. At the end of the day, it's preference~

Thanks for reading!

Edit: Someone in the comments pointed out that Sword loses to Haven. To which, I checked my Sword matches and... I missed that matchup. No experience on how good Sword fares against Haven, but I suppose it'll have the same problem as Forest. Sorry for the miss.

Here's a link for anyone want to check it out https://x.com/Roki_Ct/status/2073176980145745962

I'm not playing mode abyss that much so idk how he get 0 cost ghost tho.

Edited : https://www.twitch.tv/videos/2811080678 time stamp is around 00.50. he has 2 ruyleeneye spell because 2 turn earlier, he played luna(ceres) so he can play double ruyleeneye in previous turn and use 1 summon spell to pressure rune to not drop sandy carelessly.

he didn't post his decklist but seems like it's mostly just your usual mode abyss but with ghost dodger, ceres, and that new 2pp spell(eff and flow?) in the mix.

Hi just sharing some screenshots of my account progress to look back on. It's been a fun year; I didn't play the original Shadowverse but can see myself playing this for a long time.

One way in which I play differently from most players is that I haven't crafted any cards nor bought any packs.

I mostly just do it for the thrill of a draft-like feeling, where I often pull additional cards of the free packs that I can then update my decks with. This means I don't get to play with optimal decks but I can usually get something that still works quite well.

Folks might be surprised by how many cards you can get just through the daily and free packs, but I'm sharing my collection and pack points below as a record. I'm consistently missing only around 3 cards for collection per set.

https://preview.redd.it/6moyub3e99bh1.png?width=1302&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4cc6e8a83a24f9c8e3a2f7ae913c9e77c454d47

These are my collection numbers and should also accurately reflect around how many packs they gave out per expansion - except for the Blossoming Fate set, in which I received 100 packs from the Park, but I spent 70 of them on them on the Frieren collab (and didn't get any leader :3), so net around 30 additional pack points which was not supposed to be given out.

I've gotten pretty lucky this current set (Chronicle of Destiny) and pulled a lot of legendaries already, but can still see all my collections are quite consistently only missing a couple cards.

https://preview.redd.it/3hkstnj859bh1.png?width=1851&format=png&auto=webp&s=4605450b3c301365a687082dc0c96808b21218ce

In terms of total resources, I've just crossed 300k gold and have around 360k vials (without disenchanting any premium cards). This should give folks an estimate of how much progress and be made just through f2p and pulling daily packs. I don't participate in the weekly tournaments often and sometimes don't complete the daily missions, so theoretically could be bit higher if you're able to do so.

All in all quite happy with the game and the year so far. I don't normally play much ranked but for some reason with the Anniversary Take Two, I've been kind of addicted and playing a lot.

I'm only Master 3 and have never been Grandmaster but thinking this will be my first set going for it!

Anyways just wanted to share some collection stats and screenshots to look back on.

Have a good one

Been having quite a bit of fun with Mode Abyss, but I’m not so sure about having 2 copies of that many different cards. Any suggestions on what to keep/remove or is this fine?