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I have been hating things, people, objects and abstract concepts for 36 years now and counting. I have experience.

Green haters are just purple hating tourists.

To truly hate something, you need time, you need constant interaction with the thing you hate, you need to accumulate bad experiences and thoughts about what you hate.

You can't just hate something because it's annoying. You need to understand it and comprehend it in order to fundamentally hate it.

Like hating a person. Until each breath they take puts you on edge, after 25 years of hearing them be a filthy mouth breather, you can't truly hate them.

For 3/4 sets, no one ever hated green or thought it was particularly good. Purple was the thing to hate, the thing we learned to hate, to truly fundamentally hate.

Purple didn't have a single annoying thing, it had everything. If the opponent played 10 cards, probably 9 were broken and unfair. Proof of this is that every single round of bans hit purple specifically and way harder than anything else.

But everyone knew this, everyone hated purple and it became mainstream and boring. So people shifted to hating green recently seeking that thrill of hating something new.

But this is just a passing fancy. Green is not purple, it will never be, Riot loves purple too much, half their employees have coloured hair.

This recent green hate is just purple haters being bored, and is not justified at all.

You have never felt hate for a discipline the same way you did for a star crossed.

Defy might be annoying once a game, but Fizz will own you 7 rounds in a row. These are not the same.

Ah but Fizz and Stelacorn.. No! These are not comparable. Stelacorn does nothing on entry, can hardly be moved the same turn in comes in, and is mostly 4 wasted energy as it gets killed or crossed 80% on the same turn it comes in. Fizz will own you when it comes in and likely be starcrossed that same turn and replayed for a double pawnage in a single turn.

Resuming, green haters are just tourist purple haters and not real haters at all. It's just a passing fad to hate on green.

I think honest Aurora decks - the ones that actually play multiple units, ramp, and use Aurora as a payoff - are not problematic, like this Fiora deck running around. The problem, of course, is the unending wave of Elder Dragons we are seeing, which Aurora is abusing.

I think one simple rules change would solve the toxic Aurora issue: if you have no units left in your deck, make it so Aurora burns you out and your opponent scores a point.

Recycling cards back to the deck was supposed to be a downside on cards, like Ekko (which also didn't work out), where sending things back was meant to make you "never" see them again. But with Aurora, this downside is completely flipped into a massive payoff because it gives you infinite value loops with zero penalty.

I also don't think it's absurd to think this is how it should work. I heard many players express surprise when they find out how it currently works. If you have to look at cards in your deck but there are none left, that should also burn you out.

Playing at my local skirmish and trying out a new kha'zix deck

Round 1, I match into Jayce Aurora. It's not my favourite match up as a Rengar main but I've got star-crossed and fizz to help this time. Game 1 is a close match but I wasn't able to stop the aurora from coming down and got overrun by dragons.

Game 2: I sabotage my opponent the turn before they can play Aurora and take the aurora. My opponent plays clairvoyance leaving 3 on top and mobilize. I hid a here to help with fizz in hand and passed. My opponent starts off with a bellows on my backline and I respond with the here to help to play the fizz to play the sabotage in the trash and snipe the second aurora. They had an empowered platewyrm egg so they were still able to hard cast an elder in hand but I had the star crossed to save the few units that didn't die. On my turn I start to redevelop and pass. My opponent top decks the 3rd aurora and proceeds to demolish me from there.

Sometimes you're just not meant to win, I was so furious but could help but laugh with my opponent at the sequence of events. Still managed to make the top 8 for prizing so I'll take it.

I'm new to the game and looking to get started. Have cracked some packs of previous sets and read through the basic rules but haven't played at my LGS yet. I have played many other TCGs though. Is pre-rift a good event for a new player to attend or will I be out of my depth playing sealed to start? Was thinking about going to a Radiance pre-rift in a couple weeks. Thanks!

I truly believe we arnt even close to touching the potential of RB yet. A lot of these cards are obviously carried by LoR art but I truly can’t wait for this game to get its own fully themed out sets with art that follows the theme kinda like Magic. I’m looking forward to us getting past this “phase 1” part of Riftbound where we are still in the getting out of LoRs shadow (art wise) and becoming its own fully fleshed out tcg. It’s crazy how RB has grown so much without really showing its full potential personally sets feel kinda themed but they also kinda feel taped together with the incredible art from LoR.
I’m new to tcgs so what are you guys personally looking forward to RB doing once we start developing our own stuff. Use examples from other tcgs would love to hear it!

When I opened 36 packs of Vendetta and got 6 Zed legends, 3 of each Zed Champion unit and an alt art, I knew someone at Rito wanted me to play this MF. How's he doing in standard? Any of you guys tried him? I've only played 1 full game with him and I got 2-0'd by Viktor with 2 Thousand Tails and 2 yellow Vis lol. Could use whatever tips and tricks you guys have!

So lets say k'sante dauntless defends or attacks twice in 1 turn, can he double shield each time? or does it only work once?

Also as a side note, if you play a block after the trigger, will the unit still receive double shield for the rest of the turn?

Edit: the main idea I'm thinking is using neeko to copy the akali legend, then attacking with k'sante, pulling back with neeko/akali and then attacking again for x4 shield/assault.

Just imagine playing this beautiful card on a Ruin Runner and sending it into a Green/Purple battlefield. [EDIT: didn't mean for the card to be gigantic lol]

https://preview.redd.it/w6hmo2vfrjth1.png?width=343&format=png&auto=webp&s=8dc62aeebaf07e2cb227469ddb81e50b14a267fd

There's this battle field that deals 1 damage to the units in them in the beginning phase. If I cast TTW, and their might got reduced to 1 does that kill them because they already have 1 damage in?