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Old player with an empty wallet

#1

I’ve been playing this game for a while, took a break, and returned recently. A lot of things have changed, so I joined the forums to figure out what happened while I was gone. Might as well make a grand entrance.

So hey, my name is Halcyon, nice to meet you all. I’m writing this from China, in a pretty unremarkable part of town. The internet is making quite a struggle trying to sustain all my safari tabs, so give it some words of encouragement while you’re here.

Anyways, it was a pleasure making your acquaintance. I’m sure we’ll get along just fine, as long as you’re not a Vanar main. Guys, it’s a joke. So make me feel welcome here, will you? Thanks, pumpkin.

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#2

Welcome to the forums, it is a nice place full of friendly people although beware of this thread unless you plan on losing your sanity.

When did you quit playing and what factions do you usually use? I will need to know to tell you what has changed since then.

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#3

Welcome, feel free to ask whatever can be useful for a returning player! Some cool guy of the community will certainly help :wink:

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#4

Hi Halcyon,

I remember you from Hsuku’s stream. Good to have you back :slight_smile:

Hope you get better wifi soon :wink:

If you are looking for resources, I can only recommend the wiki. It has the biggest up to date collection of guides and decklists: https://duelyst.gamepedia.com/Guides

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#5

I quit playing before the big Bandai Namco publishing… So must have been at least 2 or 3 months. I’m quite familiar with anything before the latest expansion, however. I use Heal Zir’an, and as a budget player, I can’t start to make any other factions.

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#6

Welcome back man, I remember you!

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#7

It seams like you left during the Arcanyst Vanar meta (which is quite understandable). Since then Circulus was changed to a 1/1, Bandai Namco showed up and changed the names of many cards as well as introducing Diamonds and banning several countries from playing Duelyst.

The latest expansion gave Zir’an multiple ways to create Hallowed Ground (a tile like Shadow creap except it heals you for 1 at the end of your turn instead of damaging your opponent) most of them are quite nice cards IMO (although you might want to take my advice with a grain of salt because I don’t play Healynor).

Vanar mostly quit playing arcanysts and switched to walls, they got luminous charge a 5 mana summon 5 0/1 walls that blow up on you if you kill them and Flawless reflection a 7 mana card that when comboed with Ghost Seraphim lets them turn a lot of walls into Ghost Seraphims with rush

Songhai sometimes use their old decks (8gates, one woman army) sometimes they play other decks like midrange Songhai and the new mantrahai which (tries) to abuse the new card Firestorm Mantra (6 mana Steal 2 health from the enemy general for each spell cast this turn) and abjudicater to do some flashy combo and kill you from 20 health (assuming they pull off the combo properly).

Vetruvians got azure summoning which lets them make a big combo that summons 3 skywings and 3 Dragonlarks for 6 mana, usually the aforementioned combo is used in golem decks which have became quite popular lately. They also got some new obelysks and a way to undispell obelysks.

Magmar is mostly playing the same decks they were when you left.

Abyssians play aggro almost all the time now. They got Phantasm (2 mana 3/2 whenever your opponent summons a minion give a random minion in your action bar +2 attack) which leads to 10+ attack tigers if left unanswered.

I tried to point out the most notable changes since you left although I probably forgot some stuff. If you have any questions feel free to ask and someone will answer.
Overall, the Meta now is much better than it was when you left, and I hope you will enjoy Duelyst.

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#8

You forgot Desolator in abyss, which makes any deck stong

(4 mana 3/1 opening gambit: steal 2 health from the enemy general dying wish: put a Desolator in your action bar)

…just never play this thing on curve.

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#9

Alright. Glad to hear that the meta is healthier now. I’m quite enjoying the Hallowed Grounds mechanic; works like a charm with Sunrisers and Sun Sisters. Anyways, thanks for helping out. Peace.

#10

Don’t listen to him, play it on curve followed by Sacrifice, you will make a +2/-2, get it safely back in hand away from dispels and … have a nice SpecRev to cast on next turn, Abyssian 101 :slight_smile:

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#11

I’ll never play Abyssian anyways. Desolator seems like a pretty powerful card, nonetheless.

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#12

Hello Halcyon! I’m also an old player who came back recently :smiley: MY current pattern is that i play the game for 2-3 months and stop every 6 months. I’m loving the latest expansion though, so I think I’ll be around for long :smiley: well, as long as >>insert duelyst lifespan<<

I only found the forums recently and i’ve been joining all sort of conversations . Mostly the ones that has a lot of salt now that i think about it -_-

See you around!

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