In the early game you want to blow up your landmarks as quickly as possible to gain the advantage. It has a hefty cost at 8 mana, but once it hit the board in one game I played, it had the keywords Tough, Challenger, and Overwhelm all at once. One card I loved in the deck is The Arsenal, which gains keywords from every other card played - even after it’s played. Next up is Landmark Destruction, which uses Ziggs and Xerath. Defense in the early game will be important for many of these decks. Throughout our early Beyond the Bandlewood gameplay, it was easy to notice that several of these decks could fall short against early aggro. It is susceptible to hard control and early aggro, though. The multi-region deck is a very good mid-range aggro deck that can pivot between pure aggro and Bandle Tree shenanigans. Within a few turns I had won with Bandle Tree, since I already summoned followers from about five regions before it was played. This gave Bandle Tree spellshield, making it even harder to kill. I played a game where Bandle Tree summoned Soothsayer from Shurima. This is a trend we noticed in a lot of the early Beyond the Bandlewood gameplay: many new champions pair very well with older ones. Caitlyn has Flashbang traps, which function similarly, but instead do two points of damage to any follower on the opponent’s board when drawn. When your opponent draws a card with a mushroom on it, they lose a life. Teemo has been around since set one, but, in case you don’t know, he revolves around planting poisonous mushrooms in your opponent’s deck. This deck utilizes Teemo and the new champion Caitlyn. We got to play three games with every deck, and what follows are our early gameplay impressions of each of the new archetypes.įirst up is my personal favorite new deck: traps. This covered all nine of the new champions, as some fit well together in the same deck. Said architypes included traps, multi-region, landmark destruction, pranks, discard, and darkness. During this time we were provided codes to make decks for each of the new archetypes in the set. After our discussion with James Hata and Alexzandros Lee from Riot Games, we got to spend almost three hours with Beyond the Bandlewood in playtesting. The set contains nine new champions, two new keywords, and 126 new cards in total. Yesterday, we provided a sneak peek at the next set for Legends of Runeterra, Beyond the Bandlewood.
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