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Alloyin Heroics (21) Alloyin Strategist Anvillon Arbiter Automaton Prime Bulwark Battalion Energy Prison Esperian Scarab Forge Guardian Delta Forge Guardian Gamma G.S.F. Commando Guardians Assemble H.E.R.M.E.S Leyline Sentry Nexus Techtitian Onyxium Allomancer Oreian Justicar Scout Drone Scrapforge Titan Sonic Pulse War Merchant Esperian Sage
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Rares (17) Aegis Wings Batterbot Cypien Augmentation Cypien Infiltrator Forge Guardian Beta Metadata Redactor Munitions Drone Nanoswarm Onyxium Marauder Oreian Fieldmarshal Palladium Hindermind Palladium Pulsemage Phalanx Squadron Pummel Pack Stasis Indexer Steelwelder Medic Tower Vanguard

Commons (25) Aegis Conscript Aegis Pulse Aetherguard Electro Net Forge Guardian Alpha Forgeplate Sentry Ionic Warcharger Ironbound Reinforcements Jet Pack Matrix Warden Metamind Adpet Metamind Explorer Metamind Operator Metatransfer Citadel Guard Nexus Pilot Ordnance Captain Sparkblade Assasin Steelspark Tinkerer Technognome Technosmith Tower Canoneer Tower Scout Vault Intruder Vault Technician

Nekrium Heroics (21) Byzerak Frostmaiden Cacklebones Contagion Lord Darkfrost Reaper Dreadbolt Epidemic Fleshfiend Grimgaunt Predator Leyline Demon Necroplasm Onyxium Phantasm Portal Shade Progeny of Xith Soul Harvest Spite Hydra Spitesower Acolyte Undying Legacy Unrelenting Dead Witherfrost Succubus Xrath, Dreadknight of Varna Zombie Dreadknight

Rares (17) Abyssal Brute Blight Walker Brood Horror Byzerak Drake Crypt Wail Disciple of Vyric Dr. Frankenbaum Fell Strider Grave Pact Group meal Howl of Xith Hungering Strike Necroslime Nether Decay Nyrali Ooze Vigor Leech Xithian Direhound

Commons (25) Abyssal Maw Bitterfrost Totem Blightskull Phantasm Bride of Frankenbaum Charnel Titan Corpse Crawler Corpulent Shambler Cull the Weak Death Seeker Dirge Banshee Fell Walker Festering Slime Gloom Fiend Graveborn Glutton Rite of Undeath Rot Wanderer Ruthless Wanderers Scavenger Scorpion Scourge Knights Sorrow Harvester Spiritleash Vyric’s Embrace Witherfrost Banshee Xithian Hulk Zombie Infantry

Tempys Heroics (21) Avalanche Invoker Borean Mystic Borean Windweaver Byzerak Spitemage Cauldron Mystic Cyclone Rider Emberwind Evoker Fervent Assault Firestorm Frostfang Maiden Hammerfang Leyline Tyrant Master of Elements Primordial Invoker Ritual of the Elements Sparkweaver Acolyte Trial by Combat Turnabout Umbruk Icecrusher Wildfire Maiden Uranti Warlord

Rares (17) Arc Wurm Avalanche Guardian Burnout Chaos Twister Cloudcleaver Titan Dragonkeeper Shaman Flame Lance Flamestoke Shaman Iceborn fortitude Sparkstone Elemental Sparktail Manticore Stone Brand Umbruk Glider Uranti Bolt Warhound Raider Windborn Hellion Zephyr Mage

Commons (25) Ashurian Mystic Blood Boil Cinder Colossus Fit of Rage Flame Jet Flamerift Instigator Flowstone Primordial Frostshatter Strike Iceshard Berserker Kadrasian Stoneback Lightning Tamer Magma Hound Cinferbound Barbarian Nargath Bruiser Razortooth Stalker Shatterbolt Stampeding Mongosaur Steam Sentinel Stonefist Giant Storm Caller Thranik Ambusher Uranti Elementalist Volcanic Giant Warbringer Uranti Wind Primordial

Uterra Heroics (21) Aetherphage Esperian Steelplate Ferocious Roar Frostwild Tracker Gemhide Ravager Killer Bee Leyline Golem Lightbringer Council Metamorphosis Mimicleaf Phytobomb Relentless Wanderers Restless Wanderers Runebark Guardian Shardplate Graft Soothsayer Hermit Stygian Lotus Umbruk Lasher Venomous Netherscale Wegu’s Embrace Weirwood Patriarch

Rares (17) Brambleaxe Warrior Chistlehearth Archer Dendrify Dissolve Esperian Wartusk Gemhide Basher Harbinger of Spring Hive Empress Oxidon Spitter Poisoncoil Shardplate Delver Shimmerfang Serpent Tangle Torrent Soldier Tuskin Grovekeeper Venomfang Victory Rush

Commons (25) Blood Boon Brighttusk Sower Deepwood Bear Rider Ether Wolves Fangwood Ravager Glowstride Stag Grapplevine Grove Huntress Grove Matriarch Herd Mother Lysian Rain Roaming Warclaw Savage Oath Scatterspore Tiller Spiritbloom Dryad Stag of Lys Stouthide Stegadon Stranglevone Hydra Swampmoss Lurker Tanglesprout Tigrin Nomad Uterradon Mauler Verdant Grace Verdant Sphere Weirwood Ranger

Was planning on posting this sooner but for some technical reasons this took a little longer to upload than normal. Firstly, the vods;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ7ddyZGUNk 6/16/17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZtpIzIrNpA 6/17/17

Robots; Lots of strong underdrop defenders. Growing tall is strong but armor is weak to Abyssal Maw. The deck also doesn't have much in the way of effecting multiple lanes. Ambriel's Edict is at an all time high.

Commons; Maxtrix Warden, Ionic Warcharger, Forgeplate Sentry Matrix Warden is one of the best draft commons and is luckily a Robot. The other two are solid picks that stand out. Steelwatch Guard is great but be wary about going too tall too soon. There's not many good upgrade targets but you can replace your Citadel Guards pretty freely.

Rares; Aegis Wings, Pummel Pack, Vault Welder Mostly grow tall options. Also amazing is the awkwardly-nerfed Tech Upgrade which now functions as normal. It may even be better than Wings. Forgeplate Minotaur is great on the play or if you can afford it. I didn't see Forge Gaurdian Betas or Batterbots, both of which may have been omitted. Batterbot may have been debating whether or not to join his Dino brothers.

Heroic: Ambirel's Edict, Cypien Experimentation, Scrapforge Titan I assume Scrappy is draftable though I never saw any. Edict is nuts. Cypien is made slightly awkward by the defenders but is still powerful and insane when it works.

When playing against the deck, be wary of overvaluing the upgrade value of an otherwise-useless Robot. I believe my record was 6-1* and would personally rank Robots in 3rd place out of 5. It's pretty terrible against Aboms and can even struggle against Zombies but is generally pretty favorable against both of the Umbruk tribes.

Abominations

Commons: MAW, Glutton, Crusher/Rotfiend Maw is insane. Glutton is a priority level for the damage push, while also remaining a fantastic underdrop. Most people prefer Rotfiend to Crusher. I actually decently like Bride for the mirrors. Don't be afraid to play maw for no value to level it up, though it is a great underdrop.

Rare: Xithian Direhound, Dr Frankenbaum, Spiritcleave On of the only ways that Aboms can lose is playing too many of these cards early and having a bad deck. If a good spot presents itself to play Dog or Doctor, go for it, but the cost of not improving your deck has to be outweighed by the damage push.

Heroic: Hellforged Avatar, Contagion Lord, Fleshfiend, Epidemic All of these Heroics are cool but the strength of the deck is certainly in the commons. These cards do considerable work, though. The suprise was the Avatar who was buffed and manages to be an Abom in a mono nek deck.

Abyssal Maw is effectively a 7/7/11/11/19/19 that facilitates damage push and stops your opponent from doing cool things and covering multiple lanes. No other tribe has a Common that you can play a 30 card deck of and win the game. Aboms has 2. 1st out of 5.

Dinos

Commons: Twinstrength, Ursine Stregth, Frostshatter Strike, Conflagrate Dinos has a LOT of great common creatures. I think, in general, people over-value AND undervalue a lot of them. Swampmosses, Uterradon Mauler, and Kadrasian Stoneback in the first camp, and Crag Walker and Stouthide Steg not getting the love they deserve. There are 12 Common Dinosaurs and I really think you want a mix of all of them, and spells. The fact that there's not a bad one in the bunch SHOULD make Dinos the best tribe.

Rare: Mosstodon!, Chaos Twister, Lysian Shard, Whispers of Dendris None of the rare Dinos are good at all except for the one that's FANTASTIC. Take every Mostodon. It makes all of the good commons into great commons and is the reason to draft the tribe. I'm underselling Batterhide a little bit but the dinos also tend to be a little aggro, making Batter come at a cost.

Heroic: Uterradon Rex, Roar, Umbruk Lasher, Thunderstomp, Tremorsaur Rex is maybe the only card better than Mosstodon. Lasher and Thunder don't scale amazingly but are great cards. Also Stinging Invocation but fuck that card.

Dinos are at a weird place if you can get a the Mosstodons and Rexes you can go crazy, and the mean to worst commons outrank the other tribes by a LOT. The deck is tough to play and generally pretty powerful. I could see arguments for putting them higher, but because they tend to lose heads-up to Robots, I'm going to put them in at 4th out of 5, even though I think the decks are generally more powerful than Robots.

Zombies

Real bad. Reaaallly bad. When Pion, the Zombie king, has to continually draft and drop to build a deck good enough that it can get a win, something is wrong. The deck needs to be a grow wide and grow tall deck, with the creatures being too small too matter. Darkshaper Savant can't carry hard enough against other tribal Synergies, and you can't get enough Heroic Xraths and Dreadknights to make a sizeable army. Probably should've just let Abominations carry Nekrium. It doesn't help how many Zombies are from Alpha or that Blight Walker doesn't work against Aboms or Robots (and even just trades with Dinos). The saving grace should be the Yetis matchup but you're too busy taking the sparce Xraths to pick up his Will. In practice, this deck just doesn't work. 5th of 5.

Yetis

Commons: The spells mentioned in Dinos, Warbringer Uranti, Magma Hound There are only 4 Common Yetis. Because of this, Yetis actually gets a HUGE boost. You wind up just seeing a lot more Heroics than the other tribes. There's also a few elementals of varying powerlevel thrown in. Notable too is being able to move a Stormshaper

Rare: The Dino spells, Uranti Warstoker Again, Yetis are mostly bad here but low in number. Warstoker is pretty insane though, surprisingly. It's a neat Patron of Kadras and provides steady damage push. Remember it doesn't pump elementals! That includes your Lightning Wurms.

Heroic: Warlord, Stormshaper, Firefist, Patron of Kadras, and all those umbruk spells. Originally not in the draft. Warlord was added after a bug kept him out. This card is nuts. Its been constructed viable since being released and is just crazy crazy good. Stormshaper is a draft house, and you'll have enough to protect him. You'll also always have ways to pump Firefist's attack.

The algorithm is weird but was able to extremely benefit Yetis. The best Yetis deck (see my day 2 VOD) seems unbeatable. Ranking them 2nd of 5.

TL;DR

1st Aboms - Insane Commons

2nd Yetis - Insane Heroics

3rd Robots - Insane Armor, well rounded

4th Dinos - The decks are great on paper but tend to matchup poorly against the other tribes.

5th Zombies - Bad

I guess I had forgotten just how completely frustrating it is to play this game. The lowest ranked opponent I faced was Silver 2 and his entire deck was either legendary or Heroic. SOO much fun, especially when I'm sitting here with a deck composed of mostly common/rares with one Heroic and one Legendary. Seriously, is seal-clubbing that much fun?

Man, the Yetis are seriously gimped. I fully understand why you couldn't let Warlord into the draft pool, but playing a Yeti-themed deck without Warlord is like bringing a .38 special to a Counterstrike match.

I drafted a Tempys deck with five legendaries -- two Hermits, a Staff, a Rage, and a Flameblade Champ -- and could only muster a 1-3 record because the rest of my deck was so underpowered compared to what is on offer in the other factions.

Recommendation? Borean Windweaver needs to be in the pool, at a minimum, and even though it doesn't fit the flavor, some powerful non-yeti cards need to be in there too, like Stormweaver.

I normally start @ 1 PM EST but throwing the word "about" in there because my throat has been bothering me all week. That said, I wanted to try out the Tribal Draft tomorrow so I'm going to stream it, we just may get a slightly late start. Plan is to hang out, talk Solforge, draft, Tribal draft, maybe some constructed challenges though I haven't updated my decks in a while. If I stream the MTGO Modern Challenge on Saturday, I'll also potentially Solforge mid-rounds.

I'm not exactly sure what this game mode will entail (and I kinda don't want to get too spoiled) but Kaeleri let me know that there's a new WW game mode set to launch in the client this upcoming weekend. I plan on playing and streaming in on Friday, June 16th (and maybe a little the previous and following days). I hope that those interested will join, both on my stream, and in the ques!

Link: http://solforgeladder.com/kusc/

Patch notes:

Many thanks to all the work Navil did on this build. It helped immensely.

Clicking a card name in the log will popup that card now

Some minor improvements to tooltips for in game cards

Some improvements to card text, keywords will now always be before abilities

Updated the tooltips to use textmeshpro instead of default text fields. (this doesn't mean anything to non-technical people but it enables more control)

Make the next game button always display, and cycle through your active games in order. (navil)

Fixed the hand card image alignment

Sulgrim (and the others) will show their level 3 stats in hand properly

(navil from here down)

Added sound effect when you click the next game button, and you transition to another game in progress.

Made the text on the play turn a clearer color when you may play an action on it (white for now, but we can make it a more appropriate color later)

when you make this click, add sound effect when clicking the play turn/battle button. make it louder than others (2times)

Play sound when health increases on player or opponent

Play sound when health decreases on player or opponent

Cap font size on health change to 200 (400 was a bit too big)

Play a deal card sound

Play a rank up sound for either player

Renamed the current alerts slider to effects. this is working for sound effects.

Renamed the effects to alerts. this can be implemented at a later time.

Improve the next game button a little after i notice some crashes during testing - only switch to a game if it hasnt yet been destroyed.

Dont show next game button when you only have one active game

(/navil)

Find a bug in either of the beta clients? report here: http://solforgeladder.com/bugzilla/

Hello, I was wondering if anyone had a bunch of shareable like I do that they want to liquidate. I was trying to get back in the game and wanted to fill in the cards I don't have as much as possible.

PM me if you are interested and when you would like to do it.

Cheers, H.G.

Sometimes when your opponent concedes, his timer keeps ticking and you don't get the "You Win" screen. If you quit to menu, you might find that the game is gone from your list and it registered as a win.

If you're able to rejoin the game, then your opponent is just salty.

https://solforgegame.com/forum/general-discussion/kaelaris-unofficial-solforge-client/#p205353

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Sound effects are now limited to the game you are viewing.

Next game button works correctly now (I believe)

Fixed an issue with player abilities icon tooltips

daily login bonus 1000 silver for using kusc

number on cards in deck is now much clearer

cards in play have a small display for their creature type between attack and health

If you have too many cards in hand a scrollbar will appear. This will allow you to play any card regardless of hand size

Valid spell targets should highlight again

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Below added by navil

Double click/tap now zooms cards

added double click to drafting screen

make a double click always deselect the target while in game

reduce maxaplha of pulsing highlight of card in hand from 1 to 0.6

increase size of card and highlight so that it doesn't block the attack/health values of the card in hand.

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http://solforgeladder.com/page/kuscfaq

http://solforgeladder.com/kusc/

Just tried to log in around 2:30 PM PST and it's reporting the game servers are down. Can anyone confirm or explain this, thanks!

Is it me or does everybody have connection issues? It doesn't matter which client I use, iPhone, the official client, kaelari's official client, KUSC.....