Sirus Quince is the Chief Justice of the Peace of Flagstone. They are saying he speaks the reality and is liked by all. He’s a well-liked and profitable politician, although all of his energy is definitely from lies and phantasm. In his youthful years, he was a lawyer who confronted DeGrey in court docket. Now the court docket is in his pocket and he is taken the very best workplace within the land. Right here is the Reality hero:
Quince has so much happening. He comes with a 0/1 Mirror Phantasm token, so you need to use that as a patroller for some further protection in the event you want, however ideally you’ll save your mirror. It’s fragile although as a result of it’s an Phantasm. All Illusions in Codex die instantly in the event you goal them with a spell or potential.
The explanation you wish to maintain your Mirror Phantasm round is that when you attain stage 3, you possibly can have your Mirror copy one other unit in play. You’ll lose it on the finish of the flip, however you possibly can probably get some nice worth out if it. Your opponent will probably be hesitant to even play actually highly effective models, reminiscent of a Rampaging Elephant or one thing, realizing that you could possibly make a mirror picture of it at any time. This can be a type of management in that it is making the opponent afraid to play methods involving only a few, highly effective models.
At max stage, Quince will get much more Mirror Phantasm tips. At that time, you don’t even should pay any gold to make your Mirror into a duplicate of a unit you simply performed. This potential may even create Phantasm copies of tech III models!
Talking of copying models, you may also try this with this spell from the blue starter deck:
Manufactured Reality is a part of how one can survive the early recreation with blue. The opponent might need extra highly effective models than you, however you possibly can COPY theirs and go for a commerce.
Quince’s spells provide much more tips with Illusions. Do you see what this spell is for?
By itself, it doesn’t actually do a lot to show one thing into an Phantasm. You really want to combo that with one thing else that targets the factor (search for the goal icon to know what targets). When you can flip one thing into an Phantasm, *then* goal it then it can die. One combo right here is Hallucination as combo with one other copy of itself. For 4 gold and a pair of playing cards, that permits you to kill any two (non-tech III) models. Not dangerous, however form of tough to line up your attracts to make that work. This can assist:
Dreamscape stays in play so long as Quince lives, so any later time that you just draw Hallucination enables you to kill two issues. You can too combo both of those two playing cards with any card in any respect that targets issues. A extremely good instance is Drill Sergeant, despite the fact that he’s from a unique blue spec. Keep in mind which you could simply use a hero of 1 spec and a tech II constructing of one other, so this combo is definitely very affordable.
Everytime you play a unit, you’re getting a rune on Drill Sergeant that may probably be used to kill any Phantasm! Quince speaks the Reality, in any case, so in fact it pierces Illusions. And do not forget that underneath Dreamscape, all of your opponent’s models are Illusions. However what if somebody desires to query your Reality and kill your Illusions? Quince has a solution to that too:
With Free Speech, it’s so much more durable to your enemies to pierce your Illusions. You get an entire flip the place they will’t forged spells in any respect, OR use hero talents. Free Speech is definitely typically nice anyway. Yeah it protects your Illusions however it additionally dismantles no matter spell-based plan your opponent was going for. Do not forget that in Codex if they’ve a spell of their hand that they wish to forged, however they will’t forged it due to Free Speech, they’ll should discard it together with the remainder of their hand on the finish of their flip. So it actually is sort of a pre-emptive “counterspell”.
You realize about Quince’s Mirror Illusions, however let’s have a look at a bunch of different Illusions the Reality spec has to supply.
A 3/3 for 1 is a fairly nice deal! Your aim right here is to journey that worth to victory. Drive your opponent to spend extra to take care of your Illusions than you needed to spend to create them. When you can assault with Spectral Hound and deal 3 injury to one thing, you’re in all probability a bit of bit forward from that. When you’re fearful about your Hound dying earlier than he will get to assault, you could possibly put him within the Lookout slot as a patroller. He’ll get resist 1 there so your opponent has to pay 1 further gold to focus on him.
Right here’s one other 1 value Phantasm:
He’s solely a 2/2 however he protects your different Illusions. In the event that they wish to goal considered one of your Illusions to kill it, they’ll have to focus on Spectral Flagbearer first. Why would you wish to try this when Spectral Hound solely prices 1 gold anyway? The reply is as a result of you will have different Illusions to guard. The Mirror Illusions that Quince comes with and likewise your extra highly effective Illusions at tech II, reminiscent of these:
A 5/5 is substantial and a flier is a giant risk as a result of flying is so robust in Codex. You may defend these models from dying to one thing concentrating on them through the use of Spectral Flagbearer or the Free Speech spell, however there’s one other very highly effective layer of safety obtainable to you too:
Macciatus is Quince’s advisor. He’s a mastermind on the artwork of achieving political energy and staying in political energy. Though he works in whispers behind the scenes, he’s been an ideal asset to Quince. Quince speaks a strong Reality, however Macciatus can improve that Reality much more. Your Illusions get +1/+1 AND don’t even die when they’re focused anymore! (Philosophical query: if an Phantasm is focused in a forest and it doesn’t die, is it actually an Phantasm?)
Macciatus is the important thing to the Phantasm plan. He makes your Spectral Hounds into 4/4s for 1. He makes your Spectral Rocs into 5/6s for 4. Do not forget that 5 ATK is a crucial threshold of assault energy as a result of it could destroy a tech I, II, or III constructing in a single hit. In the meantime, your opponent must kill Macciatus earlier than they will simply kill your Illusions. Shield him nevertheless you possibly can, however beware which you could’t have two copies of him in play—he’s a legendary unit.
If you would like the complete combo going, attempt to have a Reteller of Truths within the combine:
Illusions are low cost to play within the first place, however they nonetheless value a card. With Reteller of Truths, they’re nonetheless low cost to play, and so they mainly don’t value a card anymore. This may be an avalanche of worth in the event you maintain this up. Your Illusions appear fragile and simple to kill at first, however that is yet one more perk you possibly can pile on that makes them extremely environment friendly.
The tech III Reality unit is an uncommon one as tech IIIs go:
He solely prices 3 gold, which is the least of any tech III unit within the recreation. He’s so low cost that you just would possibly as properly play two! Every one is a 5/5 flier with haste (a uncommon impact for the blue faction). He places the opponent on a 4 flip clock, however that’s truly solely 3 turns for them to react due to the haste. When you play 2 copies of him, your opponent will solely get another flip earlier than they’re lifeless until they take care of your Liberty Gryphons.
Liberty Gryphon’s further textual content is saying that in the event you simply have one different Phantasm, ANY different Phantasm, then opponents should take care of that first earlier than they will even goal Liberty Gryphon.
Whereas the Regulation spec offers the blue faction cautious management and an eventual lockdown, the Reality spec is your alternative for rushdown and extremely environment friendly kills. And on the identical time, it is providing its personal type of management in which you could shut down spell-based plans and you may make opponents afraid to play huge models. The disadvantage is that counting on Reality additionally makes you weak to being blown out by an opponent who has plenty of concentrating on results and who can cease you from assembling your full set of buffs. You may truly nonetheless put up a stable struggle even in unfavorable matchups with Reality, so the danger isn’t THAT excessive. However to essentially maximize your wins, combine up your construct orders so the opponent doesn’t fairly understand how vital it’s for them to have a bunch of concentrating on results.
And in case you have any complaints in regards to the blue faction, you higher maintain them to your self. Quince speaks the Reality and he’ll implement the Free Speech legal guidelines in the event you go too far.
