Grand Dreams

In my last article I wrote about how the Uma Museme set wasn't exactly setting the stage alight with its combination of card draw and mediocre beats, but it only took the player base another two weeks and a Grand Prix to change that story.  H.E.A.L.T.H.Y The top 8 finalists of GP Yokohama were equally split between Dragon and Uma Musume, with the title eventually going to Dragon. What changed? The tuned deck that has emerged is quite aggressive with a lot of deck speed (ability to draw and filter their cards), so overall it provides a very consistent game plan featuring big bodies and a solid top end. It seems to be able to pull together the best of a few different classes, with the card selection and cheap removal of Rune, the finishing power of Dragon/Sword, and the indiscriminate removal of Nightmare. It's a mid-rangey aggressive deck but with better follower stats than the Nightmare aggro deck and has forced the small-ball style aggro out of the meta, leaving Dragon to flou...

 This week is the first week that the new Uma Masume collaboration set is legal, but instead of buying all the hype around the new horse-trainer anime cards I took my trusty elves to Cardlab to show them that when it comes to horse riding, elves do it best. There really is an anime for everything The new set is unique in a few different ways. You can legally construct a deck using cards across all the different factions as long as they're all from this Uma Masume set. Or, as normal, you can pick a faction and include the Uma Masume cards from that faction with your regular Shadowverse Evolve cards. It also brings a new version of evolve called Racing, where you jam a carrot card under them (into them? Still unclear) and they "begin racing", which gives Rush and triggers various effects. I largely ignored the new set because I didn't really see anything worth including for my Elves, and with no interest in building the Uma deck it was a little bit tl;dr for me. Onto th...