Like a bag of chips that has been mistakenly left open for too long, this meta has gotten a little stale.  Either the players or the developers didn’t put that little chip clip on the bag and now we’re all a little unhappy.  We could just choose a healthier option, but health is really a small price to pay for stale potato chips.  Each bite absolved completely of the fresh crunch which is itself one of the satisfying features of partaking of potato chips.  It has been replaced with a soft slightly moist resistance to our palette.  For those of you lost in my analogy Vanar is the temped soggy air that has wrought havoc on our once crisp ladder experience.  Not that meta’s don’t grow soggy over time in general, in this instance we live in a world that is overshadowed by Vanar control.

With a new set to be released not soon enough we wait with anticipation, and consider the things we are doing to keep ourselves entertained.  Specifically, I made my cohorts comply with my demands of reviewing why I like a single card a whole lot.  Since the release of Ancient Bonds I have enjoyed nocturne quite a bit.  Perhaps more than I should, but he/it has been a center piece to some of our in show debates for some time.  As such, I payed Jeremy to put it in a deck to appease me.  Today we discuss builds we but Nocturne into, and what our overall thoughts on the card are in general.  It is a ‘go deep in a very specific direction’ episode.  We also talk a little bit about decks we are currently playing and why we like them.  Below you will see the deck lists in all their glory.  Feel free to openly discuss about how you would have built them much better than us, because by default you know more than us about the things we like.

I would also like to note that this episode was recorded before our previous episode.  It wasn’t planned this way, but the way somethings worked out with the timing of our episodes as well as general Duelyst events brought this about.  It doesn’t really hurt the content as the episode is largely timeline agnostic.  We hope you enjoy.

Kevin’s Nocurne:

Kevin’s Songhai:

Jeremy’s Nocturne:

Jeremy’s Kara:

Jason’s Nocturne:

Jason’s Vetruvian: