Sirus Quince is the Chief Justice of the Peace of Flagstone. They are saying he speaks the reality and is cherished by all. He’s a preferred 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 courtroom. Now the courtroom is in his pocket and he is taken the very best workplace within the land. Right here is the Fact hero:
Quince has loads occurring. He comes with a 0/1 Mirror Phantasm token, so you should utilize that as a patroller for some additional protection for those who 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 for those who goal them with a spell or capacity.
The rationale you need to maintain your Mirror Phantasm round is that after 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 might be hesitant to even play actually highly effective items, reminiscent of a Rampaging Elephant or one thing, figuring out that you can make a mirror picture of it at any time. It is a type of management in that it is making the opponent afraid to play methods involving just some, highly effective items.
At max stage, Quince will get much more Mirror Phantasm methods. At that time, you don’t even must pay any gold to make your Mirror into a duplicate of a unit you simply performed. This capacity may even create Phantasm copies of tech III items!
Talking of copying items, you may as well do this with this spell from the blue starter deck:
Manufactured Fact is a part of how one can survive the early recreation with blue. The opponent may need extra highly effective items than you, however you possibly can COPY theirs and go for a commerce.
Quince’s spells provide much more methods 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 actually need to combo that with one thing else that targets the factor (search for the goal icon to know what targets). For those who can flip one thing into an Phantasm, *then* goal it then it should 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) items. 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 permits you to kill two issues. You can even combo both of those two playing cards with any card in any respect that targets issues. A extremely good instance is Drill Sergeant, although he’s from a distinct blue spec. Bear in mind that you may simply use a hero of 1 spec and a tech II constructing of one other, so this combo is definitely very cheap.
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 Fact, in spite of everything, so after all it pierces Illusions. And do not forget that underneath Dreamscape, all of your opponent’s items are Illusions. However what if somebody desires to query your Fact and kill your Illusions? Quince has a solution to that too:
With Free Speech, it’s loads tougher on your enemies to pierce your Illusions. You get an entire flip the place they will’t solid spells in any respect, OR use hero talents. Free Speech is definitely typically nice anyway. Yeah it protects your Illusions but it surely 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 need to solid, however they will’t solid it due to Free Speech, they’ll must 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 recognize about Quince’s Mirror Illusions, however let’s take a look at a bunch of different Illusions the Fact spec has to supply.
A 3/3 for 1 is a fairly nice deal! Your aim right here is to trip that worth to victory. Pressure your opponent to spend extra to cope with your Illusions than you needed to spend to create them. For those who can assault with Spectral Hound and deal 3 injury to one thing, you’re in all probability somewhat bit forward from that. For those who’re frightened about your Hound dying earlier than he will get to assault, you can put him within the Lookout slot as a patroller. He’ll get resist 1 there so your opponent has to pay 1 additional gold to focus on him.
Right here’s one other 1 price Phantasm:
He’s solely a 2/2 however he protects your different Illusions. In the event that they need to goal certainly one of your Illusions to kill it, they’ll have to focus on Spectral Flagbearer first. Why would you need to do this when Spectral Hound solely prices 1 gold anyway? The reply is as a result of you might 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 an enormous menace as a result of flying is so robust in Codex. You may defend these items from dying to one thing focusing on them through the use of Spectral Flagbearer or the Free Speech spell, however there’s one other very highly effective layer of safety out there to you too:
Macciatus is Quince’s advisor. He’s a mastermind on the artwork of accomplishing political energy and staying in political energy. Though he works in whispers behind the scenes, he’s been an incredible asset to Quince. Quince speaks a strong Fact, however Macciatus can improve that Fact 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 essential threshold of assault energy as a result of it might 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 that you may’t have two copies of him in play—he’s a legendary unit.
If you need 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 price a card. With Reteller of Truths, they’re nonetheless low-cost to play, and so they principally don’t price a card anymore. This may be an avalanche of worth for those who maintain this up. Your Illusions appear fragile and straightforward to kill at first, however that is one more perk you possibly can pile on that makes them extremely environment friendly.
The tech III Fact 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 nicely play two! Each 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. For those who play 2 copies of him, your opponent will solely get yet one more flip earlier than they’re useless except they cope with your Liberty Gryphons.
Liberty Gryphon’s additional textual content is saying that for those who simply have one different Phantasm, ANY different Phantasm, then opponents must cope with that first earlier than they will even goal Liberty Gryphon.
Whereas the Regulation spec provides the blue faction cautious management and an eventual lockdown, the Fact spec is your alternative for rushdown and extremely environment friendly kills. And on the similar time, it is providing its personal type of management in that you may shut down spell-based plans and you may make opponents afraid to play massive items. The disadvantage is that counting on Fact additionally makes you susceptible to being blown out by an opponent who has plenty of focusing 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 Fact, so the danger isn’t THAT excessive. However to actually maximize your wins, combine up your construct orders so the opponent doesn’t fairly understand how necessary it’s for them to have a bunch of focusing on results.
And if in case you have any complaints concerning the blue faction, you higher maintain them to your self. Quince speaks the Fact and he’ll implement the Free Speech legal guidelines for those who go too far.
