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 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 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 Fact hero:
Quince has quite a bit happening. He comes with a 0/1 Mirror Phantasm token, so you need to use that as a patroller for some additional 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 capability.
The rationale you wish to maintain your Mirror Phantasm round is that when you attain degree 3, you may have your Mirror copy one other unit in play. You’ll lose it on the finish of the flip, however you may doubtlessly get some nice worth out if it. Your opponent will likely be hesitant to even play actually highly effective items, reminiscent of a Rampaging Elephant or one thing, realizing 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 only a few, highly effective items.
At max degree, Quince will get much more Mirror Phantasm methods. At that time, you don’t even need to pay any gold to make your Mirror into a duplicate of a unit you simply performed. This capability may even create Phantasm copies of tech III items!
Talking of copying items, it’s also possible to try 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 might need extra highly effective items than you, however you may 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 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 would die. One combo right here is Hallucination as combo with one other copy of itself. For 4 gold and a couple of playing cards, that permits you to kill any two (non-tech III) items. Not dangerous, however sort of tough to line up your attracts to make that work. This may also help:
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 even combo both of those two playing cards with any card in any respect that targets issues. A very good instance is Drill Sergeant, despite the fact that he’s from a special blue spec. Keep in mind which you can 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 doubtlessly be used to kill any Phantasm! Quince speaks the Fact, in any case, so in fact it pierces Illusions. And do not forget that beneath 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 quite a bit tougher on your enemies to pierce your Illusions. You get an entire flip the place they’ll’t forged spells in any respect, OR use hero talents. Free Speech is definitely typically nice anyway. Yeah it protects your Illusions nevertheless it additionally dismantles no matter spell-based plan your opponent was going for. Keep in mind that in Codex if they’ve a spell of their hand that they wish to forged, however they’ll’t forged it due to Free Speech, they’ll need to 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 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 objective right here is to experience that worth to victory. Drive your opponent to spend extra to cope with 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 most likely somewhat bit forward from that. When you’re fearful 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 value Phantasm:
He’s solely a 2/2 however he protects your different Illusions. In the event that they wish to goal one among 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 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 a giant menace as a result of flying is so robust in Codex. You’ll be able to 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 accessible 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. Keep in mind 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’ll simply kill your Illusions. Defend him nonetheless you may, however beware which you can’t have two copies of him in play—he’s a legendary unit.
In order for you 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 one more perk you may 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 may as nicely 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 useless until they cope with your Liberty Gryphons.
Liberty Gryphon’s additional textual content is saying that in the event you simply have one different Phantasm, ANY different Phantasm, then opponents need to cope with that first earlier than they’ll 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 identical time, it is providing its personal type of management in which you can shut down spell-based plans and you can also make opponents afraid to play large items. The downside is that counting on Fact additionally makes you susceptible to being blown out by an opponent who has a lot of focusing on results and who can cease you from assembling your full set of buffs. You’ll be able to truly nonetheless put up a strong struggle even in unfavorable matchups with Fact, so the chance 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 when you’ve got any complaints in regards to the blue faction, you higher maintain them to your self. Quince speaks the Fact and he’ll implement the Free Speech legal guidelines in the event you go too far.
