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| Midrange Swordcraft |
| Aggro Swordcraft |
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Midrange Swordcraft was one of the dominating decks in the Dawnbreak, Nightedge format, and it’s back to dominate once again! This deck specializes in follower-to-follower combat and overwhelming the opponent by playing multiple followers per turn. Flooding the board with Sky Commander Celia and Arthur, Knight King, followed by buffs from Sky Fortress is the textbook win condition of this deck. New additions such as Dragon Knights and Zeta, Crimson lancer gives further support for this deck’s mid and late game plays!
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Expansion: Dawnbreak, Nightedge
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Expansion: Brigade of the Sky
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Expansion: Brigade of the Sky
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Expansion: Chronogenesis
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Expansion: Dawnbreak, Nightedge
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Expansion: Brigade of the Sky
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Key Cards and Reason for Inclusion
Charlotta, Tiny Justice: This new addition from Brigade of the Sky allows your followers to have stronger board presence by protecting it from spell and effect damages. This enhances the deck’s matchup against destruction-heavy Runecraft, Dragoncraft, and Havencraft. This card is also searchable via Round Table Assembly!
Dragon Knights: This spell is extremely powerful and versatile for its cost, allowing you to deal with many situations with the 4 choices of followers. When used for its Enhance cost, the cost-efficiency of the card becomes insane! For now, it’s definitely a card you want 3 copies of.
Zeta, Crimson Lancer: A 6/5 rush for 6-PP is already pretty good, but this card goes even further by adding Beatrix, Undying Blue to your hand. Beatrix can then be used for board control or the finishing blow!
Arthur, Knight King: Although his fellow compatriot Gawain of the Round Table is no longer in Rotation, Arthur is still powerful as ever, allowing you to easily take over the board with this single card.
Other Candidates for Deck
Lux, Solar Lancer: An excellent card with the purpose of searching out the key cards of the deck. Be careful though, this card would be a target for Arthur’s effect.
Young Ogrehunter Momo: Although not in many decks right now, Momo will definitely be a card to consider putting in the deck when archetypes with bigger followers become popular.
Lancer of the Tempest: One of the prime targets for Round Table Assembly, this card is a great card for trading with other followers. It also has great synergy with Bladed Hedgehog and Mars, Silent Flame General. When archetypes with many small followers become popular, use his Enhance ability to blow them away!
Barbarossa: With Support Cannon out of Rotation, along with the addition of Zeta, Crimson Lancer, Barbarossa has seen less play. However, this card is still a threat against decks that prefer to push with many small followers, such as in the case of a mirror match.
Council of Card Knights: Summoning three followers with ⅓ stats for 6-PP is a great value, especially when each comes with its own unique ability. This card is a great set-up for Sky Fortress, as this single card summons three targets for the finisher’s effect.
Chromatic Duel: Extremely powerful 1-cost spell that sets up for a strong 4th turn play.
2-PP followers: Holy Bear Knight and Bladed Hedgehog are first priority when going first. Bladed Hedgehog and Cuhullin is first priority when going second. Sky Commander Celia should be kept if no other 2-PP followers are in the hand.
Mars, Silent Flame General: If you already have a 2-PP follower in hand (especially ones that have 2/2 stats), you may want to keep Mars to make your 4th turn play even stronger. Generally not kept when going second.
Valse, Magical Marksman: A solid 3-PP follower that produces two potent destruction spells. Fatal Spellbomb is usually the choice in the early game and Holy Purebomb is useful in getting rid of amulets and larger followers.
Frontline Cavalier: This card is a powerful 4th turn play when going second, so it is generally not kept when going first. However, if your opponent has a hyper-aggressive deck, it is worth keeping. This card is extremely powerful when combined with Mars’ effect.
Arthur, Knight King: Only keep against slower matchups.
Early-game:
Keep up the tempo and get followers on the board: As this is mainly a follower-based deck, it is important to establish early tempo by playing followers each turn. Try to make advantageous trades between followers and do not worry too much about rushing the opponent’s life points yet.
Mid-game:
Establish board advantage with powerful mid-cost cards: Gain board presence using cards that produce multiple followers, such as Chromatic Duel, Sky Commander Celia, Frontline Cavalier, and Round Table Assembly.
Nullify damage effects: Maintain followers on the board by using cards such as Charlotta, Tiny Justice and Queen Magnus the Black (from Chromatic Duel), which protect your followers from damage spells and effects!
Late-game:
Gain advantage with Arthur: If possible, you’d want to try and set up so you can play Arthur on the 7th turn. If successful, this leads into a turn 8 Sky Fortress play.
Other finishers: You can also end games with Celia, Despair’s Messenger (from Sky Commander Celia) and Beatrix, Undying Blue (from Zeta, Crimson Lancer), which are both powerful Storm attackers.
Midrange Swordcraft in unlimited is not much different than it's rotation counterpart. The general gameplan is the same; use cards that allow you to put multiple followers into play at once and press that advantage to a win. It can be quite difficult for a player to clear a board of swordcraft followers if they don't have access to board wipes and even if they do, this deck is certainly capable of just filling the board up again!
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Expansion: Chronogenesis
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Expansion: Tempest of the Gods
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Expansion: Dawnbreak, Nightedge
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Expansion: Rise of Bahamut
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Expansion: Darkness Evolved
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- Gawain of the Round table
- This card actually serves multiple functions.
- 1. It allows you to reduce the cost of your commander followers whenever it attacks. This means that you could actually play a card like Arthur Knight King as early as turn 6! Against some decks, this can be absolutely backbreaking and hard for them to overcome.
- 2. It can be used as a strong rush follower later in the game to help you conserve on your evolution points. If you don't have any evo points remaining, it could still be some some help to give you a little extra push.
- This card actually serves multiple functions.
- Valse, Magical Marksman
- This card will probably be in every sword deck until Cygames decides to print something better. This card is an absolute all star in any sword deck providing you with 2 different ways of removing cards from the board.
- Holy Purebomb is a great card for helping answer threats or amulets.
- Fatal spellbomb is a great spell for helping maintain tempo against your opponents.
- This card will probably be in every sword deck until Cygames decides to print something better. This card is an absolute all star in any sword deck providing you with 2 different ways of removing cards from the board.
- Arthur Knight King
- A very powerful late game play that allows you to flood the board with a bunch of 1/2 PP followers. Honestly, there isn't too much about this card that hasn't already been said.
- It is important to note when building your deck to discover what cards you want to be pulling from Arthur when you play him. Here are some of the more common choices.
- Bladed Hedgehog
- Veteran Lancer
- Cuhullin
- Sky Commander Celia
- Kuniochi Trainee / Innocent Princess Prim
- This can be selected as an ambush option that can be used with Sky fortress the turn after.
- White Paladin
- This card is usually paired up with Mars Silent flame general but it is a good card in its own right. Unfortunately in control / combo matchups this card won't be optimal but against other aggressive and midrange style decks, this card is an all star. The more followers your opponent play, the better it is as they will have to spend a substantial amount of resources clearing them out before they can attack you directly.
- Any 2 PP Follower
- Mars Silent Flame General
- This ends up being an amazing turn 3 play if you are going first. Otherwise, you can consider getting rid of it if you are going second.
- Keeping this going second does allow you to potentially set up the Mars + White Paladin combo would can be devastating for aggressive strategies to break through.
- White Paladin
- Only good to keep when you are going second against aggressive / other midrange decks
- Gawain of the Round Table
- Excellent Keep going second
- Valse, Magical Marksman
- Can be kept going first or second
- Arthur, Knight King
- You can Keep this card if you happen to also have Gawain in your opening hand while going second because it allows you to play one a turn earlier than you would normally. This gives you a massive tempo advantage against your opponent.
- The Name of the game with Sword is to generate tons and tons of value. That is obtained by using your many cards that generate additional followers on the board for you. Cards that are very good for this purpose will be posted below
- Celia, Hope's Strategist
- Frontline Cavalier
- Arthur Knight King
- Gawain is a very important part of this deck. Being able to reduce the cost of your commanders such as Mars Silent Flame General, Luminous Mage, Arthur Knight King, or Sky fortress can accelerate the clock and make it much more difficult for your opponent to counter play you because you are playing this cards at a reduced cost.
- This deck has a high amount of rush followers. If you can, try to use those as a way of helping you deal with your opponents followers vs using your evolution points. Those should be used as a last resort in that regard or used to help create even more advantage and value.
- Whenever you can play sky fortress on a follower, you play it! You don't want to have that card just sitting around in your hand doing nothing.
- Always look for the best possible value you can gain out of your cards.
| Deck | Date Sort ascending | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| Tempo Sword (BOTS) Cheap but Effective
Deck by CineMarx |
Updated
06-28 Posted 06-28 |
19,750 |
| midrange swordcraft
Deck by hoang158563 |
Updated
06-28 Posted 06-28 |
53,150 |
| Brigade of the Sky Expansion rotation midrange sword
Deck by aragorne32 |
Updated
06-28 Posted 06-28 |
53,150 |
| rotation midrange (old)
Deck by kewineqpl |
Updated
06-23 Posted 06-23 |
51,500 |
| Midrange Swordcraft
Deck by Azodeus |
Updated
06-21 Posted 06-21 |
60,650 |
| Deck | Date Sort ascending | Cost |
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| MotW BOTS #4 - 2nd Place: REV Yoh/Midrange Swordcraft | Updated
08-04 Posted 08-04 |
62,000 |
| MotW BOTS #4 - 1st Place: DB Praetorian/Midrange Swordcraft | Updated
08-04 Posted 08-04 |
58,700 |
| SVO Qualifiers #2 EU Top 4: X-Bahamut89 - Midrange Swordcraft | Updated
07-30 Posted 07-30 |
58,550 |
| SVO Qualifiers #2 EU Top 4: Dis.Essia - Midrange Swordcraft | Updated
07-30 Posted 07-30 |
69,650 |
| SVO Qualifiers #2 EU 2nd Place: Hishiro - Midrange Swordcraft | Updated
07-30 Posted 07-30 |
66,350 |
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