Heroes of Rivenbrandt D-1 Theorycrafts

The most recent iteration of Fairy Forest leans a large amount into Forest's evolution package. Aria, Dutiful Fairy in specific requires 7 evolves to activate her evolution effect. The deck plays aggressively early, generating Fairies in the early game, while focusing on maximizing evolves during the midgame with Rayne, Divine Smith and Verdant Commander. You aim to finish the game with Castelle, Budding Initiate's spell, Verdant Prayer, buffing a board of Storm Fairies from Aria's Evolve effect, while having Alice, Wandering Dreamer as an additional finisher.

Sword's newest support leans heavily into the Evolve package with a lot of low cost evolves such as Monika, Chronoshift Admiral. Additionally, Twilight and Silver is a powerful midgame card, summoning both Amelia, the Silverflash and Lecia, Sky Saber. The gameplan is straightforward - play primarily to board while utilizing the evolve package to enable Alice, Wandering Dreamer as part of your lategame.

Earth Rite Runecraft is a familiar archetype, having seen many iterations in Shadowverse history. Despite that, it still exists as a burn deck though, especially thanks to the evolve effect from Levi, Wizard of Ages. The main gameplay of the deck is to increase and consume Stack count, aiming to reach 7 consumed to enable some of your stronger card effects like Pascale, Radiant Oracle and Levi, Wizard of Ages. Then, you aim for large board swings and damage pushes by reducing those followers with Crystal Scryer or by utilizing the Genesis Dragon from Colossal Summoning eventually allowing you to finish off the game.

Fafnir Dragon is a deck that focuses primarily on maximizing Fafnir, Cunning Wyrm value - emptying your opponent's board to maximize damage dealt from Fafnir's fanfare while minimizing the amount of followers needed to do so. The deck features a number of strong single card board clears such as Drazael, Ravening Enforcer and Infernal Meteor. Regular gameplay with this deck will be to focus on drawing your ramp cards early such as Dragon Oracle or Waterwyrm's Blessing. Then, you leverage that into playing Fafnir, Cunning Wyrm as early as possible. Finally, you navigate the game to try to lethal with various board clears alongside potentially using Platinum Dragonblader. Alternatively, you can aim to reduce your opponent's defense until Forte & Miriam, Bondforged is lethal.

Ghost Shadow with Odin, Advent of Ragnarok is one of the most interesting Shadowcraft archetypes to come from the Heroes of Rivenbrandt Expansion. The gameplay loop is to curve out as many Ghosts as possible from your early curve such as Spectral Sorceress, leading into a Masquerade Ghost on 5. Alongside this, you play Odin's Accelerate effect in order to both help finish off the opponent and to keep yourself alive on the Ghastly Banishment turn and finish the game on turn 8.

While Vengeance lost a lot of support, Bloodcraft's evolution package gained support with the introduction of Fenrir, Endbringer and Doublame, Seeker of Beauty. The deck honestly wants to maximize evolving as much as possible, enabling some of the deck's strongest cards like Signa, Sealed Madwolf and Alice, Dreaming Wanderer. The Waltz-Vulgus package is there to enable some of the stronger standalone Vengeance cards like Galom, Empress Fist while providing the deck with a backup OTK as a combo.

Haven's newest support is more evolution focused, seemingly a trend for the expansion. Given that Heal haven already has some evolution synergy, the most straightforward thing is to combine the two by using Jeanne, Worldwalker to help build stronger and more resilient boards, all while pushing damage. The primary focus of the deck is to evolve Elluvia, Graceful Lady by your first evolution turn, then you create large board swings with both existing heal and evolve synergies. Finally, you use a combination of your preexisting board and out of hand damage from Alice, Dreaming Wanderer to finish the game.

Artifact Portal is returning to its release gameplay of shuffling Artifacts into your deck, and then utilizing Deus Ex Machina from Cyclical Fate to cycle through and win with those shuffled artifacts. The newest support features a lot of updated versions of some of the older cards such as Gizmo Lion being an updated Iron Staff Mechanic, Lazuli, Gateway Liberator being an updated Ironforged Fighter (while tutoring Cyclical Fate), and Retrafia, Divine Mother being a somewhat updated version of Acceleratium. It's honestly one of the most interesting decks this expansion - the gameplay loop of managing what is left in your deck is extremely rewarding once mastered.