Notes & Combos

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The best Virtual World variant for the event is still Adventurer. Play the same deck you do in ranked but without Gryphon and your anti-Branded tech. Scythe cannot be played here, so play Snow. Your goal is to put Chuche on board, Beatrice (to dump Enchantress and Snow), Baronne with the Adventurer token, and Shenshen with any leftover VW bodies. Tzolkin into Crystal Wing and Laolao + token for Chengying are great follow-up plays.

To break other Virtual World and Swordsoul boards going second, bait as many of your opponent's interruptions as you can (we play 3 Imperm after all) and then make Stardust, draw a card, stack it with a Lili or Laolao for Utopia Beyond, crash into something, then stack Gaia and then Zeus. Wipe the board, then set your Chuche / play Kauwloon.

Consider playing Token Collector to shut out Swordsoul in grind games, as you will be facing a ton of that. Also be aware that you are vulnerable to Nibiru; consider main decking one as a Crossout target, as you can't protect yourself from it early in your combo with Gryphon here!

Because of how much Swordsoul is being played, it's best to play 3 Impermanence. For the Virtual World mirror, Ghost Ogre is a back-breaking counter to your opponent's Chuche. Lancea can abruptly end your opponent's turn in the mirror match (no Qinglong search, no Xuanwu revive, no Chuche fuel) but is merely situational against Swordsoul (only stops Taia).