The BEST Deck in Lorcana! STEEL SONG Gameplay + Deck Discussion ~ Amber Steel

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out your Power Cards like and then Along Came Zeus or a whole new world it is just very very powerful deck you have very strong cards in things like the queen commanding presence and also your Cinderella stout-hearted who when you play a song she can challenge Reed characters we're going to go into the Deck Profile I have updated matchups to go through and then some replays so heading on over to dream born. in we have our deck here we see the overall cost is pretty pricey it's $412 we are playing 13 unable cards 12 One Drops only four two drops and then a whole bunch of Threes fours drop down once again then our fives hit up high and we play some sixes and sevens leaning a little heavy into the steel which is pretty normal so we're playing four Cinderella four Queen and four Robin Hood Cinderella again she's your singer we're playing Steel song it just kind of makes sense your queen you can shift on turn two your Robin Hood you can shift on turn three in addition both of these shift cards are very very powerful in their own right and we will talk about them in a second not everyone's on it and actually less than half are on it but I am playing one Cinderella night in training just as a two drop play sometimes you don't want to just come back with that one sometimes you could use it sometimes that drop to fix your hand comes up otherwise you can simply ink her you might not want to say get rid of your Ballroom sensation to shift so again like I said sometimes the night and training does in fact come up playing for aerial pretty standard there uh for Benja he's more typically a two or three of but I just really don't like item decks especially like Steel song resist like I want to get rid of that fishbone as soon as possible and Benja just allows you to do that playing two Rapunzel gifted with healing to heal our say Robin Hood or our Cinderella Stout Stout stouthearted and draw cards in the process her five willpower in questing for two also means once she's on board she is a threat that your opponent has to worry about then we have our Queen commanding presence her plus4 minus four matters quite a bit in this deck because when you give your opponent minus four and then you give your cerella up to 9 or your Robin Hood 7 you're taking out pretty much any location in the game in one swing and in addition to that your Robin Hood can start taking out your opposing characters and gain you two lore for each one meanwhile the minus four means he's taking no damage in the process likewise when they get minus four and she already has resist two your Stout hearted is going to last a very very long time we saw that $400 price tag and almost half of that comes in as your plays set of your Robin Hood champion of Sherwood well I have a slight way to help you guys out with that our patreon giveaway for next month first Friday of may we will do it it's we're going to do it live this time um we're going to do a live giveaway and it's going to be for Robin Hood champion of Sherwood so again patreon link down below different tiers get you different things in addition to that it's not just for giveaways because well that's just not right in addition to that everyone someone can comment well not someone everyone who comments on this video one maybe two maybe three I don't know yet a few random commenters from this video will also get entered into that but the only way to guarantee your entry into the giveaway again is through that patreon link down below but technically everyone has a shot uh two Tinkerbell giant fairy and then three Cinderella stouthearted rounding out our characters I am playing three smash um not only does this help in the mirror match which is probably one of the least fun matchups we have um smash just you know you hit the aerial before they can sing songs it is very impactful taking out the opposing Queen also very impactful uh Robin Hood because then your Robin Hood can crash and take theirs out in one swing uh smash puts in work and in addition to that it outs things like the um not Elsa the Ursa in the emerald strategies going on we play 21 songs uh three bare necessities just one world's greatest Criminal Mind your queen commanding presence really makes this card just live versus just about everything cuz her plus four means as long as they have one well plus four now they have five and you can take out their characters playing then four of our three drops which isn't surprising the let the storm rage on and strength of the ra strength of the Raging Fire three Along Came Zeus four whole new worlds and two grab your swords I actually ended up cutting out the flute and didn't want to put in say the lantern um I wanted to keep my unink bles a little bit lower the two drop plays I mean you can sing songs you can play A Bear Necessities outright at that point you can come back with Cinderella um come back with one of your other one drops so I just I know flute helps and especially in like grinding games once be prepared starts dropping on you it allows you to grind it out and to win without the character presence as much um but I just I think right now items aren't quite as strong because everyone's preparing for them too so I just opted to go without that uh flute uh matchups then Ruby amethyst so this is obviously not necessarily anyone's particular list it's just a list of a lot of common cards that are being played and it happens to be 60 cards so uh if you're wondering where I get all my information for Tops for all this type of stuff uh link down below to the spreadsheet that I try to keep up with weekly um it covers tops it covers uh deck cores for decks that are winning events um you know once you get like five six decks uh or of a specific deck winning events I tracking all the cards that they play in at which ratios things like that um also a separate tab for every event with 100 orb more players too with everybody's deck list linked to it information deck name um all that good stuff so uh go ahead and check that out down below also if you want to support the channel obviously we mentioned the patreon otherwise uh all access card shop for all of your TCG needs this is the locals that I go to and they just they're some of the best people I've ever worked with um as far as buying cards purchasing cards online in person uh Yu-Gi-Oh uh model kits anything TCG related anything hobby related well maybe not anything hobby related but they have quite the assortment of things Pokemon as well so uh go check them out uh links for all that also down below but anyway so against Ruby amethyst we're not going through their decks I just want to talk about certain cards that you should be at least paying attention too um first and foremost that Rafiki the one drop he's a challenger plus three so just keep an eye on that because obviously if you sing a song Let say Your Cinderella or your Ariel he can come through and clean sweep and take them out um otherwise you know their ones and twos are pretty straightforward with it they do it's nothing really that you worry about couple draw cards couple defense um but otherwise the Pinocchio the talkative puppet being able to play this to say exert your aerial and then they can do some like if they go turn one any of their one drops turn two snake Snake Turn three they play Pinocchio exert your aerial Now snake can take out your aerial before you can sing a song so do keep an eye out for that it's an option they have to out you before you can really take advantage of it obviously M fox has Rush that's not anything crazy that we're necessarily worried about um Merlin crab that's one where you're stouthearted and that resist might start to not matter as much cuz say uh mer or MIM Fox with four plus three would put her to seven which means even minus that two she's still going to take out your stouthearted so Fox bounce crab does out Cinderella Stoute hearted uh keep that in the back of your mind as does a goat plus Merlin crab uh Maui coming down with six I mean Maui and crab another way to out it uh his Rush that's six he is such a just absolute Beast uh lady chain and Medusa is a little more popular Medusa being able to take out your Rob Hood um definitely hurts cuz his three attack so when she comes down they can just banish your Robin Hood so U Medusa is definitely a card you really need to look out for I've been seeing a lot of them also playing the one dragon fire so that's just another card where they can out your boss monsters um teeth and ambition it's about 70% played in the winning deck list um that's something that can take out your Ballroom sensation pretty early uh other than that it's really not too too worrisome uh be prepared you just got to be ready you know it it's coming you got to try to play around it the best you can don't spill your whole hand out like once you start getting in that b prepared range don't just play every character in your hand because you can you know play a little smart at that point uh spell book you know spell book Spellbook it's kind of like your flute if you're playing it uh some are still on Castle ma fish hook this card whether they want to protect their cards and give them evasive till next turn or that plus three this card is definitely one to look out for so the cards you really want to look out for are the two drop Pinocchio the fox crab combination Medusa and that Mau fish hook um is this match up favorable I do think it is um I personally like the matchup with steel song however that doesn't mean you're always going to win it because obviously this deck shows up the mirror match um okay mirror match mirror match mirror match what do you do in in the mirror match um I'll be honest I'm not super fluent in this mirror uh thankfully unfortunately however we want to look at that um this list opposed to mine is more of a standard list um so whether you're watching this video and you like my list go ahead play it try it otherwise if you like this more play this list this list is pretty standard um it's actually not too far off of mine however like I said a little different playing flutes and the tragic beasts um mirror match mirror match whoever goes first is at a huge Advantage here just CU you get to set the tempo of it and the deck um if you're in a local I guess like going card for card it's hard to really say cuz it's such a chess match um if you know your local scene or where you're going to play has a lot of Steel song honestly play smash that card is very very strong in the mirror match like I said it handles things like Queen it handles things like Cinderella it handles aiel um you can put damage on beast and then they're not going to get the extra draw you can also like I said put that three on Robin Hood and now all of a sudden he's basically a 33 at that point which is much more manageable to deal with um so I guess that's my best advice for the mirror match uh try to play Smash if you can if you know you're going in for Mirror I would definitely play Smash uh you have to hard cast it it's not a song I get it but that's just my I guess advice for the mirror Tempo bounce um okay so things here they're obviously going to come out really early with things like murol and with Flynn I've been seeing more start to play things like uh Pua enchantress uh Maleficent biting her time and get a little more aggressive which personally I agree with um but but I think that a girlish decks in general kind of struggle over Steel song uh this being more of a mid-range Agro deck struggles less I'd say however they kind of power plays with things like the three drop Ursula with the kit with um these types of cards and the bounce factor I think are less impactful because like your aiel and grab your swords is going to be a huge power play against the ARR version um obviously Ursula deceiver being able to see your hand and get rid of those songs is going to be hurtful and I play this deck pretty often and I usually try to Mulligan I can have two Ursula in my hand I'll hold on to both of them and I'm okay if I hit a third because if I can steal all your songs away I'm okay with that um yeah so what else if you're playing flute just keep an eye they are starting to play wild cat so uh they can exert him to take out your flute um mother knows best Genie is starting to see less play e must being a little more common uh even the Tinkerbell most helpful starting to see a little less play as well uh they also play talkative puppet to exert your cards um I have actually a pretty spicy list that I'm working on um I won a case tournament got a couple boxes of first chapter and then I'm actually going to be playing that same list though though for my Stitch championships so I am not going to drop it just yet but uh I I actually really really liked it and luckily not too many other people are playing those secret tech cards that we have it's all about you know finding that Advantage um moving on to red blue I do think the bounce matchups uh I'd say slightly favoring Steel song I think Ruby amethyst and bounce are both in steel song's favor obviously the mirror match Steel song is going to win it but it's hard to really say who's favored is it favors who goes first and who has that Tech card and if you see it uh red blue so this personally I haven't had issues with this with steel song I think that's more favorable than the other two decks even possibly I know I've seen people say it's not a great matchup though at the same time too so I guess oh man cuz this deck can just come out of nowhere with like the tamatoa the lucky dime um um if they're playing Bell or not like they can really get lore fast in The Grind game so things like your long came Zeus are going to be super important things like playing a song so that you can challenge ready characters with stout-hearted are going to be very important here um getting out to an early start is going to be very important like if you can shift Queen turn two and if you can have like Queen and Robin Hood out by like turn four you might be in an okay spot cuz I'm are two power host cards that you can really deal with your opponent um Plus at that point the plus4 minus four to get that herum offboard a lot faster to kind of cut off their draw engine uh but they are on Maui they are on the Medusa which we already talked about being a bad card for us um just being able to out so many cards uh Hades being another card that they can out your Stout hearted the Maleficent drag and another one so they're playing six copies of cards that just out your card in addition to that the be prepared so just out your entire board it's ah man maybe maybe I shouldn't say it's more favorable than those others I do think it's favorable but I guess let's say bounce is like a 6535 6040 6040 maybe this is like a 55 45 uh Ruby amethyst is still right there right with bounce though I would say as far as favorability um goes then let's go ahead into the next steel one um steel Sapphire steel resist this one is not a favorable matchup it's one that they actually counter Steel song Pretty decently um so where do we stand here this one's tricky because again they have the Hades they have Let It Go they have Along Came Zeus they have these power cards to deal with your board um as it develops they again have that Bell who can come in and get lore very very quickly they have the herum engine for draw um Gaston to be able to dig for cards in their deck tragic hero Robin Hood like this deck can play so many different things um Robin Hood's actually not super popular in here but I think that's because this particular list is like a $700 deck and that's just pretty expensive um but yeah this match Up's probably not a favorable one however kind of like red blue you want to get out early and really set the pace and make them start responding to you and try to get them off their game plan Benja also very very important here like Benja take out that fishbone Benja take out the popsicle get those items offboard to cut off that herum draw engine it's going to be very very strong and if you can do that you'll be in a pretty decent spot lastly for our matchups we have green steel discard I think these are the top six decks and that's why we're going to talk about them when we go through our deck profiles um so basically like other green decks they set the pace in the temple with merfolk and Flynn early on they have Ursula who can rip the songs out of your hand they have the other Ursula who can double snc things like sudden and chill and all a sudden you're discarding two cards in addition she can double up raing fire or storm rage on to deal extra damage and possibly draw multiple cards um um I think this matchup isn't necessarily unfavorable though I I like the matchup it's probably maybe a little less than the bounce matchup as far as favorability high 50s low 60s in that range um it's worse than red blue but I think it's better than the bounce one um yeah I'd be pretty comfortable saying that uh just they set they try to come out early with that Tempo and just those early Aro strategy type decks we do deal with really well because things like merfolk and Flynn where normally you're discarding for them uh to challenge them we just take them out with our songs so you don't have to actually lose any advantage in the process let's go ahead and jump into a couple replays then the first one is going to be against red blue and we are going second so our opening hand of Rapunzel whole new world Cinderella Cinderella Tink Robin Hood and grab your swords um in this one I was like I don't necessarily want stouthearted because by the time she comes up our opponent is well into his strategy we want to try to get out early uh so I had to get rid of the unable cards and the higher cost cards keep our little Robin Hood in case we hit the big one which we do and then also keep the Cinderella to potentially sing a song which unfortunately we did not hit one of our three cost songs opponent coming out would develop your brain it's pretty much that or popsicle as a turn one play uh we hit another Robin Hood so we can get rid of that put down our Cinderella in case we draw into that three drop song cuz Robin Hood can't be shifted turn two anyway so now he could say I's I say Queen of Hearts is a typical turn two play with the rush but since he can't challenge us because he went first he opts to go for the One Jump Ahead we get to see his hand so Hades tala fishbone fishbone how far I'll go unfortunate that he has multiple fishbone but now we know his hand so we can go ahead we're going to like I'm I was like man this he's got the other fish bone so this is such a hard decision cuz I lose my shift I lose my dig for spell or for songs or I lose my out the fishbone and I was just like man this decision stinks I got two unable cards here and I would love to just be able to Ink one of them cuz I like my other three cards uh so we see fishborne fishbone uses it we draw a queen we're going to get rid of that we can go ahead play the Benja now so we know he still has Hades in hand that's the only unknown or there's one unknown and then again Hades in hand uh we see a card get drawn Hades also being unable means it's going to stick there for a little bit what unfor fortunately it's going to stick there so uh keep that in mind at this point we're going to come out with our aerial see what we can't get to um if we had our big Queen the world's greatest criminal would come out very strong luckily we have strength of the Raging Fire and Along Came Zeus so we're not in necessarily a bad position yet uh gatala whether he quests or takes crashes it to go to his ink weld so he can do a Hades play uh that's obviously on on the table for him I would have to Ink a card lose tala play it would leave them with just one in hand so I mean here it's more trying to get as much Advantage as I can before a be prepared um how how far I'll go I actually forgot he had that card in hand he must have been inking unknown cards um unknown at the time so he still is the Hades now we did happen to see that how far I'll go so we did actually know that one um so Hades is still in his hand up to Seven Inc we got our Rapunzel so now it's like we're in be prepared range two cards in hand he could be prepared come back with Hades so do you just hold on to cards in your hand and wait for it and just Quest a whole bunch or do we go ahead and get that draw I don't know if I necessarily agree with that play yet uh we hit a smash so we get rid of the Raging Fire uh because just kind of feeling like be prepared is going to come down but it came down to put him on if you have it you have it if you don't you don't um at this point twoo we're going to be questing for seven more to put us at 18 and the herum comes down I'm so happy when I see herum come down cuz well Hades is still in his hand he's basically trying to get a be prepared but at this point even if he did hit be prepared I'm not too worried about it because we can go to 18 and just kind of Coast at that point um so we shift on and now we can go to um 19 so we're not quite there yet but it's going to be really really close not having the ink to be able to say play Smash and the Zeus to get rid of the herum before you can draw an extra card um was just really ating here like what I want to do uh singing that I don't necessarily think it was great cuz I mean he had the popsicle still where he can heal two from it but obviously he's going to Quest to still pop that to draw so now anything can take it out but if B prepared comes down we're only two away right so that's kind of the idea but he does not have the B prepared so we are against amethyst steel this time it is a control one just to spoil that we get to go first so we aren't too worried about items we can get rid of the Benja we have our Cinderella for turn one we have our three cost song for turn two if we can hit another card to deal two damage because obviously that one's kind of based on your board State um in that regard could have kept Cinderella but I'm really going for the small Robin Hood was between Robin Hood and queen which one do you try to get and usually you'd hit Little Queen in this instance um we hit Benja strength storm and Tinkerbell so storm actually feels really good um to hit it in that scenario so we ink our Tink play our Cinderella and then pass turn to our opponent we see Robin Hood go ahead and Get Inked and then another one comes down we draw into our along our whole new world which is UN inable and then also our Bare Necessities so now we can get rid of one strength see our opponent's hand so friends Mountain MIM Tink Maleficent and the along kame Zeus I don't think his hands that good so I want to get rid of his draw card now he's going to ink and the only two cost card he has this forbidden Mountain so that's kind of the route he has to go he so has the Maleficent Zeus um and the MIM in hand we come down with the Benja debating if I wanted to challenge the mountain or not and I was like I it's not going to speed up the turn that I destroy it on anyway so we opted to Quest instead Tinker Bell gets Inked and then Merlin crab comes down so again it's Maleficent MIM and Zeus in hand we draw another whole new world which is very unfortunate our draw is really not helping us out too much here trying to just think what I can do and I'm like if he uses the MIM to bounce the crab he's just going to be able to take anything so and if I quest Quest he can challenge with crab bounce with MIM take out my other card so I just felt better to not do anything and make him answer my board inking the MIM there um that means he has another MIM in hand he drew it he wouldn't ink his only MIM I'm smarter than that I'm not going to fall for it that easily so we get our Stout hearted which is really big we can take out the crab to prevent that plus uh how he kind of mentioned the um fox plus crab outing a stout hearted so we can get rid of the crab there uh quick and easily and I want to go ahead he uses crab on my Benja which I don't think he thought of that because I was going to Quest but since he's dealing three extra damage we might as well put that five onto the castle so he does come down then with the fox takes out the Benja for two waiting to see what else our opponent does Stout hearted is just such a strong card too so I'm okay where I'm at I feel um we draw into a Tinker Bell unfortunately can't really use her so we're going to Ink the tink and then we're going to go ahead and sing our whole new world we don't want to hard cast it because you kind of just lose your Tempo then cuz what are you going to do right like you have no ink left to do anything so we sing it instead so that way we can actually play our hand out we hit a smash we get rid of the fox then we see our Ariel we can go ahead and play her if he challenges us with the hook we'll take one damage because the resist to that was a risk I was okay with um because he would lose his card in the process we still have multiple Cinderellas Queen our criminal and another Smash in hand so I'm feeling pretty good with where we're currently at Tinker Bell comes down doesn't anything to Cinderella and puts one on the aiel uh so he's going to pass turn I'm actually really okay with that just trying to think this through though how we want to play it the best or most efficient way so I could you play world's greatest I he doesn't have a target for the world's greatest but I'm like well I got my two drop Cinderella we can play her draw a card it happens to be a song that we can use so that's just crazy um we can go ahead put smash on the Tinkerbell sing with let the storm rage on get rid of the Tinkerbell draw a card and now our Cinderella can challenge a reed character because of resist again taking no damage put our Queen down as our shift Target and at this point I felt very confident in the matchup that everything just swung in our favor sure our opponent has a big hand but we have the board presence that was kind of the one card I'm like okay grab your swords puts in a lot of work here but he has to hard cast it which doesn't really leave him with a whole lot and I still have two more very powerful cards in my hand and on the off chance he has a strong card of his own well I have world's greatest Criminal Mind so sitting here debating I'm like to challenge it I'll take one from the SME or is there a different way we can go about it um we ink the Criminal Mind just cuz with grab your swords Robin Hood and queen I felt pretty safe and again here if he's going to challenge me with the SME to do one damage and lose himself I was okay with that risk our opponent instead comes out with let the storm rage on which allows him to draw that card puts the two on Robin Hood but that don't do a whole lot Maleficent also comes to draw card and this tells me he really doesn't have much for play lines and instead he's trying to draw into something that will save him so again I'm feeling better about where we're at in this exact moment uh grab your swords here can put in a lot of work uh we can take out his other um locations we happen to hit strength of the Raging Fire which that's also just going to help incredibly so we're sitting in a pretty good spot at this point um grab your swords is going to deal with his board completely and then we can go ahead take out one of the castles and then quest for three to make it a 107 game uh debating if I wanted to Ink that and I was like I might as well um not really a whole lot of scenarios that I felt I wouldn't need to do it uh in this particular matchup other matchups maybe I would have kept it the goat comes down which would be scary here I guess if you know we were in a more simple game State um but or not in such a simple game State I guess CU we can sing that and now our Cinderella can go ahead and take out that quest with our Robin Hood so 13 to nine Castle goes to 14 his four in hand we have three very strong cards on board another goat comes down so now I'm actually like okay this could get a little tricky and he also comes down with Mr smei we happen to hit a came Zeus which once against is going to be very very strong so now keep in mind here he's got four more on board but with the goat threatening so that's just very very good if he has another goat in hand I would lose that's why we can't just say um quest to 14 quest to 16 because we would just outright lose to our opponent um playing a goat and in addition he could say goat crap SME crash probably still win in that case however his castle will put him to 16 puts another character on board it'd be really close it's hard to say but we happen to hit our Zeus so we're going to go ahead Queen plus4 minus 4 um to get our um Robin Hood I did slightly misplay here however um we should have gave the plus four to Cinderella to take out the castle um or no cuz Cinderella was going to take out SM what was the play what was the play so okay that's where we're at right I'm like I literally just played these why can't I remember so what I should have done because I know what I did I should have boosted the Cinderella took out the castle the three would have been plenty from Robin Hood to or no Robin Hood can't challenge the ready character so I did play it right I did not missplay cuz I'm like oh if I would have challenge with Robin Hood I would have gained the to lore went to 13 and then I'd be threatening lethal on my next turn but Robin Hood cannot challenge the red characters so never mind that I played it properly I feel a lot better uh let the storm rage on Deal two draw one um again if he can put four on board here and I don't draw a song he actually would win the game so he didn't seem too Agro so I'm not too too worried about it but you also just never know truly so um John Silver comes down uh we see the Gustav the giant which I really don't like that card I was surprised to see it and then a smash come down so we can't win our next turn we hit our aiel go ahead play her and we see multiple songs I'm like okay we're going to go grab your swords um just cuz I want to be able to deal damage to potentially multiple characters 1616 he's got one he can't gain three off of anything so he has to deal with our board and he just unfortunately could not so that's kind of where we're at um Steel song like I said I really think this is the best deck of the format I don't think it's quite as played as Ruby amethyst and I think Ruby amethyst kind of just doesn't really necessarily have bad matchups um I mean it has some slightly unfavorable ones however this deck like steel s or Sapphire steel um wheel ramp resist whatever you want to call it um is probably an pretty unfavorable matchup whereas Ruby amethyst is kind of just more neutral across the board if it's not favored um um in addition to that it's so much cheaper than a lot of these decks so I think that those factors really are why Ruby amethyst SE so much play however I think this truly is the best deck of the format don't forget giveway Robin hoods down below thanks for watching guys till next time take care

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Length: 36min 15sec (2175 seconds)

Published: Mon Apr 08 2024