If you are in a spot where you’re not going to just die you can kickstart phase three as early as turn seven by going Eclipse Dragon into Aurelion Sol. The other interesting thing about this phase is that sometimes it will end early. If you’re in this phase without an active plaza then you are going to be extending phase one and just doing your best to survive until your big threats can come down to save you.Įven without Plaza, you’ve got a bunch of good chump blockers and ways to buy time, so don’t think you need it every game to win, it’s just always nicer when you’ve got it. Whether it’s a Golden Sisters off of Priestess, a Sunforger, or even the cute one-two punch of Sketcher into messenger, with Plaza online you will quickly erode or even destroy any board or health advantage your opponent has gained. Grand Plaza gets this phase all to itself as it shines with the entire rest of your deck. This is the part of the game where you want to take back the tempo you gave up earlier and lock down your control of the board. Her threat level exists more to make her a good tank for your nexus than to ever be actualized. If you see the shot to get a leveled Zoe then, of course, you go for it, but +90% of the time you should expect your Zoe to die and be very okay with that. It’s called the “Oops You Lose” because it should rarely happen on purpose. Occasionally though your opponent will simply fail the Zoe test and she will win all on her own.ĭon’t get too focused on this though, if you fall for the trap of overinvesting in your Zoe you might not be set up right to win if that falls through. You play her because she demands removal, or she will win the game on her own with her Level Up.Īlmost any removal of Zoe will cost your opponent some amount of tempo, and the tempo is all this deck needs to get to its crushing late-game potential. Zoe is, strangely enough in this deck, a defensive card. I went with the Zoe version of this deck because her inclusion gives you a cute little sub-phase in the early game. This phase consists of the first three to five turns of the game where you are likely to be a bit on the back foot trying to survive.ĭuring this phase, you’ll be using cards like Spacey Sketcher, Solari Shieldbearer, and Solari Sunforger to weather the opening assault of your opponent’s deck while Egghead and Zoe collect value, and your early combat tricks stand by to assist. Phase One: The Stall (Subphase: The Oops You Lose) Whoever you decide to bring along through this deck has a simple and powerful game plan that consists of three deadly phases and is deucedly hard to disrupt.ĭeck Code: CEBQQAYJBEODSVCVKZQGIAQDAACQUAIBAANAEAQDBERVOAICAAAQCAIDBEBQ We’ve seen versions without Pale Cascade, we’ve seen versions with Starry Scamp, we’ve seen people cutting most of the Demacia cards and running Leona and Mountain Scryer, we’ve even seen the odd Garen or two spinning his way to the top in the giant space dragon’s company. One of the scariest things about this list is how many different ways it can be built. Today we’re going to be taking a look at one of the boogiemen of the current format, Aurelion Sol Plaza.

Aurelion sol build