We've seen 12 new campaign promo releases since the launch of Empires On The Rise, and these campaign promo card releases have finally come to a conclusion. This bounty of options has brought a number of options for spikes and brewers alike, with a selection of competitive staples and tantalising build-arounds.

But how have these cards landed, and which ones are still waiting for attention?

The first campaign promos from EOR brought an immediate change to the competitive landscape, with Galterius, The Wayfaring Knight's second turn ability making him a fantastic sideboard option in many different competitive lists. Any archetype not significantly reliant on their guardian has the ability to switch out for Galterius in the second games to find the card advantage needed to break through some powerful first turn board setups. Galterius has even found his way into the main deck guardian slot of certain Warlords that can take advantage of the powerful card advantage in game one effectively.

Gone But Never Forgotten hasn't become the broadly powerful staple in the same way as Galterius, but has become a solid value piece in lists that can easily mill or discard it for later value, such as in Undead or Dwarves, and powerful in lists where triggering a perish ability consistently and repeatedly on an opponent's turn can be anywhere from useful to backbreaking, such as with Cerebral, The Bound Seraphim Mind, Lost Messiah Sentry, Crucidel, or with Kessler, The Void Walker Warlock.

Compared to the powerhouses of the first round of campaign promos, Ignite The Night and Brutus, The World Barbarian have not seen the same level of competitive attention. Brutus, The World Barbarian is a nice option for bounty lists such as Marianas, as a sticky warrior that takes another card with him when destroyed.

Ignite The Night is an expensive board wipe, which can be useful for breaking sticky board states, such as against Angels, the Esmerelda, The Grimm Necromancer + Prysm, Soul-Collector Of The Grimm loop in Mortis, or with Quake, The Unstoppable Terra Stone loop in Gaia. Whilst many lists have access to tools that can break through these loops or board states such as with bounce, shuffle, eradicate, or send effects, decks such as Sh'lara can struggle to break through these boards, whilst also having the DCM and card advantage needed to be able to consistently activate Ignite.

Peace Of Mind and Final Resting Place once again have become popular and useful pieces in a variety of deck lists. Decks looking for an extra degree of card selection can benefit from Peace Of Mind, helping to trade away certain cards to better assist in certain match-ups. The destruction effect is a small one that helps maintain card advantage against destruction effects, and can also play well with tools such as Betrayal From Within. 

Peace Of Mind can also be a niche but useful sideboard piece in match-ups where you're opponent may be trying to rip apart your hand with discard effects, such as Onoskelis.

Final Resting Place is a much more generic piece, as a generic warrior negate in any list. I'm personally a big fan of the card, being able to eradicate your opponent's once per turn conscription, whilst netting a card to replace it. That being said, the card is certainly not a needed main deck piece, but can be a useful include in your sideboard against decks with incredibly powerful warriors that need to be kept off of the field, or against decks looking to loop, sacrifice, and recur warriors repeatedly for value.

Alburdunn's Mayoral Announcement and Become A Showman were not legal for the October 14 Booster House siege series event, but Alburdunn's Mayoral Announcement had a big showing at the November 25 Nerdz Cafe siege series, as a much needed tool for dealing with aggressive burn strategies such as Adramalech Black Magic Burn, Castiel Lost Messiah Tempo, or for the rampage damage from Sharn Boars Aggro.

Become A Showman is a unique card for brewers interested in building around Alburdunn's Big Top Circus, but has yet to show any competitive potential, with it's restrictions and difficult deck building requirements.

Shackle The Summoner is a brutal and much awaited tech card for hating on token focused strategies such as Sharn Boars or Mythic Beasts, but has yet to see an opportunity for tournament play, with it not being legal at the most recent siege series event. In future tournament events, Shackle will likely be a key sideboard piece for hating out various high tier strategies, and for now it can be a great sideboard option depending on your local metagame.

Amaryllis, The Twilight Maiden is an interesting guardian option, that will likely become more powerful as more Twilight cards are released in future sets. For the time being, Amaryllis is a unique option for brewers, but not quite yet competitively viable.

You can read more thoughts about Shackle and Amaryllis here!

The most recent, and final round of our campaign promos for Empires On The Rise, Healing Herbs Of The Brackus and Kessler, The Void Walker Warlock offer a selection of interesting build arounds, especially for Bounty lists such as Marianas. These cards will take a bit more work to flesh out competitively, but both offer fascinating synergies for any brewer willing to take the plunge.

You can read more thoughts about Healing Herbs, and Kessler here!

Whilst some of these promos haven't made a significant splash in competitive play, these campaign promos have overall contributed to reshaping and redefining the texture of competitive play post-EOR. 

Alburdunn's Mayoral Announcement has become a staple mist effect against the plentiful and powerful effect damage focused lists such as Adramelech Black Magic and Castiel Lost Messiah, which have found high placements early on in the EOR meta. 

Galterius, The Wayfaring Knight has helped to push back the play-draw disparity, with incredibly interesting deck-building and post-sideboard decision making. 

Shackle The Summoner is one of the promos which has yet to be legal in a tournament setting, but will certainly offer a powerful disruption piece against some of of the strongest archetypes in the game focusing around Tokens. With the promo card run ending, it'll be fascinating to see how the meta boils down and stabilises before the release of the next major set or SRL list update.