>-June 2025->
The most recent Siege Series wrapped up a little over a week ago, and with these results added to the rest, we've got an exciting update to the tierlist! While the meta remains open, there are some notable decks moving and rising amongst the rest, including new majik mask lists, and Hero Soup midrange!
Check out the main Tierlist here, with new updated tournament lists, and the Tierlist Changelog
For those with keen eyes, you might have noticed a new tab on the main page of LRAW Snapshot, that being the New Player Resources section! This section features a handpicked selection of articles for learning LRAW, and more importantly, a swath of Intro Deck Techs! I've been doing these in many Monthly Snapshot updates, and now they've got a permanent home. These mini deck techs will be organized by Legion, and act as an easy 5-minute or less introduction for new players to pick-up a deck as easily as possible, and I'll be continuing to update and add these as they're added.
Intro deck techs will continue to appear in Monthly Snapshot articles, and will be added to or updated in the New Player Resources!
Jasper Kasunic
Fandorians, a prominent and versatile archetype in the hero legion. Many cards in the Fandorian archetype are stong generic tools, strong enough you'll probably encounter them in every hero decklist. Of course the cards get stronger when played together as a full archetype with Fandorian Outpost always able to grab whatever piece you need every turn. As a deck you're looking to establish a strong board presence and hold it with your powerful Fortified cards.
Mulligan Tips:
Heroes are one of the Legions that lacks strong and cheap card advantage source so you'll be looking to keep a hand that has any card that could replace itself. Examples include: Fandorian War Chief Fulcona, Forgotten Fandorian Keep, Wall of Grand Resistance, and Fandorian Outpost. Next priority would be strong fortifieds (Fandorian Keep also counts for this!) such as Anti-Magic Resistance Force or Thornhaven's Fandorian Falls.
Early Tips & Playlines:
Post Mulligans, If using The Mystic Druid, Leader Of The Hood, you'll want to grab Hood Oath To The Bloodline, one of the strongest negates printed in Legions history.
If going second with Marovin you can add Cornelius, The Magi Changeling and Sanctum Of The Ancient Magi to send whatever Magi card you would like to grab with Cornelius' perish.
After that its all about activating your strong Fortified cards when they are most impactful to disrupting your opponents turn. The less your opponent can set up or play the easier it will be to set up a strong swing with 3 Outposts and a board full of Fandorians.
Late Tips & Playlines:
Now that the game has hopefully entered a state where your opponent has nothing and you have everything, you can setup big swings of damage in a couple ways.
The first way is using 3 Fandorian Outposts to largely buff your board of Fandorians for big damage and using Fulilia's Flourish to make those swings even bigger.
The other way is to use Valley Of Timeless Kings to set up some warrior statues or Fuljama with some large blockade armaments so they're able to attack for large hits.
Thomas Neilson
Mythical Beasts are one of the most, if not the most explosive legion, and Sh’Lara proves that handily with the ability to devastate boards, and ramp up resources. With Sh’Lara, your deck revolves around your Phoenix Hatchling Tokens. While they’re mostly harmless on their own, you’ve got the ability to transform them into a powerhouse whether sacrificing them for card effects like with Awakening The Mystic Fire, or buffing them up to knock your opponent out of the game! At the start of the game, you’re looking for a few key cards. Awakening The Mystic Fire is one of your most crucial cards, not only for generating resources, but many of your other cards rely on it to get to full power. Mystic Fire Offspring is one of these, and another powerful piece early, but one of your strongest tools is Flame Of Mystic Fire Origin. This tutor finds your important Mystic Fire cards, and if you’ve got an Awakening in play it only gets stronger!
Early Tips & Playlines
Jolkure, The Mystic Fire Alpha is a strong removal tool with it’s Perish ability. Comboing it with Niboosh, The Mystic Fire Jinn lets you create Phoenix Hatchling Tokens to sacrifice to Jolkure’s perish ability, while also letting you kill your Jolkure to find a Phoenix Flame card from your deck.
Mystic Fire Dragon Clash is key for getting back important Unified and Fortified cards from discard, while also getting a little bit more value out of your destruction effects. It’s especially important as a way to get back your Awakening The Mystic Fire and your Mystic Fire Arena as two of the most crucial cards in your deck.
Mystic Fire Arena is great for buffing up your Warriors and digging through your deck. The ability to discard cards is especially useful, being able to discard cards like Dominion Of Mystic Fire Cinders or Phoenix Flames Bombardment, which have powerful abilities which can be activated from your discard pile.
Late Tips & Playlines
Mystic Fire Offspring is great for tutoring out your Mystic Fire Warriors, and making some Phoenix Hatchling tokens to boot. When you’re trying to win the game with Mystic Fire Beast Power, you can use Offspring to tutor out Abraxis, The Mystic Fire Sphinx to destroy all Warriors on the board, including the Hatchlings, to easily charge up your Mystic Fire Beast Power.
Phoenix Flames Conflagration is a crucial card to turn your Phoenix Hatchlings into Mystic Fire Warriors. This lets you buff them up with Mystic Fire Arena or Mystic Fire Beast Power to finish an opponent.
With announcing this big page for storing and updating deck techs, I'd like to take the chance to send out a huge thank you to the other authors who have helped with creating mini deck techs. None of this would be possible without them, and I can't thank them enough!
Shout out to: AJ Christiaens, Hunter Smith, Jasper Kasunic, Lukas Richardson, Matt Waller, and Sylas Belmont!