I’ve been upgrading some of the precons I have. So far I’ve done:
Osgir the Reconstructor
Veyran, Voice of Duality
Shadrix Silverquill
I’ve played all of these at least once and while they can do the thing they want to do, none are going to take over my Adrix and Nev as most enjoyable.
Speaking of which, last night I played a pretty epic game.
Opponents and I all had upgraded precons from the last few years, and we did pretty good for a while. My food/clue/treasure value chain got set up, where I had Tamiyo’s Journal, Adrix and Nev, and Academy Manufactor on the table. So at each upkeep, I got 2 Foods, 2 Clues, 2 Treasures. When an opponent was looking pretty dangerous with his Ghired populate deck that kept making 4/4 Rhinos on each turn or his attack, and another opponent was quite formidable with a Wilhelt zombie deck, I was feeling quite behind.
So I used clues to get an Ezuri’s Predation, created a bunch of beasts that took out several opponents’ creatures, and then, with Combine Chrysalis, all my tokens had flying. After that I ended up with at least 45 Beast creature tokens (4/4), plus a handful of other creatures I’d made. I was feeling like a serious threat.
Next turn from Ghired, he ends up playing an instant to tap all my creatures. And then is going to swing at me for 45 damage from a bunch of his 5/5 Rhinos, when I had 41 life. But… I have Confirm Suspicions in hand! Which is not only going to counter that, it’s going to give me 6 more clues, 6 more treasures, and 6 more foods! Yes!
Except… DAMN IT! This thing costs 5 mana, and I’ve only got 4 left. I had to use a jank-load to get the Beasts on the table, and I just couldn’t sequence it correctly, nor did I have the time to wait another turn to let him hit me without all those Beasts as blockers.
After I went out, the Gired and Wilhelt players went out quickly too, as the dude playing Breena the Demagogue had a bunch of flyers (something like 40) that he created by playing Inkshield for the second time, having returned it to his hand with Conqueror’s Foothold. He did say that this is the second time he’s returned a card to his hand with that Foothold and it eventually won him the game.
Overall really fun experience, took 2 hours and was good to hang out with some people who were happy to get their decks to do what they wanted to do, and see them in action.