Goro Tanglehold Uproot
PrereleaseRoot their best guy on portal, then hunt it down while it can't move.
Goro Tanglehold Uproot
Normally you can't attack untapped entities, right? Well, Tanglehold Gate roots one of their guys every time I portal, and my Uproot hunters ARE allowed to attack untapped Rooted guys! I clear their board for free and heal up on the way.
Deck
Game plan
Early turns
I play Koyama Farm Elder or Bright Eyed Miyo on turn 1 to grab an Uproot or Rootbane piece, and drop bodies with Gate Power into my Alley.
Middle turns
Portal first every turn to root the guy I want gone, then send Priestess of Sanzu or Wind Drawn Archer after it while Goro Graveloth's +1 health keeps my hunter alive.
Closing
Sandcoil Python roots everything with base attack 3 or less for a huge swing turn, and Silence just taps to delete a Rooted guy with 5 health or less. Big W.
Mulligan
I keep a 1-cost entity (Koyama Farm Elder, Bright Eyed Miyo, Rei) and a 2-drop (Botanical Surveyor, Suuzu, Wind Drawn Archer, Wrong Step). Throw back double 5-plus hands.
Key cards
Portal an Alley entity, then root an enemy Garden entity with base health up to its Gate Power.
Attacks untapped Rooted entities so their engines never get to sit safely.
Attacks untapped Rooted entities AND heals my leader for 1 when it knocks one out.
Roots every opposing Garden entity with base attack 3 or less on play.
Ignores Cooldown in the Garden: just tap it to destroy a Rooted entity with 5 health or less!
Tips
- Check Gate Power before putting a card in the Alley! Rei and Suuzu have Gate Power 0 so they root nothing — save the Alley for Priestess of Sanzu (2), Sanzu Courier (3), Python (4) and Silence (5).
- Blissful Ambusher's Charge ONLY lets it attack Rooted entities, so portal and root first or it just stands there like an NPC.
- Gift of the Grove heals 3 instead of 2 while they have a Rooted entity costing 4 or more.
