#Akshan runes free

Both our one drops are rather aggressive so we can try and push some damage before the opponent gets to stabilize.

Pushing damage early is crucial against a defensive deck, as it makes our lethal setup much easier to complete.

Removing Veigar and Senna is key to denying Darkness extra value, keep a Vulnerable enabler ready around the turns you would expect your opponent to play those threats.

Rite of Negation and Friendship can also help in creating a difficult to remove Gnar.

Spellshield is the most important keyword against a defensive deck, making Ruin Runner our default unit to build upon for the finishing blow.

Support Akshan level up once you have the champion (Vakauran Vagabond вЂ“ Shaped Stone вЂ“ Ruthless Predator) Mulligan for: Akshan (Keep several Akshan if you have them) вЂ“ Ruin Runner вЂ“ Inventive Chemist вЂ“ Treasure Seeker. If we have a reasonable shot at closing the game on round 7, itвЂ™s usually better to go for it rather than be safe and try it on round 9. As the game progresses, the opponent gets more and more mana to use, making it more likely for them to be able to counter our final offensive or develop more board than we canвЂ™t handle.

We need to go for the kill as soon as possible.

Look to close out the game sooner rather than later.

The Quick Attack keyword is a great way to make our opponent react to our attack and commit something before we do. We are a pressure deck, looking to leverage our attack tokens to build our lead.

Force your opponent to вЂshow their handвЂ™ first.

Later in the game, we can set best possible situations to maximise our damage. The keyword allows our Akshan to pick best trades and level up safely. But keep in mind that this deck is only about the board вЂ“ it is sometimes a necessity to sacrifice some of our units to make sure we can protect the most important ones. It is tempting to use some resources onto our other units, like a Merciless Hunter for example.

Priritize protecting Akshan, Gnar, and Ruin Runner.

By forcing our opponent to deal with Akshan, then a Merciless Hunter, then a Walking Sands, etc, we drain the opponents resources until they are helpless against our Papercraft combo. It is through continuous pressure that we achieve our victories. Lastly, Rite of Negation simply is an all-around counter card that can take care of an opposing Vengeance for example. Wallop can be used to remove the blocker for the Overwhelm unit, Friendship! is a flexible tool that can grant Barrier (or Spellshield to Gnar if we couldnвЂ™t find Ruin Runner). More expensive spells should be kept for big tempo swings and support to our lethal push later in the game, or to deny our opponentвЂ™s push. The cheap spells should be used as needed вЂ“ we donвЂ™t need to keep them for anything specific. Inventive Chemist sets up the Gnar level-up Gnar on turn 4, and Conchologist is just a great flexible drop.ДЄs for spells, we have the cheaper pack of 1- and 2-mana spells in one pile, and Wallop, Friendship, and Rite of Negation вЂ“ in the other. The package of Treasure Seeker, Merciless Hunter, and Vekauran Vagabond is great with Akshan in order to develop some tempo early. The rest of the deck supports the different parts of our gameplan.

Ruin Runner is our main target for the Papercraft Dragon, but Gnar can also be great in that role when leveled on-curve ( Inventive Chemist helps with that), and Akshan can work backed up by The Absolver. Against other tempo or aggressive decks, the possibility of outvaluing the opponent with Akshan and Gnar exists вЂ“ but this scenario happens only occasionally. With 3 Papercraft Dragons and 3 Ruin Runners in the deck, we will often draw at least part of our combo by turn 5 most of the time, and then thanks to the WarlordвЂ™s Palace, we will reliable get the missing pieces.ДЄs the game goes past turn 5, our mindset should start changing towards Nexus damage rather than board control.

The Vulnerable keyword will also play a key role, as it allows us to dictate the trades and pick off their units.ДЄdvancing AkshanвЂs level up is crucial to be able to efficiently close the game.

#Akshan runes free

Quick Attack puts a lot of pressure onto the board, getting some free Nexus damage or forcing the opponent to sacrifice their early units. The strongest part of the Akshan Gnar gameplay is the natural synergies we can build around the Quick Attack and Overwhelm. When you start learning this deck, play for tempo and maximize the pressure during your attack turns.