The Thing About Aa’Une

O.k. ladies and gents, I have a bit of a bone to pick with all of the Aa’Une business going on out there, and I figure I should do this post before I publish tactical two because it will play as a good example.  Now before I begin I want to express my massive annoyance with this new guy on the block called Aa’Une, all I’ve heard since they updated the collection page has been, “He’s unstoppable, we need to find a way to shut him down, and blah, blah, blah.”  Now I would like to say that I am open to critizizm myself as I first thought he would be overpowered and that he would be a big problem.  But I must say that as far as I’ve seen I was mistaken, but I’m going to put a spacer here so if you want to see some cards you can put in any army to kill Aa’Une you can click here and scroll right to it, I will also have a few Aa’Une builds and maybe a counter build.  And mostly because I know people don’t want to hear me rant, but this is an important thing to rant about as people need to see that common cards can beat Aa’une and most importantly people need to keep their head when they see him.  (EDIT: I wrote this when my flight in Mass. got layed over and I was getting sick, but it gives some good points and I figured you guys might laugh a little at it, as you can prabably tell I’m easily angered.  So enjoy the show.  *_*)

 

So, let’s get down to business.  Advantages:

First is Aa’Une’s stron points, as Avatar he’s pretty much unbeatable, especially if you have five mugics and your opponent happens to have five or less creatures.  As Projection he boasts mediocre stats that some players are already accustomed to and the fact that he automatically must be played with spear (well, if you want avatar) can also be seen as a bonus as well.  And I’m not going to talk about the outperform 20 on avatar and all that because we already know, so now that that is done we get to move onto the fun part.

Disadvantages:

Avatar must win a round!!!  I can’t emphasies this enough.  People say the best thing to do is to destroy the battle gear, but I say no.  Just outmuscle the little twerp, and if you are fighting an Aa’Une rush deck (which everyone is playing) you can stop your opponent by forcing Aa’une out of battle, overworld defenders come to mind.  I say this mostly because anyone with a brain will run coralsmith, and then you have to break coralsmith and that’s a whole other task on it’s own.  Next is the fact that your opponent will have to build up mugic counters for the calling mugic, and even if your opponenet gets that out you can still counter it through your mugic, which is why I think all the Aa’Une players should run two of the callings.  Another disadvantage comes from the players and not the card, everyone is looking for the miraculous one turn kill, and losing focus on playing to win indefinetly. 

The Cards to us to stop the king:

I have seen a few counter decks online but that doesn’t help if your not fighting an Aa’Une deck, so here’s some cards to run for all decks to stop him. 

Song of Revival- I know it’s for Underworld only, but if somehow your opponent comes out with Aa’Une then all you need is to mugic counters and just enough creatures to survive that all feared discard/pick your death move.  And the kicker is that since your opponent started the chain and you use this then they will have no mugics to help those precious Marillians. 

Next up to bat is Song of Stasis- I know seems dumb right, well have you ever had a creature with range and swift that killed off your mugicians one turn too quick?  This thing is easy and it stops Aa’Une for one turn, and that is all you really need.

After that we have an old Staple, Trills of Diminution- Not just for Aa’Une but for coralsmith.  Use this get rid of the battle gear and a compound this with a few others and boom Aa’Une is history before he makes it.

And how about good ol’ Cannon of Casualty?  Brutish yes, but yet affective.

Armament Adagio- Swap the battle gear save yourself (sue me I’m a Heroes fan).

This ones a combo that’s tribe specific, but try the new Wamma and infect Aa’Une.

And the coup de’tat of this list is Tonal Destruction, it’s great, and it’s generic.

 

What to Play with Aa’Une:

Well, obviously you want coralsmith, Mock’Adyn, Nunk’Worn, Phelphor of the Deep (Trust me I played the original Phelphor and moving creatures is one of my favorite things to do) and either Ri’Oha or the Song thief (I’m not writing out his name so hah!).  Now your choice between those two should depend on weahter you want late game mugic or extra battlegear protection for those Shards.  Now I’m sure some of the players that are looking at the subtypes are going well hold on you ranting lunatic, you’ve only got one Kha’Rall, well your right on both counts.  But it might be worth your while to run a shard on Ri’oha and one on coralsmith, so you can adapt coralsmith to your needs, because believe it or not he’s going to be on the front line.  Here’s the breakdown from left to right;

Nunk’Worn with Algal Wings of Attraction

Aa’Une with the Baton thing

CoralSmtih with Shard of the tidal crest

Phelphor (OTD) with Ulmar’s Bionic Steam arms

Mock’Adyn with Challor

And if you run Ri’oha with whatever help Coralsmith complement on your attacks

And then if you have Songthief definitely run him in the back with a Challor

Mugic will consist of;

2 Calling of Aa’Une

2 Curemorph Chords

1 Denial Refrain of the deep

1 Unheard Melody-In case someone song of revives a bloot, chaor or or anything else.

Now this deck uses something very different from the norm, this deck’s idea is to keep Aa’Une alive and not rush to bring him out, you use this army to feel your opponent out, and it has a trait that makes it rare from some of what I’ve seen as it is made to survive without Aa’Une.  Also the reason for Pelphor’s battlegear is because you can use him to draw your opponent into a battle with him.  One of the best things is to make sure that Nunk’Worn has three mugic counters when he dies, so he revives, and the reason for that is because he is your biggest battler, since he revives you can use him to poke your enemy, drive right through them or even send him in on a death mission so as to gain your other fluidmorphers counters.  As for attacks I will let you figure that on your own as it is vital but also has a great deal of flexibility.

And if you need a counter deck it might be worth while to look at Mordrid’s army on the army build page, it’s pretty old but if you haven’t looked at it you should.  I would put it up, but I think it would be better to let you guys look at it if you want.  Another bonus is that when the next set comes out Aa’Une will most likely be outdated.  So in the infamous words of Porkey Pig “That’s All Folks!”  (for now…….)