Welcome to this focus on one of the 18 heroes from Altered’s core set (Beyond the Gates). We will review the hero power of this Ordis Exalt. I will present some cards that fit well with this hero and finally different types of decks we can build around it.
If you haven’t read it yet, you might be interested to know more about the Ordis Faction and their overall mechanics with the Opening Up Ordis Article. Waru & Mack, coming here to make you sleep as you face them, but also if you dare being a bureaucrat.
Hero power
At Noon — If you control one or more Bureaucrats, create an Ordis Recruit 1/1/1 Soldier token in target Expedition.
When you play a Bureaucrat — You may have it gain Asleep. (During Dusk, ignore its statistics. During Rest, it doesn’t go to Reserve and it loses Asleep.)”
Today, we’ll dive in Waru’s environment and try to advance in the tumult with sleeping bureaucrats… Weirdly, you’d say, how the hell do sleepy bureaucrats beat some fast pace runners like Bravos’s? Well, maybe if you’re familiar with the game, you know that it’s the case for now! The way to build this deck is really straight forward, with few differences with the bureaucrats you’d put in, as we’ll see in the next part.
Cards that fit well with this playstyle
Reading Waru explains what you’ll tend to do in the deckbuilding phase. First of all, you want to put a lot of bureaucrats and have their powers used because they have passive or strong “When my expedition doesn’t move” effects! For example, the strongest card in here is Robin Hood, that counters all the plans your opponent has done. Another good card is Ordis Attorney as you like to draw in this specific deck to get your other bureaucrats. Lastly, you want some more power, to get the game done and take back the advantage you might have lost early, so i think Charge! is a really good card for this.
Archetypes around Waru
Starting with the sleeperZzZzZ…
The basic of Waru will be to handle and plan your action with the asleep bureaucrat you’ll be playing. For example, you need to pay attention to the biomes you put your bureaucrats that have specific stats. You have the whole bureaucrat’s open space to play with them and get to handle them!
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Character
Spell
Control Waru!
With this list, we will try to have an even more control-ish Waru playstyle and deck, with a lot of removal and big late game cards that can take back the advantage a lot. This way, a way of winning will be to play high end cards in specific set-ups.
Hero
Spell
Character
Aggro-Ruuuuu
As we have seen, we have a lot of control options with Waru as the bureaucrats tends to give you a slow way of playing. But what if we can also rush our opponent, keeping up with them and winning without sleeping a lot of stuff.
This way, you’d be able to keep up with a low curve high stats cards, that helps you to not get behind in the early game.
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Character
Spell
Thank you for reading this focus on this Exalt. We hope you read some stuff that might interest you and you’ve found some lists that enhance your will to play this awesome game.
We remind you that these lists are just hands on and are not optimized, we really encourage you to try things on your own with what you have and want to play. That way you’ll find some interesting stuff that suits you great!
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