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Honestly its very replaceable, its a nice piece for consistency and helps you banish more of the deck earlier for getting evos faster when needed and helps combo with harpoon into some of the harder matchups but you'd probably be just as fine with dive through data, dumpster dive, or yellow zipper instead, or something else you prefer more

I'm hoping when I have time to get more reviews out with commentary, but if you have any requests for matchups or ones that you really want to know I'll add it to my small list I'm keeping!

Its my pleasure!! I hope that more can help just as much!

Teklovossen is very charming and fun. I've just started playing, but I'll do my best to play like you! Thanks for the reply!​@@Zandrenel

Its my pleasure! Its there to help as many as possible and as much as possible!!

They're both good strategies, it partially comes down to what you like for a play style and what you prefer for a matchup spread, so basically what decks you want to be better into and which you want to be worse into based on how you've built your deck. Teklovossen as a hero has some of the weakest first few turns of the game, you have no blocking equipment, everything that advances your gameplan costs 4, you play minimum 6 cards in your deck that are severely below the accepted rate and are only played because they become your wincon once you have 4 evos equipped. So one thing hybrid helps here is instead of just blocking those first few turns and waiting to draw evos, you can threaten damage and interactive gameplay in those early turns, but also you're a mechanologist so every card blocks 3 which is the default rate of blocking cards and very good so you can also block very well if you need to. A second benefit of being able to boost is you get to see more of your deck, so you're often seeing ~6 cards per turn from your deck, 2 boosts and the 4 you draw, which increases your chances of seeing an evo card, and there's little downside to boosting to find your evos sooner since you can play your evos from banish and can reccur at least 1 card from banish with evo recall, also its unlikely that you'll banish all your 9 power overpower attacks and you often only need a few to win. A lot of these factors combined make me feel like I have more control over my deck throughout my games as teklovossen which is why I prefer hybrid at least. you can also if you're counting your deck do stuff like pitching a few cards that are really strong early on and boosting through your deck to get to them faster. Control is still a very powerful deck that has some really good matchups, it basically plays every matchup to go to turn 15-20+ that way you can slowly just see your entire deck and play out singularity, but it has very little real pressure until then and can struggle against decks that can kill them before then, but excels against any other grindy deck.

so I am only playing the mst head and arms into this matchup, so equipping early doesn't have that many consequences in case I want to play singularity. I wouldn't say that I want to rush down but I do want to safely get to 4 as fast as I can, uzuri builds like this one don't always block that well so I want to be able to send tanks faster for sure since its easier to just win by damage into redline and you may need to; but even before most swaps I'm blocking with 1 card unless if I block with that card and the swap is a surgical I wouldn't have a turn. If the game is going slowly and its contract uzuri though for example then I'd probably try to preserve life even more, play every tank I can, and really focus on winning with singularity and having the arm slot available for when I flip.

@@Zandrenel that is extremely in depth and very helpful. It’s been taking me quite a while to get my head around this match up but I think it’s starting to make sense

@@jaysonrulz thank you!! Finally had a bit of time again, hopefully get a bit more the coming weeks

@@jaysonrulz i actually have 1-2 videos up of maxx, but definitely! I think all mechs are pretty fun and interesting, i also have a few datadoll ones up which is relevant with skirmish coming up. In general i hope to mote regularly upload some of each mech too

@@johnmeunier2796 not yet, i probably should have one in the works though, i’ve been starting with some vod reviews of matchups lately to kinda explain my approach better and thoughts while playing and i’m always happy to talk about any part of the deck or decisions i’ve made in games

@@Zandrenel I don't usually see so much boost in Teklo. Do you find that it changes much of the match up profile? Why do you like that form of the deck?

@@johnmeunier2796 absolutely, so kano is unwinnable on control if they can pitch stack but winnable here, same thing with illusionists since you can threaten wide turns and pop ward or spectra, you get to play a lot more flexibly in general and if you aren’t seeing evos you can just boost for the sake of accelerating the velocity in which you see your deck, same applies to if you set up a singularitu pitch stack or need to close out a game but know you pitched a terminator tank turn 2-3 so you boost to draw it sooner. You’re still very favoured into decks that are grindy since your endgame is just better and you don’t need to boost, and their titans fist for 4 every turn is worst than leveler into non boosted zipper or tank or singularity every turn. It allows a better vynnset matchup too since you get to punish any off turn they have by threatening a decent chunk of their life. Azalea is still hard, same for ninja but they’re beatable sometimes. Personally i just really like the flexibility the style of play has and that its more value based and has a chance into everything just about

So most matchups that you absolutely need to boost in singularity is much more a "win more" than the only wincon of the deck, your zipper hits and throttles with leveler will often threaten decent amounts of damage and you can close most games with 2-3 of the 9 power overpower cards. That said if you need to boost and singularity is what you consider the wincon of the matchup and you absolutely needed to boost, we play 1 evo recall so that you can recur singularity from banish. There are also several matchups though where singularity is the way you win and into each of those its often preferable to not boost unless needed, like into fatigue bravo. Singularity is a great anti fatigue power card essentially but no longer the sole wincon of the deck now that 4 evos is easier achieved.

@@Zandrenel Thanks for the reply. Your videos have been so helpful in my Teklo journey. Keep up the awesome work.

@@CasualTimmy its my pleasure and i’m glad that they help!

Those will definitely keep coming until i decide to actually sit down and make a script to screen record

Thank you! And I plan to when i can, just debating on order of heroes to do it with

Its my pleasure! When I have time I'll try to get one done more often for matchups that people have issues with since this matchup was one requested so far.

But the kano sideboard is the easiest one, just make sure you have lotts of blues and everything boosts that can then it attacks if it can't boost

Thank you! honestly it was a really cool line I didn't see at first but the other use case I was holding it for was fabricate to get the last 2 block from the legs, then equip, then get another 1 block on a second chain link, and I can't race dio so if I could I'd try to kill by damage, but by fatigue is a lot more doable, it has to be interactive fatigue if that makes sense though, like I wouldn't be able to fatigue a good dio on this list without sandbagging a demolition protocol or overpower attack and sending them to disrupt their big turns when they happen. Also they started 70 cards and I was down to 10 cards myself by the end so they were almost fatiguing me. maybe it would have been even closer if they counted their action points and didn't overboost on their two high octane turns cause I think for each one they ended with an extra 2-3 action points?

Here;s a newly generated one, let me know if it doesn't work still and I'll try to update them discord.gg/C57Pp7JpzN

So i had 3 blues and singularity in hand, heartdrive equipped. If i just played out singularity i would have 1 blue left in hand and 2 action points, so i could only attack once, playing speedslip gets me a second action point pre-flip so that i have only 1 action point after flip with my 1 blue in hand and 1 more soul. I would have wasted the action point otherwise since the heartdrive was equipped

Nice! Hope that you had fun with it and had some good games!

@@Zandrenel i definitely did and I’ll tell ya more about it when I get home. I beat nada faris after making some changes to the deck after day 1 of nats

Nice!! Honestly Kayo is a hard matchup and enigma also can be sometimes so really good job beating those two. Hatchet dori can be as well but may be worth adding back in the 3 sinks for dori and kayo if its your meta, that extra 4 life they can save you will sometimes be enough to survive to singularity. Thats pretty awesome though going 2-1 with it though!

@@Zandrenel I’ll be playing it for Minneapolis events tomorrow

@@gavinmyre7654 Good luck in them then!! I sadly won't be there but glad to hear that someone will be playing Teklovossen!

@@Zandrenel changin the deck up a bit and I’ll be good to go and give ya the list with the results

@@gavinmyre7654 will look forward to it after the weekend!

The list used is actually in the description of every video!

Also teklo foundry heart is mostly for ninjas, it lets you play proactively and banish evos faster and make your evos pseudo cost 3 instead of 4 making them easier to play out. Its the only way often to match their value and hopefully get 2 evos out very fast for tanks while not losing much block value

If I could just play 90 cards honestly I'd feel prepared fully for everything, I think pulswave protocol does a lot into aggro or decks with delicate cost curves, being able to take their 1 blue in hand or their go again source is often pretty good, but depends on the matchup, still debating if its better to keep in a few pulsewave protocols, add in more engines for the 9 overpower, or add in 3 sinks to help with assassin.... also same argument of do I keep in demo protocols or not, locally they're needed since I actually have other mech players and prism players locally, but when playing the list online not sure if they are since the mech and prism matchup is a lot more rare

@@Zandrenel I really enjoy using the demolition protocol because what they do extremely well being popping and aiding the mech matchups because of how incredibly impactful it’s effect is. And I also think the pulsewave card is good because if you have all 4 equipped it helps where you struggle and it isn’t hard to have all equipment because of the new instants but they pitch for 2 wich is just sometimes akward. I’ll be testing the list from the vid more tomorrow though and I’ll let you know how it goes

same for demo protocol, and its a good value mech card so you can boost it so its always so easy to include 2-3 of them in sideboard, and good luck with it! I agree with pulsewave being really good too, just debating what matchups to target more....

So if you want to use that mode you do, but currently I'm just using it for the other 3 modes of buffing armour block, going under armour, and banish/draw. If the meta were filled with more decks that ran cards that straight up destroyed equipment like guardian with buckle or warriors running shatter and they were bad matchups then I think it would be good to add back in the proto bases to my inventory though.

definitely, I actually was counting my deck down after I pitched it and keeping track of what cards I pitched after singularity, so with it pitch stacked I was at the very least guaranteed to be able to clear their board if they had one by the time I drew singularity, them not having one just meant I got to play out a 24 damage pitch stack the turn after though with 2 discard effects attached

So you can play the card which counts just as paying the cost, and teklo will still let you draw a card cause it was technically played, but you're right that you can't play it on top of a non base, the evo checks when it resolves if it has a valid target, so what happened was there was no valid target so it basically failed to resolve or "negated itself" but it was still able to be played since it only needs a target on resolution, not on play, notice that right after its also the top most card of my graveyard too

I just really wanted to push lethal and with their buffs was expecting it to get to 7 power max which technically isn't lethal....

so I have a list thats just using only the mst evos and it definitely gets to all of those faster, but singularity is pretty lackluster without the steel soul effects to help you swing tempo sometimes, and at least into dash even with the t-bone risk I like having the extra block from steel souls, though cause of tbones and meganetics I'm still playing 1 of each mst evo the just instant speed evo list if curious too: fabrary.net/decks/01HXHQSJ3NB25NE8G5TZGH4QQA

honestly its working pretty well so far, getting closer to that point of hybrid dash's "its a matter of knowing the gameplan more than the list" levels of consistency in its hybrid format and all the worst matchups got a bit better after mst, just ninjas and brutes that are the main pain point

@@Zandrenel sounds good then. I’ll keep checking out the vids

Evo speedslip is an instant and nuu only banishes defending actions, but the main interaction at ~14:00 is equipping an evo over another evo equips it to the armour zone so it removes all sub objects from the chain and is no longer defending

Thank you! honestly with enough practice I think teklo could be a good choice, only question would be if there's enough kano or good matchup representation for teklo....

Thank you!! and honestly it really did, without it I think I would have blocked more that turn on one hand but also had less pivot available to close out the game.

Will see about maybe commenting on this one and another next week in that case!

Thank you! honestly was mostly possible to seeing them pitch that figment of ravages the turn that they were threatening lethal and I went to 1 life, otherwise I would have needed to block with my head too to not be at 1 which would have been rough...

Still, that takes some great awareness

definitely haha, prisms tricky to play and really tricky to play against, you need to constantly understand what they could grab for figments or threaten with each on hit

The red ones just have more powerful effects that help you race your opponent. Also the matchups i use the red evos i don’t expect to get more than 2 evo slots equipped, so +2-6 damage from the red arms or adding more cheap boosts to my deck with the breaker head do more for me, the yellows i’d run if my gameplan was only get to 4 evos asap and send terminator tanks.

Just gotta draw that double t-bone meganetic, i’m actually debating adding back in red tbone or throttle or dive through data to make double tbone not a highroll ….

I must have missed it myself with this recording, some of the first few i did on windows with the screen record had this issue for some reason, all recent ones shouldn’t though!

Thank you! And currently that is the plan, add in 2-3 induction chambers, play ab3, and try to balance throwing 4-10 damage a turn at them to make it harder for them to pitch stack while blocking a lot of their damage since we still play around 26 blues in the deck so using ab 3 each turn isn't too hard making their tempo gameplan harder. And the boost list is me debating if for some matchups like aggro and kano I just need to commit harder to being aggressive or not, at the very least I'm debating adding in teklo foundry heart to this list to compensate 1 blue hands into kano and give extra blocking equipment into fai. Right now fai and katsu are the only aggro decks that I continuously have trouble with, the pulsewave harpoons and protocols help into azalea and the ninjas though. Agressive brutes it depends on if they draw their bloodrush power turns earlier and I draw evos to help with blocking cause without a power turn they;re too slow even as an aggro deck to stop me from playing singularity. Dash I/O and Aggro Dash IE aren't too bad, its pretty much on the dash io's side to get through our blocking but the fact that we throw damage back helps, and I haven;t faced an aggressive dash ie in a while but like all mechs be careful of t-bones but it shouldn't be the worst matchup.

So I think he's not as bad as people think he is, but he could be positioned better. So his primary negative matchups are dromai and fai, a lot of other matchups are either favoured or pretty even. Some matchups that I find are just really favoured though are assassin, bravo, and usually boltyn. It depends on what you expect meta wise but if the meta becomes very warrior guardian heavy I think that he'll be very well positioned, for the control and boost variants of teklovossen.

@@Zandrenel against assassin is good ? Shred?

Thanks anyway, your videos are very useful! I'd also like to hear comments as you play. What is the most updated list?

so against assassin its pretty good since they don't actually threaten a lot of damage, arakni and uzuri both play a decent number of generic attacks, so you need to either make sure they aren't on shred or block only generic attacks with your equipped evos, and while doing so since they threaten less damage you have time to set up 4 evos and have a healthy second cycle of tank for 9 overpower every turn or singularity.

@@savageclub3285 and thank you!! my most recently updated list is in the description of this video, and I plan to do a few videos soon with actual live comments of the lines I consider vs what I do, maybe even further in the future I'll voice over my videos and actually play by play say what was a misplay and why I did stuff as I did.

Thank you!! I've been toying with a few lists actually, but once I kinda settle on one more than the others I'd definitely do a deck tech or maybe even vod reviews, also haven't bothered to set up my mic yet... also on the weapon at least pistol has the advantage of it just costs 1 resource to deal 2 damage from turn 1 to turn 20 while leveler is not a weapon turn 1 and is only better than pistol once you have 3-4 evos equipped, so depending on how much you want to lean into evos as your gameplan I feel that either can be good. if you prioritize evos more highly I'd maybe go leveler, if less so or you don't rush to equip them then maybe pistol, still deciding though.

Thank you!! And its pretty consistent if you can manage to avoid them banishing singularity vs arakni cause of how low their average damage output is. So far I prefer more boost oriented versions, as a mech your entire deck already blocks 3 so you never really have issues blocking, you just get a better ability to pivot between attacking and blocking when every card you have also has go again, and you also get to cycle through your deck faster when boosting to dig for evos. I'm trying out a few new ideas on lists though changing up the focus on the deck with regards to boost

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What's your take on it?

Thank you!!@@kazaky178 And the deck is really fun so far, a lot of its good matchups are fair decks like bravo, uzuri, warriors, it sometimes struggles into decks like ninja or dromai, but those can be won with enough tech for them, the deck focuses on just trying to leak damage early and pitching your tanks or war machines next to blues so that you can draw them in playable hands second cycle, using evos to basically gain 5 life each is really powerful on its own, but it sometimes balances out with the fact you need to take some damage to play out an evo. People have also been dwelling between using boost cards or not in teklovossen decks, my take for that is that boost is much more flexible a mechanic and helps you get to the end game state a lot faster. This game I saw singularity pretty early, what that meant was that I could pitch it and then count down my deck size until I drew it, also meant I could use boost as much as I wanted to accelerate through my pitch and threaten more damage and hope to banish evos off the top to get up to 4 evos faster. With that as my gameplan I just wanted to get his health low enough that singularity or tanks would finish him off and try taking less damage if I could myself. And teklo being a mechanologist you can just build the deck with 60 cards that block 3 and say boost letting you pivot between blocking every turn to actually attacking back which is what I intended to do this game. He's a really fun hero and you always have a lot to think about with him!