Roy (B22)

## Overview

Written by: Basil

Purple has a lot of privilege, and Roy is probably the best at abusing it. A more aggressive midrange deck, he largely wants to swing early to hit a kete, then promote and spam the opponent with B16 Lilina and darkness emblem stacks to get card advantage. He also has an extremely good statline, 80 base with 1-2 range and a good X support, and the classic purple finisher in Zephiel.

## Gameplan

Early game your goal is mostly just to swing and hit a kete. If you’re on the b09 Roy 1 cost, you can rig it by hitting with him, drawing then stacking the kete, then swinging with another 1 cost. You can also just deploy your mages in the backline and swing 3-5 times and hope you hit one. If you do, you can promote on turn 3, which puts Roy on a really good curve for the future.

If you don’t hit the kete, you still have solid turn 3 bridges in HR Roy and Toolbox Roy. HR roy can just get you a nice support for free, be it a darkness emblem, a Lute or a Lilina, and Toolbox can just generally help out depending on what you need, albeit for a price.

Once you’re in main promo, you’re mostly just trying to get Canas on board and spam Lilinas and darkness emblem from your hand and retreat area. Canas is just so good with Roy, since he stacks the supports you want the most and can hit for 80 if the opponent has low cards, which he can also rig himself. A very common turn is to deploy Canas, flip 1 to stack 2 Lilinas from the retreat area, kill something with Canas, draw 1, use Roy to stack the other Lilina you just drew, and kill something else to draw 1.

For late game, you’re mostly just trying to get a Zephiel + kete out to swing at their MC a bunch. If Zephiel hits a dodge on his LIS discard, that’s probably just game right there, and even if not, he’s still swinging for 100, letting a kete swing for 80, and Roy will be swinging for 80 too, plus if Canas or something else stuck for a turn you can get even more swings. And even if they don’t die that turn, you still hit them a lot and put a lot of pressure on to clear Zephiel, and can potentially do it again later.

## Strengths and Weaknesses

Strengths:

* Lots of free advantage with darkness emblems and Lilina
* Strong synergistic deploy with Canas
* Ketes let you promote on 3 and can be good deploys late game
* Incredible statline of 80 base with range and an X support
* Good bridges that can act as promo if you miss your main promo

Weaknesses:

* If he misses a kete early, it hurts his curve
* A bit low on deploys outside of Canas, Zeph, and ketes

## Key Cards

### Canas 4(3)

Canas is probably Roy’s best deploy, rigging Lilina supports for a potential +2 or rigging darkness emblems for a potential -2 for the opponent, for just 1 bond flip. The stacks also mean no selfing on attack, and as a bonus he usually swings for 80 since the opponent will either be dodging Lilina attacks or discarding from darkness emblems.

### Zephiel 5(4)

One of the best finishers in the game- if he hits a dodge, your opponent is as good as dead. Not really much to say, just buff a kete, rip a card, and swing face, and it’ll probably work out.

### Fae & Myrrh (Dragonkin Emblems)

Fae and Myrrh are basically the same card, only difference is Myrrh gets her buff a turn earlier and is a flier. They’re critical to your gameplan since you want to hit one of them as your support early so you can promote a turn early, then in the late game you can deploy them as 1 cost 60 bases to be buffed by Zephiel or Peony, or maybe rig a Roy X support.

### Canas & Raigh (Darkness Emblems)

Canas and Raigh are literally exactly the same except for there names, which is relevant since the 1 cost Canas can be dodges for the 4 cost and keep him alive. But yeah these guys are gross, just free -1 for the opponent, and if they’ve been doing their job then they swing for 40. Late game they can be kinda dead draws unless you stack with Roy, but they can just be bond fodder.

## Sample Decks

Basil's Roy
4 Canas, Scholar of Ancient Magics
4 Canas, Benighted Smile
4 Raigh, Darkness-Pursuing Youth
2 Roy, Foretold Flame
3 Lute, Matchless Prodigal Mage+
4 Lilina, Wielder of Infernal and Shining Flames+
4 Fae, Innocent Dragon Girl
4 Myrrh, Girl of the Dragonkin
4 Peony, Sweet Dream-Bringing Lass
4 Roy, Evil Star-Scorching Binding Flame
3 Zephiel, Liberator of the World
3 Eirika, Princess of Kindness and the Storm Blade
2 Eliwood, Blazing Knight of Valor
MC:
1 Roy, General of the Lycian League