Frenzied Alit – Uses and Synergies
Frenzied Allit is the Monthly Reward card for November 2018 in The Elder Scrolls Legends. Frenzied Alit is another “flagellation” creature. It increases in power by +1/+0 when it takes damage.
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WarpMeta #40 Meta Analysis
This Sunday marked WarpMeta #40, an open tournament hosted by WarpMeta that is free to enter. Currently they are hosting weekly tournaments with a $150 prize pool on Sundays at 12:00 EST. For more information, visit the WarpMeta website, watch tournament replays on YouTube, or watch their tournaments live on Twitch. Looking over the field of decks from this Sunday’s...
An In-Depth Look at Attributes – Part 2: Intelligence
“Infinitely more versatile than a simple blade of steel, a good mage has a wide array of spells at her disposal. More than that, she knows when best to use them.” – Aramril, The Apprentice’s Assistant As any great fighter will tell you, there is more to battle than brawn – you need brains as well. In the last part...
Dwemer Harmony – Blood Warriors Guild Weekly Decklist
Hail friends! Welcome back to the Blood Warriors Guild’s Weekly Decklist. This week we have a rather spicy Mage deck from Holoir themed around Dwemer and featuring the new monthly reward card, Altmer Dragonknight. Hope you enjoy! You can find the link to the list on Legends-Decks here! Deck Overview: For the most part, this deck is going to handle...
Statistical Significance in Playtesting
The Problem Why care about Statistical Significance in Playtesting? Maybe you are wondering if your deck is a good one? Maybe you want to know if it beats another (type of) deck consistently? Do you want to improve your Deckbuilding Process? For example, can your deck consistently beat a specific Telvanni Conscription deck your friend is always playing? I found...
Support Tutors in The Elder Scrolls Legends – An In-Depth Look
The Elder Scrolls Legends has some very powerful support cards in each attribute. Whether it’s World Eater’s Eyrie, Wrothgar Forge, Mages Guild Retreat, Divine Fervor, Mechanical Heart, Swindler’s Market, Thieves’ Den, Ring of Namira, High Hrothgar, Mushroom Tower, Haunted Manor, The Night Mother or Altar of Despair. You will certainly have a few decks in your current deck lists, where...
Action Tutors in The Elder Scrolls Legends – An In-Depth Look
Action Tutors are a great vehicle to enhance action-based decks in The Elder Scrolls Legends. You can win more consistently and potentially save some precious slots in your deck. Due to the release of Altmer Dragonknight and Destruction Tutor, action-based decks are currently undergoing a bit of a renaissance. This article provides a in-depth look at all the action tutors...
An In-Depth Look at Attributes – Part 1: Strength
“‘Grutsug,’ people ask me, ‘What weapon should I use? There are just so many choices!’ Why, yes, my less-battle-savvy little friends, there are! But not to worry; you don’t need to choose just one. In fact, if you’re anything like me, you’ll have much more fun with two!” -Weapon-master Grutsug Crush, Slash, Bash, and Stab Ah, Strength – The Attribute...
Combo, Wombo – BAM #5: Namira’s OTK Monk
Hail Legends and welcome to a new article in the Combo, Wombo – BAM section! This article will be concerned with a Combo deck that focuses on another OTK win condition using the Ring of Namira. Previously, Blooddrunk007 from the Blood Warriors Guild posted an article for the Scout class involving the use of Namira’s Ring in conjunction with the Spider...
Sorcerer Beatdown Deck: Merlin, the Moose – Blood Warriors Guild Weekly
Hail and Well Met! The Blood Warriors Guild is back with another Weekly Deck for The Elder Scrolls Legends. This time we are proud to introduce you to Merlin, Moose Sorcerer, a classic mid-range beatdown deck. The guild members voted to design a Sorcerer deck with at least one card from the new FrostSpark Collection. By a clear margin, GicaForta won the competition...
Item Tutors in The Elder Scrolls Legends – An In-Depth Look
Your item-centered decks in The Elder Scrolls Legends can win more consistently with Item Tutors. While many of your successful decks already rely on items, probably only some of them run item tutors to draw the item from deck. So can item tutors help to improve this? Item Tutors at their Best A good example of a deck that tutors...
TESL Community – Interview with WayneMcPayne
As a part of the Elder Scrolls Legends community, you want to know more about the people behind the player tags. What made them engage with TESL in the first place? What do they like about the game? What’s their favorite deck? For this purpose, tesl.blog is running a regular interview series to introduce you to members of the TESL...
Deckbuilding Reference Sheet: Tutors
How can you get value from tutors in deckbuilding? With the new cards from The Elder Scrolls Legends FrostSpark Collection, you are now looking to build a completely new deck? You have play-tested your new baby a little bit, but your opponent always gets card advantage or runs under your curve and beats you down? Maybe add more Guards or more...
Tutors in The Elder Scrolls Legends – The Basics
If you are new to CCGs and The Elder Scrolls Legends, you will probably ask – “What is a Tutor, anyway?”. You probably have been using them already in some of your games. If you would like to go a little bit deeper into this concept and strengthen your TESL deck building skills and improve your win rates, this article...
A Look Into the Deckbuilding Process
If you are anything like me, then building new decks is one of the most exciting and alluring aspects of collectible card games. There’s nothing quite like coming up with a unique concept that is all your own, constructing it from the ground up and then finding success with it in competitive matches. It’s one thing to play skillfully with...
The FrostSpark Collection is Evolution, not Revolution
The FrostSpark Collection is currently entering the meta of The Elder Scrolls Legends. After the release of the Houses of Morrowind expansion, this is the first bigger set of cards the player base has been awaiting anxiously. The designers have focussed on providing some interesting new mechanics that can be used to counter some of the current meta game and...
Wilds Incarnate Moose – Uses and Synergies – FrostSpark
The final card reveal for The Elder Scrolls Legends FrostSpark Collection is Wilds Incarnate, lovingly named The Moose by many. The Moose is a 7-cost 5/6 Neutral Beast with Guard and a pretty interesting Summon effect: Draw a card if you have four runes. Draw an additional card if you have five runes. Wilds Incarnate aka “The Moose” comes with...
Sword of the Inferno – Uses and Synergies
Santosvella revealed Sword of the Inferno, the tenth card in the FrostSpark Collection. Before we have a closer look, let’s check-out the card-art: It is amazing and the premium version of the card has a cool red-orange glow-effect around the sword. The 2-cost item in the red Strength attribute gives +2/+0 and has a special Summon ability. The wielder deals 2 damage...
Altmer Dragonknight – Uses, Synergies and Counterplays
Altmer Dragonknight is the Monthly Reward card for October 2018 in The Elder Scrolls Legends. Altmer Dragonknight is an epic 3-cost 3/2 High Elf from the Mage (blue/yellow) class that has a special effect when combined with actions: At the end of your turn, if you played an action, Altmer Dragonknight gains +2/+2. He relies on a very consistent amount of...
Trick or Treat – Halloween Deck – Blood Warriors Guild
Hail and Well Met! This week, the Blood Warriors Guild is bringing you a theme – deck in time for Halloween! The guild ran another fun competition with Skeleton, Vampire and Mummy decks. In the voting, there was one clear winner: Chesthams Trick or Treat Unite the Houses Hlaalu deck is a lot of fun to play and also thematic...
Death Hound – Uses, Synergies and Counterplays
Death Hound, the ninth card of the FrostSpark Collection for The Elder Scrolls Legends has been revealed at TwitchCon by Bethesda. With the purple Endurance attribute being the one that has consistently the most powerful creatures in the game, Death Hound is no exception: a 5-cost Beast + (Skeleton — to be confirmed) with powerful stats of 6/6 and Guard....
Harmony – Uses and Synergies
Harmony is the eighth card in the FrostSpark Collection, a new promo expansion for The Elder Scrolls Legends. The 2-cost action in the yellow Willpower attribute has Prophecy and gives all enemy creatures -2/-0 until the start of your turn. Note, how cool the card art is aligned to this effect: When played from hand, it “confuses” or “distracts” all...
Destruction Tutor – Uses and Synergies
Jele77 today revealed the seventh card for the FrostSpark Collection: Destruction Tutor. The 5-cost 3/5 High Elf reduces the cost of your actions that deal damage by 2 magicka. Another interesting effect that applies while Destruction Tutor is in play. Let’s look at the card using Quadrant Theory. Quadrant Theory Opening With a cost of 5, the card can only be...
Torval Extortionist – Uses, Synergies and Counterplays
DragonTamerBlayde revealed the sixth card of the FrostSpark Collection, the new promo expansion in The Elder Scrolls Legends: Torval Extortionist. It is a perfect fit for him, as he loves playing Slay decks! Torval Torval is a city in Tamriel, in southwestern Elsweyr that appeared in Elder Scrolls Arena. Extortionist /ɪkˈstɔːʃ(ə)nɪst,ɛkˈstɔːʃ(ə)nɪst/ a person who tries to obtain something through force or violence;...
Green Pact Ambusher – Uses and Synergies
Warriors7 today revealed Green Pact Ambusher, the fifth card of the Frostspark Collection, the new promo expansion for The Elder Scrolls Legends. Green Pact Ambusher is a 2-cost 4/1 Wood Elf with Prophecy and Guard from the red Strength attribute. She has a very special ability which introduces a new mechanic to TESL: “At the end of your opponent’s turn, if...
Karthspire Scout – Uses and Synergies
The Justin Larson revealed the fourth card of the Frostspark Collection: Karthspire Scout, a 1-cost 1/1 Orc in the purple Endurance attribute. The card has an interesting Last gasp effect: it draws a card but increases the cost of that card by one magicka. Hm, is this good? Should you play it? I think the answer is yes – let’s...
A Life of Crime Scout – Weekly Deck – Blood Warriors Guild
Hail and Well Met! The Blood Warriors Guild is back with another installment of the weekly deck! This week the Guild-vote landed on Scout, the most beautiful looking color-combo but that’s besides the point. After careful deck-building and a majority consensus we decided on a Slay and Pilfer list that provides consistent threats throughout all stages of the game. Here...
Shadowmarking – Uses and Synergies
Shadowmarking, is the next card in the Frostspark Collection that was revealed today by Aquaman88 on his Twitch channel (in Russian). The 3-cost action allows you to look at the top three card of your deck – you then have to choose one card to put into your opponent’s hand and you will draw the other two. Card Art and Lore Just look at...
TESL Community Member – Masculine Bulldog
Time for another interview with a member of The Elder Scrolls Legends community! Today, it’s your chance to learn more about Izacc who is known as Masculine Bulldog in The Elder Scrolls Legends. Izacc is a Council Member in the Blood Warriors Guild and takes on multiple responsibilities within the guild – one of them is to organize and promote...
Apex Wolf – Uses and Synergies
A detailed look at uses and synergies of Apex Wolf – a new card in The Elder Scrolls Legends – Frostfall Collection
Piercing Twilight – Uses and Synergies
Piercing Twilight is a 4-cost Daedra from The Frostspark Collection. The epic creature comes right on curve with a power and health of 4 and the Guard keyword. Most notably, the Daedra also provides a powerful summon effect: you can pick a card from your opponent’s discard pile and banish all cards from your opponent’s deck and discard pile with...
Bethesda announces the FrostSpark Collection
Today, Bethesda announced Frostspark, a new 11 card expansion for The Elder Scrolls Legends for the price of 9.99 USD or 1500 gold (non-premium). Frostspark will also be released as a fully premium version that can be purchased for 19.99 USD (but not for gold). They explained on the weekly TESLegends twitch stream that the expansion will help mitigate some...
TESL Community Member – SpoilerULose
TESL.blog recently had the opportunity to interview another member of The Elder Scrolls Legends community – SpoilerULose. While bringing a wide range of card game experience with him, Andrew only started to play TESLegends three or four months ago, after looking to re-engage with Hearthstone. He has pretty quickly advanced across the ranks on ladder and is currently playing in...
Celebratin’ Patch 2.2 ‘n th’ First Look at Th’ Isle o’ Madness
Gicaforta, MasculineBulldog and BloodDrunk007 good mateys ‘n honourable hands in th’ Blood Warriors Guild ‘n their crew ‘ave found new bootey. Jus’ t’ bridge th’ time ’til th’ Isle o’ Madness be released. Aye, ye be hearin’ correctly – new content from Th’ Isle o’ Madness. Find it further below. But first: Celebratin’ th’ 2.2 patch o’ Th’ Elder Scrolls...
Being Aggro – Beatdown Decks in Detail
Aggro decks are one of key deck types in almost any collectible card game. The idea is simple and everyone is supposed to know how to play these decks: playing creature, after creature, after creature and go face with them to beatdown your opponent’s life points turn after turn after turn. That’s what everyone thinks. But there is a lot...
Three Ways to Create Card Advantage in The Elder Scrolls Legends
Card advantage in The Elder Scrolls Legends? Why should you care? Is this just another one of those card game theory articles? A card game like The Elder Scrolls Legends is about fun. Isn’t it enough to play the game? Do you have to read about the theory? Yes, sure, all very valid questions. And if card game theory is...
Shadow Shifter Monk – Weekly Deck – Blood Warriors Guild
Hail and Well Met once again fellow Legends! The Blood Warriors Guild would like to apologise for the wait and the missing of the past two weeks decks. This was due to the new client arriving and the incidents good and bad it has caused. With any luck and a lot of good intentions, these decks should be submitted weekly...
How to Play Around Unstoppable Rage?
In The Elder Scrolls Legends you always need to be prepared to meet an Unstoppable Rage, whenever you are playing against a midrange- or control-type deck that involves the red Strength attribute. The epic 8 cost action Unstoppable Rage is a very powerful card in the game, as it has a huge effect. To learn how we can play around it,...
Combo, Wombo – Bam #4: Slay Pilfer Gutpuncher
You want to play a real sweet series of combos with super-fun interactions that will make you smile? Then you have to check out the combos in BloodDrunk007‘s Slay Pilfer Gutpuncher deck, that he worked on together with Chesthams (see his variation) and EdderBlue. The Slay Pilfer Gutpuncher combo deck works pretty well in the current meta, while that is...
The Elder Scrolls Legends – A Look at Steam Player Statistics
Many players enjoy The Elder Scrolls Legends via Steam. Steam provides great data on the player-base of their games, so maybe you want to know if the player-base has increased or decreased since the new Sparkypants client has been released? And there is some good news! Despite some of the troubles the game is going through at the minute, and despite...
Blood Warriors Guild Community Statement for The Elder Scrolls Legends
Below is the official statement from the Blood Warriors Guild regarding the recent events involving The Elder Scrolls Legends. If you are interested in joining a community committed to the growth and betterment of the game, an open invitation is available for today only! Discord Invitation
Updated New Starters Guide
You are new to The Elder Scrolls Legends? We have just updated the New Starters Guide with the relevant, additional content created in September. As TESL.BLOG is not even two months old, we will continue to put additional guides out and keep updating the New Starters Guide also, when new content becomes available. More advanced players will find additional guides...
The New Client – A Big ‘Thank You’ To all Involved at Bethesda and Sparkypants!
Today has been a day many of us have been anticipating for a long time – the new client for The Elder Scrolls Legends has been released. The release was announced as causing a downtime of a day maybe more. A new app had to be released and deployed to Google Play Store, the Apple Store and to PC at...
The Elder Scrolls Legends – The New Client out tomorrow
The new client is coming to The Elder Scrolls Legends tomorrow. The servers went down a few hours ago and should be back up on Tuesday, if all goes well. Find up-to-the-minute news on @teslegends on Twitter. The new client – developed by Sparkypants – is basically a faster and redesigned version of the original client from Direwolf Digital. The...
Goblin Assassin – An Archetype In-Depth
You are looking to build a competitive deck in The Elder Scrolls Legends, and you are on a budget or new to the game? The Goblin Assassin archetype might do the trick for you and help you with advancing the ranked ladder relatively quickly. This month you can earn a number of legendary cards – depending on your rank. In...
TESL Community Member – SmoothOperator
You want to know more about the person behind the name and the title in the game? Wondering who played you during that ladder game or tournament? Today, TESL.BLOG has the great pleasure of interviewing SmoothOperator, who is a collectible card game fan since his childhood and now a consistent tournament player in the (still young) competitive scene of The...
TESL Community Member – floWMega
In today’s interview with a community member of The Elder Scrolls Legends, you can learn more about floWMega, who is one of the most experienced and one of the most successful ladder players in TESL. He has just been elected team captain of the Blood Warriors Guild Elite Team and is getting ready to shake up the growing TESL tournament...
WarpMeta TESL EU and US Tournaments
WarpMeta eSports provides a weekly tournament for The Elder Scrolls Legends. On Tuesdays, they are broadcasting a high quality tournament mainly intended for the European Union timezone but it is open to players from all over the world. You can watch some of the best players in the world competing against each other. WarpMeta TESL EU#9 WarpMeta TESL EU #9 is...
Prophecy Burn – Weekly Deck – Blood Warriors Guild
Hail and Well Met! The Blood Warriors Guild has returned with the Weekly Deck! This week is a little different; the Guild ran a challenge for the best budget list members could think of. Following the rules stated in the Budgeteer challenge, a Prophecy Burn Assassin (with 33 prophecies!) was voted by the Guild. Orangejuicenut was the awesome brain behind...
Card Draw #9: Card Draw Engines
Card draw engines will be the final chapter in our card-drawing series for The Elder Scrolls Legends Card draw engines are cards that let you consistently draw more cards across multiple turns in the game. If you are wondering about why card draw is important in The Elder Scrolls Legends, and want to learn a few basics, please read up...
