As such, Elysian typically has a lot more issues dealing with units than its Feln counterpart, particularly without Huntress.
(Gosh, the more you think about it, the more you realise how completely broken a card Huntress was.) In any case, that’s where the Torrential Downpour/Touch of Battle combo works. By giving Torrential Downpour deadly, you’ll be able to generate a 1-sided unit boardwipe that’ll leave your opponents very sad. Granted, between Silverblade Intrusion and the various Regen units, it isn’t quite as potent as previously, but it can certainly still pack a punch against an opponent who isn’t expecting it. Now, which of the 2 ‘Reverberating Strike’ effects should you go with? Torrential Downpour costs less and doesn’t miss flying units, but the floor on the card is incredibly low. It’s also a spell to pick up with Jarrall which has negligible upside, but is still upside. On the other hand, Tamarys does give you a 4/6 flier in 3 turns, and also gives you something to do on your off-turns with this being an Even deck at all. I ultimately went with Torrential Downpour as my 4-of after the ‘without Flying’ on Tamarys came back to bite me a couple of times, but I could certainly see it going either way. Now, I am packing a Time Market (more on that in a bit), so there was an iteration of this deck where I had the Touch of Battle in the market instead. Truth be told, the card is very situational and doesn’t do anything without a Strike effect or Overgrowth in hand since very few of my units have Overwhelm, or Quickdraw, or any battle skills really that work well with Deadly. That being said, tacking an additional 5 power to that effect caused me to struggle quite a fair bit against the more midrange decks in the format. Let’s be clear: I don’t think fair midrange is particularly good right now since it loses horribly to combo, but it’s still something 1 will see plenty off on ladder.
Without the possibility of a quick sweep on Turn 4 or 6, it made me rely much more heavily on card-negative soft removal, which ultimately just wasn’t a winning proposition even if I do have more card draw in my deck.