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  "date": "2026-10-18",
  "release": "2026-10-23",
  "title": "Radiance Showdown Decks: Evelynn vs Seraphine",
  "description": "Compare the fixed Evelynn and Seraphine Radiance decks, both complete 56-card inventories, their key interactions and first-game choices before October 23.",
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      "name": "Seraphine",
      "legend": "Starry-Eyed Songstress",
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          "name": "Seraphine, Not Alone"
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          "name": "Encore"
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "Heimerdinger, Academy Instructor"
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          "name": "Raucous Anthem"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Piltovan Guidebot"
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "Dune Devourer"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "The Empyrean"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Steadfast Outrider"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Rousing Display"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Supernova"
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "Burn Away"
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          "name": "Concert Poster"
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          "name": "Strigian Oracle"
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          "name": "High Note"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Fanfare"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Hunting Dog"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Industrious Mechsmith"
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "Herald of the Emperor"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "Party Crasher"
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        {
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          "name": "Faithful Manufactor"
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        {
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          "name": "Meticulous Restorationist"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "For Demacia!"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "Moonlight Affliction"
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        "Ruined Monastery",
        "Valley of Idols"
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          "name": "Mind Rune"
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        {
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          "name": "Order Rune"
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          "name": "Mech // Recruit"
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          "name": "Bird // Buff"
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      "name": "Evelynn",
      "legend": "Agony’s Embrace",
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "Evelynn, In Control"
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          "name": "Evelynn, Entrancing"
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          "name": "Last Caress"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "Bushwhack Trap"
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "K'Sante, Courageous"
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          "name": "Gutter Guardian"
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          "count": 1,
          "name": "Demon Shade"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "The Good Stuff"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Elnuk Herd"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Reckless Innovator"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Wind and Ghosts"
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        {
          "count": 1,
          "name": "Pitiless Stalker"
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        {
          "count": 3,
          "name": "Sneaky Zeebles"
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          "count": 3,
          "name": "Siren of the Shallows"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Hold 'Em"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "The Waters' Wage"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Momentary Companion"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Suave Negotiator"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Pakaa Cub"
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        {
          "count": 2,
          "name": "Wrath of the Freljord"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Black Market Broker"
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          "count": 2,
          "name": "Siren's Song"
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        "Bandle Scouts' Academy",
        "Rakelstake",
        "Bandle Tree"
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          "name": "Body Rune"
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          "name": "Chaos Rune"
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          "name": "Gold // Bomb"
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      "heading": "Starry-Eyed Songstress: turn spare units into a spell discount",
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        "Seraphine's Legend can exhaust itself and three friendly units as an additional cost to reduce a spell's energy cost by 2.",
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        "Make Recruit tokens before planning the discount, then weigh the cheaper spell against leaving those units exhausted."
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      "caption": "Three units and your Legend trade readiness for a cheaper spell."
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        "Not Alone makes a 1 Might Recruit at your base when you play her and whenever she becomes exhausted.",
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      "caption": "Not Alone replenishes your board when you play or exhaust her."
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      "heading": "Concert Poster: build a crowd at a battlefield",
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        "When you play it or conquer there, you can pay 1 energy to make a 1 Might Recruit at your base.",
        "If an opponent holds that battlefield, the Poster is killed; it isn't a permanent source of free tokens."
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      "oracle": "<p>[Deploy] (Play this only to a battlefield. When an opponent holds here, kill this.)<br />When you play this or when you conquer here, you may pay :rb_energy_1: to play a 1 :rb_might: Recruit unit token to your base.</p>",
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      "caption": "A Poster rewards you while its battlefield remains worth fighting over."
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      "heading": "Encore: choose the two effects the board needs",
      "bullets": [
        "Encore lets you choose two effects: deal 2 to a unit, make two Recruits, give up to two units +1 Might each this turn, or look at the top two cards, draw one and recycle the other.",
        "Making Recruits helps rebuild the group you need for Seraphine's next discount.",
        "Damage plus a Might boost is a different use when you already have enough units and need to win a fight."
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      "oracle": "<p>Choose two —</p><ul><li>Deal 2 to a unit.</li><li>Play two 1 :rb_might: Recruit unit tokens.</li><li>Give up to two units each +1 :rb_might: this turn.</li><li>Look at the top 2 cards of your Main Deck, draw 1 and recycle the other.</li></ul>",
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      "caption": "Two chosen modes let one card rebuild your board or help a fight."
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      "heading": "Agony's Embrace: learn when to reveal a hidden card",
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        "Evelynn's Legend draws a card the first time each turn you play a card from face down.",
        "On an opponent's turn, you then discard a card, so that trigger improves your hand choice without increasing its size.",
        "Further face-down plays that turn don't trigger another Legend draw, although other cards can still reward them."
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      "caption": "Your turn gives you a draw; an opponent’s turn also asks for a discard."
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      "heading": "Evelynn, Consuming: threaten another fight",
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        "Consuming has Ambush, which lets you play her as a Reaction to a battlefield where you already have units.",
        "Each time you play a card from face down, she readies and gets +1 Might for the turn.",
        "A readying effect can give you another useful unit after a fight, but it doesn't protect her from removal while you're setting it up."
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      "caption": "A hidden-card play can ready Consuming for another action."
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      "heading": "Evelynn, In Control: protect the hidden card that scores",
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        "In Control has Disarm, giving an enemy unit at her battlefield -1 Might for the turn when she attacks.",
        "When she holds, she scores 1 point if you control a face-down card at that same battlefield.",
        "Revealing your only hidden card there can remove that extra-point condition, so don't flip it just to draw with the Legend."
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      "caption": "Keep a card face down at In Control’s battlefield for the extra point."
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      "heading": "Last Caress: send the next unit where you need it",
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        "Last Caress is a Reaction that lets the next unit you play that turn be played to any battlefield, including a unit played from face down.",
        "When you play that unit, you Buff it if it doesn't already have a buff.",
        "The permission applies to one next unit; it doesn't relocate a unit already on the board or give every later unit that permission."
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      "oracle": "<p>[Reaction] (Play any time, even before spells and abilities resolve.)<br />The next unit you play this turn (even from face down) can be played to any battlefield. When you play it, [Buff] it. (Give it a +1 :rb_might: buff if it doesn't have one.)</p>",
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