Everything YOU need to know about the ROOT DECKS!

We are going to look at the decks in Root! Both feature different card effects that change up the gameplay. Which deck is right for your gaming group? What cards to look out for? All these questions will be answered and more!

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0:56 Brief History/Lore
2:11 Item Cards
2:58 Deck Analytics
8:26 My Favorite Cards
11:28 Deck Comparison/Which is right for you

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[josephmartins]

Not only do you do mechanical breakdowns but that little home made lore fluff at the beginning was super nice to here! Part of why I love root is it’s theme, and I feel some reviewers lose that element when they focus to much on the mechanical elements.

[pm]

Since my first few Root games, I've not really had the opportunity to learn the game in depth, so I got the mobile app and started learning each faction until I felt I could win with them.
I pretty quickly ended up by accident stumbling into the Vagabond Tinker / Favor-of-* combination where you with 3 Anvils repeatedly can pick a favor card out of the discard pile, craft, it and nuke a clearing type - scoring points for all the stuff in them.
It very quickly brings you to 30 ... and is basically unstoppable. A bit of googling taught me that a lot of players also see this as a huge issue and since a game where everybodys top priority has to be to prevent the Tinker from getting 3 hammers is not really fun they simply ban using the Tinker for the Vagabond.

To me it seems more like the Favor-of-* cards are the problem. ... They are way too destructive and the Tinker just happens to have an easy way to keep crafting them.

For that reason alone, I would think that the Exiles & Partisans deck is the deck which serves the game best.

Either that, or you have to limit the Tinkers special ability to not be allowed to pick them from discard. But still...

[DaCooGa]

Thanks so much for the great content! So happy to see more Root content on youtube!

[BenjaminH_]

That is a video I didn't know I needed before today, now I can use this knowledge to better differentiate both decks. Great content once again!

[PG-cllh]

You have a nice content, keep at doing it. Greetings from Spain.

[Bard-]

Great video Sam!
I love how the cards are full of lore about the woodlands, and of course, full of amazing artwork.

[jeremiahheiserman]

Very in depth and, as always, the animation is great 👍🏻

[markpapenfuss]

Another great video. I really enjoy your insight into this fun game. We just had a great 5 player Lakeside game yesterday. It was the first game for my college age son (he was in Europe when we first got the game a year and a half ago), but now he is home due to social distancing, and we used the Partisans deck (Cats, Corvids, Riverfolk, Vagabond, Eyrie). A lot of what you said here, came up. Nice work.

[matchesbattlefield]

A incredible strategy for the the woodland and riverfolk is that they can play ALL favour cards at once in 1 turn

[inkylynx]

I know I'm late to the party, but this look into the decks shows why foxes are the warriors for the digital version of the game, since they're the ones all about armor and whatnot. And the officer icon is depicted with a mouse, lending to their managerial nature. I kind of love this attention to detail?

My one gripe is that Root hinges a some of its factions on folkloric depictions of animals (cats destroying ecosystems and hunting birds, vagabonds being various scrappy animals, corvids being smart and sneaky, rats flushing out other populations of animals, etc), and foxes have enough personality on their own to be among the vagabonds, if not its own faction. It also causes a bit of carnivore confusion since foxes _eat_ rabbits and mice, but
Thing is, idk what other common woodland animal is fierce enough to fill the foxes' place? Shrews maybe? They're notorious for their voracious appetites. Hedgehogs? I'm clueless.

[PMMagro]

Nice! I have not played with the Partisans deck but love the ability to vary the game alot even with the same map and factions :)

[TylerTried]

This was a beautiful high level overview of the difference in these two decks. Super impressed with your work :). Sub from me for sure.

[JoshSmith-onyl]

I’ve been waiting for someone to make a video like this! Thank you 🙏🏼

[tobygeorge]

Great content, I really want to get the new deck, thanks for making the video!

[garyfaust]

Thanks for another great Root video. You have it all covered. Just thought about comparing the 4 different boards though.

[cryseable]

This is awesome, it clears a lot of ambiguity in the rules book, Thank you!

[ForgeofSouls]

just played this for the first time and my wife wins by 1 point. Really came down to the wire…great game, cant wait for more matches.

[matchesbattlefield]

What's your opinion on using both decks at once, using card sleeves?
Great video

[rootbeer]

I just got root yesterday. I've watched all your videos on it today. Plus RTFM's how to videos. I cant wait to get this game to the table!

[uriahsoenksen]

Seeing this video pop up was a surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.