To the joy of Guardian and non Red-Line players alike, the Blue Menace has officially won her last event. Nuu is now in Living Legend.
Nuu, Alluring Desire was the winning deck in Calling Bologna. With just over a year of play, the win at that Calling has put Nuu to Living Legend as of June 20th 2025.
Intimate Inducement
Nuu was the first Assassin to have a Talent. Before her release, the majority of Assassin gameplay was done through Uzuri, Switchblade; a toolbox deck that offers your opponent the guessing game as to which card with stealth to respect as it could be swapped out for something with a heavier stat line, that offered a greater deal of damage or a different form of disruption.
Arakni, Huntsman is also a card that exists.
The appeal of an Assassin of this kind was quite high. Nuu offered implied value and a clear strategy for those cards banished by her own hero power and all the Assassin effects. As Part the Mistveil released, all three heroes were welcomed with a great deal of interest, and all three saw high level results.
Bonds of Agony
Nuu's introduction massively boosted the power level of the Assassin card pool. Before her, Assassins had only the odd expansion slot card, Dynasty, and Outsiders. Part the Mistveil was where the strongest Assassin cards ever printed have been featured.
Bonds of Agony may have a cost to activate that's very steep for other Assassins, but less so for Nuu. Her main equipment Arousing Wave and Undertow Stilettos both have two Attack Reactions as part of their ability. Other cards that are two reactions for the price of one are Venomous Bite and Hiss also made Bonds easy to enable. Once you hit, you can utterly carve away a key part of your opponent's strategy, compromise the deck's potential consistency, and ruin their pitch stack by forcing a shuffle.
Persuasive Prognosis is a way to likely take the best card from your opponent's hand on hit, gaining life for yourself to boot. While the 1 power might be easy to defend against, that's where the most absurd attack reaction ever printed comes in. Just a Nick pushes any Blue Stealth card to being an attack for 6 that banishes a card from deck. Just a Nick also worked very well with Bonds too.
It's this combination of Assassin cards that put the class into its overall power level, with Nuu being the best positioned to abuse them.
Recurring Nightmares
The Mystic Talent gave Nuu access to Levels of Enlightenment which allowed her to offer some beatdown and card selection before any disruption.
Each of the Mystic Heroes used Inner Chi in different ways. Nuu cared most about banishing your opponent's cards. She used Pass Over incredibly effectively, but the most egregious card she employed was Mask of Recurring Nightmares. Even if you threatened no way to mess with their hand or they chose not to block, you could still demand a card from them.
Nuu also benefitted from playing the generically powerful Majestic cards, and offered incredible resilience thanks to Codex of Frailty. Its this style of Assassin that makes them very easy to build around: slap in the Majestics, then the specific Assassin's synergy cards. Nuu was considered solved relatively quickly upon release compared to Enigma.
Siren's Call
Her history as a top deck has been continuous and consistent. When Mistveil released, there was no question that Zen, Tamer of Purpose was the best deck in the format. By utilising Bonds of Ancestry and Art of War, he could offer consistent turns of a minimum of 30 damage.
Nuu was there as a natural meta counter. Not always strong enough to beat the Ninja, but close enough to offer enough disruption to heavily delay his ability to go wide, by stripping cards and forcing banishes from hand.
After the Great Book Banning and the banning of Bonds of Ancestry, a ban that was only recently overturned, Zen faded into meta obscurity, and Enigma filled the void as the best deck in the format. All the while, Nuu was there. She suffered under the consistency of Enigma's numbers, but if certain things lined up, including well timed Pick to Pieces or Vambrace of Determination, she could prevail.
The most notorious card in the history of Flesh and Blood was served very well in Nuu. Count Your Blessings was a mainstay in Nuu, even after the Blue versions were banned, simply because it brought a deal of grindy consistency that some decks couldn't deal with. Now decks need no longer deal with it with Nuu hitting Living Legend.
Mind's Desire
The meta without her will be vastly different simply due to the advent of Guardians.
Most Guardians, particularly Victor Goldmane, High and Mighty and Bravo, Showstopper were punished for existing simply because they needed a large number of Blue cards to facilitate their strategy. Guardians were playing the bare minimum of good Blues, just as a concession that Nuu was out there. Lurking. Guardians can now register cards like Thunder Quake and Tear Asunder with no fear, and with Mastery Pack Guardian releasing soon, we can expect Valda, Seismic Impact to thrive without Nuu.
Verdance, US Nationals winning deck, had a characteristically bad Nuu matchup, that they now no longer need to worry about.
Other decks that are particularly weak to that disruption are now going to start crawling out of the woodwork, such as Ninja, and decks which can be easily Fatigued, like Dash I/O.
Decks which stand to lose in Nuu's absence are the ones with pretty positive Nuu matchups. Florian, Rotwood Harbinger was absolutely fine with incidental banishes, and felt right at home giving their whole hand to block. Warriors such as Fang, Dracai of Blades and Kassai of the Golden Sand offer such consistent value and damage, that as long as their hand wasn't shredded, they could play against Nuu just fine.
Wrap Up
Nuu is a deck that has polarised the player base, simply due to the existence of Siren's Call. Nuu to Living Legend marks the end of the Mystic Talent for Classic Constructed - for now - and the end of anyone needing to buy packs of Part the Mistveil. Or does it?
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