Everything YOU need to know about the ROOT DECKS! 

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.

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 ehhhhhhh.... 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.

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...

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!

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

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.

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

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How is the base deck better if you DON'T want swingy effects that come out of nowhere? It has the 3 favor cards which are the biggest blowout in the game plus the "gain a point for every clearing you rule" card which can win you the game right away (assuming you still have enough clearings at the start of your next turn).

Great video, would love to see video on how to play against different factions

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.

Great video!

Very nice video it is great :)

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!

Great video, a lot of cool details I never noticed and also patterns I didn't see. But I do have a question: Can't you mix the decks and play with both? Is it better not to? And if so it is, why,

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

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

Fabulous insights thanks. Jyst one query that came up in our first game today was how to use the Royal Claim. Do you know if to play it you have to have 4 crafting pieces on any single suit or just 4 crafting pieces which can be varied suits?

Certainly felt the difference. Got Exiles today, and tried it. Usually we ended up with 1 or 2 stone cards going out overall, maybe more with strong crafters. Today we saw a good 8 or 9 go out with the Cats, Lizards, and Moles (who got shut out of buildings pretty heavilly due to the Lizard's Gardens paired with having BOTH bird ambushes) Though admitidly less items crafted than usual, though to be fair, that's cause I drew most of them as the Lizards so they got discarded alot to clear out my hand and to try and manipulate the Outcast.

Very good video. Is possible to mix the cards of both decks?

Hey I got a question regarding "League of Adventerous Mice" card in partisans deck, after you use a crafted item and flip it facedown: 1. Can Vagabond take all - face up items as well as face down ones ? 2. Are they refreshed ? So use one item in one turn, exhaust it and in next turn it is refreshed and you can exhaust it once again ? Thanks!

can you explain the spy cards please? i never understood them

For the Royal Claim, when you say ‘any kind of crafting piece’ does that mean 4 bird nests, 4 wood or 4 sympathy respectively for the base game? And can Vagrant players score for their ally using this by flipping items, generating points for each of the ally’s clearings? (Granted that a dominance card has been used and the vagrant night longer scores points of his/her own)

4:32 How would you prevent all losses or an entire battle with sappers?

Does using a Partisan Card also remove your crafted cards? Or is it just those in your hand? If so, what about the "revealed cards" with the moles?

Hey what’s the name of the intro music ?

Awesome video! Will we ever see a Root collab with Quackalope?

Prime content right here

So what you are telling me is the game is all about checks and balances

To me, the Exiles and Partisans deck is a reflection of the way the different factions inhabit the same spaces so closely and with so much mixity, I love the way the clearings look by the end of a game, the colourful meeples like little gems studding the forest.

Are you going to do something similar for Villainous?

You are the best

Can you combine the decks?

It saddens me how much I want to have this game, there are literally 0 stock of the base Root in my entire country.

Can you mix both decks into one big superdeck?

Why hasn’t no one recommended to play with both decks combined? Is there something against that?

Can you combine decks?

Trinston was here .

We mix the decks together usually!

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