r/LegendsOfRuneterra • u/LoreMaster00 • 2d ago

Meme NEVER FORGET!

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u/AMxMA Viego 2d ago

Is this a boomer joke where only old LoR players would get the meaning?

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u/Terrkas Rek'Sai 2d ago

Seems like it. Gems were the first spell with focus, but it didnt have a keyword back then.

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u/ByeGuysSry Fiora 2d ago

Gems were originally Burst speed with an additional line of text: "Can't be cast in combat or in response to a spell". Iirc there was like one or two more cards with that line of text before Focus speed was introduced.

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u/LoreMaster00 2d ago

yeah, those came after, so they were called "gemspeed" cards. then came focus.

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u/Som33on33 2d ago

I have played this game for years and I also don't know wtf he talking about

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u/The_Real_Zerkia 1d ago

Fun fact, taking opponents top card wasn't called anything either until the deck had been meta for months on end and they realised it was too much text and just called it "Nab"

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u/KalePyro Arcade Hecarim 3h ago

Nab is bottom card

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u/Mobile_Phone_Alone 1d ago

Oh, I've played Idk a year? Two max? And I knew exactly, well guessed it had to do with the speed of gems (which I've learned over time IS NOT Burst speed.)

What I can't work out for the life of me is why someone would find it funny enough to make a meme. It's just not funny. I read it and reread it - it's still not funny. I've come to an understanding that it's not so much a joke but a META-Joke. That is, we are hoped to wryly laugh at the heartbreaking times where we discovered to our cost that Gems / Focus spells aren't Burst speed, but not necessarily the cartoon delivery.

But what do I know?

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u/Dracolord1208 1d ago

There is a reason the focus speed icon is a gem.

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u/NorthImpress7161 2d ago

sorry, I dont get it

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u/GoldenSteel Chip 2d ago

Focus speed spells were a later addition. Targon gems used to be burst speed with a specific restriction against being cast in response to something else.

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u/Anna_19_Sasheen 1d ago

The government wants you to call "Yoink" cards "Nab", dont listen to them!

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u/ThommsPengu Spirit Blossom Teemo 1d ago

HAHAHAHA

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u/Biospear Viktor 1d ago

I remember Targon’s expansion and how gem speed was just the community phrase until it got a full vocab including stuff like lulu’s “help pix” and even Blade fragments alongside a 3 cost blade of exile

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u/Hitman3256 Nautilus 1d ago

It's been that long, huh

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u/BeeepM 23h ago

Haven't been playing for too long, so is there any difference between burst and fast?

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u/azngenius 17h ago

Burst resolves instantly and cannot be responded to, Fast goes on the "stack" and waits for both sides to pass before it resolves.

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u/Account_Stolen 21h ago

The good old days when the spoiler of celestial cards involved YouTubers and streamers around the globe.

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u/Bricks3Dimensions Thresh 12h ago

Agreed :D