I am looking to round out my UD/SP split beast deck. Are there any good beasts in the new set for these factions?
the SP new beast is not bad. SP/UD beasts is a nice bg, send your list so we can check it^_^ (also its the list where you can play more bunnies in all game)
SP/UD is probably ideal like you say since you can stack Camaraderie with the SP bonus and have access to a third boost unit with Spirit of the Mountain. Main incentives to try UD/SL are 4x phoenix spam strats, tardi and snogvie.
I think this deck is more solid. It has good melee, some range and hella overwhelming potential with the packs, swarms and sotm/phoenix persistent board pressence. Harpoon to engage and cheap spot backlash in case they noraweave or UT.
some of the runes in my BG are place holders but still hold a function. i have had a lot of luck with it so far i think i have won 7/10 games so far. I don't want stormreader but he synergies well with stormbunny and peaks marid (this split bg lacks range so i use him) I have used flame skitter to steal fonts, many times. i chose zoalt over mountain mainly because i don't know how to use mountain efficiently, but zoalt is a pain to deal with regardless. Pitwolf is just meat along with mountain lion, but i run lion with surge beast which i can get to 22-28 fairly quickly. i use magma bunny for font contention which has worked great (magnify beast/split/vertical push) i can contests font, if they only have one unit contesting, use push then get at least one spawn from to font.