Yeti-pocalypse! (Rank 3 Master)

I made this thinking it would be pure jank, but it's surprisingly good. Originally posted as having hit rank 35, I've now hit rank 3 on Dec. 18, 2024 with some updates to the deck, especially for smoother power. Not sure what I was thinking putting crests & cylixes in a tempo deck with good card draw, but they're gone now and the deck feels like a well-oiled machine.

Look for a starting hand with cards to get your card draw machine going. Plunk Wumpkin and Crunch, the Hoarder are great for this. If Wump, Party Starter is down they hit face for card draw immediately when played. If Xultan Ambassador is down you get an extra card each. Icy Scrying helps with draw as well as providing snowballs.

Snowballs are so much fun - they're pings, they're modifiable damage, and there's a lot of them. I wish my other decks had half as many pings. Add in the effect of Nomnom & Sashenka and/or Rocket Sled(s) from Torq, Ballistics Crafter and they are extremely useful for crowd control, in addition to their obvious uses for de-aegis and adding a few more face damage for a win.

Ruincrawler Yeti is the only unit which isn't a hero and won't proc Xultan Ambassador's card draw (other than the ambassador himself), but it's necessary in this meta. Ruinous Rift is expensive, and regardless, even a good 4-of relic removal + something in the market isn't enough these days.

Note: Attempts were made to make Wump & Mizo, Thudrock's Masterwork, and Wizened Crone work with this deck, but they just don't. There are occasional cool plays, but the deck suffers overall. It's very much tempo and you can't afford to make slow plays in the hopes of your units sticking while getting synergistic draw.

The site is particularly bad, the worst in the game imo. The spells are weak and there isn't a player showing blue or purple who doesn't have a ping in hand to zap its 1 health. Your yeti get +1/0 from Torq, Ballistics Crafter's Rocket Sled, 0/+2 from Nomnom & Sashenka, and +1/+1 from Wump, Party Starter, and it's enough - you don't need the +1/+1 from the site (which goes away when they ping it anyway lol). Thudrock, Arctic Artisan is good, but you don't need the site to get him, there are two copies in the deck.