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Knowledge and Instinct

Throne Deck By
WarlockHolmez

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Type

Faction

Information

70% win rate in Masters from 20 games.
Update: Continued same win rate since ladder reset (70% from 40 games total).

4F Unitless Spellslinger deck built around Calderan Cradle and Moment of Creation. I've been playing with FTP Cradle/Moment decks all week and the deck has slowly transformed into its current state. For a unitless deck, you are still capable of building up a strong board, through Cradle, Moment, and Torgov's Trading Post.

I decided to add shadow specifically for two cards:
-Display of Knowledge, which replaced the merchants as a tutor for Calderan Cradle, Etched Monolith, Porcelain Mask, and now Temporal Distortion. It doesn't require trading a card (so you get to hold on to more spells) and can also act as excellent removal.
-Quarry feels like a much better Strategize that helps you find and chain spells.

The deck doesn't have any cards with more than one of a single influence type, except Etched Monolith (x1) and Temporal Distortion (x1), which makes meeting influence requirements surprisingly easy. It has an 80-90% chance to play any 2-power card by turn 2. Diplomatic Seal works so well for this and Find the Way as well.

An ideal starting hand has:
-Calderan Cradle
-Torgov's Trading Post
-1 or 2 removal (Torch/Equivocate/Lightning Storm, either Display)
-3+ types of influence (Time>Primal>Fire>Shadow), with 1-2 undepleted.

-The first 3-4 turns are pretty crucial. You usually want to have 2 open power on turn 2 to play Torgov's Trading Post or Find the Way, or to be able to play removal against aggro. Getting Calderan Cradle out on T3 is also strong.
-Once you have Cradle going, use fast spells to summon Dragons while your opponent attacks, to swing the board into your control.
-Moment of Creation grows very quickly and can even become OTK with Etched Monolith and Porcelain Mask.
-The deck is very reactive so it requires knowing what your opponents are going to do and planning ahead with your fast spells to manage the board. I often fall below 10 health and then completely take over the game.

Other possibilities:
I've had a tough time choosing the final card (x3 of) but have landed on Dissociate, as it's very flexible and counters a lot of the deck's weaknesses OR Corrupt, as it's two spells in one that can counter then kill. I think the former is superior but the latter is more fun.

Other options for this slot could be Kaleb's Choice, Vara's Choice, Purify, Diogo Málaga, Elonze, Wisdom of the Elders.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
50,400

Premium Cost
220,800

Match History

Influence Requirements
2 3 1 1

Power Sources
10 11 6 6 12 4

Power Calculator
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Deck Rarities
4 34 24 9

Card Types
4 7 40 4 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Jekk's Bounty [Set1001]
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Homecoming [Set1005]

Archetype
Control Combo

Updated
May 24, 2019

Added
May 1, 2019

Views
1,647

Eternal Version
Dark Frontier

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Revisions (Since last major patch) May 24, 2019


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Comments

Sweaty_Wizard Eternal Version: 1.45.7
you got me when you said unitless
WarlockHolmez Edited Eternal Version: 1.45.7
Haha, it's not my usual style. I've never played the TJP Temporal decks. I just really wanted to experiment to with Cradle and Moment so I suppose this was always coming xD