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Grasping at Dragon Waifus...Lewd

Throne Deck By
Joxer

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Faction

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I think Kenna, Shaman of the Scale is the best of the tribute cards. Sure First Flame combo is cute and all, but also not reliable to assemble and very easily disrupted. Kenna's floor is a lot higher than say Jekk, Lone Gun being a 5/6 killer on demand removal spell and her ceiling of providing a buy back on a spell you've already spent (such as Grasping at Shadows, Feeding Time or End of Hostilities) is a huge swing in any game where your opponent is not able to win the following turn, and they are less likely to be able to do so since you likely have just removed their best unit.

The ideal combo is to play a Nocturnal Observer on turn 4 hope she survives and then immediately discard Kenna on T5 and play Grasping at Shadows to return Kenna to play, which in turn returns your Grasp to your hand, because Kenna is just fine with activating her own tribute.

I've included a few Nightfall cards in the deck for a few reasons. The first reason is that this deck needs to setup its combo before you can gain control of the game, so you need the card velocity from the night triggers to find a reanimation target as well as a way to get it into the Void and a way to get it back out of the Void. Yes your opponent will also draw cards but our plan is way more profitable than most decks in the long run. Nightfall also keeps Nocturnal Observer active, which is probably the most important card in the deck to enable tribute at zero cost and play Kenna in the same turn. There is a MASSIVE difference in being able to get tribute active on the T5 Grasping play, or needing to wait until 7 power to discard to Back-Alley Delinquent. Lethrai Darkstalker and Rindra, the Duskblade also just have good stats for their cost in Feln, and make good ground blockers to stablize control of the mid game.

End of Hostilities can be an absurdly powerful card. Have you ever attacked your Rindra into a Heart of the Vault just to gain life? Have you ever then made 2 copies of Heart killing the OP's original copy along with an Initiate of the Sands and drew 2 cards reducing their costs by 2 each? I have.

I think overall this deck is pretty interesting and if i could look for one area to improve I would say that we need more discard outlets/tribute enablers. I have the one Devour in the market for that function. Markets so far have been a puzzle to me. You really want to abuse the power of turning a random card from your hand into a specific card, but if you go too greedy with super powerful and expensive cards (like Azindel's Gift) you are going to struggle to find a window to play them while falling behind on board. To that end I've kinda just made a generic market to help shore up bad situations and letting the main deck mostly get there on its own for its 'combo'.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
55,300

Premium Cost
222,400

Influence Requirements
3 2

Power Sources
20 17 12

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Deck Rarities
20 23 17 12

Card Types
27 4 24 0 25

Archetype
Control

Added
July 6, 2018

Views
1,650

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The Fall of Argenport

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Comments

Gandalf Edited Eternal Version: 1.37
More discard outlets, you say. There's a power (land) for that now. Change the Seek Power to Petition, and you can tutor for it too.
Joxer Eternal Version: 1.37
Not a fan personally, tribute has to be a unit discarded and the power is only 2 random cards from the top of your deck. This deck's unit count isn't that high and running something like second sight to setup a unit to discard doesn't seem great. This deck plays more like a control deck than being all in on the reanimation plan where you would just want to dump as many cards into your void as possible.
KomiiTail Eternal Version: 1.36
I love decks like this. I tried a draconic version of it but it never amounted to much. Very fun to play but aggressive decks are not so much fun to play against!