Strider [Masters]

Currently Masters Rank 33 as of this update. Jan 10, 2024
Fell off to 120~. I just keep misplaying. I think the deck is fine. I keep losing games that were winnable.

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This got me into masters after much brewing with several decks. I got myself to Diamond 3 pretty quickly with Skycraggro, and then got stonewalled. I struggle bussed for a while after that on all sorts of other decks.

Play defensively, pretty much always until it's time to combo. The only exception is against the most durdly of control decks, in which case just jam a 3/5 and a 4/4 s and give em Charge and Endurance.

The first Smuggler pretty much always gets Honor for card flow unless you are gonna die to specifically Justice flyers, go wide aggro, or reanimator.

You can give Striding Skyline charge with with either Exodus or Great Valley Smuggler after going off. If the latter you simply just use the final 7 power to cast Exodus or Smuggler into Death Pit to get them in. But if they appear to be a fair deck with 2 cost dudes, you can prob just jam 2 or 3 robots ASAP as they likely only have 1 non-true board, or zero, board wipes.

That said this deck *Struggles* with Grand Suppressor and the Dean's Office. There are *some* answers maindeck, and I actually drew it to remove the Deans Office on my win and in into Masters so I could Krogar's Grave for exactly 3 on my win and in to Masters.

The all relic rat aggro sacrifice deck is also *very* tight. Destroying their lifegain field pump during combat *does* remove the buff mid combat.

Lastly the card I want more of and can't find room is Pause for Reflection. It's interaction against equipment decks, self help against wipes, and resets market access in addition to being an out to Grand Suppressor for the combo turn.