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Never Ascending

Throne Deck By
Zoletan

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A more aggressive build on the Kira Ascending shell but instead focuses on Kira, the Prodigy and unit interaction. More combat math, potent units, and occassionally a big turn 3 or 4 Kira, the Prodigy can feel like a free win. Bubble Shield, Finest Hour, and Levitate were my choices for 1 cost value spells. The Ascending build usually runs Silverblade Intrusion and Urge to Feed. In the traditional build they are great card draw and interaction especially if you run Hooru Envoy. Those spells don't stick on to Kira, the Prodigy so I trimmed down to what I considered to have the most upside.
Hojan, Crownbreaker
feels like an auto include in these decks. Usually in these decks you choose between running Icaria, Valkyrie Captain or Steyer's Eyes but I decided on both. Icaria, Valkyrie Captain is great for ramp and naturally becomes a bigger body later, Steyer's Eyes is insanely flexible. Fixes your hand and look at the top of your deck, hate on void decks, or pump of one of your guys. Targeting Kira, the Prodigy with crownwatch tactics just feels nasty.

Helena, Skyguide is a great unit on its own that can catch opponents off guard giving a unit reach they they didn't plan for and putting that on Kira, the Prodigy is even better. Justice Etchings and Rime Conclave Smuggler are probably just the best ways to reach in to your market. Rime Conclave Smuggler is excellent for deterring any of the Rift Siphon or Exploit decks.

Valkyrie Enforcer has always been an A+, but I also added Monarch Cloak. I think this is really well placed in the meta right now. You can 2 for 1 Praxis ramp decks and it's safe to maindeck as relic hate, just make sure for Deans' Chamber you don't attach it to unit cus it applies the summoning effect as if it was from the unit and not the weapon. I've been loving Velise, Bear Rider in this deck. She filters your hand and getting overwhelm means your opponent can't just chump block. Yes, Kira, the Prodigy

The market is value based and not focused on any specific hate on an archetype. Bring to Justice
is arguably the best 1 cost removal spell in the game as long as you have an Aegis on you but it's not always absolutely necessary. Trickshot Ruffian is a staple in the traditional build but it's usually on use as a finisher for pumping up Kira Ascending to make another unit massive. You can punish opponents for not holding back removal or a blocker for one of your flyers but it is even effective early game since the stats stick to your Kira, the Prodigy. Vision of Austerity is so good that some decks even splash the necessary colors just to have it playable from the market.

The last spots are for your heavy hitters, General Fiera and Svetya, Lightbringer. Fiera is amazing in combat match ups and only makes Bubble Shield and Rime Conclave Smuggler even better. Svetya, Lightbringer shuts down fair unit decks for a turn and if she goes unchecked, as long as your drawing into power, makes the units you draw into even more difficult to handle.

The traditional build usually runs Korovyat Palace as it's late game bomb but most of your early units won't gain the Aegis when summoned and you mostly want to be aggressive enough that you won't have units held back to protect it. Pristine Light is usually a solid inclusion but it hits too much of your own bored to make it worth it.

Hooru Kira decks are my favorite archetype. Kira Ascending is a power house but don't sleep on Kira, the Prodigy. Keeps the stat boost and overwhelm :). The only downside is she's the only unit that can't activate Justice Etchings. For some of you that will be a big enough of a downside to cut her from the list but for me the card filtering and overwhelm is well worth it.

I hope you all enjoy.

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Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
35,400

Premium Cost
218,400

Influence Requirements
3 2

Power Sources
25 20 20

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Deck Rarities
12 18 36 3 6

Card Types
34 3 18 0 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
The Tale of Horus Traver [Set1002]
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Hour of Glass [Set1115]

Archetype
Midrange

Added
October 3, 2024

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241ackerman Edited Eternal Version: 24.10.02
Icaria is very underwhelming here I’d probably swap it out for steelfang glaive which is an auto include for me in any unit heavy J deck
Zoletan Eternal Version: 24.10.02
I did make that change. In this deck it is objectively better. Thank you.
alamat01 Eternal Version: 24.10.02
This is fun and can close games in -5 turns
Zoletan Eternal Version: 24.10.02
Turns 3, 4, and 5 feel the most critical to me. The late game is a grind but it can be so aggressive