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Elysian reanimator

Throne Deck By
Capybara

Work in Progress
+7

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Faction

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This deck has a strong early-to-mid game with the classic Elysian mid-range shell (without Cirso, the Great Glutton and Predatory Carnosaur). It packs efficient fatties and enough disruption that you can often just overwhelm the opponent, particularly if they don't have an answer to Dawnwalker value.

The combo element comes into play with Stirring Sand and the various discard outlets (Whispering Wind, Herald's Song and Torgov, Ice-cap Trader to get your bomb sentinels, Pillar of Amar and Great-Kiln Titan into the void. You then play Stirring Sand, and reanimate the sentinels, putting you on the train to value town.

Tips + Notes
-If you hit 7 power, Stirring Sand will work with any of the explorer cards to bring back two sentinels at once
-Discarding Dawnwalkers is a good way to get free card draw, and is particularly good with Whispering Wind
-This is likely bad against Feln Control, but I haven't seen it much on ladder
-If you're playing against shadow, save the polymorphs for Steward of the Past
-Torgov never gets activated, but is an explorer, a decent body and a discard outlet so remains in for the moment
-Daring Pioneer has a bit of synergy with False Prince
-If you really wanted to you could maybe drop the Champions and make a crazy mana base that supports hard-casting Great-Kiln Titan (I tried this with a more control-combo-ish build)
-Blind Storyteller fits well in this deck if you want to focus on reanimating more

Other cards I've tried
-Emerging Colossus as another bomb sentinel. Unfortunately it's harder to activate, so I've dropped it
-Channel the Tempest, which is obviously quite good off a Great-Kiln activation, but is generally too slow without better control tools
-Second Sight and Excavate enable insane Great-Kiln Titan plays, but is gimmicky
-Azurite Prixis actually the inspiration for the deck, but it's just not very good, even in a deck that it seems like it should work in. I tested it here, and it's usually a dead card, it didn't activate Torgov at all, and it's just better to do targeted discard generally

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
39,450

Premium Cost
170,400

Influence Requirements
2 3 2

Power Sources
17 18 10

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Deck Rarities
11 21 22 6

Card Types
28 4 18 0 25

Archetype
Aggro Combo

Added
January 17, 2018

Views
3,990

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The Dusk Road

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Comments

IamJoeCell Eternal Version: 1.27
Seems like you're missing a lot of Great Kiln value if you run Zero relics.
DillerKongen Eternal Version: 1.27
9/7 that plays the top card of your deck every turn is still very nice, esp at 5
youre mostly losing out on an occasional 2 or 4 targetted damage really
IamJoeCell Eternal Version: 1.27
Idk flamestoker seem like bffs with Great Kiln and Dawnwalker to me.
flippyflop Eternal Version: 1.27
why not Xenan Initiation? seems like an easy inclusion with dawnwalkers and sentinels you hope to recur.
Capybara Eternal Version: 1.27
No particular reason, it's a solid combo which works well - it's just a bit slower, but with better value longer term. You could cut the lightning storms and replace with initiations I think, depends if you see a lot of Grenadin or similar decks.
SunRid3r Eternal Version: 1.27
Tried this on ladder: 2 wins out of 10 games, not really good... (maybe I played it wrong). BUT I really like the idea of this deck! Honestly it made me look at Stirring Sand in a new way and I would keep trying to make this work. Feln and particulary Stewards are weaknesses of this deck. Need to play more to figure out other ones.
Capybara Eternal Version: 1.27
Yeah, it still needs testing! I'm trying it on ladder at the moment. I had a solid win streak of 8 games, but just lost my last three. It is indeed weak to Feln control, as mentioned.
thejoshie Eternal Version: 1.27
Really interesting list, any idea on how this performs on ladder?
Capybara Eternal Version: 1.28
It's not great against Feln are Argenport mid-range, so never made it out of gold. Wouldn't play it outside of casual tbh.
CasaDeAgua Eternal Version: 1.27
Had no idea there were reanimator decks outside of Shadow, but this deck looks like a ton of fun!
pigzinzspace Eternal Version: 1.27
this deck look like ton of pain nothing else