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WHEEL 'N DEALING (Lifegain pillowfort combo)

Expedition Deck By
CardboardAddict

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Information

Pretty simple meme deck I whipped up since I love Dichro's Ruin and Pinnacle of the Reach which to my surprise is actually getting a decent amount of wins and hilarious moments (It's very easy to sometimes get over 100 life with this deck). It got nice support in Revelations with Meditative Trance and Arcane Restraint being introduced into the format as well. Shame Wrath of Caiphus isn't in, but alas.

The gameplan is simple. Assemble your relics while surviving and eventually burn the opponent out with Dichro's ruin and wheeling them with Reset the Day. However, another route of victory you'll often be taking is just boring your opponent to death with massive lifegain with all your relics and looping your deck with Lumen Reclaimer so they mill out first.

No idea about the powerbase really since I don't have a lot of the new powers, but it has been working ok so far. There's probably a lot of cards you can swap in/out to test so feel free to play around.

Expedition Information

Expedition #22
May 18 to July 21, 2021

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
23,600
Premium Cost
134,400
Influence Requirements
2 2 1
Power Sources
12 14 11 12
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Deck Rarities
10 31 18 4 1
Card Types
1 20 29 0 25
Archetype
Control Combo
Added
May 23, 2021
Views
1,474
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Comments

Jaxxis Eternal Version: 21.05.18
I just toyed with this deck a little bit. Storm Hex seems good in it.
mewecoffee Eternal Version: 21.05.18
Been enjoying this deck so far, thank you for posting!
TopWraith Edited Eternal Version: 21.05.18
I think this deck is pretty sweet, played an (almost) mirror of it, they used the Crackling Bauble in theirs as well, mostly similar however.

Ended up a ling game where we both were at 250+ life because we couldnt do anything but i managed to Mandatory Retirement their first Lumen Reclaimer so they lost their recursion and that ultimately ended the game after a few more turns of durdling around.

What are your thoughts on Bottled Insight over like Strategize?

I also agree with another commenter around using Exploit. Do you have thoughts on that as well?
CardboardAddict Eternal Version: 21.05.18
Crackling Bauble seems cool in this deck and might be better than Reset the Day as the wincon. I just love the flashy turn of gaining 50+ life with it, but it's dead to often and giving the opponent a fullgrip sometimes backfires.

Funny enough, I was somewhat hesitant to post this list online since I know the mirror is absolutely just who gets bored first and a slog. Remember to Vicious Overgrowth/boardwipe your own Lumen Reclaimers in the mirror dudes!

I actually ran Bottled Insight over Cover From the Storms in the first version, but I thought that was too greedy. I think Strategize is better early game to dig to the key relics you need. However, with the lack of real small, fast aggro I've been seeing, you're more than welcome to go max greed and run some.

As for Exploit, it's certainly good and I never really tested it, but it always feels so counterintuitive to try and discard cards from our opponent when we're giving them so much already. With it having plunder on it as well, it is probably better than Beseech since they can both function as flood protection.
Cid7707 Edited Eternal Version: 21.05.18
I love a good Ruin deck. Adjusted the list a bit. Swapped out the Reset the Day for the new board wipe and Eilyn's favor and a Beseech for 4 exploits. Really fun.
CardboardAddict Eternal Version: 21.05.18
The new boardwipe does seem really sweet in this deck. I didn't include it since I opened none and have no shiftstone to craft it, but I think it's probably better than Cover From the Storm. Also, I do think the deck might be better without the wheels of Reset the Day, but I love the massive lifegain and burn damage I see on the screen when it happens.
SoaComoCaos Edited Eternal Version: 21.05.18
good to know someone else is doing ruins, how well has this list been doing? I am having some succes with my own but it is an eternal work in progress. Have you considered playing Unraveling Fanatic? Or is this supposed to be unit-less?
CardboardAddict Edited Eternal Version: 21.05.18
The list has been doing quite well for something I initially thought was gonna be in 10-20% meme win territory. It has ~60% winrate which is pretty good I'd say. It only really has trouble against Menace discard/dredge/reanimator (which, let's be honest, is like tier 0 and will prob be hit soon) and super fast aggro decks like Mono-F/Combrei (which is before I added in Cover From the Storm). There isn't really a "meta" yet, but this deck usually beats Winchest/AP valks, AP dredge/midrange, and Feln/Elysian stealth since their clocks aren't great. It also murders Overloader combo (Arcane Restraint single-handily beats that card).

I considered Unraveling Fanatic, but I wanted to go unitless for the most part to blank some of the cards we give our opponent. He could be good since there isn't much removal floating around, but I think he would work better in a straight Elysian shell foregoing Dichro's ruin and using him and Jufi, Sprite Seer as your wincons instead.