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[Masters] Victory requires SACRIFICE

Throne Deck By
Moridin

+3

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Type

Faction

Information

Intro:
I have been trying to make sacrifice successful for a while because I love the mechanic!
Took me a while but I've finally got an iteration I'm happy with, and finally reached masters with!

So to get right into it---

Early game:
Influence in a 3f deck is always a bit iffy.
So preferably you're wanting to start off trying to have all colours in your hand! It can be rough missing a colour and not drawing it for 4 turns...Ofc it completely depends on the hand. If you've got 2 scouts and playable cards in those colours it should be fine.

Other than that, I like to start with the wisp on hand. Free sacrificing can be crazy value! Shrine and carver are also very nice cards to see on hand.

Sometimes it's better to have grenadins on starting hand as they can counter/slow down aggro like yetis very effectively.

Mid game:
Hold onto that burglar until you have 6 power. Then you can drop-activate him to draw THREE cards and also proc shrine! Madness.

Usually in the market around mid game I'm looking to draw the site or induce madness. Unfortunately as much as I love dova and originally made this deck around him. He feels like the weakest market option available. As a 5 cost that does nothing on landing feels very weak most of the time (he can occasionally provide incredible value however)

Late game:
Best part is that this can play the long game very easily.
And Kato is a serious threat late game.

This deck can easily combo out 1 turn kills late game. Kato himself can almost OHKO an opponent with shrine and any choice of sacrifice. Or even just a bunch of grenadin at once usually ends it. Especially if you have multiple shrines up.

Weaknesses with this deck:

Possibly the strongest counter to this deck is tocas. Thinking it might be worth adding send an agent maindeck to deal with him.

The deck I've had most problems against has been the even argenport deck that is very popular right now. As rolant and know thy enemy can be a brutal hard counter. (Control has been the best matchup imo in comparison)

Removal is another part this deck is very light on. Usually you can straight up ignore what the enemy is trying to do. However rolant especially is a card that needs to be killed, and if they plop one down and you don't have combust or a good hand...it can be GG.
HOWEVER.. this brings me onto my next point...


Possible improvements:

Fall to ruin in market. Honestly it really just should be there, it's perfect for this deck really. I just haven't swapped out dova yet because I really want to use that card more... but it would be very strong against rolant and other large unit decks. I am definitely going to add this when I get frustrated enough with rolant.
Edit: on playing more games it's actually coronation ritual I'd probably cut from the market instead of dova. Because in like 20 games I've not successfully used it once, whilst dova has actually come in really handy a few times.

Aurelian merchant... I think it could be a good addition as I love the draw, haven't tried it yet. But it definitely could be useful here

More recycle/less vox: recycle has been absolutely amazing, only added it recently and now I can't see this deck without it. Not added more because I've been a little reluctant to cut vox.
As for vox... she's hilarious to use, especially with induce madness. Sacking 2 of your tokens and forcing the opponent to sack 3 of their units is incredible. It's won me a few games and is just a fun way to win tbh.

Buuuuuuut, too often it's a dud. Quite a few times I've had vox on hand and she's just sat there as I used every other card.

Worthy cause: if you want to spice this up with even more sacrifice and decent removal then this could be a very good addition.

Power: Could add a few destruction chants or something to help with fixing, but again not 100% sure what to cut for that.

So if you any feedback or suggestions I would very much like to hear them! Thanks for reading!

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
45,900

Premium Cost
219,200

Influence Requirements
3 2 3

Power Sources
15 13 15 16

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Deck Rarities
14 20 28 9

Card Types
23 5 26 1 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Whispers of the Throne [Set1085]
Awakening [Set1095]

Archetype
Combo

Added
July 5, 2021

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2,756

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