Jumpscare Aggro (Masters)

This is a deck that I made recently that I've been having a ton of fun with, and it ended up carrying me to masters for the month. It's a token aggro deck that focuses on catching your opponent off guard by pushing huge amounts of single-turn damage and circumventing their defensive cards. This deck is definitely not freelo, it's certainly viable but it's pretty difficult to play well imo. With the amount of wipes in throne rn, you really have to be able to predict what kind of deck your opponent is playing and know when to hold your cards and when to play them out. However, it's a super explosive deck, and very very satisfying to win with.

Below will be a deck explanation:

Grenadin Drone, Collection Rounds, Nahid's Choice, Display of Destruction, and The Rat King are all token generators, with the goal of being as efficient as possible. Nahid's Choice and Display of Destruction are both modal spells which gives a lot of versatility, choice especially you want to use on face if you think the opponent has a wipe in hand as a pseudo-Exploit.

Grove Supplier, Bandit Queen, and Exodus are all really powerful pump cards, these are what you use to close out games. Exodus especially is really nice right now as a direct counter to Save the Day.

Otherwise, Combust and Open Contract are just really cheap removals and Raniya, Miviox Maniac is a nasty finisher (and another way to surprise your opponent). Raniya is especially good in this as a token deck, as her lifegain passive gains you a huge amount of hp if you get wiped. Auralian Supplier is just one of the best cards in the game imo, efficient card draw in an aggro list without sacrificing any tempo/aggression is really crazy.

The market is the only thing I'm unsure of, I'm currently running a shadow market with Skullmarket Delivery, but I've also tried time and fire markets and they're both definitely viable as well (my choices for those are in the sideboard). Honestly, the fire one is probably the most consistent, I'm just running shadow because I really enjoy how Bone Music works in this deck.

To show how explosive this deck can be, I'll describe a sample turn. Let's say you're on turn three with two Hired Muscle on the board, you end your turn and on your opponent's turn, seeing that your board is only two 1/1s and feeling safe, they play something like a Petition and tap out. On their end turn, you drop a Display of Destruction to make three more 1/1s and on your next turn you drop a Bandit Queen and swing with everything. Suddenly, your opponent has just taken 14 damage with absolutely no time to react. This works late game too, you can bait out a boardwipe and refill your board almost instantly, as far as aggro decks go it is surprisingly resilient into control. This is why I call the deck jumpscare aggro, as especially with tokens falling mostly out of the meta nobody really expects this kinda stuff.

Here are some common matchups and what I think about them:

Kira: A winning matchup I think, you easily overwhelm these decks as they're generally overconfident in their early pressure. Only thing to watch out for is Combrei Lawmage, that card can ruin your day (god I hate that card).

Spear: A 50/50, spear decks are generally lacking in strong defensive cards so you can overwhelm them similar to Kira, but if they get rolling with recurring the Plague spellcraft on spear before you can kill them you're pretty screwed.

Pretty much any aggro: Out-aggros almost every aggro deck, as long as you don't miss power you should win. Only tricky one is old-school stonescar with Vicious Highwayman and Jekk, Mercenary Hunter, but nobody really plays that anymore (:( I miss it) so it's no biggie.

Equalize or any other hard control: Even matchup if you play smart, don't play out all your cards at once and try to bait their defensive options/play around when they tap out. If you mess up early don't ff, this deck has really good comeback potential even against late-game decks.

Basic Xenan: Solid, these decks will usually only have a single End Of An Era in their market for a wipe and Riftfeeder Wasp/any other time fatty makes a great target for Raniya.

Self-mill: Good aside for those cheap regen creatures Darkwater Vines and Vine Grafter, they make for really annoying early blockers that can mess up your whole gameplan.

Grand suppresor decks: Pain. But not so common anymore.

Sorry for the huge amount of text, but I'm really excited about this deck and wanted to explain my thought process behind it/how it works. If anyone decides to try it out, please let me know what you think/any feedback :)