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Hooru Aegis Aggro

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This deck carried me to masters for the first time and is very heavily based on Raphaels Rakano Aegis Aggro; many thanks and credits to Raphael and their wonderful deck + writeup

I personally really like Hooru and tried to make many different more and less aggressive Hooru decks work over the last couple of months. Almost all of them ran Icaria, Valkyrie Captain and Hooru Pacifier because the decks were heavily based on Mail's and Flippyflop's decks. They too did a great writeup on their respective decks.

Compared to the two decks above, Raphael's Rakano inspired me to build a Hooru-version of their deck and to cut Hooru Pacifier in order (pun not intended) to play weapons like Linebreaker's Shield and Vanquisher's Blade. I did not know whether to run Finest Hour or Mirror Image at first, but ended up going with the ladder because it ultimately meant a higher unit density as it provides additional copies of Jennev Merchant, Valkyrie Enforcer and Unseen Commando primarily. You will find my suggested changes at the end if you wanted to try out a version with Finest Hour instead. The additions of Linebreaker's Shield and Kosul Battlemage improved my games against aggro.

The Shield provides a way to counter Permafrost, without keeping open 2 mana and holding an Unseal in hand, and is another great way to gain tempo and offset one of their blockers for two turns. I liked having an answer against Permafrost so much so that I decided to put one Shield in the market.
What I am the least sure about is running Jump Kick in the market over Gift of Battle. The former can be used to get Kosul Battlemage or Sheriff Marley to fly over blockers and the ladder has more synergy with Unseen Commando and Crownwatch Tactic.

Suggested alteration: If you wanted to, you can cut the 3 main Mirror Image and a Vanquisher's Blade for 4 Finest Hour and change the Jump Kick for a Gift of Battle. This will increase your damage output and combo potential but decrease unit density.

Thanks for having read this far, thanks again for Raphael and I wish you gl & hf

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
24,650
Premium Cost
144,800
Influence Requirements
2 1
Power Sources
24 17 12
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5 36 26
Card Types
28 14 9 0 29
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Aggro
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November 18, 2018
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flippyflop Edited Eternal Version: 1.40
nice! congrats on masters! it always feels awesome to reach it with your own brew.

i think playing marketed mana might be a bit of a mistake. it seems to be consensus among top players that market spots are invaluable and one really aught to just build a better mana base. for example, none of the decks in the top 16 of the ETS invitational played marketed mana, not even the super value mid-range types.

currently you're running 28 in the maindeck but i'd like to point your attention to a particular list, Kang's AP Mid.

Kang has brought this same list (well, with green merchants) to the ETS for the last several weeks and I imagine it to be rather tuned for this particular curve. i also think it's rather similarly structured to your current deck, especially if you consider Linebreaker's Shield to be 5 drops. Kang runs 26 raw power and 4 psuedo power in the form of Vara's Choice. i think your current list is in an interesting position in that it is so heavily Justice favored that you might be able to run a couple Lingering Influence for your psuedo power, but otherwise you might just want 4x Seek Power. for cuts, you might consider just removing 2x Auric Runehammer and converting 2 normal sigils.

as far as what to play in the market, there's plenty of stellar options at the moment:
my first thought was Unseal, but that's way less relevant in a deck of aegis dorks. Vision of Austerity is a staple but i rarely find myself using it outside of punishing mask decks. Thunderstrike Dragon is also one that recently came on my radar, especially if you're playing Dusk Raider. although i think that's geared towards more midrangey-midrange like Good Hooru. Clan Standard/Eilyn's Choice are also considerations.

but i wonder if Crystallize/Entangling Vines might be the way to go?
since you're trying to be more aggressive and playing Kosul Battlemage over Jotun Feast-Caller, it might give you the opening you need to jam in on the ground in a world of deadly units and tokens.
Cookie Eternal Version: 1.40
Thanks a lot for the detailed feedback! It was fun to get masters with my own brew that runs no legendaries.

I guess you are right in your assessment of why market power is a worse option than running more situational cards and more power in the main deck. Considering what market cards to run, I've come up with many different potential slots too: Vision of Austerity is good against Cookbook and Mask and sometimes against Xenan Obelisk. Unseal is protection against removal or board wipes (Vira on 4, Harsh rule on 5) and against Scream. Eilyn's Choice can be similar to Unseal and also be used on units that are already in play and can offer more answers against fatties. Entangling Vines as an additional way to bypass enemies. I also thought about changing the Jump Kick for a Changeestik; The unit keeps the +1/1 buff and the flying ability at 1 more cost and the card can also be used later on as pseudo hard removal on an annoying unit. I also thought about using Shelterwing Rider in the market as it offers a good unit on curve, is good at blocking, difficult to fully remove and it wears weapons very well. I can imagine a 2/7 endurance multifaction flying unit to be quite annoying to deal with. Bring Down could be used against the unit that gets screamed back (silence + removal in one) or against Rizahn. Gift of Battle is another option to get more damage in. Eilyn's Intervention could be used against some narrow spells like Slay or Wisdom of Elders and it can also deal with units that get screamed back but I think it might be too specific to be worth 1 out of 5 market slots. Substitute could be used as a pseudo hard removal too e.g. on say a Vara or a SST. I have also seen a Feln Aggro deck run Torrential Downpour to kill tokens, pop aegis, scout and deal 1 damage face (which sometimes matters a lot). Poaching drake is also an option.

I think Permafrost, Linebreaker's Shield and Mirror Image are already set as they offer a very lot of value and flexibility. I think I will follow your advice and add 3 Seek Power and 1 Lingering Influence and try market Thunderstrike Dragon again (used to run it in a more midrangey deck but I did not have a lot of success with it so switched to this aggro style deck). Maybe the Dragon is like Unseal a way to play around removals but instead of countering removal, it offers 2 nice units. I think I'll also go for Entangling Vines, as this provides a very valuable way to gain Tempo to win the damage race when both player's resources are exhausted and there are only a couple of units on board; also, unlike Permafrost, it can't be countered by Bore (Bore on Permafrost on e.g. a Vira is how I lose sometimes because of the board and HP swing they gain).
Pikerbocker Edited Eternal Version: 1.40
Hooru is in a bad spot right now unit wise.. what is hooru most known for? Aegis and flying.. who counters that? Vara and SST.. who are some of the most played units in ladder? Vara and SST.. lol
I can see it doing well against most control decks though
Cookie Eternal Version: 1.40
You are right that these 2 very commonly played units counter aegis and flying; it's why I think running 8 vanquish-type effects (vanquishers blade against recursion) and 4 silences + mirror image on valkyrie enforcer to potentially silence more things is a reasonable way to counter these units. So far these units were only a problem when they were played together (FST decks) or if I did not get an answer in time.