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Lights, Kenna, Action!

Throne Deck By
Jonahnert

+5

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Type

Faction

Information

OVERVIEW: This deck combines the First Flame and Dramatist's Mask combo pieces with the Kenna, Shaman of the Scale and End of Hostilities. The result is a highly flexible and difficult to pilot combo deck.

Current W/L: total 34 - 33
Gold 1: 16 - 20
Gold 2: 13 - 8
Casual: 5 - 5

INSPIRATION: I noticed that both the Mask and Kenna decks shared a similar pattern and reliance on the tribute mechanic with cards like Assembly Line and Manufacture.

STRATEGIES:
(in order of how quickly they are usually achieved)

1.) Attach Dramatist's Mask to a token, guaranteeing a tributed First Flame from your deck on the next turn dealing 24 damage. But that's standard for all the masks decks, here if you have Mirror Image you can add another 15 damage to that with a second copy of First Flame's 3 Infernus for 39 total damage! Not enough you say? Well if you have 6 power (which Combustion Cell will help you get to) you can get two extra copies of First Flame with End of Hostilities for a total of 54 Damage!
strengths:
Boy that's a lot of damage
Can happen as early as turn 5
Even if the combo fails, if you develop Combustion Cell you're set up for future combos
weaknesses:
Tough to guard against early removal (unless you happen to have Unseal in hand)

2.) Recursively cast End of Hostilities on Kenna, Shaman of the Scale (whose tribute ability lets you draw End of Hostilities from the void).
strengths:
provides removal in the form of Kenna, Shaman of the Scale's killer ability
Creates a board while generating card advantage (with End of Hostilities giving you an extra Kenna to draw a second spell from your void)
weaknesses:
Takes multiple turns to go off
Weak to counters and fast removal (unless you happen to have Unseal in hand)

3.) Use Mirror Image and/or End of Hostilities to generate 3 copies of Tamarys, the Geomancer. This then lets you do "Combo 2" in one turn with Mirror Image costing 0.
strengths:
Easily defended with 0 cost Unseal
A board of 4/4 flying overwhelm units is great on its own
weaknesses:
relies on other combo pieces (Kenna or First Flame) to finish the game reliably

PLAYING THE DECK:
Our decks major determining factor is what Dramatist's Mask gets us. Unlike other Mask/Flame decks ours doesn't always hit the big elemental man himself. When it lands on Kenna or Tamarys we'll want to follow up with Mirror Image to solidify them on the board and with any luck we'll get another roll of the dice with the Mask next turn.

In exchange for this uncertainty we can survive having our Dramatist's Mask play cleared and often our opponents will go to great lengths (i.e. Harsh Rule) to do so. This clears the way for Kendra to build her board a few turns down the road.

We're free to spend End of Hostilities early, as it's the spell we'll most likely get back when we cast Kenna later. Often times it'll snag 2 copies of whatever the opponent's best unit is.

Consider saving Strategize to put First Flame on the bottom of our deck in most games. However, in some late game situations Combustion Cell will allow us to hard cast it.

THE MULLIGAN:
Assuming our influence and power are in order we'll want to keep hands with token generators (Assembly Line, Manufacture and even Granite Waystone). Dramatist's Mask is also usually a keep especially with draw spells (Wisdom of the Elders, Strategize) to get us the tokens we'll need.

META CONSIDERATIONS:
The Hailstorms help us against the aggro decks I've been seeing recently. If you'd prefer to counter control, I'd recommend Rain of Frogs, Honor the Ancestors and Backlash. You might also consider swapping Torch for Permafrost in extreme cases when looking at more specific counter builds.

*If you try the deck please comment with your win/loss ratio and I'll update the one listed at the top of the description, thanks!*

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
51,350

Premium Cost
196,800

Influence Requirements
2 3

Power Sources
16 17 8

Power Calculator
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Deck Rarities
27 14 11 1 13

Card Types
6 8 36 0 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]

Archetype
Combo

Updated
September 25, 2018

Added
September 23, 2018

Views
1,416

Eternal Version
Card and bug fixes, onboarding campaign changes

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Revisions (Since last major patch) September 25, 2018


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Comments

Korenthil Eternal Version: 1.38
I gave it a try and went 5-5 in Casual with it.

Pros: It's Kennadin that's even more fun! If the stars line up and they can't answer mask it delivers an awesome haymaker.

Cons: Basically I feel that it falls into the realm of jank. It's fun when it works but there are a lot of sacrifices for the extra win con, especially not having a merchant and having to use Manufacture. In the end I don't think the loss of consistency compared to a more standard Kenna list is really worth it.

Verdict: Thumbs up, but only spend shiftstone on the Masks and Flame if you love jank or have extra stones.
Jonahnert Eternal Version: 1.38
Thanks for trying the deck and commenting! I agree with your verdict after playing it in Gold 1 a bit more.