Still playing Calderan Cradle in 2023?
Well here's a deck that makes it kinda fun to use in this scary meta
The MVP here is Shavkan Dogma and Flash Fire, your most likely win conditions.
Calderan Cradle is a secondary threat that starts to kick in around turn 5 or 6. In the meantime, you'll be controlling the board with Elemental Fury and other small damage spells.
Sign of the Reborn is a value beast, and you'll probably want to use it on the opponent's face more often than units.
The most fun part of playing this deck is finding all the hilarious synergies. Solfire works beautifully with Cradle and Dogma, whether you want high damage or dragons, or both!
Wilderness Delivery could either save your life or frustrate your opponent with a barrage of spells.
Powerstone Compass might be overkill with card draw, so feel free to replace it with anything you like.
Warning Shot
x2
1
Primal Etchings
x1
1
Shavkan Dogma
x4
1
Skycrag Blueprints
x3
2
Defy Authority
x2
2
Ice Bolt
x4
2
Sign of the Reborn
x3
2
Wilderness Delivery
x4
3
Calderan Cradle
x3
3
Display of Survival
x4
3
Hailstorm
x3
3
Howling Peak Smuggler
x1
3
Pyrotech Explosion
x2
3
Solfire
x3
3
Wisdom of the Elders
x4
4
Caustic Rain
x1
4
Elemental Fury
x3
5
Flash Fire
x2
5
Prodigious Sorcery
x1
Fire Sigil
x3
Primal Sigil
x2
Clan Standard
x3
Fire Symbol
x3
Seat of Fury
x3
Skycrag Cylix
x4
Skycrag Insignia
x4
Skycrag Tome
x3
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I haven't tried it yet, but wouldn't Heavy Hail be better than both Hailstorm and Lightning Storm for a market grab? The ability to nuke a ton of small to mid chonk aegis-bearers would be extremely helpful against a lot of Skycrag and Hooru decks imo. I know you have Garden of Omens, but it's a little expensive to get to against an aegis aggro situation.
In addition, lightning storm being so cheap balances out the high cost market. Ideally, you would wipe out small threats with lightning storm or elemental fury, and for the rest of the game you would use big spells to remove big units. Garden of Omens provides a continuous benefit in case your opponent has more than 5 Aegis units.
But this market is pretty flexible depending on the meta. Feel free to experiment! :)
Just to clarify though, Heavy Hail is always 3-cost; the cost does not increase to get the additional damage and aegis-ignore effect. You just have to discard a blue card (no blue influence needed on the card, so a snowball works). I’m mostly familiar with it via my Elysian Maul deck, which could get stuck occasionally without some explicit aegis hate in the market.
I added 2 Heavy Hails in the main deck. It might work better for you in Market as you mentioned.