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Invasive Species Swarm

Gauntlet Deck By
Dragonite04

Work in Progress
+1

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Type

Faction

Information

This deck is currently untested but here's a rough idea of what it will look like

Invasive Species has such an amazing potential for Aggro/Midrange/Control, but I haven't seen anyone make use of it yet. I haven't decided what I want this deck to play like, but I will fiddle around with building this once I get more shiftstone.

I haven't crafted this deck yet, but will eventually. Basically, the idea is to make use of Invasive Species' amazing Bargain/Entomb. Get Invasive Species into the void, recur it, it dies and adds a copy to the Market, recur it, another copy gets into the Market after it dies, etc...

Repeat until you have 12 copies in the Market. The next time you hit the enemy with an empty hand, congratulations, you have a swarm of Invasive Species (hopefully, they've been buffed up)!

Hoarding Builder just skips the recursion entirely and allows you to put two copies of Invasive Species into the Market (assuming that at this point, you already have at least 2 in the void). I will Definitely add Merchants into the final build. Even if Hoarding Builder doesn't add Invasive Species to the Market, he can add a different unit/spell to it and you can retrieve it later with a Merchant.

Twilight Raptor is to cheese in a hit (but honestly, it will probably be removed in the final version). Bottled Storm is there as well to cheese in a ping (hitting the opponent to get Invasive Species from the Market). I may replace Bottled Storm with a different burn spell that's cheaper to play. I do like it because I can plop it down, so it won't take up hand space (necessary to keep empty for the bargain effect). It does force card draw after you've used it 3 times, but with different Bottled Storms, you should be able to control when you draw/not draw by purposely using the effect of another one. It also looks like too much recursion, so I will definitely omit some of those cards in the final version.

The sideboard contains cards that I am considering swapping into the main deck after testing.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
22,300

Premium Cost
126,400

Influence Requirements
3 2

Power Sources
16 17 8

Power Calculator
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Deck Rarities
20 21 21 1

Card Types
23 1 31 0 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Into Shadow [Set1004]

Archetype
Unknown

Updated
December 28, 2020

Added
December 27, 2020

Views
902

Eternal Version
Empire of Glass

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Revisions (Since last major patch) December 28, 2020


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Comments

metaBrook Eternal Version: 20.12.23
Hey! I've been thinking about this too. Invasive species is my favorite card of the set yet, but I'm not sure how to use it. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
metaBrook Eternal Version: 20.12.23
First take is that there are not enough units here. I had a lot of recursion cards in hand that I couldn't play. Also, Killer could be used to great effect here! Good first thoughts.
Dragonite04 Eternal Version: 21.01.08
Thank you for the feedback! Once I do have enough shiftstone to craft this later on, I'll make a note to lessen the amount of spells and to add more units. Cards that give permanent buffs should also be included a lot more in this build too! The Invasive Species copy that dies creates an exact copy of itself for the Market. I'll more than likely end up removing some recursion spells and add in some more buff effects!