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Throne Deck By
goaychanhong
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The Glorious Gathering

+3

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Type

Faction

Information

Latest Update 8/8/2020: 20-8 QCP

Credit to https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/d/Miq4EKHpoR4/mr-buttons-3.

I was very wrong about Mr. Button myself, but after playing with the card for a while, I concluded that he is awesome indeed!
I will try to explain my card choices here. As we notice, most of the aggro deck steer away from playing removals because many players feel that removals don't advance the game plan of aggro deck at all. While it is true that removals are bad against control, and can be mediocre when you draw multiple of them, but I think it is necessary to play at least some amount of them. It is really easy to lose from a single Rindra, the Duskblade or Vara, Vengeance-Seeker when you don't have answer to them immediately.

No One Drops Policy
Basically in order to play Buhton, Death's Reach you need to build a very heavy fire power base. So shadow one drops are basically not good here because you will not be able to summon them consistently turn one with only 9 un-depleted shadow power anyway. Also, most fire 2/1 one drops are pretty bad and I just don't like them that much since their window to deal damage is really narrow, once opponent summon a 3 health unit they are being stalled unless you commit a removal. Eager Deputy is pretty decent but I feel doing one damage on turn 2 and 2 damage on turn 3 is not really good either, she also force you to over-commit to the board and take away your ability to play around board wipe.

4x Open Contract
I think this is one of the best removal in the game. It kills almost everything popular in the game except Icaria, First Reaper and Champion of Cunning. It is also a pretty common situation where you kill something with this then they draw into a discounted 5 cost unit which you can now kill with the second Open Contract. The draw back of this card is not even that big. Generally about 1/3 of the enemy deck will be units, so they only have about 33% chance to draw their discounted unit and even then it might not matter. Killing opponent Vara, or ChaCha for one power allows you to gain such a massive tempo, the drawback is honestly very minimal. Lastly, it kills all the new XXXXYY 4 cost legendary units which are quite popular on ladder right now.

Smuggler Over Market Spell
Only smuggler can grab Edict of Makkar, Silverblade Menace reliably. I don't think I need to explain how powerful these two cards are. Also, smuggler provide you with a body against control which market spells don't do, provide a body for Buhton's ability, and up your unit count to 32. You need to play high unit count as an aggro deck after all. Unlike salvo and condemn you don't lose a card to access your market, and you are not restricted by the cost of your cards in market unlike the market spells.

Queen
I think you can definitely play Bandit Queen even without any one drop or go wide strategy. She is powerful enough as long as you have one or two other decent size units to fight with her. Playing high amount of charge units allow us to improve our control match-up as well.

Mr. Button Himself
This card is insane! This card just beats so many low attack and high health defensive units such as Auralian Merchant, Mournful Deathcap, and also small deadly blockers such as Two-Face. This card also can kill the annoying shades so that your opponent can't stall by blocking. I was pretty doubtful about this card when I first saw him, and now I think he might be even better than the original Vicious Highwayman.

Power Base
I think vow is bad. We would like to hit FFFSSS on turn 3 preferably because we want to get our Champion of Chaos out of Jekk's damage range. So I think playing all the 16 duals are necessary. This leave us with only 9 slots for sigils, thus I decided to play 2 seek power to up the sigil count to 11, making our Jekk's play more consistent.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
53,450

Premium Cost
272,800

Influence Requirements
4 2

Power Sources
24 17 16

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Deck Rarities
11 23 20 17

Card Types
36 0 19 0 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Into Shadow [Set1004]
Homecoming [Set1005]
Whispers of the Throne [Set1085]
Shadow of the Spire [Set1087]

Archetype
Aggro

Updated
August 8, 2020

Added
July 1, 2020

Views
1,287

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Revisions (Since last major patch) July 29, 2020


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Comments

Syphon Eternal Version: 20.07.01
I like this version alot better than the one I found the other day
goaychanhong Eternal Version: 20.07.01
Thanks for your kind words!
StarBright Eternal Version: 20.07.01
Replaced the seeks with Etchings anyway because it's not very often you're grabbing the shadow sigil, but I like the deck!
goaychanhong Edited Eternal Version: 20.07.01
I think etchings are fine, it is just that our market are not firely enough for that I think but I don't see anything wrong with playing etchings.