good stonescar [masters]

38W/12L to get from masters 100 to 10 in April
51W/13L for Gold 3 -> Masters in May

This is an adaptation of Marten's list The Devouring Stonescar Aggro (VERY FAST!)

Recently replaced Eris and Champion with Skullmarket Delivery and Bone Music, both much more impactful.

Ascetic Lantern is a powerhouse, removes the major skill issue of lousy topdeckers and allows you to fix most hands

Quick 'How to Ascetic Lantern in starting hand' guide:
- more than one 4cost in hand? Remove the one with multiple copies, or Karrina>Ossuar>Raniya
- 4 power cards? you don't need those, throw the depleted one
- Bone Music? A bit too early for that, throw this one away and play the next one you draw
- got 2F 1S influence? Throw that Murgo the Bone Guy away, it's not gonna happen!
- decent curve? Go for Centipede Keeper first, keep lantern for when you need better cards

Bloodseeker is not amazing early on, but the 2/3 stats means it doesn't get removed easily and can block a lot of things. Happy times if the opponent even uses a removal on 2-3 power to get rid of it.

Dangerous Gambit over Shrivel is mostly for the influence cost. Health loss is usually not an issue, Raniya, Miviox Maniac takes care of that if it's an aggro mirror (also no HP loss hitting aegis)

Eris Beastmane and Champion of Chaos are probably the weakest cards in the list, worth trying to replace them with something else. Both offer extra reach on a stalled board, but this list doesn't end up in such a spot very often. Edit: And I did! bone music is both a great grave filler for Bloodseeker, and it can easily grow to 5+/2, which is lethal territory very often. Remember it's a fast spell, you want to play it at the end of the opponent's turn, after they exhausted their units to attack you. Might sometimes want to block a big threat with them, but that's not really what the deck wants to do.

Market has a bit of everything, I'm not too sure if those are the best options or not. Most drawn for me were Toxicology as an universal removal, and Ziat, Steelwarren Reeve mostly to counter Save the Day, Flash Fire, and all that kind of scary cards. Careful of face aegis that might block it, but Centipide Keeper & Murgo should take care of that most often.

Rickety Ramcart is excellent. Trading tokens for x/1 aside, it allows you to push into any single blockers regardless. Centipede Keeper and Raniya also get extra value out of that.

Ossuar Longbow is mostly used as removal, and it can sometimes push crazy damage equipped on Twilight Lantern. Also good vs relic decks that have a lot of board wipes and very few units.

Raniya, Miviox Maniac wins games. use it either to smack an opp unit into another (this should kill both, unless you've got lethal next turn), or use a single big blocker as extra reach into lethal. Rarely worth placing on board without the ability proc, you should have better things to do on 4-5 power. Careful if you already have Rickety Ramcart on board, don't want to give opponent a choice of which taunt unit to block


Ideal starting hand is either Ascetic Lantern or Twilight Lantern. I would rather start on -1 than with good power but no 1-2 cost units.
Anyway, let me know how it goes if you try it out!