Fourth installment (or a reboot?) of the trilogy consisting of
Minotaur Armory Like It's 2017,
Minotaur Armory Like It's 2018, and
Minotaur Armory Like It's 2019.
The primary win condition is attacking in front of
Gift of the Auric Bank. Secondary win condition is drawing cards with
Black Book, Pit Boss. Tertiary win condition is the
Scornful Elite-
Nullblade or Taunt unit soft lock. Quaternary win condition is sticking
Poacher's Menagerie. Quinary win condition is stealing their win condition with
Souleater Blade (
Hive Queen Uther is common). Senary win condition is drawing
Tinker Unionist in a topdeck war. There's no other win condition.
Excellent against aggro, good against midrange as long as
Riftfeeder Wasp doesn't live, at least 50-50 against void shenanigans involving
Mirrorscale and/or
In Service due to
Nullblade, but board-wipe card-draw control decks that don't run (m)any units are pretty hard to beat, unless they never answer
Poacher's Menagerie.
Rift's Edge Control is a particularly bad matchup, and I'm glad I didn't face it too much during my climb.
Bounty Board is omitted for being too slow, and
Adamantine Pangolin is excluded for lacking impact the turn it comes down, dying to removal, the 3 armor not mattering too often, the +3/+3 frequently being hunted away, and being too small to attack through almost all relevant opposition after turn 4. Both can be the right option over
Finest Hour and
West, On the Trail, depending on meta.
Rank 1 on Aug 8 2023. Rank 1 on Aug 18 2023 after replacing all 4
Nullblade with The Beast Slicer.
Finest Hour
x4
2
Collection Rounds
x4
2
Scornful Elite
x4
2
Skullmarket Delivery
x4
2
Tinker Unionist
x4
2
Vara's Favor
x4
2
West, On the Trail
x2
3
Monarch Cloak
x4
3
Mystical Shackles
x4
3
Souleater Blade
x4
4
Nullblade
x4
5
Black Book, Pit Boss
x4
5
Gift of the Auric Bank
x4
Justice Sigil
x7
Shadow Sigil
x6
Argenport Cylix
x4
Argenport Tome
x4
Seat of Vengeance
x4
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