Came up with this deck idea when Defiance first released.
Key cards:
• Rat Cage
• Lethrai Courtier
• Lethrai Hideaway
• Araktodon Egg
• Display of Knowledge
• Xenan Obelisk
• Great Valley Smuggler
• Severin The Mad Mage
Lethrai Courtier and all the low cost relics like rat cage, lethrai hideaway and araktadon egg synergize well. Obelisk buffs all allies and Courtier helps maximize it’s potential. Added Star-reader recently, he can be powerful later in game, also spelunker and smuggler both get buffed fairly quickly by having a relic equipped. Spelunkers ultimate can be a great combo with rat cage equipped & star-reader in grave yard. Smuggler can fetch some pretty powerful cards in black market, my favorite is Nightmaw when I have a field full of 5/5 rats and they all become unblockable. Cleaver with 7 power is also powerful, specially if you use Dark Return and get to reuse killer ability.
Still tweaking this deck. I’m playing Homecoming campaign and aim to add Severin the mad mage in this deck once I unlock him, I’m expecting this to be one of the missing links to this deck, just synergizes so well that it’s like a gift from developers to me! 😄
Sideboard:
• Elvish Swindler would be a perfect fit for this kind of deck, you can swap Chalice for him to help you amass a rat army quicker. Another good combo is using him to fetch secret passage to get an unblockable kill.
• Equivocate was my original removal spell, I swapped it with scorpion wasp, there’s pros and cons to either option.