The Glaive Surge (top 50 masters)

This is a justice heavy Rakano surge deck that tries to make the most of Glaive of the Chosen. For that purpose it has 10 cards to interact with the market and fetch the buffed up units. This also allows you to relatively reliably put off cards in the market and fetch them later, if the games ever go that long.

The gameplan is to start slow, waiting for that one extra power to play Bubble Shield or Silverblade Intrusion to protect your units and trigger their abilities. The idea is to surge as much as possible with Chainwhip Bludgeoner, Hojan, Crownbreaker and of course Glaive of the Chosen on the table. Ironthorn, Lawman helps with the surging, as well as Hojan, Crownbreaker's Renown and Ijin, Walking Armory's attack.

With all the surging of justice power, you should have no trouble reaching Kira Ascending's second and third powers, as well as relatively reliably trigger the extra effect of Silverblade Intrusion. Speaking of Kira Ascending, it and the Hooru Envoy are the draw engines of the deck, and with 16 + 1 spells that can be played on your units, you should draw quite a bit, especially if we consider Silverblade Intrusion's double dip if played on two of the aforementioned cards.

The endgame is overwhelming your opponent with massive damage coming from your fliers, units with overwhelm or simply regular folk with buffed up attack. Trickshot Ruffian is very useful here, as you can have obscene amounts of justice influence (I once used him to give a unit +21 attack), but also surprise charge overwhelms from the market.

The namesake of the deck is Glaive of the Chosen, and it allows for some great combos. First of all, it will give your unit +1/+1 and endurance, which is nice, but also a permanent +1 attack per surge. This can rack up quickly if things align. The best targets for playing it are Chainwhip Bludgeoner (for aegis and it's own surge), Hojan, Crownbreaker (for immediately triggering one justice surge) or anybody that has flying from Fearless Crescendo.

The second effect of Glaive of the Chosen is to increase attack of units in your market. I tried utilizing this best by having two chargers with overwhelm there (Cinder Sprite and Milos, Rebel Bomber), as well as Valkyrie Enforcer for the silence and flying. There are many candidates that could be fit in there if gameplan was a bit more prolonged, but these worked best in my tests. Another absolute must in the market is Friends in Low Places, as it just synergises with a lot of things so nicely. Pristine Light is there to get you out of a bind if the opponent is going tall. This last is the weak point in the market and could be swapped for another 3 cost justice unit like Kodosh's Stranger or Silvercrest Purifier.

EDIT: So, Marley is in the market, mostly for the Slingkilling, but also the extreme synergies.

There are a lot of synergies in the deck, try it out and see for yourself. I'm especially happy that it makes Cinder Sprite really shine, the little bugger won me many a games.

For the expedition version, see here: The Glaive Surge Expedition