I took a deck very similar to this
seen here and even took 2nd place in a tournament with it. The deck is very close to being a full budget deck, so I made small changes to make it that way. This mostly involves cutting Vadius, who actually isn't all that important to the deck despite his importance in normal Skycrag lists.
All of these cards are useful cards that have and will see play in other decks, so you need not worry you're wasting too much shift stone unless you don't ever want to play aggro ever again.
If you want to further budget the deck or are building up to it, you can change the following:
- Crests of Fury can become Diplomatic Seals.
- Jennev Merchant can be a number of things, including Clan Hero for a very budget option, or can be substituted for a number of other cards including Cinder Yeti, Ixtun Merchant, Frontier Bard, Crunch, or Temple Shihan.
- Censari Brigand can also be exchanged for any of the above, but it is the second most important rare in the deck, so I would craft it soon.
- The most important rare is Champion of Fury, who you should craft first. If you have nothing else, Fearless Yeti's can work in it's place until you get them.
Playing the Deck
This plays like a normal aggro deck for the most part: you'll dump units on the field and try to kill them as fast as possible. Where this deck becomes very different—and also becomes very fun—is it's ability to blow people out of the water with huge berserk combos. This is often how you'll win most of your games, usually hitting them for 10-14+ damage at a time using multiple cards on one super unit.
Save your
Gift of Battles for when you have a Champion of Fury, a Censari Brigand, or just any unit with some additional damage, such as Ornate Katana's or Rampages. This is the most important card in the deck, other than Dusk Raider, who also gives Berserk. When you find them vulnerable, try to go for the kill: give a unit Berserk, a damage buff, and flying with Levitate or the Changeestik from your market and blow them up. Here is an example of how that might look:
https://clips.twitch.tv/SavoryBlatantAsparagusTooSpicy
Some tips:
- Don't try and do your combo if you think they have a fast spell that can kill your unit. Check for pauses with Levitates and other spells.
- To help ensure you get units with Berserk of Dusk Raider, you can play her with 3 or 4 power open and then immediately play Levitate or Ornate Katana.
- In addition, any units you take out of your Market are considered draws, so grabbing Alpine Tracker with Dusk Raider in play will give it Berserk.
- If you don't have Levitate, you can save Permafrosts and other removal spells for right when you need to push in for the final bit of damage.
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If you are new to Eternal and do not know how to play aggro decks much at all, I highly recommend LocoPojo's video series on aggro and aggression with the firestarter deck. He does a fantastic job of showing you the basics.
That is all. Have fun!
I would change up the market a little bit for the current metagame. Replace Substitute with something else, like Unstable Form (mostly just to answer SST). Good luck!
I already had a playset of Vadius, so I did use those. And I replaced the Mortar in the market with Substitute, mostly to deal with all those pesky Sandstorm Titans.
Very fun and consistent deck. 10/10 would attack again.