Supter's Deadly drumming

Hello everyone,

I've been playing this deck a bit, still not enough to have real datas, so here's the abstract of what it's supposed to do.

The deck is a Tribute / Deadly killer deck. I built this deck a bit before FoA dropped, and I had a really rough times because many decks weren't running unites. It was already decent against decks that actually do play units (Time midrange, Argenport), but there weren't enough of those.

Deadly stuff :

Pathlighter : Pathlighter is the card that gave me the idea to take this deck back for a round. It's really everything you want for this deck : it's cheap, has deadly, and benefits from being played again and again. We don't use the infiltrate, but we could if we were to maindeck Soulbringer. The problem with it is that you don't run enough wisps to proc it consistantly turn 4 or 5, but maybe I haven't played enough yet.

Nocturnal Creeper : This card can absolutely be replaced with the - probably better - Blistersting Wasp. But the Nightfall is useful enough since we cap at 4 mana, and its low health guarantee it to die when it kills stuff, thus procing tribute. Obviously, this is half an argument since you don't always have stuff to make it come back, and often keeping a unit alive is better. It went in with Soulbringer, but I understand any one who would like to cut it.

Ripknife Assassin : Antisynergizes with Gnash, but we have enough stuff to make the warcry cards come back anyway. Good agressive unit that fits well with our gameplan.

Venom Rider : Still not sold on this card, and maybe Soulbringer is needed most. But its charge is good, and it gives us a killer deadly unit if we can activate it, which is exactly what we want in a deck that tends to empty its hand quickly. Decent enough, but the four slot is really contested in this decklist.

Kerendon Merchant : The best merchant with this deck. I don't usually support people who don't run the time merchant when they get the chance, but having such a free deadly unit is a godsend. We can really make use of this body.

Removal suit

Predator's Instinct and Xenan Initiation : we honestly could even use Twilight Hunt. They are the core mechanic of the deck : you give a deadly unit killer to guarantee a kill, and you make your stuff come back.

Using the void

Dark Return : Obvious include. Deck can't work without it.

Ayan, the abductor : The deck lacked 3-drop and Ayan is way too good of a card to pass on it. I have won too many games with traditionnal Xenan by using Ayan to chump on low health and killer with it the next turn to get back to safe amount of health to not put this card in my deck with aggros in the meta. He's ultimate is also pretty uncastable in this decklist, but synergizes greatly with the next card.

Void Drummer : The other card that I absolutely wanted a shell for. Void Drummer has been quite good, but a bit slow so far. It attacks well along with Dredger and make all of our void relevant. Since our whole deck dies to torch except for Gnash, we don't have to worry too much about it.

Memory Dredger : Key card of the deck. It has twelve hits and basically wins game on its own.


Finally, we have Vara's Choice that allow us to stay relevant when we can't connect units or want to keep them alive to push damages, and is just overall too good of a card to pass, and Gnash, Pridemaster that I've been trying out. It's pushing its weigh, and it antisynergy with Ripknife assassin doesn't seem too hard since you always play with your void anyway. It doesn't really serve your gameplan, but our gameplan itself serves it too well. Invulnerable on low deadly bodies is always a good idea, and it's even better when they become fat.