This is my first successful set 3 deck. We have to see if it remains that, but at the moment of posting the list I'm 11-3 in the top 20 with it. It certainly feels powerful.
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I really love this list, it took me to master's and I have yet to lose a game with it. I replaced 1 Behemoth with a Novaquake Titan because I didn't have 4 at the time, and the deck still preforms great. Thank you for sharing and posting it.
So I love this concept. But I went 0-5 with the deck. I decided that instead of just get overly frustrated, curse the deck out, and delete it, I should make a few tweaks to see if it helped at all. And boy did it. I made 2 simple changes that I think made the deck much stronger.
My reasoning was pretty simple. I found that this deck is trying to go WAY THE F*CK over the top of all other decks and so the lifegain was so rarely relevant. Meanwhile, a 7/7 for 4 is busted comparatively. Now, to support Monolith, I needed 4 more relics. I already found Wrangler to be the worst card in the deck by a lot so what to take out was easy. The question became what to put in. I've been playing with Ancient Defenses in a couple other decks and have been really impressed with it so I am trying that and it's still been impressive.
All in all, I think this might be even stronger than my other versions so thanks so much for posting it! I'm going to keep testing and I'll let you know if I change anything else (I am sort of planning on dropping the temple scribes for 2 Novaquake Titans but I know that's obscenely greedy and might be wrong - you only live once though!)
I found the deck had not enough interaction late so I added a Novaquake for a Temple Scribe and switched 2 Torch for 2 Purify.
Temple Scribe might be necessary, Novaquake is probably too greedy, I have lilked the Purify.
I will try it out with Zilfrans changes too.
-4 Sauropod Wrangler / +4 Ancient Defenses
-4 Devoted Theurge / +4 Monolith Guardian
My reasoning was pretty simple. I found that this deck is trying to go WAY THE F*CK over the top of all other decks and so the lifegain was so rarely relevant. Meanwhile, a 7/7 for 4 is busted comparatively. Now, to support Monolith, I needed 4 more relics. I already found Wrangler to be the worst card in the deck by a lot so what to take out was easy. The question became what to put in. I've been playing with Ancient Defenses in a couple other decks and have been really impressed with it so I am trying that and it's still been impressive.
All in all, I think this might be even stronger than my other versions so thanks so much for posting it! I'm going to keep testing and I'll let you know if I change anything else (I am sort of planning on dropping the temple scribes for 2 Novaquake Titans but I know that's obscenely greedy and might be wrong - you only live once though!)