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Menagerie Control

Gauntlet Deck By
dbrugler
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One of my favorite gauntlet decks to play, especially with premium Poacher's Menageries to make endless premium units. This deck is not particularly fast, but it is highly effective.

Game plan: stall and delete everything your opponent puts out until you can overwhelm them with free units from Poacher's Menagerie. Extra points if you can get Martyr's Chains on the board with Partnership Agreement to kill everything automatically.

Even if it takes a while to draw into this, every one of your units gains you either life or shields. That combined with the stuns and anti-aegis effects of Furious Magniventris and Vara, Vengeance-Seeker means you can hold your ground for a while even with bad draws.

Notes:

Don't play multiple copies of Poacher's Menagerie against decks you know have relic removal, or risk losing them all.

Be careful playing Partnership Agreement without a board wipe in hand, or risk getting blown out. Or against the Army of Justice deck in general since they greatly benefit from the extra sigils. Or against decks like Harsh Elements that have lots of high cost spells and card draw.

Don't be afraid to hold out for a few turns and sacrifice your units to make your board wipes hit harder, you can always get them back with Argenport Blueprints.

There is a small chance that you will get a Crill, Merciless Pillager as a 7 cost unit from Poacher's Menagerie and a 100% chance you will get a Spirit of Resistance as a 12 cost unit. Both of these will destroy all relics, in turn killing all your free units.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
43,350

Premium Cost
237,600

Influence Requirements
4 2

Power Sources
20 20 15

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Deck Rarities
3 22 34 2 9

Card Types
13 10 31 1 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Into Shadow [Set1004]
Hour of Glass [Set1115]
Valley Beyond [Set1125]

Archetype
Unknown

Added
October 28, 2022

Views
2,235

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Comments

Don Eternal Version: 22.10.12
Flamebathe Reformation pairs really well with Poacher's Menagerie. Keep combining the new cards on to a standard unit and you keep the stats and combat skills in case the relic gets destroyed.
synack Eternal Version: 22.10.12
That seems like a very easy to get blown out by a single removal spell
Don Edited Eternal Version: 22.10.12
That is true. But balancing out which units you stack the exalted cards on can help hedge against that.

Overall I love control decks with Menagerie when combined with Matko and Flamebathe Reformation, props to the original poster for a fun deck build.