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Hand Destruction Dark Chalice

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FuelCell

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Type

Faction

Information

Why dark chalice over TJP? With the significant number of aegis units in the meta, harsh rule is of limited value and end of the story has a steep 6 mana cost. Additionally, with the significant number of tutor cards available via the market, it's really easy to get a good hit with Back-Allely Delinquent or Rain of Frogs right after your opponent uses the market. Shadow also has access to annihilate to take care of turn 2 teacher.

The two drops available to dark chalice are very solid utility creatures. Derry Cathain blocks turn 2 teach and lives through hailstorm, and back-alley delinquent allows you to pitch dead cards in favor of sabotage. This is essentially the versatility of strategize without really needing to pay two mana for doing nothing.

Market explanation:
Infinite Hourglass blows out permafrost and allows you to chalice without losing board presence
Vara's Choice is available after your opponent uses Rise to the Challenge or a merchant
Scorpion wasp is valuable removal or a chalice target if you need one
Banish is both unit and relic removal
Chalice is Chalice

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
33,950
Premium Cost
165,600
Influence Requirements
1 2 2
Power Sources
15 14 12 16
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Deck Rarities
11 30 26 4
Card Types
27 9 19 0 25
Contains Cards From Campaigns
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Archetype
Control
Added
July 11, 2018
Views
4,980
Eternal Version
The Fall of Argenport
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Comments

Tombie15 Eternal Version: 1.36
Deck is absolute trash without chalice. Played about ten games, never saw a single chalice. Got steamrolled 10 consecutive games. Wow.
Squeaky Eternal Version: 1.36
Why deathstrike over feeding time?
flippyflop Edited Eternal Version: 1.36
in my experience with attempting to climb with chalice, you really need some means of aegis to prevent the Vision of Austerity or Rain of Frogs blowout

Back-Alley Delinquent is pretty sweet, but they can still tutor up austerity and play it on the same turn for 5 mana

so yea,
Spiritward Shaman or Cobalt Waystone or whatever
SasquatchBrah Eternal Version: 1.37
Cobalt Waystone + 1-2 Petition seems the obvious choice here
KingBear Eternal Version: 1.36
Yeah the problem with Chalice now isn't unit quality, it's that basically every opponent has relic removal in their Market.
itsdannyboi Eternal Version: 1.36
I played a lot of dark chalice pre set 4 and let me tell you that you want Dreamsnatcher instead of Back-Alley Delinquent. He is really good early pressure, really good against aggro, works great with Vara's Choice and In Cold Blood (which are really good cards for Dark Chalice IMO), and he is amazing end game if you get his ability off. I can't even tell you how many games I've won with Dark Chalice and him. Here's my decklist to help inspire you a bit, but remember that I haven't updated it for Set 4 yet so there are obviously some changes that I will make.