Stonescar Even

Evenhanded variant of Stonescar. Primarily functions as aggro, but Crowd Favourite and Smuggler's Stash, along with huge amounts of advantage from Evenhanded Golem and Ornate Katana allow it to function into midrange.

Annihilate Is there to provide some early interaction. I'm honestly not a fan of the card in general because of its lack of ability to hit certain high priority units later on in the game and we lack access to markets to swap it for more general, expensive removal later on, so I dropped it down to 2.

Argenport Instigator, Rakano Outlaw, Vara, Vengeance-Seeker all find inclusions as just good tempo plays. Ripknife Assassin is a potential alternative.

Piercing Grief Piercing grief is our only lifesteal outside of Vara and an activated Highwayman, and as such finds its purpose providing some sustain to live through aggro match-ups early on. Has cute interactions with Smuggler's Stash where you can pull double Piercing Grief to play them after they've had their revenge and then draw 2 more cards.

Evenhanded GolemThe star of the show, the card draw this provides is a lot. 2/2 body is ok for a 2-drop, on par with Rakano Outlaw although it lacks the battle skills that make Rakano Outlaw good.

Seek Answers is our version of Seek Power, but is more versatile in exchange for the extra mana it costs us. Influence is almost never an issue in this deck so the random nature of Seek Answers is not sufficient to justify running Petition over it. When combined with the card draw from Golem and Katana this makes getting to 6 mana fairly consistent.

Crowd Favorite of the available 6 drops most of them aren't really that amazing and I decided that I wanted to run just 1 since this deck was generally fairly consistent with getting to powers. Crowd Favourite's only target here is Ornate Katana, so his card effect can be reduced down to "Summon: Give a unit +2 atk and draw a card". For a 6 drop, an effective 5/4 draw a card is not amazing (Blademaster Daimyo is a 5/4 that allows you to fetch multiple weapons from your void) but has provided solid value that works towards the ends that this deck is trying to accomplish.


Considerations:
Statuary Maiden is a powerful card for 4 mana. 1 mana cudgels could help smooth mana efficiency in a given turn. Unfortunately I lack the shiftstone to craft this to test it currently.

Casualties of the Cause would provide site hate and some slow removal. Unsure of what to remove for its inclusion but would likely drop some number of 2-mana cards.

Impatient Pyromage is interesting as it would most likely hit a 2-drop or a power, making it a good potential 3-mana play. 2/2 stat line as mentioned before is tolerable, but the deck is full of 2-drops already and finding space to include another is difficult.

Furnace Mage. Melt Down. Main decked attachment removal is something that I dislike running but without access to the market may prove necessary.