The idea is to play three cards together;
Horde Plunderer,
Ironfist Chancellor, and
Sword of Unity. Play Sword of Unity on Ironfist Chancellor, then use it's ability while Horde Plunderer is on the field. This gives you a 5/5 unit with lifesteal and overwhelm AND you get to cast Stand Together for free.
Then you can do this every. Single. Turn.
Alternately, you can play a Linebreaker's Shield, letting you stun a unit and draw an extra card each turn.
Did I mention that if you have Tome of Repetition out, you can do all of these things twice every turn? And if you have more than one weapon on Ironfist Chancellor... well, let's just say things can start to get crazy.
Blatantly stolen combination of
Azindel Cleaver by
isomorphic and
Allied Spellswords by
Vesalius86.
Having played Azindel Cleaver from Gold>Masters this month, I really liked the idea of another deck with Horde Plunderer, but I didn't like the shell Vesalius86 was using. So I took shadow out of Azindel Cleaver and shlepped in Justice instead.
One significant improvement to the Azindel Cleaver deck is the ability to get early (and repeatable, thanks to Ironfist Chancellor) card draw with
Linebreaker's Shield, which we're using to replace Staff of Speed. Also, this gives Jennev Merchant the ability to get both Horde Plunderer as well as a spellcraft weapon for her.
Most of your early-game cards can be played with just TJP, but you'll want TTJJP late-game. This shouldn't be a problem with all the influence fixing cards in the game.
Your best opener is:
T1: Initiate of the Sands
T2: Auralian Merchant
T3: Horde Plunderer + Tome of Repetition.
Even if you don't get Horde Plunderer out, you should be swimming in power by the time you play Sword of Unity.
Try to save Ironfist Chancellor for a time when you can instantly protect it with Sword of Unity + Stand Together.
Current record at Master rank:
5-0
this is the mock-up i made the other day as soon as i saw Vesalius86's list, opting for card draw/selection over Trail Maker/Teacher of Humility which i think was probably just wrong since i likely didn't have enough units.
i do wonder how good Teacher of Humility is in this list as it is trying to find 5 influence faster than isomorphic's list was. how has the card been for you? have you ever wanted something more durable like Xulta Convoy or value positive like Mystic Ascendant?
I do think the powerbase has some room for tweaking for more early Justice sources, probably swapping out a couple of the TP cards for TJ.