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Even MeanTime (CIF Edition)

Gauntlet Deck By
Makash

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Cast Iron Furnace ´, everyone loves this card especially in Combination with Prism Golem, but since this one is even, we'll take his little Brother Evenhanded Golem instead.

To get to the point where Cast Iron Furnace gets useful, there are several drawing spells, Varret and of course Evenhanded Golem (use him to block away anything, just to make him count towards CIF, just like Varret).
Use Beseech the Throne and Desert Alchemist to plunder Power for Treasure Chests, since they are neutral aswell.
Seek Answers sometimes can be a very useful card when the game drags along. In early turns use it to draw Power, whereas later on you should go for non-power instead.

There's no need to explain the obvious choices such as Alhead etc., but some might say tha Sandstorm Titan and Gnash, Desert Prince don't fit the deck, since they get rid of flyers from Cast into Furnace. Yea, well, that is indeed true, but SST has a massive Body at low cost and Gnash gives you killer tokens, so thats fair enough to count towards value.

Market:
Should be straight forward with Killer, Feln removal, Obelisk, Card draw and of course Grodov's Burden.
When fetching a Market card, make sure to use the correct Merchant/Grafter. Speed Grafter is your only way to get Burden, so don't waste it, whereas Wasteland Broker should have Xenan Initiation as main target, but that can also be a situational call.

Cards that could be swapped:
- Cykalis, the Burning Sand can be swapped out for more Prideleaders or a decent 4 Drop, Insistent Automaton could be used here too, to recycle Golems ors Prideleaders or whatecer
- Amber Lock, I use it for card draw only, could be swapped for 2 more Temple Scribe or the other way around.

All in all its a very solid deck, but not as easy to play as most mono Time decks. It's all about decisions on when to play what: eg. Turn 2 Alhed against one of the Fire Dudes or rather a neutral spell instead? (to build up for CIF)

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Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
58,100

Premium Cost
289,600

Influence Requirements
3

Power Sources
21 4

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Deck Rarities
12 25 9 22

Card Types
37 4 14 0 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Trials of Grodov [Set1006]
Awakening [Set1095]

Archetype
Control

Added
December 21, 2020

Views
1,311

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Empire of Glass

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psly4mne Eternal Version: 20.12.17
How often do you get CIF dragons early enough to matter? I'm about 10 games in, and I've only played dragons in positions where I had already stabilized. It didn't feel like it was worth the drawback of running bad spells in place of units (plus making Alhed harder to activate).

Regardless of dragons, I've come to believe that Gnash belongs in the market if you're running Broker. You don't really want to draw 6 drops while you're developing your board, and even decks have enough draw that you can shuffle him preemptively and draw into him in time.
Makash Edited Eternal Version: 20.12.17
You're probably right about Gnash. He should be market instead of Ascendant.
CIF in even decks is pretty weird i must admit, but i mostly get the Dragon turn 6ish, it basicly is just another biggie drop which is mostly for free, since the deck aims to pump power turn by turn, just like the previous version of MeanTime. This should atleast explain the spells, since all we are lokking for it getting rid of the power cards in the deck, to have a higher chance to draw useful stuff instead ;)

But I'm also currently working on a non CIF version anyway