Micro AP-ggressions

disclaimer: meme trash


In a recent stream, BruisedByGod and SooNo were talking about a deck they were screwing around while testing for the ETS this weekend.

I took some liberties in transcribing it.
For example, SooNo mentioned they were running Knifejack, Ripknife Assassin, Lock Horns which I swapped for Blood Beetle, Territorial Elf, and Shakedown respectively.


flex:
-2 Harmless Question, -2 Sabotage
+X Vanquish/Annihilate/Lock Horns

Harmless Question can be pretty great at times, it's as close as AP will get to a Permafrost, opening up a pathway for your guys while turning on Rilgon's Disciple in the process.
Sabotage is just further disruption - ideally trying to snag more sweepers, but if they ever get to cast a Harsh Rule you probably shouldn't have won anyway.

-3 Shadowlands Guide, -3 Lurking Sanguar
+X Kosul Battlemage/Valkyrie Enforcer/Unseen Commando/Bloodletter/Shadowstalker?/Stonepowder Alchemist

I guess the whole point of the deck is to center around Shadowlands Guide but I've yet to run into a game where it ended up being the deciding factor for victory. It's possible you might just opt for better 3 drops here.
Kosul Battlemage might be alright thematically, Valkyrie Enforcer is still one of the best 3 drops in the game and Unseen Commando is also a sweet one (although we don't have a density of dual battleskills to capitalize on it).


sigil base:
We aren't running Crest of Vengeance, as inspired by a recent camat0 aggro list (which I am reposting because he's probably going to delete it). In a recent h0t takes, he talked about how you don't want to run more than 6 depleted sigil sources in an aggro deck because the chances of drawing two in your initial hand are around 10% - letting you curve out consistently. However in the aforementioned list, he opted to increase that number to 7 while increasing the sigil base to 31 from 30.

Our deck has a lower density of 1 drops and runs 29 power accordingly, but also with 7 standards. This is probably a little too ambitious and it's likely better than you only run 6 standards and opt to play an additional combat trick in the maindeck like Lock Horns