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Mono-Shadow - ft. At Any Cost and Midnight Hunt

Throne Deck By
sto650

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Type

Faction

Information

The basic idea here is to just play strong cards until your opponent can't deal with them anymore. We have a strong focus on building up shadow influence to 12, so you can just blast them with 12 damage for 3 mana (At Any Cost). This is why we have Grand Builder in the deck. If Acantha Ascending is in play, 8 shadow influence is also very relevant, since she can start forcing sacrifices. (By the way, don't forget that At Any Cost has Decay - that's relevant occasionally.) Midnight Hunt has a similar function, but it can provide a surprise lethal using any unit, and almost no one sees it coming.

Eremot, Mindsplinter can sometimes just win the game, if your opponent cannot answer him.

EDIT- I got the Awakening campaign, so I made some major updates to the deck. You can see the revisions below. Edit #2- made some changes based on things I felt were missing in my games, such as any all-purpose removal. I'll note that the version I'm actually playing has primal splashed into the powerbase (without losing any shadow at all), just so I can put Rindra's Choice in the market, as a reply to multifaction sweepers, like Nothing Remains.

One of the most significant changes was the inclusion of Karvet, Redeemed. He pushes us toward 12 shadow influence very quickly if not removed promptly. But even more than that, if he's combined with Severin of the Dark in the market ... that's a truly crazy combo. Minimum of three Piercing Grief every turn. (It's it's it's ... all your fault.)

The final change was adding some primal influence to the deck in order to play Rindra's Choice in the market. I had Feeding Time in there for a while as well, but it seemed too expensive. The card I most often pull from the market is Severin, but Rindra's Choice can negate Nothing Remains or Shen-Ra Speaks, so that's why it's in there. This approach also gives us access to Crest for scouting, and it disguises our true deck as well, so the opponent might not be expecting the At Any Cost that closes out the game. In fact, the funnest way to win (which has happened to me a few times) is 24 face damage for 6 mana. (Double At Any Cost)

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
45,650

Premium Cost
269,600

Influence Requirements
1 4

Power Sources
8 21 8 4

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Deck Rarities
7 25 19 4 16

Card Types
28 4 23 0 25

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Into Shadow [Set1004]
Awakening [Set1095]
Stormbreak [Set1107]

Archetype
Midrange

Updated
February 26, 2024

Added
January 30, 2024

Views
1,605

Eternal Version
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Revisions (Since last major patch) February 25, 2024


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Comments

efertik Eternal Version: 24.01.17
Ah memories. My monoshadow deck is a little different, using Acantha Ascending, Blackhall Warleader, Exploit (I play this is every Shadow deck), Reappropriator (good maindeck answer to relics!) and Waxing Moon (great long term card advantage.
MickyS Eternal Version: 24.01.17
Thanks man. Just got back after a 2/3 year hiatus and still have all of these.
sto650 Eternal Version: 24.01.31
I made some improvements, so you might want to check that out.
MickyS Eternal Version: 24.01.31
Cheers!