I decided to go for my first master climb in months with the new set again and this is the deck that I played for the majority of it. It's a grindy midrange deck with the usual mix of cheap removal, big midrange units and high value topend. The deck went 56:9 from Silver to master, entering at rank 25 on the last day of the month.
The deck tries to make up for the lack of strong 2 drops (Murgo is good, but double shadow does not work with this decks powerbase) by playing cheap removal early to not die to aggro. Playing Delivery for an early Heavy Hail or face aegis can also help. Seedtender was the only 2 cost unit I liked enough because I value face aegis very highly this format. It stops hunt, devour, burn damage and hand hate like Swift Subverter.
It also stops one of the main reasons to be in shadow, Feed the Hecaton. This card is fine against aggro, but it really shines against midrange, where you can get 2 for 1s that are also heavy tempo advantages over your opponent. The unit line-up is built with Feed in mind, every unit outside of Seedtender and sometimes Lipa can be exhausted for it. It is even more insane if you can activate it with Severin on board, sometimes you just randomly kill people with that.
Now for the topend: Severin works very well with all the removal spells, but I still shaved down to 2 copies because eight 5-drops + six 6-drops was way too greedy and I Sashenka felt a bit better. If you want to play 4 Severin, you can cut 2 Sashenkas instead. I really wanted to play Patrice, which means the deck needs a few more units than the other FPS lists I've seen going around, but I think she is worth that deckbuilding cost. To round out the topend, I play 2 copies of Peak. It is a crazy card if you are ahead or at parity, but pretty mediocre if you are behind and I had to cut some topend and some non-units, so I cut it down to 2.
The market worked well so far, every card came up at a few times. I think Deep Freeze is the most replaceable out of the bunch, but it can sometimes decide midrange mirrors and I haven't seen anything that I like more yet.
Seek Power
x4
2
Dangerous Gambit
x4
2
Futility
x3
2
The Seedtender
x3
2
Wilderness Delivery
x3
3
Feed the Hecaton
x4
3
Lipa, Witch of the Woods
x4
3
Malevolent Constrictor
x4
4
Enormous Anura
x4
4
Torgov, Icecap Trader
x4
5
Nomnom & Sashenka
x4
5
Severin, the Hermit
x2
6
Den Draftbeast
x1
6
Howling Peak
x2
6
Patrice, Your New Home
x4
Fire Sigil
x2
Primal Sigil
x2
Shadow Sigil
x1
Feln Cylix
x4
Mark of Skullhaven
x4
Mark of the Den
x4
Mark of the Grove
x4
Skycrag Cylix
x4
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I want to make this deck and I am thinking of exchanging it for Blurwing Raider.
My tip for playing the deck: don't be afraid to play Cylixes before Marks. Getting the treasure is a nice treat, but much rarer compared to Throne decks, and it's better to have the flexibility of undepleted power from the Marks on turns 3 and 4.
If you put a power, why not a Seat instead of a Sigil?