A brainless and effective deck with a super simple game plan:
1) Stay alive while ramping hard.
2) Tutor out
Grodov's Stranger.
3) Play granger then put
Predator's Instinct on it.
4) Draw all the cards.
Maindeck Choices
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Worldbearer Behemoth is mostly here to help thin out non-sigil power cards. If you're not a fan you can consider
Xumucan, the Surveyor or
Sandstorm Titan in its place.
Ixtol, Champion of Grodov was also suggested as a budget substitution.
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Talir's Favored are here since you only get 1 mulligan in gauntlet so power screw can still happen even with this many power dorks.
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Xenan Initiation is a fallback option for killer and early board control. It also works wonders with Exalted units after we get
Grodov's Burden or some decimated
Emblem of Grodov since you can chain the killer effect across multiple units after they die.
- Literally everything else in the maindeck should be pretty self explanatory.
Market Choices
Killer-on-demand if we can't find Predator's Instict.
Swirl the Sands as a flexible response card.
Obelisk to make our fatties even fatter and/or turn our power dorks into legitimate threats.
Burden as a combination of removal and giving more units killer.
Gnash for even more dedicated flyer hate. Those 1/1 killer units he spawns also synergize well with both Obelisk and Burden if you get multiple market pulls in.
Deck went on a 53-1 streak in an earlier version. The AI just can't handle the immense value of the granger package combined with
Nahid's Distillation and the usual big time fatties most of the time (Defender Of The Spire highrolling, apparently, being one of the few exceptions).
wheres is the granger card? i don't see it in the deck list
As a fair warning I'm not sure I'd recommend this deck anymore, as the nerfs to Distillation and Stranger really took a bite out of its engine. You could probably use this as a starting point then add in some new cards from the latest set to make it more effective however.
Lovely addition to the collection of grinders I cycle while farming. Thanks!
I was able to put a xenan initiation on my one Behemoth and that started the kill chain and allowed my Initiates, Merchant and the two Aranha from Gnash to do all the dirty work, as the Absorbing Exalted killer continued to smash the AI's defenders the overwhelm left the AI with 3 health so the big units did mop up duty. And I was down to 6 life, so your creation, once again, pulled a victory out of certain jaws of defeat. Oh was that a satisfying run!
And I dumped the Seals of devotion. They hindered me far more than they helped.
Then it seemed every time I needed one more influence I would get a seal. So I removed them entirely because I refuse to give Karma any help in messing with me.
I switched out obelisk for ascendant, so far doing great but didn't have too much time for testing.
P.S. love the image
I might try it out myself next run.
If you do feel like you absolutely must have it, I'd cut the Worldbearer Behemoths since they're just a big body around 80% of the time here honestly.