Mono Keelo (Mono-Shadow)

This is a midrange deck full of synergy that is extremely flexible to be catered to your preferred choice of cards and meta. If you like to tutor and find for answers midplay, this is the deck for you.

How it works:
- Play creatures, trade lives and win with Icaria.
- Use Keelo to tutor key cards to control the board.

Deckbuilding Concept:
(keep this in mind when adding/removing cards to your taste)
- Only Even-costed cards are allowed to power the Evenhanded Golem
- Only creatures with 2 Battle Skills are allowed unless they are singletons
- Singletons are mostly tutored via Keelo and the choice of it in the deck is a meta call.

Key Keelo (most common) Plays:
- Icaria --> Vara, Fate-Touched --> Icaria (from Void)
- Any 4 Power Units into Icaria
- Evenhanded Golem/Unfamiliar Interloper/Unfamiliar Shade --> Evenhanded Golem

This deck is good against:
- Midrange Decks with Units
- Aggro, to a certain extent
- Combo, to a certain extent

This deck is weak against:
- Discard. Despite the deck's potential voidplay, you have been disrupted enough and left too far behind before you could set the board up.
- Relic. Nothing in Shadow can remove relic (especially weapons) efficiently.

What tears this deck apart:
- Open Contract. Not only it shuts down Evenhanded Golems, it shuts down Keelo too.
- Abilities that increase/decrease your card costs into odd numbers in general.
- Hooru Control
- Turn to Seed, to a certain extent


Keelo and other multi-coloured cards can be consistently played despite the mono-shadow nature of the deck. Powerbase and Unfamiliar Interloper supports influence-fixing well enough. Initial builds even had In Cold Blood that removes all Justice Influence after being played, and could still cast Keelo after consistently (you just have to be smart when to cast In Cold Blood, and when to hold/play your justice influence makers).

Warning: I notice for some reason, the deck pretty much loses 90% of the time if you draw Vara, Fate-Touched in your opening hand.