Amplified Soldiers

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It all started when I saw Pyrotech Explosion during spoiler season. I really wanted to brew a deck around it, with Dune Painter and Reactor Forge and all this stuff. Turns out, I am not that good of a deckbuilder. I died more than once to Reactor Forge because it didn't really pay off. I maybe managed to get one more Amplify out of it, taking 10 damage on the process, and then it was only at 16 damage, not 32. Experiment failed.

Yet I liked one card I tried in that deck: Bastion Garrison. I picked it up once in a Forge-run, and it was really fun, and getting lots of soldiers for a small price seemed good to me. So I wanted to make an amplify-soldier deck now.

The first card that then came to my mind when thinking about soldier-amplify was Asri Scout. It provides a good buff wheneber you amplify, and especially with really low cost amplify, it can get out of hand quick. It pairs well with Dune Painter as cheaper amplify means more amplify.

Dune Painter and Pyrotech were kinda auto-includes in an amplify-based deck for me. Awaken the Ages provides a hell lot of ramp with one or even two Painters. Conflagrate is a little bit of damage based removal that can also get amplified. Firemane Lioness seemed like a good addition earlier on, but I'm not sure about it yet.

Celebration is one of the most easy to amplify cards, costing only 1 to amplify by default. It can also be played on a full board and then just be amplified into oblivion, acting as Pump only with Asri Scout. Shadowsea Expedition also can be amplified as much as you want, discarding every Treasure Trove above your hand size. It's also good as card draw. Sustaining Harp can safe your life, is ALSO able to be amplified as much as you want, and is fast, so it can be used as a battle trick, both with garrison (playing Soldiers with quasi-ambush, sadly not redirecting direct attacks like Relic Weapons or Killer) and Asri Scout. Send for the Reserves can help you fill up your board very quick.

Alhed, Ascended is a soldier and has some potential.

Taking Broker as merchant probably is a mistake. The Time Grafter is a Soldier, so it would profit off of Asri Scout. But ai really like the idea of getting 4 copies instead of one, even if it takes time.

The market itself is a great Flexspot. I am not really sure about any of those cards. Leyline Tracer is a soldier, and Amplifying cards is reflected by their casting costs being heightened, so that Traver can get really big with a lot of Amplifying in one turn.

Almost all the rest is stuff I just threw in there. Not sure about any part of it.