Really simple deck yet surprisingly effective against almost everything. Your main win condition are fat flyers with endurance protected by aegis or Stand Together. Svetya is an awesome addition!
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Find the way guarantees you get all the power you need and it helps enable Kothon, Siraf and tier 2 Obelisk. You can try 2nd hourglass I guess. I don't like Elites because they just do nothing most of the time and Stand Together is a bit wasted on them. 3rd obelisk is good if you don't face a lot of aggro but I had to remove it.
My Thanks to the author of this deck, been having no luck with ladder with the current meta, so far this deck had 80% win rate for me, I did swap the hailstorm for permafrost instead, and had save me a lot of games against mid range like praxis, had not made master yet but on my way already, from gold 4 to diamond 2.
Glad you like it. The core is really consistent and swapping a few cards here and there is always advisable to counter whatever you face the most. I'll keep hailstorm, it's won me a lot of games, it's great in mirror too.
It's pretty straightfoward. You want Kothon, Pacifier, Commando, Siraf, Valkyrie and lightning in your opening hand and at least 3 power. Next step is to have at least 2 of them stick on board. Then bait removal, counter with Stand together and kill them in 3 turns. It's important to check at the end of turn if they hold torch. If they do you can't play Kothon or Commando because it's a waste unless you have another one. And if you have obelisk in hand it's better to skip turn 3, play obelisk and then turn 5 Commando for example. Also depending on what decks you face you might need a 4th lightning and even 2 hailstorms.
Lightning is cheaper and needs 1 less influence. Also your 2/3s can survive it. But if I face more opponents like this I'll definitely put in hailstorms.
Wow really? I got 2 losses since posting, sue me. One was a disconnect and the other was a guy with 2 gearcrunchers. Grenadins are a pretty tough since we have zero sweepers. Also tomorrow I'll be testing 4 Sirafs for more late game steam and as solid early blockers. Students are just torch magnets 80% of the time which diminishes their value greatly.
I for one appreciate you sharing what looks to be a fun deck, regardless of where you happen to be in the rankings at the moment. :P As if that was in any way relevant... yikes.
The deck is great but can you please add short guide/tips to use it in the best way possible ? :)
BTW why you choose lightning storm and not hail storm ?