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Dragon Rod

Throne Deck By
WarlockHolmez

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Information

The main combo is ambush blocking with Stormtamer's Mount to get 1 damage in. Then using Divining Rod on it to summon some more dragons and give them all aegis. The average is about 1.3 fliers per rod (Scout / Excavate can improve this)

Tips:
-You tend to start off very slow, hopefully with a variety of crests and a sigil. You want to get your combo pieces together and to 5-6 power asap. Equivocate, Power Stone, and Auralian Merchant are good cards to mulligan for.
-Use Dragon Forge to tutor a cheaper Divining Rod or whichever dragon you're in need of.
-Try to hold off ambushing Stormtamer's Mount until you have Divining Rod ready for the next turn. If you can get a kill with it or block a large attack it's worth using earlier.
-Using a Crest before playing Divining Rod will up your odds at hitting fliers. (Excavate is obviously good before Rod too)
-Eclipse Dragon is a great play if you have any of: Dragon Forge, Display of Instinct, Equivocate, or Stormtamer's Mount in hand.
-The deck plays decently against the insane amount of Endra decks at the moment, through careful plays with Poaching Drake, Equivocate, and Display of Instinct. (watch your opponent's open power closely)

Other thoughts:
-This deck suffers against pure aggro with good draws, due to all the high cost cards and no board wipes (except Molot). I haven't run into much of this lately though (possibly due to the Endra hype?) so it hasn't been a big problem.
-A unitless deck could also cause problems, with Stormtamer's Mount being unable to get the 1 ambush damage in.
-It's been very strong against most midrange decks so far.
-I'd like to test out adding Curiox, Insatiable Seeker but I don't have any copies yet.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
37,500
Premium Cost
260,800
Influence Requirements
3 1 3
Power Sources
17 10 16 17
Power Calculator
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Deck Rarities
8 19 31 13
Card Types
28 8 18 0 26
Contains Cards From Campaigns
The Tale of Horus Traver [Set1002]
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Into Shadow [Set1004]
Promises by Firelight [Set1007]
Archetype
Control Combo
Updated
January 4, 2020
Added
January 2, 2020
Views
3,037
Eternal Version
Promises by Firelight
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Revisions (Since last major patch) January 4, 2020

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Brionac_the_spear Eternal Version: 1.49.2
i was testing yesterday, ambush is great for stormtamer mastery 5 with rod. All the times i won it was effective
WarlockHolmez Eternal Version: 1.49.2
Nice! Yeah it's pretty satisfying. Even getting one extra unit it pretty good along with aegis, especially if it has instant impact (Poaching Drake, Eclipse, Spitflame). Getting 0 feels pretty awful but you just as often get 2 or 3 which feels great. If your opponent knows what you're up to, it might be hard to pull off but I've found people don't have too many counters to it since they can't damage Stormtamer's on their turn.
Ninjacan Edited Eternal Version: 1.49.2
man, this would be soo much better if Stormtamer was mastery 4.

have you considered skyfire dragon? stormtamer > rod > skyfire triggers mastery right away
WarlockHolmez Eternal Version: 1.49.2
True, but the 1 damage ambush still allows it to trigger on the first attack with Rod. It doesn't work too well against unitless decks but I haven't seen many lately.
Ninjacan Eternal Version: 1.49.2
oh, you replied too fast, check my edit :)
WarlockHolmez Eternal Version: 1.49.2
Nice idea! Would definitely make the combo more consistent. I would have a hard time figuring out where to fit it in but will think about it. Btw, I find that I am able to ambush Stormtamer for the 1 damage very consistently, so the 5 mastery isn't too much of an issue.
Ninjacan Eternal Version: 1.49.2
oh right, as a blocker, I didn't even think about that. my bad