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Rakano Masters Gauntlet (no legendaries)

Gauntlet Deck By
MiamMiam0127
MiamMiam+0127

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Hello, I wanted to share a deck I've been using to grind the gauntlet. Like many players I started Eternal with a rakano deck; being f2p I've mainly spent my shiftstone trying to improve what I already have instead of starting something new from scratch.
Many of the best gauntlet decks have some legendaries. Although my deck has some rares and is not completely budget, it is still a cheaper option with many cards you might own already. I'll still discuss some replacements for some of the rares.

I also play aggro rakano in ranked, but with a different list; this one is meant to abuse the AI a bit, which is awful at anticipating fast spells. Not only does it not anticipate the spells, it does not understand that it will buff Rilgon's Disciple and Kosul Battlemage, and it get caught into bad trades or surprise lethals. Rilgon's Disciple + Shugo Standard
wins many games.

I don't like cards with lifesteal in gauntlet, I think the battle skill is wasted. the AI is usually not aggressive enough for your life to matter. In my ranked Rakano deck, I play Whirling Duo, Crownwatch Standard, and sometimes Unseen Commando; these cards are good in aggro mirrors. Here, either you win, or you run out of gas and having 40 life will not help you. Still, you can play those 3 drops if you don't have Shogun's Scepter. Crownwatch Deserter is also alright, but it's a bit slow.

Another Ranked rakano staple is Crownwatch Paladin, but the AI doesn't play cards like Hailstorm or Harsh Rule very often so the aegis is less valuable.

Inquisitor's Blade is nice, but not essential. A good old Morningstar or a Crownwatch Cavalry are cheaper options if you don't have it.

Battleblur Centaur is the card I'm the less sure of; it works well with warcry, and it blocks well the AI's deck which are all unit-based. It can also "clean the board" because the AI will block it multiple time to try to kill it and you can sweep it all off with a pump spell. Still... it's a 2/5. Again, Morningstar or Crownwatch Cavalry are good.

I don't know if my power base is optimal. Should I play more Fire sigils? Less Justice sigils? Some monuments? I don't know how to figure it out, so feel free to play with it. But keep the 4 Shugo Standard, the card is amazing!

The biggest risk this deck has is not getting to 3 power. Try to get there in the mulligan.

UPDATE 11 Oct:
Added 2 Crest of Glory at the suggestion of Ninjacan in the comments. Working fine so far. I wouldn't add more, we only run 25 powers and the scout isn't always useful because with a warcry unit on the top you kinda want to keep it.

I'm back to using the Whirling Duo... I still think lifesteal is not very useful for this deck, but a 3/3 charge is actually good. Still looking for a better replacement.

Some Vanquisher's Blade instead of Vanquish; because against many decks the Vanquish are actually dead cards.

I actually also switched two Inquisitor's Blade with two Deepforged Plate, inspired by Pikerbocker comment, but I don't want to put it in the decklist cause I would like to keep the list cheap. But yeah Deepforged plate is amazing for gaultlet!

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
19,400

Premium Cost
118,400

Influence Requirements
2 2

Power Sources
16 17 10 4

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Deck Rarities
16 30 20

Card Types
28 10 10 0 27

Contains Cards From Campaigns
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]

Archetype
Aggro

Updated
October 11, 2018

Added
September 14, 2018

Views
7,970

Eternal Version
Into Shadow

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Revisions (Since last major patch) October 11, 2018


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Comments

Pikerbocker Eternal Version: 1.38
Really solid gauntlet grinder. I've been using this deck with a few tweaks and have had amazing success going 27-1 so far. I'll post the deck up and paste it here later. Still testing a bit. You are certainly right about lifesteal being unnecessary for this type of deck. Never once have I felt like I needed a whirling duo. My loss was due to power flood on the bonding mino boss.
MiamMiam0127 Eternal Version: 1.38
Nice! I'm curious to see how you tweaked it :-)
Pikerbocker Eternal Version: 1.38
Here it is :) let me know what you think
https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/yg_1I9Y_i1E/rakano-masters-gauntlet-grinder
MiamMiam0127 Eternal Version: 1.39
I made some change based on what you did :-) I like the Deepforged plate, I crafted two (thanks Droptober!) and put them in there. Card is very strong ofc. They are not in the list cause I want to keep it budget. I also like the 2/2 split between vanquish and vanquisher's blade.
Ninjacan Eternal Version: 1.37.4
If you have crests, I'd throw them in, at least 2. 9 is too much justice sigal, I'd swap at least 1 justice for 1 fire, especially since you are playing shogun scepter
MiamMiam0127 Eternal Version: 1.37.4
Thanks, I will try that! I had put my standards banners etc. and let the computer choose the sigils :-)