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Drink a Cup of Hot Milo(s) 2.0 - [Master]

Throne Deck By
goaychanhong
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The Glorious Gathering

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Sear is better than flameblast this format.

I've tested the salvo version and feels it has several weakness for me:

Firstly, It lower your unit counts, that force you to play units like nimble conscript so that you will have around 28-32 units, while he is a fantastic, but he is actually not that much better than smugger on 3 body-wise as its reckless can be a huge problem sometimes. The extra space gained from playing smuggler can actually goes into other cards that actually answer the problem like ChaCha, for example you can play defile main.

secondly, the market option is highly limited if you are using salvo. That can be a huge loss because bore, edict of makkar, and sabotage are all fantastic card.

Thirdly, salvo is quite narrow in the mirror where there are a lot of 3,4,and 5 health units that u can't kill. Also, in some match-up, you often have to give up a card for market access.

Final Thoughts: I will experiment with defile main and desecrate market and see how that goes. Should be the right call in this meta.
You can swap Yushkov for Nimble Conscript if you like lower curve.

Also, I kinda like flameblast in the market. I will have to test.

Latest update 9/4/2020: decided to switch back to desecrate main and defile market because the mirror seems to become a bit less common and we need general kill spell to deal with most of the even golem strategy, especially even keelo where they usually play Rindra, which cannot be killed by both defile and desecrate. Having defile in the market is also important because you can still see a lot of ChaCha and you basically need to kill her onsight, marketing for defile preemptively in the mirror is always a good idea.

updated 20/4/2020: added flame blast to the market.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
52,400
Premium Cost
231,200
Influence Requirements
3 2
Power Sources
20 17 12
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Deck Rarities
16 22 28 3 9
Card Types
32 0 23 0 25
Contains Cards From Campaigns
Dead Reckoning [Set1003]
Homecoming [Set1005]
Whispers of the Throne [Set1085]
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Updated
April 19, 2020
Added
April 4, 2020
Views
3,727
Eternal Version
Whispers of the Throne
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Revisions (Since last major patch) April 19, 2020

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Comments

stormguard798 Eternal Version: 1.51.6
Hi,

Do you have any thoughts on how to adapt this deck after the balance changes? I've tried to go bigger with Vara + Vicious Highwayman, but I keep getting Sear'ed on the stack. >.<
goaychanhong Edited Eternal Version: 1.51.6
I am trying out Ixtun Merchant, she is much better stated, market would then be combust, flameblast, galai, bore, and highwayman/eclipse dragon! But I am not sure whether it is correct, as the smuggler provide much better market. I think the main question is do you keep alley-guilde? She is not good right now but we don't have other choice for 1 drops, If you drop her you can go bigger. Also, I think Vara is not that good, highwaymen is also a bit underwhelming unless you play pistol as there seems to be no relevant target to take down. If I want to go bigger I would go Eclipse Dragon + Yushkov. I really don't want my 4 and 5 drops get killed by a a sear. Vara is just bad against Vox and any golem decks since they can just feed Vara and make her 3/3. Eclipse Dragon is less explosive but way more consistent in dealing damage than highwayman, and he synergies with all the large number fast spells in the deck.
stormguard798 Eternal Version: 1.51.6
I'm still sticking with the Smuggler mainly for the Edict of Makkar, but I could see switching to a more removal heavy build main deck and then playing Merchant. I'm currently trying out Street Urchin in my one-drop slot as a mildly disruptive creature with some extra late game value, but I'm not sure if that's what I'll end up with in the long run. I mainly like that it incidentally breaks Face Aegis so that our burn can get in. :P
goaychanhong Edited Eternal Version: 1.51.6
Also, thanks for showing interest in my deck and congrats in your top 16 in the event.
goaychanhong Eternal Version: 1.51.6
Street urchin is what people used to play. But I am not always the biggest fan of him as ironically his twist ability is greatest in mirror match and mediocre everywhere else. But I can see myself playing him if I wanted to target spell-crag as his ping can adds up. I agree that Edict of Makkar is such a broken card and it is the main reason that I play smuggler rather than salvo, another one is sabotage as it usually win against shen-ra speaks deck because how easy it is to read the move. But I think Ixtun merchant is still better than salvo, basically it is the only merchant than can attack into golem without dying (oops forgot about jennev merchant and winchest merchant). The only good thing about the balance patch is finally nobody is going to play conscript, which I don't like even before the patch.
stormguard798 Eternal Version: 1.51.4
Hi, just wanted to thank you for posting this decklist. I managed to make it to Finals in the latest QCP Challenge with Version 1.0 of your list, and it's been absolutely fantastic. Thank you again!
goaychanhong Eternal Version: 1.51.4
Thanks, wish you good luck in ECQ as well.
Asmoday1232 Eternal Version: 1.51.4
Hey Goya, always a nice mirror with you this season.

I agree with a lot of what you said and we had the similar lists but I went 4 pistols mainboard. I don't think it is that great but they were never an issue and always ended up being a great tool when needed. One in market is a decent idea as well.

I highly HIGHLY recommend Rapid shot. It pushes the midrange decks over and gives you hidden burst power to gain a quick unexpected kill. It came in handy a million times for me so far.

The Salvo issue. I think its preference. We both ran both version and both hit masters roughly same time so I do not think there is any wrong answer here but using bore I disagree with. It is a great card for sure but Stronghold Vandal is much better imo. It gives you a body as well.

Till next season my friend *wave*
goaychanhong Eternal Version: 1.51.4
The reason for bore is just that I can bore away their stuff while trading the second bore back to the market. And killing 2 permafrost vs Yetis is just brutal. Thanks for your comment and wish you good luck in ECQ as well.
ambleseed Edited Eternal Version: 1.51.3
I usually only play expedition, but this is the first deck I went out of my way to craft for throne, thanks!
LuciaDysis Eternal Version: 1.51.3
Looks great ! how you feel about cutting a couple shadow emblems for one more of each sigil ? ive been finding myself being ice-bolted pretty often and being able to use them for fixing feels important
goaychanhong Edited Eternal Version: 1.51.3
I can find myself cutting maybe one emblem, maximum two. I don't run flameblast, so the extra power is not that important in the later stage. The problem is mirror is very common, and the one with more emblem tends to not flood out. If both player draw power in late game, the one that drew emblem would be in better position than the one that drew sigil. But I could see myself playing flameblast in the desecrate slot in the market if I play more sigil. Speaking of icebolt, which is most commonly seen in unitless type of deck. The deck is actually very decent against unitless (spellcrag) due to the smuggler, smuggler has a body, even not highly stated, will still demand an answer whereas they don't need to waste a card on salvo because salvo wasted itself by salvo-ing a self-own unit.
LuciaDysis Eternal Version: 1.51.3
makes sense , thanks for the good explanation!
goaychanhong Eternal Version: 1.51.3
I kinda like replacing waystones with sigils if unitless becomes more common.
javier Eternal Version: 1.51.3
Deck for noobs