reddit told me influence doesn't exist (top 69 draft masters)

Hello everyone, this is Alison back with another one of my brews. I took this deck to rank 69 after some testing and I believe it to be a very good deck for climbing and tournament play.

During some online discussions about the amount of fixing available in Throne, I was informed that influence no longer exists in Eternal. I was shocked to learn of this new feature and immediately started creating a deck to take advantage of the new meta that will no doubt be introduced by the surprise balance patch.

In the wake of a new meta, nothing is certain and hence I have decided to play the ever popular "midrange goodstuff" archetype. This deck takes advantage of playing generically good, overstatted units on curve. Cards like ChaCha and ChaCu have lost their drawbacks and are now simply 5/5 Deadly Overwhelm and 5/5 Aegis Flying that buffs your whole board respectively. Other generically good units such as Vara and Ramba are also seen in the deck.

Rost is a very competitive statline as a 5 mana 7/7 with Overwhelm that is hard to permanently remove, but if you are seeing more aggro or midrange mirrors, the Ambush and token generation of Xumucan might be more valuable and thus he is a good replacement for Rost in metas with less control.

In order to avoid being soft to aggro we run lifesteal in the form of Vara over Sandstorm Titan, but as further protection we also have our mandatory 4 Torches as well as Rizahn and Black-Sky Harbinger coming down on 6, both of which are good at stabilizing the board against aggro. Finally, we run some powerful top end in the form of Icaria, Heart of the Vault and 2 copies of Azindel Revealed, which allows us to go over almost any other midrange deck. Some people think Heart of the Vault has been severely weakened by the nerf to 7 cost and if you do not believe in it, I think Zal Chi is a fine replacement for it as well.

In the Market we run some familiar cards. First of all, there is the standard Kairos pick. While he is too greedy to run maindeck, having him as a win condition that outvalues almost anything else in the game is just too powerful, especially in the mirror when games go long.

Second of all we have Royal Decree, which serves a variety of purposes, allowing us to snipe combo decks or take away opponent Harsh Rules whilst giving us information about their hand.

Sword of Unity is a great pickup against aggro and with the huge statlines of our units, putting it on practically any unit will win the game in very short order.

Howling Peak is our site, it serves as a removal card against anything with 5 health or less, and because all our cards are such big, high value units, we will make good use of the Mirror Image. Do not underestimate Kaleb's Favor either, it is quite good for getting the power you need to reach 7 for Icaria or 8 for Azindel.

Lastly we have a Granite Waystone in the Market to avoid being power screwed. This deck cannot afford to be too greedy with its power base or it will be too clunky to survive so it's important to have undepleted power in market to smooth out the curve.

That's all for now, feel free to comment with any suggestions for future changes to the take, I am still in the process of tuning and testing it so it may change as time goes by.