Just Desserts is a fun card, but not really a buildaround by any stretch. So for this edition of Making the Promo Work I thought I'd feature a deck variation that needed that extra little push to be viable: Combrei Weapons. The idea for this deck is to ramp up quickly with
Pillar of Progress and
Enter the Monastery, play weapons and try to control the board. The promo works on both offense and defense, but can be especially useful as a combat trick to help you take down an opponent's unit with toughness higher than your weapon's attack.
Weapons:
Camouflaged Musket - With the number of units we're playing, plus Pillar of Progress, it's easy for this weapon to get downright big. Even without Just Desserts, this musket can take down most threats in the format handily.
Heirloom Blade - The ability to play this 4/4 blade for 2 mana is some serious upside.
Massive Greatsword - Unkillable, though
Grodov's Burden can still dunk it to the bottom of your deck.
Support:
Telut, The Iron Gate: A powerhouse, even if you don't have a weapon, thanks to his Surge ability making opponent's units weaker.
Diana, Faith's Shield: Draws you a card and gives you health and armor. For our purposes, that's a hat trick.
Market:
We're accessing our market through
Wasteland Broker, allowing us to get multiples. I made this decision because I don't have a playset of
Svetya, Lightbringer or
Sandstorm Titan and this allows me to fudge that. If you do have a playset, either one of these cards are probably worthy of including in the main deck.
Further thoughts:
Telut and Just Desserts don't play well together, but by the time Telut hits the board you should be past having to use Just Desserts. Also, both of these cards work very well
Tavrod, Auric Financier. Tavrod also has a one-sided board-wipe potential with
Audacious Ruse. (thanks to reddit users sampat6256 and JKBeast for pointing these things out to me.) As such, either of those cards would be good fits for the market of this deck.