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Siraf's Mask [Into Shadow Edition]

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Magnnarot
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This deck is very similar to my old Masked Siraf list already posted in this site. New cards made new things possible, adding way more reliability to the archetype. Some considerations on the new cards:

Vara, Vengeance-Seeker: As good as everyone was expecting, she works incredibly well in green mask, since she has the innate lifesteal to pump mask and deals with aegis, making a deck that already had little issues removing aegis due to the devour + end of the story combination struggle even less.

Azindel, Revealed: Great late game threat to deploy after you harsh rule and dark return, makes the deck's threat variety even broader with the option to dark return either him or Siraf if they don't win the game the first try.

Cute card of the deck:
Dead or Alive: This turned out to be a random test include that actually surprised me quite a bit, green mask is one of the few decks that have the life total to support taking a bunch of hits, and the blowout caused by harsh ruling a wide board is made even more absurd by reloading your hand (and possibly even overdrawing). While it can obviously be dead in plenty of situations, I feel like at 1 it does its job and isn't too harmful to the deck's overall game plan if it isn't useable against the particular deck you are up against.

Cards to consider:
Annihilate: Extremely strong right now, maybe even more so than Slay, but I feel like there are some multifaction unit decks that could cause some trouble to the deck more than hitting those midrange decks even harder than we already do in a justice control deck.

Stronghold's Visage: Very strong in the right meta, creates an innate clock with mask and gives temporal control a run for its money if you manage to get enough of them up fast enough. If temporal control ever becomes as popular as it used to be last week (and it probably once the novelty of the new campaign wears off) you should definitely add a number of them into the deck.

Feel free to mess with the removal suite, the only fundamental cards are the harsh rules.

Details

Shiftstone Cost
Does not include campaign cost
51,600
Premium Cost
211,200
Influence Requirements
2 2 2
Power Sources
18 10 12 15
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Deck Rarities
14 30 13 17
Card Types
24 5 26 0 25
Contains Cards From Campaigns
Jekk's Bounty [Set1001]
Into Shadow [Set1004]
Archetype
Control
Added
October 5, 2018
Views
3,575
Eternal Version
Into Shadow
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Comments

DocTam Eternal Version: 1.39
I'm not completely sold on Vital Arcana, Moondial, or DoA; but this deck is pretty solid. If there were less temporal on ladder it could be excellent as it has so many potential anti-aggro tools like Combrei Healer which could be fit in.
Crosby4HyG Eternal Version: 1.39
Fantastic deck, currently 15-1 with it about to break into Masters. The only thing I've lost to is aggro that draws extremely well. One adjustment I've made was to cut an arcana and a devour for two more crests, results have been great.
MaSQue Eternal Version: 1.39.0.5742
I don't see how. I have played close to 60 games with this deck barely breaking even. I liked the look of it on paper but this deck struggles vs many of the top decks. Aggro smokes it, Midrange beats it and lord help you in you face hard Control.
Crosby4HyG Eternal Version: 1.39.0.5742
The nerf to Auralian Merchant and Vital Arcana has hurt the deck a bit but it's still very powerful. Getting mask down early is key of course. The deck has plenty of removal to deal with aggro, plenty of life gain to sustain until you've ramped some power. Temporal tends to be a difficult match up but I'm not noticing as many of those decks at the moment with the nerf to Channel. Maybe I just got lucky with the deck but I'd say I've got a 75% winrate with it and it took me from Gold 2 to Masters.
Kidsoldja Eternal Version: 1.39
Do you not prefer Ayan to stonepowder? i have tried both and in the end i just felt that EOT ayan on 3 followed by equip mask swing. Just put your gameplan further ahead. Sometimes you would play stonepowder on 3 then mask after and not be able to swing profitably. Sure you can suicide him and trade him for the extra power if you desperatly need it but sometimes it was suboptimal due to his 1 toughness being blocked by literally everything.
Kidsoldja Eternal Version: 1.39
disregard my comment hahaha i didnt see the ayans in ur list...lol you play both
toxicfrog Eternal Version: 1.39
Thanks for this list! Took my from Diamond 3 to Masters in one afternoon. Roughly 75% Win rate. Its especially good against other Azindel decks, the Marshals and the Harsh Rules made these matchups quite easy. Most losses where against Aggro with a slow hand. Try to get a Mask out quick and then draw cards and gain life. Loving it.
Magnnarot Eternal Version: 1.39
List was specially good for the metagame with little to no temporal, expect a dip in winratio going against it now.
toxicfrog Eternal Version: 1.39
Right, Temporal eats this.
dreamdate Eternal Version: 1.39
What is some mulligan advice would you have for this deck?
Magnnarot Eternal Version: 1.39
Try to get a merchant or ayan in hand, scribes help a whole lot too, as the scribe + devour combination really speeds up draws, making even 2 power hands likely to take you far. If you have either of those two scenarios with influence enabled you wanna be keeping the initial hand. That is the best you can usually have for ranked where you don't see the opponent's list.