I’m not going to contradict you, but man, you should try Horned Mask, it’s rather good.
Crescent Spear needs a nerf
Really? For some reason I drew 3 copies of it from packs so maybe I will.
Still can’t get a wanderer though.
The thing is it gets triggered by ANY attack, not specifically backstabbing one.
Backstab decks go well with 2 of cyclone mask to punish wall lovers.
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Or maybe i just cant find a decent deck for backstab, that is why i assume like that. 
In what kind of deck you played it, may i see it??
Ohh, that is why. I thought it only trigger when i backstab.
Hmm, i might try it.
I’m still not sure about Kaido expert, is it good?
you can also include effects that ping the enemy general. If your deck can’t deal with an artifact all game you have a real weakness in your deck that should be fixed if possible.
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Nope, it’s not, but very fun sometimes.
I suggest replacing with either sentinel(-s) or another backstab 3-drop (forgot the name, the one with horns). But you may firstly try it as is and decide for yourself.
I don’t play stab much, so you should take any advice from me with a grain of salt. But Horned Mask is definitely a step in the direction of viability.
@Ben4d90, I see you playing Vet, which means Rasha or even droplift if there’s so many artifact decks as you claim. Vet is one of the more artifact unfriendly factions.
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Ok, thank you. And what about that mech 3 mana with backstab? It is 3/3 now.
This is the last, because this abit off topic… Sorry OP
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Don’t see the reason to play it over the horned one in a deck without further mech or spell synergies.
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Plays vet and complains about artifacts
Rashas is one of the best spells vet has.
Even without artifacts being on the enemy, it is hot ranged removal that lets you play it and duncaster t1 as p2 or later
He was playing hyperswarm abyss in earlier photos here I believe, but one should accept hyperswarm has little room to tech for artifacts. Except, you can just surround the enemy with 1/1s who basically are each pings in and of themselves.
Honestly this is just another one of those “this needs to be nerfed because it feels too strong and not because it is too strong” threads
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Now that some of the salt has drained away, I’ll burn the rest off. Crescent spear is strong, not broken. It has very little impact on it’s own and requires spells to validate its use. The attack is in fact counterintuitive because you generally don’t want to get close enough to let things hit you.
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Ki Beholder is back! He can be a decent substitute as well.
On the topic of that post, has anybody had any success yet with the kaleos jungle deck? I’m trying it out right now and it feels okay, a lot of times it is very close. I have a winrate of 80% in gold although I have only gone 5 matches with 1 of them ending in a draw with burn faie. Starhorn burn seems to be much faster than this list however.
I was playing Wanderer Lilithe, although I DID surround the enemy general twice, involving provoke, but he got lucky and had 2 general movement cards.
Wait you complain about spear…
While playing arguably the most powerfull deck in the game right now 
(magmar and burnvanar are probably the only ones that got realy good cards vs vet right now…)
The fault/ka combo is extremely ridiculous
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Both Vet and Abyssian are traditionally extremely powerful matchups against Songhai and artifacts due to cheap burn and pings.
Artifacts boast a very good wr against Wanderer decks exactly because its a midrange deck with very few pings and healing.
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crescent spear no need to be nerf … ok yeah cheap artifact with a blast effect if combine with aoe
but to me personally … mythron trials have to be nerf …
i will always auto conceded if i knew i was fighting a trials deck ( which is very popular right now )
to me we created our own winning condition , we created from the source which devs created for us not the other way around lol
trials are example when devs creating a winning condition for us ( players ) and we just follow the description in it
i missed my good old duelyst …
i played 21 season with casual plays never been to S rank but yeah i was happy
but now … i felt like the devs screwed a lot this time with the latest expansion
this is just my 2cent nothing more nothing less
before i left this game for good
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Just a heads up, I made a post like this before and it got hidden.
My advice; run more artifact removal in your decks.
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