Back to trying out some innovative decks, this week I am trying out Arcanysts and Golems in factions they don’t really belong to. I have done limited testing as I do not want to fall out of top 50, but they all have a lot of potential.
Arcane Lyonar
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Owlbeast, Aegis Barrier, Magnetize, Divine Bond, GG.
I think Argeon is more suited to run Arcaneysts than golems. Lyonar has a surprising amount of super cheap and effective spells to dominate the early game with and abuse Prismatic/Owl. Despite the decks very low curve it has card advantage covered between cycle, Trinity, and Trinity (No that was not a typo). Trinity and Trinity also cover your healing. Arcanysts give us a very powerful dispel built right into the deck so we have the covered as well.
That cheesy combo I listed at the start…is actually quite common and consistent between Aethermasters replace, Aegis Cycle, and of Course trinity Oath. Magnetize is optional but it does pretty much guarantee that your opponent cant reach that owl to dispel it before it pops over and murders them. Aegis is less optional, but also not mandatory, and remember it doesn’t have to be owl doing the killing, it can be any of your units going crazy thanks to owl.
Also don’t underestimate Magnetizes utility outside of the combo. Use it to kill backline units, to ignore a lure or repulsor, to move something into the ideal position for holy immolation, and to reposition your prismatic to safety after it has dropped a bunch of illusions.
This is the more all in combo variant, but if you wanted a bit more midrange or control you could drop some of the cheaper spells like magnetize and beamshock in favor of Blue Conjurer, and of course tiger.
Arcane Vaath
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Magmars cheap selection of buff spells and of course the ever notorious flash really do go quite well with arcanysts, and of course rush units.
Diretide is especially potent on a flying unit like trinity, and has a neat combo with Soujuner who can draw multiple cards with a single attack. Between it and Makantor we skip Plasma which would conflict with our units.
Now earth Sphere and Souj are flex slots, if you feel you have enough healing from trinity you could skip sphere in favor of one of Magmars many staples, or if you preferred Blue Conjurer to Souj its a real solid choice. The deck lacks any proper dispel, thumping being the only thing in that vein, and I opted out of Lightbender because it conflicts with Vaath…and pretty much everything else, but the deck can probably do without.
While I think Argeon is better suited for Arcanysts then his in faction tribe, Vaath golems are hard to beat, but the deck is quite viable and a neat take.
Golem Faie
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Take the tried and true disruption Faie package, remove all the cards that just got nerfed throw golems in their place, which come with even more ramp then the deck usually has and voila you have another surprisingly efficient out of faction tribe deck. The deck is also super budget friendly. Circulus is our only arcanyst, because well, its too good not to include and without it the decks curve would be a bit low.
Many disruption Faies were already running EMP as a pay off card, so why not design around him a bit and throw in a couple more golems. Celebrant, and Metalurgist help us get those magic 5 mana turn two plays quite consistently and we pack just enough golems to get good use out of Breacher.
While the Argeon and Vaath variant decks are super solid, they are probably not better than their usual meta decks. This on the other hand just might be a new top notch Faie deck as it has most of her old strength, without its usual weakness to aoe , and an even faster clock with the added ramp. It also has the unexpected factor going for it so people can really mess up their early game. The only issue is the complete lack of healing could leave it vulnerable to dedicated aggro, but that has phased out a bit lately since it does not do well against a lot of other decks.
Edits: I think Brightmoss is here to stay, 5 mana is just the perfect amount for this deck since turn one metalurgist or celebrant into a globe gives us 5 mana. Stormmetal is the weakpoint, torn between Dancing Blades for value, or Blue Conjuerer for Card advantage.
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