Devouring Fish in a Desert

[alplod]

I’ve got from bronze 23 to gold 10 in 2 days.

It’s been a long time since I played. By coincidence I started browsing https://duelspot.com/ during my smoke breaks and stumbled upon the Adventures of the Devouring Fish deck by @miguelosz:

https://duelspot.com/deck/adventures-of-the-devouring-fish-aka-double-ramp-cass-aka-how-to-play-gate-without-playing-gate/

Oh, I recalled the deck well enough. At the time of its creation its spirit cost was unbearable for me, since I was unlucky enough to never get the key cards for the deck. But finally I crafted 3 UnSeven, 2 Keepers, a Dagona and the last copy of Nether Summonning, switched Vellum Scry to Yielding Dephs (having 3 creep tiles is more consistent in Cass, IMO, than preserving Wraithling from Vorpal ) and here’s the beauty (all credits to @miguelosz):

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Did I start this thread only to post an old deck with minor adjustments? Of course not! It is here to support my story and for the sake of comparison. Cause I got Vet quest today, but wanted to play Big Abyssian. Rejoice, Vetruvian lovers, the Fish itself have wandered into your lands!

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Well. Here it is. And again, today I got from I believe Silver 15 to Gold 10 in no time with it, so it is at least remotely playable. And it is a work in progress.

The problem is, unlike Nether Summoning, Corpse Combustion doesn’t place revived minions where you want them most. On the bright side though, you can revive more than 2 minions.

Mirrorrim is for copying Unseven mostly. Worst case - it will resummon itself. Best case - you’ll ramp as crazy. This affects hand size, so here’s some cheap unconditional draw in the form Divine Spark (and really, it’s not that bad, I tend to use it in some of my decks occasionally). We have no ping, so Rust Crawler. Wasteland Wraith is here for the test purpose, I used Sandwhirl some time before, but I love how this guy eats removal more often than not - then it’s more easy to stick Aymara later. Abundance of our own removal (BoA, Grapnel, Dagona and Wraith…kinda) means we can play reactive game easily.

Btw, mirroring Aymara if fine too.

Mostly - nobody dies. Best case scenario is reviving Unseven while having something else dead and some DW in action bar. Games are slow but totally dominating. (for one side or the other)

Maybe, just maybe, standard golem package is a better earlygame choice here, but I’m so tired of it forcing its way into any Vet deck, let me play something else, pretty please.

All in all, both decks are fun. Play them. Love them. Tinker with them. Especially with mine The original Devouring Fish is better.

GLHF.

[miguelosz]

The cult appreciates your efforts, as always

[stephdawnheart]

Iä-R’lyeh! Cthulhu fhtagn!

[alplod]

Deck update:

Consistency? Never heard of it.

Notable additions:

• Reliquarian. Works better than Zurael. Better than Corpse Combustion. Better than God.
• Fliers. Since resummoning happens on random spots, flying seems to be the way to go. Dropped Spark, cause card draw from Shrike, added artifacts, cause Oserix. I finally found a place for my one off SpineCleaver

Notable exclusions:

• Wraith - doesn’t work. The prize goes to Sandswirl, as always.
• Mirrorrim - maybe works, but hard to analyse.
• Dioltas - sadly, Reliquarian needs Vet minions. I would better drop Allo, but had to drop Dioltas.

Any thoughs?

P.S. Corpse combustion hardly works in this setup. The core cards here are Reliq and Unseven. I guess, Combustion was designed to revive swarms of cheap DW minions. Maybe I’ll skip it in this list and try another approach to make it work.

[bepoest]

Please stop posting incredibly interesting decks that require so many legendaries I don’t own.
Or please continue, I’m a bit torn between the two.

[elahn]

Corpse Combustion was a really fun card to try and combo with. The one I made a while back used Sand Swirl, Void Hunter, and Khanuum-Ka.

Sand Swirl let you refresh a minion with ease just in case a trade doesn’t result in their death. Also worked well with Sarlac letting you summon an extra two, equaling three. Void Hunter was added in together with Shrike. And with Khanuum-Ka you could summon an entire wave of them, granted the deck used Pax and 1 Cataclysmic fault. Those are my thoughts, provided you want to keep Corpse Combustion. Otherwise, really fun deck.

[alplod]

Hmmmm, a wave of Kha-Khas is definitely something I’d love to try. Thx for an idea

[cloudfrog]

but I’m so tired of it forcing its way into any Vet deck, let me play something else, pretty please

i told myself i’d swap them for the dervish suite someday…but years have went by and i’m still missing cards for it.
that said, if your deck has plenty of spells in it, a manaforger/abjudicator really makes divine spark flow.

[deathsadvocate]

Definitely some fun themes going on here, let me throw my stuff into the mix:

Hmmmm, a wave of Kha-Khas is definitely something I’d love to try. Thx for an idea

It is a little old and may need some updating, (may be better off with the golem package and skipping falcius/dusk/mystic) but at least last time I visited the deck I opted out of it in favor of the theme/healing. I like the thought of maybe going for Wind Shrike over Falcius as well.

DeathsAdvocate's Master Thread: Eternal Trials of Mythron

Volcano: Dying Wish/Fault: Competitive/Gimmicky

http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MToyMDEsMzoyMjcsMzoyMDI1NSwzOjIwMDk1LDM6MTEwODQsMzoyNDEsMzoxMDk4MSwzOjIyNiwzOjIwMjU0LDM6MjAxOTgsMzoyNjAsMzoyNDYsMzoyMjAsMzoyMDI2Mg==

Summary

This deck is all about Dying wish and Combustion. I call it Volcano because when the ground is combusting in a cataclysmic fashion I think that’s a fairly apt description.

More Kha/Fault abuse, but this time featuring a couple fun gimmicks. Rae is a popular fault enabler but its battlepet nature makes it a liability, thanks to Arid unmaking though you can actually use Rae as a targeted dispel, and even leave a nice sandtile to abuse with kha. But the fun does not stop there, Aymara is a classically powerful card, but it does not see much play anymore, que unmaking again and you now have the ability to proc her on command.

But WAIT there is more, kha, rae, aymara, and Duskweaver are all dying wish units meaning we can really abuse Combustion when the time is right. The dream is suiciding with Kha a whole bunch post fault, and then playing combustion to bring back ALL his copies.

My favorite trick is using Arid unmaking on an Aymara. If your against a match-up with transforms you usually want to arid the turn you play her, if they are unlikely to have transforms or you just really want the provoke at that time you can always just use her normally and then on your next turn if she died you can use combustion and then arid her, or if she didn’t die you can swing with her once, arid, and then combustion.

Mix all that with a few Vet staples and its a solid deck. Unfortunately its gimmicks are pretty hard to pull off and consist of a bunch of meh cards.

And I also tried an Unseven variant back in the day:

DeathsAdvocate's Master Thread: Eternal Trials of Mythron

Keeper Sajj: Competitive/Gimmicky.

http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MToyMjMsMzoyMDM3OCwzOjIwMTUxLDM6MzAwNTAsMzoyMDA5OSwzOjMwMDA4LDM6MTA5NzYsMzoxMTAzNiwzOjIwMjU0LDM6MTEwMTgsMzozMDAyMiwzOjIwMTA1LDM6MjIwLDM6MjIy

Summary

I have always been quite fond of Keeper of the Veil. The key to keeper is to only have high value units in your pool. The classic example is running no cheap minions and mostly rush units in magmar. Keeper does not summon tokens so they are a great way to generate an early or even lategame field without polluting your keeper pool.

For vet it will be a little odd due to having no in faction healing and their control tools being a bit expensive. But you can build with Artifacts and cheap spells make up your low curve. High value dying wish units make for excellent Keeper targets and also allow for some fun Unseven abuse.

It covers its bases well having aoe, card advantage, ping, lots of reach, and strong control tools. Sajj loves her artifacts and we run only a premium selection to make tutoring them with Foundry reliable. We also tend to avoid most artifacts that buff our attack for fear of KhanumKha, but Cleaver is exception as it makes suicideing with Kha unappealing, allthough be wary of relying on cleaver in the Strategos matchup.

A very expensive deck, that in theory should be pretty solid, unfortunately though the Fault matchup is going to really suck due your stuff getting transformed/bounced rather dying, and the amount of artifact hate running around.

The cult appreciates your efforts, as always

And my most recent deck with the Fish:

DeathsAdvocate's Master Thread: Eternal Trials of Mythron

Bottomless Abyss : Dying Wish/Ramp, S Rank.

https://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MTozMDEsMzoyMDA1OSwzOjE5MDUyLDM6MTEwODQsMzozNTksMzoyMDA0OSwzOjIwMTk5LDM6MjAwNTcsMzozNDEsMzozNDAsMzozMDAzOSwzOjMxNCwzOjExMDkzLDM6MTExMjE=

Summary

I call it bottomless abyss because well…that would be a pretty big abyss. Big abyss is an old archetype featuring the factions powerful late game minions and ramp, but these days it has taken on a dying wish spin.

Carrion Collector really changed the Dying Wish game, pushing a somewhat gimmicky archetype into an extremely consistent top tier deck with quite a few variants. All three generals have made pretty good use of it, and Lillith has really been enjoying THREE sources of ramp.

The deck has an appropriate amount of globe contestors as well lurking fear to serve as openers. Because your planing to dfc the body on your opening play really doesn’t matter, so I favor utility minions instead of good bodies. This deck is just all about ramping out your big units as fast as possible.

Rather than going all in on the dying wish plan I sport only a select premium couple of them turning Nekoma into a hyper consistent tutor that can chain into its self and or deso reliably ensuring you never run out of cards despite your excess ramp. Dagona was a fairly new edition as having immediate impact is pretty important with the popularity of BOA/Sandswhirl and the like. Its once prohibitive mana cost is almost meaningless with all of this decks ramp.

Furor Chakram is pretty much an auto include for Lillith now, it provides some much need Aoe and is extra nasty with Vorpals dying wish. While EMP conflicts a bit, he is still a great DFC target and he felt just to important to skip with the amount of Walls, Eggs, and Artifacts that have resurfaced in the Eternal format.

The deck has a touch of healing, lots of control tools, and between its very heavy top end, Desolator, and Nekoma it does fine on card advantage, leaving you with a well rounded deck prepared for most matchups.

[snowshot]

Man this is a nice deck, I enjoyed the match against it, if only you came over a few games later I might just had a better challenge to offer.

[miguelosz]

Nice touch with the fliers and Combustion Reminds me of my Flying Wish deck a bit.

[snowshot]

If I can offer my only vet deck which I think is great.

I call it how to drop vualt on 5 Mana and follow up with lock and sirocco for Max tilt.
I’m not that good with everything vet, but this works well at the moment