Duelyst and Chill - Non Meta/Memes

[elahn]

Summary

What’s up my dudes. New deck, this one feels like a fresh breeze during a winter solstice carrying a rock to drop on your opponents. A focus on immediate turnover and results gives you a chance to constantly keep the flow of battle in your favor.

Bloodtear actually carries a fair bit of weight, making some easy combos with Fortitude and Gazer while granting immediate benefits to Araki. Kujata/Flash is there for your monster mana minions which actually have relatively devastating effects T5, especially if you manage to keep them for more than one turn. Depending on playstyle, you could switch out Paragon for Elucidator which is a double combo for Araki and Synja plus the 5 Damage Rush. It is pretty situational but even if you only have one on the field, its a pretty scary combo. My only regret with this deck is that Reliquarian doesn’t proc Araki before you transform him. You’re still probably better off saving Reliquarian for a Magmar minion anyways. Enjoy, guys.

[elahn]

Dramatic Entrance somehow beating a successfully completed Lyonar Trial:

https://play.duelyst.com/replay?replayId=-LmkwnPirxNTNuIYnq6t

[elahn]

Summary

What’s up my dudes. Got another Lyonar deck here. This one with a focus on, well, focus. Making minions your opponent doesn’t want to attack or prioritize their focus.

Sunbound Pavise I feel is a tad underrated but here it can really shine. Provoke on a minion with forcefield or a minion like Thunderhorn really throws a wrench in a few game plans. While forced to focus on them, you’re knocking in a few hits on the general, typically staying just a few health ahead. Lodestar is also a real fun wildcard as you typically want your opponent coming to you anyways. This deck obliterates swarm and ranged decks and is great at burning opponent removal. You could find yourself moving around a few things based on playstyle. Aegis Barrier and Prism Barrier can both help rather well. Thanks guys.

[humancalc]

Does Ziran’s BBS get used? Would another general be better?

I’m guessing it is hard to get damaged minions with 1 health and forcefield minions.

[elahn]

Here and there. If you wanted more damage Argeon wouldn’t be bad. Unfortunately Brome interferes a bit by giving them an option to not attack your minions under Pavise’s effects. But I like playing safe and when you have to Tempest twice with BBS and spell or they manage to get through forcefield, the BBS is a lifesaver. With Zir’an I suppose I’d swap Sun Wisp for something higher health. Or even Seer with Sunsteel.

[elahn]

Summary

What’s up my dudes. Been a while. Got a new Magmar deck here with a focus on growing minions large and quick. Forcing removal or trades in your favor.

A basic grow deck that lets you capitalize on them massive AoE pokes of 1 damage. You either benefit from the grow or get a few decent damage procs or both. Honestly isn’t much to say. You grow and grow. Try to grab good ol’ Orop as soon as you can along with Moloki. Biomimetic is great remove bait while setting up your main combo. Quillbeast is optional. Just their to work with your one mana cantrips. Really wanted to try to get Hemeostatic to work into here but really the only way to make it work is with Amplification. You could get some bigger minions in there like Kolossus or Grimrock but then you’re really straining your early game. Maybe add a Reincarnation in there some where. Thanks guys!

[elahn]

Summary

Oh shit whaddup it be me my dudes. I’m here to provide the memes but sadly work is murdering me as we speak. So here’s an updated version of one of my first original memes.

Super proud of it because the meme is stronger here than most decks out there. It requires dedication to the meme as a way of life. Meaning, it’s basically a one and done. If you lose steam after mid-game, it’s GG. But working the combo lets you steam roll through basically anything. The two main focuses of this deck are Rizen and Venomtoth. I’ve managed to somewhat patch the old one and done nature of this deck by throwing in that bad boi Venom. You still want to aim for Rizen as soon as you possibly can. As you can see I have some major ramp cards(Kujata/Celebrant/Flash). This is because you win games by playing faster than the opponent can react. Unfortunately this can ultimately lead to your downfall as well. I throw the option out there to switch Chirpuka with Tectonic Spikes. Up to ya’ll. Anyways, thanks as always. Hope you enjoy!

[elahn]

Summary

What’s up my dudes? I really regret not getting to post this necromatic spooky joy of a deck on Halloween. Hope ya’ll had a good one.

This deck has a focus of lightly painting the field in your thorns while consistently summoning minions that never lose their value, only increase. Juggernaut is nice but Bonecrusher should be your focus. You can easily get a 20/3 by your 6th turn if you manage to draw him by your 2nd. Meanwhile you have loads of stall and some backend finishers like Azalea and Corporeal. Its relatively flexible but can lack firepower occasionally. Enjoy!

[miguelosz]

Consuming Rebirth combos never get old A minor complaint, but you should never use Pluck if you don’t have at least one of the Alcuins. I’d suggest adding Ooz or Crawler (or actually both) since you have no t1 plays.

[humancalc]

That would mess with The Releaser though.

Sphere is always a more costly alternative if you burn your hand too quickly.

[elahn]

I have thought a lot about how to push more Shadow Creep, but sadly the only way to that is through minions which as @humancalc noted, messes with the RNG of Releaser quite a bit. I desperately wanted to add Ooz tbh as it is the best of the three(with releaser in mind).

Inkhorn(purely as replace fodder) and Sphere were top of the list to counteract that T1 deficit. Spectral Blade was also a consideration as healing helps cover some distance.

@humancalc Sphere was pretty up there for the T1 mana bleed but I found unless you go second on T1,you can’t use it. Unfortunately the same goes for Inkhorn… I figured atleast there’s nothing to lose with Pluck. You don’t lose much by dropping pluck either though. Will test some more though. I haven’t had terrible luck keeping my hand up but perhaps the extra draw will be better than the 2-3 Creep you get from Pluck.

[miguelosz]

Ofc, forgot about Releaser I guess Pluck is ok then (although indeed not great). I use Spectral Blade in most my Abyss Keeper decks, it’s a pretty nice p1t1 play (which you currently have none since I wouldn’t really count Pluck when you can cast it with any spare mana).

[elahn]

Just threw Spectral in there and it does make a difference if you get it. I took out the Inkhorns. Probs gonna remove a Rebirth for the 3rd.

[elahn]

Summary

You better not cry. You better watch out, my dudes this is why. What’s up. Hope you’re getting into the spirit of Christmas cause I got a ho ho hell of a deck here full of cheer.

This deck is as much about giving as this time of year is. Share the love and give the gift of pain as you draw and play surprises you didn’t know you where getting this year. An odd Grow/Draw deck that really brings an odd mixture of combos. Triple down on awesome Hsuku keywords with Fractal. Grow on crazy legendaries you couldn’t possibly play without Orbo. Consistently buff everything with Shiro and Mirkblood while holding out for a Hammer. Confluence especially fun with the two aforementioned. I hope you get what you wished for this year guys, especially in games with this deck. Merry Christmas.

[rook]

I’m sorry I’m really curious about this deck , but why do you need night howlers, from the relic, and how does winterblade help.

[elahn]

So he was requesting a way to make the three work together. I provided my attempt to bring the three together. Winterblade would be a nice combo by automatically stunning minions and activating Scythe essentially allowing you to infinitely summon Howlers over and over without needing to stop. Atleast till an enemy minion is too far or you’ve killed them all.

EDIT-original response(I did not see the reply link for some reason. In my defense its 6AM and I’m an idiot.)

Summary

My apologies but are you referring to this deck? Or atleast this is the final form.

Summary

So to answer the Winterblade question first, it combos with Scythe and Gauntlet.
Specifically:

Winterblade+Scythe=Automatically reactivates your general.
Winterblade+Gauntlet=Automatically destroys the minion without counter attack.
All three allow you to wipe an entire board of enemy minions if they are close enough with just your general.

In reference to the Reliquarian, you don’t /need/ it but the bonus attack, especially if you use it on Displacer(which is a +10 attack to your general) makes up for not having any of the above three by greatly increasing your attack and summoning Howlers as a stall tactic or wincon depending on the amount.

[excogitator]

What are your opinions on oblivion Sickle? I value Exhuming sand at about 2 mana per tile, so one proc gets you value from the thing. Gets even more threatening with Kha or Wildfire Ankh. At one mana, I’m surprised more people aren’t running it.

[elahn]

If you’re running an artifact Vetruvian deck, it can snowball. Personally, I don’t feel threatened by one or two Exhuming Sands though. It’s something that doesn’t start paying off till late game in my opinion. A Sajj deck with Ankh and Zephyr can pull off some major Oblivion combos, but with all the AoE’s floating around, its hard to pay off in the beginning. The value is definitely there, just even without AoE, one or two spaces are easy to park bodies on. So if I were to try to run Oblivion personally, I’d run some healing and stall. Maybe some Tracers to force chases.

[excogitator]

Well, so my circle of fabrication attempt failed…

[limango]

Circle of fabuloso, as I like to call it, is more rewarding when you have a dedicated wizard/structure hybrid deck instead of a pure obelysk deck. I put Celebrant+Dreamshaper with Abjudicator and Manaforger running this deck, and for other wincons I do Fault and Monolithic Vision Yes, this card is way stronger than you think when discounted. Might be of your interest!