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End of session vanar decks - snowshot's chill vault of decks

#6

Uhm, nice lists, thanks for sharing. Now some questions…

When i first wanted to make a memetown deck i thought about ilena for the yggdra but i felt like it needed too much babysitting. I mean, you play it on 4 mana and it’s very threatening but then you cant rely on just your bbs to keep it alive, can you? So it kinda forces you to take flash freeze aswell, which i dont like very much… Annnd also iceshatter doesnt convince me much aswell, but as soon as i have enough spirit for the yggdras i think i’ll give it a try.

About the drake dowager… Does anyone actually ever had it proc? XD before i had the spirit to craft my actual deck, i tried them and out of something like 20 games it never turned. It’s kinda ok cause the enemy general stops attacking but most of the time i played an out of reach 3/3 for 3 mana that did nothing…

Annnd thicket augur… It’s just me or that card, not used by kara, screams blisteringhostkraterlightning everywhere? Idk it just seem an underdog gravity well to me, but maybe i should give them a try.

#7

Yggdra you smack face once and it’s enough value, if you’re smart you can bait your opponent to activate Drake and because mobody plays removal you can proc him. Thicket Augur is mandatory in all Nemetown lists.

Nenetown isn’t a meme either as it’s rouge but not true rouge.

#8

The nice thing with Drake Dowager in Nemeton is that the sentinel form counts as a token. So wether it is procced or not it generates one token.
I got Drake Dowager to proc fairly often with the help of Gravity Wells and Thicket Augurs.

It’s true that a most of the tokens in the deck die to ping and most of Magmar’s AoE removal but you can’t prevent everything.

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#9

Added this to the wiki :slight_smile: Thanks!

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#10

Vanar is one of my favourite faction but since i re-started to play duelyst i don’t have a lot of userfull cards for new vanar decks. Ty for the lists

#11

Local madman Ilena main here, although with a slightly different approach than OP’s to her.

Ilena, by definition, is a general that needs a good lot more of babysitting for she’s the Sajj/Ragnora of Vanar. To play her properly, you have to get in character and think, feel and act as an overprotective angry granny shakin’ her ol’ beatin’ schtikk, lad, and your minions are your babies/cats. You exist to clear mobs with face/spells while building a little army.

I’ll need to revise it, but if you’re afraid of not having much threat power with the usual gear she bears, i’ll have at you ASAP a Vespyrquarian setup. I feel you’ll be more comfortable having an Animus Plate and forcing the enemy into painful decisions (such as “do i go face for DEMGZ or do i sacrifice my mobs to clear those 4/4 Maerids?”).

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#12

Uhm yeah yggdra is probably worth it, might give it a try. Still not convinced on drake, if they see you have the trial, if they attack with the general it’s because they kill your dowager in the same turn…no one wants to give free 4/4 with flying, especially if it counts as token for the trial…

Most of the time i used it, even if the general was surrounded by gravity wells they preferred not to attack, which stalls the game and it’s ok but it wont proc the dowager

About thicket augur idk, it seem a low value minion. My list is far from being optimized but i can pull memetown more often than i thought even without the augur.

But then again, it’s like maybe a week i’m playing it, doing experiments, guess i have to try more stuff

#13

People don’t run removal, neither do they punch into the sentinel.

#14

:confused: You put my name in the wrong place.

#15

I’d love to counterargue

#16

I’m sorry but have you talked to any top player? They all say that removal isn’t ran in most top decklists.

#17

Hmm, cant imagine a deck that runs no removal…Maybe it is because I play only Abyss/Magmar and removal is just staple, eh, also, the punching part happens only vs abyss cuz they always lure it

#18

Fixed it XD

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#19
I give you the Frosthammer.

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#20

How does the Howling artifact interact with Animus plate? Does it spawn, then buff, or otherwise

#21

Doesn’t interact, as the summon only occurs after the attack, not simultaneously (while the +2/+2 occurs mid-attack). Even so, the two together already can be easily become a 6+ Attack amp if you’re well set, and the other in-deck interactions covers up nicely.

#22

Pretty much the 2 top decks don’t run removal. Fault should drop off soon as Wanderer Rag is an overwhelming presence and even Fault doesn’t use removal much. In this meta the only decks played should be Wanderer Rag and decks designed to beat it but some people are dumb.

Wanderer Rag and Fault Vet relly on tempo to win, you play removal when you’re losing but when you’re deck is ahead in tempo you’re not in that kind of position.

Although my list runs 12 removal options 9 are because they do other things and Fox shits on the Wanderer match-up, if I wanted removal I would use Prison but there isn’t a need.

#23

I’m curious why we don’t see Aspect of the Wyrm in many Nemeton lists. It’s easier to proc than dowager. It doesn’t seem to me to be the worst aspect token. Or is it just not necessary with all the other options?

#24

This thread has the most Reliquarian-stun-token -Nemeton decks I’ve seen in one place.

I love it.

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#25

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Via user @Ryvirath for those interested.

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