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Lillith:
Summary
Black Gate Competitive
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Gate of the Undervault is one of my favorite cards of the set and I have tried really hard to make it work, but most of the time it feels pretty underwhelming. However I finally got this list to work, and man has it been working well.
Its a very proactive and meta conscious deck. Of course we have our basic build package Void Talon, Gate, and TimeKeeper. They give you some early game or some late game and can be used defensively or as a surprise, the main tip to know about the build package is you don’t want to play time keeper unless it is going to activate gate or as a seven mana combo with talon, both it and gate tend to get replaced in the mid game, but they are incredibly powerful early on as its often tough to answer a turn two gate, or later on as a combo piece. Turn two gates tend to be your priority using even furosa or inkling in order to contest the globe as player one.
So next we come to the other superstar of the deck, Black Solus. Yep, been awhile since we have seen him, he was never a bad card, just wasn’t usually good enough, he showed up when he was overpowered, and then was quickly forgotten about when he was heavily nerfed, despite having pretty decent potential again when bloodborn came out adding the furosa/crypto package to the wraith engine who give us a strong early game. So aside from the obvious wraith synergy why have I gone back to Black Solus? Well he dodges rebuke, lavalasher, makantor, plasma storm, and often natural selection to meaning he is a perfect on curve threat to deal with magmar, and a high priority removal target, and between him, gate, emp, and desolator, its unlikely that they will have enough removal to deal with them all.
Combine that with some lillith staples and you have a very powerful deck that is well equiped to deal with the meta with quite a few ways to win. Its got card advanatage covered with desolator, double cycles, and a steep curve.
Void Blade Competitive/Gimmicky
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Reliquarian is practically made for abyss, not only do they have by far the best forged relic they have great targets for it. For those that don’t know Reliquarian effect creates an artifact equal to the attack of the sacrificed FACTION minion (yes faction, targeting a neutral minion results in no extra effect beyond the attack bonus), for abyss when you attack a minion you steal life equal to the artifacts attack.
So speaking of Reliquarians powerful abyss artifact, this deck has one main goal that it wants to achieve at six mana: Darkfire Sacrifice, Arcane Devourer, and Reliquarian, targeting the Devourer with Reliq, resulting in a whopping eight attack boost on your general which if you attack a minion with you get a massive sixteen health swing! And you can do that two more times. Its brutal, and conveniently it happens the turn before finality, and magmar is bad at dealing with artifacts. If finality doesn’t make an appearance you can alternatively just do it without darkfire as an eight mana combo.
The rest of the deck consists of Lillith staples, and featuring the rest of our ramp package with Black solus and Vorpal Reaver, both solid Reliq targets as well. And as I mentioned in the previous deck Blacksolus is amazing for this meta, and Vorpal is a powerful classic. You usually want to try and save your darkfire for your Reliq combo, but depending on the match up a turn one Black Solus or turn two Vorpal Reaver is nothing to sneer at, and lategame you can always just summon desolator and then darkfire him to summon him again.
The deck may look a little short on opening plays, but with how this deck works even Furiosa or Inkling make great globe contestors, furiosa will often bait early removal too, clearing the way for your powerhouses. And Blade is an excellent early game stalling tool, that also helps fend off Ragnora Combos.
Mechanical Abomination S rank
So I have tried out a more traditional swarm approach with Abhorrent Unbirth, but between Metaltooth being his favorite partner, and the impending nerf to the metal tooth interaction, I figured I may as well go all in on the mech plan giving us a sollid back up plan that wont fold to this AOE prevleant meta. Speaking of an Aoe prevelant meta, Soul Grimwar is an excellent defensive tool that makes it really awkward to clear your field, while also being a powerful win condition on its own, and we pack our own Aoe thanks to Furor Chakram, which also serves as a powerful win condition, which is another card that absolutely loves metaltooth.
For those that dont know how Abhorrent Unbirth works, it destroys all minions on your field, and summons one giant abomination with all the combined stats of the destroyed creatures as well as their keywords. Although now you need at least one other mech on board to get rush off of metaltooth but thats not to hard. Oh btw yea he steals temporary buffs like Chakram, and then Chakram buffs him as well after he is done forming. Also even if you cant get rush on him, the ability to manually blow up your field to super power a Soul Grimwar is pretty neat.
Unbirth, Chasis, and Ritual banishing are kept at two ofs to make room, they are all a bit situational, and thanks to the decks phenomenal three different cycles, its really consistent, and it tends to be a very proactive deck. Between its many cycles and very aggressive gameplan, card advantage does not tend to be an issue. Its a very fun, and very competitive deck.
Edits:
+1 Chakram, -1 Chasis
Maehv:
Summary
Tempo S rank.
Tempo Maehv loves to run a bunch of lost costs utility fodder with weak bodies in order to target with her BBs. The deck packs tons of healing, and prophet, to mitigate the self damage. Gnasher is practically made for Maehv and is pretty much an auto for her, and Nekoma makes up for the decks very low curve and is also complementary to her BBS.
With the change to her BBs now the husk can gain the benefit of a sacrificed Azure Horn Shaman for a staggering 3 mana 4/8. Very quickly becoming a mainstay of all Maehv decks. Reaper is a sollid card as well and now you can trade with it once and then pop it with her BBs.
We are packing Dark Transformation because none of the usual go to removal really works for Maehv, and the spawned wraithling is perfect BBs food. Add all that to a couple abyssian staples, and some late game bombs, and its a very effective and aggressive deck. Husks are Abyssian minions, so while they are no Arcane Devouerer, you can very consistently play Reliq as a stand alone card with a husk.
Edits:
Trading Operant and Decibot for Azure Horn Shaman and Reaper of the Nine Moons. I am also tempted to drop the decks late game bombs for cryptographer but that’s probably a bit overkill. Betrayal may get cut for Variax now that eight mana minions have some breathing room, but that depends on how popular titan is.
Old decibot explanation
Then we add deciptibot and Nightmare Operant. Abyss doesn’t have anyway to give Bot rush or to turn your opponents minions into battlepets, but the 4/5 body is really good, especially vs magmar, and thanks to Operant or a Mechazor from operant, being the only other mechs in the deck you can consistently pull a powerful unit from the deck without it ever being a dead card in hand like Silver can be. It does also have a decent combo with Demonic Lure. More often then not Bot wont gets its affect off but it will still serve its purpose as removal bait and forcing your opponent to position awkwardly. Operant is also usually just to awkward and RNG reliant to make the cut, but its a perfect BBS target and can be manually pulled out with nekoma so it works here.
Ramp Competitive
It has the usual abyssian and Maehv staples, but with a heavy top end curve to abuse with darkfire Sacrifice. Maehv has potentially the most powerful Awesome BBs, and gets the most consistent value out of Reliq. Instead of packing Nekoma, or another source of draw we just sport a high end curve.
Edits:
With the change to her BBs I am trading out prophet for Azure horn Shaman.
Dying Wish Competitive
Wait, isnt this the exact same deck that I posted here? Nope, its changed massively! Ok, the card selection is the same, but grimes has gone from eh, to holy crap it high rolls frequently, thanks to how it interacts with the build mechanic. How does it interact you ask? Well…it spawns the target in already built and ready to go! So yea, active gates to the undervault out of nowhere.
Edits:
With the change to her BBs I am trading grimes for Reaper, Prophet for Azure Horn Shaman, and darkfire for Unseven.
I have made it to S rank for many seasons now, with frequent top 50s when I have the time to play competitively and occasional top tens. Since I have not had the time to stream as much as I want, I just try to share some of my things each week to fill in the downtime. You can check out the rest of my stuff here:
not even speaking of Saurian. I guess the point is to outpace opponent to get Mechaz0r out asap ?
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