I’ve been playing ION OTK decks for a while now and I’ve finally completed one for each faction!
This was right after shimzar when thumpening wave was only 3 mana. Magmar was by far the easiest faction to do and I believe I achieved this on my second game with the deck.
This was also before the balance change and you can see that Slo is still 0 mana. This is the only one which didn’t use any abjudicators. Instead, I used Alcuin Loremaster for an extra BBS, which means I only needed to draw the ion and sols for the otk.
Songhai looked easy because I could also adjudicate crimson coil, but it turned out pretty hard. I don’t have many of the good control songhai cards like Battle Pando or Pandemonium and I didn’t feel like crafting them just for the memes.
Vanar was difficult. There is no good draw, so I was running the altered beast aspect of shimzar + sojourner combo. It barely worked at all, but I was still able to achieve this combo with an insanely lucky draw. This was the only time I did the OTK before reaching 9 mana. You can see the other side here.
I thought Abyssian would be the 2nd easiest, but it turned out to be the second hardest. My opponent was playing DOOM, and I won on my last turn possible.
Vetruvian was the hardest. I needed 2 abjudications on both 2nd wishes. Vet does have the best card draw with Azure Summoning, 1st Wish, Whisper of the Sands, and even Reassemble and you can see that I only have 8 cards left while my opponent has 22. My opponent was 1 off lethal with Bounded Lifeforce.