Jank For Each Faction?

[paulmuaddib]

I’ve been having fun in Songhai using a janky 3 card one sided boardwipe, Deathstrike Seal + Battle Paddo + Inner Focus or Gotatsu. I’ve been wondering if the other factions had a similar 2 or 3 card way of killing everything? Sure, Plasma Storm, Decimate and so on exists but is there unreliable jank in other factions that sit in your hand for 5 turns with big impact before you can use it? What about non-boardwipe jank?

[deathsadvocate]

Well if we are only talking jank AOE here are a couple:

As for non board wipe jank, your going to have to be more specific. There are sooo many crazy gimick decks. But some of the most classic are the Dance of Memes variations:

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Meme Of Electric Sheep Highly Competitive/Gimmicky

Mech Variant

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All in Variant

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Summary

Dance of Memes is a fairly old mostly joke of a deck, the trick involves Kujata, most of your deck being 1/1/1 units, and dance of dreams, allowing you to play kujata and dance and then kill every unit you summon allowing you to draw your whole deck, which combos with twinfang because kujata does damage so you can OTK someone out of nowhere.

Unfortunately the all in oldschool all in version of the deck needs seven mana to go off out of hand unless you risk letting a kujta die, it needs to draw the right cards, and for the opponent to not catch on to what your doing and just stay out of starhorns reach.

However I have breathed new life into the deck. I traded a little bit of the decks consistency and otk potential in order to add the Seismoid/Mech package. So not only can Seismoid serve as an alternative to dance of dreams, the mech package just gives the deck way more draw power letting you find what you need much more consistently, or just sort of play floodhorn using dance/seismoid outside of combos. You even have a small chance of pumping out mechazor as a backup plan.

The other big change that came for the deck was Mirriom and Mandrake. While running a mandrake version in the past was possible it felt even worse then the fang variant. But mirrom has changed this, as it will allow you to play up to 12 Mandrakes and or extra mechazors. The big thing about this version of the deck is its actually very competitive since it can go off as early as turn one! Unfortunately despite its theoretical power it runs into a serious issue with the turn timer, and of course it still does need to actually find its combo cards.

The deck still really crutches on finding some combination of kujata, dance, or seismoid to perform well, and due to the dance of dreams combo being less consistent the deck requires a ton more careful planning and really fighting against that turn timer. Its an incredibly difficult deck to play, but if you can manage to play it right its actually pretty dang scary.

Fang and mandrake are still interchangeable in either version of the deck depending on personal preference, and if you do choose the fang variant you can also just play fang without the need for a full combo thanks to the decks flood capability. The mechs also keep people from cluing into the fang otk capability.

Regardless of which variant you choose the deck has to many issues to be truely top notch as you need to choose your poison between consistency or fighting the turn timer, and the rare occasion of just not finding what you need, so its ultimately a gimmick.

[humancalc]

Metamorphosis + Krater (+Flash)

Pandamonium + Ghost Lightning X2
or
Pandamonium + buffed Ghost Lightning

[beelakor]

you guys forgot the classic enfeeble+Skorn/Snowstorm boardwipe. its not by definition janky, but as a two-part combo you sometimes have to wait all game to assemble it.

[deathsadvocate]

I guess Aspect of Shimzar/Thunderhorn goes in here to.

[beelakor]

aspect /Thundere is no jank… its a dream we all lived that got killed before the Wanderernation Attacked.

[miguelosz]

Echoing Shrek + Skorn/Breath for hate against teh smol ones

[deathsadvocate]

Well prenerf 3 mana enfeeble + aoe was brutal and was no jank, and thus why I brought up aspect/thunder.

Post nerf Enfeeble/Skorn and Thunder/Aspect have moved into jank territory.

[phoinexflame]

Circle of Dessication is a one card janky boardclear.

[isbee]

@beelakor
Happy Anniversary of the day you joined the forum!

[randomex]

The Resonance Scythe board-clear can be done on a higher number
of potential targets using Concealing Shroud and Winterblade (instead
of Permafrost and Iceshatter Gauntlet) to stun everything you hit and
avoid damage (as made famous(?) by Zohan).

Edit: This version is limited to minions with 5 or less health.

[deathsadvocate]

That is pretty neat. I tend to forget Winterblade even exists. Given you need to actually be able to kill the units with that combo rather then just ensure they are stunned. But certainly better versus a large swarm of small bodies.

Now what would be super cool is if Winterblade/Gauntlet worked together but I do not think they do.

[phoinexflame]

Interactions between Winterblade and Gauntlet are interesting if not confusing.

If you equip Gauntlet + Winterblade in that order you will you will stun minions but not insta-kill anything unless it was already stunned before you attacked.

However, if you equip Gauntlet after Winterblade you will auto destroy any minion you attack (unless said minion would receive 0 damage via Forcefield, Scion’s 2nd wish ect.), but you will still get counterattacked unless the target was already stunned.

[boronian]

For bigger minions you have stun, Aspect of Bear and Cubs.

This video shows how to do that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FfRbXI4kmM

Or another hilarious one: https://youtu.be/zvr3IWiJh_A

[limango]

And for the latter your equip extra Resonance to wipe anything and everything that isn’t a General on the board, I assume?

[phoinexflame]

Almost, you need to add Scythe and Concealing Shroud if you want to do a perfect boardclear. Without Shroud you can only kill three minions before your artifacts break.

[randomex]

Very surprising. I would’ve assumed that Gauntlet’s effect is checked
when entering the attack command, making the play order irrelevant.