Made my first deck, looking for suggestions :)

[lilithivy]

Hey guys, I’m fairly new. Made my own very first deck and I’m looking for optimizations. The point is to take advatange of the synergy between Aspect of Ego and tempo cards namely Malicious Wisp or Sunset Paragon.

What do you guys suggest I should add/remove/change?
The only card I care about keeping is Aspect of Ego.

[mrmana3]

As a whole, it’s a neat concept. Aspect of Ego could be interesting since Opening Gambit minions sacrifice stats for speed, and Ego could quickly turn a small body into a larger threat.

Do you feel like you’re running low on hand size? I know you have some tools like Blaze Hound and the Bloodbound Mentors. It’s just that Aspect of Ego tends to eat hand size fairly quickly,

If there’s any one concern I have, it’s the number of 2 mana minions. Most will recommend 9-12 to ensure you have a playable card on turn 1. Perhaps switch out Aspect of the Mountains for Hearth Sister. She’s too good to pass up.

Hailstone Prison is also a premium card for Vanar. If you can find room for it, I think it would be useful.

[bepoest]

You rock.
Nice list to start with.

I would personally kick Dustwailer and something else out and include Jax+Razorback, they’re a classic finisher and extra spicy with Aspect of Ego.

[elahn]

Solid deck! I run a Magmar/Araki deck myself and its a blast.

So, first I’d switch out Gravity Well for Primus Fist and Malicious Wisp for Bloodtear Alchemist or Ephemereal Shroud. That should immediately bump your T1 plays.

Then since you have just such high flat-out removal from Rift/Sunset/Dust, switch out atleast one or two Chromatic for Frigin Corona. You need a /tiny/ bit more draw. My deck runs Starhorn and Tectonic and sometimes that can still be touch and go.

You could also consider something similar to below with Reliquarian as Vanar benefits from swarm quite often. I’d love to see a Vanar variant tbh. Animus Plate+Reliquarian plus some Vespyr minions mixed in creates a hell of an endgame.

Summary

[deathsadvocate]

Right off I would trade Chrom Cold for Hailstone Prison (It is a strong standalone tempo tool and it can be extra rude when combined with wisp or Rift), and I would trade Dustwailer out for EMP.

I would also consider trading Gravity Well for another proper 2 drop like good old healing Mystic/Herald. While gravity well is a decent standalone it usually prefers to have more synergy like Kara/aspects/wall tech. And on a related note while Aspect of the Mountain is a real powerhouse and is nasty with wisp, the lack of one drops like blood tear/chaser and the like does not leave you with a lot of good targets. But I would definitely either lean into Gwell or away.

Araki is always such an interesting choice, but without leaning into cheap minions with opening gambit I am not sure he worth the slot. But he is neat enough and you have enough OG that he could stay if you wanted. But with options like Blood Tear, Healers, Wisps, Snow Chaser, replicant and the like he has a lot of competition.

As it stands you seem to be somewhere in-between a tempo list and an aspect list, here are my two closest decks for comparison, both of which could find room for Ego if it was a must:

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The Sound of Silence Tempo Dispel, S Rank

Summary

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Gameplay:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCjzsUl0l20

Apparently the “sound of silence” is the screech of a war bird. But yea its a deck centered around dispel and warbirds.

Tempo is the name of the game sporting cards that clear the field while developing the board and maintaining your hand at the same time, mixed with faies inevitable BBs wincon. Borrowing heavily from both my Final Destination and Faice Faie, I have hope that the whole will be greater than the sum of its parts.

The Crypto/Mentor package lets you machinegun people down with faie and or it provides card advantage. Unfortunately cloudcaller has been moved to the sideboard in favor of Paragon as anti wanderer tech, but should the meta shift, or you have a sideboard, Cloudcaller is very strong and makes the bloodsurge package even stronger. Cloudcallers waterball does four damage to an enemy minion so its a great tempo tool, and it can also get duplicated by mentor or refreshed by crypto if you have the mana for it.

Having a sideboard lets you shift gears into more anti aggro, more tempo, or just having the right tech for the match up as skorn or caller can really shine in certain matchups. Enfeeble is just a one of because thanks to our dispel is not much needed and I wanted everything else at three.

But moving onto its latest additions, Malcious Wisp and Meltwater moose. Wisp is vanars best card of the expansion and is borderline oppressive, which is rather important as vanar has suffered greatly from nerfs. But wisp came to the rescue and really pushes all vanar decks up a notch. Wisp not only ramps for you, but it also lowers your opponents mana! And if you dispel, bounce, or transform it, the effect is permanent. Wisp is best played defensively but not so far back it cant get into trade. Meltwater moose is another powerful card, but similar to Wisp, its best used when you can remove the drawback effect on it via dispel. To facilitate that the deck packs bender and emp to dispel Wisp/moose while also dispelling your opponents field. Moose also happens to be a vespyr letting us fit Cryo to great effect, which is all the more important lately due to things like wisp.

Hailstone is usually reserved as removal, but remember it can target your own things, most notably to be used with Herald and Wisp.

Mix those fancy tricks with good removal, aoe, excess dispel, and healing and you have a very well rounded deck theoretically prepared for any matchup. Although it is not an easy deck to learn and even played perfectly the match-ups against some of the crazy powerful meta decks wandering around at the moment are hard fought.

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Aspect Variant: S Rank

Summary

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Aggressive Variant: Highly Competitive

http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MTo1MDEsMzoxOTA1MiwzOjUxMCwzOjIwMzI0LDM6MTEwODgsMzoxOTA1MSwzOjIwMTQ3LDM6NTE3LDM6MjAyMTQsMzoxMTEyNSwzOjIwMzcxLDM6NTYxLDM6MTA5NzUsMzoxMTExNSwtMzoxMTA0MywtMToyMDI3NiwtMzoxMTAzMCwtMzoyMDE0Ng==

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs68FKC-l-Y

Cryonic Potential is a surprisingly underrated card. I had initially dismissed it as it breaks the general rule with buffs which is not to use them unless you can get immediate value with them or you risk losing two for one. You do need to design your deck around it a bit to make it worthwhile, but the buff this card provides is truly massive and often game wining.

The key to Cryonic Potential is combining it with one cost units and or gravity well as part of your turn one or turn two play, as at this point in the game its very difficult to answer and can often secure a game on the opening turn. Remember to only put the gravity well you plan to buff in contact with the enemy general. Its a bit risky to use in the mid/late game and is often replaced at that point, but occasionally it is worth while to use it later on and or on a more expensive target like Malicious wisp, but that is very match up dependent.

Both versions of the deck sport the core package of Blood Tear, Chaser, Gravity, and Potential as their signature weapon, all of which being good cards on their own but they mix together extra well. Both also run Aspect of the bear which is a strong offensive tool or removal in a pinch, walls are just great targets for transforms. They both rock the Crypto/Mentor package to machinegun people down and or provide card advantage.

The first variant is based on my Furry Faie list. Its a very flexible and adaptive control list that can either be very aggressive, stall and win with chip damage, or pull off big combos. Aside from the aforementioned CPotential combos the deck also sports Luminous, Enfeeble, and Aspect of the mountain, all of which are strong cards on their own but when mixed together they can be extra deadly. If you manage to trap someone with luminous and follow up with enfeeble that is fifteen damage! Mountain provides powerful AOE and or the ability to let your walls chase people down. It covers its card advantage needs with the classic cryo/chaser combo. Its a strong deck but it takes a lot of practice.

The second version just goes all out on the aggro approach, and sports the good old Aspect/Thunderhorn Combo, its pretty strait forward.

Mix all that stuff with some vanar staples and you have some fun unique lists that compete with the best. The side decks are not terribly refined, but are some solid anti meta choices or alternative options.