Mid-range (or maybe Control) Dervish Zirix - Rate my deck

[phoenixtoasches]

I bet no one thought I would be the one to do this seeing as I have quite some salt for Vet, but here we are:

+3 Khanuum-ka, +3 accumulonimbus

The goal of the deck is obvious, spam wind dervishes to the extreme. Summon oblyske as your early game and remove with the wind dervishes. We have scion wish spells to help with that removal as well as Primus fist.

The true glory comes mid-game when our removal is top notch with cards like BoA and Sandswirl reader as well our new Vet minion, khan!

With all the dervishes you should have on the field, Khan will be able to clear better than the dervishes ever could.

Late game (which shouldn’t be that late), we have the new vet spell accumulonimbus or as I like to call it kissy-facey-goodbye-e.

We use this card in conjunction with loremaster to RIP THEIR FACE OFF!! If played correctly, the combo should give you 12 damage although this over the span of two turns, not one.

Match-ups will vary. Against Magmar, you are better dropping the control game and straight up going for the face since this deck hurts against Plasma Storm. This should be relatively easy to do however with the existence of Khan.

Against burn, you should switch to full on rip face off. Generally, it is a good match up because you have so much ping for artifacts as well as Khan and you have lots of range with all these wind dervishes. Same goes for artifact decks.

Control decks like Healyonar are kinda tough for me to say, but I think this deck has so much damage in it that you will probably be able to kill them before late game.

Some of you will probably be asking, why not include Fault here? Mainly because you have much better cards that can summon so many wind dervishes that iron dervishes are now trash. The only real use the card has is with Khan, but like I said, you have so many wind dervishes now that I doubt fault helps you. A great combo is playing Khan with rip-facey-offey for 9 mana for either board wipe or face if general has attack above 2.

Loremaster might also seem a bit controversial, but rip-facey-offey is so good that loremaster is definitely worth it in escalating the effect. You can also use loremaster in conjunction with many other spells for more face or removal.

Reassemble is also there for draw since this deck has a low curve. Maybe spelljammer for extra draw, but I think that is a little too slow and detrimental against certain match-ups when you are trying to control the board.

Been trying to think of some shenanigans with Mirrorim in this deck, but the two new cards are so good that you really don’t need it. The only way it would work anyways is if you had more draw engines like spelljammer.

Anyways, that was my first Vet deck ever and it was pretty easy to make. It will probably be tier 0 and clearly unfun to play against! What do you guys think about the new Vet meta? What do you rate this deck? Comment below!

[phoenixtoasches]

Please be gentle with me, guys. I know I sound salty in this post, but I am seriously trying to make a vet deck as well as have the community analyze my deck building skills.

[mmf]

3rd wish is better than 2nd as it gives both buff and flying to dervishes. Alcuin seems like an interesting choice to recycle your auto-addcardulus, but I don’t see a problem with it.

And you don’t even have to worry about us roasting you, you’re already playing x3 readers and B.o.A’s so you’re set there (Hyper-swarm is still a problem, but you could just tech in some bone swamrs for that)

[phoenixtoasches]

I think with the ripey-facey offey spell along with all the other spells, alcuin will be really helpful. Also, think about it First Wish+Alcuin for no loss in hand advantage and shit ton of cycle for like 5 mana. Or Ripface+Alcuin for 8 damage possible 12 . Lots of other shenanigans.

I dunno about 2 or 3rd wish. If I replace 2nd wish, I definitely need to replace it with another spell to make Alcuin useful, but I can’t think of a good 2 mana spell. Preferably one that gives draw.

I think something with frenzy will help against hyperswarm if really necessary or bone swarm, that could be good!

[improbableblob]

I don’t like having either of alcuin or second wish in this deck, their synergy is not worth it. I don’t know how god either of the new cards will be so I can’t say if that is a good call. I would definately run 3x rasha’s curse in this as well as some gusts and third wishes. something like -3 alcuin -3 second wish -1 reassemble +3 rasha’s +2 third wish +2 gust.

[phoenixtoasches]

I was thinking of Gust, but this deck already has so many 5 mana cards that it would be impossible to fit in another.

Replacing 2nd wish with 3rd wish I can get on board with, I just wish there was a spell card out there that gave some draw. Maybe Divine Spark?

If you are taking out 1 reassemble, you might as well take them all out. I really only included it for draw so taking it out feelsbadman. I suppose you can replace it with Rasha’s curse, but the draw.

Finally, Alcuin Loremaster. I get that the card looks out of place, but i really think that it will push ripey facey offey to the top. It also gives draw and if you combine it with the right cards, removal. Maybe it is more personal preference, but I am a believer in the rip-face-off+alcuin combo. We will see.

[improbableblob]

I encourage you to try stuff out, testing is the only real way to see if anything works, I’m just giving advice based on my experience with playing obelysks at a reasonable level.

[phoenixtoasches]

Thank you for the advice! I hope to try out this deck assuming songhai gets nothing too interesting in this expansion seeing as how Khan will cost me much spirit. Other than Khan, the deck seems pretty cheap.

If I get the chance to test it, I will come back with results.