Don’t worry, I will be making more threads, this one is just focused on Saurian Finality. It is a crazy powerful card, and is likely going to single handedly going to warp the meta. Is the card over the top? For sure, but I love it. Its been a long time since magmar was top of the pack, but it looks like between escaping nerfs, Final, and Rebuke they are there now. Its still pretty early in the meta, and there is a lot of crazy stuff out there, so they may not be as oppressive as they seem, but they may be.
Finaility is a wonderful anti aggro tool, an anti combo deck tool, and anti lategame deck tool, it heals, it buffs, it stuns, it does everything, and most importantly it resets the game back to the point magmar is the strongest.
Catch the stream for the decks here:
Combo
http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MTo0NDksMzoyMDExNiwzOjIwMjAzLDM6MTkwMzgsMzo0MDksMzoxMTAzOSwzOjIwMzQ0LDM6NDMyLDM6MjAxNTcsMzoxMDMwNiwzOjIwMzE5LDM6NDMzLDM6NDA1LDM6MjAzMzk=
So this is my latest variation of the deck, and it may just be the most powerful. Abjucator letting finality hit sooner, or reducing the cost of your Fortitude/Eggmorph/BBs combos, or both, is pretty insane. And thanks to pupabomb if a combo is not feasible and or you don’t think you can get eggs to stick instead we can just weaponize them. Combine that with a powerful midrange game, ramp, healing, and dispel and your prepared for any match-up.
Edit:
Traded replicant for Lightbender. I did not want to, but dispel was badly needed.
So this is the more standard list, although again its running abjucator for the accelerated Finals, and Replicant for thinning/card advantage. Its a bit more oldschool just sort of midrange vaath/drogon combo, now sporting finaility and rebuke, pushing it from a consistently good deck, to possibly the deck to beat of the new meta.
It has performed exceedingly well on ladder and tournament play, although I recently made a change to it. I was running Maraurder over Drogon, because its powerful and fits the deck well, but it was hard to argue with Drogons power. Still not sure if I want to leave Marader out, or if Drogon is better, but it has felt less clunky without it.
Keeper
http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MTo0NDksMzoyMDExNiwzOjIwMjAzLDM6NDQ0LDM6NDQ4LDM6MjAzNDQsMzoyMDExNywzOjIwMTU3LDM6NDA3LDM6MjAzMTksMzoxMDAxMiwzOjExMDE4LDM6NDA1LDM6MjAzMzk=
So this deck largely skips having a real early game in favor of extra control and making sure to always pull value off of keeper. In fact thanks to the fact that buildings are tokens, erratic raptor tends to transform and not die, and that eggs/rippers are tokens, you will usually only have rush in your keeper pool. Hulk and Raptyr help give us a little more of an early game without messing up the gameplan, and even a 10/10 or a 5/5 is not bad in the pool.
Of course Finality is in here because its just that good and the five mana point is perfect for this decks curve. It can play either aggressively or the long game depending on the match up and the hand. Keeper does not activate opening gambits, so it pulls extra value off of elucidator. Combine that with ragnora combos and its a very effective deck.
Edits:
Completely reworked the deck in favor of Ragnora. Since Plasma/Natural conflict with hulk who is really good early game for keeper so instead packing Lava Lance and Pupabomb. It now also has the ragnora combo package on top of the keeper package leading to a very aggressive deck.
Apex
http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MTo0MDEsMzoyMDExMiwzOjE5MDM4LDM6MTExMjYsMzoxMTAzOSwzOjIwMzQ0LDM6NDMyLDM6NDMzLDM6MjAxMjIsMzoxMTEwNywzOjQwNSwzOjIwMjkyLDM6MjAzMzksMzo0MzY=
My last deck for the thread is a bit more gimicky then the others, but it is still quite effective. Apex is a natural pick to run alongside abjucator, cut the rest of the midrange stuff and low cost spells in order to fit more Apex bodies and not conflict with Magesworn, and you have a very effective apex deck that can pull off some insane things.
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 figured I would just share some of my stuff each week and get my name out there so the community knows me a little better for when I do eventually get around to it. You can check out the rest of my stuff here:
