Scream and Fester (Dying Wish Cass): Competitive/Gimmicky
Blood Echoes is a super cool card introduced with Ancient bonds. Its a tad gimicky, but it has some sick combos with dying wish units. It even works with Reaper unlike consuming, and man does it work well with reaper. It can also be used to heal or un-dispel juggernaughts and sisters.
This one I call Fester, because it is a slow creeping infection that revolves around tissue dying. So, we have both creep and dying wish referenced in one word :D. With ancient bonds I added Scream to the name as a shoutout (heh) to Blood Echoes.
An interesting take on Cass, it still runs the essential creep tools for the late game but the dying wish engine fits in nicely providing draw and some fun early/mid game tools. Klaxon being dying wish is the main attraction for this archetype.
Iron Clad is still an experimental pick, he has a sick combo with blood echoes, and Cass can get pretty good use out of him by pinging him with her BBs then having him smack the general. Alternativly you could run Grimes in his place, or go back Dioltas who I used to run but was not fond of without anyway to buff the tombstone.
For those who question 3x Lurking Fear there is actually a really good reason. You almost never want to cast it more the once as it hurts your hand. It may seem weird running a playset of something you only intend to use once. But the reason for that is its only good in the first couple turns so you need 3 in the deck to get it at all consistently, because after the first couple turns its just replace fodder. It’s awful at one, meh at two, and replace fodder at 3. But to be worth the slot at all it needs to be a playset.
Sanguimancy (Lillith Arcanyst): Competitive
This one got its name due to being all about spell spamming with Arcanysts, so its just a fancy word for blood magic, which is similar to necromancy, but much more about using spells directly rather then reanimating the dead to do your bidding.
In my previous post I made a Cass deck designed around DeathKnell/Nightshroud. A fun combo but a little unreliable due to the randomness of death knell and the awkwardness of nightshroud. This version skips Nightshroud in favor of darkfire, Trinity Wing, and more spells all around. Darkfire can let you get your Arcane engine rolling quick or lead to early Deathknells, and Trinity helps keep your hand full after using it.
It still runs Death Knell, who does indeed work with trinity wing, as a huge late game bomb, but I keep them and darkfire at 2 for the extra room and because they are all a little situational. I chose Lillith over Cass as she is much better at making dark-fire work, and ritual banishing is almost as good as punish for her. It skipped out on sister as it does not have nearly as much ping and between void pulse and trinity your usually ok on healing.
The main thing to know about the deck is your not a face deck. You want to conserve your resources and try to make sure your getting some synergy out of your spells before you throw them down. While you can get quick wins, remember your strongest in the lategame thanks to Death Knells and Revenants.
Voodo: Gimicky
I really wanted to make the releaser work, but its just so bad. Still the deck is a lot of fun. Anyways I named it Voodo because the deck is all about hurting your self in order to hurt your opponent. It was actually better suited for the Sanguimancy name, but that was already taken.
This tries to make the Releaser work by including skorn and bone naga as both solid field control, and ways to break the releaser quickly.
Anyways the deck is based off of an old favorite of mine Reanimator, which abused keeper and nether by making sure to not include low cost minions other then tiger. Instead geting by with wraithlings (who are tokens and never get brought back), artifacts, and spells for the early game.
Its a neat deck but Reanimator just does what it is trying to do better.
I have made it to S rank for 7 of my 11 seasons, the rest was time off or Diamond when I had very little time to play. Since I have not had time to start streaming like 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. Check out my previous post: Ancient Bonds: Abyssian
