End of session vanar decks - snowshot's chill vault of decks

[zanestheargent]

Local madman Ilena main here, although with a slightly different approach than OP’s to her.

Ilena, by definition, is a general that needs a good lot more of babysitting for she’s the Sajj/Ragnora of Vanar. To play her properly, you have to get in character and think, feel and act as an overprotective angry granny shakin’ her ol’ beatin’ schtikk, lad, and your minions are your babies/cats. You exist to clear mobs with face/spells while building a little army.

I’ll need to revise it, but if you’re afraid of not having much threat power with the usual gear she bears, i’ll have at you ASAP a Vespyrquarian setup. I feel you’ll be more comfortable having an Animus Plate and forcing the enemy into painful decisions (such as “do i go face for DEMGZ or do i sacrifice my mobs to clear those 4/4 Maerids?”).

[melkorita]

Uhm yeah yggdra is probably worth it, might give it a try. Still not convinced on drake, if they see you have the trial, if they attack with the general it’s because they kill your dowager in the same turn…no one wants to give free 4/4 with flying, especially if it counts as token for the trial…

Most of the time i used it, even if the general was surrounded by gravity wells they preferred not to attack, which stalls the game and it’s ok but it wont proc the dowager

About thicket augur idk, it seem a low value minion. My list is far from being optimized but i can pull memetown more often than i thought even without the augur.

But then again, it’s like maybe a week i’m playing it, doing experiments, guess i have to try more stuff

[epicflygon]

People don’t run removal, neither do they punch into the sentinel.

[epicflygon]


You put my name in the wrong place.

[alexx55]

I’d love to counterargue

[epicflygon]

I’m sorry but have you talked to any top player? They all say that removal isn’t ran in most top decklists.

[alexx55]

Hmm, cant imagine a deck that runs no removal…Maybe it is because I play only Abyss/Magmar and removal is just staple, eh, also, the punching part happens only vs abyss cuz they always lure it

[snowshot]

Fixed it XD

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[zanestheargent]

I give you the Frosthammer.

[alexx55]

How does the Howling artifact interact with Animus plate? Does it spawn, then buff, or otherwise

[zanestheargent]

Doesn’t interact, as the summon only occurs after the attack, not simultaneously (while the +2/+2 occurs mid-attack). Even so, the two together already can be easily become a 6+ Attack amp if you’re well set, and the other in-deck interactions covers up nicely.

[epicflygon]

Pretty much the 2 top decks don’t run removal. Fault should drop off soon as Wanderer Rag is an overwhelming presence and even Fault doesn’t use removal much. In this meta the only decks played should be Wanderer Rag and decks designed to beat it but some people are dumb.

Wanderer Rag and Fault Vet relly on tempo to win, you play removal when you’re losing but when you’re deck is ahead in tempo you’re not in that kind of position.

Although my list runs 12 removal options 9 are because they do other things and Fox shits on the Wanderer match-up, if I wanted removal I would use Prison but there isn’t a need.

[lazyremus]

I’m curious why we don’t see Aspect of the Wyrm in many Nemeton lists. It’s easier to proc than dowager. It doesn’t seem to me to be the worst aspect token. Or is it just not necessary with all the other options?

[victorious23]

This thread has the most Reliquarian-stun-token -Nemeton decks I’ve seen in one place.

I love it.

[eurasianjay]

Via user @Ryvirath for those interested.

[epicflygon]

Simple, garbage card.

[humancalc]

I’m curious why we don’t see Aspect of the Wyrm in many Nemeton lists. It’s easier to proc than dowager.

The nice thing with Drake Dowager in Nemeton is that the sentinel form counts as a token. So wether it is procced or not it generates one token

Dowager (3 mana). Wyrm (4 mana + needs a minion).
Dowager > Wyrm on ease of proc trial.

[alplod]

Thinking about @icicle’s polarity deck I really don’t understand the reason to play manaforger in the list with half of spells costing 0 mana. And Aethermaster has better synergy with Araras.

[lazyremus]

That makes sense. I imagine it’s somewhat situational tho. The ability to turn a 3x3 block of minions into flyers can be super strong.