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Is anyone running Illusion Kara for Diamond? Help!

#1

I know the ladder’s all about Disruption right now so I (of course) want to run a Token Kara Arcanyst list. Problem is, I’m not very good with Vanar deckbuilding, and would really appreciate some help!

I want to make a deck that capitalizes on Kinetic Surge through Circulus and Prismatic Illusionist to make a little hordette of Illusions and value my way to victory. I was thinking Walls to stall and combo and a whole bunch of small spells to trigger (Deathgrip, Teachings etc), also using the three spell discounters available to Vanar to speed things up. I’m looking to break Diamond with it and just have a lot of fun! These are the baseline cards I was considering:

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Has anyone been trying something like this? Let me know! Please coach me into a fun and semi-consistent deck to enjoy.

PS: I have a lot of the cards, but not all of them. I’m willing to craft a few if needed! I think I have all the usable Arcanysts, anyway.

Maybe something in this direction? Probably too low in power?

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Lol, I didn’t even add Walls.

#2

I doubt you need Abjudicator or Seraphim. You haven’t any high cost spell and it’s not like you are really trying to combo either.

#3

Just use a simple arcanyst list like this?

#4

If you want to swarm try lady locke,

Now that they changed the bbs she’s a 3/3.
And all the 2/1 becomes 4/3 with provoke. :wink:

Abjudicator is good paired with trinity but it’s too situational… Maybe swap it.
And the same goes for seraphim, either you put the reactivate spell or the only good combo is him+frostburn, but by that time you should be too haed for the opponent to have a board.

The deck looks really good, it misses power but it has enough cheap removal to clean the opponent’s board

#5


Try this one, with this deck i run to rank 2, then switched to faie

#6

Played with this for some part of Gold and Diamond, efficient deck, can get totally out of control if opponent is careless.

I’m not a ladder grinder, I switch deck every 4 or 5 matches so, can’t tell if it’s enough to go further.
Usually, when I hit diamond I’m like : “ok, my work here is done” :slight_smile:

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#7

I’ve been playing something similar, but since I’m so scared of spending spirit it’s been weird. I’ve been running chroma cold and corona. I would really recommend owlbeast, since he’s worked out well for me, and keeps a lot of minions out of range of an aoe. I personally don’t run deathgrip, but with blue conjurer I might, since it leads to either me playing 2/1s, which aren’t great, or filling my deck with em. I’d also run enfeeble, as its a pretty good card regardless.

My biggest issue has been the lack of a solid win condition. With circulus, you can generally make good tempo plays when you have your bbs, so I just stall it out. My personal decision was running embla. If you’re able to keep even on the board its a good card, and pressures the opponent quite hard. There are multiple games I would’ve won had I run wake, but, as usual, I am too scared of crafting a card that might become obsolete.

My proposed decklist would be something like this:

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P.S You could use polarity as your win condition, but that’s been way less reliable for me than embla.

#8

I took Kara and Vaath to S, was going to put out a post with my latest Vanar stuff either today or tomorrow, but I will drop a spoiler here. Here is my S-rank Kara list:

http://www.bagoum.com/deckbuilder#MTo1MjcsMzoyMDEzOSwzOjIwMTUwLDM6MjAxNDQsMzoyMDI2MSwzOjIwMTM0LDM6NTQwLDM6MjAyMzcsMzoyMDE0NywzOjIwMjI5LDM6MTAzMDMsMzoxMDMwNSwzOjExMDExLDM6MTEwOTc=

Its a pretty advanced deck to pilot, but it is a lot of fun.

#9

Seems very VERY funny, combo-ing Firestarter with 0-mana spells, pumping your arcanysts while sacrificing Spellsparks and Illusions !
Did you try Loreweaver for even more free spells ?

#10

I have not, but it seems slow and unreliable, so I doubt I will find room for it, but it certainly has potential.

Also I posted my vanar thread with some details on the deck:

#11

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