Hello all, I’ve been playing Duelyst since the release, first time posting on the forums and I’ve been playing Magmar pretty exclusively. I took a three month break and came back after ancient bonds and decided to see how my deck stacked up against the current line up. It does alright, but I’ve hit a roadblock at Gold and can’t seem to get much higher than that. This is what I use
It’s the old Magmar control deck from a while back and it is a bit on the high end for costs, but as of right now, the grovekeeper is on the chopping block as I don’t run into many frenzy or provoke and he’s a dead card in 90% of my games. I also tend to run into problems against Songhai that spam ranged and Abyssian every so often. Any suggestions?
Indeed there aren’t many provoke minions played, fenzy ia almost always a 2 hp makantor so replacing grove keeper wouldn’t be a bad idea.
Like previously sudgested i would recommend to get more thumping wave. It could be used as ranged removal and proc your sister taygete.
Don’t forget to stick to the songhai player, you have the tools to clear his minions when in range.
Eggmorph seems too slow to be useful so i would replace it with something, thumping wave is a good alternative, sunset paragon as well.
Dark nemesis seems too slow for the meta, he doesn’t do anything unless he survives a turn and even then it’s just 4 damage. With vanar rampaging all over the place and having ~10 cards in their decks that could deal with it, i doubt that it would be meaningful to play it.
Alternatives would be meltdown, Juggernaut if you can ramp it, maybe EMP as it stabilizes the board and may be hard to deal with for the opponent.
To climb the ladder you need to look to counter vanar, they are strongest and spammed alot atleast in diamond / s rank.
This is the list I used in the last push for Diamond. It performed quite well, I managed to win 8 out of 10 games. I built it to tech against all the swarm styles decks which seem to populate the game nowadays: it has a lot of AoEs and some healing to survive. I hope you like it.
Thumping Wave is defnitely a 3 of. If you want more removal after than, Nat Selection x3, and maaaybe 1 or 2 Egg Morphs as well if you feel like you are facing a lot of Vet and Lyonar.
I think taking out Keeper of the Vale, Kron, and Grovekeeper would be good. Sunset Paragon does a very similar role as Hollow Grovekeeper but isn’t useless in most matchups.
Usually BBS or Nat Selection. If the match is going slower paced though and I think I can get a way with it, Earth Sphere is my personal favorite, or Plasma Storm against Lilith/Zirian
