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How about a flaky, hard to play meme? Damage reduction.

  • Silly games to try and transform Scarzig!
  • Breed Gibbet clones using the same tech!
  • Unclear win conditions!

WOW THIS IS BAD.
yes.

Echoing Shriek was also “tested”, but felt extremely awkward so it was cut out.

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Try adding at least some consistent wincons. I dunno, 2xRev or even 2xVariax. Just in case.

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Reaper and DFC feel out of place here. Something simple like EMP & Revenant would work better. Spriggin and Visage are very bad cards even after their buffs, so unfortunately there isn’t probably a very good overall solution to make this deck work.

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Yes it’s kind of random. I’m not sure what Reaper’s purpose could be, but I just noticed that my collection now has a full set of it so I want to experiment and understand this unit.
DFC on Gibbet is hilarious, and it’s also a luxury Scarzig enabler. I agree that these are poor excuses for using it though :slight_smile: It’s certainly not paying back as much as in a swarm crash.

Spriggin was here for Your Personal Lulz @miguelosz! haha :smiley: I don’t think it’s a very good top end without Chakram though. Revenant is the better minion and should replace it as you say!

Edit: I tried something more conventional

EDIT: This deck seems to work fine (at least at my low level on the ladder), Void Steal allows to trigger Scarzig in many situations. Feather Knight plus Shadow Reflection is insta-win.

EDIT 3: Now streamlined and more threatening.

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since you have flamewing and reaper, you should consider running skywing. it should help with the tempo.

have you considered skywing? it also does 5 damage just like skywing. you always have initiative when you’re flying anyway, and you need the lower curve.

edit: skywing also does 5 damage just like flamewing

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Hey @miguelosz, how do Q’orrhlma’a decks fare in the wake of the Trials of Mythron meta?
I’m considering crafting a set…

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I’d guess worse than before, since Q decks finish the game typically around 8 rather than 7 mana. It’s been a while since I’ve last made a Qatharsis build actually. It’s a really cool card, soo many possibilities :slight_smile: But tricky to build around and play while not super powerful, so consider a little before crafting.

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Fair enough! Thanks a lot for the advice.

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After a few days of play testing, I’m pretty positive that the Abyssian Scarzig deck is much better without Scarzig. :sweat_smile:

But on the bright side I’m very much enjoying the “Twisted nurse Cassy” play style, where I use reliable healing and damage reduction to impose a good board and keep buff targets around.
Sellsoul is the flex spot of this deck.

Although I lost very hard to an Cyclone / Celerity / Backstab / no-minion Reva. :thinking:

I have no idea in what Archetype category my deck falls though. Aggro-midrange?
I had previously used Void Steal in a swarm deck, but it felt somewhat fragile. I actually like it much better with bodies that can take a second hit.

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In the Abyss, no one can hear you bump.

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But it stares back into you as you bump.

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Fresh from the underworld!

A pure Dying Wish spam deck, unfettered, unbound, unstoppable (if you draw your ramp cards)

Lilithe provides the additonal bodies for Furor Chakram to be truly terrifying.
Grimes and Nightmare Operant provide the unplanned catastrophes.

Contrary to the thoughtful and finely chiseled decks of @deathsadvocate, this one aims to win by sheer brute force and unfair strikes of luck. Despite the bad pilot that I am, this manages to provide a surprising amount of wins.

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A Nether Summoning or two might fit here if you want some extra rng :stuck_out_tongue:

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You know what? As this deck builds a big board and enjoys RNG, how about Hsuku? :stuck_out_tongue:

Note to self: Flawless Reflection Hsuku would be funny.

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Hsuku is fun, not too strong but can be rage-inducing on Reaper and whatever stupid stuff you get from Grimes :slight_smile:

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The Hsuku Titan list works pretty well.

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Ooh, sounds spicy :slight_smile:

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Here is Hsuku’s decklist. Pretty reactive but Hsuku and Grovekeeper work well together. Control the board, set up some minions and then Titan :slight_smile:

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our true hero, gibbet

probably a horrible idea, but basically you destroy everything with gibbet, and stall for spec rev. build a horde, buff it, and destroy. sounds evil to me.

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Blood Siren is a must for atk reduction decks. On the other hand, Cadence seems weird with so few targets. Scarzig and Mirkblood Devourer could be cool non-budget options for this deck. Overall, attack reduction is a really bad but pretty fun archetype so it doesn’t matter much what other jank you combine with it. :smile: I’m sure if you can pull this off the end results will be pretty hilarious.

Oh, and Gibbet needs Daemonic Lure. Maybe swap out Visage instead, it’s a quite bad card even in these kinds of decks.

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