Welcome to the Imperium!
While I’m excited to see you enjoy Obelysks, which was my favorite Deck for about a year and a half of Duelyst and with over 2k games played with it. The Archetype is pretty garbage now in Standard with the loss of our very strong early game cards, Falcius and Whispers of Sands. Which in turn makes the Deck and Archetype an uphill climb to get any viable deck to work with it.
It’s not a bad deck it’s just a weak deck. You do not have a solid win condition anymore with Whispers of Sands being rotated out, and if people say Accumulonimbus for Obelysks they are wrong and right. While Accumulonimbus wins games and has Synergy with one Obelysk card Fire Blaze Obelysk if you don’t build for that win condition the deck ends up being weaker in my opinion. You can always play it is an “Oops I win, I drew 2 of these,” but outside of that it seems less useful in Obelysk than say Combo(my personal deck) or full blown Aggro(decks you’ll see other people post).
The real card you need for the deck is Khanuum-Ka, he’s the real hero for Obelysks and Dervishes. Outside of this card I recommend playing the LITD Package which is 3 Thunderhorns, 2 Lost in the Deserts, 2 Kinematic Projection as this is disruption you need to remove the hate off your Obelysks during the midgame.
Gust is slow and think of him as a 6 mana card not 5. Again I wouldn’t play him anymore the meta is very fast. He could be seen as a closer card, but think the slot could be used for other things, especially early game things.
Another great early game card is Wasteland Wraith which I’m enjoying the hell out of at the current moment.
Superior Mirage is great against Magmar and Aggro Vet(Wind Dervish) but outside of those matchups the card loses a lot of value. It’s a great closer card, but I’d only recommend playing 1 or 2 tops at the moment if you wanted to play it at all.
Portal Guardian is actually a good Idea I was thinking he’d generate enough threat to eat removal to keep my Obelysk and Khanuum-Ka safe.
Reassemble is a lot better if you play Trygon Obelysk and much weaker without it. Trygon Obelysk is also extremely powerful with Khanuum-Ka so there is that too. Just wanted to put Trygon Obelysk out there because noone seems to realize both of these together is pretty nuts.
Don’t forget that our Hero and Savior EMP will be played inforce due to all the BS on the ladder, which means you can instantly lose on 7 mana if you had some setup. That is why the deck will be weak for at least 1 more year or new cards added. The only way this deck works is if focus yourself on killing the opponent before 7 mana and that not really possible anymore with this archetype.
I don’t have a Decklist atm, but I have an idea. I will be exploring this idea this week on my stream to try and get this Archetype to work or die trying.
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