Annoyance.deck
This is the deck I alluded to in the slave hunter thread, as an idea for a way to put the card to good use. I've observed that a lot of ranked decks rely on low power enabling cards like elven scout, mahakam whatshisname, vicovaro novice, and beastmaster. This deck's primary plan is to **** with these arrogant decks as much as possible by stealing their enabling pieces and just generally be as annoying as possible while building up its own board. It's proven surprisingly effective. As in 'got 60 points up on NG spies' surprisingly effective, though I lost that game due to double-stacked cantarella into gigni. So first, the (original) version of this deck:
Leader: Emhyr
Golds: Steffan Skellen, Vilgefortz, Cahir, Muzzle
Silvers: Sweers, Peter Gwynleve, Vanhemar, Vreemde, Ceallach, Nilfgaardian Gate
Bronzes: Slave Hunter x 3, Vicovaro Medic x 3, Nilfgaardian Knight x 2, Standard Bearer x 3, Slave Driver x 3, Vicovaro Novice x 1, Ointment x1
The general plan of action is to steal, steal, steal and generally irritate. It's a fairly thought-intensive deck that only works if you have a good knowledge of the other factions and what cards they're probably using, so you know what to target with Sweers/Muzzle. The bronzes are the weakest and least certain part, as the deck has a couple of obvious issues; while it benefits from the opponent's stuff a lot, it has no real finisher and not even much in the way of true muscle, which is how the Nilf Knights ended up in there. I've considered that the golds are probably where to look for finishers but outside Tibor I don't see much that excites. Steffan is usually used to set up a tech card depending on how the game is developing, or Vreemde as the standard choice as he can lead to some pretty good chain-spawns (via recruit). Either way, Vreemde is one of the deck's better set-up turn 3 plays; a Skellan-boosted Vreem is usually somewhere around 20 pts depending on RNG (recruit into nilf knight gets 21, for example). Emhyr is the leader for obvious reasons. Re-using Sweers/Peter/Vreem/Ceallach/Vanhamar or basically anything else, chain stealing with Vicovaro Medic or Slave Hunter if its needed, and Cahir is obviously there to repeat the fun. Nilf gate is obvious tech card since it grabs fully 4 6ths of the deck's silvers.
Standard Bearers don't usually perform well until you start using Vreem and Slave Driver, but they go funny if you get two on the board. I'm thinking these are probably better cut for something else but not sure what. Maybe the slave infantry/sentry combo?
So have at it guys. Should I squeeze in Cantarella/Stone for the potential double spy plays that are so memish right now? Thoughts on the bronzes and the role of the golds?
I have no idea if this can be competitive, but it has promise. I took a cirinova/olaf double bill deck to a draw with this, so it can definitely get up there. Obviously in part this is a fun deck, but I'd like to see if we can actually make a meta deck that'll work in this game rather than just netdecking everything.
Edit: Oh yeah, ideal opening hands. You want Nilf gate, at least one medic and one slave hunter in the opening hand, vanhemar ideally as he's one of the few major players you can't search up, preferably muzzle, and after that whatever's good. Cahir is obviously something to draw in turn 2 if you can. The deck doesn't normally want a long round 1 as it has few ways to directly kill things and so struggles to get cards into the graveyard unless the enemy helps or SWEERS ATTACKS. This deck majorly annoys bears and most ST decks I've run into, and can do hilarious things to other NG decks as well. Especially spies. Also, I had a very funny game vs NR where I ended up with 4 reinforced trebuchet. I'm quite confident he wasn't fond of this arrangement.
This is the deck I alluded to in the slave hunter thread, as an idea for a way to put the card to good use. I've observed that a lot of ranked decks rely on low power enabling cards like elven scout, mahakam whatshisname, vicovaro novice, and beastmaster. This deck's primary plan is to **** with these arrogant decks as much as possible by stealing their enabling pieces and just generally be as annoying as possible while building up its own board. It's proven surprisingly effective. As in 'got 60 points up on NG spies' surprisingly effective, though I lost that game due to double-stacked cantarella into gigni. So first, the (original) version of this deck:
Leader: Emhyr
Golds: Steffan Skellen, Vilgefortz, Cahir, Muzzle
Silvers: Sweers, Peter Gwynleve, Vanhemar, Vreemde, Ceallach, Nilfgaardian Gate
Bronzes: Slave Hunter x 3, Vicovaro Medic x 3, Nilfgaardian Knight x 2, Standard Bearer x 3, Slave Driver x 3, Vicovaro Novice x 1, Ointment x1
The general plan of action is to steal, steal, steal and generally irritate. It's a fairly thought-intensive deck that only works if you have a good knowledge of the other factions and what cards they're probably using, so you know what to target with Sweers/Muzzle. The bronzes are the weakest and least certain part, as the deck has a couple of obvious issues; while it benefits from the opponent's stuff a lot, it has no real finisher and not even much in the way of true muscle, which is how the Nilf Knights ended up in there. I've considered that the golds are probably where to look for finishers but outside Tibor I don't see much that excites. Steffan is usually used to set up a tech card depending on how the game is developing, or Vreemde as the standard choice as he can lead to some pretty good chain-spawns (via recruit). Either way, Vreemde is one of the deck's better set-up turn 3 plays; a Skellan-boosted Vreem is usually somewhere around 20 pts depending on RNG (recruit into nilf knight gets 21, for example). Emhyr is the leader for obvious reasons. Re-using Sweers/Peter/Vreem/Ceallach/Vanhamar or basically anything else, chain stealing with Vicovaro Medic or Slave Hunter if its needed, and Cahir is obviously there to repeat the fun. Nilf gate is obvious tech card since it grabs fully 4 6ths of the deck's silvers.
Standard Bearers don't usually perform well until you start using Vreem and Slave Driver, but they go funny if you get two on the board. I'm thinking these are probably better cut for something else but not sure what. Maybe the slave infantry/sentry combo?
So have at it guys. Should I squeeze in Cantarella/Stone for the potential double spy plays that are so memish right now? Thoughts on the bronzes and the role of the golds?
I have no idea if this can be competitive, but it has promise. I took a cirinova/olaf double bill deck to a draw with this, so it can definitely get up there. Obviously in part this is a fun deck, but I'd like to see if we can actually make a meta deck that'll work in this game rather than just netdecking everything.
Edit: Oh yeah, ideal opening hands. You want Nilf gate, at least one medic and one slave hunter in the opening hand, vanhemar ideally as he's one of the few major players you can't search up, preferably muzzle, and after that whatever's good. Cahir is obviously something to draw in turn 2 if you can. The deck doesn't normally want a long round 1 as it has few ways to directly kill things and so struggles to get cards into the graveyard unless the enemy helps or SWEERS ATTACKS. This deck majorly annoys bears and most ST decks I've run into, and can do hilarious things to other NG decks as well. Especially spies. Also, I had a very funny game vs NR where I ended up with 4 reinforced trebuchet. I'm quite confident he wasn't fond of this arrangement.
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