Banebow
4x Infernal Gargoyle
2x Plasma Behemoth
4x Bad Wolf
1x Death Mage Thaddeus
3x Poison Arrow / Flaming Arrow
4x Evil Ascendant
3x Shriek
2x Acid Jet
3x Bad Santa
1x Bazaar
1x Surprise Attack
3x Soul Seeker
2x Golden Katar
Optionals to get to 40 cards:
Into the Forest
Tracking
Shadowspawn
Night Prowler
Crimson Vest
Banebow's ability does fast low damage, good for aggression. Combined with:
Evil Ascendent, Gargoyle, Bad Wolf and Arrows make for good board control.
Crimson Vest and Soul Seeker are great to heal.
Night Prowler and weapons can steal enemy technology (If you have Tracking you know when it's worth it to play this combo)
The objective is to hold the board, then beat your opponent with constant small damages from Banebow, weapons and allies.
You need the item destruction for annoying things that can cripple this deck like WhatBigTeeth, Curse, enemy Golden Katar or King's Pride.
Shadowspawn works great because Banebow's ability costs 3 SE. Usually Zaladar (any hero with an ability cost more than 3 SE) would beat Banebow with his stronger ability, but when you can use yours and then Shadowspawn to deny his, you are in good shape! You can also use this when you think a hero with a weapon ability and lots of stored shadow energy is going to get a weapon soon.
Thaddeus is my favorite Shadow Ally, and even though he dies to Ascendant, Dima got me hooked on DMT because of how good it is for early control (http://www.shadowera.com/showthread....dow-m-conveyor). So I need at least 1. You can trade more in for Bad Wolfs, but I found Bad Wolf works best in the longer games with Ascendant.
Plasma Behemoth is the strongest shadow ally so I included some. PB does not care about Ascendent because he has 5 health, and by the time he dies from it you can do lots 7 damage per turn (ouch!) PB is one of the only effective ways in this deck to deal with allies like Sandworm and Aeon.
If your enemy takes the board, you can use Golden Katar, Arrows/EA + Banebow ability to chip away at their allies while you take it back. Forest has saved me more than once in this situation.
Remember, the small numbers add up quickly!
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