Banebow

[Octarchy]

Just looking for feedback on my Banebow deck, any suggestions would be great!

2x gravebone
4x infernal gargoyle
4x plasma behemoth
2x chimera
2x beledona
3x bad wolf
3x aimed shot
2x bloodfrenzy
2x shriek of vengeance
2x bazar
3x extra sharp
2x soulseaker
1x crimson vest (planning on buying more)

[Fry]

Aimed shot is not great here, since you only have two bows. Same for crimson vest, it's not great with only 2 bows. I recommend going up to 4x Soul Seeker, and probably adding some Beetle Demon Bow (even if you don't plan on turning it into an ally).

[Octarchy]

Ok, took out aimed shot and vest and added two beattle bows, think I'll save for more soul seekers like you said, thanks for the advice

[Rayzie]

Crimson Vest is fine, it doesn't need the hero to deal damage to work. I think it's a great inclusion if your deck isn't full of soul seekers.

[BlanketEffect]

In 1.24, I played Banebow almost exclusively, and it was pretty consistent, even against the dreaded Eladwen Portal/Burn archetype.

HOWEVER

In the new version, the fact that you can no longer stack his hero ability, so that one target can be dealt 4 damage, severely limited its ability to win consistenly. There are just too many good higher-health allies in competitive play that you really need to be able to deal 4 damage to with his hero ability. Frankly, I'd rather Kyle & Co. had kept the ability the same but made it 4 Shadow Energy to use instead of keeping it at cost 3 and making it be split. In my opinion, that made Banebow unplayable (as unplayable applies to playing above the 350 level.)

Onto analyzing your deck, Octarchy.

Your deck is very ally heavy, which is a good thing, but not at the resource curve your deck is built with. Simply put, I don't think you have enough ally control in your deck to outpace your opponent's allies, especially considering that 10/17 (over half) of your allies aren't even playable until turn 4. With Banebow, you either need to be able to flood the board with allies (which, due to resource curve and lack of card drawing, your deck cannot produce) OR you have to be able to control the board well, with traps and arrows (and BB's hero ability), which, you do not have the cards in your deck for.

Of your deck, here are the elements that I think are worth keeping. Otherwise, I think it needs a total revamp if you're going to win more than 1 in 3 games with it, consistently.

4x infernal gargoyle
2x chimera
3x bad wolf
2x bloodlust*
2x shriek of vengeance
2x bazzar
3x extra sharp*
2x soulseaker

*: Extra Sharp and Bloodlust actual quantities are to taste. Certainly not more than a total of 6, between the two of them, although if you run 4x Bloodlust, I recommend removing all Extra Sharp. Idealy, either 4 Extra Sharp and 2 Bloodlust, or 4 Bloodlust, depending on the depth of your ally resource curve. Decks with Firesnakes, Brutalisi, and Infernal Gargoyle as their main stock benefit more from the 4 Bloodlusts, whereas decks that run less allies benefit more from Extra Sharp.

Soulseeker helps, but I don't think the benefit that it brings to a Banebow deck are worth its 5 resource cost.

Just my take on it. Hope it spurs a new thought.

[Reshiram99]

Blood frenzy? Isn't that the warrior ability? Oh, you mean bloodlust.

[Octarchy]

ok that makes alot of sense blanketeffect lol
so i tried to rework my deck to focus more on low level allies, flooding the field, and dealing damage through bloodlust
3x keldor
4x gargoyles
3x chimera
4x firesnake
3x badwolf
2x death trap
3x bloodlust
2x shriek of vengence
2x extra sharp
2x soul seeker
2x bazar

so this deck is more about getting early boardcontrol and maintaning it from three
i like the shriek of vengance just to have something against burn decks

[BlanketEffect]

That looks a lot better, to me. I'd highly recommend going to 4x on the Death Traps; very key card.

[Jovai]

I've a hard time getting Banebow to work for me. Lack of card drawing/deck thinning options + Banebow ability bug + Inferior Shadow Allies makes for a difficult deck composition. That being said, I really, really enjoy playing him anyways, and if I had a useful composition that I actually could consistently get results with I'd post it.