[SF] Haste Boris

[Veles]

***HERO***
Boris Skullcrusher

***Allies (21)***
3x Kristoffer Wyld
3x Aldon the Brave
4x Fleet-footed Messenger
2x Layarian Seductress
2x Viska, The Scarlet Blade
3x Yari Marksman
4x Yari Bladedancer

***Abilities (14)***
2x Smashing Blow
1x Enrage
4x Crippling Blow
4x Blood Frenzy
3x Road Less Traveled

***Items (1)***
1x War Banner

***Armors (3)***
3x The King's Pride

***Weapons (1)***
1x Spectral Sabre

TOTAL: 40 cards + Hero

About Haste

Haste is a powerful keyword. What makes it important is fact that you are guaranteed to use ally for attack or its ability at least once. This is very good given the plethora of control and burn cards in Shadow Era able to shut down your allies before they get the chance to do anything. Even if that ally dies next turn you had at least one use out of it, which can put you ahead in tempo more often than not. Boris already used this in DP but now with SF he got some new tools.

What did this deck gain from SF?

Well first and possibly most importantly Yari Bladedancer. He has incredible synergy with hasted allies. Transferring his attack to Viska, for example, will allow you to take down 5 hp ally. If you add attack modifiers to the formula like Aldon, War Banner and Kings Pride even Kris can hit hard up to 9 attack! That kills pretty much any ally in the game.

Viska has replaced Wild Berserker from DP. Even though he costs 1cc less and is class specific ally his requirement to gain haste sometimes gets in the way. His low hp also often do not guarantee survival for next turn. Viska on the other hand with her high hp and weapon damage reduction is hard to take down. Add to this unconditional haste and 1cc difference is completely justified even with unique status. Her passive allows me to go bit lower on item destruction. I usually carry 3 Smashing Blows but thanks to her and other haste allies that number can go lower, opening more slots for allies.

Marksman also allows to carry less ability control cards and instead up the number of allies.

Road Less Traveled has great synergy wit haste allies. Reusing Kris with KP out to draw more allies with haste is usually finishing blow to opponent. 3 copies of it because this deck requires lots of cards to work.

About some odd cards

3 copies of Kings Pride is a must imo. Unlike "normal" Boris where Kings Pride is icing on the cake for finishing blow you absolutely need this armor here because you can't win by just pining opponent with Kris and FFM. Getting it by T7 is crucial and you need all extra copies against heavy item destruction classes like Priests and Rogues.

Spectral Saber is always a nice card to have for warrior match ups. I did consider Eris but she kinda feels out of place here.

Seductress similarly to Marksman is control in form of an ally. She helps you get trough game when you don't have kings pride so your low attack allies don't take retaliation damage.

1 War Banner as I really don't think you need more. It rarely gets destroyed, so any extra copies is dead draw.

How to play

Deck really plays out itself, but instead of some gameplay advice I am posting a link towards FDL YouTube channel. He has match recorded with this deck. One really important thing you must always be aware of is to never waste all of your haste allies without KP in play. That is why I avoid playing Kris until late game. Playing one or two FFM is ok so you can filter cards and set up armor, Aldon and War Banner. But always count how many of them you played so you know how much damage you can produce in following turns.

[Veles]

Can mod move this to Warrior Strategy please?

[Rivozzz]

Thanks for sharing this deck

I wonder what spectral saber is doing...you have RLT
Also I feel WB is not a constant card you depend on.. It is situational in your deck,,since it is one, you may not draw it in many games, so it feel. Not imp

[Veles]

Saber is for warrior match ups. Lots of talas and now ambers out there. Not a bad card to have for BF/Enrage. Also good against occasional Vess/DC. Sometime its better to remove ally attachment then replaying that ally with RLT(disabled Viska with Kings pride out for example). Plus it is weapon doing 4 damage. So versatile card can't go wrong with it.

War Banner is there as 4th Aldon because running 4 of unique allies is never a good idea. And you will never need more than one copy of War Banner. It is either T3 play if nothing better is in hand to boost Bladedancer or late game card for some more umph.

[E2E TheScope]

Been really enjoying this deck Veles! I have had alot of fun with it and good success so far. My only change was -2 Seductress and +2 Spearman. Argument could definitely be made for seduc but a well timed spearman can change the game. I feel it helps me in the Zal heavy meta when KP comes out to protect my allies from MC and from Zal's ability. Thanks for sharing, I've really been enjoying it!

[maestro91]

Thank you for sharing .... I am trying to build sth similar for tala with her unique ability ....
thx again