Venomflame (Skervox)

[Sisyphos]

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Idea is to use Bounty Hunter to accelerate to Emore Crossbow, which controls insanely well esp. when you don't even have to take a retaliation strike while an enemy is stunned. If you want sth more solid and conventional, Soul Seekers are always good, too.

Control comes from the bow, Poison Arrow and Shadow Font (plus a little bit of DMT ping). That is more than Banebow would need.

Behemoths are the main finishers. If left unchecked they mop up everything, so you want to preserve your se until you can drop one of them. That is sth Skervox does better than Banebow, who often has to clean the board first. Bounty helps pay PB's ongoing cost as well. Ofc relying on 5 hp allies so much means you'll struggle against mages.

Anmor's Elixir has pretty much ideal conditions here and is still only about as good as Hunter's Gambit, so take your pick. The general difference is that Elixir's draw is more reliable if the board is already in your favor and you just want to make sure it won't slip again because of some bad top decks.

There's no item destruction besides Scourge and no guarantee your opponent won't be able to control it, but once it breaks through you have a major advantage. Infernus is an alternative that can't shut down item-heavy setups, but in exchange can't be retreated, buffs Emore and helps vs mages. Esp. against warriors you can just sac' your 6-drop either way, but that's true for most any shadow fatty.

Acolyte deals with Sandworms and other resilient stuff.

The most difficult match-ups are on the extreme ends, solo stall and burn rush. Against the former your Behemoths will have to do the job and quickly, against the latter you need a good starting hand and it doesn't hurt if you're running Seekers and Infernus. Mid-rangier decks on the other hand can struggle a lot to overcome the poison lock.

[zalow517]

I am running a similar deck, with x2 Infernus and x2 Colossus and it's so much fun

[samu313]

How does it work in qm? It looks kind of slow to compete with all the rush out there...

[Kosmiker]

I've just tried it now, lacks draw power, might be better with some bad santas in it.

[zalow517]

I've just tried it now, lacks draw power, might be better with some bad santas in it.

Try with Hunter's Gambit and Elixir, at least you won't be giving your opp cards too. Gambit is also useful to get rid of poisoned/disabled allies so it's multi-purpose (or triple should I say? :P)

[zalow517]

Tried a variation with Bazaar and things are flowing nicely, if I will have enough gold, later on I will try it with Bad Santa. Just played a match where I played the last 6 turns with no cards left in deck, but the late game control of this is amazing... just takes time

[Sisyphos]

I am running a similar deck, with x2 Infernus and x2 Colossus and it's so much fun

Glad you're enjoying it!

How does it work in qm? It looks kind of slow to compete with all the rush out there...

Deck's indeed a little slow, but with a good starting hand you can get by as long as the other player's draws aren't perfect. Soul Seeker is also a great tool against this kind of strategy. If you want to beat rush consistently, i think Skervox is just the wrong hero to pick, though i would gladly be proven wrong on that account. =)

I've just tried it now, lacks draw power, might be better with some bad santas in it.

Iunno, for more draw i'd rather use a combination of Elixir and Gambit, since Santa is a double-edged sword or even a dead card against rush or stall. Imo you'll also be sufficiently able to spend your resources on sth useful between 4x Gambit / Elixir, 4x SKs and Acolytes and Behemoths as resource sinks; a lot of times anyway.