I figured I would post my Ythan deck because it has been fairly successful laddering and is about to get nerfed into oblivion so might as well enjoy it while you can.
Ok so I will start off by saying that this deck plays out a bit differently than most in the current meta because it is tempo based and not draw based. I will also say it is very unlikely that this deck is tuned. However, it did bring me to my highest ever recorded rating and top 5 on the ladder (Although I honestly doubt I'll stay there very long).
Hero: Ythan
Cards: 42 + Hero
Allies: 35
4x Vigi Wisp
3x Diplomat
4x Entangled Wisp
3x Aldon
2x Eternal Troll
3x Fortified Wisp
2x Sorcerer of Endia
3x Thunderstrike Construct
2x Braxnorian Soldier
3x Erika
3x Viska
3x Nathanias
Abilities: 7
3x Gambit
2x Treasured Heirloom
2x A Legend Rises
A bit of explanation:
The goal is to use your ability to win early board and as a late game finisher, the damage you can do with it late game is actually insane. You basically want to keep up the pressure with ally after ally throwing in the occasional buff particularly when it can be paired with your ability. Important note: Ythan is terrible at retaking the board in general, but you do have a few tools that will help you. Most decks have trouble killing at least 1 of the 4 allies, Entangled Wisp (electric immune), Fortified Wisp, Erika, and Viska (Nathanias has 8 health and comes with a friend 75% of the time so he is nothing to laugh at either). Play these allies followed by a buff and ability use to retake the lost board.
Match ups:
Your worst match ups are
Garth - With his ability he can challenge early board and has no trouble dealing with any of your "problem allies"
Eladwin - Same deal, she might also just rush you to death if she gets a good start
Victor - Can deal with your problem allies and eventually becomes a late game monster you can't keep up with.
Notable good match ups:
Zal - Electric immune Entangled wisps and damage resistant Fort wisps give Zal a lot of problems
Lance - Your early game can translate into leathal damage before he sets up. Stealth and Ankle breaker can be mitigated with your ability.
Baduruu - You pack a lot of weapon hate allies
Videos - I appologize both are Amber games where my opponent could not get a weapon I tried 5 recordings they all ended up being kind of meh games. If you want to scrim and get another video added let me know.
Amber 1 - This should give a bit of insight into sac choices and alos just shows the pure damage output of Ythan if 1 of his allies is left unchecked
Amber 2 - Slightly more insight into sac choices
Moon - Shows anti-stealth part of your ability, and takes advantage of the toolbox-ness I did however clearly misplay.
Leave questions and feedback I'll try to address everything thing the best I can and update the OP accordingly.
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