Well I have been trying out Warrior decks since I started playing and found War banner specially intimidating when playing against them.
At the moment i run a Boris Control and this Ter Adun Control Deck. Shadow allies are very powerful defensive-wise but have generally a reduced amount of offensive power, so I thought balancing it out would wield superior allies to control the board.
The deck list:
Ter Adun
4 Gargyoles
4 Brutes
4 Medusil
3 Plasma behemoth
4 Crippling blow
4 Blood frenzy
4 Bloodlust
2 War Banner
The strategy is pretty straight forward:
Play a t2 Brute and a t3 gargyole/medusil depending if you are going 1st or 2nd.
Turn 4 Should be used to play Blood Frenzy + Brute/Crippling/Medusil's Ability or a War Banner to get a 4 atck Medusil if 1st.
The objective is to gain board control to be able to play a Behemoth and lock the field on turn 5. War Banners and Bloodlust will help you destroy high hp allies and clear the field. Use Ter Adun to destroy Bows/Staffs.
Since it's a Shadow deck no retreat is available and therefor crippling had to be included. Along with Blood frenzy it makes 8 attached efects for jericho to dispell.
However if jericho is dispelling your cards, that only means he isn't drawing extra cards himself. On t4 you should Crippling + BF so jericho can't dispell both cards simultaniously.
Against Gwen/amber Sacrifice ur Medusils and Flood the field with Gargyoles, brutes and PB. Use Ter Adun to destroy early Weapons and gain momentum.
Vs Mages i find myself Sacrificing the PB since they are going to get traded 1 for 1 anyway with a fireball. I play instead cheap 3 and 2 cost allies.
Other variants I have tried myself is playing fire snake at t1 BF t2 and Keldor t3.
Fire snake can nullify the human ally lock of blake-aldon and gave me a nice t2 BF to play the card advntage game. However She proved a dead draw at later stages of the game and nobody seems to be using Blake anyway so I switched the Snake for Brute wich is more durable and can help me take on Weapons.
Keldor is nice to have to kill 3cc allies and whatnot but I found that instead of pumping I could pay 1 extra cc and get a 4 atck medusil with War Banner.
Medusil and her ability combined with Brute and early War banner can take out a Raven by themselves.
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