The deck has been evolved inspired by a Raphael's comment. You could find the new version a bit below along with the reasons for that approach
Hello everyone. The release of version 1.28 offers a lot of power cards for the arsenal of shadow spectre. (I was so sick of Boris dominance during 1.27 that I refused to play him).
The combination of blood frenzy + shadow font + 3 cost ability + items recursion was tempting enough to convince me that Logan will be the next dominant hero around.I played a bit with him and my suspicions were right.Logan is powerhouse. But ... that is the great challenge to find a deck that will be capable to handle him. My obvious choises were two:
The Ter Adun with his inbuild ability to destroy items, access to blood frenzy + shadow font but my decklist seemed to be so similar with Logan so I had to abandon him.
The other option was the Moonstalker.I have to admit that I was frustated in the past by wuverns and the toooo long lasted games vs them so I would to like to apologize in advance because my deck falls into that category.
So without any further delay I wil provide you my list and comment my choises
Hero : Moonstalker (because he is untargetable and free valiant defender for his minion every 3 turns)
Creatures (8) you main source of dealing damage
4 Plasma Behemoths (cast him under a barrage of consecutive moonstalker activations to establish board control, finish off opponent)
4 Shadow Knights (recursion (potential endless loop), high power)
Board Control Elements14)
4 Captured Prey (nullifies opponent creature, try to keep them for really annoying creatures like Plasma Behemoths OR to stop opposite death knights recursion...choose wisely the target, they are only 4 so avoid to discard them)
2 Now You Are Mine (main purpose to get rid of opposite gargoyles, brave commanders and especially death mages)
2 Selfness (the Aeon is huge and acts as a shelter for his comrades,this has to stop)
3 Evil Ascendance (untargetable damage every turn for all allies,kills slowly and because you have so few creatures and death knights it doesn't hurt you really)
3 What Big Teeths (extra few damage points to opponent, finish off creatures,combo with Evil Ascendace)
Utility cards(11)
2 Speedstrike (if you have big teeths it will be shame not to use them more often)
1 Lone Wolf (it is better than none, might boost your health a bit but not that necessary for my build to have more copies)
4 Shadow font (spending 4 manas for moonstalker's ability activation seems a good bargain to me,possibly can go down to 3 for an extra regen/lone wolf)
4 Full Moon (stall opponent for a turn is good especially under evil ascendant,big teeths, the allies boost is irrelevant, cast them early as they dont provide shelter for your creatures)
Item Destruction (4)
1 Shriek (its usefullness has been reduced but still capable to handle a portal)
3 Acid Jet (because there are king prides and bersekers' edges out there)
Card Drawing (4)
Bazaars (cast as soon as possible)
Strategy:
Your goal is to survive long enough in order to establish board control with behemoth(s) and consecutive ability activations. Don't be afraid to be low in health (depending opponent hero of course), choose wisely each turn which card to discard (there is no general rule which card to discard, dependiing opponent can be creature or artifact/creature removal, plan in advance).
Cards not included:
Gargoyles (seems narutal inclusion because they cooperate with evil ascendant but thay pale in comparison to behemoths/knights.They are just resource fodders)
Rabit bite (nurfed, for the same cost I will prefer shadow font every time)
Regeneration (valid alternative option for the lone wolf, perhaps a better option because of the removal of this pesky poison gas,flames)
Packwolf (this is not a theme deck)
Predictions:
The deck is far away from being even to tier 1.5 because it has instrict difficulties vs direct damage spell based decks (aka Eladwen), obvious flaws to handle extensive presence of good ascendant and/or early fatties and guarantees long lasting games and possibly angry opponents
but
has strong play vs Logan and Gravebone which seem to be too popular at the them,
increases your tactical thinking/game understanding because you have almost every turn to make a difficult choise which card to discard and why.
In order to watch that deck perfoming you can watch my recent games (though there are some Logans as well )
The card pool is still limited so I am sure that there are and will be many similar builds,even posts around here.I don't proclaim any credits for myself.I just want to share my point of view and I would like to listen your comments/thoughts.
PS English is not (obviously) my native language so please tolerate my bad syntax/grammar. Thank you for your time.
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