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Brass Wall
Cards: 40
Path
Fires of Creation
Power
Impel
Brising Necklace1
Norn Datacore2
Freki Sidecar3
Thunderclap2
Valkyrie Enforcer4
Magnus Thorsson1
Stray Panacea3
Barbed Bolts1
Dragon's Teeth2
The Stretcher2
Wings of Abaddon2
Magmataur2
Melinoe, Soul Shepherd1
Gigantomachia1
Grinning Kolobok3
Sweet Spinnerette2
Matryoshka4
Spirit Stones1
Brass Bouncer3
+0
Essence

19750
Type

Standard
Archetype

Control Midrange
Deck Created

Jul 21, 2020
Factions

Mana Curve

Rarity Counts

11
12
12
5
Type Counts

24
3
1
12
Views

254
Description

Overview and Origin

This deck is based on Ejecty's Ice Wall deck. However, I was missing a lot of the Mythics, including several that he regarded as key. So I decided to splash in some green! Grinning Kolobok and Matryoshka help shore up my early game, and Sweet Spinerette and Spirit Stones help me abuse effects which return cards to the hand, aka "bounce" effects. This led me to include Brass Bouncer in the deck (hence its name).

Basic Strategy

The deck plays a lot like Ice Wall. You want to get lots of mana early on with Grinning Kolobok and Norn Datacore. It's often good to burn one green card early on, because Kolobok and Matryoshka are so good in the early game. However, the rest of the time you should try to burn blue and red cards, since those gems are more valuable- all your green cards only require 1 gem. How you proceed in the late game depends on what sort of opponent you're facing. If you're playing against aggro, simply fight for dominance of the board, and avoid playing Dragon's Teeth. If you're playing against a control deck, try to use Dragon's Teeth and The Stretcher to put your opponent on the clock- you will refresh your resources faster than they can remove them!

Combos and Plays

  • Matryoshka pairs very well with Grinning Kolobok, Stray Panacea, and the Forgelings for making favorable trades.
  • Grinning Kolobok and Stray Panacea also make nice sacrifices for Wings of Abaddon.
  • Almost everything in the deck combos nicely with Freki Sidecar, but especially the Rotary Forgelings and the Forlorn Spirits produced by Melinoë, Soul Shephard.
  • Sweet Spinnerette and Spirit Stones can turn your opponent's stickiest minions ephemeral. When you bounce them with Valkyrie Enforcer or Brass Bouncer, they'll disappear!
  • Brising Necklace can search Spirit Stones from your deck, as well as protect any artifacts below it. In the early game, this can be used for a green gem in a pinch. In the late game, it can be used to surprise your opponent with the above combo.

Replacements

All of the mythics in this list are expendable! I actually find myself burning most of them in the early game, aside from Magnus Thorsson. You could generally replace them with any of the cards found in Ejecty's Ice Wall list that I took out. If you want to throw in some green, you could try artifacts like Samosek, the Living Blade or Shroud of the Pit, which also only cost 1 green gem. If you don't have Spirit Stones or Brising Necklace, you could throw in more copies of Sweet Spinnerette. However, I would caution against adding too much green: you still want to be able to pull off your blue and red plays consistently.

Many of the rare artifacts, though, are core to the deck's identity and irreplaceable. I don't think the deck would really be the same without Norn Datacore, Dragon's Teeth, or The Stretcher.

Video Guide with Gameplay

https://youtu.be/7VyASt_1GtM