Minion Masters: Solo Master 5

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I reached solo rank Master 5 for the first time. These are the last 3 wins:







I was trying to get into top 128 to qualify for the Discord's Snowgiving tournament but I simply ran out of time because of real life activities. Towards the end, I focused on using 5 different decks.

The deck used for the above matches is significantly different than the Stormbringer 'Guild' deck I used previously. I had to modify it a lot to counter the plethora of Ravager decks, of which the most annoying one had double Rammer, double Dragon Ball and Shars'Rakk Twins. I wrote a little about this in the video here.

The deck build is as follows:
(1) Illusory Cleaver: cheap to capture bridge and can kill minion(s) with less than 30hp
(2) Scrat Pack: cheap to capture both bridges
(3) Dragon Whelp: solid flying melee minion
(4) Plasma Marines
(5) Xiao Long: deters spell
(6) Lightning Bolt: great for killing big minions but have to time it carefully. My main aim was to kill Brutus or either of the twins
(7) Wheel of Doom: great for killing medium minions. My main aim was the kill the twins
(8) & (9) Divine Warrior: great as a tank with that 8 secs of immunity. Great to distract Brutus and/or twins while other minions kill them. Two of her to increase chance of getting her when she's needed and also in case opponent uses Black Hole on the first one (so that most of the immunity is wasted)
(10) Crossbow Guild: key feature of this deck. Great at hitting Ravager's face because his basic attack has very short range

Let's try to use the checklist provided by Edelweiss to look at this deck:
  1. Average mana cost of around 3.5: yes
  2. 8 minions + 2 spells: yes
  3. Counter to (a) Flying, (b) Swarm, (c) Big units:
    • (a) Dragon Whelp, Plasma Marines, Xiao Long, Crossbow Dudes (from the guild)
    • (b) Divine Warrior (as distraction) + other minions, Wheel of Doom on walkers (but I usually reserved this for medium minions) 
    • (c) Lightning bolt (if timed well), Divine Warrior + other minions
  4. Specialised cards: Lightning bolt, Divine Warrior
  5. Win condition: constant stream of Crossbow Dudes supported by other minions to hit face. Perk 3 helps a lot.

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