Eredan's World

I sifted through my cards and I saw something with potential. I'm taking out Remember! and adding in this baby: [card]Mekarmor[/card]

It lets me do Crystal Dragon + Witchrage on the same turn, which maximizes its benefit, and also lets me lead with a Witchblade Secret before my actual card.

It looks awesome in theory.

Also, I got that Mage armor card off the Sap heart boss (+4 DEF, 3 fight duration) and I'm thinking of trying it out too for leverage against attack decks.

That's a true story regarding Civil War, when it decides to dick around and do direct damage. I thought that was just me being unlucky.

I'm currently only missing 3x Sliding but otherwise it's complete. I plan to run this in ELO soon.

It's currently ok. I'm gonna play the hell out of it in ELO the next few weeks, until some new card releases appear I don't think I can make any changes that will work better apart from any current cards I may have missed that fit the 'control' strategy.

Thanks for the help btw, these guys have come a long way from doing the Ice Shield + Rain of Death + Physical Attack shindig.

Great suggestions all around!

It's true that 3 Neutralizations are excessive, I'm cutting one out. Infiltration can actually sit at 1 copy too, which leaves me 2 free slots.

I now have 3 Witchblade Trump and 2 Crystal Dragon, so that's how I'm going to finish the game in theory.

I disagree with cutting Witchrages though. I use it more for the removal of Spells/Items than the extra damage, but the extra damage works well with Crystal Dragon.

Last week, Dissidence was banned in ELO, but it's easily one of my favorite cards in the whole game.

I never got Secret of the Crow though. That seems like a ridiculously strong card for controllish strategies.

I'm going to try out Procession when the prices drop some more.

Jeez, I'm so scatterbrained right now, it's just so encouraging that Witchblades get a unique style of their own and not just Spell+Attack (boring, Ice Shield + Rain of Death killed most characters back then). The last time I played Witchblades (A year ago I believe) I was doing the Dragon's Wit, Narwhal + Ice Coffin combo which was too funky.

As I recently found out that most of my Stormcrows (Crystal Storm + Vanish) deck is banned in the ELO mode tournament (Illumination, etc.) I decided to make a variant of Witchblade control. My version focuses on preventing the opponent from playing cards until I can set up and activate the Crystal Dragon + Witchblade Trump + Civil War combo. I'm still missing the Crystal Dragons though, but it works quite well in practice:

Ylliana
Anazra
Nadarya

3 Neutralization
3 Witchblade Secret
3 Noz Secret
3 Witchrage
3 Witchblade Armor
2 Witchblade Trump -> Might go up to three copies if I drop Freeze
2 Short Crystal Blade
2 Infiltration
2 Dance of the Blade -> Will become Crystal Dragons soon!
Freeze!
Civil War

I'm trying to fit in a Door to Infinity when I get it, probably going to drop one Neutralization.

I'd love to run more controllish cards but I've been out of the loop for quite a while so I have no idea what cards there are that do similar things. I 've seen one trophy card that seems to do this (The Crow and the Emperor IIRC) but can anyone bring me up to speed regarding others? I have Peace Treaty (old trophy card that negates a non-Item card) and Dissidence (sadly banned) that I'm considering using, possibly dropping the Noz Secret cards altogether.

Another update.

Blanche of Arcania
Archmage Anryena
The Pythia

Sylphide
3 Crystal Storm
3 Illumination
3 Dragon's Wit
3 Vanish

Those 13 cards are what I believe to be the core of the deck. The remaining 7 cards are mainly depending on your preference. Personally, I opted for more ways to search for either Crystal Storms early or the Dragon's Wit + Vanish combo late, and a few ways to deliver AoE damage, so:

Deliverance
Premonition
Lightning Bolts L3
Explosion
3 I Hate Brawlers! -> Which I am still planning to replace with something else, I haven't found the perfect card yet.

It wasn't worth it IMO, the Thunder King is really weak without his gear, and even when fully geared he is still only slightly above average.

I made this deck once. Fun, but I found that Pilkim, Alishk (dragon version) and Zahal work better. I consider myself as somewhat of a Noz connosieur. ;D

If you can manage it, Zahal, Chimera, and The Dragon's Champion work really well for a 2-card investment in the deck. Illumination is also nice, and if you can get Dragon Armors and Armor Invocation that'll be great too.

My current Noz deck uses Archmage Anryena instead of Pilkim because it doesn't have Dragon Fangs in it.

Archmage Anryena
Alishk (Dragon version)
Zahal

Chimera
Draconian Staff
Lightning Bolts lv3
Armor Invocation
Freeze!
3 Dragon Armor
3 Power
3 Than the Sword
3 Magic Attack
3 Mentalism

I'd run The Last Word instead of Power if I could. Too expensive.

So what about that new banlist, eh?

I like it. Time to rock Helena.

I just beat the Sap Heart boss with this:

Lady Ylith
OP Lucyan (Priest)
Wreckwood

3 Vengeful Lianas
2 Zarazam's Eye
Exordium
3 Stitches
3 Mercy
3 Epic Fury
3 I Hate Brawlers!
2 Grand Divine Scepter

Recycling heals for the win! It was a slow slog but we made it. Mercy is incredibly useful versus Living Nature spam.

I got the mace, the strength, Cutting all Ties and No Quarter! as prizes. It was an excellent and lucky haul! Which got me thinking:

If I get so lucky that I obtain three copies of Strength of the Sap Hearts, I'm assuming I can use all three in one deck and stack them on one character?

So, what are they going to do about the Foam Giant + Strength of the [Guild] issue?