An exciting outcome of the world championship at GenCon is that we had not one but 2 Champions of 2016! Its time to break down Steven Lutz winning deck an intriguing hybrid deck with some explosive end-game potential. Let's take a look.
So this deck is doing several very atypical things. It brings 2 very tanky gruffs. Skullheim effectively locks down a single position until the very end game. Darby brings enough mobility on his own to keep himself ramped up and on the offense during the early game. Bubbles is a combo deck's best friend with early control, resource generation and strong card draw options. Grimwood is also the right choice for this line up. Skullheim can use Rigor Mortis to quickly drop him below his threshold, getting an early game resource advantage.
You are going to need that early Crazy to reach this deck's win condition Flying Leap and Deep Secrets.
Flying Leap is your primary damage dealer in this deck, but it is most effective when your opponent doesn't see it coming, or has to deal with smaller threats. Make sure that you drain your enemy of potential counters like Bewilder and Gobble before closing in for the kill with this deck. The best way to do that is to bring Darby's Glory, Grouchy and Intimidate to distract your opponent from the real threat.
One thing to pay close attention to is Bubble's passive stat gain. Most of the time you are going to want to power up her Weird score to get you to that 20 Crazy as quickly as possible. All three gruffs on this team bring Protect (which is arguably the most aggressively costed cards in the entire game) use it to regain tempo and deflect aggression and rely on Bubbles for resource generation.
That basically sums up the core idea of this team. Deflect early aggression and then drop the unavoidable damage for the win. A devastating but fragile strategy. Which do you think would win?
That basically sums up the core idea of this team. Deflect early aggression and then drop the unavoidable damage for the win. A devastating but fragile strategy. Which do you think would win?
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