heyo! this deck has seen top level play for several months now, and with the shupe nerf revert it became even stronger than before (though not as strong as when it first emerged about 6 months prior).
it’s a very strong deck, with a great control suite, whike it’s strategy can perform well in a short and long run in equal measure. It’s very hard to beat this deck when it’s piloted by a strong player. At the same time, it’s a very skill dependent deck, so it’s not the worst deck of all time to be over performing.
i want to start a conversation about how it can be tuned down, while offering 3 of my suggestions as options.
1) nerf Alpha Werewolf By provision.
its the main source of carryover in the deck, and the reason why Adda can play for 20+ points. This nerf would also hit midrange fruits of ysgith decks and Cockatrice beast decks
2) nerf the carapace leader.
This would also hit Selfeater-based relicts, both the GN version and the regular, as well as ogroids and Kelly.
Ogroids can probably survive the nerf without noticing it, while Kelly could be buffed by provision to compensate. not sure what to do with Selfeater relicts, I don’t think they deserve any nerfs.
3) nerf Adda Striga by power. This one is more significant than it may seem, as it means that Adda can no longer eat Thing from the Box with just 2 leader charges, and could no longer eat the djinn spawned by the Puzzlebox without a leader at all.
this nerf would reduce Ada’s point output, true, but more importantly it would move the entire deck further into combo territory, as you would want to use enchanted armor stratagem or Vial of forbidden knowledge to boost your Adda, therefore increasing the amount of setup necessary for the deck to work.
the main benefit of needing the deck by provision is that it’s already quite tight on its budget, and 1 leas provision likely means dropping Maxii, Dorregarey, or endrega Larva, which lowers consistency, control or r1 point output respectively.
I’d love to hear everyone’s thoughts on the matter. Personally I love this deck very much, but sometimes it does feel like You win games by a landslide.