Scarab Madness

[Sal]

The deck is giving a home to two of the most underused cards in the game (Scarab and Plate Armor). The idea is not new, but i doubt someone used a simmilar "shell" for it yet.

Some people on chat made fun of Scarabs so i decided to build a deck around it -> here we go...

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The basic idea is to play a Nova early and pump out a Scarab with Plate Armor really early. (i´ve setup the "combo" on turn 1 via Novas quite often).
Then use the Hourglasses to browse through your deck for additional Novas to play Bone Wall and Feral Bond and Fractal.
Butterfly Effect takes care of annoying Permanents and the scarabs keep most creatures at bay.
Eternity is in there to prevent decking out (didn´t seem to be a problem, but its a nice backup for a worst case scenario).

You don´t really need the upgrades beside the Novas (upped Pendulums speed things up of course) so thats a plus i guess.

Dunno if that was just lucky or not, but i actually beat morte with that list.

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Its definatly not the strongest deck out there, but actually fun to play and doesn´t require many upgrades. So give it a shot if you are bored and own upped Novas.

[guolin]

Huh, it looks very interesting. Since you don't have Protect Artifact for the Eternity anyways, I say take it out for another Bond or maybe Shield. (it's better against swarms compared to Bones, too!) Juse sure to stop usin Hourglass as soon as it is not necessary to do so. Also, another Scarab in there will definately help.

[doomeister]

Its kind of similar to mine but more of a control deck and mines about damage. anyway I tried it in trainer and it worked really well. I like how you keep the scarabs unupgraded so you can use butterfly effect on them, that was a good idea.

[trisk22]

Huh, it looks very interesting. Since you don't have Protect Artifact for the Eternity anyways, I say take it out for another Bond or maybe Shield. (it's better against swarms compared to Bones, too!) Juse sure to stop usin Hourglass as soon as it is not necessary to do so. Also, another Scarab in there will definately help.

I agree, another bond will definitely help your healing, maybe even get an EM.