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Heading into the OTA, neither Khonshu nor Agamotto felt particularly important. Both cards see play, but they serve a support role at best and are often not required for their respective decks to function. Overall, it felt like the surrounding cards were doing most of the heavy lifting when it came to making either Khonshu or Agamotto look good.
With the OTA, both cards should have more opportunities to see play; Discard Dracula is a synergy on the rise, and Agamotto can replace Iron Patriot in a lot of decks that are looking to fill that slot. We’ll see if their numbers improve in this new environment.
| Mission | # | Reward |
|---|---|---|
| Win a Location with 4 Cards | 10 | 150 Credits |
| Win with Khonshu starting in your Deck | 4 | 200 Collector’s Tokens |
| Win with Agamotto starting in your Deck | 8 | 150 Gold |
Khonshu Performance
Khonshu managed to create an archetype of its own, but that archetype is doing pretty poorly so far (hence the disappointing performance when looking at only Infinite Numbers on Untapped). What is keeping the card relevant is its ability to be played in the Discard Dracula deck, where it serves as another discard target and, in particular, a Turn 6 play considering Apocalypse typically wants to stay in hand.
Even with a spot in a proven archetype, Khonshu‘s number aren’t super promising at the moment. Indeed, lower “On Play” numbers compared to “On Draw” means the card isn’t contributing to its deck enough to make it better, and it is the deck that is carrying the card more than anything else.
With the OTA nerfing the most powerful card in the game in Iron Patriot alongside a buff to Ghost Rider, I expect Khonshu will post better numbers. However, this could be said about a ton of cards, and that still wouldn’t solve the fact that Khonshu has better numbers when it stays in your hand rather than hit the board.
If its signature archetype does not progress in the near future, it is hard to recommend picking up Khonshu. Bullseye doesn’t want to play the card, and, even though Discard Dracula might use it, it certainly doesn’t need the card to be a good deck.
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Agamotto Performance
Agamotto‘s performance is improving outside the Infinite rank, but there’s not much movement past that threshold. In the higher competitive spheres, Agamotto is often the 13th or 14th card; you can use it as a solid replacement for a missing piece, but it’s rarely part of the starting line-up of the best performing archetypes.
The OTA just nerfed Iron Patriot, though, so this could be a great opening for Agamotto to finish the season strong and finally become a staple standalone inclusion. The card makes sense in Scream Move and Good Cards Control, both of which should have an open slot to fill following the OTA.
It’s important to note that the opposite might also happen: that nerf could reduce the amount of flexible decks around, which reduces the number of decks that are interested in running Agamotto. Indeed, the Season Pass card has not been included in very synergistic decks thus far, so if the likes of Toxic, Discard, or Move were to take over, Agamotto might become collateral damage.
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Bonus Challenge Decks
Khonshu and Agamotto don’t synergize at all, so there aren’t any decks with both included—unless you want to give Agamotto a try in a Discard build. But that probably isn’t a good idea, so I’m splitting up both cards this week.
Khonshu has a reliable archetype to complete its missions, Discard Dracula, that is also the current best performer for the synergy. There’s nothing fancy here, just take the list that has been used for months now and add the new card to it.
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You could get a little creative with your deckbuilding if you want to play something more exotic. Try including Silver Samurai, The First ghost Rider, and Iron Man instead of Colleen Wing, Proxima Midnight, and Gambit. Just a heads up: the Win Rate between these two drops from 58% to 53%.
If you fancy testing a “Khonshu oriented” deck, there aren’t any strong lists with a lot of games to back up their performance at the moment. Here is one with about 100 games and a 57% Win Rate, which is probably the best place to start on the route to refining a deck. Plus, you also get to see if one more power makes a difference for Ghost Rider.
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In this deck, Blink is also an interesting prospect since you can play her with Stature on Turn 6 to fetch either Gorr or Khonshu from your deck. Simply replace Black Bolt and Ghost Rider with Silver Samurai and Blink if you want to give that a try.
Moving on, Agamotto serves as a standalone inclusion in strong, flexible archetypes. Feel free to slot the card into a variety of decks depending on which play style you prefer. Thanos and Scream are posting the best results with the card so far since the OTA.
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