Snap Judgments Deck of the Day: Xorn’s Best Deck!

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Variants

Xorn

After ANY 3 or 4-Cost card is played here, move it to another location.

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Xorn is a strange card. He goes into numerous good decks – Scream with the Batroc package is happy to have him, as are War Machine/Redwing, and honestly any Redwing deck, and he adds some spice with Storm – but in all of those decks, he’s the 12th card. His ability can disrupt the opponent but is also fairly likely to frustrate the person playing him, and there’s almost always a free-to-play replacement for his ability. Still, his stats are good, largely because the decks he goes in are good. Personally, I don’t very much like him, but I can see why he’s done so well.

He does fit into my most successful and oldest built deck, though.

ToxicSoulThursday

Created by PulseGlazer

, updated 1 year ago

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This deck was originated by Thursday on BlueSky back right after Redwing came out. Every season since, it has been in my top 3 most successful decks and is now the oldest deck I still keep built. I keep trying to get people to play with it, but only ToxicSoulKing listenned, and he, too, had great success.

When Xorn came out, Toxy made two changes – he cut Cloak and Kraven for Xorn and Surge. For whatever reason, this exploded the deck’s popularity, and now it’s played all over.

The deck has three separate powerful strategies. First, simplest, the recent Surge addition lets you get out a 6-Cost Card early. A turn 5 Giganto or Red Hulk is usually sufficiently big to threaten a lane, and especially dangerous when played on Madame Web.

Redwing offers you a second ramp package. The goal here is to generally hit a 6-Cost card, and thanks to Makkari self-dropping herself, that can often lead to only one big card in hand at the end game, an extremely useful situation for Dracula. This combo often leads to 30+ Power.

Finally, there’s Vulture. Because or Redwing, we run four move cards. Redwing only needs one, and two of those moves are repeatable – enter Vulture. The power here is simply that you can, almost accidentally, move Vulture 3 times, giving you a 21 Power card. Simply drop Vulture on Xorn with Arana triggered and then Ghost Spider or drop Vulture on Xorn, then Ghost-Spider him onto a Madame Web… or drop him on Madame Web, move him, and Ghost-Spider him back. There’s so many points in this card!

Xorn’s use here is largely that Vulture play, but it is nice to have an extra 2-cost that can move Redwing immediately. He’s replacable, but actually good in this deck.

Card Replacements

1. Twitch.tv/ToxicSoulKing via ThursdaySnap on BlueSky
2. Needs: Madame Web, Redwing
3. Arana -> Iron Fist
4. Rulk -> Magneto
5. Xorn, Surge -> Kraven, Cloak
6. Makkari -> Wasp

Turn by Turn

1. Turn 1: Arana
2. Turn 2: Madame Web if Vulture > Surge > Xorn
3. Turn 3: Vulture if Move. Redwing to set up move of play odds.
4. Turn 4: Dracula or 3 + Ghost-Spider
5. Turn 5: Xorn and Redwing or drop cards on Web… Sometimes a 6 for 5
6. Turn 6: A 6 or move Redwing and empty hand for Dracula

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