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Mindrange Animist with a Beast Package (WIP)

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Mulligans:

This part is WIP as I dont get many games in

If you have creatures in your opener you can almost alway put them away, what you really want to see are non-cantrip 2 and 3 drops, also Wiccan Tools feels very good

Card Choices:

AURA

Evil Presence - This one is a No-Brainer and probably the most synergistic card Animist has right now

Sow the Earth - Not only does it Ramp you to 6 Mana as early as turn 3 if City of Glass or Tower is in play, 2 Mana (or 3 if we hit a Tower) become available immediately for double spelling

ARTIFACT

Cores - Ramp, might get cut

Silver Bullet - Access to Collection Cards,

casting from Collection Exceptional Minions which are neither Beasts nor Spirits seems really interesting to me, might get cut

Toolbox - Collection Access, its so sweet not having to play Zap! and Artifact Hate in main

Wiccan Tools - card is here right now for testing as Treshhold is sometimes a problem in this deck, so far feals really great as basically a cantrip

MINION

Carion Beetles - Graveyard Hate

Frisky Red Squirrel - Artifact Hate

Gyre Hippogryphs - Flexible Aggro Beast

Root Spider - its just to good of a card to not play

Squirming Mass - I wished this card had Burrowing but it stays for now as its grows big and it grows fast when timed correctly

Hounds of Ondaros - Midrange Beaters, super flexible movement, might go if to slow but excited to see how they fare in testing

Gargantula - Root Spiders Cousin, very nice Tempo Play

Draco Corvus- the Top End of our Curve and Removal on a Stick, closes out games fast enough to earn a slot (also maybe just a Pet Card)

MAGIC

This is where Animist shines, in raising the Floor for Magics to always be a Minion, we get a broad selection of usually Mid spells to be game winning cards

This section is probably also the one where most things will be changed over time

Arcane Barrage - One of the best examples of what you have just read above, X-Spells are highly synergistic with Animist, remove stuff or make creature as big as you want. Makes it important to have some Spellcasters in our List

Assorted Animals - this card led me to the idea for this deck and is the reason we play Beasts, right now the only X-Spell requiring only 2 Threshold so its much more feasible to play early

Browse - will mostly stay Magic as its too good to be a onedrop, great card selection

Tithe - we want to draw as few Sites as we can get away with, this helps

Common Sense - Not much to say here, incidentally the next few Magics in this List are the ones we want to fetch with this Tutor

Gift of the Raven - Cantrips are one of my favourite things with Animist

this might be removed sometime tho as we only heal when striking units but for testing it stays now

Gift of the Wolf - Simple Combat Trick that replaces itself, what more do we want?

Blink - Cantrip and Movement Trick

Magic Missles - our main spell to break Wards

Bury - Just some good removal, could even be used to bury our Hounds to protect them

Feast for Crows - Combo hate, also great in the Mirror Match to disable their Evil Presence

Kiss of Death - even better Removal with Animist

Murder of Crows - Spells that can be cast again from the graveyard really intrigue me, they bring another layer of flexibility to the deck. This one is to beat Necromancer

Witching Hour - This card has surprised me in how potent it is in taking over the game quick. Will probably stay as a staple for Animist

Vanishment - Replaces itself and protects our board

Cave-In - nice Removal

Gigantism - one of the best cards in Earth, makes us win fast

Unlikely Alliance - with so much different rarity among our Spirit Magics, drawing 3 or 4 Cards is quite realistic, makes it a staple in Animist

Earthquake - R E M O V A L

Whirling Blades - can turn the tide of the game in our favor especially if we stack this with one of the Gifts / Witching Hour

SITE

Bower of Bliss - Turn your enemys Mortals to Vanilla Creatures

City of Glass, Dark/Gothic/Lone Tower - Mana acceleration and our best hits of Sow the Earth

Cloud City - double dare your opponent to attack this Site

Fertile Earth / Mountain Peaks - we are a HEAVY Threshold Deck, these two are essential

Fields of Phyxis - great for dealing with any Sites that annoy us

Haystack - Tutor Hate

Merlins Tower - a free Spell? what not to like, also if your in Europe get your copy NOW, it was almost impossible for me to find

Observatory - smooths out our next Draws

Heirloom Lost - Site Hate

Pebbled Paths - Aggro Hate

Perilous Bridge - for Defense, best placed on the middle column

Pillar of Zeiros - super sweet as all our Magic Spirits are Magics again in the Yard

Rustic Village - gives us a cheap blocker

Treetop Hideout - if manage to give Stealth to White Hart we are probably winning

Varmint Warrens - more synergy for our Beasts

Windmill - Color fixing

Wormelow Tump - Protects our reanimation Side-hustle

Collection

Zap! - Removes Deaths Door as a mechanic from the game

Dispel/Disenchant - Artifact Hate

Pith Imp - if you give him Wiccan Tools he gets to cast the stolen card now????

Flanking Maneuver - Big Movement that Cantrips, might be moved to Main Deck

Order of the Pale Worm - Ward Hate

Another Gift of the Wolf

Pudge Butcher - Big Value Creature

Daperyll Vampire - Big Value Lifegain

Considering

Craterize - Big Finisher

Onyx / Amethyst Core - Ramp, gives insanly fast starts

Torshammer Trinket - Utility to enable profitable attacks

Sisters of Avalon - Support Card for our Deck, another Spellcaster is always good, they help with bad Mulligans and play nicely with Skeleton Mage

Skeleton Mage - Skeleton Mage gets a Slot as he is also a Spellcaster and reanimates our best Utility Cards

Divine Healing - against Aggro, if we play against Control its a Minion, thats the beauty of Animist

White Knight - no direct synergy with this Deck but 3 Mana for 3/5 is a Treat for this Midrange List, also it being Exceptional makes them important Blockers against Aggro

Squirming Mass - This one I am quite unsure about, its a target for Assorted Animals and could scale nicely in aggro matchups, but might as well be removed if testing shows its to slow

White Hart - AA Target, one of the best Defensive Cards there is, especially if we manage to give it Stealth with Treetop Hideout

Murmuring Dust | Animist Supremacy

@Vulgerius