If you play Deception and feel sad you have no space for relics in your favorite deck, you probably should consider acquiring a Shady Merchant. The card costs only 0.5 GODS on IMX market and is even cheaper if you can pay in ETH - from 0.00038.
Magic, this is what happens when two dodgy traders meet, Shady Merchant (Genesis, Guild) and his colleague, Back-Alley Vendor (from Genesis set too).
Every turn, Shady Merchant brings a relic, one of the four types:
- Destructive Dagger, strength 1 / durability 1, deadly.
- Curative Cudgel, strength 2 / durability 2. Afterlife: Heal your god for 3.
- Glamoured Gladius, strength 1 / durability 3, blitz, give +1 strength to a random friendly creature after you attack with this relic.
- Sterling Spear, strength 2 / durability 3, blitz, flank.
Amazing relics!!
Shady Merchant is hidden for 1 turn so there is a high probability that Shady will be safe after the first turn and you will have at least one relic.
So you can say that Shady Merchant is a side deck with relics. Which is amazing by itself. But the best things start when the Back-Alley Vendor enters the scene.... (Ali as I call him).
Ali costs 1.8-2 GODS currently on IMX market and even cheaper when you pay ETH - 0.001784.
His work is stunning: his roar turns every Shady's relics into a random legendary card!
Other cards that bring material for Ali (but I don't have them):
- Rune Smuggler
- Backstreet Bouncer
- Hypnos Puzzle Box
- Blade Trader Drosis
- Most probably, something else. I will keep researching
- Ali also works with the runes of the Sanctum (Runes of Sight, Life, Fire, Strength)
And my mind gets blown with the scale of transformation possible due to this magic. Look at these screenshots of how Ali took part in a fight against a Green witch (equipped with Big Beast Nature Deck):
1/ Shady brings relics
Shady gave me two relics. Coincidently, two Alis came to this moment.
2/ Ali turns relics into legendaries
When I saw 7- and 9-mana cards, I thought they would be useless. However
3/ Green witch electrocuted my army...
8 damage randomly, 3 out of 4 creatures dead... It was the time to try a legendary spell, War Incarnate, I got due to Ali's roar... I had never experienced this card so I hardly understood what would actually happen next.
What is Orax, Shield of Pain?? 😮 I had no time to google it.
4/ The spell changed my god power!
The new god power was Ruin: 2 mana for making every (enemy and friendly) creature get 1 damage.
Additionally, I got a relic Orax with durability 4: when a creature attacks your god, the creature gets 2 damage.
Insane!!
5/ The witch killed herself when she saw my second legendary creature!
Despite my advantage, the green witch and her blitz charging oryxes 7/7, emerged one by another, could tickle my nerves.
But, then, I involved the second Ali's gift, a legendary frontline (flank, twin strike, ward every turn!!), and the witch decided to end her agony and committed suicide 😄
Not financial advice
This is not financial advice but I couldn't help buying half a dozen of these guys. It was my Christmas shopping with GODS I have earned in Blessing of the Gods. Rows in my inventory:
I also purchased several Shady Merchants... As an investment... (Or maybe this is just GU shopaholism 😃).
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FYI there are 4 enchanted relics, not 3:
True, I counted two blue ones as one 😁
Thank you!
Fixed.
The price for Shady has skyrocketed.... Probably, someone decided to invest and bought out all cheap cards.
Ali may follow. Not many cheap slots available.
Maybe this is temporary ... But I believe this is not.
Cards with RNG? Sign me up! Haven't played Deception at all, maybe I'll take a closer look at these cards to create a fun deck 😁
This is fun, I can garantee 🙂 But I can't say if this sort of deck is really strong or just more about fun. Still researching, trying. The main idea, as I see it, is to have more than 30 cards (stealing cards, delving, relics from Shady Merchant in my case) and synergistically combine advantages of all gods.
Sounds fun even if it doesn't work always :p
Yes, sometimes, Shady and Ali just don't meet each other or meet too late for making things better. 🙂
ahahahahah
Regardless of whether or not it's strong, it looks at least like another option for a gimmicky and fun deck. Good job!
Thank you! 🙂
At least, this pair works not bad. I have just beaten Board Wipe Death with 2 Demogorgons. Maybe I was lucky but it means this deck gives some space for luck against Demogorgons.
The penultimate round, 0 cards left in decks of both sides:
The next turn, the rival sent a huge fronline but I made it hidden with a shot of my Deception god power. And I hit with all I had 😃 A memorable battle ... 😃
These three legs on my side were brought by Shady and Ali. I have no legs except those I have from 2 pairs of Shady and Ali and 2 Diligent Architects (delve a structure).
🙂
always love deception's card effects specially the steal your opponents cards but definitely a lot of undervalued legendary cards under this God. Hoping to buy some as it's been quite a sale lately.
I tried playing other gods ... I have ended up as a 1-god player. Only deception. I like its unpredictability - like in the post above, for example, I changed my god power and played cards from all gods ... And next time, everything will be different.
Many cards from old sets became much more expensive in December. This was one of the reasons why I started buying (and selling and re-selling) and eventually invested all my GODS into cards.
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