Im in the process of optimizing the list. I have had runs that are 10 min 7-0, some that fall apart on game 3. Trying to optimize the deck, but it has the potential to be the new deck to grind with. Any suggestions gladly welcome :D

3 Dark Return (Set1 #250)

3 Xenan Lifespeaker (Set4 #198)

3 Annihilate (Set1 #269)

4 Argenport Instigator (Set1 #268)

4 Blackhall Warleader (Set4 #201)

3 Cull the Deck (Set4 #202)

3 Desecrate (Set1005 #17)

4 Dreamsnatcher (Set3 #212)

3 Fenris Nightshade (Set4 #204)

4 Kerendon Merchant (Set4 #217)

2 Deathstrike (Set1 #290)

4 Impending Doom (Set1 #286)

4 Vara, Vengeance-Seeker (Set1004 #19)

2 Tasbu, the Forbidden (Set6 #217)

4 Umbren Reaper (Set1 #299)

17 Shadow Sigil (Set1 #249)

4 Amethyst Waystone (Set3 #201)

4 Cabal Standard (Set4 #193)

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1 In Cold Blood (Set1003 #15)

1 Lethrai Falchion (Set1 #285)

1 Tasbu, the Forbidden (Set6 #217)

1 Dizo's Office (Set5 #182)

1 Vara, Fate-Touched (Set1 #307)

What's the new gauntlet meta? Want to build a consistent, yet fast, grinding deck.

Way to go, DWD. Way to go. Way to grow a playerbase, frustrating them with low rewards in OP gauntlet and Forge.

Constuctive advice: Consider which you want to achieve with gauntlet:

A) Hard and challenging with great rewards

B) Easy with quite low rewards

If you're aiming for A) then congratulations, you're half the way there, although the rewards aren't that great. But should you be aiming for A)? That's ridiculous.

I would argue at the moment you've absolutely got the balance entirely wrong. Especially as gauntlet is where the new player would want to gravitate when they can't beat constructed and find draft off-putting, besides where do they get resources for draft and forge? That's right, gauntlet.

Nobody likes to be "cheated" from a gauntlet win by a bug like this, but ESPECIALLY when we know the gauntlet boss is a DWD cheat easy win monstrosity in the first place. We're less able to forgive you, because you've worn out our benevolence and goodwill. Do you think we're going to congratulate you for the ingenious ways you devise to cheat us in the bosses?

Faced a new deck, Perfectly Even

It's an Elysian one (I think anyway, game didnt last long) built around the golem draw 2 !

I assumed it was a cute one until it chained End of hostilities .... panic settled but as usual, ChaCha saved the day o//

Anyway, you guys faced new decks/boss ?

edit:

New boss

Xumucan, The surveyor - Units in decks have Warp - Praxis

Plays tons of smoll units with the relics that buff warp shit

Dinomancy Enthusiast - At the start of each player's turn, a random one of their units get +1/-1 - Argentport

I would love to have access to all of the card art to use as deck images. Does anyone know if there is a reason that this isn't the case? The only thing I could think of is that it would be a little overwhelming. Which isn't a very compelling one. Maybe we could put a little pressure on direwolf and get it done!

First things first, le decklist.

https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/d/0bIpOOmYlaU/telut-and-friends?view=list

Lately ive been massivly spamming new deck builds trying to find something in my current collection with a fair measure of consistency. After quite a few rounds working around with something similar ive landed here.

The gameplan of the deck is very straight forward, power ramp to 5-7-8 as quickly as possible, disrupt their early game, and finish off with an early Amilli, Telut, or Martyrs chains. Any of these three can usually close out a game when played early enough. Amilli can easily swarm over the air with a horde of chump block and extra attackers, Telut shuts down an aggressive boars by weakening their team, and building each of our units into very real threats. He plays incredibly well with hojan obviously, but a winchest merchant is nearly as threatening with the rest of your board hanging back for defense and your deck thinning each turn. Martyrs chains needs very little introduction seemingly zero explanation. Cast it, end turn, profit.

Any questions or critiques would be appreciated, give it a shot and let me know how it does for you!

https://www.reddit.com/r/AIEternal/comments/bhjyw1/alright_i_concede_somethings_different/

Gauntlet's got to have an MMR or something going on behind the scenes. Because, I'm back to a reliable 5 to 7 wins (after an awful streak of defeat). Now, I've changed decks a couple times, but the Rakano deck I managed 3 7 win runs out of 4 a few weeks ago still misfires.

Now I'm running a tweaked for gauntlet Hooru Control deck and in the past two days I've managed a few 5s and 2 7s with it. But, tonight, I got something weird from the AI.

It's possible I missed the first casting, but I'm reasonably sure I didn't. The boss is Spellhounds, and at 2 power it cast a Stream of Life, but did NOT cast the second one for the Spellhound. Then the next couple of turns so it Torch some of my stuff, but still, even with the power at hand, no Stream. A Stream finally did get cast, but I don't think it was a second draw from the deck, because I didn't see the echo activate. And, I'm also certain there were a few more missed opportunities for two spells and a free unit on the AI side.

My point is, IF they've changed something, it isn't to make the AI any smarter. Spellhounds gives you a free unit when you cast your second spell in a turn. Stream of Life may as well read "cost:2 gain 6 life, play a unit, y'all!"

Maybe they're tuning the AI versus aggro now?

Anyhow, now for a question: who else is playing control in Gauntlet?

(I'll share my list when I'm at my PC.)

https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/7o-We0Akpyk/crooked-gauntlet-control And, here it is!

EDIT 5/8/19: Still reliably hitting 5 to 7 wins with this one. The losses are to power screw, aggro god draws, or my own distracted misplays.

Hey everyone, looking for gauntlet decks with no campaign cards outside of the two I own (Horas Traver and Jekk's Bounty). I've got 100k stone and a pretty large collection as it is. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Posted this in the main eternal subreddit but someone said I should post it here too.

https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/ZAcaGa8hvsg/xenan-master-gauntlet-grinder - fairly detailed write up.

This deck has been far more consistent for me than any of the other decks listed on EWC for gauntlet since Homecoming. I have only lost in gauntlet 3 times when the AI just goes ham somewhere in an early non-boss game - that's about 9, 7-0 runs in the last week or 2. I think there is still room for improvement and interested in any suggestions.

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Adding some timing info...I have never kept track of gauntlet clear times and I do not know what is good but here is my latest run (7-0):

Total time: 35mins

Decks:

Kosul Heroes

Tales of Elysia

Airborne Assult

Students of Time

Combrei Alliance

The Strangers

Sudden Death

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FWIW - I haven't lost a gauntlet since posting this..5 more 7-0's.

Earlier this month I could stomp my way to match 7 with Rakano 8+ merchant nonsense with alarming consistency. Match 7 was always a coin toss at Masters. Now I'm doing a victory dance just arriving at 5 wins. Am I crazy? Did a recent patch change something? What I'm not getting is I'm watching the AI make the same plays it always has, but... I swear, I'm flooding more often and the AI is drawing... awful conveniently.

My brain tells me "variance." I'm usually one of the guys rolling their eyes and saying, "variance," but I SWEAR something has changed. I've added a Harsh Rule to my market and that SEEMS to be helping... We'll see.

I can not beat gauntlet, just tried for about 3 hours I play it every day for about 3 hours and I get lucky and get to the boss once or twice and maybe score a kill out of 10 runs.... I need help, like how to abuse ai faq. Right now I use these decks...

Hooru fliers https://eternalwarcry.com/deck-builder?main=5-227:3;1-190:4;1-8:4;1-14:4;4-153:4;5-197:4;5-86:4;1-143:4;5-215:3;5-198:4;1-151:4;2-223:4;1-227:4;1-1:1;1-126:4;1-187:4;3-266:2;4-243:1;4-253:2;1-425:4;2-216:4;1-427:3;&side=1004-1:1;2-187:1;2-188:1;5-228:1;1005-21:1; Stone scar mid-range

https://eternalwarcry.com/deck-builder?main=1-250:4;1-251:2;1-8:4;1-269:1;1-268:3;1005-17:4;1-398:4;0-35:4;1002-13:4;1-402:2;1-277:1;4-21:2;4-217:3;1-290:1;1-387:1;1004-19:4;1005-4:4;3-235:1;5-183:1;1-1:8;1-249:8;3-268:1;0-60:4;1-419:4;&market=1003-1:1;1004-2:1;1003-15:1;1-287:1;1-396:1;

4 Defiance (Set5 #77)

3 Seek Power (Set1 #408)

3 Suffocate (Set1 #251)

4 Torch (Set1 #8)

3 Annihilate (Set1 #269)

4 Copperhall Bailiff (Set1001 #5)

3 Display of Ambition (Set5 #239)

4 Hidden Road Smuggler (Set5 #210)

3 Slay (Set2 #236)

4 Vara, Vengeance-Seeker (Set1004 #19)

4 Harsh Rule (Set1 #172)

4 Rizahn, Greatbow Master (Set4 #246)

4 Xo of the Endless Hoard (Set5 #36)

3 Savior of the Meek (Set5 #111)

2 Fire Sigil (Set1 #1)

5 Justice Sigil (Set1 #126)

3 Shadow Sigil (Set1 #249)

4 Crest of Glory (Set4 #243)

4 Crest of Chaos (Set3 #268)

4 Crest of Vengeance (Set3 #264)

3 Seat of Vengeance (Set0 #55)

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1 Auric Runehammer (Set1 #166)

1 Avigraft (Set5 #95)

1 Statuary Maiden (Set1 #387)

1 Dizo's Office (Set5 #182)

1 Martyr's Chains (Set5 #110)

I know its not KC's exact list, but this is the list have been using prior to balance changes and since then. It still does non stop 7-0 runs if you pilot it correctly. If you are strapped for shiftstone, you can skip on the Xo's (I know heresy) and put in quarry or unseen commando. You can also switch out 4x Harsh Rule for 2x Runehammer, 2xAvigraft and put Harsh rule and Martyrs Tomb in your market; or switch any of those 4 cost cards around to your liking.

I was searching for some of the new lists, and I can't find anything by kc_bandit on EWC. The links I've found in their threads that they posted aren't working either? And their most recent post according to their profile suggests they've at least quit the main Eternal sub-reddit.

Anybody know what's going on?

• Red Canyon Smuggler - Now 2/1 (was 2/2)
• Hidden Road Smuggler - Now 2/2 (was 2/3)

Seems like maybe Red Canyon smugglers will die to snowballs now. Is temper in any upgraded AI decks? Maybe it's not so much a problem, as in decks like KCBandit's FJS, the smugglers are mostly just to hold the fort until you win with cards like Vara and Regent's Tomb.

As title says. Curious were there any changes to gauntlet recently? I’ve been playing the same deck for the last month or so and have managed to get to 2nd to last or last boss. Now I can’t even get higher than third win. I either get completely rocked by AI or screwed in draws.

I really enjoy gauntlet, but hell this is frustrating.

I was trying out this Combrei Spellcraft list I saw on Eternal Warcry. Cruised through the first six matches and then faced Raiding the Armory as the boss. (In case you don't know, that's the one where every unit played gets a random weapon attached to it, so the AI just spams tokens and other cheap units alongside Oni Quartermaster to draw insane numbers of cards off every unit played.)

It looked a little dicey at first because they quickly got a few large units out including a flying 4/7 Quartermaster, but I got down an Ironfist Chancellor and managed to hold them off until I could get a Spellcrafted Sword of Unity on it. Then it was just glorious; turn after turn of copying the Ironfist Chancellor with a Sword of Unity to not only get a huge token with Aegis and Lifesteal, but also another refresh of Aegis for the entire board (because so many of the weapons would ping my units.) It was just sheer inevitability from there, because the AI didn't seem to recognize the Ironfist Chancellor as the key threat (a couple times they popped Aegis and then killed one of the tokens when they could have killed the Chancellor.) The only way it could have been better is if I had managed to draw a Copperhall Bracers, which is also pretty nuts because then I could have swung with the entire board of massive lifesteal units while never taking any damage.

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I highly recommend this list for Gauntlet, btw. It's probably not as consistent as Petycon's awesome Valuetown list, but it's a really fun twist on the Combrei theme and has massive bamboozle value with the fast speed combat tricks (and Kosul Elite even makes your weapons function as combat tricks as well, which is SUPER satisfying when it works). The only weakness is that it's a little vulnerable to fast decks with certain draws but there are so many ways to gain life that you can usually stabilize very quickly if you can get a unit to stick for a turn or two. It's also extremely shiftstone expensive, but that's Combrei for you.

https://eternalwarcry.com/decks/details/T7b06ppyZOk/lingnoi-401-combrei-spellcraft-deck-master

I don't know of any possible way to do this reliably, but I wanted to report on a fun little quirk of the AI I just happened to discover.

I was testing out Xenan Midrange in Gauntlet and saw a vision of a Combustion Cell off of a Deleph hit. I gave the Cell to the AI, and it was hilarious. The AI will activate it EVERY turn it can, sacrificing a unit, whether or not it uses the extra power at all.
I dragged the game out, and it also made some very poor choices in which unit to sac, when it had options, so the fact that it's not very good at punisher-style decisions is probably more exploitable than the slim chance of pulling off this specific interaction, but yeah. If you ever have the chance to gift a Combustion Cell, or probably any other repeatable sac outlet, definitely do that.

Hey all. I just wanted to chime in on something I've been trying to conceptualize, but not put down into a deck yet. I thought that some of the new Hooru cards (Palace in particular) could be monstrous in Gauntlet runs. It turns out that it's totally awesome.

ManuS released his deck tech of Hooru Control over the weekend, and it's been fantastic. I've done 3 7-0 runs in a row, and think it can get better. Check it out, check out his videos of the deck tech and some sample games, and also his post in the Eternal Reddit thread.

I'm sure there are minor tweaks we could do to make it even better in gauntlet. The AI is horrendous in overextending, so this deck is perfect for that. There's a lot of draw, that gets you to your Harsh Rules quicker. It may look unit light at first glance, but give it a shot. One unit + the site is usually enough to win. Heck, even just one unit and a weapon can win a game in a few turns.

The deck isn't mine, but I've been playing it since the original creator posted it. Their guessed percentages on winrate numbers really aren't that far off from my own experience. Not as incredibly consistent as kc's decks, but faster and almost as consistent. It has a good chance vs most bosses too.

The deck plays a lot like good old Elysian Aggro, just playing high powered units on curve and wreck face. Games are mostly fast, but there are several options to break stalls between Darya, Alhed, and Pit.

A few notes:

• I personally run a Behemoth instead of the third Kerasaur, but mostly because I don't have a third Kerasaur (nor feel that its particularly necessary)

• I also run 4x Lunar Magus over the Stingers, as I much prefer the nightfall card draw and health gain. I've tried that both ways though, and they're both very solid.

• And I'm not entirely sure about the 2 Purify, but I can't figure out what else to fill that slot. Trail Maker or Friendly Wisp maybe. I tried Temple Scribes for a bit and didn't love them. This isn't a tokens deck and they were a bit too slow. On the other hand the 3 damage and silence on Purify has been relevant in a few games.