DM/AO Controle Ethernal Aetherite

[warm spruce]

Hello everyone, i'm pretty new at the game. I used to be pretty high legend player in hearthstone but the VR things of this game got me.

At the moment I'm plat II, I ranked up from bronze V with this deck I built by myself. I didn't really count but my winrate with this deck is around 85% with ~50 games. I didn't got all the cards and haven't enough experience in cards and tankards to know all interesting strategy so I came here for your help/idea/thought to enhance this deck (even if it work well for me atm).

I'm already not sure about loyal Spellshaper

Gameplay :
Basically the strategy is to control as much as possible and deal protect with the Ethernal Aetherite at the beginning. You can get it back in to your deck by sacrifice them with the Gunhaunt and draw them with the Crystelized Ether. There are the only elemental in the deck so you are sure to draw them and the number of creature stay pretty low to up the probability to be banish by the Gunhaut.

To be able to go to the late game and tank even some burst matchup the deck had also a lot of healing ( +60 ) with Restorative Alchemy + Reiteration (obviously Reiteration had to be used to duplicate other cards depending of the situation)

When your opponent lose the majority of his resources you can use the Ethernal Aetherite to deal damage and finish the game.

[idle haven]

I’m gonna be honest. This deck looks Extremely well made.
Theres only a few thoughts I have on the deck. (I wouldn’t be surprised if you took this list to masters)

With mind corruption, it works great with dread experiments but I usually want one more way to sacrifice creatures. To maximize control, stormborn zapling would be my go to.

This deck looks a lot like one of my other decks. https://discord.com/channels/754443918371717202/1380258679219163348 I’m sure you could look at the list for a bit of inspiration, and honestly, I might use a bit of your decks ideas.

I’m personally not a fan of reiteration as most of the time, it’s used on a one or two mana spell and the rate it gives, isn’t the best but it definitely has its use cases.

[warm spruce]

Thanks for your toughts. 😁 I'm also thinking about an other way to sacrifice and I'm trying Gunhaunt's Call. I think it should be better 'cause it's not an elemental so the fetch is'nt random. What do you think about this alternative ? (I removed 1 dread experiment 3 is too much imo)

I also added 1 Pact of Non Aggression to prevent losing game before draw the Life Elixirs (remove 1 Archival Collapse)

About Reiteration I personally love it. I understand your point of view, like if I duplicate a 2 cost cards it's like each cost 3 (+50% cost) and it's terrible. But the adaptability it have to offer compensate it in my opinion. Even in the few first turn, it's offer you to choose the better spell in a specific situation (if i need just 1 damage and draw or 3 damage, etc.) . I also already play a game where I duplicate The final Spell and it's often happen that I duplicate Archival Collapse. But as I said the majority of the time it's used to duplication Restorative Alchemy to allow you to survive long enough to wear opponent out.

[idle haven]

Each of those points are 100% valid. I urge you to try out 2 eternal aetherites with 2-3 stormborn zaplings.
It’s insane with control. Mind corruption to kill two opponent creatures. Worshipper of verenthil to kill 2 creatures. It allows you to chip away for your other spells to finish creatures off. It might not be worth the consistency but I think you should at least try it.
If you use 2 aetherites and 2 stormborn saplings, it’s still extremely consistent to get aetherites and it even lets you target the cheaper aetherite as long as you draw one sapling.
Just my two cents. On everything else you just said and as I said previously, valid arguments.
I can’t wait to see how the deck turns out and where you end up as a player.

[warm spruce]

Yes it's a really good idea the 2 Atherites / 2 stormborn it should synergised very well with the deck. I will definitely try it and probably leave them in the decklist.

I'm thinking of removing the 2 Loyal Spellshaper and putting 2 stormborn.

[weak needle]

spellshaper is good but not very prominent in the ranked meta, probably because it doesn't immediately pose much of a threat on its own. unless you're sacrificing it on your own, your opponent will tend to just ignore it until it won't give you a good spell.

what was your highest rank in HS? i used to play a lot of ladder on there as well

[warm spruce]

I think spellshaper cost 1 too much mana to be a really good option

[warm spruce]

I peak around 1600 on HS (EUW serveur)

[weak needle]

nice, my highest was 300 during naxx expansion way back in the day

there were so many millions of players back then too

i don't like to give blizzard money anymore though tbh. but it was a good game back then i think

[warm spruce]

Yeah, i drop the game ~5 years ago. It was pretty not interesting at this moment. I don't know how it's end up right now

[warm spruce]

Having tried Stormborn and Gunhaunt's Call, I find Gunhaunt's Call much better than Stormborn: the latter are inconsistent, needing to be present on the table before the turn they can be used, which gives the opponent time to get rid of them most of the time. If there's already a threat in front of them, Stormborn are too slow, since they need to be able to take damage 1 time before they can be used if they survive that long.
The rare matchups where the opponent has no way of managing my creatures are already extremely favorable thanks to Ethernal Aetherite, which represents a solid defensive wall, so the presence of Stormborn is quite irrelevant.
Their small advantage is that they can be recovered via Crystelized Aether or save 1 mana on the sacrifice turn.
However, in my opinion, this slight advantage doesn't make up for the unconsciousness. So I'm going to stick with Gunhaunt's Call rather than Stormborn (even though I've only got one copy of Gunhaunt's Call in my collection at the moment T_T).

However, I'm liking the Wirshipper of Verenthil more and more and have added 1 to the deck (1 Stormborn removed). As you pointed out, it synergizes very well with the deck, more than I expected.

[idle haven]

Thanks for the analysis and for trying it out. I hope you have good luck with your pulls and gunhaunts call gets pulled soon. 🤞

I’m assuming you know which pack it is from but if you don’t, it’s in the core booster pack.

[warm spruce]

Yeah I'm doing pretty well i'm now Plat II and I keep a consitent ~85% winrate so i'm pretty happy. Thanks for the support 😁

[warm spruce]

Yes I figure it out with the little logo on the cards and packs 👍

[idle haven]

You are 100% hitting masters if you keep this up.

[warm spruce]

It's become my goal, but in the next few days I'll be very busy with my studies, so that will have to wait a little.

What is the master rank exactly ? Top 50 ?

[idle haven]

Yeah top 50.

[warm spruce]

Is Diamant top 100 or its a rank like the other ?

[idle haven]

Diamond is anyone 2500 points and above. Their placement is shown just like master players though.

If you’re plat 2. You’re 200 points away from diamond.

[warm spruce]

Ok thanks for the clarification

[idle haven]

Yeah no problem

[verbal rune]

I just lost to this. Its a really cool deck!!

[warm spruce]

That was me

Wp btw, interesting game

I change the deck list a little bit

I'm trying Elemental Reign

Because in some really board-centered matchups I don't get any damage because Atherite can't slap the opponent.

[idle haven]

I hope it works out well for you. I think it’s weak but I would love to see the card perform well somewhere.

[verbal rune]

Yeah! The decks really cool. Elemental reign makes me very sad, i have no way to take it down :(

[warm spruce]

I'm not sure to keep it i also think the card isn't good but it's the only option I see to deal constant direct damage.
I found a lot of people doesn't have a way to remove the effect so in the current meta maybe I could make this work.
Using Elemental reign make me need to change the gameplan a little -> play safe as possible and duplicate all Restorative alchemy if possible

[idle haven]

You could do the 3 mana halve your opponents life but it can be really slow at times. Does nothing right away.
There’s ritual of annihilation for 10 damage late game.

[warm spruce]

The current decklist for the interested

[warm spruce]

Yes I saw that but It's take 3 place in the deck including 2 blue slot which are really valuable. At the moment I didn't have Ritual of Annihilation in my collection but as soon as i get it I will give it a try for sure

[idle haven]

I’m sending you luck. You now have a 50% chance of pulling ritual of annihilation in your next pack. 🍀

[verbal rune]

Im sending you my sleepy magic, cause ritual of annihilation is like, close enough to being related to sleep

[weak needle]

good game 🙏 that was very close, you will be in masters soon i am sure 🙂

[warm spruce]

Good game ! I was making food meanwhile, so i didn't saw the ritual, I could clearly play around, I'm so sad ... 🥲

[weak needle]

oof, i'm sorry!

[warm spruce]

That's on me

[warm spruce]

For easier look on the decklist :
https://theowillem.github.io/deck-builder/deck-visualizer/#name=DM%2FAO+Controle+Aetherite&primary=DM&secondary=AO&cards=1xGunhaunt%2B3xArcane_Experiment%2B3xDark_Matter_Blast%2B3xDread_Experiments%2B1xElemental_Reign%2B3xEchoes_of_Verenthil%2B3xEternal_Aetherite%2B1xGunhaunt's_Call%2B3xMind_Corruption%2B3xRaahil's_Reaping%2B1xThe_Final_Spell%2B2xWorshiper_of_Verenthil%2B1xZealous_Archivist%2B2xSpring_Trap%2B1xForceful_Acquisition%2B1xPact_of_Non_Aggression%2B3xReiteration%2B3xRestorative_Alchemy%2B2xArchival_Collapse

DM cards:
3x Arcane Experiment
3x Dark Matter Blast
3x Dread Experiments
3x Echoes of Verenthil
1x Elemental Reign
3x Eternal Aetherite
1x Gunhaunt
1x Gunhaunt's Call
3x Mind Corruption
3x Raahil's Reaping
2x Spring Trap
1x The Final Spell
2x Worshiper of Verenthil
1x Zealous Archivist

AO cards:
2x Archival Collapse
1x Forceful Acquisition
1x Pact of Non Aggression
3x Reiteration
3x Restorative Alchemy

[warm spruce]

Just want to save the current version somewhere

https://theowillem.github.io/deck-builder/deck-visualizer/#primary=DM&secondary=AO&cards=1xGunhaunt%2B3xDark_Matter_Blast%2B1xGunhaunt's_Call%2B3xArcane_Experiment%2B3xEchoes_of_Verenthil%2B1xPact_of_Non_Aggression%2B3xRaahil's_Reaping%2B3xReiteration%2B2xSpring_Trap%2B1xChanneled_Destruction%2B3xRestorative_Alchemy%2B3xEternal_Aetherite%2B3xMind_Corruption%2B1xElemental_Reign%2B2xWorshiper_of_Verenthil%2B2xArchival_Collapse%2B1xZealous_Archivist%2B1xThe_Final_Spell%2B3xDread_Experiments

DM cards:
1x Gunhaunt
3x Dark Matter Blast
1x Gunhaunt's Call
3x Arcane Experiment
3x Dread Experiments
3x Echoes of Verenthil
3x Raahil's Reaping
2x Spring Trap
3x Eternal Aetherite
3x Mind Corruption
1x Elemental Reign
2x Worshiper of Verenthil
1x Zealous Archivist
1x The Final Spell

AO cards:
1x Pact of Non Aggression
3x Reiteration
1x Channeled Destruction
3x Restorative Alchemy
2x Archival Collapse