Chira and Perseverance
My favorite two new cards from Band of the Wolf are Chira and Perseverance. These cards enable the zombie / Corpse Explosion archetype like never before. I love a good combo deck, and this one is pretty nuts. It's almost impossible to not have a full board of zombies with this deck, and that means good time for 18 damage Corpse Explosions!
The Best Cards in the Deck
Perseverance is so flexible. It can do whatever you need.
- Removal
- Heal
- Face damage
- Set up your Corpse Explosion
- Gain 9 Favor
What more can you ask for in a card?!
Chira can completely flip a full board in a single turn. You'll see in the video above that I at one point played Chira into a Wicked Fae and that ate my opponent's entire board, and I still could've played a Netherborne Binder to kill off yet another creature if I had needed to!
The Arch was always one of my favorite cards that I never ever played. It just always felt too slow and zombies weren't quite strong enough to make it viable. I believe that has completely changed now, and Arch is super strong and sticky. The only major downside to Arch is if your opponent has Blade of Whiteplain in hand, however, that is a semi-rare card to face off against outside of Mythic AND oftentimes they'll find targets on turn 5 and 6 to Blade (like the Cursed Obelisk) before you ever drop your Arch and finish the game off.
Once you have your board stuffed up to the brim with zombies, you can unleash this monster of a card: 5 mana, deal 18 damage to your opponents face! There's no cheaper card in Gods Unchained to deal 18 damage to face naturally (without Spellboost).
You could even mess with combo cards like Necronomics to try and refill your board and do a second Corpse Explosion in the same turn, as was moderately meme-popular back in the day.
Final Thoughts
This deck is cheap. It's only $150 and some of the more expensive tickets can actually be replaced here. The ones you'd think are expensive, like a Divine Order legendary Arch of Amenmose is only $1.61, and Corpse Explosion is $0.17.
You can do some nasty things with zombies now, and they have leech so trading doesn't help as you constantly heal and more always appear!
~Copper
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Wow, "Perseverance" can be "godblitz".
I like how "Arch of Amenmose" summons 3 zombies and "Corpse Explosion" turns them into bombs.👍👍👍
Awesome thumbnail good photoshop! Awesome deck as well. I love Chira. it's super strong if opponent can't remove it or draws the cards to remove it. I played against one and they just had too much board pressure cause I didn't draw the cards to remove it
You sir, have some of the dopest thumbnails on HIVE. Cheers. Also Chira and the new epic relic I think have massive synergy too, particularly with corpse explosion and perseverance ran aswell. The arch is a cool touch, it was a rare sight in yesterday's meta. Seems like it's about to make a come back. Definitely appreciate your writings and musings in your videos. Thanks for putting in an effort. It shows. !PIZZA !BEER
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Perseverance looks much stronger in action than I thought it would. Maybe zombie decks will catch on again.
Indeed, just today I came to battle a player using Chira, it flipped the board entirely and went on with the win.