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Description: "These [IKO] draft decks have already proven themselves worthy and act as an example of what a commendable draft deck should look like."

Format: Prebuilt using one of 3 Draft decks (see decklists below)

Entry Fee: none

Reward: a Haversack of Fortune for your first win. the Haversack has equal chances of yielding 500 gold, 500 XP or a Rare-or-better ICR


Cycling (RW)

1x Light of Hope

1x Footfall Crater

1x Drannith Healer

1x Valiant Rescuer

1x Regal Leosaur

1x Savai Thundermane

1x Divine Arrow

1x Fire Prophecy

1x Go for Blood

1x Shredded Sails

1x Splendor Mare

1x Stormwild Capridor

1x Frillscare Mentor

1x Prickly Marmoset

1x Alert Heedbonder

1x Reptilian Reflection

1x Savai Crystal

1x Daysquad Marshall

1x Ferocious Tigorilla

1x Winota, Joiner of Forces

2x Blade Banish

1x Lava Serpent

7x Plains

7x Mountain

2x Wind-Scarred Crag

1x Evolving Wilds


Mutate (UBG)

1x Almighty Brushwagg

1x Adventurous Impulse

1x Ivy Elemental

1x Humble Naturalist

2x Skull Prophet

2x Survivors' Bond

2x Excavation Mole

1x Hornbash Mentor

1x Charge of the Forever-Beast

1x Migratory Greathorn

1x Boneyard Lurker

1x Blood Curdle

1x Extinction Event

1x Dreamtail Heron

1x Cavern Whisperer

1x Auspicious Starrix

1x Unbreakable Bond

1x Chittering Harvester

1x Back for More

1x Archipelagore

3x Island

5x Swamp

8x Forest

1x Jungle Hollow


Spells (RU)

1x Heightened Reflexes

1x Facet Reader

1x Glimmerbell

1x Drannith Stinger

1x Essence Scatter

1x Keep Safe

1x Mystic Subdual

1x Ominous Seas

1x Startling Development

1x Cathartic Reunion

1x Fire Prophecy

1x Wingspan Mentor

1x Spelleater Wolverine

1x Of One Mind

1x Neutralize

1x Pyroceratops

1x Capture Sphere

1x Gust of Wind

1x Reconnaisance Mission

1x Dreamtail Heron

1x Clash of Titans

1x Wingfold Pteron

1x Sanctuary Smasher

1x Shark Typhoon

8x Island

8x Mountain


Good luck & have fun!

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about 4 years ago - /u/wotc_Cromulous - Direct link

Originally posted by Clicklesly

Ah yes, good old Winota Cycling with Light of Hope, staples of that deck :P

Guess they had to nerf it for the event somehow ^^

This was really a victim of how quickly language develops. We weren't on guard to differentiate between a solid deck with some cycling synergy layered on top for extra kick vs. the extremely specific set of cards that players now refer to as "The Cycling Deck." Given how that label is now used, I would have chosen a different name for this deck in hindsight.

Anyway, even if the deck is somewhat unconventional, it still got 7 wins!

about 4 years ago - /u/wotc_Cromulous - Direct link

Originally posted by jorbleshi_kadeshi

it still got 7 wins!

So were these decks from an internal draft from the team? Selected from 7-0 runs on Arena? Some Limited event tourney?

All decks in the Heroes workshops are decks from actual players that went for 7 wins on the live server. (I don't think we differentiate between 7-0/7-1/7-2, though.)