Notes & Combos

I think Small World is mandatory in this deck as it greatly improves odds of opening elder + hawk/pengu. Any hand without these pieces is just not real so you have to max out on ways to see them especially with prosperity at 1. Small world can bridge any rit beast to another through Wynn. Along with Wynn itself this gives you 9 copies of elder and 12 of hawk/pengu (prosp is also a pseudo copy of either piece as well). Ash can bridge to either by revealing pettlefin or wen, neither which are needed for combos. D Shifter gets any piece through Wynn as well. Gadarla is mainly here because it can bridge to elder when you draw Maxx “C”. You can also play a second apelio for this purpose but I felt the extra going second card is generally better.

For trap ratios I cut back to 2 steeds 1 ambush because these cards are terrible to draw going second, you want to play as many going second cards as possible while not hurting consistency. This is the minimum amount you need to complete any of your combos. These ratios allow me to stay at 40 cards while playing 10 handtraps and the handtrap stoppers. D Shifter is the MVP as not only does it make your combos better but its a turn skip vs most decks and is the most likely way to win when you lose the coinflip. Also if people knew how to handtrap this deck it would be a lot harder but everyone imperms elder lol so you get more wins than you probably should.