Tribal Warfare: Atlantean Edition. The Pacificeans might’ve done better, 12 Wins

A weekly recap of my Mythic Weekend Ranked experience, this time doing a challenge of using all the different tribes. This is my first weekend doing this challenge. I’ve done two challenges so far, first a Free-To-Play (F2P) Gauntlet with all the Gods to show that they can all compete and get Legendary packs, and second I did another Gauntlet using only Welcome and Core Cards.

Weekend 24 June 3rd – 5th

Well here it is, the new series! As I’ve stated in the WelCore summary, I think I’ve shown that it’s possible to complete in Mythic with budget decks now with my first two challenges. This time I want to have some fun deckbuilding with the different tribes that are in the game. A lot of them will be off-meta, but some of them are staples in the current game, like Wild, Guild, and Anubians. I’ll try to limit myself to only creatures of the tribe I’m targeting, plus non-tribe ones, but there may be some tribes that don’t have enough options for me to do so. Finally, most of the decks will be less than $50, but it’s not that I’m trying to be budget here, it’s just that there’s so many tribes and I have to save some GODs to build all these decks haha so I can’t just throw it all into one. On that note, if anyone wants to help out, message me! I’ll just borrow the cards for the weekend (or even just a day) and give them back to you right after.

I started off with Atlantean because, well, it starts with an A haha. There was also a little bit of support from the new expansion as well as the Core Refresh. It was a pretty fun deck, and some of the pieces work really well together, but alas without much value generating cards it fell a little short. 12 Wins isn’t too bad though.

Weekend	24
Tribe	Atlantean
God	Magic
Wins	12
Prize (USD)	$16.5

Here’s the deck that I used, costing 0.0155 ETH or ~$27.

Matches

First time playing more Deception than any other God! Sadly, that is a bad matchup for Atlantean. This tribe doesn’t have enough buffs to deal with all the strength stealing, and they have removal that goes through Ward, like the creature stealing spells and burn. It held its own against Nature, and not surprisingly, I was 100% against Magic, as the Ward+Protected and a little anti-spell was too much to handle for them. I think if the meta was more Magic heavy like the last few weeks, this deck could’ve gotten to 15 wins.

Tribe Analysis

Strengths
-Board wide Ward from Phase Touched Golem is pretty sweet
-Some snowballing potential with Rolling Watcher, especially if you can apply Ward and Protect
-Good decently stated mid/late (5+ mana) creatures
-Anti-spell hate with Crystalseer Acolyte buffing

Weaknesses
-No card draw or value generation
-Midgame (3-4 mana) creatures lacking in stats
-No blitz or damage roars until late game

Notable Cards

Rolling Watcher may be under-stated for a couple of turns, but if it gets… rolling, it will be amazing. I’ve won a couple of games just because of it, and being able to apply Protect and Ward to it with the 3 mana cards is sweet! Speaking of, Ward spreading from Phase Touched Golem is amazing against Magic, and decent against other Gods as well. I’ve actually never seen Crush Construct ever before I started this challenge haha but it’s pretty nice for a large threat; after playing and loving Green Giant I know a lot of decks have issues with big dudes. Yes it has a downside but rarely does it affect the outcome of the game.

Notable Cards Not In My Deck

Boost Walker is a pretty sweet card, and in enables the next card as well. However, it was a bit too much for me ($55). Spiral Golem has insane stats for a 6-drop, with the caveat that it attacks a random creature at the start of your turn. It’s not bad against a creature based opponent, but what it lacks is the ability to attack their God, which is what Boost Walker would’ve solved with the twinstrike. Archimedes Mirror ($30) is a wonderful Control Magic tool, but it wouldn’t fit into my current deck which leans towards Aggro.

Other Gods

Other than Magic which has 11 God-specific Atlanteans, Deception has 4, and Death has 2. The Deception ones are pretty interesting for an Aggro deck, as Shade Walker was a Hidden Aggro staple before and Smoke Bomb looks like it can keep your creatures hidden. Thaumnetic Golem seems like a decent buffer as well for an all-Atlantean deck, plus it has hidden as well! I actually made a Deception deck but I think it might be better to not go full Atlantean with them. There’s too many tribes to go through so I told myself I’ll just do one God for each tribe for now.

Going Forward

Next week I think I’ll be going with more A’s, this time Amazon! They definitely got some love in Core Refresh, but I think they’re a little lacking now especially after the Arkmonian Onslaught nerf. At least they still have some stat buffs to go against all those Deception strength stealers.

Last Week's Rewards

As you can see, I actually got a few Atlanteans here and that's another reason why I started with them. A couple of decent cards as well but nothing to write home about. Have you guys noticed more Shadow/Gold cards though for the new expansion??