Hello GU community,

Arrandion Ramp Magic is really deadly at the end-games, and I always lose to it, so I tried it out!

I was playing a Control Deception deck instead, but the win-rate was really bad so I rented some expensive cards.

Deck

This deck is obviously not budget-friendly, since Arrandion is around $45 right now and you need Pyrrhic Knowledge which is also $10.

However, it is really great and I'm having 63% winrate for 22 games! This deck usually wins at 8.25 mana(8mana + pip) when you surge Arrandion, and using some face dmg spells from your hand is lethal with +5 spell boost.

When Arrandion is surged, it delves a magic spell and sets mana cost of spells in your hand to 0. For the win condition, we have cards like Wyrmbreath and Unbound Flames, and Pyrrhic Knowledge to use it again from the void.

To get to 8 mana faster we have Sip of Elixir and Crystaltech Scholar. Frentic Bibliomaniac and Glinn is for searching Arrandion if you don't draw it.

And lastly we have board wipe cards such as Ember Oni, Shaped Blast and Lightning Talisman.

Games

Here is a short video of this deck winning against War.

Against this deck

If you are aggro, try to win fast before they ramp to 8 mana. Budget Control decks are going to have hard time against this deck since it is much stronger.

Conclusion

This deck performs greatly in lower ranks and also higher ranks. However, it takes some time to play each game(~8mana) and it is not really fun in my opinion, so I think even though this deck is good, I would play another deck to have more fun.