Actually, Deception has resources to beat large monsters. As for flood of small creatures, there are less tools for beating them. Aggro War is the biggest trouble for me. :( Light isn't often on my way but it can be tough too since it has many buffing things that can make an army of weaklings very strong.

:) I want the cat too, 0.0066 ETH :( I am selling something currently to buy one. Shadow Matriarch gives you these cats but ... paying 3 mana is not little compared to 1 mana which is almost zero - so often you have 1 mana left redundant...

Death is very interesting and complicated, actually. Corpse Explosion is insane.