Raine Serpio Offering – August 6th, 2020
Raine, Mournful Commander and Spirit of Serpio mesh really well together. The Offering ability included on some Dark cards can help expel Blazewalker units that are destroyed or discarded, and Blazewalker Scout, Leiah is able to recycle expelled Fire units to fuel even more Offering costs. The Raoyenna package gives the deck a consistency boost, and fuels both the discard and expel zones even more. This deck is designed to utilize the strength of the Blazewalker archetype alongside the powerful Offering mechanic.
One amazing play with this deck is to play Treat! sacrificing your Shade of the Silver King to discard 7 cards from your deck, and put 3 Blazewalker Scout, Leiah and 3 Blazewalker Rookie, Ark along with the 1 Raine, Blazewalker Commander into the discard zone. Then you can use Shade’s Offering ability to expel all 7 of those Blazewalker units to trigger their abilities! Not only are you putting a 4000 power unit with Destroyer, Guardian, and Target Attack, you also can shuffle in up to 9 expelled Fire units and draw up to 3 cards, deal 3000 damage, and either play or draw the top card of your deck!
Raine, Mournful Commander‘s activated ability threatens any unit with 1000 power or less, and can easily trigger the abilities of Blazewalker units in your hand. Raine is also really good in combination with Mutation 002: Reprobloom, because you are able to exhaust Raine and expel 0 cards to target Reprobloom to deal 0 damage. This will trigger Reprobloom’s ability and let you put 2 tokens into play for basically free!
Spirit of Serpio is very important in being able to trigger your Ruined abilities at the correct time, and can Soulburst to clear the opponent’s field of any small units they may have. Serpio also gives the deck access to 4 more Dark cards than the other Dark spirit, Luna, the Dark Spirit. The extra 4 Dark cards go a long way in allowing you to play cards like Unrestrained Poltergeist and Hoenna, Conjurer Supreme.