Quick strike

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I'm using this deck for a while and I've been successful many times with it. I'm not sure if it's good deck or if it's because I know how to play it, but it works. Usualy I'm not in top 10%, only top 25%, but it is very good in some WB standards, because warbonders are using sycos a lot.

This is how I play it:

Against Sycophants

- best first drop is Tiamat, Predator, Hunter or Omega. After he plays Sycophant, you will play Marshal, Disposer, EMP or Iron Maiden. With 1 damage from Atlas and 1 from your other strike card you played first turn Syco will die because of intercept. If you played as firs, you won't kill the first syco in round 3, so you'll have to deal with 2 sycos in round 5 - EMP or IM is the best option. If he plays Adamantite Armor as 2nd drop, you'll need some strike 2 to finish the first syco - he should have 1 hp now.

- you can't lose against Sycos unless you are realy stupid or draw realy, realy bad cards.

Against Slowrolls

- play as many 1-drop cards as possible and than play IM and kill everything. If there is Dracorex, Predator > Tiamat - after IM Predator does 6 dmg while Tiamat only 4. If there is Dalia, Tiamat > Predator, because weakened Tiamat deals 2 damage while weakened Predator only 1.

- destroy everything that has protect all. Beware of BoD - if you're playing against righteous, this is your real enemy. Good strategy is to play Omega soon (before BoD comes into play) and keep Hunter in your hand to play him after BoD is played (you have to keep some place for hunter to attack directly BoD) - this way BoD should get 1 siege damage and 3 from Hunter in first turn. Then you'll play IM or EMP and create some place. BoD gets destroyed by Omega's siege and if it survives, it will be destroyed again by Hunter. If you're lucky, you'll have a few more turns and during them Hunter will always destroy BoD and once it will not regenerate again.

- if you'll play Hunter as first drop, it will alone kill Sundering ogre. If enemy has weaken, you'll have to play some 1-drope strike as second card. Ogres can also be killed by Neverender etc., best strategy is to play enough cards to make 5 damage to every card that would come on clean table and then play IM or EMP to realy clean the table.

Against Wall Stalls

- best order is Iron Maiden, Disposer, Neverender, Hunter or something like that. You want the heavy hitters to activate before Missile silos. You don't have siege, so your only chance is to be quick.

Against Heracles

- this is tricky. Marshal and Disposer deals only 1 strike damage here, but it still helps. You probably will not kill Heracles, but you can make a long wall of high HP units like IM, Omega or Marshal (oponent plays a lot of structures) and then Hunter or some quick damage dealer. With a bit of luck you'll kill Svetlana quick enough, but this is the main weakness of this deck.

Other decks

- you want to keep a clean table. You can use Marshal or Disposer to kill low-hp first drops or play Neverender, Hunter or Predator to kill high-hp first drops. If you can play IM or EMP and kill something, do it. Don't wait for better oportunity, it may not come.

How do you play your strike decks? What could be done with this one to make it stronger against Heracles decks?