Come check out the winning deck from the Warhammer World’s Shadespire Grand Clash. We’ll be taking a look at the cards, and breaking down some of the tactics behind it.
The Warhammer Underworlds: Shadespire Grand Clash just took place March 3rd, and it was the Spiteclaw’s Swarm who took home the tournament win. Let’s take a look Jay Clare’s Skaven deck that won it all and why it worked so well.
Objectives
154 – Skritch is the Greatest
253 – Denial
254 – Determined Defender
255 – Escalation
263 – Hold Objective 1
264 – Hold Objective 2
265 – Hold Objective 3
266 – Hold Objective 4
267 – Hold Objective 5
270 – Making a statement
282 – Ploymaster
292- Supremecy
Power Cards
158 – Momentary Boldness
160 – Nervous Scrabbling
161 – Scratching in the shadows
164 – There are always more
166 – Bodyguard for a price
170 – Skitter-scurry
311 – Confusion
321 – Earthquake
341 – Misdirection
352 – Sacrificial Pawn
359 – Shifting Shards
360 – Sidestep
391 – Great Stregnth
402 – Legendary Swiftness
411 – Shadeglass darts
420 – Soultrap
425 – the blazing key
426 – the dazzling key
430 – the Shadowed key
428 – The fractured key
Overall this is a very cunning deck that seems to rely on actual objective grabs with the four current keys thrown in for late upgrade scoring. I myself would probably mulligan the keys if drawn in my opening hand, but late game with the speed the Skaven possess you could say they are “key” to winning. Powering up your rat men should go pretty fast with quick glory scoring from Determined Defender, Ploymaster, Making a Statement, and becoming Inspired by any of the one-off ploys listed.
Using the glut of movement power cards also seem like a great way to both bait and offensively move around the board in true Skaven-like fashion to keep the scoring pressure on for all three turns.
Are you going to be trying out this Skaven deck? Or do you have ideas on how to make it better? Drop us a comment and let us know what your thoughts are.
