Elysian has the most flying units. Primal contributes most of them, but the addition of Pteriax Hatchling and Nesting Avisaur pushes it ahead of Feln in this respect. Some Elysian decks will have a flying subtheme, utilizing Windshaper and Wildcloudsnake, while others might have a 5 strength subtheme with Sauropod Wrangler and Friendly Wisp. Elysian decks are usually controlling and take advantage of Echo for card advantage, Ambush and Lightning Strike to help it defend, and the large units that Time offers. Occasionally, Elysian can be a tempo deck, with False Prince and Skysnappers backed up by Jarrall’s Frostkin and Flash Freeze.

Here are a few example decks:

This deck combined a strong early game with multiple Bold Adventurers and Lightning Strikes with a solid end game with 2 Copper Conduit and Xenan Obelisk. The Copper Conduits had some good synergy with Teleport and Mirror Image. Since Lightning Strike cannot be used on attacks, Refresh gave the deck another trick to help push Terrazons and Conduits through multiple blockers.

This deck lacked 2 drops, so it played effectively 19 power (with the Seek Power) and had several defensive 3 drops to make up for the loss of tempo. This deck would stall the game out until using Striking Snake Formation to decimate the opponent’s board.

Dispel is a key card for Elysian for a couple reasons. They lack Desert Marshall, so its the only silence effect available. Most Primal removal is either a temporary or permanent stun effect, so Endurance units can be problematic. It is often necessary to Dispel an Endurance unit in Elysian, especially Karmic Guardian and Xenan Guardian.

Elysian has access to both Wisdom of the Elders and Ancient Lore. It’s ideal to have a couple of these effects, but you also need plenty of defensive units and spells to withstand the tempo loss. It’s pretty easy to lose if your first play is Wisdom of the Elders when going second against an aggressive deck.

There are a few cards that work well with Echo units: Twining Ritual, Second Sight and Nesting Avisaur. In general, I try to pick up the Echo units first in the draft, since they are good on their own. Once I have a few echo units, then these cards move up in my pick order. Nesting Avisaur is midpack quality at first, but once you have 2 Hatchlings and Twinbrood Sauropod, you take it over everything but bombs and premium removal. Once you have all of those synergies going on, Psionic Savant looks much better, but without ways to draw extra cards, I find it to be too slow for the high cost.