Yesterday, you said you’d play a fun deck tomorrow. So today, just DO IT! Make your dreams come true!

Playing on the ranked ladder can be fun, but sometimes the grind just gets to you. To avoid burning out, I recommend playing a goofy deck to relax and have some fun. Remember why you play games in the first place – for recreation and enjoyment. These are a few of my favorite meme decks.

Come on Eilyn

4 Seek Power (Set1 #408) 4 Desert Marshal (Set1 #332) 3 Find the Way (Set1 #513) 3 Lightning Strike (Set1 #197) 3 Vanquish (Set1 #143) 4 Combrei Healer (Set1 #333) 1 Mirror Image (Set1 #217) 4 Scorpion Wasp (Set1 #96) 2 Ancient Lore (Set1 #105) 4 The Great Parliament (Set1 #338) 4 Harsh Rule (Set1 #172) 4 Jotun Hurler (Set1 #227) 3 Minotaur Ambassador (Set1 #346) 1 Strength of the Pack (Set1 #367) 4 Channel the Tempest (Set1 #244) 2 Eilyn, Queen of the Wilds (Set1 #245) 4 Time Sigil (Set1 #63) 4 Justice Sigil (Set1 #126) 5 Primal Sigil (Set1 #187) 4 Seat of Progress (Set0 #58) 4 Seat of Wisdom (Set0 #63) 4 Seat of Order (Set0 #51)

Come on Eilyn is a combo-control deck with an absurdly over-the-top finish. It starts out like a normal TJP control deck, but then it uses Minotaur Ambassador to ramp from 6 to 9 power for the next turn so that you can play Eilyn, Queen of the Wilds plus a snowball from Jotun Hurler to pull a Channel the Tempest or another copy of Eilyn (with Mirror image or Strength of the Pack) from your deck. To accomplish the combo, the only primal spells you can play are Channel and copy effects, so Jotun Hurler gets you cheap primal spells that aren’t spells in the deck and Ancient Lore provides non-primal card draw.

This deck is actually competitive in a slower metagame, as it goes way over the top of midrange and control decks like Big Combrei and Feln control by doing 36+ damage from hand with Eilyn + multiple spells for 3 Channel the Tempests. Eilyn + Mirror Image + Snowball is guaranteed to hit at least 2 Channels, and will hit 3 of them for 30+ damage unless you’re very unlucky. You can usually start going off and continue with spells and power you draw from the Channels. I’ve also won several games with Strength of the Pack on Combrei Healer or Minotaur Ambassador, so always be on the lookout for unorthodox lines to victory.

Clockroaches

4 Initiate of the Sands (Set1 #74) 4 Permafrost (Set1 #193) 2 Lightning Storm (Set1 #206) 4 Second Sight (Set1 #207) 4 Temple Scribe (Set1 #502) 4 Twinning Ritual (Set1 #79) 2 Whispering Wind (Set1 #202) 3 Amber Acolyte (Set1 #93) 4 Clockroach (Set1 #94) 4 Crown of Possibilities (Set1 #355) 2 Polymorph (Set1 #211) 1 Scorpion Wasp (Set1 #96) 3 Wisdom of the Elders (Set1 #218) 4 Nesting Avisaur (Set1 #225) 3 Twinbrood Sauropod (Set1 #113) 2 Thunderstrike Dragon (Set1 #243) 9 Time Sigil (Set1 #63) 6 Primal Sigil (Set1 #187) 4 Elysian Banner (Set1 #421) 4 Seat of Wisdom (Set0 #63) 2 Diplomatic Seal (Set1 #425)

The Crown of Possibilities + Echo interaction is a favorite of jank enthusiasts everywhere, and this is my personal take. Dark Return takes some setup and adds clunkiness to an already-clunky deck, so I prefer the clean 2-faction version. Elysian has plenty of Echo units and ways to redraw them, so the extra slots for interaction are welcomed. It’s slow to get going, but once the echo train starts rolling it’s nearly impossible to out-value a Clockroach deck. I have 9 echo units, and I think 8 is really the lowest you can go and still draw one often enough. It’s not like drawing multiples is bad, either. Clockroach is obviously great when you have a bunch, but Twinbrood Sauropod is an underplayed card for how powerful it is. Even the base card without any additional skills does a lot of work in grindy matchups like control and Armory, and can put a fast clock against Xenan Obelisk decks. 10 strength from one card is a lot, even if it does come from 2 bodies over a couple turns. Can you imagine bringing back a Dawnwalker with a Sauropod? It’s a very threatening board, and the opponent knows that if they deal with it you can just do it again. Big echo units like Sauropod and Thunderstrike Dragon can be demoralizing to play against.