After switching through a bunch of decks, and falling all the way down to 3400, the realization hit that I simply was no longer having any fun playing the game. A fundamental change was in order. So rather than thinking about what would be good against the current metagame (which is a crapshoot to predict with the blind matchmaking) I instead just put together a bunch of cards that would be fun to play.
Ironically, I ended up with a variation of Dagon-Butterfly:
- Foglet x3, Celaeno Harpy x3, Ekimmara x2, Earth Elemental x2, Arachas x3, Lacerate x2
- Grave Hag, Fiend, Katakan, Water Hag, Decoy, Monster Nest
- Ge’els, Triss: Butterflies, Woodland Spirit, Succubus
Now this is not an optimized deck; it has only two methods of calling fog, the Arachas seem orphaned, the consume aspects come across as half-baked, and you can get an awful draw with multiple Foglets/Arachas. Yet its variety, and flexibility (Weather, Butterflies, Succubus, Resilience, Grave Hag, Behemoth/Foglet via Monster Nest), is exactly what I ended up liking most about it and the only real complaint is a lack of card draw.
It brought me up to 4050 in rather short order considering I only played enough each day to reach the first daily reward (a countermeasure against burning out again). Assuming nothing changes I’ll probably stick with this for the foreseeable future, though I’m curious about a Dwarf-Resilience deck I saw a few times that takes a similar approach (it ran Sheldon, Blue Mountain Elves, and even a couple Skirmishers).