When you don’t have it, play Legion Rearguard if you suspect their unit will have 1 attack, Legion Saboteur – if it will have 2. If you suspect your opponent will protect themselves this turn with a unit, Precious Pet will be the best turn 1 play.Of course, good meta knowledge is very important for you to know which 1-cost units, or other answers, they have in their deck. You can start gathering clues right in the mulligan – if the opponent keeps several cards, they are likely to have some early action in hand. If the opponent will likely have nothing to defend themselves this turn, playing the unit that pushes the most damage is generally the right choice.When you have multiple turn 1 units to start the game, choosing which one to play first is an important choice that you should not take lightly. Carefully consider which 1-drop is best for your turn 1 play.Frenzied Skitterer can help if you’re looking to continue dealing Fearsome damage. Stygian Onlooker is a great pick if the opponent doesn’t have total control over the board. Imperial Demolitionist can also fit that role as long as you’re sure the opponent can’t make it fizzle. Doombeast is often the key follower to look for because of the very valuable burn damage.

Some units are more useful than others when copied and made Ephemeral.

Think through your Stalking Shadows picks.If you’re not actively looking for opportunities, Stygian Onlooker can easily get stuck in your hand and will have a harder time pushing damage later. In the early turns, a well-timed Stygian Onlooker is a 1-mana Decimate that leaves a 2/1 body behind – not too bad eh? However, you have to invest some effort into enabling it – mulligan and play accordingly to set up a nice window for it (between turns 2 and 5, with the attack token). While your main goal is to push as much damage as possible every turn, it can easily be worth to save your Spiders to be able to level up Elise, this way enabling more damage later. It can be easy to miss the Elise level-up and lose track of your Spiders count when we tunnel vision on pushing maximum damage. Keep track of Elise’s level-up potential.Stalking Shadows can also help you find more burn, duplicating Doombeast or Imperial Demolitionist. With Decimate, Noxian Fervor, Doombeast, Imperial Demolitionist, and Unspeakable Horror, Spider Aggro has a very impressive reach. If the opponent has managed to stabilize the board, the deck switches to a burn plan. The attack debuff to the opponent’s units can disable a lot of anti-Fearsome blockers for the turn, while also buffing your own units – and it is not rare to win the game on the spot thanks to Frenzied Skitterer. When it comes to pushing damage with Fearsome units, Frenzied Skitterer is a key card of this deck. Challenger and Fearsome are very synergistic keywords – you’ll be able to pull away the opponent’s anti-Fearsome blockers with small Spiderlings to push a lot of damage with higher-attack units like Elise. It is not uncommon to level up Elise at the start of turn 4, especially if you have a House Spider out. Thanks to the Fearsome keyword, the deck can deal damage in combat ignoring some blockers.Įlise will level up very often because of your numerous Spider units. With its numerous early units, it aims to push as much damage as possible before the opponent can stabilize.

Spider Aggro is a deck with a very clear game plan.

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