If you had to, what would you recommend to people if they didn't own Maruzensky and Israfil? since those are some of the more expensive cards in the deck.
For the sake of filling out room in the deck for those cards if you absolutely have to: I would recommend Playful Necromancer in place of Maruzensky. For Israfil I would say Lucifer or maybe Flame & Glass. The deck plays significantly different with vs without Maruzensky and Israfil on the deck.
Unfortunately, both serve rather unique functions that aren’t easily replaced, since Abyss doesn’t currently have other cheap removal outside of Wardrobe Raider, and doesn’t have a good board clear outside of Israfil. Alucard could be a decent Israfil replacement to replicate the defense gain and some amount of removal, leaning more aggressive. Maruzensky might be best replaced by a more aggressive option as well, since all of the other removal comes at a much high play point cost.
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If you had to, what would you recommend to people if they didn't own Maruzensky and Israfil? since those are some of the more expensive cards in the deck.
For the sake of filling out room in the deck for those cards if you absolutely have to: I would recommend Playful Necromancer in place of Maruzensky. For Israfil I would say Lucifer or maybe Flame & Glass. The deck plays significantly different with vs without Maruzensky and Israfil on the deck.
Unfortunately, both serve rather unique functions that aren’t easily replaced, since Abyss doesn’t currently have other cheap removal outside of Wardrobe Raider, and doesn’t have a good board clear outside of Israfil. Alucard could be a decent Israfil replacement to replicate the defense gain and some amount of removal, leaning more aggressive. Maruzensky might be best replaced by a more aggressive option as well, since all of the other removal comes at a much high play point cost.