Starter
Prof. Snape
Characters
2 Hermoine Granger
2 Hermoine, Top Student.
Lessons
12 potions.
12 COMC
Spells
4 Draught of Living Death
4 Dragon's blood.
4 fire protection potion.
Creatures
4 Fluffy
4 fang.
Locations
4 Hagrid's house.
4 potions Dungeon
Adventures
4 4 Privet drive.
Anonymous
I find this deck to be extremely interesting. Most decks I’ve seen don’t use 2 Locations so that was an interesting aspect, however I feel like this deck plays good with two locations, so its good enough that you can switch locations up and have everything work out well for you. It does need some work to help protect you from creatures and some more healing so lets see what we can do.
Characters:
I toyed with the idea of making Hermoine your starter, but the deck didn’t seem to work nearly as well as it does with Snape as the starter and Hermoine in a back up role. Although I think you only need to go with the base set Hermoine here.
Adventures:
4 Privet is a good adventure but your not weak against spells, you’re weak against creatures. Most of the times you’ll be slow out of the gate, so stopping your opponent’s creatures from hurting you will be key.
Locations:
Obviously I’m not going to change this, I think this is what your deck was built around.
Spells:
I like the damage spells but you need some more healing. This will help your replenish lessons, grab some locations, and even get spells and creatures you might need to finish off your opponent. Other then that, I’m going to stick with what you got.
Creatures:
Your creatures need some work. In theory you have 8 creatures in this deck, but you could only ever have two in play! That’s definitely not good. You have to watch out for those unique creatures because they aren’t actually that useful in numbers.
Items:
I know you don’t currently have any items, but I think some will really help in this deck and could help you get up to your top power faster. See how it plays but I think it really helps out your deck.
Here are my changes:
Characters:
-2 Hermoine, Top Student
Adventures:
+4 Riding the Centaur
-4 4 Privet Drive
Locations:
-1 Hagrid’s House
-1 Potions Dungeon
Spells:
+4 Burning Bitteroot Balm
-4 Fire Protection Potion
-2 Draught of Living Death
Creatures:
+3 Hebridean Black Dragon
+2 Mountain Troll
+2 Welsh Green Dragon
-4 Fang
-3 Fluffy
Items:
+4 Collapsible Cauldron
Lessons:
+1 Potions
+1 Care of Magical Creatures
Here is the final Deck:
NAME: Beat Down in the Alley
1 Professor Severus Snape
2 Hermione Granger
3 Potions Dungeon
3 Hagrid's House
4 Collapsible Cauldron
4 Riding the Centaur
1 Fluffy
2 Mountain Troll
2 Welsh Green Dragon
3 Hebridean Black Dragon
4 Burning Bitterroot Balm
2 Draught of Living Death
4 Dragon's Blood
13 Potions
13 Care of Magical Creatures
I’ve play tested this deck and it plays pretty fast and it plays pretty good. I suggest playing around with the adventures and switching in what you run up against the most. I felt that creature decks were the biggest threat so you want to make sure you’re protected against that, and the healing cards come in handier then you could possibly believe. I wish you best of luck with this deck and keep those original ideas coming; you cannot underestimate the power of an original idea.
Lockhart.