A deck you might not have expected to see running Blademaster Samuro is alongside a taunt package in Druid! Druid will have lots of ways to get ridiculous value from Blademaster Samuro with cards like Survival of the Fittest giving him so much more attack to work with.

However, one thing we realized about Mark of the Spikeshell is that it will allow us to get an extra copy of Blademaster Samuro back in hand while making him even bigger as long as we've given him taunt. And, Ironbark, Mark of the Wild, or even Germination can do just that.

But, if we're running those cards, why stop there? With Plaguemaw the Rotting, we can summon him back and refresh his Frenzy when they take down the taunted copy of him. And, with all this taunt synergy, let's toss in some additional taunts to flood the board. It may be surprising that we didn't include Razormane Battleguard with this taunt package, and it may be a good idea to swap out something (such as Germination) for him, but our taunts aren't coming down right away, so we leaned more into the meme side of things.

Speaking of the meme side of things, I am curious how many Greyboughs we'll be able to summon with help from Plaguemaw... Whatever the case, there was real danger that this deck can run out of fuel, so we included Twilight Runners alongside Guardian Animals to help cycle through the deck. Since Teacher's Pet and Thickhide Kodo are both beasts, there is some overlapping synergy available there. Who knew Blademaster Samuro could learn taunt?

We'll be experimenting with this on day one of the expansion, so come join the experiments at https://www.twitch.tv/ssalchemist if you'd like to see the chaos unfold on day 1. If you're looking for other experimental decks with Bru'kan, Blademaster Samuro, or Mankrik to play on day 1, check out 10 others at https://youtu.be/ZUD1RUWc04U or down below. And, the games with this deck were so much fun that it became our first gameplay highlight of the expansion! If you'd like to see it in action, check it out at https://youtu.be/7NQtf2fpgnM or below. Have fun experimenting!