When playing with Azir, you can gain a huge power-swing in the late game after restoring the Sun Disc which brings him to power level 3, a feature currently only seen on the new Shurima Ascended Champion cards. Your entire deck that you brought into the game gets replaced with "The Emperor's Deck". This isn't shown anywhere in-game though, so how good could it be? It turns out, pretty awesome!
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The Emperor's Deck
Azir's special ascended deck contains 15 cards. They do not change, it is the same list in the same card quantities no matter when mode you play. The deck contains some very strong cards that, once used, should swing you into victory.
The cheaper cards in the deck, make up just over half the deck. These all have card draw as a focus which helps thin the deck out to get to the really awesome stuff. You can get some strong bodies onto the field (Emperor's Guard) for a simple 2 mana, which is absolute insanity when you consider that the only other collectible card in the game right now that has 5 attack is Trifarian Gloryseeker, a card with only 1 health and it can't even block. Without even pulling out the strongest cards in Azir's deck, you're already off to a great start.
Things begin to get really fun when you dig deeper into the deck though. On the higher end we've got Golden Herald that can be a source of infinite value on the board. We've also got some great control through Sandstorm which features the Obliterate keyword, removing the cards that get dunked by it to no longer be able to be revived or trigger Last Breath! It's slow, but that slowness packs an insane punch.
The real deal though, if you haven't already won, is Ascended's Call. Getting a level 3 Renekton and Nasus out onto the field, along with that sweet attack token through Rally is sure to finish up the game. Unfortunately, simply earning the Emperor's Deck is not going to be enough to play this card though because, in our experience, this card will ALWAYS be the last one you can draw. Even if you shuffle into the deck, Ascended's Call in your last chance to win. Azir, you damn cheat!
Here is the deck in full. If you want to play with it, go and craft yourself an Azir, you won't be disappointed.
Comments
Uhh I just started playing the game but this deck seems really weak.. I’m playing a celestial deck with a sol and it’s hard to think of any deck that even comes close to late game power as celestial.. I mean celestials are at least as strong as these emperors deck but the emperor deck cards cost a lot compared to celestials which are all 0 costs after you summon lvl 2 a sol and if it’s late round like that celestial cards are really way way way stronger. Seems kinda weak this emperor deck yeah
It's kind of sad that Ascended's call is at the buttom. It kind of makes it a dead card unless you draw it with the attack token Read cards before evaluating them. And... hope you don't play against a nab player :D
That's probably the reason why it comes with Rally.
Oh shit. I completely missed that.
I honestly don't understand the choice to have Azir swap your deck with a super powerful deck if/when you restore the Sun Disc. He seems like a champion with a lot of very obvious aggro synergies, so attaching this very high-value, late game mode just seems to make Azir decks too good at too many things.
If you want to restore the sun disc you have to play a mono Shurima deck and despite having some fantastic 1 drops, you can't build mono Shurima as an aggro. If want to build a aggro deck with Azir you have to use either Demacia or Shadow Isles.
So yeah he is good at many things but not in the same deck.This flexibility is the reason why I think that he has the best design of the expansion.
My favorite champion from Shurima, his level 2 is strong already, but his level 3 is so much fun and one main reason to build a mono Shurima deck.
I am confused, what does emperor's prosperity does?
"I play [Emperor's Prosperity], which lets me draw two more cards from my deck!"
Probably the most confusing effect found in a card game since pot of greed from Yu-Gi-Oh.
yea I'm gonna need a flowchart for that one. So much for clarity.
They didn't think Aphelios was complicated enough, so they release this card..
tks - i was looking for that info.