Nurgling for a Fight

Chaos Dark Eldar

The Nurgles are coming! The Nurgles are coming! And they are spoiling for a feverish fight.

The deck is designed to win command struggles where you acquire enough resources and cards to power your events and get the planets you want.

The deck's 6 nukes (2 each of Cacophonic Choir, Warpstorm and Nurgling Bomb) offer consistently harsh events with enough variety to address differing situations.

The flexibility of attack options improves with the nurgles, nurgle attachments, vile laboratory, and gurgle events. Blight Grenades is a great deploy (make it your last deploy action in a phase where you will have initiative) that transforms any of your 10 eligible nurgling army units into a fearsome AE 2 foe. Works best on Death Guard Infantry.

Xavaes is there for command, to thwart Archons Terror, and gives a slight synergistic boost to lower daemon deploying costs when he generates a Cultist.

The deck keeps foes off balance. Play Cacophonic Choir at the end of the Deploy Phase to upset a swarm. Vile Laboratory just pulls units off the first planet. Ecstatic Seizures and Archon's Terror are perfect tools to tip the scales at any planet. And Blight Grenades is just awesome (see above).

V2: Increased command icons, increased cost
-3 Splintered Path Acolytes
+2 Xaveas Split-Tongue
+1 Ancient Keeper of Secrets

V3:
Won a local store championship in Maryland with this deck going against Cato, another Ku'gath and Old One Eye.

Goal with change is to lower cost and increase command consistency:
-1 Ancient Keeper of Secrets
-1 Archon's Terror
+1 Promotion
+1 Murder Cogitator

May drop the Murder Cogitator for Incubus Warrior for a bump in command struggles.

Mulligan Tactic: I generally mulligan if my first draw does contain any of the following:
- Slaneesh's Temptation
- Plaguefather's Banner
- Three low cost units that can be deployed first round.
- Vile Laboratory