Northern War Table - Siege Series

Tournament Report

Written By - Thomas NeilsonApril 8, 2026

March 29th, 2026 - Siege Series

Top Decks Overview

Top 4 - Aggro Power

1st Place - Prometheus Primordial Aggro

Years ago, the release of Mists From The Fata Morgana and Welcome To Alburdunn quelled the early power of Prometheus in LRAW's meta, so with them receding in February's SRL list it's only fitting to see an aggressive build of Primordials push to the top of the tournament!

While this build shares the majority of the traditional Primordial build core, there are a few new pick-ups from the Ethereal Package supplied in Masquerade Of The Macabre and Wintertide Wonders. Ethereal Tartarian Gatewurm, Campe, was an all star, with it's ability to be a sticky threat on board in games for pressuring low DCM opponents. Against decks able to dump plenty of Bloodbourne into an engine, the ability to put pressure on DCM can be incredibly helpful. Insatiable Ethereal Hunger was an exciting removal piece too, with the ability to deal with difficult to answer Warriors, and to cycle Warrior abilities.

These new pieces play very nicely with the existing Ethereal inclusions in Prometheus revolving around the Tartarian Strix Warrior tokens, Shimmering Pool Of Lethe and Ethereal Watchtowers.

With the heavy Ethereal versions of Primordial becoming more prominent, it'll be interesting to see how these two versions evolve as the Primordial versions start to trend towards more aggressive variations, while Ethereal builds lean more towards the Midrange tools available.

2nd Place - Mal'ady Majik Void Combo

We've seen a continuation of the evolution of the Bounty Heavy Mal'ady builds centered around Rosaline, The Fractured Queen. The ability for Meg'Saria, Princess Of Lost Souls to tutor Rosaline, and Rosaline to find any other Warriors offers a highly resource intensive, but consistent engine, which here is being used to power out a burn strategy with Majik Void Staff.

The list has lost a ton of resource attrition with the Suspension of Twilight Lotus, which has additionally caused Ancient Relic - Eyes Of Ephideon to disappear from lists. The list has appeared to be much more vulnerable to DCM pressure, but unique tools like Twilight Daisy and Grimm Defeat do offer ways to threaten Warrior boards.

As always it's difficult to keep track of the options for these Bounty focused lists, and I'm excited to see how the list fares into a variety of matches against a selection of archetypes.

3rd Place - Sharn Wartorn AGgro

The Wartorn version of Sharn continues to have strong showings, especially in a tournament showing a heavy favoring towards aggressive strategies.

With it's engine-dense build, Sharn continues to be quick and consistent, and with a metagame down on generic mist effects, particularly effective. One strong suit in aggressive decks to note is the ability to beat defensive tools, and the addition of Great Orcbane Odyssey offers Sharn the ability to bypass defensive Warriors like Ecrutek, The Wandering Warlock, Grimm Warrior loops, and a variety of other Perish Warriors.

This list is also exploring the Blood Majik options for the deck, for access to more resources through the discount on Blood Majik Totem, especially with the ability of Blood Majik Chalice to set it up proactively.

4th Place - Adramelech Black Magic Storm

Adramelech has also had a bit of a pick-up recently, with the ability to put a lot of pressure on opponents early. While the list continues to be solid, with prepared lists it'll always have more risks. The reduction in Mists from the prior SRL list is very significant here too, as one of the best tools to hate out Adramelech in the main deck.

While half of the top 8 decks did pack Concrete Catacombs, and 3 prepared some numbers of Ariyus, Black Magic was able to soar to a top 4 finish. As the list can be hit or miss, it'll be interesting to see how it continues to perform in future tournaments.

The latest SRL list too is certainly a hit to aggro overall, with the ability to guard out damage for turns, the ability especially for Mists to recover eradicated pieces, and the hit to Black Magic Soul Army will make it more difficult for the list to place quite as frequently.

5-8 - Sh'Lara Brews, and EOR Top-Tiers

5th - QUartzheart Frost Control

Quartzheart Frost Control is one list I was interested in entering the tournament, with hand traps to break through the Tempo of a First Turn advantage, and strong attrition tools like Algidus, The Frozen Borealis and Frozen Hyperborean Hills to maintain DCM overtime.

Unfortunately, the list wasn't available to find success here, but I'm excited to see how it can continue to perform thanks to the new engine pieces available from the most recent set releases.

6th - Ethelhime Alehouse Storm

Ethelhime wasn't able to find a top 4, but did make top 8 with it's strong aggressive base. Alehouse does share with Sharn the ability to push through sticky defensive tools like Ecrutek and Death Loops, and that certainly makes the list an exciting prospect in the aggressive favouring meta.

Following the SRL changes we'll have to see how Ethel places in the wide open metagame.

7th/8th - Demons and Divine

In 7th and 8th we've got Michael Seraphim Control, and Onoskelis Fallen Control, two control decks which will likely be competing for top spots following relevant hits to both Mal'ady Garden Stax and Gaia Unstoppable Control.

With Michael's strong ability to control the board, and Onoskelis's ability to punish Warriors, I'm not sure which of these two will be the best placed in upcoming tournaments, but I have high expectations for both, and if they replace Mal'ady and Gaia as some of the top Control decks in the game, it'll create notably different dynamics for how deck's will need to answer control tools.

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