Ways of dealing with high armor.

[Reddicediaries]

Being completely honest, my favorite way to deal tank builds other than dot is to have 2-3 copies of this is and critical strike. The only way to remove them is through some kind of dispel purge magic shenanigans. Thoughts?

[Borg]

I think including promo cards in your spellbook is like cheating.

[Reddicediaries]

I tend to agree, but if available, no sense in not using it.

[Brian VanAlstyne]

I think including promo cards in your spellbook is like cheating.

It's nothing like cheating.

[jhaelen]

It's nothing like cheating.

It obviously depends on whether you and your opponent have agreed that it's fine to use Promo cards. Personally, I always make it very clear that Promo cards may not be used. I don't play against spellbooks that use them (OCTGN games would be different, since they don't require you to have the cards, but I don't play on OCTGN).

[Biblofilter]

We are pretty relaxed about promos back home.

As an example I got a lot of Dragonclaw Wolverines from Arcane Wonders.
Those are going to be prizes in stacks of 4 in our tournaments.
If I won one of those, I would like to build a book around them and try them out.

I understand that it gives an unfair advantage, but I usually have way more access to legal cards than any of my opponents anyway. I'll be the only one in Europe with PvS for a short while, that's not fair.
Besides I like to meet the new stuff as early as possible.

[Kelanen]

We always use all promo cards, except for when we are practicing for tournaments.

Frankly it's the only way to increase the card pool sufficiently.