Scarlet Spider, Kaine

Gameplan

Drop Kaine on turn 2, discard a card to grow him, and start swinging with menace while leaning on Mayhem to recast him cheaply after he dies or gets bounced. He's a resilient, low-cost aggro threat that doubles as a discard outlet, so you go fast with cheap evasive beaters and reward the cards you ditch via reanimation, madness, and graveyard payoffs.

Key Cards

• Anje's Ravager — Turns combat damage into mass discard you can refill via Mayhem and madness, fixing the deck's card-flow problem.
• Faithless Looting — Cheap discard-and-draw that fills the yard and enables Mayhem on the cards you pitch.
• Reassembling Skeleton — A recurring sacrifice/discard fodder body that pairs perfectly with aristocrats and counter payoffs.
• The Reaver Cleaver — Cheap equipment that rewards Kaine's evasion with a Treasure every combat to ramp into bigger threats.
• Ozolith, the Shattered Spire — Doubles down on Kaine's counter theme and preserves counters when he dies and returns via Mayhem.

Upgrade Path

Tighten the curve with more one- and two-mana evasive threats and efficient equipment (Lightning Greaves, Bonesplitter, Embercleave) so Kaine connects every turn. Add stronger card engines and madness payoffs (Bone Miser, Containment Construct, Glint-Horn Buccaneer) plus reliable reanimation targets to convert pitched cards into value. Round out with quality interaction (Deadly Rollick, Terminate, Bedevil) and a couple of redundant drain/burn finishers so a single board wipe doesn't end the game.