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Here's my take on Malygos OTK in this week's Tavern Brawl, after some refinements.

The general gameplan is to draw A LOT, keep opponent's board in check, play Alexstrasza, Malygos and burst your opponent down with a few spells. The alternative win condition is making a huge Edwin VanCleef.

With a good hand a turn 2 or 3 lethal is possible: :)

Mulligan is flexible since you have a lot of cycle cards and many scenarios may occur.
You generally always keep one card draw engine (Gadgetzan Auctioneer is the dream),Alexstrasza, and Malygos.
Other top cards to keep are: Dark Iron Skulker, Fan of Knives, Loatheb (vs druids, rouges, priests and mages), Edwin VanCleef, Preparation if you got Auctioneer, Shadowstep if you got Edwin or some other good targets for it.

There aren't any stiff rules, so experiment!

Card choices explanation:

- 2x Sinister Strike, Eviscerate - core spells used to kill your opponent wth using Malygos

- 2x Shiv, Fan of Knives, 1x Backstab - core removal, utility and card draw (backstab is somewhat replacable)

-2x Shadowstep - amazing utility card , great synergy with all the battlecries, Auctioneer and Edwin, there are a lot of micro-combos out there!

-2x Preparation - an essential card for any combo rogue, try to save it for the Gadgetzan Auctioneer, Edwin VanCleef, or Malygos

-2x Dark Iron Skulker- core, the best board clear in this format :) great vs token decks

- 2x Azure Drake - card draw and spellpower, useful to get sneaky lethals or ger rid off bigger boards. Consider saving it for combo with Fan of Knives vs token decks

- 1x Gnomish Inventor - some extra draw, replacable

- 2x Gadgetzan Auctioneer - the powerhouse of the deck, with all the cheap spells it allows you to draw through the deck preety quickly

- 2x Antique Healbot - to recover from explosive starts from you opponent, like turn 1 Alex/ Ragnaros, comboes extremelly well with Shadowstep and Brann Bronzebeard

- 1x Faceless Manipulator - utility/combo card, you generally want to copy Malygos, but you might copy Gadgetzan Auctioneer or some enemy pesky powerful minions, like Emperor Thaurissan, Gruul, Questing Adventurer, etc.

- Edwin VanCleef - the MVP of the deck, beeing a bit greedy with it is generally the way to go. Most decks don't have an answer for huge minions, so a big turn with +10/+10 Edwin often wins you the game on spot.

- Brann Bronzebeard - fun utility card (not core), gives some extra draw with drakes, more healbots, and shuts down spells completely with Loatheb

- Loatheb - important card to dodge opponent's Malygos lethals ;) consider saving Shadowstep for it if your opponent is playing a miracle-deck as well to save you for an extra turn, or combo it with Brann

- Emperor Thaurissan - much better than I initially tought - the Emperor value in this format in a deck with a ton of draw is huge. Allows some insane combos, save it for a spot when you've got a big hand with some combo-spells for the Malygos

- Chromaggus - fun card! combo it with cycle cards for some amazing value; getting another copy of cards like Malygos, Preparation, or more burn might be gamewinning

- Alexstrasza - the Queen of the brawl, preety self-explanatory pick :)

- Malygos - the undisputed King of the brawl, main win condition

Have fun exploring the deck, a lot of crazy stuff can happen!