I was just finishing up a Bitter Dread deck today, myself.

Hitting a Rune Ear Hierophant with it is the greatest.

These builds look great, but I'll stick with my Redlings-on-crack list thank you very much.

I'd love to see the list. Always fun to see what others are running, and trying out new builds. Afterall, that is really what these articles try to promote for new and old players. Deck building tools and ideas.

Here's my Kikaku list. I actually posted a Ruby/Blood list on the forum right after AZ2 launched, but I updated this list after I built the pvp version. My equipment list is sparse, but it doesn't really rely on any equipment to begin with. The basic goal of the deck is to maximize Kikaku's passive to quickly draw through the deck. The mercenary has been upgraded, which really helps in Great Machine Graveyard runs.

Looks solid. I also was running Underworld Crusader initially, but ended up eventually cutting them because I found that I had to water down my troops, and I was generally winning before I ever needed to consider playing them. I'd love to have cremate and blamsmith in the list, but would probably stray away to have the consistent fixing in pve, with on par removal baked in.

Try out my list, if/when you have time. I think you will like it's speed.