The following deck is the result of a lot of playtesting on Apprentice
against a good player. It's a deck that consists entirely of Damage Spells
(well almost) and only the best of them. 


Here it is:
// Characters
        1 Professor Filius Flitwick (Starting)
        1 Professor Severus Snape
        1 Harry Potter
// Lessons
        26 Potions
// Items
        2 Pewter Cauldron
        1 Borrowed Wand
// Adventures
        1 Unusual Pets
        3 Troll in the Bathroom
// Damage Spells
        4 Magical Mishap
        3 Stupefy
        4 Dogbreath Potion
        4 Malevolent Mixture
        4 Vermillious
        4 Toe Biter
// Healing Spells
        2 Burning Bitterroot Balm


What makes this deck so good is the huge amount of cards that provide Power:
30 + the starting character. That's half of the deck. The effect on the game
is that you will be able to put down a lesson every turn without having to
waste actions on drawing cards to find lessons. Another plus is that it's
easy to find cards to discard for 4 Privet Drive: just discard those excess
Lessons. Then there's the 23 damage spells!! from the first turn you will be
able to start dealing damage. An example:


Turn 1 : Potions + Magical Mishap               3 damage
Turn 2 : Potions + Toe Biter                    2 damage        (plus
creature killed)
Turn 3 : Potions + Vermilious                   3 damage
Turn 4 : Borrowed Wand + Stupefy                5 damage
Turn 5 : Stupefy + Dogbreath Potion             8 damage
Turn 6 : Malevolent Mixture + Toe Biter         12 damage       (plus
creature killed)


                Total damage by turn 6 =        33 damage !!! That's half
their deck. 


If you manage to repeat that they're dead by turn 10. The Adventures go well
with the theme of damaging your opponent. Troll is harder to solve than
Privet since they have to discard an extra card. There are just 2 Healing
Spells in the deck (and 1 character) but their main purpose is to put those
big damage spells back in your deck.
Harry Potter is included to fight Privet Drive which is this deck's worst
enemy. 
Another advantage of this deck is that it's creatureless, so anything your
opponent has against creatures will be dead cards sitting in his hand.


Some tips playing the deck:
- If you encounter a Privet Drive, just solve it as fast as you can and try
not to discard your healing spells (unless you're already winning). 
- Save your Vermilious and Toe Biters to kill creatures unless your opponent
is dying
- Don't play the big damage spells (DogBreath and Malevolent) on creatures
unless you are dying from them


Have fun playing the deck!




Jeroen Aga
jeroen.aga@axa-royalebelge.be