Two Rhyas lists at 35, comments, thoughts?

[Maerik]

So after a sexy charge, sprint, critical decapitation assassination against Goreshade I've really wanted to explore Rhyas' potential. My first list at 15 points was:

Army Points: 15

Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight -6
Angelius 9
Carnivean 11
Blighted Nyss Shepherd 1

Keeping with that sort of feel but trying to really take advantage of Dash I've come up with these two lists.

Army Points: 35

Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight -6
Shredder 2
Angelius 9
Carnivean 11
Carnivean 11
Blighted Nyss Swordsmen (6/10) 5
Blighted Nyss Swordsman Abbot and Champion 3

In this one I wanted to try out two Carnys cause I just bought a second one, throw Rapport on one and put him waaaaaaaaay out there, then when he inevitably gets squished (after taking a huge chunk out of the opposing list) drop the Rapport on backup Carny and keep going.

Army Points: 35

Rhyas, Sigil of Everblight -6
Angelius 9
Carnivean 11
Shredder 2
Blighted Nyss Swordsmen (6/10) 5
Blighted Nyss Swordsman Abbot and Champion 3
Incubus 5
Blighted Nyss Striders (6) 6

This one is trying to really use Incubus and multiple threat areas. You'll notice that I've got a shredder in both lists because I like having Rhyas up in the middle of things, so I'm calling Tenacity an auto-include.

I've seen a lot of people suggesting Protector to stop knock down, but I don't own one and I want to play as aggressively as possible with this list.

Thoughts?

[Thunder_God]

Protector is there especially for when you play aggressively, when you're hiding, you don't need anti-KD defense as much

[Maerik]

Protector is there especially for when you play aggressively, when you're hiding, you don't need anti-KD defense as much

Well mostly what I mean is that I'd rather have an Angel or the second Carny in there to kill stuff rather than Protect me. I'm finding in my Meta that although there's a lot of knockdown effect (Menoth and Sorscha lists) everyone kind of ***** foots around until they can get the perfect scenario. I'm guilty of this too, so I'm going for a list that runs out, beats face, leaves you reeling then Ninjas in for a decapitation.

[Maerik]

Wow. When I was saying <Blank> foots around I was thinking about cats...