Tavern Brawl - Gift Exchange
By Stonekeep -
This week's Tavern Brawl is "Gift Exchange"!
Discuss this Tavern Brawl on our Discord!
Official Description for Gift Exchange
Great Father is dropping cards on the battlefield! Get a gift each time you smash your opponent's crate... or your own!
Gift Exchange Chalkboard
General Information
- Earn a card pack from the latest expansion for winning your first game this week.
- It's the tenth time we see this Brawl. Last time we've seen it was on December 26, 2024.
- This is a PvP Brawl.
- Brawl's format is Wild.
- It's a Constructed Brawl - you need to pick a Hero and build your own deck.
- If you don't already have one at the start of your turn, a Winter's Veil Gift spawns on your side of the board. If you destroy your opponent's or your own during your turn, you'll receive a Stolen Winter's Veil Gift.
- After destroying one, you get to Discover a class card (from your opponent's class if you destroy their gift or your class if you destroy yours). It will have its cost reduced by 5. No matter whose gift you destroy, one of the cards you receive has a chance to be Hardpacked Snowballs, a great tempo swing that you usually want to pick when offered.
- You really want to destroy as many Winter's Veil Gifts as you can. It seems the cards you get to choose from are clearly skewed towards Legendaries and Epics, and playing (for example) 8-drops for 3 mana is incredibly powerful.
- Crazed Alchemist and similar effects are good because they can insta-kill a Gift. Warlock is also strong with Power Overwhelming, Void Terror or Grim Rally, which work well with the Gifts. Similarly, a class like Paladin, which can buff the Gifts and attack with them is pretty nice.
46 Comments
paladinftw
secret paladin is OP for this brawl, you protect your gifts with noble sac then you buff everything to smash your opponents gifts.
Neuerpacific
malylock with 1 crazed alchemist and a void terror is OP shit 9 games winstreak now :D
hearthstonepro
any decks recommended for this brawl?
Evident
This one: http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/gift-exchange-tavern-brawl-warlock/
Pommesfee
By the way, the reason why you get a lot of epics and legendaries is that you can only get cards that would normally cost 5 or more. And most of those cards are at a higher rarity.
Evident
Good to know, thanks!
Marco Bunge
Hi,
Tempo mage (http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/tempo-mage-deck-list/) with forgotten toarch is great :)
Playing this list:
-2 Arcane Blast
+1 Forgotten Toarch
+1 Etheral Conjurer
Best regards
Ursus
Any basic/cheap decks recommended for this brawl?
TacoRocco
One thing to note about this brawl is that you get presents when gifts die on YOUR turn. I was facing a guy and his explosive trap killed my present, but I got the gift.
erik
i believe it says the gift goes to current player
osmansosa
What is the reward if we already have that card back ?
Evident
You get a Classic Pack if you already have the card back.
TacoRocco
With the addition of Kooky Chemist (or whatever it is called), I would mention it in the tips alongside Crazed Alchemist.
moreprime
i made a deck with priest,
notable priest cards:
circle of healing + auchenai souldpriest, confuse, shadow word pain, dragon fire potion, and all the steal cards
notable neutrals:
doomsayer, crazed alchemist, kooky chemist
PucKviruS
Turn 4 win warlock
### Token Buff Warlock
# Class: Warlock
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 1x (1) Fire Fly
# 2x (1) Flame Imp
# 1x (1) Grim Rally
# 2x (1) Kobold Librarian
# 2x (1) Soul Infusion
# 2x (1) Voidwalker
# 2x (2) Scarab Egg
# 2x (2) Spirit of the Bat
# 2x (2) Vulgar Homunculus
# 2x (3) Devilsaur Egg
# 2x (3) Doubling Imp
# 2x (4) Arena Fanatic
# 2x (4) Ravenous Pterrordax
# 2x (4) Saronite Chain Gang
# 2x (5) Fungalmancer
# 1x (5) Leeroy Jenkins
# 1x (10) Sea Giant
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Ronadan
Although I love playing warlock, I hate brawls like this. Brawls that one class is absolutely dominating and others "have some chances" are too boring.
Sanguine Reveler, Pterrodax, Ratcatcher, Void terror, Grim rally and soulfire are all warlock class cards with less than 4 mana cost. Add 2 copies of cards like crazed alchemist, Void ripper and Scorp-o-matic to have a perfect near aggro deck for this brawl. Huge reduced cost for discovered cards AND high chances of getting actually good cards makes a comeback from this type of deck nearly impossible.
if it was standard, the gap between class power levels wasn't this obvious. but good wild cards can offer the player ahead serious tempo and guess what? Almost always, warlock player is ahead.
overall, play warlock
radu
Are you f kidding me? I didn't play last week's brawl because I didn't want any cardback
DrJ
You're lucky man! :-)
Antiliani
Well lesson learned.
Edison
Apparently I am offered a card pack because I got the card back last time =O
Xalik
The gifts rewards are deathrattles, so deathrattle decks let you get multiple gifts out of your own boxes. I did deathrattle hunter and got so much tempo by turn 3-4 it was over.
MortalWombat
I made a neat Priest Deck with a 100% enemy concede rate by turn 3 or 4. Inner fire for your box and topsy-turvy for their's is a very powerful deck combined with radiant elementals. Strongly recommend it.
Stonekeep
Update: It’s the fourth time we see this Brawl. Comments below this one are old, but can often still be relevant!
You can share your decks in the comments and we'll feature them in this post! :)
bakayoutube
Hi
I post a video of this event on youtube here :
https://youtu.be/BQqqrI349JQ
Just the classic priest deck except for death wing card
good game ;)
HyperJCT
First time posting here, but I built a deck that I liked and wanted to share it. I can't get the deck builder to work so I'll just post what I have. Keep in mind this is just using cards I currently have:
Warlock:
Dark Pact - 2
Grim Rally - 2
Plague of Flames - 2
Power Overwhelming - 2
Sanguine Reveler - 2
Soul Fire - 2
Spirit Bomb - 2
Crazed Alchemist - 2
EVIL Genius - 2
Scorp-o-matic - 2
Youthful Brewmaster - 2
Unwilling Sacrifice - 2
Void Terror - 2
Ravenous Pterrordax - 2
Valdris Felgore - 1
Twisting Nether - 1
I'm sure there are other/better cards to use. I considered using Depth Charge instead of Soulfire, but not sure about that yet. Thank you.
Ridanculous
Nice list.
Here's a deck code for something similar:
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Uses Mossy Horror, Stampeding Kodo (both are a bit slow tbh) and Kooky Chemist
Thorgrimm
Worked great, thanks for posting it
Cridn
Step 1, copy deck code
step 2, load deck
step 3, gg
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Warlock
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Flame Imp
# 2x (1) Grim Rally
# 2x (1) Kobold Librarian
# 2x (1) Possessed Villager
# 2x (1) Power Overwhelming
# 2x (1) Sanguine Reveler
# 2x (1) Spirit Bomb
# 2x (2) Crazed Alchemist
# 2x (2) Scorp-o-matic
# 2x (3) Ratcatcher
# 2x (3) Void Ripper
# 2x (3) Void Terror
# 2x (4) Imp-losion
# 2x (4) Lesser Amethyst Spellstone
# 2x (4) Ravenous Pterrordax
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
NAT
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NAT
No loss with my deck. Tell me what you think guys! Thank you!
Barrenmore
Trying it out now, will give you some feedback shortly
Barrenmore
Lost the first but won the next 3 so I like it after getting used to it.
NAT
I have 10-0.... The key is to immediately take all crates from the opponent so he doesn't get any :D
Zombie69
Against a good deck the opponent will never leave their own crate up to survive until your turn, so this wouldn't work. You need to destroy your own crates to compete.
Stellman
https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/gift-exchange-tavern-brawl-warlock-2/
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Stellman
Updated
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Covalerahien
Good deck. I remember using your original.
But, Sanguine Reveler came up on the list for the updated version, not playable in this format.
Suggestion for a replacement?
Covalerahien
And after asking that, took it out of my deck, looked for a replacement, and lo it was an available option. Bug.
Move along. Nothing to see here.
Stellman
I had exactly the same situation, after copying deck code I saw reveler glowing red like it was banned. Took it out and back in and it was playable. Weird
Zombie69
Here's my take on it.
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Warlock
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (0) Sacrificial Pact
# 2x (1) Chaotic Consumption
# 1x (1) Dark Pact
# 2x (1) Grim Rally
# 2x (1) Grimoire of Sacrifice
# 2x (1) Plague of Flames
# 2x (1) Power Overwhelming
# 2x (1) Sanguine Reveler
# 2x (1) Soulfire
# 2x (1) Spirit Bomb
# 2x (2) Crazed Alchemist
# 2x (2) EVIL Genius
# 2x (2) Scorp-o-matic
# 2x (2) Shallow Grave
# 2x (3) Desecrated Graveyard
# 1x (3) Prince Renathal
# 2x (3) Ratcatcher
# 2x (3) Ravenous Pterrordax
# 2x (3) Unwilling Sacrifice
# 2x (3) Void Ripper
# 2x (3) Void Terror
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
notGurgi
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Reno Priest with all the cards that are broken with chests, except confuse since I didn't have it. Feel free to add.
Loki777
Desecrated Graveyard has been great. Auto breaking your own box for 3 turns and a 4/4 body each time has been fun
Narananas
I never realised until reading this, that it's a chalkboard for the Tavern Brawl menu art. That's neat.
Covalerahien
Sanguine Reveler is banned in this one.
Covalerahien
This was intended as a response to something below but got posed in the wrong place.
I'd delete it, but I'm not seeing a button to let me do that.
tailsfromvienna
Customs Enforcer could work here, as it makes both - the gift cards and the discovered cards - more expensive for your opponent
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