Tavern Brawl – Top 2 – Deck Ideas!

This week’s Tavern Brawl is “Top 2”!

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Official Description for Top 2

Magical creatures are escaping from Tol Barad! Play a minion and get a random spell of the same cost, but for free!

Top 2 Chalkboard

General Information

  • You get one Standard card pack for winning your first game this week.
  • It’s the third time we see this Brawl (fourth if we count the Standard version). Last time we’ve seen it on November 24, 2021 (May 16, 2018 for Standard).
  • It’s a PvP Brawl.
  • The Brawl’s format is Wild.
  • It’s a Constructed Brawl. You pick a class and build your own (albeit small) deck.
  • This Brawl has inspired the (more popular) Top 3 and Battle of the Bans Brawls.
  • Gameplay itself has no extra rules – the only rule comes from deck building. You pick only two cards and you get 15 copies of each one of them in your deck. Which means that you can build the ultimate synergistic decks very easily.

Top 2 Decks & Card Chocies

Here are some of the ideas for “decks” you can build. Please share yours in the comment!

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144 Comments

  1. Tailsfromvienna
    January 12, 2023 at 2:34 pm

    I like Mechwarper + Mecha-Shark, but you need 5 Sharks at once for 30 damage, and 2-3 Mechwarpers to discount them, so it’s a turn 5 combo at best (and you run out of space if you want to do it below 8 mana, because you need 3 Mechwarper and 5 Sharks)
    still managed to beat some decks, but helpless against pogo and patches

    Soulfire + Hand of Guldan looked impressive

    Murloc Holmes + Innervate was surprising … Murloc solves the case every time on turn one!

    Flurgl + Toxfin keeps pogo and patches in check nicely (obviousy)

    Cutting Class does not really cut the class – you have to attack turns 4 and 5 with 15 attack (without the coin), or you coin out the dagger on T1, follow up with Poison-Poison-draw on T2, allowing you to attack for 11 on T3, and live the dream of attacking for 19 on T4 for the win – provided you have not been killed by that time (usually you die on their turn 4), there is no taunt in the way and you drew the right mix of draw and poison in the early turns

    Piranha Swarmer also looked like a nice card to have multiples of

    Aldor Attendant + Libram of Wisdom is worth a try, but rather mediocre in its results

    Ice Block + Frost Lance is powerful but super slow. make sure you mulligan away as many ice blocks as possible, you will start ot curse them later as they clog up your hand. Once you have 10 cards in your hand you fire your first salvo of Frost Lances, usually cutting your opponent’s life total in half. From then on your turns consist mostly of Ice Block-ping-go and you pray for enough Frost Lances to end the game quickly. If you are up against Warrior, you are out of luck, because the theoretical maximum of damage in one turn is 36, and once he is at 37 you cannot kill him any more, because you only draw one card per turn. Smart opponents also refuse to trigger your Ice Blocks and your hand becomes even more clogged.

  2. MJT3ll3r
    January 11, 2023 at 12:04 pm

    You might want an opponent who needs spells but if you want to play dk:
    Irondeep trogg + grave strength works ok

  3. MilesTegF
    January 11, 2023 at 11:24 am

    Hi, two things: 1. The description part is wrong in the post. it says ”Magical creatures are escaping from Tol Barad! Play a minion and get a random spell of the same cost, but for free!” when it should say ”The innkeeper is wondering which two cards work best together. Show Him – choose 2 cards and we’ll fill your deck with them!´´ . 2. The other thing, is that discard warlock is also great with this. ”The soularium” + ”Soul Barrage´´.

  4. Aequalsb
    January 11, 2023 at 11:00 am

    ### Brawl Deck
    # Class: Priest
    # Format: Wild
    #
    # 1x (1) Shard of the Naaru
    # 1x (2) Encumbered Pack Mule
    #
    AAEBAZ/HAgKI9AOH9wMAAA==
    #
    # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

    Poggo + shadowstep = 100% auto-lose to this deck
    Embiggen + Patches is the epitome of degeneracy. o.0 = easily shutdown by this deck

    • Aequalsb
      January 11, 2023 at 11:02 am

      7:0 so far… vs 2 Embiggen Druids, 4 Poggo Rogues, 1 Libram Paladin

      • Aequalsb
        January 11, 2023 at 8:02 pm

        12:0 vs Embiggen Druid
        5:0 vs Poggo Rogue
        1:0 vs Libram Paladin
        2:0 vs random Priests

        0:1 vs Solarium Wralock
        0:2 vs Astralor Priest

    • Josharp
      January 18, 2023 at 4:32 am

      Very good combination, feels great to watch all those Pogo and Patches decks concede after you play the Shard 🙂
      I tried replacing Mule with Gear Grubber and it’s been working quite well so far, because most turns I was floating mana anyway, and you don’t lose its effect if it ends up in your opening hand after the mulligan.

  5. Retnavysailor
    November 27, 2021 at 5:38 pm

    After trying different combos with the Demon Hunter, this one gave me the biggest win record of 31-6, which isn’t too bad considering no one ever mentioned this combo before. Now, I do know for a fact there are better combo’s out there, but you do have to admit this one will surely irritate countless players.

    ### Brawl Deck
    # Class: Demon Hunter
    # Format: Wild
    #
    # 1x (0) Sigil of Silence
    # 1x (2) Micro Machine
    #
    AAEBAea5AwKXEOvvAwAA
    #
    # To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

  6. Fistouille
    November 25, 2021 at 8:49 am

    Poggo + shadowstep = easy win

  7. JoyDivision
    November 25, 2021 at 7:40 am

    Embiggen + Patches is the epitome of degeneracy. o.0