Ashes of Outland Theorycrafting Deck Lists - New Builds For Every Class!

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1. hakanBeal March 30, 2020

   whole community grind-in to figure out the theory craft stuff.
   but these control recipes clearly made by a pair of genius hands for sure.

   1. yrkomm16 March 30, 2020

      Old Guardian makes the best decks

2. rordog71 March 30, 2020

   Do you think there is potential for Quest Priest to be included here? I have a good theorycraft Quest Priest written on my account (imo).

3. Plaidiator March 31, 2020

   So basically I should craft both zephrys and dragonqueen to make good decks now? thats a lot of dust but i guess they can be used in any class so it could be worth it.

   1. OldManSanns March 31, 2020

      If you're OK on dust, those are probably the best 2 legendaries you can craft right now.

      But specific to these lists: remember that they are just theorycraft and therefore rely heavily what has already been established versus what will become known ~1 week after the expansion goes public. If you're tight on dust, you probably want to just sit for 2 weeks to see whats what.

4. Lawrecords April 1, 2020

   There's a lot of highlander decks here, which tend to be very expensive. Will you be posting any more decks that aren't?

   1. Stonekeep April 1, 2020

      Yes, we will be adding more non-Highlander decks. In fact, we'll be adding more new decks every day until expansion's launch and most of them won't be Highlander.

      Sorry, we just kind of started with Highlander as one of the first packages, so there's a lot of them right now.

5. JoyDivision April 2, 2020

   There are some fine lists here.

   Just one thing: Imho every Priest deck should run the maximum allowed number of Shadow Word: Death, at least in the first few days of the Demon Hu... sorry Ashes of Outland Meta.

   1. Stonekeep April 2, 2020

      On a similar note, I think that I will put Zzeraku into every Warlock deck I play. Antaen counter :D

      1. JoyDivision April 7, 2020

         And Priestess Counter :D

         Excellent idea.

6. Pseudo April 2, 2020

   Do you think shaman actually has a chance of making the meta?

   1. Stonekeep April 3, 2020

      It might be pretty hard, I'm afraid. Shaman is in a pretty bad spot right now and I don't think that the class got enough new tools to change that.

      But of course, I've been surprised many times by class performing much better than I anticipated - so who knows!

7. Hiroashi April 3, 2020

   Suprised no beast hunter or secret rogue lists

   1. Stonekeep April 4, 2020

      We'll have Secret Rogue up soon. Not sure about Beast Hunter - but if that's something you want to see, I can create one!

8. pindead April 5, 2020

   These decks don't look good. Why would you play a vanilla 2 mana 3/2 that chooseS your topdeck over a 2 mana 4/2 with rush. Makes no sense;

   1. Degen April 6, 2020

      I wish they make community best decks or invited pros best decks in the future. While JAlexander deck is pretty tolerable, since he is proven rogue expert with good deckbuild suggestion in the past, Old Guardian decks is always some laughable all-new-card circus show.

      1. Stonekeep April 6, 2020

         Eh, I disagree. Those "all-new-card circus show" decks are EXACTLY what people want to play on Day 1. We could just post a bunch of Galakrond decks that will 99% be working in the new expansion, but what's the point? Experimenting with new cards/archetypes, testing out which ones are working and which ones aren't etc. is far more important (and fun) than just taking a deck that will nearly surely be successful and adding a couple of new cards to it.

         That's the approach we're trying with out theorycrafts - focusing on NEW stuff, and playtesting new things to know which ones are working and which aren't is a very valuable experience.

         1. gamebrain1 April 6, 2020

            I don't want to be rude but it would prob be a good idea to have both. Newer players may not realize this is the case and invest in some of these decks.

            1. Stonekeep April 7, 2020

               To be fair, those are theorycraftings. No matter what theorycrafting you build, when a new player invests in it, he can get burned. Even if we look at the actual decks played on the first days, often successfully, lots of them will no longer be viable a week later. Many Legendaries that are considered amazing in the early days are no longer played mid-expansion. Theorycraftings are never something players should craft on Day 1 - at least if they don't have a lot of Dust to spare.

               I should probably add a disclaimer saying that. I always do it in every early deck list compilation from new expansions, but I didn't here for some reason. Sorry about that.

         2. gamebrain1 April 7, 2020

            I don't know why but it's not letting me reply to your response to me, but ye makes sense. Obviously investing in any theorycraft can get you burned, appreciate the disclaimer for newer players.

9. MELOWTRIX01 April 6, 2020

   Why do we let old guardian and other memers make the lists?

   1. Stonekeep April 6, 2020

      And who should we "let" make them instead?

      1. MELOWTRIX01 April 7, 2020

         Pros perhaps

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