Tommy J’s Cheap Heroic Arch-Thief Rafaam Warlock

Tommy J generously allowed us to host his decks and guides using (mostly) Basic cards to take down The League of Explorers Heroic bosses. Be sure to check out his YouTube Channel.

Finally, a fight where we get to create a deck to give to the enemy! Unfortunately, he also gets an Unstable Portal every turn, so even having the worst deck won’t matter if he happens to get great cards from Unstable Portal. Having said that, it was cool trying out different classes to see which confused him the most.

In the end I went with Warlock because the boss doesn’t know how to use Corruption or Soulfire correctly. Also, some cards are also actually useless, such as Sacrificial Pact, and the discard on some Warlock cards means he’ll have less to play with. Interestingly, if Rafaam gets his hands on a Lord Jaraxxus (either via you putting it in the deck or Unstable Portal), he won’t hesitate to use it and then Sacrificial Pact himself. One other thing – Sir Finley Mrrgglton. I found that this was another ‘dead’ card that he wouldn’t play, since removing his hero power would make the fight trivial.

Mulligan

Rare Spear and Raven Idol are your top two priorities. Aside from that, any 2 drop discover minions.

Card Additions

Add terrible rare cards as they proc Rare Spear. This includes but isn’t limited to: Angry Chicken, Secretkeeper, Ancient Watcher, Alarm-o-Bot, Coldlight Oracle, Gnomish Experimenter and Jeeves.

Cards to Remove

Hellfire (while he will Hellfire his own minions, it can be a pain for you, particularly if he has a Summoning Stone up). Also, there is a decent amount of Murloc synergy in the deck.