[WILD] N’zoth Druid

WILD N’Zoth Druid

Deck Philosophy

When you think of Druid and his general deck types, you would rarely think of a Deathrattle based deck with N’zoth as your main condition. And that is to be expected, because there are hardly enough good deathrattle minions… In standard, that is. What if we think about WILD a little. The first two deathrattle minions that jump into our mind would be  and , and for a good reason. These two minions are the best neutral non-legendary minions you could wish for. And they are also the staples of this deck. Throw in all the other decent deathrattles, N’zoth, Barnes and voilá, N’zoth Druid is a deck ready to be played on Wild ladder and kick some ass. Yes! Trust me! It does kick ass!

Deck strategy

Rather than the usual, more lategame-ish N’zoth decks of Warrior or Priest, I would describe N’zoth Druid as the “ultimate” tempo deck. The reason is, for every mana cost (almost) it has a minion that you can drop and get value from. And that is basically what this deck is about. You go turn 1 deathrattle minion, turn 2 deathrattle minion, turn 3 deathrattle minion, etc. and then BOOOM drop N’zoth when enough of your minions died and make your opponent cry… Okay, of course it is not that simple all the times.

In some matchups you need to be reactive rather than play on curve. Against classes like Shaman and Warrior, which are very aggressive in WILD meta these days, you need to utilize your removal and answer their threats with your anti-aggro stuff. On the other hand, you should try to be more aggressive against control, because even with the great value from all these deathrattle minions, some control decks can outvalue you if they get the cards they need. But usually you should be favoured in those matchups, especially against classes with not a lot of AoE (if you bait out a Twisting Nether from a Warlock before your N’zoth you are in a great shape and even if he Nether´s your N’zoth board you usually get some smaller minions out of your dead ones).

Overall, this deck is not that hard to play, however, it requires good timing with your N’zoth. What is the deck biggest strength (its deathrattle minions) might become its biggest weakness. The problem is, some of your deathrattle guys are really bad for reviving with N’zoth. In the late game you don´t usually need the draw from  and are unhappy with the heal from . The more deathrattles you play, the higher the chance you revive something weak and lose value. The best way to approach it would be (if possible) to play the N’zoth after 6-8 of your minions die. There is no need to wait for cards like  or  because you usually get value from them even if you don´t revive them with N’zoth. It is therefore much better to “tempo” N’zoth with decent amount of minions to revive. In many cases, even a weaker board from N’zoth can´t be answered from your opponent and you win. In other cases your opponent clears your board and you start dropping more deathrattle minions from your hand. Win-Win I call that.