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(Credit to Brian Kibler for the original deck idea: http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/brian-kiblers-witchwood-blackhowl-gunspire-rotface-warrior-april-2018/) This deck is an evolution of his concept, brought about through my experience climbing the ladder all the way from down from the top.
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Intro:
The basic premise of this particular deck is to fill the anti-Paladin niche that currently exists within the meta. Using a multitude of whirlwind type effects, we’ll seek to control the board and the game until we can start pulling off one of several different combos to finish the game.
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How to Begin:
Generally speaking, you’ll want to begin with a hand containing any of the mentioned mulligan cards. Frothing Berserker, Cruel Taskmaster, Acolyte of Pain are particularly good along with any one of the whirlwind type cards. Your basic starting strategy is to mildly contest the board, mitigate your incoming damage as much as possible, and draw up enough cards to execute a combo.
Combo:
Your “signature” combo is to have a damaged Grommash Hellscream or Blackhowl Gunspire on the board, and then use Faceless Manipulator and/or Zola the Gordon to make more of them, eventually overwhelming your opponent.
Basic Combos:
Grommash Hellscream + Whirlwind, Warpath, or Cruel Taskmaster
Blackhowl Gunspire + Whirlwind, Warpath, or Cruel Taskmaster
Rotface + Whirlwind, Warpath, or Cruel Taskmaster
Advanced Combos:
Blackhowl Gunspire + Whirlwind + Execute
Blackhowl Gunspire + Whirlwind + Battle Rage
Blackhowl Gunspire + Armorsmith + Whirlwind
*Primed Bloodrazor + Blackhowl Gunspire + Cruel Taskmaster + Whirlwind
*Primed Bloodrazor + Blackhowl Gunspire + Armorsmith + Whirlwind
*Primed Bloodrazor + Rotface + Whirlwind OR Warpath OR Execute Or Armorsmith
*Primed Bloodrazor + Grommash Hellscream + Whirlwind OR Warpath OR Execute Or Armorsmith
Offensive Combos:
Frothing Berserker + Faceless Manipulator + Whirlwind
Frothing Berserker + Cruel Taskmaster + Faceless Manipulator
Frothing Berserker + Zola the Gorgon + Frothing Berserker + Whirlwind
Defensive Combos:
Armorsmith + Zola the Gorgon + Armorsmith + Whirlwind + Shield Slam
Armorsmith + Faceless Manipulator + Armorsmith + Whirlwind
Armorsmith + Acolyte of Pain + Warpath + ECHO Warpath + Shield Slam
Acolyte of Pain + Zola the Gorgon + Acolyte of Pain + Whirlwind
On the Fly Techniques:
Faceless Manipulator on Enemy Creature
Faceless Manipulator on Legendary dropped by Rotface
Faceless Manipulator on Enemy Creature followed by Zola the Gorgon to give yourself a copy of the Enemy Creature
Faceless Manipulator on Legendary dropped by Rotface, followed by Zola the Gorgon to give yourself a copy of the Legendary
**(Primed Blood Razor meaning played the previous turn, ready to attack and Whirlwind effect for zero mana cost.)
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Hey again, wanted to see what kind of success you had last season – how high did you climb with this? I’m still messing around a bit, picked up a Zola and even considered using the 3/3 that destroys weps in place for one of the faceless just for cube, but it sat unused in my hand too often.
I plan on using this deck exclusively for ladder this season just to see how high I can make it. Still need to add the brawl, you’re a strong advocate for it so I need to test it out.
Made it from 25 to 4. I probably could have gone higher, but it just requires alot. The deck is slow, so it can be frustrating to climb with. I will say, this iteration is what I settled on. Haven’t made a single change since. Pretty happy with it and THIS version brought me from 16 to 4.
Also, just wanted to point out. I actually found the most useful card in the deck to be the Frothing Berserkers. They just do an extraordinarily good job of bridging the early to mid game. For example, if you put something on the board on turn 2, like a Cruel Taskmaster or an Armorsmith…just hitting an enemy with that puts the Frothing out as a turn 3 4/4…which is a really strong play. Moreover, it is just a very threatening card. If left unimpeded…it can win the game for you. There were a great many games that I won simply by playing this card out early and then defending it and removing obstacles for its hits.
Secondly, it actually can be used to combo out similarly to our big finishers. With just one of the Frothings and a Zola, you can Frothing, Zola, Golden Frothing, and Whirlwind. Even on a totally clear board this produces a 6/3. a 2/1, and a 6/3. On a properly set up board, it can be far more. Couple that with the ability to further copy it with Faceless. It can really get out of hand. I simply cannot overstate the utility of this one card in this deck. It just niches so perfectly well.
Since we are up against alot of paladins, one of my absolute favorite plays vs Odd Paladin is to play a Frothing on turn 3, and then coin a Whirlwind. Usually, they just have two silverhands when I make that play. But it clears them and sets the Frothing as a 5/3 leading into their turn 4. If they played Into the Jungle on turn 1, then he comes out as a 7/3 on turn 4 instead. And since they are odd, there is no Truesilver Champion to deal with it. It is often an unrecoverable situation, typically leading to a death blow if they try to churn out more Silver Hands.
Just fyi.