Tavern Brawl – All-Star Squad

This week’s Tavern Brawl is “All-Star Squad”!

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Official Description for All-Star Squad

Celebrate the Lunar New Year! Choose a class and get a random deck, choose an animal to receive its blessing and power!

All-Star Squad Chalkboard

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General Information

  • You get one Classic Pack for your first win this week.
  • This is the fourth time we see this Brawl. Last time we’ve seen it on February 5, 2020.
  • It’s a PvP Brawl.
  • The Brawl’s format is Wild.
  • It’s a “Constructed” Brawl. You pick a class and choose only a single card.
  • Your deck is filled with 22 copies of the cards you’ve chosen AND 8 random class cards.
  • The goal is to pick a card that’s most consistently going to win you the game. Given that you get so many copies of it, you’re nearly guaranteed to get multiple copies of it during your first few turns.
  • That’s the best card choices are: a very aggressive card (to rush your opponent down), a card that synergizes with more copies of each other or a versatile card that’s usable in the early game, but has late game scaling too.

Tavern Brawl All-Star Squad Card Choices

Let us know what worked for you in the comments and we’ll add it to the post!

  • Any Class Kobold Sandtrooper – Burn your opponent down with Deathrattles.
  • Any ClassMechwarper – You can drop a bunch of minions quickly.
  • Any Class Murloc Tidecaller – Aggressive snowball strategy.
  • Any Class Mogu Cultist – If you survive until Turn 7, you’re all but guaranteed to summon Highkeeper Ra.
  • Any Class Patches the Pirate – Self-explanatory, every time you drop Patches you summon a full board of them.
  • Mage/Paladin/Rogue Ice Block/Time Out!/Cloak of Shadows – If you want to annoy your opponent and force them to concede.
  • Hunter Doomsayer – Counters minion strategies + you slowly grind your opponent down with Hero Power.
  • Mage Frost Nova – Counters minion strategies + you rely on whatever extra cards you get + Hero Power to win.
  • Rogue Flik Skyshiv – If your opponent went for a minion and you survived until Turn 6, you can just delete all the copies from his deck.
  • Rogue Pogo-Hopper – Probably the best strategy, snowballs very well.
  • Shaman Earth Shock – Pogo counter, but you rely on your other cards to carry you.
  • Warrior Sky Raider – Strong early game + you get a bunch of synergistic minions from Battlecry.
  • Warrior Upgrade! – Starts slowly, but after a few turns you swing with a huge weapon.

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108 Comments

  1. WingedCastaway
    February 4, 2021 at 6:54 am

    Priest’s Madame Lazul is fair enough as you can basically copy whatever your opponent uses.

  2. Flameblaze6
    February 3, 2021 at 8:59 pm

    Might be an accident but the description in the “official description” section is incorrect. Hope I can help!

  3. Nope
    February 3, 2021 at 3:24 pm

    Consume Magic is added to the list of pogo counters this time.

  4. MilesTegF
    February 10, 2020 at 10:25 am

    i just love it when Brawls allow you to play the Mogu cultist combo. its such a satisfying combo to execute.
    I recomend doing it with warrior, so you can have some help surviving thanks to the HP (Priest’s HP can also help you in the same way, but the warrior has the advantadge that it helps even when you are still full). This is more for the fun, not a very succesful strategy. Cos you are going to lose to any stratedy that plans on killing you before turn 6-7, but you can win against other ppl that are not playing super effective agro strategies. (btw if you see a pogo, just concede, there’s no way you will last long enough to execute the combo).

  5. Ninjask2314
    February 6, 2020 at 5:16 am

    Oh I got one. For rogue do the 1 cost discover a legendary. I have had some crazy fun games, including summoning a bunch of stuff from my hand at once with the priest legendary

  6. JKoala
    February 6, 2020 at 1:13 am

    Easy wins with Pogo.
    I read above that’s a slow start? As soon as turn 4, if you are “lucky” enough, you have a 1/1, 3/3, 5/5, 7/7 and 9/9 on board.
    Maybe your weakest Pogos are dead, but no card can counter the 7/7 and 9/9 Pogos at turn 3 and 4. Lame. No one plays Silence Shaman and still, that’s a winnable matchup that depends on RNG Hero Power and class cards.

    • Stonekeep - Site Admin
      February 6, 2020 at 3:14 am

      I wrote slow start when I thought that the Brawl is Wild like it was last time. In Wild there are faster strategies like Patches (full board of 1/1’s on Turn 1) or let’s say Mechwarper (full board of 2/3’s on Turn 2 when going second).

      Changed it since the Brawl is in Standard and Pogo is basically the best strategy.

  7. Joeydungee
    February 5, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    Tried the Flik strategy and went up against a Warlock. He was only playing the random class cards until I burgled a Mind Vision, which gave me a Mogu Cultist. Turn 6 I played the Cultist and killed it with Flik, then I watched as the rest of his hand and most of his deck faded away.

    It was awesome

  8. Stellar320
    February 5, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Wow! Mogu Cultist! That was fun.

  9. Renojenkins
    February 5, 2020 at 2:02 pm

    I played Chameleos in priest to basically take everybody else’s strategy

  10. H0lysatan
    February 5, 2020 at 11:19 am

    Pogo tempo is too fast. any counter deck?
    even Doomsayer hunter couldn’t beat it.
    one rush or destroying spell, auto concede.

    • H0lysatan
      February 5, 2020 at 11:21 am

      and, no, even shaman earth shock is losing to rogue only 1/2 weapon from hero power

  11. zxz
    June 30, 2017 at 10:39 am

    easiest priest mastery and priest dominance dailies in my life… 100% win rate with cancerous mind blast

    • indra
      June 30, 2017 at 10:33 pm

      easy win by RNG with babling book

  12. Chris
    June 29, 2017 at 7:23 am

    Just won 15 in a row with a Jade Idol deck. Encountered mind blast 4 times. Easy win. I can see what could win against this….

  13. SilverHawk
    June 29, 2017 at 5:46 am

    Explosive Trap is pretty funny against Aggro, but looses to Mindblast.

  14. Fiat500
    June 29, 2017 at 3:42 am

    Played around with Shaman and Finders Keepers isn’t all that bad if you can get through the early game! Lost mainly to Jade Idol Druid, otherwise Mind Blast Priest isn’t all that scary since you can chain Jinyu Waterspeakers through discovers.

  15. Ching05
    June 29, 2017 at 3:28 am

    Mind Blast Priest? Did anyone forget about Forbidden Healing?

  16. Vincent
    June 29, 2017 at 12:28 am

    First try… I chose Grimscale Oracle, on turn 2 I had 3x 3/1, opponent conceded.

    • LegendaryBot
      February 5, 2020 at 10:24 am

      sorry, but I’m pretty sure that will lose against a turn 2 1/1, 3/3, and a 5/5…

  17. Bazald
    June 28, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    If all you’re seeing is Patches, Power Word Glory is a pretty fun counter. Won’t save you from Mind Blasts though.

  18. Chris
    June 28, 2017 at 9:51 pm

    No one’s mentioned it here… I have had a lot of fun with I Know A Guy warrior card. Beat patches with it. He simply ran out of them. Just get some cheap 0/4s or 0/7s out first and you’re golden. And it’s pretty solid vs all the other meta ones. Cept mindblast ofc.

  19. Immolate
    June 28, 2017 at 6:09 pm

    Played some matches against a friend, and he tried out Nerubian Prophet with Warlock. It doesn’t really work against things like Patches, but it was still fun to try.

  20. Oliver Howard
    June 28, 2017 at 5:56 pm

    Armorsmith is such an awesome troll of Patches. Wins every time (as long as they don’t kill your early armorsmith). It’s useless against anything else, but seeing as 90% of ppl are running patches it’s hilarious!