This week’s Tavern Brawl is “Top 2”!
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Official Description for Top 2
The Innkeeper is wondering which two cards work best together. Show him – choose 2 cards and we’ll fill your deck with them!
Top 2 Chalkboard
General Information
- You get one Standard card pack for winning your first game this week.
- It’s the fifth time we see this Brawl (including Standard version). Last time we’ve seen it on January 11, 2023 (May 16, 2018 for Standard).
- It’s a PvP Brawl.
- The Brawl’s format is Wild.
- It’s a Constructed Brawl. You pick a class and build your own (albeit small) deck.
- This Brawl has inspired the (ultimately more common) Top 3 and Battle of the Bans Brawls.
- Gameplay itself has no extra rules – the only rule comes from deck building. You pick only two cards and you get 15 copies of each one of them in your deck. Which means that you can build the ultimate synergistic decks very easily.
Top 2 Decks & Card Chocies
Here are some of the ideas for “decks” you can build. Please share yours in the comment!
- Any Class – Patches the Pirate + Ship's Cannon or Southsea Captain
- Druid – Embiggen + Patches the Pirate
- Druid – Naturalize + Coldlight Oracle
- Druid – Pounce + Spread the Word
- Hunter – Mechwarper + Metaltooth Leaper
- Mage – Ice Block + Ice Lance
- Rogue – Pogo-Hopper + Shadowstep or Card Draw (e.g. Field Contact)
- Rogue – Deadly Poison + Cutting Class
- Shaman – Desert Hare + Revolve
Used Pogo Hopper and SI:7 Extortion for 1 mana draw and removal in one card
Easy win 🙂
Warlock
Soularium + Fist of Jaraxus
Mechwarper + Evolve
Don’t know why nobody has mentioned this yet. Holy Wrath + Molten Giant, you only need to get lucky once. Even if your health is low it counts as 25 damage before the Molten Giant’s mana is changed.
Innervate with Gorillabot A-3 or Elise Starseeker consistently beat mill decks but performed horribly vs Warrior Taunt decks.
Fiery Bat and Webspinner did well but couldn’t get over the hump vs the Mage Iceblock deck.
Found a way to beat Ice Block + Fireball/Molten Giant… And any other non-OTK combos (seen none so far)! Even Yoggs and 10-mana minion decks!
**FORBIDDEN HEALING + EQUALITY**
Start by spamming Silver Hand Recruits and go for face. Just burn equality for Fireball mages (or other non-minion combos) as you won’t need those. Keep healing when necessary (don’t go lower than 14 health), and win by fatigue (ice block does not work for those who don’t know, because secrets don’t activate on your own turn). For giants or other big minions, use Equality and let them fill their boards with 1-attack minions (so you’ll get 7 damage max from minions per turn). Thereafter, keep drawing until they’re fatigued. You’ll be able to easily heal 20 health/round with Forbidden Healing 😀
Works like magic, but can be tedious and boring. Just pray that your opponent realizes early enough that they’ll lose and concede. Easily >90% win-rate otherwise! =)
Started using Faerie Dragon + Elemental Destruction
Does incredibly well against druid mill and mechwarper combos, which is most of what I play against
Gives you a fair chance to win against most other decks in this meta…which is crazy to say for a tavern brawl
Definitely one of the most fun in a long time
Priest:
Power Word: Glory
+
Holy fire.
This stops almost all minionsdecks and survives Mill/ice Block!
Any class: Grimscale Oracle + Murloc Tidecaller.
Quite consistent to win on round 3.
I was doing similar with tidecaller + murloc warleader
knife juggler + stand against darkness i think it’s a good one
I played innervate whit any big minion i had, the best for resuts is dottor boom, the funniest yogg saron!!
Anyway this was the first remarcable brawl in a long time!!
Evident, I had tremendous success using Druid with cards Innervate and Dr. Boom. The Good Dr. Returns….
Yeah, someone beat me with this combo. It’s pretty solid.
Wanted to snag top post cause this is just silly and I couldnt find anyone thats done it yet.
ANY class – Mechwarper + Enhance-o-Mechano
pretty funny stuff. I made an account just to share this.
Nobody else has my deck! OK ready for this? Go mage ice block molten giant ! Wait till you have 5-7 giants then bam! Throw them all down at no cost!
Shaman: Farsight and questing adventurer was a lot of fun.. Basically you need 3 mana to start and then you draw free cards
Rogue: Sap & lorewalker cho
Give them their minions back/fill their hands with sap 🙂 + if they have spells use them against them (though they can use your sap against u too)
This isn’t that good, but’s it’s a lot of fun and confusing for your opponent 🙂
I had some success with Mistress of Pain and Power Overwhelming.
Druid
Innervate + Deathwing 2.0
Innervate + Yogg (shits n’ giggles)
Paladin
A Light in the Darkness + Aldor Peacekeeper
Muster for Battle + Quatermaster
Vilefin Inquisitor + Murloc Warleader
Vilefin Inquisitor/Tinyfin + Old Murk-Eye
Shaman
Unbound Elemental + Lightning Bolt
Totem Golem + Master of Evolution
Dust Devil + Ancestral Spirit
Mage
Ice block + Fireball
Cult Sorcerer + Arcane Blast
Hunter
Brave Archer + On the Hunt/Annoy-o-Tron
Priest
Power word: Glory + Mindblast
Rogue
Eviscerate + Deadly Poison
Warloc
Possessed Villager + Darkshire Councilman
Curse of Rafaam + Doomsayer/Darkbomb
Hobgoblin + Possessed Villager
Any
Disciple of C’Tun +Twin Emperor Vek’lor
Bluegill Warrior + Murloc Warleader
Echoing Ooze + Seal of Champions
Mechwarper + Demolisher
Alarm-o-Bot + Endless Possibilities
I tried to include mostly decks that i hadn’t heard yet and i think these few are very fun and interesting to play but can still win you the game most of the time. will probably have more later :p
the most sng deck ever is shadowstep+novice engineer
just try it.
also innervate+auctioneer.
Ive done very well with Druid using Enervate and Raven Idol. Not only is it effective. It makes it fun…kinda
Innervate Yogg is fun.
Turn 1 yogg with coin and 4 Innervates 😉
played that a lot, is funny, not reliable but i won against an ice block every turn deck whit eye for an eye :D.
Ice Block Molten is super broken…. I have not lost yet
LOL Yep!
Holy Smite and Mind Blast
Innervate + Yogg-saron is a lot of fun, even though I’ve lost a few games through playing Yogg.
warror bolster + target dummy works the best
Mech hunter seem so strong turn 3 4 mininons have +6 atack then opponent concede 😀
Priest: Light of the Naruu and Power Word Glory
Inervate with Deathwing, Dragonlord :>
This isn’t a good combo but it’s fun to shut down battle cries with nerubian weblord plus mana wraith
Mana wyrm and frostbolt seems to be working for me 10-0 now.
I went with Mage using Mana Wyrm + Frost bolt. Insane synergie and frostbolt is a great removal/freeze
“Burn them down priest: Mind Blast, Leper Gnome” had no Chance
Young Pyromancer and Equality counters any creature decks and can beat down with the 3/2’s Auto lose to ice block fireball or mill though xD
Innervate + Loatheb counters any of the decks using spells.
Paladin: secret keeper and competitive spirit
Stonetusk Boar+Evolve OP AF
Warlock–mech warper and fel cannon. Fill the board at turn 3.
i have to try that! fel reaver ?
Magma Giant + Ice block.
You cannot beat this shit no mather what.
Mill beats this without even trying
frost nova mana addict
can kill giants, or just freeze them until they go away
leave opponent at 20 health until they burn their own ice blocks, they wont be able to burn themselves down before they run out of ice block, the second ice block isnt played, otk them with 4 to 5 mana wraiths and a few frost novas. won against immortal giant deck 100% of the time. also beats mechunter by frost nova and face damage. loses to board clear like equality pyro paladin.
remember only one ice block can be played. a mill deck would shit on moltenblock
Shaman
Tunnel Trog + Ancestral knowledge
Hand always full, lots of big minions
I haven’t lost with Tunnel Trogg + Lightning Storm (helps clear out the mech decks).
Shaman- Flametongue Totem and Primal Fusion has been fun.
Can you change classes during the brawl? I was wanting to try some different things out.
Yes, you just delete your current deck.
Innervate+Coldight
10-0 Really Fast
Really OP. Try to get at least 2 innervate and one Coldight w/o coin or 2 Coldight 2 innervate with coin. Try to get at least 5-6 on to the board turn 1.
Most will concede at that point, but if they don’t. Do it again turn 2
I did it with Mana Wyrm + Unstable Portal; best moment was getting Bolf Ramshield from a portal against a Priest using Mind Blast + Holy Smite 🙂
Bilefin Tidehunter + Evolve
Scarlet Purifier + Nerubian Egg
Haven’t lost a game with Ice Block + Fireball yet
Flash Heal + Mind Blast
Soulfire + Fist of Jaraxxus
Mana Wyrm + Forbidden Flame
I got beaten by nasty combo of Priest´s Mechwarper and Shadowboxer
Turn 3 (or 2 with coin): 2 mechwarpers + 4 shadoboxers = rumble in the jungle 🙂
Loot Hoarder + Abusive Sergeant
8 – 0 fast and easy
Tinyfin + Everyfin
Needed Pally quest so used this:
Tinyfin + Hungry Crab
Destroy your Tinyfin to buff crabs.
Wild Pyromancer and powerd word: shield
thumbs up
Priest: Flash Heal and Embrace the Shadow. Mulligan for Flash Heals, kill him with a couple of rounds of 15-20 damage