Good job! Being better against Pallie is pretty important right now.

Well you have to forgo Keleseth to run Alch but if you don’t have it then it could be a fun replacement (or Void Ripper). What made Alch so good in aggro Druid was cards like Living Mana that buffed his health by a lot. In this deck you’re often playing 1 or 2 minions a turn, so the Alch/crypt combo isn’t as strong.

Glad you’re enjoying the site! This one was chosen because at the time it had the highest win rate and it doesn’t rely on dragon synergy.

To sub for Aluneth? I’d run just 1 before I’d take out something else.

Ideally you’d hit one of those two, but I guess maybe The Lich King is another good one in certain matchups. Really apart from those first two targets it’s better to play it by ear. Sometimes you just need stats on the board, and if your most efficient play is Zora into Saronite Chain Gang then it’s best not to save it if you don’t have an ideal target in hand.

It’s really good, probably 3rd best after Aggro Paladin and Warlock variants. Duplicate is an okay replacement until you can afford Aluneth, but the weapon is a large part of the reason the deck is so good.

You can’t really play around Barnes on 4, but the way the math works they won’t have it more often than they do. Don’t kill the Ragnaros token if thats what it finds, if it finds Statue then hopefully you drew enough Giants. If you know it’s Big Priest mulligan heavy for Giants and Naga Sea Witch. The match comes down to who draws better basically, sometimes they have Barnes on 4, sometimes they have coin Lightbomb, but when they don’t you can usually take the game.

Mulligan heavy for Naga combo. Their clears often take too long unless they get really good early draws and have vanish or prep/vanish depending on who goes first. You should beat them more often than they beat you.

If you really want Skull and Umbra you can take out Thaurissan and a Spellstone. I’d fit in some Power Overwhelming if you put in Skull.

As far as anti-aggro goes, this deck already has some of the best tools for it. Mulligan heavily for Defile.

Better to run just the other three than to replace it with Frost or Arcane. The problem is you’ll never use your Hero Power 5 times or cast 5 spells before turn 5, so they won’t be free until way later. I think clockwork is the second best giant, but people do run the deck without it sometimes.

This deck is already well positioned to beat Warlock. Typically it doesn’t have to worry about Voidlord at all; by the time it comes down this deck really wants to be shredding face with spells. Over-preparing by investing too much in Potion of Poly and adding in Spellbreaker is planning to fail, a strategy that is often self-fulfilling. You could take out an AI for another Secret, but removing both AI makes you more likely to run out of cards to play and adding too many Secrets reduces the density of damaging spells in the deck, which it relies on heavily.

Sure! I think the list in this guide is definitely viable for the brawl. That last list looks good, the healing on Amethyst Spellstone is ok, but it struggles to find worthwhile targets now that Corridor Creeper has been nerfed. Most minions are low health now, and the ones that arent have 8. Honestly, you’re going to have the most success with the deck list you’ve played the most and are the most comfortable with it. Have fun and don’t worry about maximizing your score.

Grothen’s list looks similar to one I tried recently, and I think it’s pretty good. His version specifically I think has a couple mistakes. Prince Taldaram is cute, and I could see it being useful sometimes, but there’s no way it’s better for ladder than the second Hellfire. Also he took out Clockwork Giant to make room. When cutting Giants you gotta start with Sea Giant. I think the only better Giant in the deck than Clockwork is Mountain, but that might change when they un-nerf Molten.

Trump’s list seems teched against Mage. The extra healing from Mistress and Dark Pact matters in that matchup. I’m assuming he added Lackey because he’s running the Dark Pacts, but I don’t think it’s worth it. I’ve tried a version with Mistress, and I did like it against Mage, but I liked it less against other things. The list I tried didn’t have Lackey and it only took out one Sacrificial Pact for one Dark Pact. I did like that change.

I like this list for the article because it’s good and well rounded. I try different lists and techs a lot, and I’m still not sure if I like the Doomsayers yet. For that deck I took out a Sea Giant and a Mortal Coil.

Shadowflame is great for things like that, the issue is that it can be bad if you don’t have the right minion to combo with it. I think adding the second is more likely to clutter your hand than it is to be useful in the average game, but if you think it would help you could experiment. The most flexible cards in the deck are Mortal Coil, Darkbomb and Sea Giant, so if you wanted to try it you should pull out one of those.

Probably not, I usually keep hellfire, at least when I’m going second. Second Voidlord is super important. Mal’Ganis is optimal, but you should definitely save up for the other Voidlord. Now that Paladin has gotten a little out of hand you really need Lackey and Voidcaller to fetch it.

How hard are you mulliganing for Defile? Against aggro, things you keep if you don’t have Defile are pretty much Kobold Librarian. How many games have you played with the deck?

Mulligan for Defile.

I think spellstone is slow for wild, but it’s not too bad. I’ve actually been playing a doomsayer version this week, but it’s not as much for aggro as it is for the mirror. You can play doomsayer into the turn they would play their Naga combo, which gives you the opportunity to play yours first. Mortal Coil helps set up Defile, which I’ve found to be the most impactful use of the card, but finishing something off and drawing a card is also very good. Aggro Paladin is the most popular deck in wild by far right now, and it’s filled with targets for coil. Three health minions are also very popular right now, especially in the other highly played aggro deck Secret/Burn Mage. Dark Bomb helps you kill one early, but also gives you some burst damage late game if you’re just shy of finishing someone off.

Aggro Paladin, the only deck with a winrate higher than this one, runs plenty of 1-health minions.

Thanks! The stat sites don’t track Wild as reliably as standard, so those are hard to produce. Unless you meant my personal guesstimates.