I had a good chuckle at this, thanks.

How have the Fiery Bats been performing in your experience? Hunter is my most played class, mostly mid-range variants (never face hunter!) and I recently had a lot of success with a Yogg+Lock and Load deck, and I just think Fiery Bat is one of the worst one-drops in the game compared to other class one-drops. It’s good against zoo (sometimes) and that’s about it. If the meta were full of 3/2’s it would be a good card because you could play it on one and block your opponent’s 2 mana 3/2, but 3/2’s are fairly scare. Even 1 drops have 3 health now. The only class running a lot of 3/2’s is Mage, but they have Mana Wyrm and their hero power to deal with your Fiery Bat. Hunter is the other class with a few 3/2’s but since their probably running Fiery bat anyway you won’t get a chance to contest the 3/2 most of the time.

You opponent plays their one-drop, right? Let’s list some of the commonly seen ones first.
-Void Walker
-Mana Wyrm
-Tunnel Trogg
-Northshire Cleric
-Argent Squire
-Possessed Villager
-N’Zoth’s First Mate

You play a Fiery Bat. Your one-drop only has, at best, a 50% chance of trading evenly with their one-drop (you need to hit them and then win the 50/50 with the random damage). Not only that, but most of the opponents one drops stick around and continue to provide value by growing (Mana Wyrm, Tunnel Trogg), being sticky (Argent Squire, Possessed Villager), or drawing you cards. Fiery Bat dies to a hero power and provides no value. If your one-drop has such bad stats that it only has a 50% chance of trading evenly against most of the other one-drops out there, then it’s upside should be something pretty good. What’s the pay-off for playing this poorly statted minion? Deal one damage randomly.

Sorry for the rant but I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a while. Most streamers and deck lists I see are running Fiery Bat but it’s just been such an underwhelming card for me, I wanted to see if anyone else felt the same. I run a list very similar to this, but I removed 1 flame Juggler for a second King’s Elekk, and in place of the fiery bats I have 1 Hunter’s Mark and 1 On the Hunt, and a few other minor changes.

Anyway, thanks again for the awesome breakdown, Evident.
Good Hunting!

Hey Man, any plan on creating a new version of this that fits in standard format? I made a Warlock deck just recently that uses Dragon Synergy, then Malygos as a finisher (sometimes not even necessary). Check it out and let me know what you think!

http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/dragonlock-season-26/

Weird for such a control heavy deck to not have anything above a six drop. I run a priest more similar to Amaz’s, but I find room for a Ysera and a Paletress. Just seems weird to play so many turns above turn 6 mana and not have anyway to use that mana efficiently.

Any consideration for Alex in this deck? Would help get the opponent into burst range, plus adds some dragon synergy.

Edit: Meant to say you would probably run either Chillmaw or Brawl, I don’t see room for both.

I agree that sounds pretty solid.
– Onyxia
– 2 Monkey’s

+Brann
+Alex
+Brawl

Yeah for sure, with all the secret Pally’s and tempo mages around flare is worth a slot. With two eaglehorn’s and a freezing trap you should be set for removal, so you could probably do without the Quick Shot to fit in a Flare.

Hey buddy.

Making a viable Demon deck is an ongoing project of mine. Like you, I want to create a Warlock Deck that’s not just a variation of Zoo or Handlock. Something Mid-rangey with Demon Synergy. This is the deck I’ve come up with after heaps of tweaking, and it sits pretty steady at about rank 13 on the ladder, but I think I can climb higher when I’m more experienced with it. Check it out:

http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/gates-of-hell-2-5/

Wow this looks pretty solid man, I’ll try it out tonight for sure.