Ashmore going to be nuts after another one or two expansions. You can replace it with another high-value late game minion like Cairne.

As already said in multiple comments, most epics are absolutely mandatory in this deck, Shadow Visions in particular. If you can’t afford the very core of the list you shouldn’t bother to play this deck, as harsh as it may sound.

1. There sure is. I theorycrafted this deck, and the current version has two copies of Festerroot Hulk, which I’m not a fan of; you could put in one Arcanite Reaper for one of those, it’d even fit the curve. You could then also tech in one Forge of Souls for one copy of Fire Fly or Battle Rage to have more guaranteed card draw (Blood Razor draws are incredibly important against Aggro).

2. Short answer: No. A Woecleaver that pulls out anything else than big 8-or 9-drops is the biggest waste of tempo, and this list is all about tempo. Don’t even try to wrap your head around it; if you want to play that card, play Gunspire Warrior 🙂

The more Warlock you face, the worse this deck gets. There’s no point teching in Spellbreaker because it may at a few percent to a incredibly bad matchup, and that doesn’t add up to be meaningful anyway.

If the meta leans towards Aggro, this deck feels very powerful. Lich King is a great topdeck and an emergency insurance to snowball a board against Control archetypes, and it’s one of the best legendaries to craft at the moment (that’s my personal opinion).

Good summary!

Stonehill Defender is a greedy tech decision that makes our matchup against Warlock a little bit worse, but its great for survival in the early stages against decks like Quest Rogue or Aggro archetypes.

I love the fact that five months later, someone writes a comment about someone else being right about this 🙂

He has been credited through his own featured deck list right here (he commented on that deck as well):

http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/theos-3-legend-witchwood-control-dragon-priest-april-2018/

Brainish may be my new favorite word to describe this deck 🙂

What matchups did you play against? What do you think was the reason behind your losses?

Good work, keep on climbing! That matchup can be very tricky. Always keep in mind that you played the deck to Rank 1 though, so you must be pretty good with it, and that is the number one prerequisite to beat bad matchups as well.

Good luck!

Great to hear! Spirit Lash can work wonders if the meta leans towards more Paladin and Hunter archetypes.

As already said in other comments, Skulking Geist isn’t that obvious of a tech choice in my opinion. The deck does well without it, and while it may seem that it causes the Warlock matchups to be a lot easier, it shouldn’t change the initial win rate by that much.

#1: MC is a great tech choice against Cubelock. You can MC greedy Cubes or Voidlords for protection against incoming Doomguards. I don’t think it’s really needed, but it can buy you the turns you need for working on your combo.

#2: Solid choice depending on the meta. It can be great against Odd Paladin as well, but with the amount of Mountain Giants being in the game right now, hard removal trumps everything!

Yeah, people have been suggesting that! I think it’s a tough tech choice. Coins are not needed as a direct win condition like it was with OTK Paladin, and yes, they might be valuable against Aggro for additional Pyromancer value. In Control those coins can get pretty clunk over time because we don’t have as much cycle as OTK Paladin, and while Coldlight Oracle has left the scene, there’s still plenty of situations where you can easily overdraw (Hadronox Druid intensifies).

Try it out and report back how it performed! 🙂

Interesting ideas! We have double Weapon Removal, but Jones is highly situational and not very usable against Aggro, so that is indeed a tech inclusion against Warlocks only. Stonehill Defender can be great, especially if you find Obsidian Statue; great “last alamo” against Aggro, and a two-turn-saver in Control matchups.

Druid is a tough one, but I beat Hadronox Druid pretty consistently. The matchup plays very similar to Cubelock: Try to get the most value out of your Screams, focus on card draw, and get Anduin go as quickly as possible. As it is with most bad matchups, the fact that we play a list they won’t expect gives us a massive edge, so many Taunt Druids will try to erect that Taunt Wall to get Hadronox value, when they instead should just bank Armor into the late game.

Glad to hear you are having success with it!

“This deck is the truth” may be my favorite statement regarding this list 🙂 Go get ’em!

Thanks! You can only cover so many different matchups, but that is what the comments are for, right 🙂

Your MU against Taunt Warrior *can* be very unfavored. That however requires the Taunt Warrior player to know what he’s up against. A lot of more casual players will never expect you running this list, so they will try to get to using Sulfuras as quickly as possible. That is where you can flood the board and Alex+MB his face, because Armor Up doesn’t provide the Armor he needs against us in the later stages of the game.

In general I’d call this a “skill matchup”. If you’re the better player, then you should have a fairly decent win rate.

MrYagut played a iteration of this deck with Chameleos and only one copy of SW:D.

MrYagut played a list with Chameleos and only one copy of SW:D.

Interesting addition!