Hearthpwn

During my first days on Hearthstone (start of Year of the Raven), Clutchmother Zavas and Blood-Queen Lana'thel were two of my first legendary cards. I tried building a standard Discolock, and it was absolute rubbish.

When Boomsday came, I cracked The Soularium. Following this was another failed attempt at Discolock. So, when it was Rastakhan's time, I thought I'd meet High Priestess Jeklik for sure. Nope.

After a brutal bite by the Wild-bug, I've recently have been building a few wild decks (I mostly play casually against my partner, often making new decks to keep it fresh). I loved toying around with C'Thun--always do--but taking a few variants into ranked saw me copping a beating. Crafted Shudderwock for some shits and giggles, but, again, I realised I sucked at building decks around him. Then, after all my poor crafting choices, I thought, 'why not toy with Discolock?'. The only legendary I crafted was High Priestess Jeklik, then a few of the obvious older, non-adventure rares with 'discard' in their name. Gotta admit, I'm pretty happy with how it plays!

Firstly, I'm a pretty greedy player. So discarding when Deathwing, Bloodreaver Gul'dan, or Fel Lord Betrug is in my hand felt weird at first. Secondly, I'm a pretty aggressive player. This deck, surprisingly, has some pretty sweet tempo. Blindly throwing the dice, even if it could lead to discarding those big boys, is well worth it. Besides, Soulwarden could always bring them back, right?

The Rastakhan cards that discard lowest cost cards are amazing. So glad these have been added, and got me kicking myself for not crafting the High Priestess sooner. Fist of Jaraxxus is hilariously fast. I mean, you discard it, this fist slams the minion, and it's gone. Boom! Love the animation.

The plan is to get Clutchmother Zavas and/or High Priestess Jeklik into hand asap. Even if that means a turn 1 The Soularium. Yeah, high risk, high reward! Once you have these cards, keep discarding them and benefiting from your other minions and spells.

Don't put too much faith in Clutchmother Zavas dealing lethal to close the game. It will likely be destroyed the turn after you cast it. Your opponent knows it is coming, and can see it growing. Doesn't matter. It's allowed you to play all those cards that require discarding. All those cards are ridiculously good value.

Never play High Priestess Jeklik if you only hold one. a 3/4 taunt isn't that hard for your opponent to deal with. When they keep appearing towards the late game, they can be.

Try your hardest not to discard your Doomguards. If you must you must, but these are an amazing turn 5 play. Also, if you've played 2 through the game, and later on end up with Bloodreaver Gul'dan (love it when he hides deep in the deck!) you have the ability to end an opponent with 10 health through casting him and resummoning the Doomguards!

Only early days for me using this deck, but I'm bloody enjoying it! Fun and effective!