Warlock Control

Explanation for each card:

• Soulfire is used for removal and direct damage.
• Mortal Coil is a free ping used to finish off a minion.
• Power Overwhelming is used in conjunction with Shadowflame, or used in the wombo combo.
• Ancient Watcher is used with Taunt, or Shadowflame. With Ironbeak Owl, you can attack.
• Bloodmage Thalnos is a staple in every deck that can use spell damage.
• Ironbeak Owl is to Silence your Ancient Watcher, or your opponents creatures.
• Sunfury Protector is for Taunt at important times during the game.
• Earthen Ring Farseer is a very high value 3-drop and a staple in many control decks.
• Hellfire is great board wipe against a rush deck, and it speeds up Molten Giant.
• Shadowflame is great for clearing the board with Ancient Watcher, Sylvanas Windrunner or Leeroy Jenkins.
• Defender of Argus is a beefy Sunfury Protector for Taunt and a buff.
• Leeroy Jenkins is a finishing move that can wombo combo with Power Overwhelming and Faceless Manipulator for 20 damage on Turn 10.
• Twilight Drake is what you want in your hand after using your hero ability a couple times. Play it Turn 4 as a 4/8 or better. Susceptible to Silence, especially Earth Shock.
• Faceless Manipulator is used to copy something big.
• Siphon Soul kills large creatures and heals you, obviously.
• Cairne Bloodhoof is basically a Chillwind Yeti with an Ancestral Spirit built in. It's difficult to deal with, even when Silenced.
• Sylvanas Windrunner is a counter for late game threats such as Tirion Fordring.
• Ragnaros the Firelord is a giant that also makes a great finishing move after you wipe the board.
• Lord Jaraxxus heals up to 14 hit points, spawns 6/6 demons for 2 mana, and attacks with a 3/8 weapon. He can win games where you would have lost.
• Molten Giant is one of the most high value giants in the game, and especially good in Warlock Control decks.

Note: Sylvanas, Jaraxxus, and Cairne can be substituted with Mountain Giants and/or an extra Shadowflame and Ironbeak Owl. Instead of Sylvanas to handle late game threats, you could use Tinkmaster Overspark. Alexstrasza can replace Jaraxxus. And so on.

How to play the deck:

• Your opening hand should primarily have a Twilight Drake in it. Secondary would be Ancient Watcher, Sunfury Protector or Defender of Argus. Mortal Coil is also nice to have early on. If you think you're up against a Murloc rush, or Huntard deck, you should keep Hellfire.
• The first two or three rounds will be spent using your hero ability to fill your hand with cards, until the fourth turn when you play your Twilight Drake (3rd turn with The Coin).
• Hellfire can clean up an early rush. It's alright if you take a bunch of damage early on, this will make your Molten Giants come out much earlier.
• It's important to use your cards very wisely and think a few steps ahead. If you have a Hellfire in your hand, don't bother destroying his creatures until you play it, to get the maximum value. You need to know when you have enough taunt to ignore his creatures and go for the face, that's usually after you play a giant or two with taunt.
• Ideally you want to get the wombo combo for 20 damage to secure the win. Sometimes the game drags on a bit, but usually the value from your giants will give you control all the way until the end of the match.

Good luck, have fun!