EU Legend: How to Handlock - Warlock Control
- Last updated Jun 25, 2014 (Live Patch 5506)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 10 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 8420
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/22/2014 (Live Patch 5170)
- Biflex
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Battle Tag:
Biflex#2529
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Total Deck Rating
15
About Me:
my ingame name is Biflex , I'm 29 years old and currently live in Warsaw Poland. I've been playing games since I was 14 and been hooked ever since. I'm oldshool MTG player, also played WOW in guild Method as warlock .... atm i'm casual Hearthstone player (atm rank 3) and LOL player (atm ranked d1 in soloq - Chellenger in 3s and 5s with team based on rlf)
About DECK:
Gabe Wells, a World Champion in Magic: the Gathering, recently hit Legend in just 2.5 days. He held a Reddit AMA and shares his thoughts on Hearthstone and this deck. This inspired me to play handlock - i went from unranked to rank 3 in less then 70 games.
The Legendary Heavy Warlock Control deck is exceptionally fun to play, and it has great potential in high ranked play. Against aggressive decks, it is easy to establish and maintain control, while against other control decks, your Hero Power gives you all the card advantage you need.
The basic plan of the deck is to hoard cards in your hand at the start of the game, allowing you to play extremely cheap Mountain Giants and extremely strong Twilight Drakes. You can then give these minions Taunt with your Sunfury Protectors and Defender of Argus. Doing so will quickly overwhelm your opponents, especially since you can use your many other tools to get rid of their minions (with spells like Hellfire, Shadow Bolt, Siphon Soul, or even [card]Shadowflame[/card] on one of your giants should you need to get rid of a very big minion).
As your health drops lower, you will be able to play very cheap (or even free) Molten Giants which can often save you when given Taunt with Sunfury Protector or Defender of Argus.
Alexstrasza can be used to heal your hero if your health drops below 15, or it can inflict a lot of damage to your opponent if they are at full health.
Lord Jaraxxus is an excellent finisher, as it will instantly put your opponent under immense pressure and it can heal your hero if you are below 15 health. You will gain access to a brand new Hero Power that summons 6/6 Infernals for 2 mana, as well as a 3/8 weapon.
This deck is structured to be very control/combo orientated. For most muligans you want to keep Ancient Watcher,Sunfury Protector,Hellfire(if you know you are facing heavy aggro) And of course last but not least Mountain Giant!!!Other good cards include: Soulfire, Defender of Argus and sometimes Shadowflame because Shadowflame can be hard to draw. Again, Molten Giant is not bad to mulligan for if you know your opponent is an aggro-type.
Edit 1: Big Game Hunter instead of a Mortal Coil - helps with mirrors and taunt druids
This deck is awesome, I was looking for one with shadow bolt and I have to say this card has been a game changer for how much of the board one can control and it synergizes well with mortal coil.
Plz Show me a warlock using sacrifical pact in current meta - it is too situational. I see that you commented all warlock decks with Jaraxxus with same comment " Lord Jaraxxus - Sacrificial pact :) " - hope you ever gonna win by this "play"
very nice deck. i see you run Leeroy Jenkins , it's a good finisher in this type of deck without powerhoverelming? I think you play him with faceless for a 12 damage charge. With a poweroverhelming he can inflict 20 damage for 10 manas. its' a too hard combo to play?
Leeroy Jenkins with Power Overwhelming +[card] Faceless Manipulator[/card] = is 20 ! true!
For me problem is with card draw - i nvr had combo on my hand when i needed it. I use Leeroy Jenkinsas flexible card - some times as finisher some times as removal some times as pressure card when i can keep board controll.
If someone wants to try [card]Power Overwhelming[/card] there is always Soulfire,Mortal Coil,Shadow Bolt to swapp - give it a go and pick whats best for you.