Crispy's kitty
- Last updated Jul 25, 2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: None
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 6320
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/17/2014 (Live Patch 5506)
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Battle Tag:
jotto#2841
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Total Deck Rating
454
Hello everyone, this is Jotto and today I will be going over a deck list that my team mate [AcB] crispy got to legend this season with.
General
At first glance it seems like a normal mid-late ramp druid list, however this deck substitutes out Azure Drake for Stranglethorn Tiger. This allows the deck to be more proactive against control decks such as hand lock and miracle rogue as neither of these decks can interact with the tiger so it is guaranteed to attack for 5 or remove a key minion from the board.
On top of this the Stranglethorn Tiger can be used to set up a turn 9 win with the Force of Nature / Savage Roar combo for a massive 21 damage burst.
Minus the tiger, the deck has a few other interesting tech cards, starting with the Bloodmage Thalnos which is massively cost efficient when paired with Wrath and Swipe, and in a few other cases it can be used to cycle a card if necessary.
Onto the anti control cards, Big Game Hunter and The Black Knight, the first one is used to mostly kill giants on turn 4 when against Hand Lock and to kill stray Ragnaros the Firelord. The latter tech card is invaluable in the Druid mirror as killing a taunted 4/6 and adding a 4/5 to the board all or 6 mana will usually signal the end of the game.
Lastly in terms of different card choices is the anti aggro wall himself, Ancient of War, usually this guy will destroy aggro decks such as zoo single handedly as 10 hp of taunt is almost impossible to get through for those decks with the exception of shockadin's Equality.
Mulligans
We'll start with the most basic one, the druid mirror, in this match up you only keep Wild Growth, Innervate and Harvest Golem. If you have a ramp card in your hand you can also keep a Chillwind Yeti.
.Onto Rogues, in this match up you still keep the ramp and Harvest Golem but you also keep Chillwind Yeti if you are going second and [card]Wrath[/card].
Lastly for the popular match ups, Warlock, in this match up the same applies as with rogue, however you also keep Big Game Hunter and no matter what you always keep one Keeper of the Grove.
Conclusion
Over all I do think that this is a very strong ladder deck however its tournament applications remain to be seen as decks like Shaman and Hand Lock are a lot more common there while strong match ups like zoo are less common.
Thankyou for reading.
Jotto
In case you don't have the legendary cards, check out the F2P Ramp Druid deck, and here is our video for it.
The deck 100% jumps the shark with the addition of Poison Seeds.
Love this deck, but...
I may be alone in this, but I'm having one HELL of a time trying to take on warlock zoos. I've already lost to 5 (4 of those were zoos back to back, what RNG luck). No other deck is giving me this kind of trouble. I always mulligan for innervate, wrath, wild growth so I can get my taunts out there asap. I changed out Bloodmage Thalnos for Ragneros (working great against every other deck but this one since I can't seem to last long enough to draw it). Rank 11 btw.
Make that 6 now. Jotto says that if you can make it to round 7 with 10 life and throw an Ancient of War out, you pretty much win the game. Lies. I've done this every time, had more than 10 life, and still died. Doomguard just flies in for 5 dmg, or soulfire for 4, followed by buffed 3 - 4 dmg minons finishing him off, and then the rest of his board dances around my soon to be dead body.
I'm going to swap Poison Seeds for Starfall to see if that helps.
Try to get keeper of the groove it's the best thing you cant put on the board early on : killing a 3/2 for free and getting a 2/4 on the board is really strong. Keep thalnos, you'll get much more value of swipe and wrath. Round 7 Ancient of war is really strong but not if you are too far behind, don't let him get full board control. I don't like Poison Seeds neither. Cenarius is strong if you have it.
I play this deck for a while and I get from rank 7 to 2. I'm facing a lot of druid, zoos and rogue. I think that Naxx cards killed this deck, Nerubian egg is too strong with aggro/midrange decks. Ironbreak Owl could replace bgh only to counter this card.
If you I replaced poison seeds with BGH would it be ok to replace that spot with starfall or would you still keep BGH/Poison seeds and replace savage roar or argent for starfall? Thanks Jotto!
thanks for the replies guys and i see jotto updated the deck..right on gonna test it out
may play around with adding Cenarius as well, we'll see
and just fyi, around rank 11 right now after 30 games: 2 handlocks, 8 zoolocks, 1 miracle rogue, 6 various druid decks, 2 shockadins, and a little bit of everything else.
Nice! I did not put either of the new cards in the deck. I went from rank 12-8 without a single loss. Then loss a few in a row at rakn 9 atm. Going to try to push next season with it.
This is basically my original Stangle build with ancient of wars added. Would be nice if you could at least say somewhere that its not your own idea.
I know i dont own the tiger and i wouldnt even care if you posted this deck if you wouldnt present it like the tiger is this amazing new thing you and your teammates figured out on your own. since you bring up reynad i could compare it to if someone posted reynads newest zoo build and called it there own when they had just netdecked his idea. I dont know if you thought the tiger idea was new and in that case i dont care. I also didnt see the curse post your reffering too before now but after seeing it its okay i just kinda feelt it was rude to present the deck the way you did.
After review of both decks your claim is unwarranted. The flow of the deck is different. There is a massive play style difference with using Ancient of Wars. And If you really want to bark on this I saw these concepts in December with tigers in druid so not trying to put you down but your claim is unwarranted. Kinda like some one claiming a warlock aggro build is their creation...It was done before.
In that case i t dosent matter, if he didnt netdeck my deck its all fine with me. I kinda just felt you were copying my deck and claning it was your own but ts just me being paranoid it had happen a couple times in the past. And chiv Show me a deck list of a druid tiger deck from december and i wont even spill a tear chiv but the fact is that i was the first as far as i can see to post a tiger druid and it cant be a covincidence that people started using tigers in there build after i posted my deck on various sits. There is prblly a poor fellow who made zoo before reynad aswell but since reynad posted it first its his deck its just the way it is chiv. And this entire deck is basically just a miracle counter made of strifecros druid build and because he posted the original list first we call it strifecro druid and different variation like kolentos are called kolento druid.... But this was not what i cared about i thought you were netdecking my deck and calling it your own.
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/20290-cheap-druid fact is I could have grabbed one from September....so again your wrong. Also the reynad zoo one is also a false http://hearthstone.blizzpro.com/2014/02/19/guldan-gets-aggressive/ Pre-dates Reynads stream by 1 week. Only thing Reynad did was sub in 1 card. As for Strifecro druid....yet again sorry the man behind that was Spoh. Thanks for playing misconceptions of Hearthstone.
Do you think poison seed has any place in this deck?
yes it does I reworked the deck for a heroic and beat it with just adding in 1 poison seed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9sf3sUp3ZI
http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/76281-crispy-kitty-anubrekhan-heroic-killer
Not heroic but just regular ladder play. Any advice if this works?
Awesome I shall have to try it :) Thanks Jotto. Would love if you discuss this more in detail in one of your vids you do :D
This deck cleared first two bosses in normal with out an issue
UPDATE. -1 argent commander + 1 poison seed, nukes Anub'rekhan on heroic
So atm, hovering around 7/6 with this and I'm experiencing a 30% winrate versus priest and paladin. Any advice on how to shore up the matchups?