F2P Gothik the Harvester Paladin by MrPLJ
- Last updated Jul 2, 2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 10 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Gothik the Harvester
- Crafting Cost: 1280
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/6/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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F2P Gothik the Harvester Paladin
Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Heroic Military Quarter's guides. I'm MrPLJ and today I have attempted to build F2P decks to beat those demonic bosses. For the second boss, we want to do our best to outrun Gothink the Harvester.
Background Information
Gothik is a bit of a nuisance, his hero power basically lets him draw an extra card and gets an extra mana crystal every turn for (1) mana. What this means is that he will be ramping until he reaches 10 mana, at which point it becomes a free draw. His hero power is automatic, which means he will use it at the beginning of his turn no matter what.
His minions can also become a nuisance, his Unrelenting Trainee, Unrelenting Warrior and Unrelenting Knight once dealt with will come back as spectral beings on your side of the field dealing 1 damage at the start of your turn.
The Strategy
- Before I go into mulligans, let me set out a simple rule... Don't go for the face! It's usually a waste of time and turn, unless there are no minions on Gothik's side. Your goal is to fatigue him and your minions are used mainly for trading. The only time I have attacked the face whilst there where other minions on the board was to restore 2 HP from Truesilver Champion whilst dangerously low on HP.
- You want to mulligan for an Equality and Wild Pyromancer, and other low drops. Wild Pyromacer and Equality is a (4) mana combo that will help you clear the board quickly, from both your and the opponent's side of the board, but use it scarcely as you will most likely need it around late mid-game unless you are overwhelmed.
- The early-game is all about surviving and making smart trades. You want to make sure you use all your minions and crash them into other minions with a 2-for-1 trade in mind. Buff up the spectral minion you get from Gothik, these are great traders!
- One way to deal efficiently with the board is to use an Equality whilst there is an Unstable Ghoul or an Abomination and a minion on your side of the field to attack. This will be an instant board clear without the use of Wild Pryromancer. Try to remember the order in which the minions where set so that you can control the chain effect of Deathrattle to your advantage. Don't forget to set up those Nerubian Eggs before you are thinking of doing one of these combos.
- An extra thing to remember is that your Hero Power summons a 1/1 Silver Hand Recruit which will trade very efficiently against minions with 1 health, plus Gothik usually ignores them until you use Equality ;)
- One way to make sure that you use the Spectral beings efficiently, is to always remember to summon your minions to the left, as the Spectres will arrive on the right. Once you have two on your side of the board, you can use a Defender of Argus to shield yourself and gain value from Gothik's Minions.
- Save your face and shield it as much and as best as you can! Once again, your goal is not to go for the face, it's to fatigue Gothik and be more efficient than him in trades and use of spells so that he runs out of cards in both his deck and hand before you (and dies from fatigue)!
I hope this guide and deck will help you beat the odds thrown your way. I personally have a 50% win rate against Gothik with this deck... It's a really tough match to say the least. It depends mainly how you manage to clear the board, foresee chain effects/combos and restore your health.
If you need help with the rest of the Military Quarter, check out F2P Heroic Instructor Razuvious and F2P Gothik the Harvester . Good luck!
Edit: I have added a clip from Kizaru1 who has done a great job beating Gothik with this deck! Send him your love on Youtube ;)
Also, looks like Lay on Hands is a pretty popular substitute to get you that big heal you might need to keep you in it.
This deck worked for me on the first try. I didn't have any Equality cards, either. I also didn't get him to fatigue. I guess I got lucky.
Swapped Blessing of Wisdom for Consecrations and Hogger for a Sunwalker. Mulligan for BOW and Equality if you can.. BoW his drop and get the cards you need early. Equalize him when his board gets full and stay in control.
Hardest heroic I've done so far, but I'm done. Thanks a bunch for the deck.
Thanks! This was a great deck. The only changes I made was +2 Earthen Ring Farseer and +2 Deathlord instead of 2 Harvest Golem and 2 Aldor Peacekeeper.
This is partially because I didn't have the second Aldor Peacekeeper, but also since I was dying close to him fatiguing and because Deathlord usually trades 2-for-1 and an Abomination or Unstable Ghoul can probably help instead of hurt.
Thanks for the deck! It was really helpful :)
Thanks for this, finally got a win and I didn't even need WIld Pyromancer, which I thought would be essential for this challenge.
Took the advice through the comments of
-2 Harvest Golem for +2 Mind Control Tech
Swapped one Guardian of Kings for one Lay on Hands
Worked first try with these revisions :)
Just now got around to doing last quarters heroics. I came up against some broken RNG in Gothik's favor but this deck works. I even made a mistake playing minions before performing a board clear and this deck still had enough going for it to pull out the win for me. +1
I don't know why no one recommends Doomlords for this...they trade well and pull a card out of his deck, which is the goal get him to burn his deck. I also used the Murloc Oracles to force more card draws, which caused him to burn some cards as his hand was too full.
You mean Deathlord. But yeah, good advice if you need a decent substitute for any missing cards. I myself went with -1 Sunfury Protector and +1 Lay on Hands as I only have one Sunfury Protector anyway.
I was short one Equality. Lost with this deck 15 times. Adding Lay on Hands as the substitute gave me a one-shot. Thanks!
Finally got round to making my own video for this deck! The bosses in this wing have been the most challenging so far, and I've enjoyed finding these cool decks to face them with! As always I put a link to this deck in my description & I've added it to my playlist of other Hearthstone videos! I hope you like it!
It's for the people who don't put money into the game.
Finally won on my 2nd try. I've been trying different decks for 2 days staright and none worked except this one.
Good deck - depends on what the boss draws first, but overall it works..
This totally did the trick for me. Tried with the golems half a dozen times and switched them for MCtech. Got the win on my first try with the revision.
What I found most helpful using MCtech was he takes up a space on your board and so does the minion you steal. This makes it easier to fill up your board so you don't receive the spectres.
I got lucky and pulled over a 5/6. Red Rover Red Rover send Unrelenting Rider on over! Ha! Hey Willy, I'm gonna eat your cat!
YES this helped so much. I got one of the 3/4s with the Tech and its spirit stuck around with Gothik for so many turns that I killed him before fatigue damage. FINALLY!
1st try and I won! Gz for deck! :)
I beat him around the 6th try. Deck works well.
This deck worked great after I included Youthful Brewmaster as part of my deck. Had no luck before that but worked great after I added them. I swapped them for Harvest Golem and then won easily on my next attempt.