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 ;)
Worked in second try without fatigue, thanks
Watching this guy run out of cards was a beautiful thing.
Free to play??
Worked like a charm. One shot his ass. Thanks a bunch =D
Took about 40 min's but finally got it on 1 hp left... Although some other bosses took longer with RnG I had to think this one out turns ahead. One false move and I would be gone. Like others times called where weapon had to be used to the face.
Wonderful, followed exactly your strategy, worked marvelous on first try. Had to use the weapon to face just like you. Thanks a lot.
Best deck for this boss imo. I got it in 1 try.
What a fucking awful deck. He has out an entire board of minions and you're dead in the fourth turn. Nothing in here can stop that shit.
Sword of Justice is really helpful in this matchup.
Got him on third try, thanks a lot. This fight was driving me nuts :)
Card NameI won 3 times in a row by switching out Wild pyromancer,Nerubian egg and pyromancer with 1 sword of justice,1 blessing of wisdom,2 scarlet purifiers and 2 earthern ring farseer. Worked pretty good ! You can now buff the spectrals to have 1 damage from the sword, that makes them target for attacks and buffs sometimes aswell as their 1 attack can be the 1 you need to pull of a combo
Divine favour is a completely dead card in this deck. You never have a chance to play it before Gothik has a permanently empty hand.
I like the doomslayer recomendation, also wailing soul mutes all the life subtracting from the ghousts on your side, and earthen ring farseer seems better than harvest golem to me.
I had to swap out Consecration and Blessing of Might for Deathlord and Earthen Ring Farseer. The Taunt and healing was a lot more useful than the extra damage. And even then it took me about three tries to finish the jerk off, but I got it done in the end!
One tip: Do your best to make sure Gothik's Spectral punks are dead before he runs out of cards. I mean really dead, as in not doing 1 damage to you every turn. I spent at least two turns with 1 HP fending off the last few minions in Gothik's deck, and every time I had Spectrals left on my side of the table I died. Best bet is card counting and saving an Equality and Wild Pyromancer to wipe out the leftovers. And if by chance your side of the table is full, kill every Spectral-creating card you can!
I had to swap out Consecration and Blessing of Might for Deathlord and Earthen Ring Farseer. The Taunt and healing was a lot more useful than the extra damage. And even then it took me about three tries to finish the jerk off, but I got it done in the end!
One tip: Do your best to make sure Gothik's Spectral punks are dead before he runs out of cards. I mean really dead, as in not doing 1 damage to you every turn. I spent at least two turns with 1 HP fending off the last few minions in Gothik's deck, and every time I had Spectrals left on my side of the table I died. Best bet is card counting and saving an Equality and Wild Pyromancer to wipe out the leftovers. And if by chance your side of the table is full, kill every Spectral-creating card you can!
We used a similar Pally deck to fatigue him. Maybe this will work better for you?
I just finised Naxxramas in Heroic mode with this deck ! THX !
I also ran blessing of wisdom and humility in case he gets those early charge minions, Throw a wisdom + humiliate or peacekeeper on one of those suckers and rack up all the cards you need to get the early OP combos for board control.
I also found unstable gouls (rather than argus - too slow) to be quite helpful in mitigating early damage to the face while giving you aoe to deal with the early minion onslaught.
In addition to the strategies mentioned by the deck creator, I also found that a strength of this deck is it's ability to bait out Gothik's minion removal spells (e.g. drain life) since you can heal off that damage later in the game. If you can get Gothik to blow those removals either to your face or to the spectral warriors you've buffed, it gives you a good chance to fill your side of the board. Once you've survived the early onslaught while filling your side with buffed minions, when you destroy his minions, the spectral warriors are no longer an issue. Then you can wear him down and win in a few turns, removing the few minions he has left along the way.
Took me a while but he is killable. I took 2 Deathlords.
See my comment above. I beat Gothik twice before he started fatiguing by getting complete board control (7 minions on my side of the board). Each time I was down to about 2-5 health, but was able to turn 7 guardian to keep the dream alive.