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[New Meta] Spectral Warrior

  • Last updated Aug 15, 2014 (Naxx Launch)
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  • 21 Minions
  • 5 Spells
  • 4 Weapons
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Unknown
  • Crafting Cost: 2300
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 8/6/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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UPDATE 15.08:  Updated the decklist with the latest changes :) I think its a lot more solid now and has more all around good cards and got rid of the (a bit excessive) Inner Rages and Dark Iron Dwarfs. I hope you like it :) I also added Legendary Replacements, because it was originally quite a budget deck. PS: Thanks a lot for the support! This is my second hearthpwn deck and I would have NEVER expected such a huge amount of views :)  

UPDATE 13.08 2:00 am..: Even though its really late in the night for me, i wanted to thank all of you guys for the support! This is my second deck ive posted and i got on the front page :). On Eu, the 4th Wing just released and there a lot of things to consider... I definetely want to put in one or two death's bites and maybe some more enrage-creatures to combo with it? I will definetely post an updated version tomorrow with some things to test, but it will take time to update the actual decklist, because a lot of testing needs to happen. Maybe some of you guys want to discuss some ideas in the comments and Ill see what you come up with :) Im personally thinking about getting rid of the inner rages.... they just dont do enough for a Midrange Deck.

UPDATE 09.08. : Thank you so much for so much good feedback and so many views! I will definetely get the guide done as soon as possible, even though im currently a bit short on time. Ill post a few important parts of it first and continue into the more uncommon matchups etc. whenever i find the time :)

So I was testing around with some druid and priest decks, but lost too a lot of games and fell from rank 3 to rank 4 with 0 stars. So thats where i created this incredibly powerful Warrior deck... I dont really know how this became so strong, jsut because of the spectral knights, but I went on a 6 game winning streak back to rank 3 and dominated pretty much every game. Its possible that i was just getting lucky, but I still wanted to share this great deck with you guys.

I would really appreciate some feedback and if there is enough interest, i might write a guide to this deck, when I have gotten more experience with it.  Also, excuse my possibly bad english, I am not a native speaker.

General Strategy:

1. This deck is all about board controle! you have quite a lot of ways to buff your minions and a  lot of good tempo plays while you have minions on the board.

2. Trade efficiently and build a strong board to switch to the opponents face at the right moment. You could for example have round 10-15 damage on the board with Spectral Knight and two more minions and a weapon or something. You just have so many ways to deal the remaining damage, even with losing some of your board presence, that you can end the game very quickly from this point on. ( your weapons and your charge-creatures + some buff up deal a lot of damage)

3. abuse your hero power! in ceartain matchups like Miracle rogue, freeze mage and any other burst type deck, you can easily use your 2 armor per turn to prevent yourself from getting bursted in late game. If you feel save with your board position, it might be better to armor up instead of putting that extra amani berserker on the board. You can mostly estimate their burst potential enough so that you can get out of it. ( druid 14 health burst, miracle 18-22 burst, freeze mage just puts you to 15 with alex, so here you just need as much armor as possible, health doesnt matter much, etc.)

Legendary Replacements:

Ragnaros the Firelord: I replaced an Argent Commander for this card, so you can put that card back in instead :) If you want, you could also put in some other solid Late-game minion like Caire Bloodhoof , Sylvanas Windrunner and maybe The Black Knight.

Loatheb: Even though, this card is comparable to other Naxxramas cards in rarity, its still a Legendary :P I originally ran Azure Drake instead of this card, so that would be a replacement for him.

Mulligan Guide:

In general, you try to get a good curve and allways have a 2 drop in hand! Fiery war axe only counts, when they are aggro-midrange and cruel taskmaster is only good in three cases: 1. You expect to face aggro (great tempo-removal card)  2. when you allready have another two drop to play on turn 2  3. When you go second and have amani berserker as well! This is the dream combo, where you jsut deal 7 damage on turn two with an unbackstabable 7/2 and a 2/2!  Early removal like inner rage or slam are only kept against certain matchups, and only if you have a two drop allready, otherwise they wont do enough to justify keeping them!

MidRange Hunter:  good Matchup

Good early Cards: Cruel Taskmaster , Amani Berserker , Acolyte of Pain , Whirlwind , Inner Rage

 

This is one of the standard matchups, just gain board controle, dont overextend too much, because of unleashed the hounds, and armor up if you notice him going for the face a lot. Spectral Knight is great in this Matchup, because it allmost cant be removed, except by a Savannah Highmane. Save your executes for huge taunts from houndmaster and maybe for a Savannah Highmane, if it troubles you.

 Warlock / Zoo : can be really good or really bad.

Good early cards: Cruel Taskmaster , Whirlwind , Fiery War Axe

 

This is quite similar to the Zoo versus Zoo matchup, you both want the board controle and whoever gets it, basically wins. Zoo might have the advantage of having turn 1 plays (if you face Zoo a lot, you could add one or two Argent Squires) , but you have things like cruel taskmaster + inner rage to kill that flame imp or knife juggler and take the board. You also have the Fiery War Axe, which is obviously really strong here, as it kills all early threats, except for Argent Squires. If you lose controle of his board and he starts beating you down with 5 minions on the board, you basically lost and can concede. Some people might want to add Brawl, but imagine it against zoo: you use your whole turn to then leave him with one minion and some deathrattles, while he can just play 2 more creatures and have another board you cant deal with, because you dont have board controle. thats the whole reason behind no Brawl in this deck :)

 Token Druid:   good Matchup

Good early cards: Whirlwind , Frothing Berserker , Acolyte of Pain

 

In This Matchup you play similarly to The Hunter Matchup, but you can actually let him run out of options as soon as you have the complete board controle, as token druid doesnt have something like Unleash the Hounds , so you can just overload the board. (obviously dont leave minions at one health of possible, to prevent a swipe comeback) This Matchup is very straight forward.

 more Matchups coming soon, as i said this takes some time to make. Stay tuned for more updates and thank you for the support and feedback :-)