Hunting Heroic Sapphiron
- Last updated Jul 2, 2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Wild
- 9 Minions
- 19 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Sapphiron
- Crafting Cost: 2420
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/20/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Hello!
I used this deck to defeat heroic Sapphiron, there is really not too much to it. On heroic, you have no Frozen Champion for your dudes to hide behind, which results in the boss wiping your board at the start of his every turn, so the only minions included in the deck are the parts of the Unleash combo, Mad Scientist to bring out more traps, Nerubian Egg is 4 damage for 2 mana against the boss, which is alright.
Use your hero power often, but do not let the boss overwhelm you on board. Mind the Skeletal Smith if you have or you are about to play your Eaglehorn Bow. When the enemy minions are becoming too much of a threat, you can abuse the Necroknight drawback to regain control - and to kill annoying minions such as the Spectral Knight. Hunter's Mark goes a long way in this regard.
Save your UtH combo cards - Starving Buzzard, Unleash the Hounds, Timber Wolf - for when you can get good value and good damage to the face. You should be aiming to gnaw at the boss for a bit with your hero power and bow, manage the board, then go for the kill in two large bursts over two turns - UtH + Wolf, UtH + Wolf + Leeroy, 2x Kill Command and such.
Misdirection felt like *the* MVP here - don't place it blindly if you have the choice. It can save you a ton of life and cripple their board, or at least get you closer to the kill range.
Another good thing about traps is that Sapphiron always plays his minions before he attacks, from what I've seen, so those Explosives will be juicy.
Mind that the boss also has Pure Cold in it's deck in addition to the less threatening Frostbolt and try not to get caught with your pants down when planning trap placement or trading your hounds.
If you have no Leeroy Jenkins, you can replace it with an Arcane Golem for example, it'll still be a viable deck! You can even run the Golem instead of the Explosive Shot if you are feeling kinky or just don't have this less-used rare.
Good luck, hopefully you find this decklist helpful on your way to the Naxx card back!
- Sisyfos
P.S. Contents of the Sapphiron Heroic deck, according to Beonitas. Thank you for the contribution!
For anyone wondering what to face in Sapphiron's Deck, here the Decklist (I brought him to Fatigue with a Weapon/Spell-Warrior, so the entire deck was seen):
3 x Mana Wyrm
3 x Faerie Dragon
2 x Frostbolt
3 x Loot Hoarder
2 x Dancing Swords
2 x Skeletal Smith
3 x Necroknight
2 x Azure Drake
2 x Pure Cold
3 x Spectral Knight
2 x Blizzard
Please upvote so that everybody knows!
PS: Maybe it could also be included in the Guide itself?!
P.P.S. A video of the deck in action by Kizaru1, thanks!
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Thank you all for the wonderful support, I didn't dare to imagine this would become so popular. It's great to see I've hopefully helped all you nice people, very motivating.
Just beat Sapphiron a few seconds ago, used this list with the following changes:
That was it. In the end, the only change that mattered was the Quick Shot, which I used to the face on turn 4 because I had no other way to spend my mana. Didn't draw the other Quick Shot or the Cult Masters. This list is still good. Never drew Leeroy either, so he was irrelevant.
- 2 Buzzard + Quick Shot
I found the scientist to be useful in keeping my eagle bow alive. My eagle bow and hero passive was enough to kill him (and I finished him with Lee roy charge for a perfect 10 damage at end).
Took 5-6 go's but never felt impossible as it may initially seem.
I replaced tracking for charge minions and it was "easy"! Thank You for your time and advice! :) :)
Note that on the video you never got attacked with PureCold. Ive done +15 tries with this deck and as far as im concerned ALL MY MATCHES Sapphiron casted PureCold at least TWICE.
yeah, it was clearly a lot easier a while back. I have faced this boss many many times and never had it that easy. Also, i have never seen sapph fill the board on turn 5 for an easy exploding trap clear. In my experience, she doesnt do that until turn 7 and by then the minions are far too strong to be taken out with a trap. Mostly plays knights and such. oh well. gl. Im still working on it.
I totally accidentally queued up in ranked with this deck, i won on turn 6 with exact kill damage, using arcane shot + arcane golem and 4 hounds that the paladin ignored because i had 3 hp left.
Won't be doing that again....... Im only rank 13 by the way
This just happened to me today. I was about to auto-concede when the announcer said "REXXAR VS REXXAR", but then I remembered reading this comment. May have only been rank 20 (since ranks just reset) but it was still a VERY satisfying win, to say the least. So thanks for convincing me to persevere. Wrote a reddit post about the game: http://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/313w87/accidentally_queued_into_a_ranked_game_with_a/
Worked after several matches. Great deck, thank you. :-)
A bit tricky, but it work!
I replaced tracking and misdirection with big charge minions.
Awesome deck! I've been trying out multiple decks but I still couldn't clear. I cleared sapphiron heroic one time just by using this Druid Fatigue deck. Easy and fun to use. Simply genius!!
Made a few changes to your deck and got him on my 4th try! Thanks a bunch!
This was great, I put in Dancing Swords since they essentially say Draw 1 in this matchup for your opponent.
tried about 20 times with the hunter deck, literally got it my first try with this mill deck. was beautiful. Only used one tree of life, added in a savage roar as a substitute. Thanks.
Tried the hunter and mage deck, both were frustrating and ineffective.
This one was both fun and got me the win on the second try.
Well done sir!
I haven't read all of the posts in this thread but I just killed heroic Saph with a variant on a mage deck I saw earlier. Third try victory. Admittedly I got a great draw. I would also consider losing the second vaporize for a second duplicate.
This deck ruined my life.
If you're struggling with this deck post nerf like I was give this a try:
This is SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO rng it is dumb....how is this even fun? lol Stupid fight with stupid decks.
This deck worked for me. Thanks!
Tried a lot of times the hunter deck, then changed to yours and won directly the 3th round!