Anyone can search through my post history (I think?) and see that I TOLD you it was going to suck. 1 mana 2/2 is so overrated it's not even funny. Plus, Warden requiring you to have something on the board makes that card just OK. Did people honestly think that Stranglethorn in an aggro deck was going to be good? C'mon now...
Midrange is the only way I ever see it going to work; it's not a good aggro deck when you compare to the others of its ilk. Even midrange will still suck imo because a midrange Druid has WAY better options than the trash beasts available. Making a deck around a card (Warden) that requires you to have a board state on turn 6+ is never going to work, especially with Druid. Furthermore, another center point of the deck is a 1 drop that is absolute shit after turn 2 and the worst top deck imaginable. It really wasn't hard to figure out at all, idk why people were so hyped for this crap archetype. Granted, it's still early after the release, but I honestly can't imagine any beast list being on the same level as Token or even ramp. Hell, even C'Thun Druid outclasses beast Druid. If your finisher is a 6 drop that requires you to have something on the board, you WILL fail competitively.
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Nature is the Day. Man is the Sun. Woman is the Moon. The Stone is the Sky. The Art is the Way.
Beast Druid was never a thing, and will never be a thing.
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Betrayer... In truth, it was I who was betrayed. Still, I am hunted. Still, I am hated. Now, my blind eyes see what others cannot: that sometimes the hand of fate must be forced! Now go forth... unleash the tides of Doom... Upon all those...who would oppose us.
Sometimes you can pull off the Stranglethorn Tiger with Menagerie Warden combo. This happens rarely, and usually means you can't attack for ~2-3 turns to prep.
Way too slow and inconsistent. The hopes of Beast Druid are dampened even further by poor card draw. I tried many variations for longer than I should have. Opponents have too many answers right now.
For beast druid to have a chance of being good you would have to introduce reactive beasts. E.g. a beast that has "Battlecry: Deal damage equal to the number of beasts summoned by you this game randomly split among enemy minions. ". This could act as a board clear so that the deck could retain its board advantage, while not needing to dilute the Beast synergy a lot. Of course I wouldn't want such a card to be a legendary (usually you wouldn't want to bind a class legendary to one archetype), which would make it a bit overpowered (2 copies seem a bit much). However, given that druid needs to retain board advantage, this would give you better odds at doing that.
Beast Druid was never a thing, and will never be a thing.
Of course it will. Blizzard is pushing the archetype basically since GVG (Druid of the Fang and Malorne - with those it started). People thought Warden is broken enough to make it high tier, but it seems it's not, so next expansion we'll see even more broken Beast-related stuff for Druid and eventually Blizzard succeeds at making Beast Druid op. Remember they can print whatever they want and they clearly want Beast Druid to be a thing. So what will stop them. My guess is they simply misjudged meta and they thought Warden and Raven will be enough, but they can't realase stuff without any impact forever. Eventually they'll print something really unfair or there will be just too many of stupid cards like Warden to make it impossible for such deck to be bad.
So It's kinda like Aggro Shaman after LOE, it wasn't a tier 1 deck until WOTOG pushed it into the sky.
Anyone can search through my post history (I think?) and see that I TOLD you it was going to suck. 1 mana 2/2 is so overrated it's not even funny. Plus, Warden requiring you to have something on the board makes that card just OK. Did people honestly think that Stranglethorn in an aggro deck was going to be good? C'mon now...
Midrange is the only way I ever see it going to work; it's not a good aggro deck when you compare to the others of its ilk. Even midrange will still suck imo because a midrange Druid has WAY better options than the trash beasts available. Making a deck around a card (Warden) that requires you to have a board state on turn 6+ is never going to work, especially with Druid. Furthermore, another center point of the deck is a 1 drop that is absolute shit after turn 2 and the worst top deck imaginable. It really wasn't hard to figure out at all, idk why people were so hyped for this crap archetype. Granted, it's still early after the release, but I honestly can't imagine any beast list being on the same level as Token or even ramp. Hell, even C'Thun Druid outclasses beast Druid. If your finisher is a 6 drop that requires you to have something on the board, you WILL fail competitively.
Nature is the Day.
Man is the Sun.
Woman is the Moon.
The Stone is the Sky.
The Art is the Way.
Beast Druid was never a thing, and will never be a thing.
Betrayer... In truth, it was I who was betrayed. Still, I am hunted. Still, I am hated. Now, my blind eyes see what others cannot: that sometimes the hand of fate must be forced! Now go forth... unleash the tides of Doom... Upon all those...who would oppose us.
The classic tier: Reno Jackson | Elise Starseeker | Brann Bronzebeard.
Sometimes you can pull off the Stranglethorn Tiger with Menagerie Warden combo. This happens rarely, and usually means you can't attack for ~2-3 turns to prep.
Way too slow and inconsistent. The hopes of Beast Druid are dampened even further by poor card draw. I tried many variations for longer than I should have. Opponents have too many answers right now.
For beast druid to have a chance of being good you would have to introduce reactive beasts. E.g. a beast that has "Battlecry: Deal damage equal to the number of beasts summoned by you this game randomly split among enemy minions. ". This could act as a board clear so that the deck could retain its board advantage, while not needing to dilute the Beast synergy a lot. Of course I wouldn't want such a card to be a legendary (usually you wouldn't want to bind a class legendary to one archetype), which would make it a bit overpowered (2 copies seem a bit much). However, given that druid needs to retain board advantage, this would give you better odds at doing that.
Frankly I'm happy that Menagerie Warden isn't the new Mysterious Challenger.
As of now the menagarie is for guests only
Weird to see the negative opinions... I have been finding the beast druid deck pretty good.
Been playing an aggro version and mid range version. Been enjoying it with good results, rank 15 to 9 now. Maybe I have just been getting lucky :)
I said Menagerie Warden was massively overrated before it came out. No one believed me.
I said Menagerie Warden was massively overrated pretty quickly after it came out and I could try the card. No one believed me.
Now Menagerie Warden is listed as the most overrated card on top decks.
Basically yah, that card was massively overrated is what happened. It is a less consistent Faceless Summoner.
The OTK Manegerie warden combo looks pretty fun. Going to give a taste. Thaurissan your hand, holding 1x Druid of the Saber, 2x abusive sargeant, 1x manegerie warden, and Brann Bronzebeard