Hearthpwn

How do you beat this deck? By turn 5 I think, the board is full of 5/6 taunts. I could rope every dragon Druid I meet out of frustration but I’d like to beat that deck. I don’t mind having a weaker deck against other opponents. I just want to beat dragon Druid (and gloat). 

I play Warlock. I’ve heard sludge warlock can finish a game by turn 5 but I think this might be too late. 

havent met an totally OP dragon druid, maybe he just perfectly draw and you didn't - esp if he gets all the dragons out early means he didn't do much but draw (his dragons) - try to prepare for it. WL has some answers, sure not as easy as Warr or priest.. but

Blood DK has had good success for me, though you need pretty good draw early on to beat buffed Dragon Golems. It has multiple answers thanks to the discover cards like Hematurge and Nerubian Vizier. Just get ready for long games.

I beat them all the time with Rock-n-Roll War.   I breath a sigh of relief when I mulligan for Tree and see they are dragon

Full board of 5/6 on turn 5 seems like extreme highroll in order to achieve that.

Way I see it if you play Cactus Construct on turn 1 roll a Dragon, turn 2 coin Snapdragon, turn 3 another Snapdragon, turn 4 Innervate Summer Flowerchild and turn 5 innervate Dragon Golem. That combination of getting 1x Cactus with a Dragon minion 1x Coin, 2x Snapdragons, 2x Innervate and 1x Summer Flowerchild and other than those cards only drawing Dragons no spells or other minions in your hand would give you five dragons on turn 5 when you play the Dragon Golem. This is an extreme highroll that you wont face many times and when it happens well its rough.

There are of course other ways of getting to a similair position but that would include sacrificing the entire board for five turns this is the only way I see to get there without being to far behind on board. As for countering the deck any class with reliable board clears should deal with it pretty well, I find Dragon Druid pretty easy to play against with both DK and Warrior and if he sacrifice the board in order to maximize Dragon Golem even Warlock should be able to set up a pretty good defile for example.

Thing with decks like Dragon Druid vs decks that just arent as fast is when they get the nuts you sometime just lose the same can be said for an example Token Druid or Totem Shaman that can lust you to death on turn 5 without you standing a chance to stop it unless you draw counters and manage to control their board. The scenario you describe is an extreme highroll and sometimes we just have to take that a deck won due to them its when a deck does something consistently it becomes a real problem and I can say for sure you dont consistently face full boards of 5/6 Dragon Golems on turn 5 more likely turn 6-7 and most of the time its not a full board nor 5/6 I would reckon that turn 6, 4 to 5 and 4/5 is what you will face if the Druid draws pretty good

But like said any class that has pretty good board clears or ways to interactive with the board should deal with Dragon Druid decently well because they don't have that many powerful plays.

Update: Sludge Warlock seems to do the trick. Well, at least I won once when I faced a dragon Druid. 


I was playing Excavate Warlock before but it was too slow. As for removal, defile wouldn’t work, 8-9 mana board clears would be too late. I’m not aware of 6 health board removal for warlock except for Wing Welding, maybe I’m missing something? Taunt wouldn’t hold back that many dragons. I’m not sure how to set up a defile for a board full of 5/6. 

The way I see it, you’d better win before they dish out the dragon wall otherwise you’ve pretty much lost. I might be misplaying however.

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Update: Sludge Warlock seems to do the trick. Well, at least I won once when I faced a dragon Druid. 


I was playing Excavate Warlock before but it was too slow. As for removal, defile wouldn’t work, 8-9 mana board clears would be too late. I’m not aware of 6 health board removal for warlock except for Wing Welding, maybe I’m missing something? Taunt wouldn’t hold back that many dragons. I’m not sure how to set up a defile for a board full of 5/6. 

The way I see it, you’d better win before they dish out the dragon wall otherwise you’ve pretty much lost. I might be misplaying however.

 

 

 A single win is hardly a data pool. More like a data drop. 

I agree. I’d say I’ve consistently won against dragon Druid. I’ve seen worse druids since the mini-expansion however, so dragon Druid might be the least of my worries. Sludge can go through 30 health pretty efficiently. 35+ health decks are much harder however. 

You might find a combination of Sludge Warlock with other elements or perhaps another deck entirely works better against Dragon Druid.