Hey, this is my first thread, so I apologize for any rules I accidentally break.
I am a sort of new player, and have been playing on and off for about 6 months, but now that TGT and some new card changes are about, I'm excited to start playing more. However, I've run into a problem with my decks: I don't know if what I'm using is good enough. I am not very good at making my own decks, so I rely on netdecking. I like to read the entire guide though, so that I'm not just brainlessly copying cards from a list. I would eventually like to make my own decks, but for now I just want experience from what other people suggest using until then. I own both Naxx/BRM, most of the significant rares/commons, a handful of the core epics, but I don't have any legendary cards beside The Black Knight and expansion freebies. What I'm asking for is someone to help compile some budget decks for each class, and if possible, updated for the post-TGT meta. I've tried my hand at decks from Sheng, WingsofWax, and some random Icy Vein's decks but most of them don't really cut it because they aren't being updated to accommodate the decks being played right now or the cards I have right now. Anything that you can contribute does help a lot!
Do you prefer to play aggro, midrange or control? If you have no idea, I recommend trying out all three.
For Control and Midrange, I would like to know what finishers or win conditions you have available. Druid is typically a great starting point for low dust budget Control because Ironbark Protector is a 8 mana basic card and there is not much in that 8+ mana section between non-legendaries and non-epics.
Aggro:
Ladder at ranks 12-20 is typically full of low dust budget aggro decks. Thrse should be relatively easy to netdeck.
Midrange:
I would need more info about what you have. Mech tribal, Dragon tribal are viable. Choose a class for which you have decent kill spells. Dr. Boom should be your #1 legendary to craft for midrange.
Keeping this Neutral, you can start with value Deathrattle minions and decide the class later.
2x Haunted Creeper
2x Harvest Golem
2x Piloted Shredder
2x Sludge Belcher
1x Loatheb
1-2x Azure Drake to grind value and boost AoE
1x Maexxna or the Blackrock 6/6 makes cards cheaper
2x AoE spell, e.g. Swipe or Consecration
2x Class minion with good stats for mana cost, e.g. Water Elemental, Dark Cultist, Druid of the Claw.
2x Big finisher guy, ideally Dr.Boom and Ragnaros but you can try to make do with Boulderfist Ogre and Kel'Thuzad
If you want to go the Tribal/synergy route, here is a sample Midrange Mech Warrior deck which has performed great in the ladder this season. Fel Reaver is the win condition, the deck will not function properly without them.
Thanks for both of your inputs! Mech warrior sounds like a lot of fun. I don't have Fel Reaver yet but I will work on crafting it eventually. As cheap as face decks are, I try to avoid them, but I like the aggro decks that focus on early board control like zoo and aggro paladin. That being said, I enjoy playing midrange-ish and tribal decks the most. I will definitely use those decks or variations of them at least for my own lists. You mentioned needing more info about the cards I have, but I don't think I can really show you what I have. I used to use HearthHead and that had that built in, where you could record your card collection, and that was handy, but I'm pretty sure that you can't see other people's collections.
You could always type "epic" in the filter and then write here what comes up.
You should also overcome your aversion to face decks. Face Hunter is a very good practice deck. It teaches you to minimize trading and removal to the absolutely necessary and calculate your road to lethal early (and your opponents!). These are essential skills for any deck. The whole "huntard" BS is just Internet idiocy.
Apart from that, don't be shy about building your own decks. You don't need to reinvent from scratch. Just learn to analyze the decks you find and how to optimize them based on your playing style and the cards you have. Forget about "the meta" - at low ranks, you can face pretty much anything, one day it's 5 priests in a row and the next it's all murloc Shaman.
Hey, this is my first thread, so I apologize for any rules I accidentally break.
I am a sort of new player, and have been playing on and off for about 6 months, but now that TGT and some new card changes are about, I'm excited to start playing more. However, I've run into a problem with my decks: I don't know if what I'm using is good enough. I am not very good at making my own decks, so I rely on netdecking. I like to read the entire guide though, so that I'm not just brainlessly copying cards from a list. I would eventually like to make my own decks, but for now I just want experience from what other people suggest using until then. I own both Naxx/BRM, most of the significant rares/commons, a handful of the core epics, but I don't have any legendary cards beside The Black Knight and expansion freebies. What I'm asking for is someone to help compile some budget decks for each class, and if possible, updated for the post-TGT meta. I've tried my hand at decks from Sheng, WingsofWax, and some random Icy Vein's decks but most of them don't really cut it because they aren't being updated to accommodate the decks being played right now or the cards I have right now. Anything that you can contribute does help a lot!
Thanks,
JJ0823
sm0rc
You heathen! I will never go face! It still hurts me to play Aggro Paladin, but I don't mind it as much since it's more zoo-like than face hunter.
I got to Legend with F2P Tempo/Enrage Warrior last season.
Rempo Mage is quite strong if you have BRM.
And then the various SMOrc decks
Thanks for both of your inputs! Mech warrior sounds like a lot of fun. I don't have Fel Reaver yet but I will work on crafting it eventually. As cheap as face decks are, I try to avoid them, but I like the aggro decks that focus on early board control like zoo and aggro paladin. That being said, I enjoy playing midrange-ish and tribal decks the most. I will definitely use those decks or variations of them at least for my own lists. You mentioned needing more info about the cards I have, but I don't think I can really show you what I have. I used to use HearthHead and that had that built in, where you could record your card collection, and that was handy, but I'm pretty sure that you can't see other people's collections.
Thanks for the help, again!
You could always type "epic" in the filter and then write here what comes up.
You should also overcome your aversion to face decks. Face Hunter is a very good practice deck. It teaches you to minimize trading and removal to the absolutely necessary and calculate your road to lethal early (and your opponents!). These are essential skills for any deck. The whole "huntard" BS is just Internet idiocy.
Apart from that, don't be shy about building your own decks. You don't need to reinvent from scratch. Just learn to analyze the decks you find and how to optimize them based on your playing style and the cards you have. Forget about "the meta" - at low ranks, you can face pretty much anything, one day it's 5 priests in a row and the next it's all murloc Shaman.
Yeah, I guess you're right, I was just following the whole 'huntard' hate train. I still feel guilty for Huffer into double Kill Command though
I'll try and come up with some of my cards when I have extra free time, I'm getting swamped with work right now, haha.
With the inclusion of the Innkeeper utility, I am deleting my previous post as my collection is now public.