Arch-Thief Rafaam Boss Guide
Welcome to our Arch-Thief Rafaam boss guide for the League of Explorers adventure. Below you can find more information on this fight including tips to fight against the boss, successful deck lists, and the rewards!
Table of Contents
Boss Overview
Arch-Thief Rafaam is the third boss in the Hall of Explorers wing of the The League of Explorers adventure.
That jerk who's been taunting us this whole time? That's this dude. He has a hero power which works just like Unstable Portal, costing the same 2 mana on Normal, or 0 on Heroic. His special card, Boneraptor, steals your weapon.
Hilariously, if you read into the dialog for this fight in the client.. he appears to steal your deck. Time to build the shittiest deck ever?
Dialog Lines:
- I like your deck. I think I will take it!
- Oh yes this hand of cards is incredible!
- Is this deck ALL golden? Your collection rivals my own!
- Magma Rager? Why would you play this card?
- Perhaps I have made a mistake taking your deck.
- Your deck is amazing! Ahahahaha!
- Your deck is garbage, time to use my own.
Cards related to this encounter:
- Normal Hero Power: Unstable Portal
- Normal: Boneraptor
- Heroic Hero Power: Unstable Portal
- Heroic: Boneraptor
Pro Tips and Strategy
- Rafaam steals your deck! Play something crappy! The deck you get from Elise has a Rare Spear, so give him tons of rare cards!
Winning Deck Lists
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Minion (26)
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Ability (2) |
Weapon (2)
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Rewards
Defeating Arch-Thief Rafaam for the first time will reward you with cards!
Once the regular version of the card(s) is unlocked, you can craft the golden versions.
The League of Explorers Bosses
We've got boss guides for all the other The League of Explorers bosses! Click on their portraits below to learn more about their fights.
- Temple of Orsis - Wing 1
- Uldaman - Wing 2
- The Ruined City - Wing 3
- Hall of Explorers - Wing 4
I made a deck full of spell cards that only worked on beasts, then I didn't put any beasts in the deck. I was hoping he'd fill up his hand and start burning his own cards, but he popped a beast out. Once that was dead it was easy. There was nothing for him to do.
Finally went back and decided to run through these today since the new expansion just came out - here's the Mage list I used for this boss (tl;dr - he nearly died to fatigue before I killed him on turn 9 with a buffed up Rare Spear):
### Custom Mage
# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (1) Angry Chicken
# 2x (1) Runic Egg
# 1x (1) Small-Time Buccaneer
# 2x (2) Ancient Watcher
# 2x (2) Loot Hoarder
# 2x (2) Novice Engineer
# 2x (2) Research Project
# 2x (2) Spirit of the Dragonhawk
# 2x (3) Arcane Intellect
# 2x (3) Arcane Watcher
# 2x (3) Coldlight Oracle
# 2x (3) Coliseum Manager
# 2x (3) Humongous Razorleaf
# 2x (4) Arena Treasure Chest
# 2x (4) Eerie Statue
# 1x (6) Aluneth
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
try give him gen graymane on heroic
I just try it. Works well!
### Разбойник
# Класс: Разбойник
# Формат: Вольный
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# 2x (0) Подготовка
# 1x (1) Подземные пещеры
# 2x (1) Смертоносный яд
# 2x (2) Вестник рока
# 2x (2) Древний дозорный
# 2x (2) Похищающий жизнь яд
# 2x (3) Вайш'ирский оракул
# 2x (3) Исполинский бритволист
# 2x (3) Мимикрия
# 2x (3) Отравленное оружие
# 2x (4) Зловещая статуя
# 1x (4) Шквал клинков
# 2x (6) Исчезновение
# 2x (6) Скорополоховый чай
# 2x (7) Спринт
# 2x (9) Драконозаводчик
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Very Easy, got him first try.
Thanks for this Deck :)
"I like your deck, i think i will TAKE IT!!!"
Several months later
"My master will return!!!"
Any chance you would consider updating the guides?
I got into the game at Gadgetzan, and there are some of the cards in many of the decks I am not able to get because of that.
Pretty sure others feel the same, so would be nice if this could be done with standard decks from S35+
Unlicensed Apothecary is fun against this guy. Takes half his HP before he realizes he needs to stop.
I don't know why, but my deck held a Youthful Brewmaster. Rafaam steals the deck of course. He plays it on the board AND summons a second one using Unstable Portal on the same turn. The new Brewmaster sends the first one back into the hand. On the next turn, the Brewmaster comes back out and send the other back in.
Cycle. Loop. Rafaam drains his mana 4 turns following this loop. Hilarious. I was actually having a hard time until this happened. This was my 3rd try.
Lesson: Rafaam is not effective at using complex cards like Youthful Brewmaster.
I can't beat this guy, just started recently and don't have that many cards, but I really can't create anything with what I do have thay can kill him..
Lost 15++ times now..
so this guy is pretty easy, and obviously you shouldnt have trouble killing him, but this is the one i came up with, thought it was pretty funny, it probably has a near 100% winrate, because his hero power shuts down around T3 or 4.
This is brilliant. I wish i had thought of this. Worked heroic first try without breaking a sweat. Hilarious too!! He fatigued so quickly and never even really had a play. Easiest heroic LOE boss so far with this deck!
+1
I completely forgot about the Rare Spear after coming back to this for the Heroic Challenge and didn't include a lot of rares. Anyways. once I figured that out it was relatively painless. Here's the list (and there's a write up ob the deck page):
Shaman might be better because Vitality Totem is pretty useless.
He got shifting shade from portal into acidic swamp ooze then destroyed my rare spear still killed him
not too hard to get the cardback, just alot of RNG
first try,great thx
Can't beat this guy!
TOO SOON !!