It's the enemy who needs to use the board-clears, not the Rush Warrior.
This is a Tempo deck, not a Control deck, so no board-clears except for Scourgelord, which can be used for offensive face-damage.
I haven't played HS for 4 weeks, but I guess it's time to Rank up again after the reset. I tuned this deck before Wall Priest was a thing but I'm sure there are ways to counter Wall Priest (Black Knight)...
After all, Tempo Warrior winrates are still high enough to quickly reach Rank 5+.
Keleseth doesn't allow you to add a 2 mana cards in this deck, but if you're using a Rush wood axe build, yea Battlerage could be an option, or Forge of Souls.
:( Sorry, I didn't intended to make expensive deck, it was just a deck I used to climb fast as possible with Rush Warrior.
If you have Prince Keleseth and Grommash you can pretty much play a very similar deck.
You can replace Sul'thraze with Super Collider and if none of them are an option, try it with Arcanite Reaper instead. I personally think Gorehowl is little too slow, I see Gorehowl more of a replacement of Scourgelord Garrosh.
The purpose of Sul'thraze is to pressuring your opponent, dealing 4 damage and having a minion like Kor'kron or Festering Hulk is a really bad situation for your opponent. Sul'thraze is also good as emergency health "inefficient" boardclear.
Yea... sometimes they are lucky and we are unlucky... that can happen. But the winning favor is definitely leaning towards to Rush Warrior, at least with the way how I play.
What I do is just keep pressure up and play around Mass Hysteria/Board clears, don't drop your whole hand, but also keep the pressure up high enough that he will lose if he doesn't do anything.
When I have Sul'thraze I keep using it all on the face damage (in this scenario, Super Collider isn't good weapon), and with a single Kor'kron Elite on board, the Priest has to tank a Ragnaros fireball every single turn. It usually ends up he starting to do desperate/panic moves, but I keep replenish the board with new minions, If I manage to draw Grommash it's usually guaranteed over, because I've most likely an activator in hand and a few minions on board. Even without it, all the Frothing 2x Berserkers, 2x Festering Hulks, 2x Kor'krons, Darius + Sudden Genesis usually overwhelms the Priest at one point.
But yea, if he gets Zilliax and he keeps resurrecting Zilliax... and you have kinda weak hand, it can be tough. But that's kinda the worst case scenario and nature of Hearthstone. It doesn't happen enough.
Same with Spell Hunter, 12/12 on turn 5 it just isn't that common enough, more like Turn 7-ish, and Warrior most likely wins every time it doesn't happen. And even if the Hunter pulls off big Spellstone on turn 5. You have bunch Rush minions and Spirit Rush totems to reclaim the board and play defensively.
I still stand with my initial favorable/unfavorable matchups. The only decks I really felt powerless are Taunt Warrior, Mage + Jaina.
I personally have not tried it. But I think it's possible to win games and climb to rank 5 with Rush Warrior without Keleseth, instead you have to use Woodcutter Axe and Battlerage. As long as your deck consist of similar win-conditions like Frothing Berserker, Grommash, Akali and similar heavy pressure like Kor'krons, Darius and Festeroot Hulk etc I think it's possible.
Woodcutter playstyle has a higher skill ceiling in the early game, you have to make the right choices. Meanwhile Keleseth is just "dropping it on the board and your minions in deck gets buffed", and you minions automatically overwhelm your opponent. Only way to know which one is better is by playing the Woodcutter Axe build a lot, and get the experience.
I personally think it's possible, but you need to play better to achieve similar result. I saw ThijsNL using a Rush Warrior with Woodcutter Axe in Rastakhan.
This deck did surprisingly good for me. It has from my experience no weakness besides Taunt Warrior, Even Paladin and Early Jaina, both are not the most common things, so this deck is a meta killer.
And good thing is, it only get better when nerfs are live.
Hunters, Mecha-thun decks, Odd Paladin, Zoo-lock, Priest, Odd Rogue... the Rush Warrior beats it all.
It's kinda a very expensive deck sadly, but that's seems like a tradition for Warrior class..
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Who doesn't know that?
Obviously people are talking about 6 mana, summon Mecha'thun. The remaining 4 mana is available to kill it.
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Duh, I was talking about 6 mana summon Mecha'thun, which is already better than Warrior's 9 mana summon Mecha'thun.
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Blizzard officially supporting Mecha'thun Hunter has started.
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Art team is just flexing.
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It's the enemy who needs to use the board-clears, not the Rush Warrior.
This is a Tempo deck, not a Control deck, so no board-clears except for Scourgelord, which can be used for offensive face-damage.
I haven't played HS for 4 weeks, but I guess it's time to Rank up again after the reset. I tuned this deck before Wall Priest was a thing but I'm sure there are ways to counter Wall Priest (Black Knight)...
After all, Tempo Warrior winrates are still high enough to quickly reach Rank 5+.
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Buff cards... there is nothing wrong with buffing card and making part of user's collection a bit more useful.
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WoW has achievements and it's dying.
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Even Paladin got nerfed into the ground (which I first considered as a counter to this deck), Shaman another Tempo "rival" is nerfed.
Hunter got nerfs too, but it wasn't unfavored against this Tempo Warrior. But nice nerf from Rush Warrior perspective.
In short, all the decks that tried to dominate the mid-game got nerfed, allowed Rush Warrior to remain untouched, with zoolock, odd paladin.
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Keleseth doesn't allow you to add a 2 mana cards in this deck, but if you're using a Rush wood axe build, yea Battlerage could be an option, or Forge of Souls.
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:( Sorry, I didn't intended to make expensive deck, it was just a deck I used to climb fast as possible with Rush Warrior.
If you have Prince Keleseth and Grommash you can pretty much play a very similar deck.
You can replace Sul'thraze with Super Collider and if none of them are an option, try it with Arcanite Reaper instead. I personally think Gorehowl is little too slow, I see Gorehowl more of a replacement of Scourgelord Garrosh.
The purpose of Sul'thraze is to pressuring your opponent, dealing 4 damage and having a minion like Kor'kron or Festering Hulk is a really bad situation for your opponent. Sul'thraze is also good as emergency health "inefficient" boardclear.
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Priest is imo one of the more easier match up...
Yea... sometimes they are lucky and we are unlucky... that can happen. But the winning favor is definitely leaning towards to Rush Warrior, at least with the way how I play.
What I do is just keep pressure up and play around Mass Hysteria/Board clears, don't drop your whole hand, but also keep the pressure up high enough that he will lose if he doesn't do anything.
When I have Sul'thraze I keep using it all on the face damage (in this scenario, Super Collider isn't good weapon), and with a single Kor'kron Elite on board, the Priest has to tank a Ragnaros fireball every single turn. It usually ends up he starting to do desperate/panic moves, but I keep replenish the board with new minions, If I manage to draw Grommash it's usually guaranteed over, because I've most likely an activator in hand and a few minions on board. Even without it, all the Frothing 2x Berserkers, 2x Festering Hulks, 2x Kor'krons, Darius + Sudden Genesis usually overwhelms the Priest at one point.
But yea, if he gets Zilliax and he keeps resurrecting Zilliax... and you have kinda weak hand, it can be tough. But that's kinda the worst case scenario and nature of Hearthstone. It doesn't happen enough.
Same with Spell Hunter, 12/12 on turn 5 it just isn't that common enough, more like Turn 7-ish, and Warrior most likely wins every time it doesn't happen. And even if the Hunter pulls off big Spellstone on turn 5. You have bunch Rush minions and Spirit Rush totems to reclaim the board and play defensively.
I still stand with my initial favorable/unfavorable matchups. The only decks I really felt powerless are Taunt Warrior, Mage + Jaina.
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I personally have not tried it. But I think it's possible to win games and climb to rank 5 with Rush Warrior without Keleseth, instead you have to use Woodcutter Axe and Battlerage. As long as your deck consist of similar win-conditions like Frothing Berserker, Grommash, Akali and similar heavy pressure like Kor'krons, Darius and Festeroot Hulk etc I think it's possible.
Woodcutter playstyle has a higher skill ceiling in the early game, you have to make the right choices. Meanwhile Keleseth is just "dropping it on the board and your minions in deck gets buffed", and you minions automatically overwhelm your opponent. Only way to know which one is better is by playing the Woodcutter Axe build a lot, and get the experience.
I personally think it's possible, but you need to play better to achieve similar result. I saw ThijsNL using a Rush Warrior with Woodcutter Axe in Rastakhan.
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This deck did surprisingly good for me. It has from my experience no weakness besides Taunt Warrior, Even Paladin and Early Jaina, both are not the most common things, so this deck is a meta killer.
And good thing is, it only get better when nerfs are live.
Hunters, Mecha-thun decks, Odd Paladin, Zoo-lock, Priest, Odd Rogue... the Rush Warrior beats it all.
It's kinda a very expensive deck sadly, but that's seems like a tradition for Warrior class..
I have more detailed guide on the deck-page.
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Rank 10 to rank 5 in the evening:
Rush Warrior is strong, but you need to know the muligans and match-ups.
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Rush Warrior can tech Mojomaster and it's GG...