Blizzard's Off-Meta Deck Spotlight - Late September 2018 [Shaman, Warlock, Priest]
Once again, Blizzard has posted three Legend decks with above average win rates that you should give a go!
[63.5% WR] Legend Even Control Shaman
This Even Shaman deck bucks the trend of past builds by playing more spells and high-cost minions to win in the late game. The cheaper Hero Power allows you to consistently create totems and keep a board presence with minions who support your efforts. Such as building towards cheaper Sea Giants or the Spell Damage totem which turns spells like Beakered Lightning and Zap! into powerful removal. This is paired with cards like Earthen Might, Elementary Reaction and Hagatha the Witch to help provide constant options and threats throughout your match.
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[62.3% WR] Legend Howlfiend Control Warlock
At first glance, this appears to be just your standard Warlock Control Deck. Packing tons of healing, Taunt and removal, it has all the ingredients to take you to the late game and run down your opponents until Bloodreaver Gul’dan comes in to end it. However, your opponent’s battlefield isn’t the only thing at risk. Using Treachery, to give your opponent Howlfiend, you are able to disrupt your opponent’s hand, all while Rin, the First Disciple, provides the cards needed to “seal” the deal. Upon playing The Final Seal, you can summon Azari, the Devourer and destroy your opponent’s deck!
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[63.2% WR] Legend Clone Priest
Our last deck to be featured is a Priest Combo build. Containing only a limited number of minions, this deck is built to consistently get great results from Zerek’s Cloning Gallery. With Malygos and Prophet Velen on hand to improve the output of your spells and Radiant Elemental to lower their costs, you may even win on the same turn you cast Zerek’s Cloning Gallery! This deck can struggle early as it builds to 9 mana, but options such as Gilded Gargoyle can help to overcome these challenges while providing The Coin for an extra mana boost.
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60+% winrate on rank 25 i guess.
I saw Asmodai reach rank 1 legend with the priest's deck from savj's yesterday. he play it since a savj create it :)
The coin is needed for plays like cloning gallery+mind blast or spell stone + smite+smite+mindblast.
Also good for charging the spellstone.
I wonder how/where they pick those winrates. Any 50%+ WR should be a tier 1 deck.
"To find these decks, we looked for players that have been doing well, and picked out some builds from amongst the top performers. We only selected decks that were played in 50 or more games at Legend level."
Genuine Win-Rates from 50+ Legend games, from Blizzard's internal data - but bear in mind they may not work at lower ranks, and part of why they might be doing well could be as they are unexpected as they are not very common decks, if they become popular the win-rate could come down a lot as the meta shifts to counter them
I've run my own version of Howlfiend/Treachery, but will try this one.
It does very poorly against hyper aggro, tempo mage and hunters, but does great against combo decks, control decks and shaman.
I love the Howl/Treach combo. It's SO satisfying when you wreck an opponent's combo with it. Even with the inherent risk involved, I prefer a deck list that includes Skull of Man'ari.
How the hell is that even shaman an off meta deck?? It only has something like 3 cards different from the even shamans that have been sitting at tier 1 on HSReplay for months. No true control deck runs Flametongue Totem and Sea Giant, Blizzard
If I put a pair of Shrink Rays in my standard odd paladin deck, can I submit it as an "Odd control paladin" for the next off meta spotlight?
I call BS on these win rates, especially the clone priest which I've seen many times on stream.
Is it worth making priest deck without Zerek's Cloning Gallery?
Clone Priest, no Zerek, Master Cloner ;(
Sadly, it's pretty weak :(
I opened a golden copy
Great artwork, amazing voice acting, most interesting character out of all the mad scientists
I don't care for such things normally but this card being unplayable breaks my heart :(
Yeah I have it golden too and wish I could play it. The silver lining with Zerek is that I think he's potentially an expansion away from being playable. If the next expansion introduces some good spells to cast on him (and maybe a decent priest taunt to protect him) then that might put him over the hump.
This is one of those cards that needs a tweak to either mana or stats to buff it and make it playable, like so many other cool cards, but of course they'll never do it. They'll just let it die. :(
He's fun to run in a Big Priest / Res style deck. He can get out of control behind some Obsidian Statues.
Before you start to feel too bad about your luck, let me tell you that I opened a golden Dr. Morrigan.....
Lol, same here. Join the club. Golden Morrigan, most worthless card ever. This card needs a stat boost or lower its cost down to 3 mana
I'd be hard pressed to call that even shaman a control deck.. not saying it's bad, I love even shaman, and this version looks good, but control?
yeah I think that would be a midrange deck. It does have more control tools and is less aggressive than other even shamans though. I'll probably try it out. I really love the thunderhead/zap combo.
No self respecting control deck excludes Lich King