Cheap/Easy way to beat Lich King
- Last updated Apr 27, 2018 (Witchwood)
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- 29 Minions
- 1 Spell
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Lich King
- Crafting Cost: 1080
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/12/2017 (Kobolds Patch)
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A 1-cost minion deck. Yup, it just consists on that. Let me explain:
How does this work?
The most important card of the deck is Unstable Evolution. Using it on a 1-cost minion lets you have a 2/158 chance of getting either Sorcerer's Apprentice or Radiant Elemental (that means a 1.27% chance of getting them if i am not mistaken). This means you can use Unstable Evolution as many times as you want, transforming a board of 1-cost minions to a 10-cost minions in a turn, meaning, pretty much, an easy victory in 2 turns.
What do I need to craft?
Basically the only card you actually NEED in this deck is a single copy of Unstable Evolution . Its true that it is pretty expensive for new players, since it is an epic and that means 400 dust, but I recommend to craft if you haven't gotten the card already, since it is fun to play against other players too.
The rest of the deck are just one-cost minion and you don't need specific ones, althought I personally recommend Feral Gibberer since it gives you many cards. Just don't use Air Elemental since you won't be able to target it.
If you have gotten less than 29 1-cost cards, you can fill your deck with 0-cost minions or spells, you should have a few by just opening free decks. Just use as less 2mana cards as possible.
With this, we can pretty much start this quest of defeating the Lich king with just 1-cost minion and spells. What a way to lose.
With which cards should I start the game?
In our starting hand, we should ALWAYS have a Unstable Evolution, so Mulligan for it. If we don't get it, reset until you do. Once you get it, you can start throwing minions at your opponent. Feral Gibberer, per example, is a good card to start with, but actually, the most important thing is that you keep cards like Elven Archer so you can destroy their minions without trading with your own cards. The Lich King will start with Necrotic Plague, so he will lose turn 1 unless he also uses the coin which will use to play either Glacial Shard or Skeletal Knight
I can only recommend to you to trade as less as possible since the goal is to get as many 1-cost minions on board as possible. remember that Totems summoned with your Hero Power also are 1-cost minions, so you can use them if you don't have enough in board.
When should I start using Unstable Evolution?
My personal opinion is that the best way to play this card is in turn 5, where you will probably have 5 minions on board, or even more. You can try earlier if you feel lucky, so go ahead!
Now that we`re here, use UE (go face first) and try to get one of those, If you don't, restart.
After many tries, i've got it!
Nice! Now you just need to evolve the rest of the minions until you're satisfied of what they are. Remember that the less they can be are 8/8 Sea Giants, so if even in turn 10 you get a a weak minion like Yo'gg Saron or C'Thun, you can evolve it again so you can get a pretty consistent one. If you still have mana and minions on hand, you can use and evolve them until they are as strong as the others. With this, you should easily win the lich king, even after turn 7 ( when he will equip Frostmourne).
Are there any bad cards while evolving?
EDIT: As said in the comments section, cards like Wild Pyromancer can make a threat for our strategy, so I will put them on a list of possible threats:
POSSIBLE THREATS.
- Faerie Dragon
- Spectral Knight
- Arcane Nullifier X-21
- Bearshark
- Soggoth, the Slitherer (Just a bit).
- Wild Pyromancer
- Nerubian Unraveler
- Naga Sea Witch
...the list goes on...
With this, it should be enough to win the Lich King as shaman. You can put any questions on the comments, and pray they don't nerf this fun way to defeat a hard boss.
Also, here you have a video testing this strategy.
It took me 143 tries
Shouldn't you include a bunch of 0 drops to make it quicker/easier to fill the board on the turn you try to roll a radiant/apprentice? Worst case if you fail to get either you can restart the mission a turn or two earlier.
why only 1 copy of UE?
Took me like 30 tries, but eventually the combo lined up and it worked.
FIRST TRY <3 Thanks!
Holy sheet. After many many "play murlocs lul " decks, this deck got me Arthas. Took ~5 tries, added Evolve. Thank you thank you thank you!
Thanks for the deck, got it done pretty quickly ( like maybe 7th try with the Unstable Evolution ).. Got Arthas now :)
after 5 billion trys I finally got it haha thank you! :D
I finally gave up with this deck and filled my deck with murlocs. Beated him in my 8 try.
Just want to share my experience. After 50+ times, I finally got Sorcerer's Apprentice and evolved my other minions. I evolved the 1st one to Gahz'rilla and I said to myself "at last I'll finish this expansion". Now here comes the best part, I tried evolving the 2nd minion and when it got to 8 mana I fucking got Naga Sea Witch . FUCKING NAGA SEA WITCH!! In case you didn't know it's effect, it makes all your cards cost 5 mana including my 0 mana unstable evolution.I fucking lost all hope and wanted to sleep and take a break but I still tried to win with my Gahz'rilla which is impossible because of Frostmourne's immunity effect.
TLDR; Aside from wild pyromancer. NAGA SEA WITCH will also ruin your evolve combo. If you ever got lucky with pulling SA in the UE , be careful when trying to evolve a minion to 8+ mana minion. If you are not feeling lucky then just be satisfied with a solid 7 mana minion.
EDIT: Just saw the other comments and the chances of this exact situation playing out is pretty common and another card to watch is nerubian unraveller
Stupid nub question Why don't you put RE or SA in your deck?
I'm thinking it might have something to do with the single attempt I made at this mission with my Sindragosa deck & he dropped a 100 shield really early. Does the value of your deck trigger that?
Because this is a Shaman deck.
More than 250 tries...
But in the end it worked.
Thanks for the deck. Took me a couple of tries (~50), but I got it. Was even able to pick up a couple of Fireballs from Archmage Antonidas while evolving ;-)
Took some tries (I think close to 100, but most were reset after starting hand) but I finally did it. Thanks for the deck.
Lol I got Sorcerer's Apprentice + Flamewaker so I OTKd the Lich King on turn 5 :D
thx, after 3-4 hours of restarting i finally did it
so far I'm about 4 hours in and still haven't gotten the apprentice. -_-
Thank you so much for the idea!!!! I changed up your deck alittle, I was thinking if I could atleast discover Radiant Elemental around turn 4 or 5 depending on which cards I drew.This is the luckiest Ive ever been playing this damn RNG game. I got it first try... and this was like the hearthstone lottery for me lol. I killed him by turn 4 and here is the deck and the PLAY BY PLAY link: https://hsreplay.net/replay/msRKTmhpLuw2gxi6QZFwG8
STAY TIL THE END, THIS IS A MUST WATCH... if you hate the Lich King fight as much as I do youll love what happens at the end.
### lk (v1.0)
# Class: Shaman
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
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# 2x (1) Argent Squire
# 2x (1) Elven Archer
# 1x (1) Evolve
# 2x (1) Fire Fly
# 2x (1) Glacial Shard
# 2x (1) Mistress of Mixtures
# 2x (1) Runic Egg
# 2x (1) Stonetusk Boar
# 2x (1) Unstable Evolution
# 2x (1) Voodoo Doctor
# 2x (1) Wax Elemental
# 2x (1) Wretched Tiller
# 2x (2) Fire Plume Harbinger
# 2x (2) Murmuring Elemental
# 1x (4) Call in the Finishers
# 2x (5) Servant of Kalimos
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
# Generated by HDT - https://hsdecktracker
i took me ages to make it with unstable Unstable Evolution, but it was so satisfying to kill the Lich King with the combo. Pretty fun deck mate, thumbs up ! :)
These is a little collection of every deck ive defeated the Lich King with:
https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1041027-the-frozen-throne-beat-arthas-3-decks-each-class