Pillagers & Zombies (Spectral Pillager OTK)
- Last updated Dec 2, 2018 (Boomsday)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 7 Spells
- 1 Weapon
- Deck Type: None
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 10380
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 2/11/2018 (Patches Nerf)
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As of this latest Boomsday patch Sonya & Mechwarper now have been restored to their original pre-April 16th interaction and produce 0 mana Scorp-o-matics again! Rejoice! Thank you Blizzard for fixing and restoring the original interaction! #bro/sisfist!
Hi everyone, today I am showing my take on the Spectral Pillager Scorp-o-matic OTK. First off, this is a fun meme deck, not a ladder deck, so keep that in mind. This is one of the combos I find takes more games played in order to pull it off. As you can tell I have built it partially around N'Zoth not only because I have a love for the old god, but also so that I am not completely centered only around the OTK itself so that you can have an unexpected ace card if your opponent is only expecting to be OTKed in some way.
If you are not familiar with the general concept behind the otk (there are a few different slight variations of how to use it) and here is the rundown of my implementation of it down below.
- First, have Valeera, the Hollow already active.
- Have Emperor Thaurissan and Drakkari Enchanter discount at least 6 mana off of your combo of Sonya, Mechwarper, Scorp-O-Matics, Spectral Pillager and/or Shadow Strike (The combo costs a total of 16 mana so you only need enough pieces in hand to take 6 of that off. The entire list of cards do not need to be in hand when you drop your mana discounts).
- Play Sonya Shadowdancer
- Play Mechwarper
- Play first Scorp-o-matic
- Play second Scorp-o-matic (tagetting the first Scorp-o-matic)
- Play a third Scorp-o-matic via Valeera the Hollow's Shadow Reflection effect to eat your previous scorpion. (While you can technically just copy a 2nd Mechwarper and keep your cannibalistic scorpion going with just 2 scorpions it is faster creating a 3rd scorpion and rake up a higher card count for your Pillagers.)
- Continue playing the 0 mana Scorpo-O-Matic minions you get added to your hand from Sonya and continue destroying your own mechs. Note, this part must be fast because this is where you will get the bulk of of the build-up for your Spectral Pillager damage.
- Play Spectral Pillager on opponent's face. If you are fast you will generally have racked up around 23ish damage with her combo effect.
- Cast Shadow Strike on your Pillager.
- Play Spectral Pillager (as a 1 mana 1/1 due to Sonya) for another 20+ damage to your opponent's face (This last part is important since you generally are not going to reach 30+ damage with the first Pillager).
Outlasting the king of grind. Shouldn't have used that Reckless Fury xD
***Mulligan Guide***
Mulligan for your early game for pretty much any match-up. You don't want your hand clogged full of combo pieces early on since you won't have any plays and with the amount of card draw in the deck it can make it awkward for when you have to Valeera due to the risk of burning your cards.
Against aggressive decks: Typically mulligan for Backstab, Plated Beetle, Shadowblade, Mistress of Mixtures and/or Tar Creeper.
Against control/combo decks: Typically mulligan for Elven Minstrel (If you have the coin, Shadowblade, Plated Beetle and/or Loot Hoarder.
Always toss away combo pieces and mostly anything more than 4 mana. This is especially true of your DK anyway since using her too early in the game can easily lead to game-throwing card burns due to not being able to empty your hand fast enough with the mana you have and large amount of cycling in the deck.
Hard/Easy Match-ups:
Since this is a meme deck I won't go into too much detail here, but here are some general overviews about some of the match-ups
Hard
- Burn Mage, Kingsbane Rogue, regular Mill Rogue, Aggro Shaman, Midrange/Evolve Shaman, Cubelock, & Shudderwock Shaman.
Easy
- Control Priest (or any slow priest build) <---------- Your best match-up, standard Control Mage, Big Spell Mage, Dead Man's Hand Warrior.
Never feel pinned down to the combo for your win condition against aggressive decks. Sometimes you have those gems where you barely manage to outlast them and pull the combo off, but other times you pull off wins by comboing heal combos with things like Sonya & Healbot or Sonya & Applebaum, grinding the aggressive decks out of resources.
Versus an aggressive Mech Pally, winning with combo.
Versus the elusive post-nerf Pirate Warrior. Grinding them out of resources
Versus an Odd Face Hunter
Take the deck into casual or ranked
Bear in mind this deck is 100% meme-approved so it is by far not the ideal ladder deck by no means, but it is pretty satisfying when you do pull of some wins in ranked play!
Rank 20, vs golden Control Warlock
Taking Jade Druid to meme town! Wild rank 10
Updates (12/1/18):
-1x Infested Tauren
+1x Walk the Plank
I honestly feels this card has promise considering the abysmal lack of single target hard removal in rogue (outside of slayer). The reason I'll be trying this out over something like spellstone is that in the mid game it is less expensive, it isn't random, and on turn five we often want to be playing a minion. Although arguably spellstone is better than this card in the long term with Valeera value.
Guide Updates (11/4/18)
Added some cool deck highlight pictures I've had sitting around for a while. Looking forward to RR to see what if any updates I might make to the deck & guide. Stay tuned!
So, uhm, what's your opinion on the RoS set? Do you feel like adding new cards and replacing old ones (Waggle Pick instead of Shadowblade)? I would understand if you prefer the 3/2 weapon, because it allows you to deal with a big minion w/o sacrificing your health, but the 4/2 Pick synergizes well with the battlecry and combo minions in your deck.
Inb4 you already know that Big Priest became super popular in wild. What do you think of ditching the Reno style and adding more duplicates (cards like Sap, Vanish and probably Fan of Knives for odd paladins)?
Just opened a second Spectral Pillager, will give this deck a whirl; thanks!
You're welcome. Let me know how it goes!
Awesome fuckin deck, mate, if u upgrade it, tell us.
I've made this deck in a Old smurf account, is bonkers...rs
As of the latest Boomsday patch Sonya's original interaction has now been restored so this deck is back once again without having to execute a bunch of other pre-combos first. Thank you Blizzard for fixing this even though it mostly just affected a small number of combos in wild, and thank you all for any reports you may have added to mine to report this issue to get it fixed!
I hope everyone can enjoy meming it up with this deck a lot easier again <3
Still no news about the Sonya & Mechwarper interaction. However, I have managed to recreate the combo if you want to check version 2.0 of the deck.
Just be warned that it is a lot harder to pull off now so it is a complete meme deck so you're going to have to work for when getting your wins :P
any news about the fix ? Thats sad it cant be played anymore
Unfortunately, not yet. I'll be sure to post if any news or responses do pop up though.
Yeah, I agree. I still don't see why the current interaction should work the way it does now, it makes no sense why cost reduction effects should not work on the sonya minion copies.
Very cool and fun Exodia style deck. Reminds me a little bit of Patron Warrior, but in a good way. Just wondering though, why do you say that you need Valeera the Hollow active to start the combo? From what I can see, you have all the cards you need in your deck and don't really need to copy them. Granted it helps if you only drew one Scorp or need to play a third Pillager (though i don't know if the shadow copy retains the Sonya discount), but i don't think it is vital to have Valeera.
However, it wouldn't be the first time I messed up combo theorizing, so let me know if I am missing something.
exodia rogue omegalul
Love it!
Gonna to try it for sure.
Awesome OTK idea , very original.