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Allow me to introduce myself. My name is Gunnolf, and I am originally from the Land Down Under a.k.a. Australia. I am an avid gamer that has acquired a real passion for card games, which originated from my humble beginnings as a Yu-Gi-Oh collector and eventually grew from my dabbling in Cardfight Vanguard and Buddyfight, until we reached the game we know as Hearthstone.

I've played Hearthstone since the days of classic, with multiple accounts on both EU and NA servers. Despite having reached the Rank of Legend and my own personal mentality of equating 'having fun' with 'winning', I am not really a fan of meta power-grinding & net-decking, not that there is anything wrong with that. Therefore, I enjoy thinking about new, cool and fun deck ideas that push boundaries while also allowing you to win and those are what I want to share with you guys every-time I post a decklist.

I have presently become a contributing writer to WILDHS and will be posting articles there on a semi-regular basis, regarding deck-archetypes the status of the meta as well as how to get the most fun out of this game even if you aren't a big spender. If any of this sounds interesting, then I highly recommend that you check out of the website, as the writers and the owner himself are some of the nicest people you'll ever meet with great in-game knowledge (link to be website can be found HERE). You can also follow me on Twitter for latest updates.

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Deck Introduction

Hello wilders and welcome back. Today I have an interesting deck for you. Given the recent explosion in popularity of the Malygos Druid archetype, I thought we could revisit its old competition, namely C'Thun Druid. For the longest time these two decks would compete over the top spot. However, given that the latter cannot run the Oaken Summons package and as a result is generally slower, it seems to have officially been cast aside as a competitive option. Nonetheless, it still continues to be viable with the addition of new cards and since everyone owns C'Thun it is a much cheaper deck to craft.

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The Combo

C'Thun Druid is known for its immense amount of burst potential. Typically, even 100 health has traditionally not been enough to withstand the combo itself. Just a 10/10 C'Thun is capable of dealing 60 damage with the right combination. With the decklist at hand it is possible to deal a whopping absolute maximum 204 damage (although it is very unlikely to ever get that high in an actual game). There is also the potential to push the damage even higher if you include a Youthful Brewmaster as well.

The combo works as follows: Aviana -> Kun the Forgotten King -> Brann Bronzebeard -> C'Thun -> Zola the Gorgon (on C'Thun) -> C'Thun x2. It should be noted for the sake of inclusion, that buffing your C'thun with the included c'thun buffing minions is paramount to the damage output potential of the final combo.

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Card Choices & Deck-Building Explained

In this section, I will explain some of the card choices I opted for and the reasoning as to why they were included over potential counter-parts. 

a) Zola the Gorgon: It's a two in one Youthful Brewmaster card with Brann Bronzebeard that also allows you to create a bigger board with multiple C'Thuns.

b) Innervate: This slot used to be taken up by Arcane Tyrant. However, because of the nerf to Aviana, this card is now mandatory to pull off the combo. The primary function of being hand-dumping card can be used for 1/2 but the latter is just a combo piece now.

 (At the present time, only a few cards have been listed but I will include more if questions pop-up within the comments section regarding substitutions and why other cards were included.)

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Free to Play (F2P) Inclusion Options

Not everyone may have Zola the Gorgon and as such, I thought it would be prudent to suggest some alternate options that are considerably cheaper. Do keep in mind that while these alterations do make the deck weaker, it can still function appropriately.

-1x Zola the Gorgon & -1x Poison Seeds / +2x Youthful Brewmaster

Furthermore to the above, it is also possible to cut a single Ultimate Infestation for the sake of including a Coldlight Oracle. During your combo turn, if you still haven't drawn your C'Thun or Zola the Gorgon, the card can act as a 1 mana draw 4 cards engine. Just something to consider.

Note: That if you want to be even greedier with your damage output, you can run x1 Youthful Brewmaster over the second Poison Seeds.

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Thoroughbred OTK Build

With the Witchwood expansion you can potentially build the deck with a lot fewer minions and just aim to go for a quicker OTK strategy. You lose A LOT of damage in the process but the deck is faster and technically more consistent. To pull off this OTK you remove the majority of the C'thun Buffers and just stick with Dark Arakkoa while inserting more removal and draw options. In the end, the deck looks like this:

-2x Beckoner of Evil | +2x Lesser Jasper Spellstone
-2x Disciple of C'Thun | +2x Ferocious Howl
-2x Arcane Tyrant | +2x Witchwood Piper
-1x Poison Seeds | +1x Hemet, Jungle Hunter

(On a final note, Hemet is entirely optional and not really needed to be honest. But other than that, this is the alternate way to build the list. Enjoy! ^^)

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Want to Get to Legend?

As stated above, while C'thun Combo Druid might not be the best for ascending the ladder in your attempt to get to Legend, its sibling Malygos OTK Druid more than definitely is. So if you have the cards to try it out, then jump on the hype train and combo yourself all the way to those golden ranks.

[LEGEND] Gunnolf's Wild Malygos Druid ft. Multiple Builds Malygos Druid Deck by Gunnolf - Aug 30, 2017 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (5) 1x Alexstrasza 1x Aviana 1x Jepetto Joybuzz 1x Kun the Forgotten King 1x Malygos	Ability (24) 2x Branching Paths 2x Ultimate Infestation 2x Innervate 1x Lesser Jasper Spellstone 2x Nourish 2x Spreading Plague 2x Biology Project 2x Ferocious Howl 2x Living Roots 1x Poison Seeds 2x Wrath 2x Moonfire 2x Swipe	Playable Hero (1) 1x Malfurion the Pestilent
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Author's Notes

I enjoy deck-building a multitude of interesting decks that are both entertaining and Legend viable (with some odd Free-to-Play lists mixed in). So if you like this deck (or anyone of my other ones) consider leaving a thumbs up, as it really helps in the long run! :)

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