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Heroic Grand Widow Faerlina - Warlock's egg deck

  • Last updated Dec 30, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)
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  • 20 Minions
  • 10 Spells
  • Deck Type: PvE Adventure
  • Deck Archetype: Zoolock
  • Boss: Grand Widow Faerlina
  • Crafting Cost: 1120
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 4/28/2018 (Witchwood)
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Heroic Grand Widow Faerlina - Warlock's egg deck

Consistency: Reliable (expected number of tries 1-3)

Introduction:

Faerlina's Hero Power kind of forces you to play a cheap aggressive deck. And zoo-style token decks do pretty well against her as long as she does not draw Hellfire, which basically destroys these decks on the spot. So when making a deck, you can either ignore the Hellfire part completely and just go all in. Or you can try to create a deck which is resistant to AoE. I decided to take the second approach (which looks more consistent to me) and created this egg deck. Warlock was a pretty obvious choice for this deck, because he has so many ways to crack his own eggs. Also his Hero Power allows him to safely keep his hand empty.

General strategy:

This is a sticky slower variation of a zoo deck, which mostly uses deathrattles and imp generators to establish board presence. It does not have a high-tempo start of traditional zoo, but with cost efficient minions and spells it is able to fight back quite well. Faerlina tends to run out of cards really quick, so if you survived to this point and still have a bit of health left, you will probably win.

Deck composition:

Eggs counter both Hellfire and her Hero Power, although the deck loses a bit of tempo as a trade off. Also eggs have great synergy with Dark Pact and Power Overwhelming.

Soulfires, Shadow Bolts, PO and sometimes Imp-losions are your tools for removing Worshippers and other 4-health minions (and Faerlina has A LOT of them).

Imp Gang Boss is yet another minion, which prevents her from using Rain of Fire. Darkshire Councilman and Doomguard are used to get the board at the later stage of the game.

Mulligan:

Soulfire, Power Overwhelming, Dragon Egg, Nerubian Egg, Voidwalker, Haunted Creeper, Imp Gang Boss. Also Malchezaar's Imp, if you have Soulfire. Basically mulligan for cheap removals and good 1-2-3 drops. Faerlina is less aggressive, than some of other bosses, which gives you time to invest some egg-value into the board for later use.

Tactic tips:

Remove her Worshippers immediately. They are super-dangerous and Faerlina has a lot of them. It is almost like she has a free creature removal every time she has a worshipper on the board.

Always try to keep an uncracked egg on the board. Quite often it is more valuable, than a creature it produces as Faerlina will almost never use her Hero Power and Hellfire while there is an egg on the board.

Use Necroknight's deathrattle for your advantage. Sometimes you may want to setup the board properly (like cracking her Nerubian Egg) to get the most value from Necroknight's death.

Consistency notes:

This deck does its job. I believe its winrate is at least 50%. Maybe even better. Faerlina is not the hardest boss out there, so you will find a lot of functional decks on the Internet. I don't pretend, that this one is the best deck ever created, but it certainly is good enough to satisfy your thirst for Faerlina's blood.

 

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Provided win rates are approximate. They are based on my tests and so partially depend on how lucky/unlucky I was during my testing. Also keep in mind, that you need a bit of experience with a deck to use it to its full potential. So first attempts usually have lower win rates, than suggested in this list.