Hearthpwn

Dear all,

Here is 6th deck that I proposed so far to defeat LoE bosses in heroic mode. Scarvash was defeated quite easily during my second try.

Note the decks I propose are built  under these constraints :

• No old cards:
  • No Naxxramas, no GvG (I did not play Hearthstone at this time)
• Avoid wild cards (except of course those earned by this adventure)
  • Here we have only 4 wild cards
• Design deck as low cost as possible:
  • Here we have a single legendary card: Baku the Mooneater
  • Fortunately, many of you have probably already crafted it ;-)

Overview of the boss

As you guess, against heroic boss, the design of the deck is critical. Choosing the appropriate class and deck style is not straightforward. The key is to analyze the strengths of the boss and find solution to counter them.

There is three main difficulties with this boss:

• Problem 1: Scarvash benefits of a strong starting board: the most difficult part of this fight is to get the board control. It is not so easy because his starting creature are strong, so playing spell is the only way to do it. It means that his first turns will deal you massive damages.
  
  
• Problem 2: Most of his creatures are buffed by your spell: it prevents to play to many early spell because otherwise his board become two strong and you die fast.
  
  
• Problem 3: His passive is blocking: Every odd turns, your minions are very expensive. Every even turns, your spell are very expensive. This has two major bad consequences. First, it hardens the design of the deck. Second, depending on the turn number, you have many dead cards in hand.

For more information about this boss, I refer you to this well documented deck.

Design of this deck

Let see how this deck answers to the problems evoked in the previous section.

• Problem 1:  this deck includes early spells to contains his first minions, and many taunt and healing cards to defend. Depending on the number of opponent minions, count whether it is worth in terms of damage to play your spells.
  
  
• Problem 2:  we have two core cards to get the board:
  • Mind Control Tech steals one of his minion and so balance the battle
  • Several spells allowing to clear the board (especially Volcano).  If you clear his board, you will basically summon minions as fast as Scarvash. But our synergies are better.
• Problem 3: to minimize the Scarvash's passive, I decided to build a Baku the Mooneater. Hence I have every turn a good manner to spend two mana. By playing it :
  • You choose which totem you want : no more bad surprise, you can choose the best totem
  • As a consequence, you can easily create several totems of the same types. For instance you can play many taunt totem to defend, many health totem to heal more efficiently, or many magic totem to improve your spells. This flexibility is needed to win the match and so Baku the Mooneater is mandatory in this deck.

The winning strategy

Mulligan

 Possible modification / improvements

Do not hesitate to modify / improve the deck depending on your collection, and to share your ideas!

• Playing 2 Earth Elemental should mprove this decklist (but I've only one)
• I am wondering if playing Evolve, Doppelgangster, Thrall, Deathseer could be a good idea. It is odd, but it assumes that your Doppelgangster are alive when you plays Thrall, Deathseer. 

Good luck!