[~70% winrate] S7 legendary Demon/Midrange warlock
- Last updated Dec 2, 2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Wild
- 27 Minions
- 3 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 6440
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 10/19/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Battle Tag:
Opeons#2937
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
422
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Stats:
4-0 Midrange Mage
1-1 Freeze mage
6-2 Miracle rogue
17-8 Hunter
10-3 Handlock
15-8 Control Warrior
11-5 Shaman
2-2 Control Paladin
10-3 Fast Druid
6-4 Zoo
5-4 Control Priest
2-1 Watcher Druid
0-2 OTK Warrior
Total: 91-43
Will update the stats as i play more
Reached 112 but forgot to take a screenshot so here is the highest ranking i took a screenshot of:
Explanation:
So, as you can see this deck has some of the key cards that are in zoo: Void Walker, Flame Imp, Undertaker etc. But unlike zoo it contains great late game like: Molten Giant, Sylvanas Windrunner, Dread Infernal and Lord Jaraxxus. The idea is to start strong, (maybe not as strong as zoo but good enough) and still have big cards to swing the game around.
Per example: This rogue here thought it was a good idea to use both his saps on a flame imp and a haunted creeper, so what happened was:
I've had these reactions multiple times and it's just amazing. But all that aside, let's continue with the deck talk.
The only board clear in the deck is Shadowflame, and i dont think more is needed since you usually use your minions to trade efficiently. Shadowflame over hellfire because you have some great targets to shadowflame: Voidcaller, Molten Giant, Sylvanas Windrunner and Jaraxxus's hero power of course. Since the opponent in the beginning usually thinks this deck is zoo, they usually use their hard removal like Shield Slam on your smaller minions, so your late game cards are safer. And with the 10 deathrattles in this deck we of course run Undertaker. Loatheb is in here to protect the board from aoe, and it's just a solid 5/5.
Guide for the hardest matchups. (Still being worked on)
Hunter:
Mulligan: Ironbeak Owl, Zombie Chow,Flame Imp, Undertaker, Haunted Creeper, Harvest Golem, Soulfire (for animal companion) and Molten Giant when you already have early game.
So, a lot of people have been struggling against hunter and that's understandable cause warlock does well against warlock in general. I always play this matchup very defensively in the early game and try to kill them as fast as possible a bit later. Example: The hunter starts strong (as usually) and you react with cards like haunted creeper, zombie chow and ironbeak owl . You always try to make efficient trades and clear the board as much as possible, Sledge belcher is a great way to stall. Once you get the turns 6-10 you fight back and become aggresive. You need to pressure with cards like molten giant, illadin stormrage and doomguard (I sometimes even play this by itself when I still have cards in hand cause hunter has a hard time dealing with it.) Once you have your board developt you play loatheb and seal the win. This won't always go smoothly of course, sometimes you just have to play defensive to survive. In that case try surviving until jaraxxus since hunter usually plays their kill commands when they have the chance so if they think they have the win cause you are at 2 hp, YOU FACE JARAXXUS
Control Warrior:
Mulligan: Zombie Chow,Flame Imp, Undertaker, Haunted Creeper, Harvest Golem, Nerubian Egg, Voidcaller and Lord Jaraxxus if you already have early game.
Another tough matchup, your early game can get destroyed by Fiery War Axe and late game can be removed efficiently by a card like Execute. So your main objective is to make them waste their removal early and let your bigger cards not die as easily. The warrior's late game will beat you, so try to end the game as quickly as possible. Voidcaller is also an important card since warrior doesn't run (many) silences, so i will most of the time get huge value.
Zoo
Combos
Sylvanas Windrunner --> Shadowflame, most of the time it clears board, and whatever big card survives gets stolen ( watch out for Sledge Beldger and other deatrattle cards)
Molten Giant,Molten Giant --> Argus, the famous handlock move.
Voidcaller--->Shadowflame, your voidcaller used as aoe, and then it summons (usually) a great demon. (always play your less good demons first if you can before killing the Voidcaller off)
Flame Imp--> Molten Giant: you often miss this play, but it sometimes can be really good to use up all of your mana.
kill Haunted Creeper when playing Knife Juggler: Amazing against the low health early game of aggro decks, it just gets you so much tempo when your Knife Juggler does well.
And of course Undertaker will become bigger with every deathrattle minion that gets played.
Power Overwhelming --> Shadowflame : Even the littelest of creatures can become a big AoE clear.
Voidterror ---> deathrattle/ Power Overwhelming: triggers dathrattle or becomes big with Power Overwhelming
Changes made on decklist:
Update 1.1
I removed 1 Soulfire because you just have to much valueable cards to discard, unlike zoo where you can sometimes even trick the effect by having an empty hand. And handlock, where you have such a big hand that you can miss some things like an Ancient Watcher.
Added 1 Power Overwhelming, was suggested in the comments a couple of times and still has the same burst potential as Soulfire but works well with Shadowflame and Voidcaller.
Since I found myself hating the Zombie Chow in the control matchups, especially warrior. I cut it for Siphon Soul, wich is just solid removal. Note: When you are playing against alot of aggro you can undo this change, since siphon often will not be that good and chow will be awesome.
Update 1.2
I came to the conclusion that there's just too much aggro to justifie running the Siphon Soul It often became a card in my hand that never got used. So i changed it with 1 Ironbeak Owl because the deck needed silence.
Update 1.3
Since Dread Infernal usually was a card that didn't do so much, i replaced it with illadin stormrage. It's just a more solid 6 drop and it's still a demon, so it can be summoned by Voidcaller.
As suggested in the comments Void Terror was added instead of 1 juggler. Juggler didn't get enough value and Void Terrortriggers deathrattles and combo's with Power Overwhelming
Another Juggler was deleted for 1 Nerubian egg, Just a solid deathratlle card, I think even though this deck only has 4 activators that should be enough to hatch 1.
Update 1.4
Added 2 zombie chow instead of 2 Voidwalker,after a lot of comments saying Voidwalker was not good enough I finally made this change. Zombie Chow is another deathrattle to make the Undertaker even stronger and is better in the early game then Voidwalker most of the time. It also won't bother your Voidcaller from spawning somthing great. The only problem is that in the late game situations it will often just give your opponent health back.
Update 1.5
Deleted the nerubian egg for 1 acidic swamp ooze, seems more reliable and solid since egg didn't always get value.
Okay, this is what i thought I should tell about the deck. Please leave stuff you want to now in the comments so i can add answers to those questions in here.
I feel like the only thing this is really missing is an Ironbeak owl or two. They're just too good anymore in being able to deal with things like Sylvanas cheaply and effectively, or undertakers gone wild. Going to give this list a try first before I start considering alterations. Great job though, I love seeing new warlocks decks outside the binary zoo or handlock, albiet this deck is kind of an amalgamation of the two. Would also love to see some gameplay of this deck in action as you play it, supposing that's possible of course. Keep up the good work.
I went and gave it a shot. Went from 17 to 14 without a loss in some pretty hilarious games. Doomguard/Soulfire discards have it out for my Jaraxxus and Sylvanas though. On the plus side, my knife juggler RNG has been top notch, so I guess it balances out. I've really enjoyed this so far, I'll be keeping an eye on the updates to see what you come up with.
Oh, and I just saw that you updated it. How are you liking the changes with Siphon and PO?
Any replacement for Sylvanas? One card i don't have - but should...
You can probably use something like Faceless Manipulator as a decent 5 mana replacement.
I love the deck man, I've been playing it all day started at rank 24(missed last 2 months) and ran all the way up to 16 with 2 losses. Playing mostly paladins and priest down here. Loving the deck man, I'll let you know how it goes when i get back around rank 5 -> Legend
Could I replace jaraxxus with alextraasa
I often have problems to like innovative decks.
But this is a innovative deck that wrecks, so I love it <3 :D GJ
Any possible replace for Jarraxus, testing it with illadan atm
In my first game with this deck Voidcaller drop on the table Lord Jaraxxus))) After that i think this is really cool deck!
I've tried this deck and I like it!! and plan to use this deck as main deck on the ladder. It is hard to predict and has good consistency that I never expected at first. However, I'm thinking on replacing Zombie Chow as It has too low chance to be on your hand in first turn or mulligan into it in hunter match-up but 2 seem to be too much in the deck. I Think Power Overwhelming would work quite well because the synergy with other cards is good and It could help in trading with big minions. Moreover, in some games, I find it lack of healing sources as we use life-tap more often than normal zoo in early-mid game (or I just misplayed and used it too often) and Handlock has recovery cards. Yet I still can't decide what to take out for. After all, I like this deck so much. Great Job!! :)
this is the real cancer
Nice deck, I'm a little surprised it holds up well on the ladder. The fun thing about this deck is that there are a lot of moments where you're like, "he'll probably have lethal the next turn... Oh look a molten giant and I have defender of argus, what are the odds?"