[High Legend] Malygos Druid by Rdu
- Last updated Jul 3, 2018 (Spiteful Nerf)
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Wild
- 6 Minions
- 22 Spells
- 1 Weapon
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Malygos Druid
- Crafting Cost: 11660
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/3/2018 (Spiteful Nerf)
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Hello, I'm Rdu, full time Hearthstone player for G2 Esports and Twitch Broadcaster at twitch.tv/rdulive
This is the Malygos druid that I finished top50 with and my teammate Neirea used to get #1 NA and finish on #2, and also another friend of mine, Thomm, finished top10 EU with.
General Mulligan
I always keep Wild Growth , Twig , and Nourish. I keep Aracane Tyrant if I have Nourish.
I always would even keep 2 Wild Growths if offered, 2 Nourishes only in control match-ups. Would keep 2 Arcane Tyrants with Nourish in most match-ups(probably odd paladin is the only one where I wouldn't)
More Specific Mulligan
Card by card, from the cards I didn't mention yet, I would:
- Keep Innervate only on the coin with Wild Growth+Nourish+Ultimate Infestation
- Never keep Moonfire
- Keep Spellstone against Tempo Mage and against Rogue going first(so that it lines up against their Hench-Clan Thug) ; Also good against aggro hunter and odd rogue if you know what you're playing against
- Keep Naturalize only against Warlocks to deal with Mountain Giant
- Never keep Ferocious Howl
- Never keep Branching Paths (maybe a fringe case is against aggro hunter if you already have good hand)
- Keep Swipe against Paladin and against Rogue with either some ramp or if you're on the coin to deal with Hench-Clan Thug
- Never keep Faceless Manipulator
- Keep Starfall only against Paladin
- Keep Spreading plague only against Paladin
- Keep Malfurion if you already have ramp against Rogue, Warlock, Priest, Hunter, Warrior, Mage
- Keep Lich King in control match-ups if you have Wild Growth+Nourish or even Nourish alone on the coin in some match-ups
- Keep Alexstrasza only with an already godlike hand like Wild Growth+Nourish+UI
- Never Keep Malygos
- Keep Ultimate Infestation with Wild Growth+Nourish in non-aggro match-ups and even only with one ramp card in mirror and against Warlock, or only with Nourish against Rogue
Card Replacements
If you don't have Lich King or Alexstrasza, you can replace them with a 2nd faceless.
If you want to spice things up, you can play Tyrantus instead of Lich King which I think is going to make match-ups against other druids, Shudderwock Shamans and Warlocks better at the expense of losing some percentages against aggro decks
Other than that, I don't think you can change any card if you want the full experience of this wonderful deck since it's built in such a way to not have horrible match-ups and always be able to win games against everything
'How do you win when they ooze twig?'
The question I get asked the most when I stream this deck is how do I win when they ooze my twig
Well, a lot of the time you don't draw your Twig since it's a legendary so the way you mostly win is by out-ramping your opponent and then curving cards such as LichKing/Alexstrasza and/or Ultimate Infestation and overpowering your opponent on board, sometimes even pushing damage with cards such as Spreading Plague or Malfurion the Pestilent which actually makes your hero power so much better!
Also keep in mind Malygos+2Moonfires is 12 damage and you can Alex them and also put them lower with cards such as DK or Swipe
Tl;dr: You win a lot of games because you play druid, Twig is just a bonus to punish people who don't play weapon hate or who tempo ooze early game not knowing what Druid you're playing
Conclusions
I like this deck a lot because it doesn't have any horrible match-up other than Control Mage and even there you can win with WG+Nourish into big threats
I also love the playstyle of this deck, it reminds me of Freeze Mage due to the fact that you need to make sure you survive a certain ammount of turns until you both gather the cards to kill your opponent and also get to attack 5 times with the Twig. The deck also has an insane ammount of defensive cards with both 1/5 Taunts and tons of Armor Gain
If you want to see this deck in action on high ranks, make sure to check out my stream!
Thank you for reading and I hope this guide is helpful :)
I have been playing this deck for a while and I can totally see why you guys made it to high legend with this because it is so strong on the current ladder! Being an otk deck makes this fantastic against other decks that don't run too much armor and it has excellent control mechanisms against all aggro decks.
I made a video showcasing this deck in all of its glory, I really hope you all enjoy :D (mirror matches are fun !!)
So he may have been trolling but it's a valid questions, since replacing twig is a totally reasonable option for this deck. Will it be as good? No, of course not, but the more common weapon removal is the less good twig is anyway, so cutting it for another big minion might not be a bad choice if he's seeing a lot of weapon removal. Again though, maybe he was trolling, I dunno.
Fair, but if every deck is running weapon removal you're almost better off NOT running twig, simply because you won't get to pull it off the majority of the time which makes it a dead draw, seeing as a 4 mana 1 attack weapon is bad for any class. So far out of 12 games with this deck it's been removed in 11 of them when I was at 8 or 9 mana. At that point running the quest package is actually more consistent. I'm not saying quest is a better option currently, that's debatable, I'm just saying he had a fair question, whether he was trolling or not.
Hi Mom!
This costs me 3k dust.
Going to test this after work, do you ever w8 with equiping the twig to wait out the ooze/harris tempo play?
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How do you win taunt druid?
You wanna play twig as soon as you can usually. its not worth to wait for a tempo weapon removal. If you wait it will take way too long to proc twig at the later stages of the game and if the opponent knows you play malygos druid he will for sure save it. Also if they remove it asap they will ramp you up to 10 mana which happened to me a few times. It was hilarious.
EDIT: Forgot to mention taunt druid MU:
In my opinion its one of the hardest matchup. With a full combo you can barely remove their armour. You have to try to hit them often enough with the minions and tools you have to keep their armour low which is hard if they play branching paths for 24 armour and howl for like 16.
Your best bet is to keep their armour low and play Alex to lower their health into a malygos combo.
Thanks guys, I won a taunt druid by milling his oakheart, but I have a really bad time vs shudderwock shaman, only won that like 2 out of 8 times
If you guys have any tips vs that other then draw faster then the shaman that would be great.