Buff Maly Druid
- Last updated Oct 13, 2018 (Boomsday)
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Wild
- 11 Minions
- 18 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Malygos Druid
- Crafting Cost: 8880
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 10/8/2018 (Boomsday)
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Hey!
Just went from rank 3 to legend with this druid deck within the first week of the season on and continued to climb with it to top 250 legend on EU.
This deck is basicly good against most decks on ladder, because of the ability to build a big buffed board of minions to push a lot of damage as well as having Malygos burst as a late finish if needed.
Gameplay at Youtube - Bringing the deck to rank 75 legend (In this video I have added Twig for one chain gang)
General Strategy
In general its all about to push minion damage to face before malygos comes down in late game to finish them off, unless your minions haven't already done the job (which they normally do).
A common mistake is getting to greedy with the combo cards. Often the correct play is too play the combo cards out for tempo. After all, this deck is in many ways a tempo deck.
Against Control
Against Baku warrior its all about pushing minion damage to face. Play the taunts and buff them with "Strongshell". If you manage that, you should be able to kill them with malygos combo when it hits. At this moment I am 6-1 against Baku Warrior in Legend, which is very high considering that this deck is in fact a malygos deck.
Against aggro
Well, the strategy against aggro is the same as always. Just don't die. Try to ramp in to plauge + tyrant, so you can play Strongshell the following turn. But this goes for most Druid decks.
Fleksible spots
I rally think its possible to add twig for one of the chain gangs, in particular if you want your Malygos combo to hit more consistent.
This deck might have some more fleksible cards, but I am struggling with finding other cards that can be replaced.
Some mulligan tips
Chain gang is always a keep with wild growth, no matter if you face aggro or not.
With cone, I think chain gang also is a keep since you can coin chain gang into Strongshell follow up and then push a lot of damage.
And as always, wild growth is always a keep.
In summary: Look for wild growt, chain gang and strongshell and of course spellstone if facing aggro.
Also "KiwiinBacon" has made a gameplay with the deck, in where he explains the deck over multiple matches. I recommend you to subscribe to his awesome channel. Here is the link to his video:
#Keepthedeckalive
There is many ways to approach that. The nerf of giggling does hurt this deck. With some changes, I still think this deck wil stay very powerful.
It is possible to add secound chain gang at least. Also "Tar creeper" might be an replacement for giggling.
Also you can take an different approach than just thinking to buff taunts. It might be a move to remove both giggling for one "Tending Tauren" and secound chain gang or secound Power of the wild.
In summary: Tar creeper, Tending Tauren, Power of the wild and Chain gangs are all cards that comes to mind for replacing giggling after the Nerf. Which combinations of those four subs are optimal, I don't know for sure by this time.
I hope you find this answer helpful i any way :) I might come back with a updated answer after doing some testing. :)
That is an idea worth trying :)
I'm sorry, but this deck is hot garbage. It lacks the control tools of regular Maly Druid without putting enough pressure on board win contest. It's been crushed by any opponent so far.
Hey, nice deck, I like the idea of mixing 2 differents deck together to mess up with your opponent's plan.
However, I don't like Naturalize and Power of the Wild here, the first one is useful when you don't have a board to deal with threat but in this case, it will help your opponent to draw removal, and the second one is no longer used in classic token druid since it was great only with Violet Teacher
I remplace them with 2x Ferocious Howl which add card draw + armor, and it's working quite fine.
Thats wil also work fine :) I have played that version as well. The reason I play without Howl is that this deck is primarly supposed to be new and funny to play, by that i mean beeing a maly druid who is capable of building big boards. It might be that Howl is better, but by doing that change you will aim the deck in more direction of the malygos OTK more than the board advantage.
For me naturlize has bee huge when i like to push a lot of minion damage to face and there is a taunt in the way, 1 mana removal i great to have available. Just play the version you prefer, if thats 2x howl, you and everyone else who prefer that should play that. Enjoy :)
Hey, Sharpcfc :)
My experience is that this deck premorf well against aggro, but struggles against even lock in particular. But of course, as any non-aggro deck it is hard to beat Aggro mage or zoolock if your draws is bad.
I am thinking of replacing one Ultimate Infestation with either one extra Power of the Wild or Ferocious Howl
Just more proof that everything works with druid lol.
Have you tested out Prince Taldaram in this deck ? You aren't running any 3 drops and it could be a nice double Malygos with Flobbidinous Floop without needing Twig of the World Tree
Taldaram can work in this deck, for sure! If you like to make the decks malygos combo more consistent, Taldaram is a good card, but if you like more the buffed minion pressure I am not so sure if it fits in too good.
look like very good deck just missing Arcane Tyrant × 2,
any replacement or i should go and craft them?
Edit: was eager to try the deck and could not wait for answer so i just crafted them :)
Yeah Arcane Tyrant is pretty much an auto include for druid right now because it can easily slam them while not having to lose a lot of tempo. As long as druid is somewhat good, this card will probably see play.
Must craft to play any druid deck ever pretty much.
This deck finaly convinced me to create druid DK. Finaly a druid deck that doesnt require 1 way to play. Good job and thnx for sharing.
Glad to hear that :)
Replaced one Ultimate Infestation with Ixlid, Fungal Lord, really better for me ATM.
Nice :)
what is the difference between malygos with alextrasza and with this version ? thx
The conventional alextrasza version does not run Chain gang, Strongshell and Power of the wild. Instead they often run lich king, alex, ferousious howl and mind control tech.
The different is that this deck is more board oriented, and have multiple win conditions. Alex will not be good in this deck since your minions often will push your opponent health down by a lot.