[80%WR] Oondasta Melon Druid
- Last updated Dec 13, 2018 (Rastakhan)
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Wild
- 12 Minions
- 17 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Beast Druid
- Crafting Cost: 11960
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/4/2018 (Boomsday)
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Vourlout
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Total Deck Rating
78
This is a deck that I thought of early on during the reveal time and it worked out pretty well so far. I am currently 8-2 with this deck and planing to play it further. The idea is to cheat out huge beasts with Oondasta and Stampeding Roar and get a big board state this way that the opponent is difficult to deal with. The Juicy Psychmelon helps to find all those beasts. Especially Ironhide Direhorn is pretty good with Stampeding Roar as it turned out. I also added Master Oakheart for another way to get big board swings. I choosed another package for Oakheart than the usual Dragonhatcher package, as this requires to play high cost Dragons and I have already many high cost beasts. The package of Tar Creeper, Mechanical Whelp and Witchwood Grizzly is less powerful, but it turned out to be impressive enough in the games I played. Tar Creeper and Grizzly are also good defensive tools in the early game.
I will keep the guide updated and write a more detailed one at five upvotes.
edit: 05.12.2018
Thanks for the upvotes. I am now 12-5 with this deck with a winrate of 71%. I played between the ranks 8 and 6.
Gameplan:
The deck is similar to the old big druid decks or Hadronox Druid decks. The difference to the Hadronox Druid, where you stall the game until you overwhelm the opponent with never ending armies of taunts, is that here you want to win a bit earlier. You stall the early game in the same way, but you win by creating relatively early huge board sates by cheating out large dinosaurs. The idea here is against slow decks to keep the board even and then put multiple big minions in the same turn into play so that it is difficult for your opponent to handle it and then snowball with additional big threads. Against aggresive decks you try to stay alive and use those huge tempo swings to get ahead on the board.
Card Choices:
The defensive tools are more or less the same as for each other slow druid decks. The advantage of the Tar Creeper and Witchwood Grizzly as your Master Oakheart targets is that they also help you in the early stages to keep you alive. There is a bit few removal in this list, though, so maybe this is something that can be worth changing.
The key cards for winning are Oondasta and Stampeding Roar coupled with big beasts like Tyrantus and Ironhide Direhorn as well as Master Oakheart. Especially Ironhide Direhorn is great with Stampeding Roar as it allows you to get two big bodies and remove one of the biggest from your opponent for only six mana. I wasn´t sure about the Direhorn first but it definitly convinced in the games I´ve played.
Juicy Psychmelon is also a quite important card, as it ensures that you have enough gas and most importantly that you have one of the big board swingers in Master Oakheart or Oondasta paired with Tyrantus or Ironhide Direhorn. This is also a reason why I didn´t want to play Dragonhatcher, since then you are not guaranteed to draw Master Oakheart or Oondasta with your melon. Stampeding Roar or Oondasta might probably the only way that the melon works (in a non combo deck), since the downside of melon is that you loose tempo while playing it and get only a bunch of slow cards that you can not easily play with other cards in the same turn. This Tempo loss can easily be cancled with these two cards. On the other hand the melon (and the other card draw that Druid has) allows to play card-disadvantage cards like Stampeding Roar. However, the timing for melon can be tough sometimes, especially against aggro decks.
I play only one Ultimate Infestation since you have already many high cost cards and Juicy Psychmelon to draw many cards. But because it is so good I still wanted one. For the eight drop for melon I choosed The Lich King, as it provides you with a bit more value, if you need it, and is a big taunt. However, it is not so important and can be replaced with another eight drop (like Primordial Drake).
At building the deck I looked that the minions to pull out with Master Oakheart can not be drawn with Juicy Psychmelon as you want to draw the beast synergy cards and you don´t want to run out of Master Oakheart targets by drawing them with the melon. Tar Creeper and Witchwood Grizzly are great or good targets to pull out and they are also good in the early stages. Mechanical Whelp is not so good on his own, but probably the best two attack target that costs less than seven mana. What I like about it is that it gives you some kind of protection against board clearers which is quite important if your goal is to build big boards. Witchwood Grizzly is also a good target to cheat out with the beast synergy, especially if you also need to defend yourself.
I thought about playing Hadronox too, but it does not fit so well in the gameplan and it does not ensure you to draw Oondasta or Master Oakheart with your Juicy Psychmelon.
I don´t know exactly if two Juicy Psychmelon are necessary, as the second does very less most times and Druid has also other good draw effects. Maybe you can cut one for a Naturalize as you have few removal anyway.
Mulligan:
The deck mulligans very similar to the other Druid decks. Always keep Wild Growth. Against classes that tend to be slow, I would also keep Nourish and probably Juicy Psychmelon. Against aggressive classes I would keep the removal (Lesser Jasper Spellstone and Swipe) and Tar Creeper. Especially against Paladin Spreading Plague as this is your best card against odd Paladin.
edit: 14.12.2018
I played the deck further and my record is now 24-8 with a winrate of 75%. I also played it in the Standard Brawliseum and went 9-3.
Replacement for master oakheart?
If you want to cut Master Oakheart, I would also cut the Mechanical Whelp. Because of the nerfs, the deck is way more slow. So I would add some defensive tools and things you can play on turn two. Maybe Wrath or Naturlize or even Doomsayer.
This deck is awesome! currently playing quest druid to rank 5 then i wanna hop on this. Very Nice Deck List!
Hey man, love the deck so far. Any tips against spell hunter?
As I experienced, Spell Hunter is a not so bad matchup. I think I won more than I lost. It depends on how fast they are and how good their Zul'jin is and how many removal they have for your big health guys.
The main thing to consider here is the existence of Freezing Trap as the most ways you can overtake the board is by big rushing beasts. So its good to have a smaller minion, like Tar Creeper, Witchwood Grizzly or Scarrab from Spreading Plague to test for Freezing Trap before comitting to the rush plan. Ideally you have Master Oakheart before Oondasta, as he provides you with those minions and they can´t do much about him, if they don´t run Crushing Walls. Tar Creeper and Witchwood Grizzly are also imortant in the early stages as they are good at holding of the Wolve tokens. Therefore, I would keep Tar Creeper in the opening hand.
There is something that I can use instead of Tyrantus?
It´s difficult. Tyrantus is one of the cards, that the deck is build around, as it´s probably the best beast to cheat out (since he is large and difficult to remove for your opponent) and he costs 10 so that you can draw him with Juicy Psychmelon. If you´re looking for another 10 drop Ultrasaur is probably the best alternative, as he is also a huge beast, but he is definitly weaker than Tyrantus. Or you go without a 10 drop and add maybe a Charged Devilsaur. However, this way you reduce the maximal potential of Juicy Psychmelon. But the average potential might not change too much, as in the original list you also draw maximal three cards, if you have already drawn either The Lich King or Tyrantus.
I'll see if I like the deck and then I'll craft Tyrantus, because he is the only legendary that I don't have and also he kinda suck in any other deck of the Druid. How's the deck going? It's viable to rank up?
Year, I see your point. It´s a pity that Tyrantus fits in no other Druid deck, because I think it´s a very cool card in flavor perspective. That was also a reason why I was exited about the deck, as it is a great place for Tyrantus.
However the deck worked well for me so far. I am now 16-7 with it and at rank 4. I havn´t played enough and the meta is not so establish yet, to say if this will continue this way. But in the games I played it performed quite convincingly, and it was a lot of fun.
Well I made the deck using Ultrasaur instead of Tyrantus, let's if it's good.
Trying it out with one melon and a
Biology Project.Gurubashi OfferingFelt so bad never having a turn 1. Upgrades the Spellstones
Which card have you left out, then?
You're better off trying to find ramp, gurubashi offering is trash.
Thanks for sharing the deck. Great fun to play - I have played 4 games with it in rank 8, with a 3-1 win rate. I beat a Spell Hunter, a Murloc Quest Shaman and an Odd Paladin, but lost to an Exodia Mage.
I'm thinking about replacing The Lich King with something else, though. In two of the games I was overdrawing cards because I kept getting those useless Army of the Dead and Doom Pact Death Knight cards from The Lich King. What other 8 cost cards could work well (other than Primordial Drake, which would damage my other minions on the board when played)? Perhaps Charged Devilsaur would work well - it's a beast, too?
Also, still not sure about whether to keep two Juicy Psychmelon cards.
Thanks for the comment.
Charged Devilsaur might be indeed the best alternative for The Lich King. I also thought of it at building the deck, but went for The Lich King. Maybe Violet Wurm is also an option, as it´s also a beast, but I think the beast synergy with Charged Devilsaur is better as you can attack with it after pulling it out with Oondasta, and even go face, which is also good with Stampeding Roar.
However, I´am not sure, if I would cut The Lich King, as it can provide you with additional value and taunt and it is an additional card that is good on its own and especially on an empty board, which is nice to have in this deck, as the most beast synergistic cards are good if your opponent has minions. But it´s definitly worth trying out the Devilsaur over it.
It might also work to put a Splintergraft together with a Vicious Scalehide into the deck instead of one of the Juicy Psychmelon and The Lich King. Unfortunately I don't have Splintergraft in my collection, and I'm out of dust.
Instead I have decided to keep The Lich King for now as it gives good board pressure, and replace one Juicy Psychmelon with one Ferocious Howl and also replace the Ultimate Infestation with a Charged Devilsaur. Works quite nice.
Fun deck
Other than Paladins whooping me, it's got some wins at rank 5.