RUTHLESS QUEEN(HANDMAGE, guide + video)
- Last updated Dec 27, 2018 (Level Up Nerf)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 8 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Control Mage
- Crafting Cost: 8040
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/24/2018 (Level Up Nerf)
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Hello there beautiful people and welcome to the guide of The RUTHLESS QUEEN!As some of you may know, i usually build legendary warlock decks but...this time is something lets say more unique. HANDMAGE!
General Plan
Let's look at the deck. The two things we have to notice are:
a) Most of the cards replace themselves, so we always have a healthy hand. So ,if you have the coin, you can play the giants by turn 4 and if you not, by turn 5.
b) We have plently of sustain even without the Deathkight so we have wipe the floor with any deck that tries to aggro us down.
Pros
+ Favoured against most of the meta
+ Unexpected by the majority of players
+Destroys other control decks
Cons
-Hard to play. You have to constandly keep a lot of things in mind and plan your turns a head
-Super Slow. And i mean super slow.Did i mentioned how slow and grindy the deck is?
-Instant lose against deathrattle hunters and c'thun priest.
Guide
Hunter:(Doomsayer, Arcanosaur and cheap elementals)
Secret hunter: Utter domination. We wipe the floor with these guys and this is the deck we wanna target. You should play cheap elementals (one or two at most) just to proc they secrets at your leasure. Just keep Arcanosaur activated and it's basically gg. They cannot pressure you fast enough and you are propably going to put big threats first. You also have great sustain even without the DK
Deathrattle hunter: Very unfavoured. Unless they draw terribly, and you draw like a god, not really much you can do.
Warlock:(Doomsayer,Mountain Giant and Polymorph)
Zoo: Very favoured. Well you have enough taunts and heals to buy time till your aoes come online. Then they cry. Then you play DK and they concede if they haven't done it already.
Control: Very Favoured. If you keep a Polymorph for rin and delay their giants with Doomsayer is gg. Most of warlock i have faced were evenlocks so that dude which destroys 1 mana spells was not necessary. They cannot kill you fast enough and they cannot out fatigue you either.
Warrior:(Mountain Giant and cheap elementals)
Control: Very Favoured. Pour wine and prepare snacks because you are in for a hour long game. You must not draw at all because the game will certainly go to fatigue. You must not put more than 2 huge threats at the time or 3 medium ones. just play enough minions to keep his armor low. There will be turns where you will have two to three minions and they will wait for you to play more so they can aoe.So do not do it, going face and simply ping is the winning play. Good warrior players will just armor up (even if they play quest). In which case you will play some minions to create other minions with pings. Play smart and this is really hard to lose.
Big Spell mage: Favoured. (Mulligan same with warrior).
You have giants and they dont. You have more threats, just do not overextend and you will be fine. This however can go really south if they draw their dk and you do not. But in this case there is not much you can do.
Priest (same with warlock)
Any minion based priest: Favoured. You have removal, sustain, armor gain, threats. etc. You have to draw or play terribly to lose.
Otk/C'thun Priest: Concede.Save your time and your sanity and concede.If you are masochist you can try to pressure them with giant and claim your 10% chance of victory.
Druid.(Cheap stuff and aoe)
Aggro/token: Very favoured.They swarm, you clear and put taunts. GG. There is always the chance you draw none of your aoes in time but not really much can be done in that scenario anyway.
Tempo Rogue: (strategy+mulligans same with zoolock)
Cards:
Hex Lord Malacrass: This card serves the same purpose with elise: Refilling your hand and giving you extra giants in control mirrors. You can play Lich King instead if you do not own him but let me tell you this. The extra giants and threats are always sweet :P
Arcanosaur: Many said that this card is garbage. Aaand it is...But one's man garbage is another's treasure!Not only this deals perfectly with hunter's spells stone but it's also Reno Jackson if you have played Frost Lich Jaina
Q/A
-Did you reach Legend with the deck and where are the stats?
I capped at rank 3 where i got bored and swapped decks. I lost only 9 to 10 games to deathrattle hunters and otk priests from rank 14 to rank 3. The deck is legend viable but i do not recommend it if you simply want to rank up as it is extremely slow. There are better decks for grinding. As for the stats i played all my games in phone sorry, :/
-Where is the rest of the hand package like the drakes?
The rest of cards are too clunky. I optimized the deck to beat the most popular decks so i found no room for other cards.
-Why no Dragon's Fury or Primordial Glyph?
Well i had both in the deck (not in the same time ofc :P) and i removed them both. I removed Dragon's Fury because i wanted to consistently have the giants early vs other control decks, so i prefered Arcane Intellect. We already have enough aoes but if you feel like you need more, add it in your deck. It's a great card but you trade safety for power. Your choice.
As for the Primordial Glyph, found myself playing cheap elementals/minions most of the time instead of the Glyph and it always gave me crap #unlucky #babyrage.
-What about Voodoo Doll
I never felt like i needed more single target removal especially in spell hunter heavy meta.
And here is a video from Tony Wave playing my deck! Go give it a thumps up!
Now go show the worthless mongrels how they should behave before a ruler.BOW TO YOUR QUEEN!
Nice deck. Diggin' the flavour.
Imho you should add Mojomaster Zihi as this is the perfect counter to combo and control decks. When a Mecha'thun Priest or Exodia Paladin are about to play their combo pieces, you will buy yourself some time and you will have another shot at killing them. The thing about Zihi is that she rewards decks running proactive strategies (and not the defensive ones I'm used to play), so imho having her in your deck will make a lot of sense.
Thank muah mate! As for the card, I have thought of this aswell but i do not have it and i am to stingy with the 6000 dust i have. I want to try it and what you say makes perfect sense but in my mind the card is useless vs anything else and it doesnt guarantee the victory vs combo either.
Well ofc it doesn't guarantee a win on its own, but it prolongs the game in your favour. I would argue, that it's good against control as well.
You see, if you have a threatening board and the opponent is about to cast a board wipe, you deny it and you get to inflict extra damage. Think of Psychic Scream or Twisting Nether. You also narrow your opponent's plays next turn.
Anyways I have everything except Malacrass, so I might give your deck a try and tell you how Zihi feels in there.
Thank you for new incredible mage deck! I was replaced only Elisa for Sindragosa. What do you think about add mojomaster zihi against combo decks like ctun priest, warlock?
Just a tip, a single secret by Arcane Keysmith can be devastating against Mecha'thun Priest.
To be honest i did not think about it. This inclusion seems pretty sweet if c'thun priest becomes more popular. thumps up!
Nice deck bro
from dumpster r5 to r3 with a 8-3
Malacrass is a little bit clunky but third poly arcano doomsayer is a powerfull value
Good job!
Is Hex Lord must have?
Have you thought of adding prince keleseth or 2 mana every player draws 2 cards? The deck has only two 2 mana cards.
It's doesn't have just two 2 mana cards, it has THE 2 mana cards for control decks. Doomsayers make us so strong vs evenlock and smorc decks. Removing them is not recommended.
Definitely a learning curve here, but the deck is so fun to play! Definitely recommend everyone gives the list a try. Played some games with it, check them out;
(Games start at 7:13)
Would love to get your thoughts on Primordial Glyph for this list and the choice of not including cards like Blast Wave or Dragon's Fury. Thanks for sharing such a cool list! <3
OMG I feel so offended! HOW COULD YOU MISSPRONOUNCE MY NAME SO MANY TIMES! #Butthurted #babyrage!
Just kidding mate, i had a blast seeing your video, i also updated the Q/A in order to answer your questions. They were spot on and i should have included them in the guide in the 1st place.
Thanks again and good job.
Glad you enjoyed it! Stay wavy mate!
What do you think about Servant of Kalimos?
It's a decent card for a replacement but not enough to earn a place on it's own.
No gifs/memes in the guide? 🤔...😐...😥
P.s.: replacement for Elise? Lich king?
For some reason, it didn't allow me to insert pics or gifs. :/
But i will think of something spicy! :P
As for elise, yeah lich king is good as it is sindragosa. Anywhing that replaces it self and gives value is good
here is one for you, because who is kind, gets kind back haha!
edit: well it wouldn't let me post the meme so here's the link to it https://imgur.com/gallery/Lk0tnpX
Thank you kind sir!This made my day!