Budget Galakrond Zoo Warlock - Mulligan Guide
- Last updated Jan 1, 2020 (Descent of Dragons)
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Wild
- 25 Minions
- 4 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Galakrond Warlock
- Crafting Cost: 4720
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/1/2020 (Descent of Dragons)
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Mulligan Guide:
Keep early 1 drops
Flame Imp
Blazing Battlemage
Beaming Sidekick
Voidwalker
These next cards you can keep if you have 1 drops in your hand already if not you want to hard mulligan for a turn 1 play.
Scarab Egg
Dragonblight Cultist
Knife Juggler
Your play strategy should be to control the board and make value trades. We want to go wide and buff our board to eliminate the opponent. We can very easily go wide because of Galakrond, the Wretched invoke ability add 2 1/1 imps to the board. Then we can buff our board with cards like Fiendish Rites and Grim Rally
Budget Substitutions:
For this budget version I swapped in SN1P-SN4P for Kronx Dragonhoof since snip fits our gameplan and is budget oriented as everyone was gifted it if they signed in during boomsday project. If you don't have snipsnap go ahead and include Plague of Flames it also fits our gameplan since we are playing both eggs in the version. We took out Veiled Worshipper for Serpent Egg and finally we included Devoted Maniac in place of Sea Giant because the invoke is that powerful.
Guide video below on both the budget and non budget versions. Enjoy!
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Hey how the fuck do you deal with warriors with this deck? The one with all the bombs and armor gain and shit? My win rate vs. that is like 5%
I love zoolock and I have loved zoolock for a really long time. I think that this deck is really good and I am happy it can be played on a budget so i can play it on my smurf when I am annoyed with grinding on my main. Thanks for the deck.
Not enough buff to play with mage and priest decks. Those do 2 or 3 damage to all enemy characters is too much for this deck. And there's zero protection in the deck.
Eggs should protect you from AoE and even if you get cleared, it's relatively easy to refill the board time and time again thanks to invoke stuff and ease of card draw.
From what I've checked, the archetype has ok winrate vs mage and priest (it shines more against other classes, but you can't have it all).
You can check the matchups here (keep in mind that the deck linked below is the non-budget version): https://hsreplay.net/archetypes/348/galakrond-zoo-warlock#tab=matchups
Thanks. Wasn't being argumentative or critical, I just really like the deck. First day I ran it, I tore through. Then it all started getting muddled. I'm not saying I'm any good, though! lol
No problem, I love playing zoo as well! Yep, losing a good streak always sucks haha
If you don't get those 1's right off the bat, you're dead in the water, though. Been running this for a week and it is hit or miss. Any suggestions?
With eight 1 drops you are VERY likely to have one on turn 1. You can check the probability yourself here: https://s.stefantsov.com/hscalc.com/index.html#c26a2. One of the "use cases" illustrates precisely that.
Not too far off from what I run. However, I would strongly urge removing the Serpent Egg and adding... really any other zoo orientated cards.
Hey thanks for the comment. If you aren’t finding success with the egg Dire Wolf Alpha slots in nicely too.