New Wall Druid [Galakrond's Awakening]
- Last updated Jan 22, 2020 (GA Week 1)
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Wild
- 13 Minions
- 17 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Taunt Druid
- Crafting Cost: 7780
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/22/2020 (GA Week 1)
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Edit, 1/22: -2 Embiggen, -1 Flobbidinous Floop, -1 Splintergraft | +1 Witchwood Grizzly, +1 Alexstrasza, +2 Wild Growth
General Strategy:
The early game is pretty simple, you want to focus on ramp, cycle and stall. Once you hit turn 4 you can start setting up your wall by casting things like Predatory Instincts, Strength in Numbers and curve out your minions from there. Most decks can't keep up with the raw stats you can put on the board every turn with help from Strength in Numbers and Witching Hour along with the fact that 4 of your minions are untargetable - Winged Guardian and Evasive Drakonid.
*tip* The best spells to combo with Archmage Vargoth are Ferocious Howl against aggressive decks or Witching Hour if Winged Guardian has died.
Mulligan:
Always Keep - Innervate, Strength in Numbers, Breath of Dreams, Wrath, Ferocious Howl, Wild Growth, Predatory Instincts, Swipe
Sometimes Keep - Zilliax (against every class but Priest), Big Ol' Whelp (if you have Breath of Dreams), Emerald Explorer (if you have Breath of Dreams)
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I found adding Either Sathrovarr or Even just a Dragon Breeder, can sometimes help. Of course there's every risk the quest could pull those tools though.
Regardless, Deck is good fun, shame I dusted My Vargoth though. What a div.
I just crafted Ysera Unleashed and I have to say that the deck doesn't shine like most of the people say in here. I find Strength in numbers useless and many times pulling Ysera (but that can just be my luck). The deck is crushed by aggro, by turn 4, Zoolock or Treant Druid has a full board and Swipe is not enough. I took out 2 x Strength in numbers to add 2 x Starfall. We'll see how I'll manage.
I would argue that a free 4/12 is pretty good no matter what! lol. If you're struggling against aggro you can put in 1 more Witchwood Grizzly instead of Alexstrasza. That should help! :)
The problem with Ysera Unleashed is you actually have to spend a turn playing it, and it's a huge tempo loss compared to your other plays. You really need to be putting out the most stats you can each turn with this deck because in the first four turns you're doing little or nothing, so you need to stabilize and then start pushing damage before they can finish you off.
I think regular Ysera might be better at this point, because if pulled out through Strength in Numbers it starts providing immediate benefit and must be answered.
I see this deck more and more, so it must be very good. However, resurrection priest with all their silence and aoe spells beats this deck all around. At least that is my experience while playing priest. One of my favorite decks to play against.
edit: playing at rank 3 currently
yep, you're right! Every deck has to have their weaker matchups and Res Priest is this decks weakest. Fortunately, there aren't a whole lot of Res Priests on ladder (at least that i've faced)
so why did you take out embiggen and the other cards?
We already sacrifice a lot of our early game in this deck and although we get bigger creatures with Embiggen, sometimes that 1 turn extra that we have to wait until we play taunts is too much and we'd be dead by then anyway. We have enough value through the mid-late game with Witching Hour / Archmage Vargoth as long as we can play that first taunt or two to survive against aggro
Any thoughts about an Amani War Bear? One with doubled health or pulled from the sidequest could make for immediate answers to a troubling minion.
Thijs' been playing this deck on Twitch (I think he's Who created it) and he was playing 2 Bears
I'm not a big fan of Amani War Bear because it dilutes the res pool from Witching Hour and can also be sapped/hexed/targeted, etc a lot easier. If you were to use Amani War Bear it might be better in a full beast package with Oondasta and/or Stampeding Roar
Is Ysera, Unleashed absolutely necessary here? Replacements?
I used Oondasta ( pretty good pull from quest completion to get another taunt from your hand) or Dragon Queen ( control/dragon synergy) ( rank 3-2). If you face a lot of aggro another Witchwood grizzly. I heard gloop sprayer could be good.
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Do you ever keep vargoth in the mulligan?
Doesn't seem wise. Any spell you'd combo with him cost at least 2 mana. The better ones are three and four mana. He's a turn 6+ play, and that's not something you want in your opening hand.
just like Thanatos2k mentioned ^, Archmage Vargoth is usually a value card best saved for Witching Hour or Ferocious Howl for the mid-late game. If you happen to draw him early outside the mulligan its not bad to play him on 4 against aggressive decks cause he has pseudo-taunt.
Lol I tried to craft winged guardian but I can't. I have to buy or pay 700 gold to unlock it? I just can't craft it? Ow..
Sadly you can't craft it for now, maybe when the set rotate out from standard.
What I'll suggest is try getting the adventure, it's generaly good value for mone/gold
Put Gloop Sprayer into this deck if you're missing one of the legendary dragons. Use it on the right on a single minion board with Strength in Numbers out and it copies the minion that gets pulled. It's insane.