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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was playing this after few month break, i was rank 20, now im rank 11
after 30 games replaced Predatory Instincts with Embiggen
Eyyy great to hear! good job :). I originally had Embiggen but decided to swap it out. still not a terrible card in here tho!
I apologize, but this is one of the worst decks I've ever played. This isn't your fault, I just think this deck type is doomed to fail. If they play anything even remotely aggressive or with high stats, you just immediately lose. I've literally lost to turn 3 Chenvaala on two different occasions because this deck can't deal with anything over 4 health. Edwin and Mountain giant beat this entire deck.
i've climbed from rank 22 to 14 with straight wins and 1 loss. This deck isn't that bad homie
You can climb those ranks with literally anything, dude. The deck is abysmal.
Replaced Alexstrasza with Frizz Kindleroost
Replaced 1x Predatory Instincts with 1x Embiggen
I have played about 15 matches before making the change and not once was able to double cast Predatory Instincts so I figured a swap of one of them would be fine. I am going to try another 15 matches to get a feel for the swap.
I agree with this, but then putting so many spells to draw the beasts and Vargoth seems like a bad target for embiggen buffs...
Winged guardian is borderline OP. I think it’s gonna get nerfed. Play 2 witching hour and yeah see what happens
Agreed! the Untargetable mechanic of it really shuts down entire decks!
I dunno, it's almost propping up the entire Druid class at this point. Druid needed a good card.
How is Winged Guardian so much more powerful than Evasive Drakonid? They're both taunt and untagetable. So the winged Guardeian comes back with 1 health? Do you think Hunter or Warlock or Paladin or any agro decks cares about killing a one health blocker?
The power of Winged Guardian is not so much its really good body and Reborn effect (although those are both great) but instead because it can be resurrected very cheaply with Witching Hour.
Ive played this deck alot, its more for casual play.
Not real great for ranked
Honestly a worse version of Embiggen Druid. The result after 16 games are 4-12 w/r in rank 1, kicked me back to rank 3.
Too reliant on drawing ramp cards and Strength in Numbers, this deck has 0 early game whatsoever, no way to contest the board early especially against Warlock and Hunters. The combo itself is neat, but in my experience I could only pull it off 25-30% of the time and even then against Highlander deck (mostly hunter) Zephrys the Great is almost guaranteed to grant lethal since you have to tank the early game with your face.
I'd say ditch the Innervate, Wild Growth, Alexstrasza, Ysera, Unleashed, and Evasive Drakonid to fit in some early game cards and Embiggen. There's already enough value in this deck without including these big cards, especially Ysera as she's too slow and you can discover her with Emerald Explorer.
I'd say the Embiggen version currently is a bit better overall but a completely different deck list. This list was created on the first day of Galakrond's Awakening whereas the Embiggen version we see now was created 3-4 days after that. This list is still a lot of fun for me as well as many other I'm sure so I wont alter it to the meta Embiggen version :)
Yeah now looking back at it I was just salty for losing 2 ranks. This is definitely a different deck than Embiggen druid and still have potential, just need more work to find the right balance.
I have some more matches with it in casual and It absolutely crushes Embiggen mirrors as they have no way to deal with the spell immune taunts other than attacking then with their own minion. Same with Galakrond warriors, most type of those decks are slow to build board early and doesn't really run Brawl.
The only deck you need to be cautious about is Rogue and Hunter, also Priest if you can't control how fast they finish their quest.
It may sound silly but I was missing some fun random element in this deck. So I swapped one Wild Growth, one Big Ol' Whelp and Alexstrasza for two Weaponized Piñata and Gloop Sprayer. With Gloop Sprayer I can duplicate Weaponized Piñata for more value and pull it from the quest. All in all it doesn't seem to hurt the deck much and it's more fun!
Do you even play hearthstone? You just make Breath of Dreams even harder to use. Weaponized Piñata is one of the worst cards in the game (good in arena). Groop Spraer and Weaponized Pinata is the worst strategy I have ever heard . 11 mana for 2 random legendaries? I don’t think so
People will play what they enjoy. Maybe you should reread what he wrote, is he telling you to pick these cards NO. His having fun is all you pos. You don't know anyone's mental state over the internet.. Mind your own goddamn business
Even if you pull Yzera, you'll get 1 4/12 minion on board for just a 1 mana quest. That's pure value.
Don't look at what you're missing but look at what you gain.