Hakar Galak
- Last updated Feb 4, 2020 (GA Week 3)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 13 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Galakrond Priest
- Crafting Cost: 12320
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/28/2020 (GA Week 2)
- kct
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Battle Tag:
kct#1716
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Region:
US
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Total Deck Rating
19
edit: 2/4/2020 I've added 2x Aeon Reaver - 2x Penance this new card is actually growing on me, especially against Embiggen Druid and the non-targetable minions.
edit: 1/29/2020 This is the first deck I've posted to hearthpwn and truly appreciate all of the outpouring of messages/adds. If I have enough likes, maybe I will continue to post my decks each season.
Hello,
kct here, I am strictly a priest player. This season has been rather challenging but I finally reached legend with a galak priest deck. If I get some likes/comments I can do a write up.
Also, feel free to add me if you’d ever like to chat/throw around some ideas about decks. kct#1716
This is the deck I used to obtain Legend this season.
Edit: 1/28/2020 for gameplay/mulligans
Game Play
This is a control/fatigue deck. I mainly started to run this deck after I was facing a lot of highlander decks from rank 4 to 3. To my suprise, this deck also countered the new embiggen druid as well. There have been other versions I've run as well with double Grave Rune, however it seems a little too slow some times.
Dark Prophecy is strictly there for early game presence. This can be switched out for any number of alternatives, but if you high roll some nice 2 cost minions it seems to pay itself off. One alternative I've run has been Shield of Galakrond for the extra Galakrond ticks in case you're having trouble drawing in to those other cards.
Chameleos is just another tech card I started to run after facing a multitude of Quest Priests. This allows for me to have 3x Plague of Death at times to deal with their crazy resurrection boards.
I also include ample healing with Penance, Sandhoof Waterbearer, Khartut Defender and Zilliax for those face hunters/galakrond warriors.
Mulligans
I almost always mulligan for Zerek's Cloning Gallery as this is an integral part to our deck in hopes we can draw out Hakar, the Soulflayer before we actually obtain it in our hand.
Embiggen Druid: Convincing Infiltrator, Mass Hysteria, Zerek's Cloning Gallery
Quest Priest: Zerek's Cloning Gallery, Time Rip, Galakrond, the Unspeakable
Galakrond Warrior: Penance, Breath of the Infinite, Dark Prophecy
Galakrond Rogue: Disciple of Galakrond, Dark Prophecy, Breath of the Infinite
Galakrond Warlock: Breath of the Infinite, Dark Prophecy, Penance
Mech Paladin: Breath of the Infinite, Disciple of Galakrond, Penance and a prayer that they don't top deck 2x Galvanizer
Face Hunter: Breath of the Infinite, Penance, Dark Prophecy
Edit: 1/29/2020 for -1 Mass Dispel, -1 Dark Prophecy, +2 Grave Rune I've done this change due to facing more and more Ebiggen Druid. I tend to team up my Convincing Infiltrator with a Grave Rune for the bonus taunts.
this deck is the most fun i've had in years! I swapped out one Aeon Reaver for Murozond the Infinite
One game a rogue played Brightwing and pulled out a Hakkar. My hakkar was on the bottom of my deck if it wasn't for him playing it on turn 10 i would have lost lmao
Oh my god this is purifier priest! It's the unicorn priest blizzard was talking about. Purifier purify!
I like keeping shadow word death against embiggen druid, if they nut out with breath of dreams into frizzleroot at least you can stop the bleeding temporarily
Been playing around with the new card Aeon Reaver. I’m really enjoying it in this current meta. Yes, it is kinda slow, but with Embiggen Druid lurking everywhere it’s very nice. Bouncing between ranks 3 and 4 currently while I tweak some more.
Loses to every tier1/2 netdeck out there, but its a fun deck to play with when the combo works.
Winrate?
I am strictly a mobile player so I really have no way of tracking w/l. If I had to guess, I'd say around 50-52%. By no means is this deck easy to climb with, but, if you like a challenge and enjoy playing fun decks this is for you. Unless you want to be a sheep like everyone else and play Embiggen Druid or Galak Rogue :P
I made some changes
-1 Penance
+1 Murozond the Infinite
I've always got limited use from penance. Murazond lets you match a big play, especially against a big taunt.
-1 Wyrmrest Purifier
+1 Archivist Elysiana
All control decks seem to be running Elysiana atm. When they play Elysiana, you will lose with just Purifier. If you're going to have a dead card in your hard, you might as well have a 7/7 that gives you more room through fatigue.
-1 SW:Death
+1 Grave Rune
2 GRs may be slow, but 1 feels right. Feels great to be able to hit a defender, faceless, or even a high threat minion with this.
-1 Chameleos
+1 Madame Lazul
Didn't have it Chame and wasn't going to craft it this close to rotation. Lazule does close to the same thing.
I was thinking about running Archivist Elysiana however when I pull a blood early on and my hand starts to fill up early, I don't want to fatigue myself before the other player. It's a double edge sword between these two cards.
There has been plenty of times that Penance has saved me, especially against face hunter that makes me feel this card is necessary 2x.
This deck looks so fun, really tempted to craft hakkar and chamelios but as much as it looks fun it looks like a difficult climb. Would love to see some gameplay of this deck.
This is a great construction and has some great cards. BUT, the fundamental problem is that the priest galakrond is just absolutely terrible. I want this deck to be good because its so fun, but priest got screwed, and it makes me sad because you are a priest only player.
I agree. If RNG is on your side, you may get lucky enough that Galakrond actually gives you some worthwhile minions. It feels so much better though when you win a game playing this deck after someone wants to emote you the whole time. Or, playing against all the sheep out there that just copy paste what's tier S currently.
Would really like a Strategy guide for this. Thanks!
I've started to write up the gameplay/mulligans. I will finish this later tonight to hopefully give you a good idea how the deck runs. If you have any questions just let me know.
Nice deck. How do you feel about Mass Dispel instead of having a second copy of Shadow Word: Death?
That is definitely a good alternative. You can get away with 1 sw:d due to the 2 time rips. It can also help you with your card draw and work around those annoying Druid minions you can’t normally target.
After few hours with drutards I've found Madame Lazul and/or Mindflayer Kaahrj kinda amazing. Not only you can steal those annoying spell immune animals, but actually ressurect them with stolen Archmage.
But those two cards, as amazing as they are, I find strongly optional in almost any other match up :(
Also this new card Cleric of Scales seems to be a handy one. Especially if you didn't get lucky with starting hand.
What dragons are you running to activate the clerics?
I've swapped Coffin Crasher for Murozond the Infinite and one copy of Plague of Death for Fate Weaver