Legend New Embiggen Druid (Detailed Guide)
- Last updated Feb 5, 2020 (GA Week 3)
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Wild
- 21 Minions
- 9 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Dragon Druid
- Crafting Cost: 6820
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/29/2020 (GA Week 2)
- Cracken23
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Battle Tag:
Cracken23#2210
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
91
Hi Guys, I just climbed to EU Legend with this deck and I want to share it with you. Very cheap, easy and fun to play. I recommend players that are trying to climb Legend. If you have any questions, please comment below, I'll answer them.
Edit: Dragonmaw Poacher out, Frizz Kindleroost in. Because Frizz Kindleroost is never will be a dead draw. You can play your dragons cheaper and 4 mana 5/4 is not reduce your tempo.
General Strategy
This deck is all about mana cheating and it is fun as hell! Cards that cheats mana are the core of this deck. Embiggen. Strength in Numbers and Breath of Dreams.
With Embiggen, your minions will be much bigger, your tempo will be unstoppable. Once you play minions with big bodies and effects, opponents will not be able to out tempo you. Your minions' extra effects like taunt and untargetability, forces your opponent to trading. So a big advantage for both offense and defense.
Breath of Dreams is an excellent card with ramp and draw power. Especially very effective at early game so you can play bigger.
Strength in Numbers is the biggest trick of this deck. It grants extreme tempo advantage at whole game. No matter it is early or late. It can summon Evasive Wyrm, Winged Guardian of Zilliax.
Deck has a weird side in it. You can have surprise lethals, so always check for lethals, It may be surprising even for you. Because you always have a big and wide field. You may have 10-12 attack Leeroy Jenkins or 2 Swipes and Scalerider in hand. While you have big taunts like Emerald Explorer or Winged Guardian, it is better to play aggresively and attack to face with your big minions.
Beast package Winged Guardian and Witching Hour is a nice addition to deck after new adventure. Most of the decks can't deal with a 8/10 Winged Guardian but sometimes Witching Hour can be a dead draw, so be careful with it. Note: If you discover Nightmare Amalgam from Emerald Explorer, don't forget that Nightmare Amalgam is also a beast and it can ruin Witching Hour.
Matchups
If you are against an aggro deck like Face Hunter, Zoolock or Mech Paladin, go fast and play your cheap minions and don't let your opponent gain tempo until midgame. After that, their fuel will be out and you will win the game(mostly they will concede lol).
If you are against a non-aggro deck, no need to rush, play on curve and don't trade with your big minions, your opponent is supposed to do trades while you are going face.
For heavily control decks like Quest Priest and Holy Wrath Paladin you should go extremely aggro and smash their faces until they got their objective otherwise you will lose. These decks are the worst matchup for us, so don't be upset if you lose.
For mirror match, most important card is Strength in Numbers. You need to complete it before your opponent.
Mulligan Guide
!!!Always Keep and Hard Mulligan For All-Star Cards !!!
Embiggen Strength in Numbers Breath of Dreams
For aggro matchups you can consider to keep Fearie Dragon, Injured Tol'vir and Scalerider but for others I always hard mulligan for the all-star cards.
Card Preferences
You can try these other cards in your deck if you want:
SN1P-SN4P, Spellbreaker, Archmage Vargoth, Batterhead or Dragonmaw Poacher.
You can cut these cards from deck:
Frizz Kindleroost, Witching Hour, one Injured Tol'vir, one Scalerider.
I think that is not very good. A wild list would be so much different.
You can sub in much better taunts in Wild, like Lich King.
So i like to try different versions of the same deck and right i am trying this one, think it will do pretty fine, guess i could take out Arena Fanatic for Dragonmaw Poacher but i am not playing vs many dragons so, let's see.
### META DRUID
# Class: Druid
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
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# 2x (0) Embiggen
# 2x (1) Strength in Numbers
# 2x (2) Breath of Dreams
# 1x (2) Dragon Breeder
# 2x (2) Faerie Dragon
# 1x (3) Scalerider
# 1x (3) SN1P-SN4P
# 1x (3) Witching Hour
# 1x (4)Archmage Vargoth
# 1x (4) Arena Fanatic
# 2x (4) Evasive Feywing
# 1x (4) Frizz Kindleroost
# 2x (4) Swipe
# 1x (5) Leeroy Jenkins
# 2x (5) Oasis Surger
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 2x (6) Emerald Explorer
# 2x (6) Evasive Wyrm
# 2x (7) Winged Guardian
# 1x (8) Batterhead
This decklist looks like pretty inconsistent.
i will take out fanatic and seek something to add maybe a lesser mana cost one i want to make the deck even more smooth smh xD
I played 47 games, went 8-12 with the first version, 17-10 with the second one (with fritz)
Priest are the worst matchup against this deck (0-4), it's an autowin vs warriors, hunters and mages =)
didn't encountered thieves nor shamans for the moment.
ah, by the way, I'm rank 4
thanks for this deck, it works pretty well, except against priest, and that's fine anyway
Yes. Priest is the hardest matchup. You should draw amazing or priest should draw terrible.
I've been running this deck for about a week now. Simply can't rise higher than rank 5. Once you reach the logjam around that rank, you simply encounter too many quick-hitting secret mages/zoo-locks. Even if you get Embiggen in the opening draw (and ESPECIALLY if you get two) -- tempo and board dominance take too long to develop. You're dead before you can start playing to good minions.
That's not to say it's not a really FUN deck to play. It got me from 20 to 5 in about 2 days. But I'm only winning about 50% of my match-ups against higher-tier players. Honestly, maybe it's a ME problem. Maybe I'm just not that good. But thought I'd share my experience, anyway.
Actually I used this deck to climb from Rank 5 to Legend. Maybe you should change the way you play and your mulligans.
For example against aggro matchups you shouldn't play Embiggen on turn 1 everytime, even if you draw it. Firstly, you should guarantee to play some minions until Turn 5.
If you have one 2 or 3 mana minion in hand I would always play embiggen.
Even against aggro. You might you might just get an injured tol'vir with +2+2 for only 3 mana which can save you the game.
It is pretty hard to have 2 or more 2-3 drops in first hand.
I'm the opposite. I'm stuck at 20 unable to go any further. Match ups against mages seem to not work well at all. They burn you down before you can play anything more than not. Especially if you get two Embiggen.
l feel like it's a ME issue as well and maybe I'm playing the deck wrong or maybe I've just got so extremely bad luck.
Whenever I Mulligan it never goes it never goes in my favor ever.
Try to change your play style.
Tried this out tonight.
Went 11-4 with the deck, straight back up to Rank 5.
+1 for being a good version.
74% Winrate works for me :-)
Thank you :) Have fun!
Btw Cracken... I replaced Frizz, with Sn1p-Sn4p! Is that ok?
Yes it is totally okay.
This is the embiggen deck I have the most success with so far.
I don't agree with a comment I've read earlier whereby someone said that when not drawing Embiggen of Strength in Numbers is a lost game.
Just now I've played a mirror match whereby I drew 2x Breath of Dreams and 2x Big Ol' Whelp very quickly.
My opponent did get Embiggen in the starting hand and started to burn me down very quickly.
However, thanks to the draws and extra mana I had, I managed to play Winged Guardian relatively fast and due to 2xWitching Hour I managed to build a wall he could not pass.
Note I don't have Frizz Kindleroost , so I replaced it with a second Witching Hour.
There are more than one way to win with this deck.
What do you think about two Witching Hours? Are dead draws common?
Winged Guardian is the only beast, so two is running a high risk of drawing one before the other. Instead run something like Archmage Vargoth which doubles the Witching Hour anyways, or can double something else of value instead, like Embiggen, or turning a dead Breath of Dreams into Arcane Intellect.