Odd Warrior (D4-Legend 83% WR)
- Last updated Apr 20, 2020 (Outland DH Nerfs)
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Wild
- 16 Minions
- 12 Spells
- 1 Weapon
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Odd Warrior
- Crafting Cost: 9420
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/18/2020 (Outland DH Nerfs)
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I made Legend this season with this deck, first time Legend woot woot!
Deck is fairly straight forward, armor up as much as possible and keep control of the board. Applying pressure early against combo decks like mage is key too. Use Coldlight Oracle and Brann Bronzebeard to deal damage when your opponent hits fatigue range. Darius Crowley was a replacement for Zilliax but did really well and was glad I had him for Demon Hunter match up.
If this deck gets enough likes I can post a mulligan guide if people want :).
My match ups going from D4-Legend:
Mulligan Guide update: First I would like to say thank you to everyone who upvoted me, I never expected this deck to get so many likes. So with that I have prepared a general mulligan guide/strategy section for this deck.
Control warrior doesn't is a very reactive heavy deck, which is good because it gives us options for every game, but not a ton to do for the first couple turns outside of hero power. Our only proactive cards are Eternium Rover, EVIL Quartermaster and Imprisoned Gan'arg. These are keeps in just about every match up.
For aggro decks I like to keep cards like Reckless Flurry, Shield Slam and Bladestorm. These will help keep the early board clear and the first two work well with our plan of armor up every turn possible. If I know my opponent is playing a deck that plays weapons such as Pirate warrior, Rogue, or Hunter I like to mulligan aggressively for Gluttonous Ooze.
For slower control decks the best card to actually keep is Dr. Boom, Mad Genius as playing him as early as possible and abusing his hero power will generate a ton of value.
A few match up specific mulligans:
Warlock(Handlock/Cubelock): Handlock/cubelock can be a tough match up since they can generate devastating plays early with cards like Voidcaller and Carnivorous Cube and we only have so many board clears. Shield Slam works very well in this match up as you can kill any minion with only about 2 armor ups. I also like keeping Coldlight Oracle for early plays vs them as they then to have about 8-9 cards in hand at any given time.
Mecha'Thun Combo Variants: Mecha'thun is probably the worst match up to see, we can't close out a game too early and they get draw their deck and combo off while we sit with a bunch of board clears dead in hand. Luckily same as Handlock these decks tend to have a lot of cards in hand and Brann Bronzebeard and Coldlight Oracle combo will do a lot of work against these decks, milling combo pieces.
These are the decks I personally struggle with the most on ladder. Other match ups are fairly straight forward. Armor up, get out of lethal range, and keep the board clear.
General Strategy: Odd warrior sadly doesn't have many early game plays so be patient and just armor up the first couple turns, you can take a couple lumps before you need to worry about running out removal. If your hero power negates the damage on board its generally better to just save the removal. Turn 3 is where we can really start playing cards though. Our only real plays at this point are gonna be Shield Block or EVIL Quartermaster. Play Shield Block if you expect a big minion early and want a easy clean up with Shield Slam. Once we hit turn 5 the options become greater. Play things Dyn-o-matic to clear small boards. Only use Brawl for dire board states you wouldn't be able to deal with otherwise. Darius Crowley andSupercollider are pretty situational, but they are good in the right board state. Darius Crowley is good vs boards that can't generate a lot of minions in one turn, as he can get big enough to trade with most things. Supercollider is a hard card to use think about minion placement and what to attack first.
If there is any other questions you guys have about the deck I'd be more than happy to try to answer. Best of luck with the list!
Great deck, but.... it loses against any deck which has greater value: Big Priest, Highlander Warlock, Cube Lock, N'zoth rattle lock,
Also lost against decks which has a constant pressure on board: discard lock
Also lost a few times against combo DH.
I have changed Darius Crowley out for Zilliax in.
Overall the deck is good against aggro, but I think the meta is shifting, because they nerfed almost all of the top decks. DH (aggro), Mechathun-lock, Quest mage, Darkest Hour Lock.
Exactly, this is a very good deck against aggro (secret mage, pirate warrior, aggro dh,...) but it sucks against any deck with greater value and against any combo-deck (mill rogue, MechThun, Aviana, Malygos...)
I have to disagree here. I always keep Oracle with extreme greed, waiting till they have atleast 9 cards in hand. I drop Brann into Coldlight, and almost always mill good cards away.
If you continue to struggle, many Odd Warrior lists run Azalina Soulthief too, could be a solid pick if you run into nothing but Control decks.
I have much experience with odd warrior and other warrior control decks, but not having any success with this deck at all! Currently at platinum rank 5
I find this deck fun but I would prefer get Zilliax instead of Darius Crowley. Is it possible or too weak compared to each other?
Darius was a card I decided to play because I don't own Zilliax yet. So yes if you have Zilliax play him!
I am in the same situation as you - I also don't have Darius Crowley and replaced it with Zilliax. Little advantage: When your discovered more mechs with Dr. Bumms heropower, you can magnetize Zilliax to them and heal yourself a bit.
I don't have much time to play, but managed to play from Dia4 to Dia2 with this decklist with an actual winrate of 64% - top.
How does this deck beat Jade Druid?
It doesnt beat jade druid
Hit my first ever legend with this deck today, thanks mate!
Hey! How to play against mill rogue?
No chance, this is your contra deck. Just concede and look for the next opponent. Mill rogues are so rare, it doesn't pay off to talk about them.
Love this deck, played yesterday from Diamond 4 (1 star) to Diamond 3 (3 stars), but then I was struggling with Diamond 2 - too many Warlocks. Hope the nerfs (Bloodbloom...) will help a bit. As I don't have Darius Crowley, I replaced it with Zilliax, works well for me.
@xClusive: Your hints also were very helpful yesterday!
On 2dia - lose to
2x Reno quest mage with 3 turn
2x Reno priest with 7/7 legend priest
Control lock
No win && no demon hanter
And on 4dia gets 5 win vs demon hanter
darius has a replacement
Maybe it's just because I love Baku, but this deck is a ton of fun. List feels really tight, can't wait to keep seeing if it can keep a strong win-rate on ladder. Great list!!!
This deck is amazing. I've been testing with Odd Warrior myself, as I figured it'd be a good counter for DH. Struggled to find the sweet spot, but I think you've nailed it with this build.
I've made two small adjustments, as I in fact am running Zilliax instead of Darius Crowley, and Boom Squad instead of Omega Assembly. The latter one might be a weird inclusion, but it's the choice you get in Boom Squad that really helped me. In general, play the games really slow, and you'll never run out of resources. There are some very strong interactions in this deck that should be noted:
Hey thanks for the feedback :) yeah I do like the list a lot. Zilliax is definitely something I want to get asap the life gain is super important even with all our armor ups, but I assumed Darius Crowley would be okay for the time being till I can acquire it. I will have to try out Boom Squad though, it looks promising.
Good tips, I’ll try boom squad too.