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Hello, My name is Anomaly and I bring to you my first Druid deck on this site; Malygod!!

Why Malygod instead of Survival of the Fittest Druid?

Now that we have had the first round of nerfs as well as some grandmasters play, it’s quite clear the meta is not as “hyper aggressive “ as most of us initially expected. The only real deck that does well in this meta of the aggressive nature is Aggro rogue, purely due to the power level of Secret Passage....

The top 2 decks in high legend are Highlander/Galakrond Priest and Bomb Warrior; in short, decks that run a bunch of removal and stall out the game long enough for them to either out-value you, or blow you up with Bomb(s).

Survival Druid isn’t really that good into a meta like this because the 2 aforementioned classes run the most removal in the game. The rise of these decks has also increased the “turtle mage” shenanigans because of the time combo decks are given to cycle through their decks. Turtle mage also hard counters Survival Druid because of the permanent freeze effect mages can stall almost indefinitely.

This opens the door for Malygos Druid. In addition to the already relevant Lightning Bloom, Forest Warden Omu is a card that should have NEVER been printed and it’s going to keep this deck from ever falling below tier 2 for the next two years.

Each card explained:

2x Innervate: Ramp to get you high cost minions like Twilight Runner or Ysera, Unleashed earlier or cheating out something like Overgrowth a turn earlier. Just a really flexible card that isn’t as powerful as the old Innervate, but serviceable nonetheless.

2x Moonfire: Most of the time you keep Moonfire for burst but depending on the match up and board state you may use it as removal. Against priest or warrior, refrain from using it against minions unless it’s needed to survive.

2x Lightning Bloom: They nerfedInnervate for this....absurd card that cannot really get nerfed because it’s design is flawed to begin with. Just abuse it, nuff said.

2x Nature Studies: This card provides a lot of flexibility as you can play it turn one into an early Wild Growth turn 2. The discover feature is a bonus! My suggestion is to play this card at the end of your turn if you are past 5 mana so you can cheat out things like Overflow and Guardian Animals.

2x Breath of Dreams: Is this why they nerfed Wild Growth? 2 mana to draw a card and gain a mana crystal if you have a dragon is way too good to leave out of any Druid deck that runs atleast 2 dragons. 

2x Bogbeam: 0 mana deal 3 to a minion after turn 4, what’s not to like?

Speaker Gidra: To be honest I have no idea what blizzard was smoking when they made the legendaries for this class. This card will be in every Druid deck till it rotates. This plus a 4/7 mana spell is almost game-breaking.

Wild Growth: I have added this as a single copy because it’s really hard to cut a different card from this deck, and at some point having too much ramp can be detrimental. This deck is fine without the inclusion of this card but the combo with Nature Studies has me slotting one in here.

Germination: This is your combo piece used on Forest Warden Omu for 30 mana crystals in a turn.(A video on how this works down below). Against matchups where you just need to survive and have a Ysera, Unleashed board win you the game, use it for taunt. 

 2xOvergrowth: How has this card not been nerfed yet? Don’t ask me, just mulligan for it.

2xSwipe: It’s used in conjunction with Malygos for 9 damage face with a 6 damage air clear. Against anything besides Priest or warrior, one Swipe can be used for board control. For priest and warrior you will almost certainly need 30 damage unless Alexstrasza is played.

Beast Package:

2x Twilight Runner,Teacher’s Pet, andGuardian Animals: These 6 cards make up the beast package introduced in Scholomance Academy. The idea is to cheat out the beasts with Guardian Animals and draw cards withTwilight Runner, or build a stalling wall with[deck]Teacher’s Pet[/deck]. I have forgone adding Lake Thresher due to deck space and also because this deck is not reliant on cheating out beasts (I might add one in place of a Teacher’s Pet if the meta is a little faster). This is just an extra way to fight for board while drawing through your deck. With only 4 beasts, the second Guadian Animals is usually a dead draw but both are required if you want the high roll potential of an early set of beasts way before turn 7.

 

Overflow: I have only chosen to run one because the deck ran into hand size issues when running 2 copies of this card. This card is really good at pulling out your Dream Portal as well as healing you which buys you more time to churn through your deck.

Forest Warden Omu: WTF is this card, I guess they didn’t learn their lesson from[
 Kun, The Forgotten King.....Absolutely bonkers card and now the deck runs a lot smoother because the Imprisoned Satyr is no longer needed to discount Malygos for the combo. 

The Drags:

Ysera, Unleashed: Another grossly powerful legendary that summons you on average, 35/35 worth of stats on top of the 4/12 body The best alternate win-condition any deck can have!

Alexstrasza: Self-Explanatory in any combo deck. Just Alex them down to 15, and combo them the following turn. It can also be used a defensive healing tool against aggressive decks. 

Malygos: The ol’ plus 5 spell damage plus Moonfire never gets old does it?! It’s the point of the deck, don’t bother crafting it without it!

Honorable Mention, Jepetto Joybuzz: This card is really good in any combo Malygos deck, but with how the meta currently stands, a one mana Malygos is not really needed when the 30 health breakpoint is enough to kill every class minus warrior but we have Alexstrasza for that.

Strategy guide upon reaching 10 upvotes

Combo Breakdown: Here is my video on how you can execute this combo as early as turn 9!!