C’thun, the Ornithologist [STANDARD]
- Last updated Dec 19, 2020 (Darkmoon Aggro Changes)
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Wild
- 7 Minions
- 22 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: C'Thun Priest
- Crafting Cost: 8660
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/30/2020 (Darkmoon Faire)
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The general gist of the idea is to complete C’Thun, the Shattered and use it to kill the opponent. To get there, you will aim to buy as much time as possible by stuffing the opponent’s deck full of bird off of the numerous Bad Luck Albatross you are hopefully playing, resurrecting, copying, and destroying through trades and board clears. While your opponent is stuck drawing useless birds, you are hopefully able to draw into and play the C’thun pieces to manage the threats they do manage to get through to you.
When I first saw the new C’thun, my mind went immediately to a Bird Priest shell. I’m going to keep testing this out, and hope to also make a wild version making use of the myriad of board clears, cloning spells, and Spiritsinger Umbra to make the opponent utterly miserable and demoralized before C’Thun, the Shattered puts them out of their misery.
Try it out! Let me know what you add to make my random stuff better! This is very much a first stab and a work in progress.
So I was looking for some fun decks to play and found this.
I was expecting it to be trash or okay at best, but honestly, it works. I was just casually playing and winning games in standard. I'm not the best player, but I'm playing this on the ladder around rank 4 Diamond.
I have played 22 games with this, with a win rate of 55%. If I remove the (very skillful) shamans, the win rate for me is 68% with 16 games played.
It holds up well to most aggro decks beside shaman, provided they don't have an insane opening.
If you want to see a game with this deck being used fully check out: https://hsreplay.net/replay/ziopTdHpzPxj4FjXKWm7ZW
I was playing against a likely OTK warrior and I made him forfeit because over half his deck was albatrosses, shuffled ~34 albatrosses into his deck before they forfeited.
Thanks for sharing this deck. I think a good name for it would be Bird'thun.
I’m glad you enjoy it and are finding success at levels FAR above where I’m at!
I don’t expect this deck to be any kind of meta-breaker, just a deck that reflects the ways I like to play TCG’s, slow manipulative painful death to the opponent. Truth be told, I’m more of a Wild player and I have been enjoying the version I play over there with Amara and Umbra much more, but this one is still quite fun for me as well and might even do better after the recent (slight) aggro nerfs. I agree on the openings, I find if I can stabilize by turn 5 or 6 and start hitting a good Albatross groove or Infiltrator wall then I can slow the game down immensely and start to annoy the opponent into conceding or a C’Thun finish. Your win rate is roughly what I’ve been hitting way down in my range (Silver/Gold) so it’s nice to see it can work I higher up as well! I’m gonna check out that replay, I love watching what other people do with it. Anything you would change in there? I’m not the most happy with Galakrond but I’m not sure what I would replace it with as the removal and armor are nice in a mode where I don’t have access to Psychic Scream, Mass Hysteria, or Twilight’s Call for more Infiltrators.