N'zoth Renolock
- Last updated Apr 18, 2021 (Forged in the Barrens)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 9 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Renolock
- Crafting Cost: 17820
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/11/2021 (Forged in the Barrens)
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This is the most "face-all" deck i am playing right now ,it doesn't have a really big win rate over any deck except odd paladin,but can face almost if not all of the meta game,there are certain match-ups that just looking at the list you wont know how to win against and what you need to do,like jade druid,combo decks that combo from either hand/deck etc.
I can make a detailed Explanation on everything from mulligans to techs and how to win the match-ups mentioned above if enough people want ,renolock is a good deck in general that have alot of flex spots so it can deal with wide variety of the wild meta game pretty well If played right
BE AWARE THIS DECK IS BE NO MEANS EASY TO PLAY,IF YOU DONT SPEND TIME THINKING YOUR EXPERIENCE WILL BE SUBPAR
edit: Ok Let's Start with the basic
General Explanation:
RenoLock is a Anti-aggro Deck first,depending of the deckbuild you can manage bad and even low winrate matchups,with the deck being a "all-meta counter" you can win every match-up depending on what tech you bring
Lets First state what cards Cannot Be replaced or can only be replaced with cards that are used for the same purpose:
Zephrys the Great,Kazakus,Reno Jackson,Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
(These 4 are for Obvious Reasons,they are the payoff for having a highlander deck)
Brann Bronzebeard, Gnomeferatu ,Zola the Gorgon,Dirty Rat
These cards are the one that will make you win certain unwinnable match-ups,they disrupt Combo and against other control deck is the main win condition:Making your oponnent entering fatigue faster using Brann Bronzebeard , Gnomeferatu ,Zola the Gorgon on Gnomeferatu and playing them again,while using life-tap is the certain way to play this deck even against fatigue match-ups and extreme aggro-burn match ups,the important thing is to know when and how much you use it.(i will explain these below somewhere)
Khartut Defender,Deathlord Enhanced Dreadlord,Voidlord,Voidcaller and N'Zoth, the Corruptor/Bloodreaver Gul'dan
Is your main win condition and value tool,if you are not playing n'zoth the you better of not using Karthut defender,n'zoth is the main win condition against jade druid so if you dont plan in using you can swap them for cards like Skulking Geist for the jade druid match up,and if you dont wanna craft a 400 dust 2/3 you can always play elisyana/tickatus for the fatigue match-ups,they are way easier to use with little downside but it is not optimal.
Twisting Nether,Lord Godfrey , Defile and Kazakus are your main source of bloard clear,makes all match-ups harder without them
Siphon Soul, Hysteria and Blastcrystal Potion are the premier target removal
Honorable Mentions: Zilliax,Emperor Thaurissan,Dark Skies, Expired Merchant
Expired Merchant is a form of more value that is not really needed,you can get 2-4 copies of either guldan or n'zoth,the only matchup where this is really useful right now is against jade druid that you can win without the card and makes n'zoth pool worse
heres is a replay where merchant was useful,against a really greed jade druid list,i can assure you while this worked out for my win if did not have her in my deck i would have played better and would not need her its the same use of skullking geist,a easy way to win certain matchups,useful but if you use the deck the optimal way you dont need it,you will see what i mean below.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/HvNWhxPYFtfrcoyMFWETxh
here's a replay without expired merchant that i won against jade druid
https://hsreplay.net/replay/Cn7mRNQ2Gh797fDa9zC6cZ
you dont need it,its 1 slot less for easier wins not optimal
Dark Skies is a very good but contrary to what people think is not necessary,against aggro match-ups you are playing this card on 3 on the ideal scenario,the problem if her is that once you are past turn 3 without using life-tap and using all your card to survive your hand is too low to use her for more than 3 mana deal 3-4 at ramdom, is just worse than Shadow Bolt in these cases
Zilliax very good card and thats about it
Emperor Thaurissan everytime is played is plus mana and he can make big 10 drops comes 1 turn earlier,makes the gnomeferatu/dirty rat shenanigans easier too,against the wild meta that is mostly aggro you better off using Armor Vendor or Keli'dan the Breaker
The removal package is all optional as long you have Drain Soul on the deck everything else is about whats work better for you or what you like.
Main Gameplay: the deck plays very one sided for most part,your focus is to survive or cheat big minions early with Voidcaller that insta-win against certain minion based decks,then out value them using highlander cards
this works for most of the meta that composes of :Call the Arms Paladin,Token druid,odd paladin,pirate warrior,discard lock,and any type of normal agressive deck
the mulligan for those match-ups is the same,you try to find dark skies,defile,drain soul,and the removals you choose.Reno and godfrey can be kept as long you have other removal or 1 drop to get to 6-7 mana alive,voidcaller is only a keep with either dreadlord or voidlord on hand,deathlord good against aggro deck that have small minions.Zeprys against this matchups is good too on turn 2 he is a 3/2 that gives backstabb very good tempo play.
the problem is the non minion based agressive decks like flamewaker mage and any type of hunter,i am currently 1800 legend and ever since diamond 10 all hunters are face decks,either odd,even or pure face hunter.the solution for this match up is hard mulligan for reno jackson dont bother with anything else other than drain soul,they kill you fast even without minions but if you play reno on curve is gg most of the time,you should not life-tap against hunter,the only exception is if you have reno on hand,once you survive till reno on trough heals from mistress of mixture ,zilliax and drain soul you can also just play guldan without any demon on the pool,his hero power is enough to win(DH playes the exact same way as hunter)
against the mages you have to assume to be some type of mozaki,flamewaker almost all spells mage,its either that deck or even hero power,both are hard match-ups,this is where dirty rat and gnomeferatu shines,you should always hard mulligan for those gnomeferatu can be played on curve if you dont have brann,but dirty rat needs to be played 1 turn before they go off,they mostly show that by playng mana biscuit and drawing alot of card,(its between turn 5-7 most of the time)is their setup before they kill you,if you did get dirty rat but no brann and only delayed them that is good enough they dont fight for board,you gonna need to make a big enough board so that flamewaker dont kill you,voidcaller and alextrasza is the way to make board fast,once you get one flamewaker or mozaki out of they hand the game is in your favor or won already
Jade druid is a especific match up that you can either play skulking geist for easy win or use the deck in the optimal way to win,against druid you should always mulligan if they are aggro,if they are not aggro the game is going to fatigue soo you dont need to bother with specific cards.what jade druids do is very simples,they ramp draw alot and make a lot of armor until they are left with only jade idols and card draw on hand,you need to be the most greed player possible,using bran only with kazakus/zola waiting alot for big board clears and playing all the demons and deathrattles before n'zoth and guldan,the way to win is once you are almost out of cards with everything set up and all he have is idols and draws you need to starting killing and board clearing every wave of idols until he only has idols and at most 2 draw card left,at that point he will make 1-2 15/15 golem per turn,if you are greed enough that game you can out value them and create a massive wall of taunt and demons and just go face,while he hits your 3/9 taunt that creats 3 taunts you hit him,if you used kazakus before without brann,no problem,you can use brann and zola on n'zoth to continue building board and going face,when he is out of jade idols he will need to shuffle and thats just a free turn of damage,i did not lost a single match against jade druid playing this way(you can try to cheese it if he shuffles only 1 copy of jade idol in the deck using gnomeferatu,but good jade druid player always save draw for the end game and shuffle draw the same turn,if he does not do that and only shuffles you will win even faster and easier[but depending on the oponent to missplay to win is just bad mentality])
you can play expired merchant too
Priest has some thing up their sleeve they can be either Reno,big,or deathrattle
Big priest is very straight foward,they have big bois but they dont have enough to out-value us,you can either try a kakazus on 4 to go for the 5 mana polymorph potion or just see what they get from essence,if its not the 9/9 that makes a copy of another minion in your deck or the 5/5 that makes spells cost more you better off killing and just out valueing them,most of the big priest play big minions that are good against aggro not against value deck soo its a easy match-up most of the time
Reno priest was a good match up in the past but since they got lorekeeper poltek they are way faster and deadly than before ,what you should do is getting a decent board 1 turn before they play the deathkinght hero,(go easy if they still have psychic scream),once they are in preassure they tend to use the hero power to remove things and you get more time,the more time you get,more are your chances of winning.you should always keep dirty rat,almost all of their minions are battecrys and if you get raza out of the hand the game is mostly won,you need to keep the right amount of pressure,withou overextending into mass removal so they cant just hero power your face to death
Deathrattle priest is just a quest priest with alot of mediocre cards. you just out value everything,go the brann,gnomeferatu,zola combo for fatigue win,sometimes they play archbishop in this case you change your plan to kill them,with the amount of pressure you can get from dragonqueen,n'zoth and guldan and while they are drawing mostly ramdom bad cards from your deck, you just "hit till ded".
Dead's man hand warrior is a match up i encountered 1 single time but i will mention it here. what they have is mostly anti-aggro cards and removal,they dont play any big payoff,sometimes they play Kargoth but they will probably need to use before shuffle more of them in the deck,you can just out-tempo him,they cards are low on value because they go infinite in fatigue,you only need to be carefull to not tap that much,they play 2 coldlight oracle and brann ,most of the time you just play a big board and they cant deal with it
as you can see in the graphic most of the matchs i played was mage and priest
this was from diamond 5 to legend with some crashes on the decktracker here and there,(then i lost 4 matches in a roll in legend to high roll nonsense decks[like big deathrattle rogue with deathwing that put dragons on the board and lost turn 6]) not a absurd win rate but just good enough to win more than lose
oh i forgot to mention playing mistress instead of armor vendor makes n'zoth pool worst too,i just like the 2 atack instead of 1,you can even play both,its your choice
I would like to say sorry about the gramatical and spelling errors,english is not my native languague,if someone wants to edit my text to make more confortable to read,you are welcome.
if you are interessed in something i forgot to mention(match-ups,cards choices,etc) or have tips and things to share with me i am always interessed,just type in the comments and i will surely answer you with the best i can.
Good Luck!
Sorry, but anyone that plays Tickatus is a cancer to this game. Total wuss card that no one can defend against. Not man enough to face an opponent with all their cards so yea....lets burn 5-10 of them. Lol. I’m sorry but some cards just because they are available should not be played. Thank you for not including that crap card in your list. Actually EARN the win instead of fatiguing and burning cards like a little bitch lol
i forgot to mention,loathheb is just plain better than thaurissan ,in the current meta,you can either play 2 of those in any combination :tickatus, kellidan and loatheb,tickatus is good against value control,kellidan minion based decks and loatheb is good against mages and spell based decks(kellidan is nice because works even against spellmana hate) you can choose betwen what you have or your preference
Here is a similar list I've tweaked a bit from yours. Haven't played many games with it but I will be testing it out. Any thoughts? And I would love a detailed explanation on how you play the deck if you are willing to go over that. Doesn't have to be too in depth. Anything would be appreciated. I did change the list mainly because I was missing some of those cards but honestly feel pretty good about the changes I made.
Currently 20 and 4 with it
# 1x (1) Armor Vendor
# 1x (1) Demonic Studies
# 1x (1) Mistress of Mixtures
# 1x (2) Defile
# 1x (2) Dirty Rat
# 1x (2) Doomsayer
# 1x (2) Drain Soul
# 1x (2) Gnomeferatu
# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great
# 1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard
# 1x (3) Dark Skies
# 1x (3) Deathlord
# 1x (3) Hysteria
# 1x (3) Zola the Gorgon
# 1x (4) Kazakus
# 1x (4) Kazakus, Golem Shaper
# 1x (5) Shadow Hunter Vol'jin
# 1x (5) Siphon Soul
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 1x (6) Khartut Defender
# 1x (6) Reno Jackson
# 1x (6) Skulking Geist
# 1x (6) Tickatus
# 1x (7) Lord Godfrey
# 1x (8) Enhanced Dreadlord
# 1x (8) Twisting Nether
# 1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
# 1x (9) Voidlord
# 1x (10) Bloodreaver Gul'dan
# 1x (10) N'Zoth, the Corruptor
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your list looks good,to be honest the only cards that i feel are really necessary are dirty rat,brann,zola,gnomeferatu,n'zoth and guldan,the rest can be tweeked. i will make the detailed explanation for you this week at the latest,the skulging geist is good agains jade,but with nzoth i feel u dont need him to win,with the detailed explanation you will understand more what i mean
Ok awesome. Yeah I think geist has been the most helpful with apm mage. I love your explanation against all the major matchups. Going to be a huge help. I'm 5 wins away from my 1k warlock portrait so I will be playing this alot! I'm curious how you feel about Tamsin Roame? Seems like she would be excellent in a highlander deck to get more value out of drain soul and syphon soul. As well as Tickatus with bran.
i will test your list, the only card i am missing is tickatus,once i have more time played with it i will tell you how i feel about.
the thing i have with Tamsin Roame is that our shadow spells are either too costly or to cheap to make her a viable choice for value,not really needed and honestly not godd enough,i tried out some time ago,tickatus i dont have it yet but i will get it sooner than later
The only card I'm missing from your list is Kelidan and Thaurissian. I changed it to Tamsin and Geist for now. Going to play it for a while and see how it goes.
Watch what happened this game. Its kind of the dream but omg
https://hsreplay.net/replay/KoANQjgUJWoFWo5FuxsRcK
thaurissa not really needed,neither is kelidan bot not worth the craft to be honest,you better off using tickatus and other cards,maybe loathheb very good against mage,literally is a warp gate,give you one extra turn against them
Watch what happened this game. Its kind of the dream but omg
https://hsreplay.net/replay/KoANQjgUJWoFWo5FuxsRcK
very nice! tickatus looking way better than emperor and i would think the other slot should be between loathheb and kelidan,depends on what you are strugling more,spell based decks or minion based,i wil play some time to get dust for tickatus
A decently long match for my final win but honestly it was epic. I have struggled with this version of priest while trying to find the right groove of reno deck but it felt pretty good to win. Even if it was close!
https://hsreplay.net/replay/VTemy7q5JDmzyrsxrRq5aY
Here's the list I'm using. I'm trying without the geist, I've still managed to lose to apm mages even after geisting them so I almost feel like the demonic studies is better. But I'm not sure about that. It is really good vs togwaggle sceme. That godfrey turn in that game was disgusting.
# 1x (1) Demonic Studies
# 1x (1) Mistress of Mixtures
# 1x (2) Defile
# 1x (2) Dirty Rat
# 1x (2) Doomsayer
# 1x (2) Drain Soul
# 1x (2) Gnomeferatu
# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great
# 1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard
# 1x (3) Dark Skies
# 1x (3) Deathlord
# 1x (3) Hysteria
# 1x (3) Zola the Gorgon
# 1x (4) Blastcrystal Potion
# 1x (4) Cascading Disaster
# 1x (4) Hellfire
# 1x (4) Kazakus
# 1x (4) Voidcaller
# 1x (5) Siphon Soul
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 1x (6) Khartut Defender
# 1x (6) Reno Jackson
# 1x (6) Tickatus
# 1x (7) Lord Godfrey
# 1x (8) Enhanced Dreadlord
# 1x (8) Twisting Nether
# 1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
# 1x (9) Voidlord
# 1x (10) Bloodreaver Gul'dan
# 1x (10) N'Zoth, the Corruptor
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thaurissan seems too slow in the meta.. also no armor vendor ?
most of the time i am either facing aggro paladins or token druids so Emperor Thaurissan is not really needed,the thing about him its that with the amount of high cost cards i am playing he makes so i can do double spells turns more easily,and with the Gnomeferatu ,Zola the Gorgon , Brann Bronzebeard,Dirty Rat combo disruption easier to do,but u can always play other things,for the Armor vendor the problem i have with her is that on paper is good against aggro but a 1/3 that gives health doesnt trade well neither help me in the board,Mistress of Mixtures at 2 attack its a way better 1 drop (she good for taps tho) so i swapped her for Keli'dan the Breaker so i can make comebacks against big boards,loathhebs,and all the spell focused taxes people are playing right now ,i am still testing tho, not enough info yet