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Detailed Guide Budget Aggro Druid - Warlock Killer

  • Last updated Aug 27, 2021 (Incanter's Nerfs)
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  • 18 Minions
  • 12 Spells
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Aggro Druid
  • Crafting Cost: 3720
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 8/23/2021 (Incanter's Nerfs)
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  • Battle Tag:

    Cracken23#2210

  • Region:

    EU

  • Total Deck Rating

    91

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As I promise, here is the deck guide! I think this deck very easy and fun to play. Very cheap to craft, no Epics, no Legendaries. You can climb ladder fast with this deck and it's designed to destroy Warlocks.

As this is the budget version of the deck, I'll talk about some better replacements at the end of the guide 

 

General Idea

United in Stormwind introduce a new play style of Druid based on Attack with our hero and this is a good opportunity to build an Aggro Druid around that idea. This deck aims to beat down the opponent with little buffed minions and your hero itself. This isn't a Zoo-ish deck that cares about board control that much, as this is an aggro deck, you need minions to beat your opponent's face like in every other aggro deck. Of course you should do some trades but mainly, you want to go face. 

Most of times your gameplay will be play your cheap minions early like Vibrant Squirrel, Intrepid Initiate, Wandmaker and Wickerclaw. Then play your spells to buff your minions with Adorable Infestation, Sow the Soil, Kodo Mount and Arbor Up. While attacking with your hero, using your hero power or some attack spells like Feral Rage and Moontouched Amulet. Because you are playing bunch of cheap card, you'll be out of gas quickly. To prevent this, we are playing some card drawing cards such as Faire Arborist, Twilight Runner and Voracious Reader

 

Mentionable Cards and Tips

Sow the Soil: Flexible card. Both choices can be good but you should be careful. You have to decide to have board presence or extra damage. 

Wickerclaw: One of the best cards in the deck. When you play this, your opponent will got scared, try to remove it as soon as possible and spend extra resources. If your opponent can't remove it, this bad boy may became a 3/4, 5/4 and broke your opponent into pieces. 

Park Panther: Probably "the best" card in the deck. This deck is mainly builded around this card. Huge tempo play with 4 mana 4/4 Rush with extra 3 Attack for your hero. It helps activation of Wickerclaw and protects your other little minions. 

Kodo Mount: This card is just insane. For just 4 Mana, it grants quick damage and stickiness on board with health buff and Deathrattle.

Nordrassil Druid: Very underestimated Core Set card. 4 Mana 3/5 Taunt with 3 Mana discount for your Feral Rage, Moontouched Amulet, Kodo Mount and Arbor Up. Basically 3/5 for 1 Mana. Almost always, you need tyry to use this card with its full value, which is spell mana discount. It can grant an early swing turn from turn 4. 

Arbor Up: Generally good card. Grants you extra damage and board presence. You should be careful! You shouldn't be greedy with this card. Most of times it is good enough to play Arbor Up on just 1 or 2 minions. You need to finish your opponent fast with this deck, you can't risk it just for more tempo. 

Voracious Reader: This card can be very important in midgame and endgame. You need all card draw you can. 

Wandmaker: This card is especially good with Druid. It can grant you extremely good cards with GuidanceNature Studies and Resizing Pouch or gives you tempo with Adorable Infestation and Sow the Soil. Worst card you can get is Partner Assignment which is not a bad card. 

 

Matchups

I think our worst matchups are Quest Mage and Quest Shaman. These decks have a lot removals and defensive plays which can destroy our game plan. You should go extremely aggro against these matchups kill them as soon as possible, otherwise you'll be the who is killed. 

Our best matchups are combo decks like Quest Warlock(our main target), Miracle Rogue, Demon Hunter etc. You can quickly beat them down while they are trying to survive until their combo plays. 

Against other aggro decks like Face Hunter and Shadow Priest, we are pretty good. We have a lot of damage as they do but we have a lot of sustain that they don't have. Such as Feral RageMoontouched Amulet and Nordrassil Druid

There are very little control decks out there for example Quest Priest and Big Warrior but we are pretty good against them too. They are very slow and we can easily kill them. 

For mulligan there isn't much to do. Just try to keep your early drops: Adorable Infestation Vibrant Squirrel Wickerclaw Intrepid Inıtiate Wandmaker

 

Possible Replacements

Since this is a budget guide, we use the cheapest cards that we can and of course there are better choices. 

For an example, you can play Cornelius Roame instead of Faire Arborist to draw more cards. Or you can play Composting for card draw but it isn't as flexible as Cornelius Roame. You can even try Peasant but its pretty risky. 

You can play Greybough to have more defense.