Tickets, please! 18-3 Control Warlock
- Last updated Dec 23, 2021 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
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Wild
- 6 Minions
- 23 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Mill Warlock
- Crafting Cost: 11100
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 12/20/2021 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
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I tried for 3 days and I finally did it. I found a meta-breaking warlock deck that is not OTK or quest! This deck carried me from D5 to legend in 1 evening.
Upsides:
- Trashes paladin
- Shits on pirate warrior
- Can gain up to 56 armor in one turn!
- Can disrupt combo decks by burning their combo pieces
- Fun, swingy games! (for you, not your opponent!)
- This deck makes friends :D
Mulligan for Vanndar Stormpike, Dark Portal, Free Admission. You can keep 1 cheap removal vs aggro
Replacements:
Since paladins are gone from ladder, I replaced 1 Leutenant with 1 Altar of Fire. It helps you to burn those extra cards when you found all you need or if you are not able to play more then 1 Tickatus. If you struggle with your draws, you can add Sphere of Sapience instead. Helps not to draw tickatus early
Matchups:
You destroy pirates and libram paladin by default. Since nerfs, ping mage and deathrattle hunter are on the rise. Mage can ignore your minions and push face and hunter is a very greedy late game, so its hard for you to clear. Those matchups might be problematic. Sphere of sapience might help you there.
Another tricky matchup is quest priest. They usually dont care how many cards you burn. Dont ever use your mutanus until they complete quest. They cant play their quest reward the same turn they complete it. So you have great chance to eat it next turn.
Enjoy!
Super fun actually, would love a more in depth guide
Dont draw your minions before vandar/dark portal is about as in depth as it gets.
Pretty much. :D
Do you just insta-concede if you draw Tickatus before he’s discounted? I’ve found if I don’t I just have a 20 minute long loss trying corrupt with a full cost card. I’ve lost a few ranks just from unlucky draws after climbing with OwlTK.
edit: I went from diamond 6 all the way down to 10 until I couldn’t lose ranks. I just don’t see this deck as viable, you’re absolutely shit on if you draw Tickatus in like the first 6 turns which isn’t that unlikely. It’s definitely fun to play, but not meta breaking at all. :(
I am sorry it didnt work for you. It works very well for others, perhaps you mulligan incorrect? Remember, it is a control deck. Tickatus is your wincondition only vs OTK decks. Vs agro you just need to defend, sometimes it is better to copy armor demons. I still believe this deck counters whole todays meta. Lost only to 1 pirate warrior so far and to 0 paladins. Maybe full agro hunter beats this, but I havent met any.
If you draw tickatus with full cost, you can still corrupt it with 8 mana demons, leutenants or mutanus. There are plenty of options. And remeber, you dont have to wait for full 7 minion armor combo , just playing it on 2-3 can win games.
I’ll try it out. I’ve been facing a lot of hero power mages and can’t make it to late game without getting lucky draws.
Against hero power mages you often want to kill your own Moarg with Grimoar of Sacrifice. But yes, that deck ignores your minions, tickatus is pretty important in those matches. Its a deck that appeared after nerfs, its pretty a 50/50 for me against them this far
Kept trying. Didn’t matter what I mulliganed, what I copied, got shit on. Lost all the way down to diamond 10 with 0 stars. Rebuilding with OwlTK. Again, fun deck. Just not viable.
god tier with good draws, and really satisfying. But you lose your main advantage as a warlock (extra draw & healing) by not having almost any healing and risking drawing the wrong cards because you’re only trying to go for a couple.
Having a bad time with my other decks (OTKlock and heropower mage) so thought I’d give it a shot again. Still fun, still extremely shit. Nothing like losing to pirate warr before he even finishes his quest or just not having enough health to make it to when you can play your win condition and stabilize. This deck makes me lose my mind because you feel inches away from doing something cool. Probably just have to delete it and not look back. It’s so fucking bad.
Yes, we got it, you are doing it bad with it, time to move on. Btw, pirate warrior is a favorable matchup for you. If you loose to it b4 he completes quest, you are just playing way too greedy. Remove everything he has, your wincondition is not going anywhere. He cat pass your armor demons without killing them. Very easy matchup
Fun deck, 6 in a row so far. it is worth keeping wicked shipment for a turn 1 swap to at least have 4 imps when drawn later in game against aggro
why would you pay 1 mana to swap a card when you can do it for free through mulligan?
to upgrade :D
Hm, I use to mulligan it away, but I guess you might keep to have an upgraded version right away