Kazakusan Pirate?!
- Last updated Feb 16, 2022 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
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Wild
- 25 Minions
- 3 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Pirate Warrior
- Crafting Cost: 8940
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 2/16/2022 (Fractured in Alterac Valley)
- PowerOfCheez
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Battle Tag:
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Total Deck Rating
224
This is my slight tweak to a basic Standard Pirate's Quest deck, with the mini-set in mind. What, you think Pirate didn't get anything? You don't even see any mini-set cards in the list?
Correct. The aim of my slight tweak is adding Lady Prestor to give Pirate's Quest a late game it rarely ever needs with minimal disruption to its basic structure.
I was lamenting the inability to play Kazakusan in a fast Warrior build (I personally do not enjoy control builds as I like faster games) due to the general slowness of Warrior's current standard Dragon game, when it occurred to me, the Lady can fix all that by teaming up with Pirates!
Also added in Taelan Fordring to pull either the Lady or Mr. Smite more reliably. Now, do you need these two to win with Pirate? Maybe sometimes.
I am streaking though the garbage ranks without needing to ever shapeshift, but I want to, lol. Maybe when I get a little higher on the standard ladder.
When I do, I think about how games that do go long with Pirate might benefit from cheap little dragons with big effects. I will post some stats, good or bad, later in the week.
Question: What other decks/classes that did not get Priest's dragon haul might benefit from this two-card tweak?
I have been playing since 2014 and have used this website so many times, and i have never made an account until now. This deck is so much fun bro! I got kazakusan on my first game at the cost of 2 mana and ended the game with 30 hp and 9 armor. Definitely a fun deck.
Thanks dude, that is so cool! Glad you had that luck! I am still playing it. I have only got him once, and actually lost because it was too late. But overall the deck is a winner, and there are a lot of other good dragons to get. I have won a lot of games with the mid to late game dragon morph that just would not have happenned without it. For me, it keeps Pirate Quest in the meta.
Thanks for taking the time to make an account to comment!
Check out my 1 mana Kazakusan. 1 Mana Raid Boss Onyxia, and my 1 mana Brasswing
https://imgur.com/a/sCA5U2B
I'm having so much fun with Lady Prestor. With Guff or with Warlock's hero power you draw to cast a 2nd dragon every turn. The other dragon decks can't keep up. Have you tried other Lady Prestor decks?
Add Lady Prestor to Aggro druid: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1403070-1-mana-kazakusan-2-mana-onyxia
Or to Evolve Shaman: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1403077-evolve-aggro-dragons-op-stats
and the result is like yours, late-game dragons battlecries on an aggro deck :D
Thanks for answering the question in my article! Those both look like good lists, and I really liked how the Shaman list gets yet an extra edge with the huge evolves on the dragons you cheat out!
I haven't had a lot of time to play since posting the deck, but what I have has been pretty successful! Started in the Bronze basement after getting Legendary in Wild, and since I had not played much standards the last few months (was trying to hit Legend in Wild for the first time) my bonus stars are low. But have played this to the top half of Silver so far (only getting 2 stars there). Here is my recorded record (it didn't pick up a handful of games for some reason, but they were on par with this):
I am sure the rate would be lower if I had matched up vs. Priest much, and of course, in these low ranks, the record doesn't mean as much, but wanted to show how its doing. I have only had three games in the bunch where I got to play Lady Prestor and won two of those. One of them, she was key as the opponent was starting their late game surge and the first dragon I drew was the newer Ysera, whose bounce card, AoE and buff cards were all key to that win. Usually though, the deck just wins with Pirates.
One thing I have noticed is, you want to pay attention to how many Pirates you still need to trigger Captain Rokara, as sometimes you will want to play Lady Prestor before you have completed the quest. As long as you have enough to withstand a Mutanus, there is not really much other disruption that can reduce your pirates in hand (Shaman excepted). This can get your dragon game going before you even get the captain down. That only happened in one of these games for me, though, because pirate is usually pretty fast, sometimes even winning before the captain can be played.
Another thing, the weapon that buffs pirates and dragons, its really good when you have a Circus Amalgam in hand, as three +1/+1 buffs early is good but when you get it on two minions in hand each time, its even better. Try to hold a Circus Amalgam a little longer for that, if you have other options.
Lastly, I was happy to finally get my 1000th Warrior win with this, with the last game listed!
Oh, and no, with just three games that Lady Prestor has seen play, none yet where I have pulled Kazakusan, but its the dream! Will definitely post if it happens!