Le Dawg's Toy Stealer - The ultimate card stealing
- Last updated Aug 12, 2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 12 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Control Priest
- Crafting Cost: 16260
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/21/2015 (GvG Launch)
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Hello and welcome to the Team Rocket. My name is Le Dawg, I'm in charge of this organization bent upon bad manners and stealing cards.
Want to start your criminal activity ? No ?! Take a look to this, it will change your mind. Or will it control it ?
This deck has one single goal : Steal your opponents favorites toys to break them on his own face.
LAST CHANGES
As you can see, I changed the deck list to go on a Reno Jackson /Raza the Chained deck, including Shadowreaper Anduin. The first reason is he really have a "Toystealer Anduin" style and can help us to control and harass in late, and because of our bad early, Raza and Reno can help us to survive a lot.
The late will be improved a lot by Arfus and The Lich King, the DK cards are perfect for us and we can afford to mill ourselves with Archbishop Benedictus.
So I played with this deck during 2 days and it is so funny and so strong, god, I think the deck is perfect now.
There is just a little variation : At the right of the page you can see the Geist version of the deck.
An other version of the deck would be : - Skulking Geist - Recombobulator / + Convert + Pint-Size Potion
FROZEN THRONE UPDATE
First thing to say : We were expecting for our lord and savior Archbishop Benedictus, here he is ! Eternal Servitude is the playable ressurect we were expecting, and we have also Spirit Lash as a clear option. With Gnomeferatu, we can also play with Kabal Courier to try to get one. Embrace Darkness can be very funny too but can be easily countered :/ Same problem for Devour Mind, it gives us 1 more card than Thoughtsteal but the mana cost is bad.
Messing up with th enemy cards is our first goal, this is why WE HAVE to include Skulking Geist, according to this, I will try to play without Mind Vision, Potion of Madness and Pint-Size Potion
I'm very disappointed by Shadowreaper Anduin ... But I suppose it can be used as a late game board control option and face damage source..
The Lich King and Arfus (that you can rez with Eternal Servitude ) could fit in our deck : The weapon and the Death Grip are the best options for us, but the other spells to control the board are very nice, and with Archbishop Benedictus we can deal with this self-milling effect
UN'GORO UPDATE :
Great extension : Crystalline Oracle will replace Mind Vision because it get you value on the board for the same effect. You can duplicate a spell with Shadow Visions or a Sylvanas with Mirage Caller. With the deathrattles we have, Spiritsinger Umbra can fit very well to the deck. Curious Glimmerroot can also be added but you can fail at the discover and get nothing, this is why I don't play it.
GADGETZAN UPDATE
Not a great extension for us, but we havePotion of Madness and Pint-Size Potion that can be used ! Dirty Rat can be added to combo with Mind Control Tech
OLD GODS UPDATE
Nothing amazing to improve the deck, but add 3 nice cards which fit with our concept and can make replacements. We have Forbidden Shaping , a card we can play anytime if we are in an emergency and need a minion on the board. Shifting Shade is really good, and Herald Volazj can duplicate Sylvanas or some stolen minions ! But N'Zoth, the Corruptor, if you play with 2 Shifting Shade + Sylvanas, is quite amazing !
LEAGUE OF EXPLORERS UPDATE
The Toy Stealer is more powerful than never, with Entomb and Excavated Evil we are now able to face any type of decks (except the mill decks) if the Gods of RNG are on our sides. You can see my current version of the deck at the right of this page, the Recombobulator can be trade with a Crazed Alchemist, a second Faceless Manipulator or one of the legendaries from the list at the bottom of this page !
CHEAP VERSION OF THE DECK (If you have 0 Legendaries)
Now let's see all the cards which can fit with this play style
TOYS KIDNAPPING
- Mind Control Essential
- Entomb Essential
- Shadow Madness OR Potion of Madness Essential + Great combo with Youthful Brewmaster or Recombobulator
- Cabal Shadow Priest Essential
- Sylvanas Windrunner Essential
- Mind Control Tech Essential can combo with Dirty Rat
- Kezan Mystic Sadly, this card is useless if the opponent has no secrets. You can put it on the board to offer it as a tribute to your angry opponent.
- Embrace Darkness
TOYS COPYING
- Thoughtsteal Essential or Devour Mind
- Mind Vision Essential
- Crystalline Oracle and Shifting Shade
- Mindgames Essential
- Faceless Manipulator
- Convert
- Archbishop Benedictus Late game card but awesome
- Lorewalker Cho (Explanations at the bottom)
TOYS MAINTENANCE
- Recombobulator Return the toy to the store and trade it for a new one.
- Youthful Brewmaster The toy is damaged, has a cool battlecry or want to go back to his owner after the Shadow Madness ? The Youthful Brewmaster is one the most useful card of the deck !
- Kel'Thuzad Fix the broken toys
- Eternal Servitude Resurrect the toy you want !
TOYS CUSTOMIZATION
- Shrinkmeister OR Pint-Size Potion Can combo with the Cabal Shadow Priest and most of your spells.
- Crazed Alchemist or Confuse Same than the Shrinkmeister
- Confuse Can be an option, but I don't like it
- Mirage Caller Combo with Deathrattles
TOYS DESTRUCTION
- Skulking Geist Destroy the enemy cards, essential for us, except if you want to play with 1 mana spells.
- Excavated Evil This card is AMAZING, it will be a dead card for your opponent because you never play toys, and if he use it to kill the toys you stole from him, you will be able to use it again for kill more toys !
- Shadow Word: Death Can combo with Sylvanas Windrunner for a 8 mana Mind Control
- Shadow Word: Pain You can't steal it ? DESTROY IT
- Holy Nova You're the new master of these toys. Reward your slaves and punish your ennemies.
- Lightbomb Clean up the playground
- Spirit Lash Clean option
OTHER
- Lightwell Can heal you in early and tank some damages
- Kabal Courier Awesome answer generator
- Shadow Visions Awesome for a " no duplicate " deck
- Eater of Secrets To mill annoying secrets
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From the cheap deck, if we remove 1 Recombobulator, 1 Crazed Alchemist and 1 (or 2) Kezan Mystic, you can add 3 or 4 legendaries to your deck. Sylvanas Windrunner is a must have, but let's see the other options :
About Lorewalker Cho
When you get some toys with the Thoughtsteal and already used most of your enslaving spells, Cho can be really interesting.
- You can copy a lot of spells
- Your ennemy will focus him like if he has a taunt effect
- Your ennemy will try to never use a spell, and during the lategame, you can use a Youthful Brewmaster to send Lorewalker Cho back in your hand, cast a spell like Thoughtsteal and then you summon him back.
- Use it to block your opponent and kill it with your Crazed Alchemist when you need to use a spell.
Other good legendaries you can use
- Kel'Thuzad
- Brann Bronzebeard
- Herald Volazj
- Chromaggus
- Nefarian
- Emperor Thaurissan
- Confessor Paletress
- Elise Starseeker
- Elise the Trailblazer
- Spiritsinger Umbra
- Reno Jackson
- N'Zoth, the Corruptor
- The Lich King
- Arfus
- Shadowreaper Anduin
You don't need a lot of your own DR because of how much you end up stealing
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While this deck is not as good in standard, I've been playing around with it and have been replacing the missing cards with curator and taunts. One of the funniest plays was when the opponent had a full board of minions from summoning stone with lethal next turn. I used shadow madness and excavated evil.
The stone gave me hallazeal. The opponent conceded after I healed almost to full health, and he only had the stone left and empty hand.
I was sad because I had another shadow madness and a brewmaster :(.
Any update on this deck foe the old gods expansion ?
Hmmm I really liked the concept, and tried the deck several times this afternoon but it just dies. Nothing that can be done. Not enough healing to cope with the aggression of the meta. Tons of fun untill you just have to conclude it just does not work at this moment. Hope this one can hold its own after standard hits.
LOL most fun i had with HS in like forever, people conceding because I stole their sh*t, hahah.
Seems to be working in Season 23 as well, I might be a noob at rank 12 but rocking the place with this deck!
What do you think about the Standard mode? What will you put instead of Shrinkmeisters and Recombobulator? I'm personally thinking about Elise and double Summoning Stone
I'll personally be playing x2 Shadowforms. While it's not in tune with the theft theme, this deck has no heals at all, so you might as well maximize your offensive.
Haven't played this deck since TGT came out, glad to see it's up-to-date. Excavated Evil was the hero Gotham city deserved. This deck used to be a LOT less efficient solely due to Holy Nova sucking ass.
With that said, I replaced Sylvanas with Sneed's, as it is also a highly-silencable minion, but fills curve a little bit between Mind Control and Thaurissan, and if you're going to get silenced, there's at least a better body. It also fits in a bit with the Shenanigans theme of the deck, if not the Thievery.
Sucks in ranked for me, but im at about 80% win rate in casual. By far my fav deck to play.
The most fun I've had in HS in a long time, thank you. It doesn't seem super consistent, and I'm getting wrecked by mech & aggro shamans, but it's great for a laugh.
Thanks for interesting deck! Only replaced Thaurissan with Elise, just in case of deep late game. That already won me couple games.
EDIT: Removed 1 Mind Control Tech, returned Thaurissan, as it seems that i need reduced cost most of the time :)
really fun and good deck!!! sadly i do not have Sylvanas Windrunner Cabal Shadow Priest or Recombobulator so i tried replacing them with Chromaggus who works very well as you already know as he used to be in the deck, 2 Summoning Stone which actually work very well in this deck I've found especially in combo with emperor for not only a cheap stone but cheap spells to combo off it with. the final card i added was Nefarian who work OK, i can't say he's great but not a terrible replacement, gonna try and find something better though. over all though really great and enjoyable deck
Le Dawg what are you thinking of entomb?
hey Le Dawg when will you back?
Having a blast with deck! So Fun!
I made an Account just to talk about this deck, first of all it's very well positioned if you add in an additional Holy Nova for the hunter/Secret Pally match up , this deck easily got me from rank 19-11 within a few hours plus getting plenty of fun KT/Recombobulator plays.
anyway LeDawgy i would love to play with you sometime big fan of this deck i will be updating this portion of the thread for any meta updates needed.
I've been playing this deck since it came out (love the theft mechanic and this deck is the best I have seen for that). It's one of the most frequent ones I run since I don't have the time for hardcore grinding. Playing this on lower ranked ladder is fun, since everyone is expecting a meta deck Dragon or Control Priest. Killing them with their own cards is usually good for a rage friend request every few games (oddly enough, the most frequent rage comes from cancer deck players). I added Convert as well for stealing on-board stuff. It works great when you need to grab an Antique Healbot or Sludge Belcher for later, or even a Mal'Ganis for fun.
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I think this is the most fun ive ever had as priest.
Still good in TGT! Stole an Aviana with golden Mind Vision and spawned a Sneed's with it! Fun times. Took out -1 Lorewalker Cho and -1 Faceless Manipulator and added +1 Convert and +1 Sideshow Spelleater.
Two Manipulators allowed for some funny shenanigans, but that rarely ever came into play, and when it did, it was only a win-more mechanic 90% of the time. Lorewalker Cho... well as I stated before, I will not miss him. It was EXTREMELY rare to see it succeed at anything. Good riddance.
EDIT: Removed Sideshow Spelleater and put a second Convert in. Spelleater matches the style, but ends up being useless too often.