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
Really, really fun deck. It's the very first deck I've ever played where Kel'Thuzad can be consistently effective. It's not rare for this deck to stay in the game long enough to put him into play, and there's just so much potential threat you can make that the enemy is always low on removals by the time he spawns.
Having said that, I hugely recommend staying out of ranked with this deck. The ranked meta is not kind against handpriest, and this deck also relies hugely on having a near-perfect card draw. You NEED your early game cards in the early game, you NEED your mid-game cards in the mid game and you NEED your late game cards in the late game. The worse your draw is, the lower the chance of victory. This is not an "efficiency no matter what's in your hand" deck.
The funniest play I made so far was turn 4 mindgames into an enemy's Sneed Shredder, then turn 5 Faceless Manipulator on it.
Overall, I recommend this deck to everyone that can craft it. It's got a very interesting early game, reminiscent of handlock, wherein you don't need to worry about placing early game minions and having clenched buttcheeks worrying if you can make the combos you plan on the next turn. All of this deck's combos happen in a single turn, you don't need to worry about getting disrupted, save for some things like using Faceless Manipulator effectively.
PS: I'm strongly considering replacing Lorewalker with something like Revival or Mass Silence. Thematically he might fit into the deck, but it's very rare to be able to see him in action. If there was some magical way to force him onto the enemy's side of the board, it'd be better. He simply has too little health, so he's just an expensive Shieldbearer 90% of the time. Conversely, you can't play him in the early game either, because your hand will be too full, and if the copied spells don't go to waste, then your start of turn draw will.
in current meta(helo agro shamans, mages, huntards) trash deck.
ur otk deck very funny.
Only one word to say about this deck: awesome
my variant:
not much similar but still fun
I tried to play with the Toy Stealer of Le dwag. And this is the result. Say me what you think about it ^^
Hahaha I had no dust XD
I have only one Mindgames and one Cabal Shadow Priest
I replace it by Light of the Naaru and a Shadow Word: Death.
Yes there is some missplay (This was planed to copy LeDwag's missplays !!!)
and for the song my Fraps didn't record Hearthstone's songs :'(
I really love the idea of this deck but my win rate is about 25%, I dropped from rank 13 to 17 :( So bad against aggro and fast decks. Need at least a little taunt to stay alive. Also I think cutting one Mind Control and Faceless would help, I threw in another Holy Nova and a Holy Fire and am doing better.
I have found that swapping something for a Lightwell seems to be a really useful tech. Aggro can't deal with it right away, as their turn 1 and 2 minions are so low in damage (mad scientist, leper gnome, haunted creeper). It acts as a taunt for aggro, and if you can get some other minions out via mindgames or mind control tech, it gets great value.
The idea with this deck is to have fun, it will never climb high in rank. boy, it feels good when you control the board with opponents minions. I usually give up immediately when there is no clear way to control or HP is lower than 15
Hello again :) Love you videos, the editions always makes me laugh
I've been doing some changes in this deck trying to make it more viable in ladder, soon i'll post what i'm using
I'm beating tons of druids and warrior, but Mech Mage and Oil are the most difficult matches :/
The first has too many minions to deal
The second has no minions to deal x.x
Any help? The essence of this deck is so ANNOYING, i want it to become viable :I
Edit: I beat a mill rogue :0
For me, this version is working pretty well against patron warriors, druids and mages (except the mech). I'll keep trying to improve my win rate against other decks without the "steal essence".
The last 3 freeze mages i was matched against quitted after their scientists being stolen and their secrets being 'Kezaned' :D
Thanks again
Im in NA, just started climbing yesterday.
When i reach rank 5 or lowers i'll start playing this deck again
It's too slow to use all the whole road :s
Coucou c'est nous
lol'd at the video. good deck.
this is my favorite deck to play ever. I lose a lot but the wins are phenom. I can play this deck for hours straight. The game seems to be very dependent on draw. I have effective decks i use when winning is crucial. Boring. This deck is FUN FUN CRAZY FUN! Just wanted to say Thank you for sharing it.
for me, win rate in this meta 10%
you can add resurrect to revive the broken toys
Almost finishing this deck *---*
Get salty :D
Just had two Emperor Thaurissan's out for a few turns which resulted in a 3 mana Mind Control, so legit!