Hearthpwn

Mulligan Guide :

- Never keep Malygos and Sinister Strike they are your turn 10 combo, you need to pressure a bit first.

- Against Hunter/Paladin always keep Fan of Knives

- Against Druid/Warlock you can keep Sap

- For others, usually keep Deadly Poison, Backstab, SI:7 Agent

Strategy:

This deck main win condition is Malygos + Sinister Strike + Preparation + Eviscerate or Blade Flurry

- About your dagger: Turn 2 dagger but then use it or not ? 

Use your dagger if you don't have any 3 drop. For example, ennemy only used hero power on turn 2, so it's possible to just use dagger and re-dagger on turn 3

If you have Earthen Ring Farseer keep your dagger, it's a good 3 drop, because you might want to get the full value of Deadly Poison 2 x 3 damage so keep your dagger usually

But then if you get a 3 drop and no 4 drop maybe you can use your dagger thinking you will re-dagger on turn 4 but never use dagger if you get Earthen Ring Farseer and Violet Teacher in hand, there are very good 3 drop and 4 drop

If you got Deadly Poison and SI:7 Agent, use it, it's usually turn 2 dagger use dagger, turn 3 use dagger then re-dagger, turn 4 Deadly Poison + SI:7 Agent to usually kill 2 minions or kill a minion with 5 health

Try to always dagger on turn 8 or 9 eventually but turn 8 is better because you can Malygos + Preparation + Blade Flurry on turn 9 unless you used both Blade Flurry already so the finisher would be Eviscerate

- Don't be afraid to hit minion and take damage to keep your minions untouched, to Fan of Knives on nothing on turn 3 just in order to cycle cards, to Eviscerate a Knife Juggler, to drop Earthen Ring Farseer on turn 3 even if you are full life etc

Combo activators

- Backstab : free combo activator, can do up to 3 damage with Bloodmage Thalnos (to kill Mechwarper or Snowchugger) and also up to 7 damage (to kill Dr. Boom) with Malygos on turn 9 or 10. Usually it's used to kill Knife Juggler for example on turn 2

- Preparation : usually used for Sprint but depending of situation can be used to activate or combo cards such as Fan of Knives, Eviscerate, Blade Flurry

- Deadly Poison : usually used to activate SI:7 Agent or to kill Mechwarper

- Sinister Strike : can be used to activate combo if on turn 6/7 you don't see any Preparation in hand meaning you still can combo Malygos with Preparation later

Notable cards

- Sap : usually used on later stage but can still be used early against buffed minions so they lose their buff

- Earthen Ring Farseer : is in my opinion better than Antique Healbot, because :
1) better mana curve
2) even if you get unlucky during mulligan a 3/3 on turn 3 is alright
3) could be used to activate Eviscerate or SI:7 Agent

- Sprint with Preparation : whenever possible to draw cards and your win conditions, usually it's turn 4. But occasionaly against Druid for example it can be used on turn 7 without Preparation. Only 1 is enought because 2 will in a lot of case be a dead hand with 2 Sprint

- Malygos : try to keep 1 Preparation to combo with :
1) Malygos + Sinister Strike + Preparation + Blade Flurry = 8 + 6/8/10 aoe damage depending of dagger
2) Malygos + Sinister Strike + Preparation + Eviscerate = 8 + 9 damage
3) But usually Malygos + Sinister Strike are enought to finish = 8 damage

Hope you enjoy this deck