Deck and Guide By Lee Shi Tian

Twitter: https://twitter.com/leearson

Edited By Jeanno

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Introduction

HI all, my name is lee shi tian.

If you play magic the gathering, you might have heard my name. If not, may be just google my name up, I try not to explain too much here XD. Hope my resume in mtg put up a stronger background for this deck.

Long story short, after a heartbreaking finish in Pro Tour last weekend, I took some time to grind golds (yes I didn’t pay a lot playing HS) for BRM. So I got enough gold and solve blackrock depth and get the new cards, I started trying to brew decks around the new cards.

And this is the deck I built in the Sunday morning and I hit legend (from rank 11 or 12) in Tuesday Morning.

This deck is fully built around the combo between Grim Patron and Warsong Commander.

Deck Idea

If you never tried the combo, this is how it works:

Say your opponent control an annoying Haunted Creeper, with 8 mana, you cast Warsong Commander and Grim Patron.

Your Grim Patron will get charge, attack into creeper, you get a new patron so does your opponent get two 1/1.

Your new patrons will get charge as well thanks to commander, so you can attack again and get another new patron and repeat it for the other 1/1.

You basically get to kill each minion opponent control with 2 powers or less and and get a 3/x at the end of the turn

And this is normally enough for the game.

Sometimes your opponent might not have all the small minions (yes I am talking Druid), at this point, your deck has full set of self triggering spells, namely Inner Rage, Whirlwind and Death’s Bite.

Getting 4-6 Patron in a single turn will easily caught your opponent off guard unless they got an AOE for 3.

Also decks with larger minions normally being less aggressive and you get hell lots of time setting up the whole combo.

Card choice

Some cards might have multi functions

Combo Piece

Warsong Commander, Grim Patron, Frothing Berserker

Frothing Berserker is for decks with AOE and health (yeah I am saying Priest)

You do need another threat plus set up a one turn kill.

Enabler

Inner Rage, Whirlwind,Unstable Ghoul, Cruel Taskmaster, Slam, Death’s Bite

Very obvious , they all deal 1 damage which makes your Grim Patron survive to get another one.

Cantrips

Slam, Bloodmage Thalnos, Loot Hoarder, Acolyte of Pain, Shield Block, Gnomish Inventor

Well it’s a combo deck, all the cantrips that did something are worth playing.

Also they can interrupt your opponent’s early game to distract them playing around the combos.

Removals

Execute,Fiery War Axe, and all the enablers

Fiery War Axe shines against aggro and always are the best 2 drop.

Execute are for fatties.

All the enablers are amazing against hyper aggressive deck as well.

Random one of: Emperor Thaurissan

Maths of the deck is very complicated, this card makes the maths easier to mess up for both you and your opponent…...

Alright the real reason playing Thaurissan is due to your hand size is always full thanks to all the cantrips

Casting him with 6 cards in hand means his casting cost is free.

How to Lose with this deck

Instead of matchup analysis, I would like to talk about how you lose to each deck.

Zoo

Normally its fine, but there is time that you simply can’t catch up with their minions and they get you with Doomguard as the old fashion

Good news is you are not afraid of the new addition, Imp Gang Boss.

Combo Druid

You cant get out multiple Grim Patron early enough.

When you use the turn to set up to get multiple 3/x, you die to the combo next turn.

Hunter

More or less like Zoo, yet they don’t have Imp Gang Boss.

Those small AOE are really good in this match up. Preserve your life total and you will win in the end. They need really good mix of draw to burn you out.

Control Warrior

Brawl away all your Patron.

Priest

Lightbomb and Soulpriest/ Circle of healing, basically they will always have the AOE for you, this is why we need Frothing Berserker for OTK.

Rogue

They have even more AOE, weapon are so good against them as an efficient damage output. Don’t let them to have a free turn to Preparation into splint.

The game basically over at that point.

Shaman

Same as priest, but their Lightning Storm without spell power risks them a lot. Remember to kill all the spell power minion before you commit.

Mage

They can burn you out with Fireball and Forstbolt, preserve your life total early.

BTW chuggachugga is super annoying, 100% more annoying then annoy-o-tron.

Videos

Summary

Let me know your feeling for the deck.

I found it quite easy in the ladder consider how fast I hit legend.

I wish this version of Grim Patron combo can become one of the top tier deck.

Another reason may be due to the list is an unknown and people are not familiar with how broken the deck can do.

Time will tell.

Signing off

Deck and Guide By Lee Shi Tian (leearson#3655)

Twitter: https://twitter.com/leearson

Edited By Jeanno

Twitch: http://twitch.tv/JeannoHS
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeannoHS