One-Shot Heroic Nefarian
- Last updated May 1, 2015 (Blackrock Launch)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 6 Spells
- 4 Weapons
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Nefarian
- Crafting Cost: 9520
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/30/2015 (Blackrock Launch)
- thepoxbox
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Battle Tag:
poxpower#1245
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Region:
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Total Deck Rating
669
Thanks for front page, here's a more detailed strategy guide!
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Mulligan for: cleave, fiery war axe, sheep
How it plays out: This is another one of those bosses where if he wasn't an idiot, he'd crush you. If all he ever did was hero power, you'd be dead real fast. Fortunately he likes to play cards in his hand instead! And those are terrible. His deck mostly consists of dragon minions and shadowflames / soulfires/ dragon's breaths. He will use those spells as soon as he can on basically anything. That's why 5 health minions are so awesome against this guy. All his spells deal only 4 and he usually shadowflames for 4 as well. It's not uncommon to see him 3 for 1 himself on a sen'jin.
He starts with 30 armor. Once that's gone, he will summon Onyxia with a 2/6 weapon and 30 health. Her hero power is that Nefarian starts shooting fireballs at you each turn.
I believe the sequence is 1-2-1-4-0-20-20-20.... Something like that. I only let him get to 20 one time on purpose to see, but that means you have to kill Onyxia in about 6 turns.
When she dies, Nefarian comes back and kills all your minions. Then he's mad and you kill him :,(
Strategy: This is a general survival game. Just survive his early damage as best you can and use your aoe / mctech to max value. DON'T EVER PLAY MCTECH WITHOUT IT TRIGGERING. At some point it's almost an absolute and total guarantee that he will have 4 minions. Your 5 health minions stall him out quite perfectly and weapons / aoe can finish off the larger minions. Try to get him to be Onyxia as fast as you can so he stops spamming 4/2s.
Once in Onyxia mode, this is where you set up for the win. She doesn't draw any bonus cards or do anything useful and she will just play as poorly as Nefarian, but without 4/2s to help. So just sit there building your hand and health as best you can and setting up deathrattles on board. If you can, leave her at 1 hp and set up a taunt too.
Trade away all your non-deathrattle minions into hers before you kill her as they'll die anyway. Ideally you want to kill her with a full 10 mana open to you for after she dies. So the turn before, you'd play a bunch of deathrattles and then the turn you kill her, you play 10 mana worth of other stuff.
Once Nefarian comes back, he should be greeted with a nice empty hand and no board on his side. So sad. At this point, just play a bunch of taunts and race him, don't waste time eating his 4/2s unless you're really afraid of shadowflame. Just stay above 4 health ( which isn't hard for warrior ) and kill him.
He does have a spell that deals 2 to all minions, so if you have a bunch of 2 health minions leftover, prioritize trading those away even if they're behind big taunts.
Replacements: The legendaries are fairly replaceable. Alexstrasza is the best one, but antique healbot could do the job ok here.
Legendary replacements: Cairne, Chromaggus, Ysera, harrison jones, grommash, dr.boom, feugen/stalagg The idea is you just want value legendaries.
If you don't have more legendaries: Mountain/sea giants, piloted sky golem ( though the 4 hp is sort of bad ), siege engine ( lol why not ), arcane nullifier, darkscale healer, fen creeper, stormrpike commando
Shield slam / brawl: Those two cards are semi-important, especially shield slam. You can put in bouncing blade / crush if you have them. Otherwise harvest golems and mortal strikes could do.
After 10+ times trying with the OTK Priest and failing, I beat him on my 1st try with this deck.
I tried the priest otk list and failed about 10 times. Switched to this deck and I beat it first attempt. Awesome work!
i tried many times with a priest deck and i can't beat him. finally i saw this deck and i beat him 1st attempt.
5 or 6 attempts but got there in the end. Cheers.
This deck is amazing. However, I lacked quite a few legendaries.
-1 Sunwalker ; +1 Fen Creeper
-1 Sylvanas ; +1 Siege Engine
-1 Geddon ; +1 Chromaggus
-1 Sneeds ; +1 Mekgineer Thermaplugg
-1 Brawl ; +1 Thaurissan
For me, the MVP was Chromaggus. He doubled my Belcher, Alex, Mekgineer, Molten Giant xD
I reserved 2 Molten Giants and an Alex for the last phase
Mekgineer making Leper Gnomes to trade against his minions was insane: instant clear, extra hero damage.
I didnt even get to use Kel Thuzad and the set up of deathrattles (I hardly have anyway)
Thanks!
WTF 20 fireballs to face... are u shitting me?
This should be the only deck allowed to show how to beat this boss. Great Job. TYVM
Took 2 tries! This deck is savage
This took a lot less RNG than Kripparian's paladin deck; I got close a few times, but attempts were hit or miss. After a few attempts with this deck, I whittled him down to nothing with the extra help of a Lightwell I got from the Piloted Shredder death rattle in phase 2 which is why I still had 27 HP when I had lethal.
3d try, works really well. GOod job OP!
Thanks a lot man. Took me 1 & 1/2 tries to beat him. Had been trying with priest for hours. Great job coming up with this deck!
So much better than that priest/OTK/skip Ony/exploit Kelthuzad+Taunt bullsh**. This deck is great, I'm actually playing and wearing down my opponent +1 for you OP, well done.
i agree. the otk priest list was garbage
Wow great deck won 2 out of 3 tries and the first one I got a bad draw. This is an easy fight with this deck. Thanks!
autoloss deck, he keeps spamming power whenever i try to use warrior, whenever i play kel he kills him on the spot
only for the lucky bastards
1 shot with the deck but only because the AI is dumb. :D I had a Molten Giant on the board and no cards left. He had two 4 2s. He choose to hit face instead of clearing the Giant. I hit him for 8 and then fatigue killed him.
Stealing Cromaggus during the game with Sylvanas worked out nice too.
took 2 tries for me. Bad draw on first run and conceded early. I dont have all the legendary cards you used but my start players were harrison jones and chromaggus. I never needed to play the mc techs. first phase i slowed it a bit and traded out his cards so when nef went airborn he had no cards in hand i had 2 and immediately played harrison.
This deck did miracles. I don't have Cairne or Sneed's shredder so I used Kelthuz and chromo(w/e dragon that gives duplicates of your card draw). Cheesed the transition when Onyxia dies I got him to 2 HP so my next turn I could play a second Kelthuz to revive my first KT and everything else.
This must be the easiest boss, first tried with this deck! Thanks alot.
20+ tries no luck, I get to the final stage and the hero power overwhelms me and I can't do anything.
Killed him on 2nd attempt with the priest OTK.