[Top 200 Legend] Mendi's CW
- Last updated Jun 3, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 18 Minions
- 8 Spells
- 4 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Control Warrior
- Crafting Cost: 13580
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 9/13/2015 (TGT Launch)
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THIS IS NOT UPDATED TO THE OLD GODS, I DON'T KNOW WHY IT IS LISTED AS SO.
Please ignore.
Finished r22 legend! Hype!
EDIT 10/11/15 - THIS IS A TEST version. Secredin is cancer.
10/12/15 - Hit legend with this current build, however I don't think the build is good.
Works well in the meta, nothing special besides no sylv. Just standard CW.
Mulligan
I'm going to just write-up special cases here. In general:
VS Aggro: Fiery War Axe, Cruel Taskmaster, Any 2/3 drop is fine to keep.
VS Control: Death's Bite, Justicar Trueheart (You can keep slower cards if you have a weapon/shield slam in hand. I keep slower cards anyway, but be careful with guessing what deck it is.)
Special cases:
VS paladin, If you're going first, I'd highly recommend keeping Brawl, assuming you have high drops in your starting hand. This can at least get you back in the game if you have a bad starting hand. Also, keep 2/3 drops for shieldbot.
VS CW, if you know it's control, you can beat other control warriors easily by forcing them to shield slam/execute your shield maidens/belchers. Aka try to mulligan for an aggressive curve. I've only lost to 1 other control warrior in my climb to legend, and quing into legend the past week. It's easy to outplay other control warriors.
VS Shaman, Value brawl highly here. Remember bloodlust and flame totem as you play cards and play around lethal. Geddon is the best card here. I played 0 shamans LOL
VS Druid/Priest - It IS 100% worth it to keep Execute in your hand. Druid is especially frustrating to play against, and if a priest gets an early velen's chosen, and you have no removal, you probably just lost. If you have a shieldblock+shieldslam, you could technically keep that aswell.
Will write full guide later tonight - In Progress
Explaination:
Double Brawl and Baron Geddon because CW struggles with tokens and somewhat riddler, depending on your draw.
Varian Wrynn - I don't like this card. Personally, I think it's useless in CW. Replace it for Sylv, it's in the decklist because I did run this card and VS something like Dragon priest it wins games (Assuming you baited out lightbomb)
Justicar Trueheart - Simply amazing. Won me plenty of games
x2-Cruel Taskmaster - More useful than you'd think. I hated this card originally, but it puts a lot of bigger minions in reach when used on Belcher, armorsmith, or AoP or an execute-enabler. Can be replaced with Revenge
Replacements
- Varian Wrynn + [card]sylvanas windrunner[/card]
-Shieldmaiden +Harrison Jones (Please note Harrison is extremely slow vs a lot of aggro, so this is a personal tech if you want it.)
-Baron Geddon + Sylvanas Windrunner OR Ragnaros the Firelord (Keep double brawl if you sub Geddon)
-Cruel Taskmaster +Revenge (If you do this, replace a Brawl With something like Emperor Thaurissan. That much AoE isn't healthy for the deck.)
(Also -1 shield block -1 shieldmadien +2 sen'jin would probably work well)
*Due to popular suggestions I switched x1 Shield block with x1 Bash
I'll try to answer all questions as best possible, but I prefer to be asked in this thread (Would make it easier for me): http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/class-discussion/warrior/61776-top-200-legend-cw-advice
Currently running this deck with Nefarian instead of Ysera and replaced one Cruel Taskmaster with Emperor Thaurissan and it works somewhat fine as the Emperor is forcing face damage away from you and gives you more tempo which also fits Nefarian being a more aggressive card.
This is already very slow -- imnsho too slow -- so cutting a two-drop for a six-drop is suicidal.
Yikes! Well I would advise you, but I'm not o:
I'd rather you make other decks completely because having a half-finished deck is no fun which can lead some people to wanting to buy packs. So I'd rather you look at other fun decks :P. If you realllllly want to know though, lemme know!
I'd say craft Boom and Alex. They are used in the most decks, grom & baron are CW only really.
How does this deck fare vs Paladins? Particularly the ever popular Secret Pally? I tried another popular CW deck from here and it has a 100% loss rate vs any Pally deck. Given the fact that SP's are very popular, I'm looking for a CW that can hold its own against them.
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lol I think I answered my own question.
It just seems that Secret Pallies are the bane of the CW and if there are a lot on the ladder, never play CW.
You are playing CW the wrong way then. I'm 7-1 vs. Paladins with this deck, and out of these 8 games, 7 were Secredin. It's definitely a favorable match for CW.
Edit: actually, I'm 6-2 vs. Paladins (which is 75%, good enough). Proof:
What's the right way to play them then?
Actually, warriors are a ban to secret paladins.
Tbh, even with a bad hand, the only time you'll lose if they get Dr6->dr boom->dr6/tirion.
As long as they only have 1 of those to follow up, you should be able to stablize (Also plan ahead for dr6. Like don't use your last weapon charge on t5 if you have no minions on board, unless you absolutely need to or else you'd be too close to lethal.)
By making good calls and putting the resources you have to good use.
Unless you're very unlucky with a mulligan (doesn't happen that often but luck is a common factor for every player and affects us all the same way) CW has an answer to everything. It's like a game of chess, every move has to be optimal, and this only comes with practice and experience. Spending something too soon (say, an Execute or a Shield Slam on that Twilight Drake vs. Handlock) will get you punished later if the opponent makes better judgement calls than you.
Watching good players playing CW also helps!
Control the board with spells and weapons. Hit your card draw engines, if played correctly you will stabilize around 12-22 heath and have a ton of armor on top of that after that. Its a reactionary early game with bombs at the end once your opponent is playing draw go. Playing this deck against this deck with other aggro decks it really is a race until the armor starts building up and then the tempo turns. That has been my experience playing it and against it.
The decklist was changed due to people not reading >.>
Originally there was no Sylvanas, but yes, Ragnaros is a fine replacement. Geddon is really good right now!
Should be fineish I think, might hurt the hunter match-up a tad tho.
Rank 15 to 8 here after 26 games, 79% winrate.If I had to guess, I'd say you're misplaying the deck, search for a few CW videos on YouTube to get the feeling of the mulligans and the judgment calls with most cards! The last time I played a solid CW deck as this was before Naxx, and I only play CW. Good luck!
Hey Mendi, I want to play control warrior but I'm missing: Grommash Hellscream, Justicar Trueheart, Sylvanas Windrunner, Baron Geddon, Dr. Boom, Alexstrasza and Ysera. Any replacements?
Can confirm
Replace Grommash Hellscream with Wisp
Everything else can be replaced by Kezan Mystic and Blood Knight
Justicar Trueheart with Shieldbearer
Hey man, great deck!
i just crafted all the legendarys and i would really appreciate it if you did a mulligan guide as im not sure if i should keep brawl etc
Anyways gratz on reaching legend :)
I wrote an extremely general mulligan guide. I'm not expanding it, but not due to being lazy with it. It's a control deck prone to bad hands so I'd rather people play the deck and get a general idea, but VS aggro decks you just want any removal and low drops, VS control, honestly, death's bite.
Everything else is left up to personal preference and I don't think it would make that big a change. If you'd like me to though, post under here and I'll do a full write-up :)
If its too much trouble don't worry about it but it would be nice just to see how you tackle every matchup
Hey thanks for sharing! Here's some gameplay I made yoh :3 !
The legendary Kristo deck spotlight. I think I have every Hs achievement now XD