Firebat's RENO DRAGON Warrior
- Last updated Jan 31, 2016 (Explorers)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 7 Spells
- 3 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 9460
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 1/22/2016 (Explorers)
- Firebat
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One of my followers on twitter gave me this Reno Dragon Warrior list. According to him, credit goes to Firebat for building the deck. I played it yesterday and... it's surprisingly good, and so fun! It's by far my favorite deck right now.
Be careful when playing it : it's a singleton deck, except 2 Fiery War Axe and 2 Twilight Guardian. Don't play Reno Jackson if you're not totally sure you've got at least one copy of those cards in your hands :-)
Here is 2 games I made yesterday at legend rank :
Mulligan tips :
ALWAYS keep fiery war axe and Twilight Guardian, as they are your only double cards. Others cards to keep are : Alexstrasza's Champion, Armorsmith, Cruel Taskmaster, Bash, Acolyte of Pain and Death's Bite.
Versus aggro, don't hesitate to keep Reno Jackson, and versus patron warrior, keep Brawl too.
Replacements :
After a general consensus, Dragonkin Sorcerer doesn't give any value to the deck, and can be replaced by a Twilight Drake (to keep the dragons synergy) or a Deathwing. Gorehowl and Justicar Trueheart can be added to the deck, too, but I prefer without. Keep in mind that it's not a control warrior nor a fatigue warrior. It's a true midrange deck, and those cards are a little bit slow for this archetype.
Revenge is highly recommended, as the deck can have difficulties to manage aggro decks at the beginning of the game if you don't your weapons, Execute or Shield Slam.
Sparring Partner is nice is this type of midrange deck, but can be replaced by Revenge.
If you don't have some legendaries, try to replace them with cards with nearly the same mana cost and of the same type. Don't forget to keep enough dragons in the deck.
GOing to add to other voices here and say horrible deck. Aggro just runs right over it every single time. Maybe it'd work if aggro weren't king. Aggro is king though.
Almost no draw --> Shit deck
Slam, Shield Block, Acolyte, Azure Drake. Or do you not know how those cards work?
It's a legend deck... The best decks to consistently and reliably climb ladder are secret paladin and zoolock. Anything that gets posted with the [legend] tag, or something with a pro player's name, is just a fun (but still good) brew deck to fuck around with in legend. It is not meant to be reliably used against the ranked metagame.
If you are looking to netdeck this and climb ladder, you are doing it very wrong. This is a fun casual deck that might fit into tier 3.
Again. This is true with all [pro player] and [legend] decks on hearthpwn. If you haven't figured that out by now, well, now you know.
I have only made one change to the deck (Twilight Drake for Dragonkin Sorcerer) and have done well against just about everything (67% overall) except for secret paladins who keep rekting me. Hero power is your friend against hunters, zoo and egg druids. Just delay the game and use early removal/weapons until you can set up your taunts. Even with a modest opening hand you should be able to hold your own. The only lost I suffered to a hunter was when I couldn't draw a taunt. I know the guide says midrange, but I have been playing this deck in a more slower control style. Even have a few fatigue wins.
Now if anyone has figured out secret paladin let me know.
Combo druid is really good rank climber too
I understand the above but why crush? it's one of your removals for late game? Maybe can swap it for gorehowl?
Im thinking of crush or rend blackhand hmm
Alex is definitely a solid choice, Alex into Grom is a powerful finisher.
played 4 games. All aggro and got raped.
Remove
Class cards: 1 fiery war axe ; sparring partner ; fierce monkey ; grommash.
Common cards: acolyte of pain ; 1 twilight guardian ; dragonkin sorcerer ; sludge belcher ; ysera.
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Class cards: Revenge ; Gorehowl.
Common cards: Ac.sw. ooze ; BW tech. ; brann ; stamp. kodo ; Antiq.Healbot ; Vol. drake ; J-r Trueheart.
I have everything except Crush - I've replaced it with Gorehowl - sensible, or should I try something else?
Hello Everybody
I make a video with this deck at rank 8 on EU Server if you want to see some matchup at this rank :) !! I make 3 games against : Mage Tempo / Dragon Paladin / Midrange Strange Hunter =)
2 Win / 1 Loose ! (I'm french sorry if my english in text is bad, the video is in french but the gameplay stay the same)
You can see here :
Such a WEIRD list. Seriously, maybe Firebat copied this on stream and played a bit, but if he had put any thought in he wouldn't have made some obvious blunders.
Questionable cards:
Sparring Partner - I've tried this in Dragon Warrior. Sorry, it just sucks. If it was a 2/3 it would have some use, as a 3/2 it just dies too easily.
Dragonkin Sorcerer - WTF? Without Inner Rage or Rampage? A 4 mana 3/5 is terrible, even with Dragon tag. Use Hungry Dragon instead. Or Twilight Drake.
Missing cards:
Brann Bronzebeard - Really, why wouldn't you put him in a Reno Dragon deck!?
Drakonid Crusher - Reasonably useful as a finisher, can draw out BGH before playing other big stuff, +1 DRAGON! Really, at 7 dragons, this deck is at least 1 short.
Rend Blackhand - If you're running 7 mana removal with Crush, why not go for the guy who adds a 8/4 on top?
This deck looks really cool and interesting :) If you don't like running duplicates I feel you could replace a Fiery War Axe with a King's Defender and Twilight Guardian with either another dragon or Sen'jin Shieldmasta
I sub'd a twilight drake and defender of argus instead of keeping the Dragonkin sorcerer and blackwing corrupter
Believe Kibler was running something similar to this a while back.
good deck man
2x 2 cards is meh. ruined me couple of games. it makes my reno useless
I would probably replace Ysera or Nefarian by Justicar. What do you think of that change ?