[Updated] Dragon Monkey Priest
- Last updated Dec 12, 2016 (Gadgetzan)
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Wild
- 23 Minions
- 7 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Dragon Priest
- Crafting Cost: 8760
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 2/12/2016 (Explorers)
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Hi guys, i recommend you try this deck out. It's the ultimate control deck, with plenty of early game to beat all aggro decks as well as Pirate Cancer.
Updated for Gaz: +2 Dragonoid Operative = Best new Card. +2 Dragonfire Potion = Best Clear in the game. -1 Azure Drake (doesn't combo with potion) +1 Book Wyrm, as there are many 3/4 in the current game.
+ Brann Bronzebeard because we are greedy for more Draknoid Operative combo.
You will never run out of cards using this deck. Just focus on clearing the board each turn and mounting control of the board.
So far i have climbed rapidly, including a 9 game win streak
Mulligans:
Fairly standard in this deck. Usually we want to keep Zombie Chow and Twilight Whelp regardless of who we are playing.
We can keep Northshire Cleric, but we only play her turn 1 against heroes that can't destroy her. Warrior, Druid, Warlock, Mage, Shaman can clear her mostly. Great to play turn 1 against Pally.
Twilight Guardian I nearly always keep. We usually draw another dragon by turn 4. With coin Azure Drake is also nice to keep. We really want some dragon action early, a had of spells could mean you begin to far behind.
Museum Curator is ok turn 2, but I prefer to draw him rather then keep him in starting hand. He is a good card when we don't have much of a play and can provide us with what we need. Sometimes a 2nd Chillmaw which is handy to keep in hand.
Apparently it's very difficult for any control deck to handle Jaraxxus. I crafted him a few days ago and beat a Warrior with 45+ health exclusively because of Jaraxxus T9. Agaisnt control it's just that good.
Obviously this is a huge stretch but I run Nefarian and really rarely, like 1/10 games I have gotten Sac Pact and won from that, but run 2x lightbomb if you are running into alot of renolocks to clear infernals.
I do love dragon priest, made the twilight guardians because face decks were getting crazy without them, but now I don't have enough for the cabal shadow priests :( Any suggestions on what to replace her with?
Cabal/Shrinkmeister is a clutch play which can turn the tide of a close game. Are you sure you can't craft just one? If you are -1 Cabal you might as well -1 Shrink
Eh, this wasn't very good very at rank 8, went 5-4 :/
Hmm, when first reading this I was at rank 10, I streaked up past rank 8 without a loss using this though. The games surely are getting harder though. Perhaps just bad rng?
Any replacement for Chillmaw. Maybe an Excavated Evil?
We need those dragons and taunts. Maybe Chromaggus. I can see him working with the great card draw we have.
i'm using brann bronzebeard isntead of chillmaw and it works just fine
Excavated Evil is somewhat needed or a Lightbomb, this deck does not have many board wipes. I personally used Deathwing because Fossbyflop is right that we need those dragons. Taunts I don't think are too special in this deck though. I considered Chromagus too.
I really wish it did. This deck does not really have anything in terms of healing. Perhaps if you don't have Chillmaw you could try using justicar instead, but then your deck will be lacking board clears.
Don't have any Twilight Guardians, how do you feel about sen'jin, or maybe Twilight Drake? Maybe even Shredder?
Sorry Richard. Twilight Guardians are nearly our best cards in this deck. We need them.
I'm guessing your best bet would be substituting Sludge Belcher, I know it's not one of the cards you suggested but it would be the closest sub for it.
Then don't build this deck. That card is probably the most important to get board control. You play your 1 mana and 2 mana minions to live early game and Twlight Guardian gives you the control with its health and taunt. Then you can peck away with all your other minions and use spells to assist until you can get Ysera out or deal fatal dmg.
Why was this deck not named "Monkey D. Dragon"!? Kappa
any replacement for Chilmaw?
I find myself using him a fair bit, but it is possible to draw him from a Museum Curator.
Any other 7+ dragon will work.
I wanted this deck to be called DragonMonkeyBaby.
I'm 11-2 with this deck, climbing from rank 12 to rank 9. Fun to play, thx!