MarkW's New Taunt Warrior (EU)
- Last updated May 3, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 6 Spells
- 4 Weapons
- Deck Type: None
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 4360
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 3/6/2016 (Explorers)
- MarkW
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Battle Tag:
#2464
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
365
Hi, this is MarkW, a Hong Kong player in EU server.
I've been playing this since s22 (EU) and it's been unexpectedly effective and fun, so enjoy lads.
UPDATE: Swapped Kodorider with Bloodhoof Brave.
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Check the SPOILER, STANDARD VERSION NOW OUT.
THE STANDARD VERSION OF THIS DECK WILL BE OUT SOON...
A couple week back, I thought of the idea of a Taunt Warrior, and as you do, I looked up in Hearthpwn. As I found nothing (at the time), I figured that it's time for me to make a deck, and for myself and our beloved hearthpwn community.
The original idea is to try out Sparring Partner,Bolster and Fierce Monkey, especially, with Mr. Sparring, his appearance on the meta is close to non-existent.
As I brought this deck to the fury of the ladder, there were complications as I was overly focused on the Taunt idea, this current deck is brought to you largely by trial-and-error.
I was very close to legend s22, but finally I managed to make it there this time. This deck is the nightmare of many meta decks, you essentially build up this great wall of China, but made immortal with Mr. Kel.
Here's the explanation for a couple of unusual cards:
Sparring Partner,Bolster and Fierce Monkey
As I explained earlier, these are the cornerstone cards for this deck. Fierce Monkey is a pretty good 3 drop, especially for warrior.
Sparring Partner and Bolster, for the taunt theme, and establishing a board filled with buffed up taunts.
Armorsmith x2
Now you might say this is an obvious one, but no. With this deck, I only ran 1 and I found myself through a lot of trouble. You'll need to generate a fair amount of armor, but with Taunts in the way, this works magically in your favor.
Why Obsidian Destroyer not Dr. Boom?
Obsidian Destroyer provides good combo and value (Only in this deck). Its 1/1 taunt has great synergy with Bolster and enables a small but effective bulwark against large minions. The 7/7 body invites immediacy for removal, just like Boom but only that you can't run something into it without going through the taunts. If he manages to live more than one round, (let's be brutally honest here, he's not going to live more than 1 round, otherwise you've essentially won.) you'll be able to stack up your board for more control... (To be continued)
Sparring Partner + The Black Knight Combo
This essentially guarantees the death of a particular minion, Taunt it up with Sparring Partner and kill it with The Black Knight. 8-Mana Combo.
Varian Wrynn provides an incredible tempo swing, pulling out 2-3 Taunts on the Battlefield can save your life. I understand the concern with pulling out Battlecry minions but there aren't that many.. (Especially many Low-cost Battlecry minions were previously played, by the time you put out Varian Wrynn, the probability of you getting a Sparring Partner is rather low.)
Let me quickly round it up, I've got things to do and fish to fry...
I've still got a lot to explain, especially with Kodorider
Kodorider and its spawns cannot be killed by big AOE spells, such as Lightbomb, Flamestrike, Consecration, Holy Nova and so on. They can also be easily Taunted up as well, by for example a Defender of Argus
Card Replacements:
Varian Wrynn: Arch-Thief Rafaam
Kodorider: Sylvanas Windrunner, Piloted Sky Golem
Elise Starseeker: A difficult card to replace this one, since it's ability is rather unique. Maybe for a Sen'jin Shieldmasta?
The Black Knight: Sylvanas Windrunner
Kel'Thuzad: Grommash Hellscream
Alternative:
I'm trying Brawl -1, Arcane Nullifier X-21 -2, Defender of Argus -1, Acolyte of Pain +1, Annoy-o-Tron +2, Bolster +1... I'm only at experimental stage with this change, if it turns out to be effective, I'll make these changes. (I'm rather skeptical of losing my only Brawl.)
Hogger was mentioned a couple of times, I see what everyone meant by using him, and feel free to try him out. The problem withHogger is, since he's a 4/4 and spawns 2/2s, this can be easily killed byFlamestrike orLightbomb. In combination with the problem that a 4/4 body is very easy to deal with. Regardless of my opinion, I do think he could be a viable replacement ofKodorider.
Video Showcase: (Credit to kiwiinbacon)
Every deck architect needs motivation.
[For Card replacements, reach 10 likes]
[For a more detailed guide, reach 30 likes]
[For a Standard Deck, reach 50 likes]
[For a mulligan guide, reach 70 likes]
[For a complete analysis of winrate ratios, reach 100 likes] (Coming Soon...)
Thanks for reading, and Happy Laddering.
MarkW
How much time do you need to make mulligan guide? lol
hmm I would not recommend this deck for laddering after rank 10. It is funny to put out all those taunts, but it is missing a win condition. The taunts is not liable way of control, so you cant win by controlling, and swarm board makes it vulnerable against AOE, and the minions are not the best choice for swarm tack's. It works to some extent, but when you begin to meet people that can play, it falls a bit short.
I took it to rank 9 and then they began to destroy it, 10 games in rank 10-9 win rate is 3 win 7 loss. I should add to rank 9 i had a win rate at 63% so it was decent.
How in God's name is this rated so high?? This deck is garbage in constructed. I get obliterated by most classes out there...
Not ladder viable, but lots of fun all the same.
Fun deck, but can't really compete on ladder.
I can try to practive the deck. But I don't have Varian Wrynn and The Black Knight.
I have change by Arch-Thief Rafaam and Sylvanas Windrunner as you guide.
But it isn't good for me.
Really looking forward to try out this deck!
Why no Justicar? Isn't it a staple in most warrior and priest decks? could help with late game, right?
Replaced Black Knight with Sylvannas and Variam with Rafaam as suggested, got pretty bad results and realized Rafaam is too slow for this deck. Having way better results with Ysera. Ysera is a very good body to taunt, gives cards to be turned into legendaries by monkey and its overall better than rafaam... I think you should put her as an suggested replacement for variam!
Good idea! Ill try this too
This deck really really needs revenge or unstable ghoul
That new Hogger card (I'm not looking up that stupid name) might be good in this deck next expansion
So I started playing hearthstone again yesterday and deleted all my old decks and tested this one first I started at rank 25 (where you can basically win with everything but yeah) so after 50 games this deck is at 29 wins to 11 Losses which is decent I guess.
The only problematic match-up and only class with less then 50% winrate against for me was dragonegg/token druid. What I found quite surprising was the 88% winrate against mages(9 games) and the 100% winrate against hunters(8 games). I did exchange Black Knight and Kodorider for 1 Brawl and Justicar Trueheart. don't have Black Knight but those 2 do the trick for me.
Great deck 1+
Edit: I'm now Rank 10 after those 50 games. In between I played Inspire Hunter in ranked 6 games and lost all of them so I guess it's possible that I could be rank 9 or 8 if I hadn't done that.
"after 50 games this deck is at 29 wins to 11 Losses"
29+11=40 not 50...
Not a very good deck at all.
This deck can beat aggro deck?
like
-Secret pala
-Zoolock
-SMOrc shaman
Don't forget to +1 the deck if you like the deck.
It will be appreciated if you would put my video in your guide. Thanks bro. =)
Why no brawl anymore?
Great deck, 7-0 with it. (Rank 19-15 in one streak)
Really good because almost nobody runs it so there isn't a youtuber/streamer with a tutorial on how to play against it, so it squashes low rank netdeckers.
EDIT:
Besides being a good deck, this deck has the super special advantage where everyone assumes you're a control warrior so they try to play against it - they have a hard time finding answers for taunt wall or varian.
Total crap.
went like, 1-5.