Warrior control (anti-aggro/anti-meta)
- Last updated Jul 17, 2014 (Live Patch 5506)
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Wild
- 17 Minions
- 11 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 10500
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/21/2014 (Live Patch 5170)
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Battle Tag:
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Total Deck Rating
921
This deck is built to be able to handle early rush decks, survive strong mid games, and finish with some explosive end game plays.
At first glance it looks like a basic warrior control deck, but you add in a few cards and it completely shifts the ability to handle meta game decks such as kolento hunter, reynad zoo, and the new saturos aggro mage.
NEW early/mid game contributions:
Sen'jin Shieldmasta: these stop aggro and mid range dead in their tracks, an armor smith behind a taz dingo can generate large amounts of armor and effective put their rush down to a halt.
Cleave: this is mainly added in because of zoo. 2 cost to remove a flame imp and a knife juggler is a pretty good deal, and it combos very will with Wild Pyromancer.
Wild Pyromancer: i cant even begin to describe how good this card is. you throw it down with a Cleave and a Slam and that full board from zoo or that unleash the skill from hunters turns into ashes as you completely shift the tempo in your favor for very low mana cost.
New-- Spellbreaker: i subbed out spell breaker for a Frothing Berserker. in the control matchups like druid, paladin, and handlock i find frothing under performing and i always lack a silence to stop that Twilight Drake [/card], [card] ancient of war , or Tirion Fordring. losing 1 frothing is not going to hurt your aggro matchups that much and a Spellbreaker can actually be pretty useful in zoo by silencing a buffed up minion and putting a decent 4/3 body on the board.
The basic early game: you use your Armorsmith to gain armor to sustain your life against aggro, coupling an Armorsmith with a Frothing Berserker can be fairly deadly, as you can become the aggressor with a surprise 7/4 frothing after a Whirlwind.
Mid-game: your Sen'jin Shieldmasta will prevent damage from coming through to you and Cairne Bloodhoof will provide a strong board , they easily carry you through to the late game in combination with removal spells such as Slam, Execute, and Brawl .
Late game: you have alexstraza to lower your oponents health to 15 then follow up next turn with a Grommash Hellscream+Cruel Taskmaster finish. if somehow your opponent still has the board in the mid/late game you have barron geddon to sweep up the board and setup for the big combo.
Wait.... wheres Gorehowl??: gorehowl is great in control match ups, but the new meta shift has caused a lot of grief with gorehowl. it is a useless card vs aggro decks as you want to take as little face damage as possible, and its such a late game card you barely get a chance to use it before the match is over. in control match ups more and more people are opting to put in Harrison Jones and Acidic Swamp Ooze. when harrison takes your gorehowl to the museum you waste 7 mana, a turn, and give your opponent a card and a 5/4. that sounds like a big bunch of nope to me
Deck strengths: with the new contributions, this deck is now suited up to beat: zoo, hunters, mages, druids, paladins and rogues. it makes control warrior way more versatile than before.
Deck weaknesses: handlock will ruin your day if your forced to use executes on twilight drakes, this matchup is exetremely favored to the handlock. priest can cause you issues by shadow word pain, it takes out frothing, armor smith, acolyte of pain, and tazdingo. leaving you struggling in the early starges, and then when you throw out that grommash it gets mind controlled. its just not a good time
Changes: -1Frothing +1 kokron elite
after using the kokron elite instead of frothing i feel like it is a stronger choice for the current meta as a 4 damage removal and a decent 4/3 body. but using frothing is also still viable if your more comfortable with that.
i encourage you to leave comments and suggestions :P
i just have Ragnaros the Firelord and Grommash Hellscream from the legendary in the deck and still great deck
hope get the rest of them soon
What can I replace Baron Geddon for? It's the only one that I'm missing. Thanks for sharing!
Deck is working great against zoo in the lower ranks thanks for sharing.
Man I wish I had the legendaries for this deck. Looks absolutely beast!!
I don't have Alexstraza Grommash and Baron Geddon, should I try a different deck or I can find good replacement for these 3 cards?
This deck is ruthlessly effective. I started searching for alternatives after struggling with Shaman in the current meta. I made a hunter rage quit, and finished off a Zoolock and a druid with more health than I started with.
I'm missing BGH and Alexstrasza so I put in a Sunwalker and Gorehowl instead. I figured Gorehowl would fit in this deck despite being vulnerable to ooze and museum. Sunwalker was put in based on the comments here.
do you think that this deck struggles against mid-range hunters?
Nice deck. The only thing I'm missing is Grommash. Somewhere it was suggested that Windfury was a fill in for it, but I've been having a heck of a time getting her to stick without Charge. Should I go Argent Commander? Gorehowl?
its kind of hard to replace grommash, but the idea behind him is just a lot of 1 burst damage anything that fills that is a good sub for grom. you could even put in leeroy+faceless in the deck to get that 9 mana for 12 damage burst.
I would definitely use Leeroy if I had him. I was asking from the commons, rare, and epic cards I might own. So far Alex, Rags, and Baron are performing the coup de grace.
pretty good sub suggestions, i would take boulderfist over venture co. though because of big game hunter
Got up to rank 6 with my own legendary warrior but figured someone else could build the deck better than me. Tried this one out, lost 5 in a row. Thanks?
Oh and I had REALLY good starting hands just about every game, armorsmith, axe, cruel taskmaster, acolyte, etc.
sometimes you win sometimes you don't, the only things that were edited in this deck vs a normal control warrior were things to stop the heavy aggro meta.
This deck is amazing, just made it been playing games, killed both my oppoenents with well over 8 armor stacked and grommash going in hulk style for the kill, other than baron geddon, alexstraza and ragnaros (dont have those yet) this works very well going to take it into rank games and see how well i do. I did put in leeroy, and argent commanders x2 to replace the legendaries i dont have.
sounds like you turned it into a sort of midrange warrior with the argent commanders, i would suggest using bigger beefy minions that are hard to remove over argents, like sunwalker,boulderfist, etc.
yea at the time i didnt have anything suitable but made some sunwalkers
Hi, I am making this deck and I think it is good, however I am missing only Cairne and Geddon. I have replaced Cairne with boulderfist because they are both strong, high value 6 drop. If cairne is serving a different purpose, is there a better replacement. Maybe sunwalker?
Then I really have no idea what I can use in place of Geddon. I was thinking Abom for the Aoe, but I'm not sure.
personally i would take the sunwalker over the ogre but they both work as a sub. and geddon is just really hard to replace i would suggest trying to craft him ASAP. but abombination could work for the time being
The spell breaker I would have to say is a less good pick and having another frothing would be much better.
you need the spell breaker in control matchups, adding an extra frothing does not add much to your decks utility vs a matchup like handlock or ramp druid