Standard WotOG F2P Ramp C'Thun Druid
- Last updated Apr 27, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 10 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Ramp Druid
- Crafting Cost: 1120
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 4/26/2016 (Old Gods)
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This is a deck for budget or free to play players to play a solid C'Thun ramp druid deck.
It costs only 1120 dust to craft, and can teach you a lot about ramp druid.
I'll write a guide if this is successful.
Rules of this deck:
- No epics or legendaries (except for C'Thun, which is free
- No adventures
- Under 1000 dust (currently 1120, I'll try to improve)
Replacements
- Sylvanas Windrunner can enter here instead of Twilight Elder.
- Bog Creeper or Ancient of War or, even better, Twin Emperor Vek'lor can replace Ironbark Protector. All of them cost 7 mana instead of 8, and have at least the same health, which alone can save you the game.
- If you are ramping fast, but your creatures are not that powerful, you should skew the curve more into the late game, keeping your anti-aggro tools, but getting rid of your early game curve.
- You can replace C'Thun's Chosen for Klaxxi Amber-Weaver if it seems better for the meta.
- If you're low on card draw, and can afford it, add a Nourish. Candidates for replacement are Twilight Elder and Gadgetzan Jouster.
- If you're still too poor even for this cheap deck, you can add two Sen'jin Shieldmastas in place of C'Thun's Chosen, making this deck 80 dust cheaper.
Small Guide!
Against classes you'll thing will aggro you, such as hunter, warlock or paladin, you will mulligan for Gadgetzan Jouster, Beckoner of Evil, Swipe and Living Roots. Keep any of these cards if you get them, and change all others. Make sure you've got at least one 1-cost card. Other cards that are good in the early game are Disciple of C'Thun, Twilight Elder, and Wrath.
If you go first, a Gadgetzan Jouster or the 2 1/1 from the Living Roots are the right play. If you go second, look at your hand. Coining a Disciple of C'Thun on turn 2 can swing the tempo in your favor, and lots of times is better than coining a Wild Growth or a Beckoner of Evil on turn 1. This deck plays 3 turn 1 cards, so you should be covered every time.
Going on, you should play on curve most of the time, and do smart trades. Ramp if you have spare mana, and Innervate a big taunt (such as Dark Arakkoa) as soon as possible. If the opponent spawns too many minions, you can forego the great ramping ability of Mire Keeper in order to get the 2/2 for fighting for the board. Against aggro, your goal is to survive until you start playing one big taunt per turn, and clearing their board with Swipe when it would be valuable. Always clear the board as much as possible.
Against control (Warrior, Priest, or even Rogue, which several times plays reactively), your best early game is to ramp. A turn 2 Wild Growth into a turn 3 Mire Keeper is an amazing play, and it's what you will look for every game. You'll have 5 mana and a 3/3 at the end of your turn 3.
Your goal is to skip 5-mana always, playing Mire Keeper on curve, but this deck plays Azure Drake and Druid of the Claw as fantastic 5 drops in case you need to. If you draw a Mire Keeper on turn 5, and have a 5-drop in your hand, usually your best move is to play the 5-drop, or Innervate a 7-drop taunt against aggro. Azure Drake will draw you a card, and threaten havoc with Swipe, or very efficient removal with Wrath. Druid of the Claw can be a very efficient protection, or can be played as charge for removing an annoying opposing minion.
Once you stabilize against aggro, or reach high mana against control, your goal is to play a big threat every turn. Putting a C'Thun's Chosen behind a taunt can win you the game.
Play C'Thun when you think your opponent is out of resources for removing it, when you think it will seal the game, or for removing a threatening opposing board. Don't play C'Thun if any of these conditions are not met, or else it can be easily removed, Entombed, or worse, Mind Controlled without generating value for you.
Know your removals
This deck plays lots of direct damage for removing opposing threats. They are Living Roots for simple 2-damage, Wrath, for 3 damage, or pinging and drawing a card, Disciple of C'Thun for 2 damage plus a 2/1 board, that can do more 2 damage if it's not pinged, Swipe for 4 damage to an enemy and 1 damage to every other enemy, and you should be greedy with it. At last, C'Thun can destroy a very big board by himself.
Last tip
Don't waste your coin. Suppose if you have a hand with The Coin / Innervate / Twilight Elder, Wild Growth and Mire Keeper. You can be tempted to Coin + Innervate + Mire on turn 1 and Twilight Elder on turn 2. It's way better to Innervate the Elder on turn 1, then play Wild Growth on turn 2, and Mire Keeper on turn 4, preserving your coin for when it's absolutely necessary (for example, Azure Drake + Swipe with 8 mana, for 5+2AoE damage).
Thanks for your advice, I just replied further up with my new changes to this deck. Any advice on those changes would also be greatly appreciated. :)
Nice budget version!
This is a fun deck, thanks for posting it.
I swapped out Ironbark Protector x 2 for Fandral Staghelm and an Ancient Harbinger and I'm having pretty good success ... 3 out of 4 matches so far, I'll keep you updated ;-)
8 out of 14 now ... ran into some control decks that made it difficult. Ancient Harbinger has been useful but it's hard to make Fandral Staghelm last long enough to be worth it's slot in the deck.
I think Ancient Harbinger has not enough power to be part of this deck. Fandral works great, but you should learn how to use it. You can use it as a bait for premium removal, or get immediate value of it following one of the choose one cards here. You can also play it as a 4-drop if you didn't get anything, as it has a good value on the board. But you should not take Ironbark Protector for it. Ironbark is a win condition, because it's a huge minion your opponent will have to deal with. Ironbark should only be swapped for another big minion (Ragnaros, Bog Creeper, Ancient of War, Twin Emperor Vek'lor...).
You should remove Twilight Elder or C'Thun's Chosen for fitting a Fandral.
What does he mean by 'Your goal is to skip 5 mana always' ?
He means that you want Mire Keeper turn 4, choosing the 'gain an empty mana crystal' option so you skip from 4 mana to 6 mana
Any room for The Black Knight, Emperor Thaurissan, or Cenarius?
I used to run Emperor, but I usually don't need it.
Cenarius and Black Knight are great fit for this deck. You can remove an Ironbark for Cenarius.
Great deck! oh and for those who have LoE cards, try replacing the Gadgetzan Jouster with Brann Bronzebeard! if he is on the field when ANY c'thun buffer (or c'thun himself) is played, DOUBLE the buffs, DOUBLE the damage from the disiple, and TWICE AS MANY (random) SHOTS! (which is an insta-win most of the time with enough buffs to c'thun)
2/10
Very good deck, thanks! Actually I'm 5-0 and I swear I'm a complete noob :D
I replaced the 2 Ironbark Protector with 2 Bog Creeper and a C'Thun's Chosen with Klaxxi Amber-Weaver
1-4 (from rank 17 to 18), dunno what I'm doing wrong
would a black Knight or Rangaros the firelord find their place anywhere in this deck?
-1 Ironbark Protector for Ragnaros the Firelord and maybe The Black Knight for the Druid of the Claw would be your best bet if you really wanted them in your deck but reducing the number of taunt without any benefit to the goal of the deck wouldn't help much. Also right now there are tons of taunts being played making TBK a strong play since zoo runs Defender of Argus, shaman seem to be running Feral Spirit and Thing from Below and C'Thun control decks are laced with taunt minions (exception being mage). Hope that helps.
I like Alex and Ragnaros added. I think there is definite replacement value there.
I've been using it for the past couple of days and have jumped up from rank 17 to rank 13, good job with this deck!
Using this deck on a free to play account and have gone from 18 to 15 with no losses so far. Really great, thanks for sharing!
really good, thx :)
That helps me a LOT cause im new and i dont have many cards. Ty