[Top 100 EU & NA] AggroLock
- Last updated Jul 12, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 28 Minions
- 2 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Discardlock
- Crafting Cost: 1260
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/8/2016 (Old Gods)
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Introduction
Hello everyone! I'm Darkshadow. You may remember me from my Aggro Egg Druid. I'm going to present you the deck i used to finish top 100 on EU.
I build this deck together with SensoR, who came up with a interesting approach to zoo. We improved the deck from early in the season until the last day.
Ideas behind the deck
- Soulfire is better than Power Overwhelming in the current fast meta
- avoiding the heropower on early turns if possible
- strong opening and strong topdecks
- no situational cards
Card Choices
Soulfire: dealing 4 damage without sacrificing anything on the board is really good in a fast meta as it allows you to keep or establish board control while dealing with your opponents threat.
Wrathguard is just a 4-3 for 2 mana it snowballs really hard if left unanswered and enables good trades. Health doesnt matter as long as you are ahead so this deck negates the downside of the card.
Lance Carrier acts like 2 extra copies of Abusive Sergeant which is one of the best cards in fast/aggro decks. A problem with abusive is that its quite weak on turn 2 if you want to trade with it also it dies to whirlwind effects. Lance carrier doesnt have those problems also lance carrier gives a permanent buff so it enables good damage over turns and has great synergy with sticky minions. Overall its a great card to beat midrange and control decks but it can fall short vs aggro decks.
Young Priestess takes the spot of Possessed Villager due to the lack of Power Overwhelming in this deck it enables great openings and usally wins the game vs fast decks if it sticks more than 1 turn. 2 attack is nice because it creates nice pressure and good trades.
Argent Horserider enables nice trades and is good at any point of the game it has good synergy with Dire Wolf Alpha, Lance Carrier, Abusive Sergeant.
Argent Commander is the most clunky card in this deck. It acts like a third copy of Doomguard. It's in the deck to keep up with the value of midrange/control decks (mainly warrior). It can be replaced with Dark Iron Dwarf if you mostly play vs fast decks.
Mulligan:
Cards you keep everytime:
- Every 1-Drop except Abusive Sergeant vs control if you have another 1-Drop or start with the coin
Cards you keep vs Aggro:
- With Coin: Look for double 1-Drop, if you have double 1 you can keep a 2 drop
- Without Coin: hardmulligan for your 1-Drops, if you have a 1 Drop you can keep additional 1-Drops and 2-Drops except Lance Carrier
When to keep Imp Gang Boss:
- against warrior on coin with a 1-Drop
When to keep Lance Carrier:
- with squire without coin
Why no Leeroy Jenkins?
This deck deals steady damage throughout the game. You try to avoid the usage of your heropower on early turns which works well with the discard cards. On later turns you want immediately play every card that you topdeck. If a card is situational and gets stuck in your hand you will not only lose tempo but also discard it. Also this deck doesn't use Power Overwhelming so you can't burst that much with Leeroy Jenkins.
Proof
Offtopic:
This is the warlock deck Xixo used it in his line-up at SL i-League StarSeries S2 Finals. He ended up winning the tournament.
Shoutouts to Картошечка for making a guide about the deck in russian you can find it here.
Its hard with our one drops against mages hero power. Do you just want to load the board up as fast as possible with 1 and 2 drops?
u said Soulfire is better than Power overwhilming , but i see the opposite, maybe if there was 1 Soulfire and 1 Power overwhilming then u won't have the discard problem if u get a Doomguard and Soulfires .
anyway besides that this deck is good and reminds me of the good old days.
I think I lost against this decklist yesterday while playing hunter.
Well, I clearly remember that he didn't play Darkshire Councilman, but he had 6 taunts (2 Voidwalker and 4 thanks to Defender of Argus ) and he got a Reliquary Seeker out of his Dark Peddler for his full board.
That was the most annoying Zoo I've seen in the past 4-6 weeks, I'll upvote your deck for that ^^
the question to be asked is can this beat warriers ?
Any replacement for Imp Gang Boss as i don't want to buy Blackrock because it's leaving standard soon?
There is still at least half a year before Blackrock leaves standard. Imp Gang Boss is hard to replace, just do dailies and in no time you will have gold for Blackrock.
Thanks, nice deck man!
I would use the replacement's OP said but I would definitely save up the gold for the adventures due to being able to dust the cards they give since each wing has a lot of higher rarity cards and putting 700 gold into packs will probably net you less dust than the adventures.
Didn't think of that, thanks
Considered -1 Argent Commander, +1 Stampeding Kodo OR +1 Cyclopian Horror vs. aggro decks?
vs. Control it may be better to take out something for a crazed alchemist too. Maybe Argent Commander or 1x lance carrier?
I did not believe in the heart of the cards, but after trying this deck I'm a believer. Awesome deck, man. Very fast, and the opponents, at the biginning, they believe it is zoolock, and when they realize that it is not , it's too late.
Why did xixo bring this very aggressive list to starladder over the standard zoo lists everyone else has been bringing? Please discuss the merits/cons of this list compared to the standard zoo list.
Pro: More ability to make value trade as u have tons of buff and 2/1. The board is stronger than zoo and a little bit faster, as u have a lot of Charge minions.
Con: If you lose the board in early game, u pretty much lose the game bcos this deck can't flood the board again and again like Zoolock.
If you like to clear board, seeing your opponent's 4drop die to ur 1-2drop, go for this deck.
If you like to burst dmg to ur opponent's beautiful face, go for Zoo
No Councilman in 2016 EleGiggle
Good idea Darkshadow :)
Btw, I was thinking about removing Brann Bronzebeard from the deck, here's why:
Brann Bad sides:
x2 Flame Imp
x2 Doomguard
total: 4
Brann Good sides:
x2 Dark Peddler
x2 Abusive Sergeant
x2 Lance Carrier
x2 Defender of Argus <- let's ignore this because you don't always have the chance to use it with Brann with full benefits
total: 6
I suggest replacing Brann Bronzebeard with something else more useful, like Dark Iron Dwarf, that can help you in any situation and it will not be dependent on other cards in your hand (like with Brann & his Battlecry cards).
Brann is good for baiting out removals, you can't leave him on board vs zoo. You will never see situations when doomguard will discard more than 2 cards when you have brann on board
I am running brann in my regular zoo deck (you can see it in my profile). And, my experience is that I often play brann with argus. You usually don't end the game before turn 7, and if you have the option to play brann + argus it will be your best play most of the time.
Also, sometimes turn 3 brann remain on board and you can play turn 4 argus.
Leeroy instead of Argent?
Argent is higher value, it's not for finishing off opponents or then you'd have combo instead of soulfire and argent.
I'm undefeated with this deck so far. From Rank 20 to Rank 13. I had to make a few substitutions though. I don't have Imp Gang Boss so I'm using Dark Iron Dwarfs instead. I'm not a big fan of Argent Crusader so I'm using Sea Giant instead. Loving the deck. 👍🏼