WingsOfWax's Burst Zoo - Rank 5 Easy - 73% Winrate
- Last updated Oct 4, 2016 (Yogg Nerf)
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Wild
- 24 Minions
- 6 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Zoolock
- Crafting Cost: 2560
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 9/27/2016 (Karazhan)
- wingsofwaxiii
- Deck Architect
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Battle Tag:
WingsOfWax
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Region:
US
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Total Deck Rating
7351
Hey there everyone and welcome!
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A Little About Me
I am a 17x Legend Player with 2x Top 100 finishes who goes by the battletag WingsOfWax or WingsOfWaxIII on other social media (Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Twitch, and YouTube). I have over 15+ Years of Magic: The Gathering Experience, but as of the release of Hearthstone: Beta been converted to this new and exciting card game.
Over the past year, I have been creating videos, articles, and casting live streams to help educate newer players about Hearthstone: Heroes of Warcraft. As of right now, I am mostly known in the Hearthpwn.com community for creating a Naxxramas + 2,000 Dust Budget Guide 11 Deck series as well as putting Burst Rogue back into fruition.
These days I am working full time, go to school, and still create Hearthstone content whenever I find my schedule allows it. I love educating all types of players whether new or veterans about becoming a better strategy card gamer. I am creating this guide (and others) to help educate and grow the Hearthstone Community even further.
Introduction to my YouTube Channel:
Warning: This is an aggro deck. It has inconsistencies similar to any other Aggressive strategy and is not exactly straight forward to play. There is a lot (not all) of SMOrc'ing (Face is the Place) to be done, but you will have to plan out your turns according to how your hand is sculpted for optimal plays that leave you in the driver seat. Playing out this deck takes time and practice to fully master and play well, but it can be done and eventually could take you to the Legend status you desire.
Today I decided to share the decklist I've been working with over the past week (total of 6-8 hours played) to some decent success. I have yet to climb to Legend with this decklist, but may not have the time to do so.
This deck can pretty easily take an above average player to Rank 5 or greater.
General Guide:
Try to be on the offensive throughout most of the game, meaning mulligan aggressively for 1 drops, attack your opponent's face majority of the time unless you have profitable trades (example: trade a 1/1 for a 2/1 to protect your 3/2s), and save your burst for one turn. Typically around turns 6-8 is around the time you should have enough burst in your hand to kill your opponent so make sure to count up potential damage from Turn 6 and beyond to plan your alpha strike.
Card Choices:
Forbidden Ritual - A solid reload card after your opponent has played a board clear. Also helps fix whatever hole you may have in your mana curve.
Worgen Infiltrator - Another solid 1 drop that can majority of times, reliably deal it's damage. Can be replaceable vs aggro decks for Elven Archer or Mortal Coil.
Acidic Swamp Ooze - Added to the deck because of the rise in Spirit Claws and other weapon reliant classes. Can be replaced if there are less weapons with Huge Toad or Twisted Worgen.
Ironbeak Owl - I decided to add Ironbeak as a one of, but it can be easily replaced with just about anything if you are finding less Taunts in your meta. Its mana cost is a bit bigger than I would hope, which is why I can't justify two copies.
Leeroy Jenkins - Best burst minion available in the game. Can be replaced with Argent Commander if cost is an issue.
If you are looking for a more resilient version of this deck to combat all the AOEs:
If you are looking for a deck that maximizes your time and is competitive, this is the right deck for you. The deck is also Budget Friendly and can be altered slightly depending on what your collection looks like.
Here's to hoping this deck/guide is in some way beneficial to your Grinding Experience! The deck has performed extremely well for me and won games I thought were not possible to do so.
If your looking for a deck to get you out of the lower Ranks, this one will surely do the trick when piloted reasonably well.
Interested in learning more? Feel free to stop by my Twitch Stream and subscribe to my YouTube, in which I'll either be playing Ranked mode with a variety of decks.
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Thank you for checking out this deck and I hope it serves you well.
Good luck and grind on,
-Wings
What are your thoughts about the changes to Abusive Sergeant? Will you still use it in the deck if it's a 1-1 body instead of a 2-1 body now? Are there any solid replacements for it? Plus, how necessary is Dark Peddler? Can I replace it until I get enough gold for the LoE wing? What's a decent replacement for it?
I think Abusive will still be playable in this deck since the only considerable replacement would be Leper Gnome and Id rather have the buff than the life loss in any game.
Replacing Peddler: Flame Juggler, Huge Toad, Maybe 1 Knife Juggler and 1 of the others mentioned. Losing Peddler is a huge hit to the power of this deck.
Illidan, might be worth it as you probably never see him added to any good deck.
Yeah but Illidan is 400 dust and isn't on the nerf list so it won't really be of much use. Which is why I'm considering dusting off the Call of the Wild.
What are your thoughts?
Rank 5 LUL
Hi, I'm casual gamer, it works for me to climb range from 20 ??
Easily. This could definitely get to at least rank 10 maybe further if you grind a lot.
I was 8 and i play this deck, now im 12! grettings
Oh boy, thanks for sharing the decklist Wax, I tested it today and just crushed a Hunter in two minutes! ^^
Some additional gameplay: VOD Burst Zoolock Rank 3
Interesting enough no shaman found much AoE against me.
YT-Player:
Hi there! Im new to HS.. could you (or anyone else) explain whats that board list on the right side of your video? Is it the inkeeper app?
No, it is the decklist in the HS client that I cut out and added to the screen ;)
you can add some sort of decklist by using decktracker also.
Since this is a SMorc deck, there are not any dust worthy investments.
Hey there! I just got Leeroy Jenkins and i'm thinking of trying out this recipe, what upgrades would you recomend to people with more complete collections?
Seeing as this is a Face deck, there is not any further upgrades. If we were out valuing people on the regular, I could see a few monetary upgrades.
Heya lorryriff,
This list has gone through a bunch of changes (you can see just how many from the info chart) while I was trying to figure out the best list.
Dark Iron Dwarf was cut to make room for Forbidden Rituals because of the number of board clears floating around.
In the slot of Acidic Swamp Ooze I tried out Flame Juggler, Huge Toad, Loot Hoarder, and Knife Juggler. Ooze came in handy in the Shaman, Hunters, and Warrior matchups that are frequent in the NA servers. The other options did not work out because there was no advantage to playing them early in the game, they were low impact, or they were unreliable.
Thank you for the kind words. I am trying to post a video or create decklists every once in a while, but life has me very busy.
Good luck and grind on,
-Wings
Thanks for the list. Any replacement for one of those Forbidden Rituals (only have one currently, trying to save dust for the moment)?
Not a problem! Argent Commander or something less than or equal to 6 mana that is tough to kill. You need some way to recoup a board after board clears. Hope it works well for you!