Post-Nerf Pirate Warrior is STILL STRONG!
- Last updated Aug 18, 2017 (Frozen Throne)
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Wild
- 20 Minions
- 6 Spells
- 4 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Pirate Warrior
- Crafting Cost: 5200
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 3/1/2017 (Aggro Downfall)
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Battle Tag:
Slimey#2421
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Region:
EU
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Total Deck Rating
159
The patch is here and Small Time Buccaneer is nerfed. So what's the state of Pirate Warrior? Obviously the early game is far worse than before, and that's the weakness of the deck now, it's much harder to get good draws early, but that leaves room for some stronger cards later like Naga Corsair and Southsea Captain, so even though you no longer have a god tier 1 drop the deck is still very viable.
But who am I to talk all big and mighty? I might not be an amazing player, but ever since beta I've mained Warrior, with two small tournament wins playing mostly Control Warrior. So I've played every Warrior archetype there has been, during every patch. So trust me when I say Pirate Warrior is NOT dead, and will probably continue to sit among the most played classes.
Mulligan is very similar to before, you just have a bigger focus on getting 1 or 2 drops like Southsea Deckhand, N'Zoth's First Mate, Sir Finley Mrrgglton, Bloodsail Raider and Fiery War Axe. Also keeping a Dread Corsair with a Fiery War Axe is a really strong start, especially with the coin.
Edit: Hobart Grapplehammer is probably a good card to run since the buffs he gives are very strong and synergise very well with the deck, and would help a bit with the early game. I just don't have the card, because I don't want to craft a non-golden version (I have almost every Warrior card in gold) and therefore don't play it myself. It is definitely not needed for the deck to work, but if I had it I would replace it with a Naga Corsair or Mortal Strike
Post KOTFT Edit: As much as I hate the deck at this point, it's probably still viable. Replaced Sir Finley Mrrgglton with a second Southsea Captain, but you could put in Hobart Grapplehammer, Acherus Veteran, Bloodsail Corsair or almost anything else. It's almost unchanged, and it's as braindead as always. (Actually even more braindead, since you don't get to choose a new hero power). Looking forward to next year when the cards rotating out hopefully kill pirate warrior once and for all.
All of you are scumbags.
I meet only dragon preists and druids. Lost all games to them.
i went from 15 to 10 in about 30 mins only losing 2 games with the same exact list. dropped that games to water rogue and jade shaman. just bad draws and mulligan results. overall this deck is still broken as hell. i hate it but it might take me to at least rank 5.
I used a shitty variant of this deck to go from rank 15 to 10 with a 20-8 record (71.4%). The subs I used were due to not having Leeroy, Patches, or any Southsea Captains, getting rid of 1 Mortal Strike, and adding in an execute to help deal with big taunt minions:
-1 Patches the Pirate
-1 Leeroy Jenkins
-1 Southsea Captain
-1 Mortal Strike
-1 Naga Corsair
+1 Execute
+1 Arathi Weaponsmith
+1 Reckless Rocketeer
+2 Grimestreet Pawnbroker
I really like the way this deck plays despite not having some of the more essential pieces. I don't anticipate it taking me much further than rank 10ish but this was my first time trying Pirate Warrior and I'm happy I got to try it before Un'goro arrives. Wish I would've played it sooner, but at this point I didn't want to craft Patches only to use him for another week or two.
I just hit Legend today with this deck! I tweaked it a bit, and left 1 mortal strike out for an extra Southsea Captain, and I went from rank 5 (with 1 star) yesterday to Legend today with only losing 9 of my games, so I had a (-> 25 / (25+9=34) * 100% =) 73,53% winrate! Thanks again for this deck OP! :) P.S. Pirate warrior is far from dead, and in my opinion still one of the, if not the absolute, strongest deck in the current meta ;) Have fun with it while it lasts (probably till april 6, but we'll see what happens then) ;)
This deck absolutely doesn't work anymore. Up to rank 18 you can win 50% of games due to lucky topdeck, but you'd have a similar winrate playing the basic deck. After rank 18 it doesn't do anything at all.
hah WEAK!
I got rank 11 legend with a very similar list -1 Mortal Strike +1 Southsea Captain
from 20 to 18 in no time good deck
yar har fiddle dee dee, killing jade druid is allright with me
Rank 17 to rank 10 in about 30 minutes. Yep still broke af LUL
Just got to legend with this deck with almost the same list: -1 Naga Corsair, -1 mortal strike , +1 southsea captain, +1 argent horserider.
Useless deck just derank from rank15 to rank18 thank to this shitty deck
You either have a really short term memory or you are a really bad liar. If you were to rank 15, you cant go to a worse rank because of the floors being introduced :)
hahahahaha busted
I'm missing Leeroy Jenkins, so I've teched in an Acidic Swamp Ooze to deal with the mirror. Should I use a more direct substitution for Leeroy, like another charge, or maybe Bash?
Just put in reckless rocketeer instead. The missing 1 damage will only effect 1 in a 100 games, it's usually still enough to finish the match.
It's 1 damage, yeah but also 1 mana difference. The mana often matters more than the 1 damage.