[TOP 10 EU WILD] Anduin, the father of dragons
- Last updated Jul 23, 2017 (Quest Rogue Nerf)
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Wild
- 22 Minions
- 8 Spells
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Dragon Priest
- Crafting Cost: 2820
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/21/2017 (Quest Rogue Nerf)
- Havefun
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Battle Tag:
Havefun #2229
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Total Deck Rating
83
Hi everybody, I'm Havefun, a french casual player playing since vanilla hearthsone.
At the beginning, I just wanted to farm my golden priest but things went a lot better than expected.
I played this deck from rank 16 to rank 4-legend (best rank so far)
This deck is based around board control. You play high-stated minion which are hard to remove and try to steamroll your opponent.
Generic mulligan : Northshire Cleric, twilight whelp, wyrmrest agent. With the coin, you keep blackwing technician and kabal talonpriest if you have a 1-drop in hand.
Match-ups :
I don't track my game (don't use a deck tracker either) so I'll try my best to explain how I see the different match-ups. I will make a difference between ladder climbing and high-legend because there is really a big difference in the way people play.
Pirate-warrior : 60%WR climbing, 30% in high-legend
Let's start with THE deck to beat. During my climb I thought I was doing pretty good against pirates. But I discovered that people in the top 100 know what they're doing and my winrate dropped dramaticaly. Against them, you want to kill their board as fast as you can (can be really hard if they steamroll you with an upgradded fiery waraxe) and hide being big/buffed taunt.
Tokken druid : 80-85% WR
This is a really good match-up, you can keep up with their early game most-of the time. The 3-attack on talonpriest and technician is doing wonder. Try to reduce the power of savage roar most of the time.
Aggro shaman : 80% WR
Another really good match-up. Usually they can deal with the board and keep on developping but not against you because your minions are really high-stated. Even with their best start (trog+totem golem or claw) you can beat them. Be careful of burst. Midrange shaman is a little harder but still a favorable match-up.
Control shaman : 55% WR
An even match-up in my book. They tend to be very passive in the 4 first turn and try to come back with cards like volcano/ lightning storm. But usually, you have more than 15 health on board by turn 4. Entomb is usually MVP if they go for a big taunt + ancestral spirit. Try to get hex with Operative too.
Freeze mage : 60% WR climbing, 35% in high-legend
Here is the weakness of my deck : no Shadow word : pain and no bookwyrm. Frost-nova + doom sayer hurts a lot. But most of the time you win by out-healing them while popping the block on the alex turn. On high-legend, most player don't go for alex and burn you from 27/28 hp with thaurissan into thalnos + ice lance. Priest of the feast is MVP, keep him in your opening hand.
Reno mage : 70% WR
Same as it was in standard some months ago, dragon priest tends to run over reno mage with boards that are hard to clear for them. Their out is to pull a lot of deathrattle minions with an early N'zoth or to have an insane early Khazamakus potion. Most of the time you beat them pretty easily.
Reno priest : 80% WR climbing, 60% WR in high-legend
If you like awesome matches, you'll be served. Here is a match that tend to last. Control the board, play as much as you can around dragonfire potion and Lightbomb. Most of the time their hand run dry faster than yours if you can keep the tempo high. 4-attack minion are a pain for both sides, Operative and historian are MVP.
Combo priest : 60% WR climbing, 35% in high legend
Try to maintain the board and to keep the health of their minions as low as you can (by "bumping" into them without killing them sometimes). Beware of velen's chosen. Dragon fire wins games.
Renolock : 50% WR climbing, 30% in high-legend
You need a great start to get them on the ropes. The key is to force them to play in a reactive way most of the time while playing around their AOE.
N'zoth control warrior : 80% WR
Play around brawl, generate value, crush them ^^.
Midrange hunter : 70% WR
Their gameplan is similar to yours at the exception that they go face around turn 6-7 when you start generating more value. Your early minions are better so you tend to win the board control war.
Dude paladin : 70% WR climbing, 50% in high-legend
Control the board as much as you can, don't let the dudes live. Primordial drakes are great, azure/velen's chosen + holy nova clears a board full of 3/3.
Jade druid : 65% WR
You play a high tempo deck with high-stated minions which druid really struggle with. Their best solution is to grow their jade really fast or to get an early primordial drake. This may be one of the only match-up where face can be the place (sometimes against reno deck too).
Proof :
If you want to see the deck in action :
HOLY SHIT A 76.9% WR
This deck is very similar to mine. I run 1 ysera instead of a primordial drake and 1 brann instead of a second blacking technician. Ysera really helps with control match ups. Easily crushed Renolock several times and have never lost to it, but I loose to reno mage really easily. I have had a solid win rate of over 80 to 90 percent against ever deck, only ever loosing when I'm extremely unlucky, but I've had a winrate of 20 to 30 percent versus reno mage. I really like this version of dragon priest because of the balance between minions and spells. Other versions mainly run lyra and shadow visions which, although generates a lot of value, disrupts the general game plan of the deck since there may be some turns that you only draw useless spells and dragon synergy cards but you don't draw any dragons. Nice deck, cheers mate.
I dont have the second Primordial Drake Nice tip man =D
Congratz on the top legend rank and thanks for sharing your deck! I'm surprised how well it works without Shadow Word Pain and Book Wyrm FeelsGoodMan ! Here's my gameplay :D !
Damn I was winning with this deck at Rank 5, then suddenly plummeted and lost like 15 games in a row. Seems like it's pretty shitty against non-aggro super control decks.
I never blamed the deck dude, I blamed the meta. I had great success against Reno Mages and Control/Midrange Paladins, just not so much against control warriors, Renolocks, or Shamans. Just had bad luck against who I matched up against.
I replaced Velen's Chosen with Brann and for me it works very well. I think it's not only the extra discovery, but also the free Fireball when Blackwing Corruptor hits the board or doubling up with Blackwing Technician and Wyrmrest Agent.
Dragon Priest was one of the first decks I have ever hit legend with, and I am happy to see it revisited after such a long time! this works wonders on the ladder currently so If you wanna have some wild fun, this is definitely a deck to try out :D (I'ts also pretty budget to be honest! )
Here is a video showcasing the deck, which I hope you enjoy of course!
So far so good.
The deck is super. For 2 hours took 10 rank from 18