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Why Alexstrasza over Lord Jaraxxus?

I tried this deck and it's great (good, and fun to play) but it got me thinking, wouldn't Tainted Zealot work better than Bloodmage Thalnos? It seems to me that getting two spell damage bonus ticks with defile is much better than drawing a card. It's not like warlock needs much card draw, and usually at the point where you want to play a +spelldamage bonus Defile, you're at a point where you kinda want to STOP drawing cards, so often Bloodmage Thalnos deathrattle is a downside, and you lose a +1 spell damage Defile tick along with it.

Anything I'm missing? Or anyone tried both version and found a reason to go back with Bloodmage Thalnos? 

Hell,  Defile itself seems enough reason to make Tainted Zealot better, but it also work on stuff like Hellfire sometime if you really need to do it, leaving your Tainted Zealot alive after the Hellfire so you can do two damage Mortal Coil etc... 

It's depend on the match up i think. Sometime opponent will have his boards flooded with 3+ health minion to play around defile, in this case you want Bloodmage Thalnos because you can guarantee to have something die Tainted zealot+ defile is only good when there is a 1-2 health minions on board

Would it be a good idea to put in this deck Skulking Geist, Illidan Stormrage and Prince Valanar ? I was thinking to replace the 2 Mortal Coil for the Geist and Illidan, and the Hellfire for Valanar

Edit : I should sleep more

Why does this comment have so many down votes? He's telling the truth. Replacing mortal coil and hellfire is just plain stupid.

Man, at least u should replace 2 Twilight Drake , 2 Faceless Shambler and Hellfire just to put  Prince Valanar , i think that's not worth it.

Illidan having a demon tag doesn't make it good enough to warrant play. Prince Valanar? So you lose your twilight drake and faceless shamblers... These are some of your most important cards. 

And about Skulking Geist, It's more of a meta question, but a lot less jade druids lately. Either because people are countering them hard, or people just got bored of playing them. 7 druids in my last 33 games (so a bit above 20% - More than the average they should get, 11.1%, but way less than what they were before, 35-40%) and only 3 of them were jade druid. 

I'm not putting a 6 mana 4-6 in my decks to stop a deck I see less than 3 games out of 33. 
And yes it helps against other decks too, but not enough to earn it a spot imho. When you're not against specifically a jade druid, you'll lose 1 or 2 mortal coils on average, to remove what, something like 0 to 2 spells that may not be that great/usefull at this point ( turn 6 )? 

Because that's another thing... Killing the 1 mana jade card, and the 1 mana +1+1/give armor (I'm not good with card names!) is usefull because (despite the 1 mana cost) these are ENDGAME cards. Most 1 mana cards aren't. 

If you kill a priest's Powerword : Shield.. Well it's something, but at this point in the game it's usually more of a cycle card than anything. Turn 6-7, giving 2 health to a minion often doesn't do as much as it does early on. 

Bottom line... the 2 legendaries (illidan and prince) are terrible, or terrible in this deck. Skulking geist... Well if we get back to where it was before (25-30% of all games being against Jade Druid ) I'll probably use it myself. But at the moment it seems a bit less frequent. 
Or maybe I was just very lucky, but 33 games is a decent sample (not LARGE, but ok) and just 3 jade in these...

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Man, at least u should replace 2 Twilight Drake , 2 Faceless Shambler and Hellfire just to put  Prince Valanar , i think that's not worth it.

Any chance this would work without [card]Bloodreaver Gul'dan[/card]? It's the only card I'm missing and it feels like Lord Jaraxxus could be a replacement...

best lock deck so far this exp :D

Any replace for Alexstrasza?

Anything, you rarely use it

This deck is from 6 days ago, beware netdeckers as it won't have the same consistency as day 1, the meta develops faster the first days of an expansion.

Yea the bad netdeckers use Hearthpwn. I use it for fun decks and quest decks.

Amazing deck, helped me drop from 11 to 14 !

if u know how to play this u can win i reach from rank 10 to rank 5/4 with this deck and now i stay lossing all games vs priest and any pirate warrior but this deck is very nice and fun to play

this deck got me to rank 5 for the first time. Maybe youre just not playing it right lul

Would it be ok to replace Bloodmage Thalnos with a Twisted Zealot? I accidently disenchanted him awhile ago not thinking he would be strong in the meta anymore.