Naga Giants [Rank 19-13 ez]
- Last updated Sep 5, 2017 (Frozen Throne)
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- 12 Minions
- 15 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Crafting Cost: 5480
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 9/6/2017 (Frozen Throne)
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This deck is a blast to play. Quick breakdown is that you've got 6 Giants, Naga, "tutor" tools, and anti aggro/board control. If this gets 10 upvotes I'll do a quick write up on match ups and mulligan, but the basics are find a Naga and a couple giants and play around board clears (don't lose to Lightbomb on 6.
I've been playing with variations of this deck, trying out different things on my way to Rank 8. Here are a few observations, for those who'd like to tweak it.
I've tried playing with more Giants, but went back to 6, which felt like a sweet spot. Arcane Giant worked okay, but never had the full discount on turn 5, which made it inferior to the six already there. He'd be my choice if you want to run more. Sea Giant was only good when the board was full... which meant that either I couldn't stabilize or I just went even more all-in, which I recommend against. I rarely wanted to play more than two Giants, and Sea Giant basically was never played as one of the first two... It's okay however when you don't get a Naga Sea Witch, as it's the wasiest one to hardcast.
I've tried Sunfury Protector to help stabilize post-Giants, but it felt clunky, and screwed both King's Elekk and Stitched Tracker.
Stitched Tracker is the most important card in the deck. If you didn't catch it from the deckbuilding choices, you want to maximize the chance that it lets you choose between Naga Sea Witch (if you don't have it) or a Giant (if you have it).
Deathstalker Rexxar has been borderline useless for me. In over 30 games, it hasn't even won me one. I guess it does work against some top tier decks, but climbing from Rank 20 to 8, I haven't felt it was worth a deck slot.
Bear Trap has disappointed me. I often didn't want to play it on curve, so my hand size remained big enough for a free Mountain Giant, and even when I did, it didn't do much. I currently run none.
Deadly Shot hasn't impressed me either. I kept running into swarm decks (Token Druid, Token Shaman, Pirates, etc.) so I've replaced them with two copies of Unleash the Hounds - and with a second Hunter's Mark in the deck, they've proven useful even against non-swarm decks. This also allowed me to cut one Explosive Trap, which wasn't as useful with the amount of proactive answers I used,
I usually run one or two copies of Flare. Screws over all popular Mage builds and many Hunters, and it's a cycle that isn't a creature.
I also carry one (or very rarely two) Call of the Wild. It punishes hard those who choose to answer your Giant(s) while leaving the Naga Sea Witch on board, and it has stolen quite a few games, even on turn 9.
I've toyed with Cat Trick and Kill Command. Both were okay, especially run together. However, Cat Trick is mostly useless against Pirates, so it felt clunky. With Unleash the Hounds, Kill Command has more enablers... but not nearly enough to my taste, so I sticked with only Eaglehorn Bow and Quick Shot as removal / reach.
Good climbing all, and drink the tears of your enemies! I've gotten a LOT of hate adds postgame and disconnects ingame with this, which amuses me, and makes this fun deck even more fun!
This guy gets it. Also his changes are all excellent ideas and would recommend his list over mine.
Great, now every mouthbreathing, knuckle dragging retard hunter is playing this in wild. Went up against this cancerous crap 5 times in an hour.
why not sea giant and frost giant? enough spells for arcane giant
I would replace 2x Stitched Tracker with 2x Arcane Giant as the Trackers ruin the King Elekks.
The trackers gain you a copy of the card. Am I missing something? Looks like it has no effect on te King Elekks.
Stitched Tracker is a low cost minion, having more low cost minions in the deck makes it more likely for King's Elekk to pull a low cost card and fail the effect, so his point is absolutely valid.
That being said, I find Stitched Tracker easily worth the risk of ruining King's Elekk every once in a while, since you can choose the minion you need, and will always get it.
Tracker grabbing Naga is way more important than King Elekk hitting every time.