Mage Fatigue for Heroic Sapphiron (70% Win Rate)
- Last updated Apr 15, 2024 (Whizbang Paladin Changes)
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Wild
- 8 Minions
- 22 Spells
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Sapphiron
- Crafting Cost: 2120
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 8/22/2014 (Naxx Launch)
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Basically try to kill or freeze every creature before they can hit you. Sapphiron has 2x Pure Cold and 2x Frostbolt = 22 damage from spells alone. He also has two azure drakes and you can expect him to combo those with his spells for a few extra points of damage. This doesn't leave a lot of margin for error. To help us out we need him to trigger our Ice Barriers, if coupled with Vaporize we can even trigger it without taking damage.
Mulligan for cards that have a cost of 2 or less.
Don't use minions or spells to hit his face (and only use your hero power on his face if you don't have anything better to do with the mana). The main damage dealer for this fight is fatigue damage. When Sapphiron has drawn all his cards and used up all cards he intends to use (he usually saves two Blizzards), then you can unleash whatever damage spells/mininons you have left on his face.
Sapphiron's Deck List (and ideal counter for each card):
1x Coin
3x Mana Wyrm (Countered by: Frostbolt)
2x Frostbolt (Countered by: Ice Barrier)
3x Loot Hoarder (Countered by: Fireblast)
3x Faerie Dragon (Countered by: Breath of Sindragosa or Explosive Sheep)
2x Dancing Swords (Countered by: Steel Rager)
3x Shade of Naxxramas (Countered by: Volcanic Potion or Flamecannon)
2x Skeletal Smith (Countered by: Forgotten Torch)
3x Necroknight (Countered by: Fireball)
3x Spectral Knight (Countered by: Vaporize)
2x Azure Drake (Countered by: forged Cyclopian Crusher)
2x Pure Cold (Countered by: Antique Healbot)
2x Blizzard (Never used)
Other useful plays:
If Necroknight is the leftmost minion on the board, consider freezing it and killing it next turn to get more value out of its deathrattle (Sapphiron always plays new minions to the far left).
Other cards that would work well in this deck:
- Bluegill Warrior
- Wolfrider
- Reckless Rocketeer
- Ray of Frost
- Hench-Clan Hogsteed
- Redgill Razorjaw
- Remixed Musician
- Molten Rune
- Kaboom Bot
- Fire Sale
- First Flame
- Twin-fin Fin Twin
- Burrow Buster
- Star Power
- Spark Drill
- Voodoo Doll
- Combustion
- Rolling Fireball
- Ogre-Gang Ace
- Leeroy Jenkins
- Sylvanas Windrunner
- Anomalus
Thank you, did it on first try. Good guide there :)
Thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you, I cannot thank you enough. I tried several times with other decks that were touted as 'guaranteed, fantastic, tremendous, terrific, and like Trump and turned out to be a disaster, so sad.' But with your deck I got it the first time! Thank you.
dude the deck is great, thanks a lot. best adventure deck list/guide so far. keep it up
Great deck, got it in 3 tries. Was difficult to resist the temptation to keep from using spells or charge minions on him until his deck was out and he didn't have any more minions on the board (I'm not very patient :D). Well worth the wait though.
You are right in that Roaring Torch is also a counter to Necroknight. However the counters are mostly listed to show how and why the deck works to counter Sapphiron's deck during the most difficult part of the fight (which is roughly turns 2-10). I chose not to list Roaring Torch as a counter, because of how low of a chance it is one would actually have it at hand during those early turns. During the late turns this fight is usually so easy, no guide should be needed. It's just a matter of getting through those early turns in okay shape.
Piece of cake! Great Deck!!
Worked so much faster than the other decks I've tried, thank you so much!
Worked like a charm
Only have one Flamecannon , so I put in a cabalist tome instead. It deffintally helped a lot, I only had to attempt the boss once! I didnt even have to restart the fight because of a bad mulligan.
This deck works unbelievably well. I won on my first try at 28 life with an Ice Barrier up, after what I thought was a pretty bad opening draw (both Healbots in my first 5 cards). Thanks for keeping it fresh :)
Excellent deck! I kicked his frozen *ss the first try. Thanks for keeping this deck updated.
Got it the firts try. It's a great deck with good counters.
Altough it's a old expansion, you took the time to update the deck with the newer cards :)
Explanation is so clear
First try! TY very much!
First try! Thank you so much
Great descriptions and deck! Best I have ever seen for an Adventure deck! Thank YOU!!! :)
Thanks for this deck! Got him first try!
I just registered to the site to thank you for this. Amazing deck.
Bravo!
Good deck. That 1 for 1 guide it great!