[BUDGET] Young Dragonhawk Buff (Paladin vs Lich...
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Wild
- 4 Minions
- 24 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: PvE Adventure
- Deck Archetype: Unknown
- Boss: Lich King
- Crafting Cost: 880
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 11/28/2017 (Marin's Treasure)
- Dakaran
- Registered User
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Battle Tag:
Dakaran#1947
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Region:
US
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Total Deck Rating
160
The sole win condition requires you to buff a Young Dragonhawk and kill Arthas before he reaches turn 7. There’s definitely a little luck involved, primarily around if/when he draws an Obliterate. Muligan for the Dragonhawk. If you don’t have it on turn 1, restart the match.
DECKBUILDING: Though not intentionally so, this deck is definitely a budget solution, as it consists of basic and common cards and only 2 rares (which I didn't even use in the game that I won). The only card that’s required is Young Dragonhawk. Fill the rest of your deck with buffs, peppered with other cards that can help keep your Dragonhawk alive. I can’t recommend enough including 2 Blessing of Wisdoms. This can draw you an extra 2 cards per turn, which is a huge boon when most of the cards in the deck are 1-2 mana. I would recommend including as few minions as possible, and definitely not any taunt minions. Taunt minions sound like they'd be great at protecting your Dragonhawk, but once they die, they'll just get in the way on Arthas' side of the board.
- Additional suggestions:
- I've had some other folks mention that they've used Potion of Heroism, Rallying Blade, and Desperate Stand.
- If you keep having trouble dealing with Val'kyr Shadowguards or Sludge Belchers, you could also try adding in an Ironbeak Owl or two.
- I've also had Mossy Horror recommended, as it would allow you to clear the wall of taunts that are summoned on turn 7, which historically was a game ender for this deck.
MULIGAN: Muligan for the Dragonhawk. If you don’t have it on turn 1, restart the match. A strong starting hand includes cards that keep the Dragonhawk alive, by either buffing health or providing a Divine Shield.
GAMEPLAY:
- Turn 1: Play Young Dragonhawk
- Turn 2: If Arthas coined out a minion, any card that keeps the Dragonhawk alive is the priority. Best method is to buff health or use Light’s Justice if it’ll kill the minion. In lieu of that, anything that gives Divine Shield or a secret that either protects or revives the Dragonhawk will work. If Arthas didn’t coin out a minion, buff its attack and swing. In either case, if you can also buff with Blessing of Wisdom, then do so. The more cards you draw, the better chance you have to succeed.
- Turn 3-6: Continue to buff and protect your Dragonhawk. If your Dragonhawk is killed, it is possible to rebuild with another one or a revived one if you had Redemption in play. The deck is filled with buffs after all. Use your judgement based on the current situation whether you want to press on or just restart.
- Turn 7: If you can’t kill Arthas on this turn, restart.
- Other Tips:
- Keep getting Obliterated? Sometimes Arthas just has the RNG in his favor and seems to always have Obliterate ready to, well, you know. This is super frustrating. My best recommendation would be to keep trying, but mulligan a little differently. Try keeping cards like Redemption or Adaptation, or try adding Desperate Stand to your deck. Redemption and Desperate Stand will resurrect the Young Dragonhawk and can give you an opportunity to build back up with buffs in hand. Adaptation is less reliable, but if you get the choice of Liquid Membrane, your dragonhawk wouldn't be targetable by Obliterate.
Best of luck! For reference, with this deck list, I took home the win on attempt 4.
Wonderful deck. Worked pretty easily.
just did it, and ended up doing it without Blessing of Might! got crushed several times by Blizzard on 6 and Obliterate but when he finally didn't have either of those it worked like a charm.
2nd try, turn 7 had enough dmg to put him at -50.
Tried with Murlocs first and had the impression it wouldnt work well. With this deck I think it was first try, maybe second. Thank you very much!
I legit beat the Lich king on my first try with this deck (after re-rolling 2-3 times for a Young Dragonhawk mulligan). I didn't have Blessed Champion so I threw in two Sound The Bells! (and StB actually came in clutch allowing my lil Dragon Hawk survive to get the finishing blow in).
Thank you so much for this deck!
27 total restarts/obliterate fails to get it, def best deck to use
Really good deck. Pain in the ass trying to mulligan for the dragonhawk and getting obliterated. Took about 5 attempts plus about 10-15 mulligans.
This was easily the best deck for this. I've tried many decks, all of which were trying to make murlocs work but they all fell short in the ability to trade. This deck took a few tries but worked like a charm. Killed him by turn 6 with 22 attack on my dragonhawk.
Just used this today. first try and i got it.
Yup, Murloc Warleader getting nerfed is what killed the murloc deck options. Without the +2 health bonus that warleader used to give, it's completely unviable now. I can't tell you how many times I tried to this matchup with a murloc deck...
After ~30 tries across various decks, this is the one that did it. Last hero to unlock, too. Thank you SO MUCH!
P. S. Also, I kind of won because I made a move order mistake on turn 2... Played blessing of might before dark conviction so the latter remained in my hand. Thought I fucked up the run but it later helped me to buff an argent protector and remove 1 minion from the chain gang, freeing up the dragonhawk to do face damage and preserving its health.
Kind of ridiculous that I basically out-bullshitted LK's bullshit, but after hours upon hours of grinding, I'll take it.
kudos to this, did it on the first try
8th try counting the restart, awesome game, i was insanely lucky because i got double dragonhawk with double blessing of wisdom
i tried 148 times with murlocs (i'm not kidding i used a decktracker to count) - no chance since the warleader nerf. with this deck after restarting for the correct mulligan (17 times) i got obliterated on the first try, but then, second try, after another 8 restarts i had redemption up when he played obliterate and finished him 2 turns later
Yesss! Finally did it! No obliterate helps and blessing of wisdom is awesome.
Many thanks!
Very easy once you actually get lucky enough to draw the dragonhawk on turn 1 and not have it obliterated by LK. Took me about 15-20 tries, most of them restarts because I wasn't able to mulligan the hawk. This is definitely the deck to use though. Got my Arthas hero finally.
Tried for weeks to try a murloc paladin deck and it just took two attempts to knock this one out of the park. Thanks so big!
After 2 hours with other desk, win takes like 15 minuts, (alot of mulliganing and 3 fail runs (coz of oblitirate)).
U really need dragonhawk and blessing of wisdom in start hans. And some small luck (no oblitirate or many taunts)
Thanks for this deck! Worked on the third try. In my instance, it took a lot of restarting, no Obliterate, and no taunts, but I lucked out on my draw and his. T6 kill when I was able to double my Young Dragonhawk with Blessed Champion, and get 36 dmg in one turn :) I had the Dragonhawk and Blessing of Wisdom in my first hand.
took me about 1 hour, then I got stealth from adaptation on turn 5 and blessed champion to double attack to 20 (= 40 damage) on turn 6
Thanks a lot!