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New expansions mean revisiting old cards, to see if maybe now they can find a place in a deck to justify not dusting them. A challenge in particular? I'm talkin' Gloom Stag. Odd druid never really found ground, being overshadowed by monstrously successful combo decks, but that doesn't mean it can't find success this time. That being said, druid is only getting 4 new odd cards, almost completely unrelated, but there are a batch of new odd neutrals too.

Anyone else look forward to this experimental stage of a new expansion? Anyone have a good theorycraft they're whipping up? Or are there any other card/themes that are traditionally underwhelming that you're also looking forward to revisiting? I'm looking at you, Moorabi...

Depending on what I open I will try and Putricide work.

I already had a treant style druid deck going with Ixlid but was missing that little oomph it needed. Now with the new cards I'm very excited going forward.

Nice, Putricide definitely has strengths, and maybe something like Subject 9 can help fuel the secret draw. Curious to see!

My fun deck right now is a Tess Greymane in Wild, using the tendency of Burgle effects to not deplete hand size to power out Mountain Giants while maintaining tempo.  But it doesn't match up to the overall power level of the meta despite the threat it carries, mainly due to the randomness of the cards illicitly obtained, and is especially weak in Standard.  So I'm very interested in the newer cards from the expansion as there appears to be some support for this style of play.

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My fun deck right now is a Tess Greymane in Wild, using the tendency of Burgle effects to not deplete hand size to power out Mountain Giants while maintaining tempo.  But it doesn't match up to the overall power level of the meta despite the threat it carries, mainly due to the randomness of the cards illicitly obtained, and is especially weak in Standard.  So I'm very interested in the newer cards from the expansion as there appears to be some support for this style of play.

 Mountain Giant is often overlooked and is a great fit for slower value decks, sounds like a fun deck! Maybe in the chaos of the new expansion you can carve a path and get a feel for how it performs and tweak it accordingly!

I'm looking forward to making use of Millhouse Manastorm.  Between Shredder 2.0 and call to arms, we can probably get him on the board consistently without triggering that horrible battlecry 

I swear I will make a Blackguard deck work. We still might not have the synergy yet, but Crystallizer and Crystalsmith Kangor are both good starts.

Also, I opened a golden Splintergraft and I'll at least try him out in a hand/treant style deck. Synergizes with Mountain Giant, Arcane Tyrant and now Mulchmuncher. Is there nothing he cannot do?

Lastly, Bladed Gauntlet could be a sweet card with Crystallizer and Eternium Rover coming the turn before it. I think control warrior might shock some folks this expansion

I'm honestly most interested in bringing aggro back, as there are too many possible OTK decks around right now. My focus was on warrior first, but I have since shifted to hunter as it seems to have more burst potential. Paladin might be OK too, but I'm not seeing it yet (outside of already established aggro decks).

EDIT: Oh wow! I just realised priest has a lot of goblin bomb support. Aggro priest is definitely on my list.

Here are some lists:

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I'm honestly most interested in bringing aggro back, as there are too many possible OTK decks around right now. My focus was on warrior first, but I have since shifted to hunter as it seems to have more burst potential. Paladin might be OK too, but I'm not seeing it yet (outside of already established aggro decks).

EDIT: Oh wow! I just realised priest has a lot of goblin bomb support. Aggro priest is definitely on my list.

Here are some lists:

No reach :( Rush Warrior Deck by BrokenCycle - Aug 2, 2018 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (26) 1x Darius Crowley 1x Zilliax 2x Crystallizer 2x Town Crier 1x Dyn-o-matic 2x Frothing Berserker 2x Replicating Menace 2x Cruel Taskmaster 2x Eternium Rover 2x Mecharoo 2x Microtech Controller 2x Rabid Worgen 2x Skaterbot 1x Steel Rager 2x Upgradeable Framebot	Ability (2) 2x Battle Rage	Weapon (2) 2x Woodcutter's Axe
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goblin bomb face hunter Face Hunter Deck by BrokenCycle - Aug 2, 2018 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (26) 1x Boommaster Flark 2x Void Ripper 2x Fireworks Tech 2x Knife Juggler 2x Spider Bomb 1x Terrorscale Stalker 2x Acherus Veteran 2x Dire Wolf Alpha 2x Explodinator 2x Goblin Bomb 2x Mecharoo 2x Skaterbot 2x Venomizer 2x Whirliglider	Ability (2) 2x Bomb Toss	Weapon (2) 2x Candleshot
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Bombs, even! Face Hunter Deck by BrokenCycle - Aug 2, 2018 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (22) 1x Genn Greymane 2x Defender of Argus 2x Fireworks Tech 2x Knife Juggler 2x Lifedrinker 1x Spellbreaker 2x Dark Iron Dwarf 2x Dire Wolf Alpha 2x Explodinator 2x Fallen Sun Cleric 2x Venomizer 2x Whirliglider	Ability (8) 2x Wandering Monster 2x Bomb Toss 2x Explosive Trap 2x Flanking Strike
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baku hunter Unknown Deck by BrokenCycle - Aug 3, 2018 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (22) 1x Baku the Mooneater 2x Raptor Hatchling 2x Spider Bomb 2x Acherus Veteran 2x Bearshark 2x Dire Mole 2x Emerald Reaver 2x Goblin Bomb 2x Mecharoo 2x Microtech Controller 1x Spring Rocket 2x Wargear	Ability (4) 2x Animal Companion 2x Kill Command	Weapon (4) 2x Eaglehorn Bow 2x Candleshot
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How many goblin bombs does it take? Aggro Priest Deck by BrokenCycle - Aug 3, 2018 View Deck String Export to BBCode Export to Cockatrice Export to MarkDown Export to Html Clone this deck
Minion (28) 2x Void Ripper 2x Mirage Caller 2x Leper Gnome 2x Acherus Veteran 2x Dire Wolf Alpha 2x Explodinator 2x Fungalmancer 2x Goblin Bomb 2x Mecharoo 2x Northshire Cleric 2x Shadow Ascendant 2x Upgradeable Framebot 2x Wargear 2x Whirliglider	Ability (2) 2x Twilight's Call
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 Nice! I'm digging that priest, and love seeing EVEN hunter vs. the popular odd version!

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I'm looking forward to making use of Millhouse Manastorm.  Between Shredder 2.0 and call to arms, we can probably get him on the board consistently without triggering that horrible battlecry 

 LOL, I dig bringing Millhouse in! The best will be that 5 second pause when you feel how they don't know what just happened when he pops out, for better or worse!

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I swear I will make a Blackguard deck work. We still might not have the synergy yet, but Crystallizer and Crystalsmith Kangor are both good starts.

Also, I opened a golden Splintergraft and I'll at least try him out in a hand/treant style deck. Synergizes with Mountain Giant, Arcane Tyrant and now Mulchmuncher. Is there nothing he cannot do?

Lastly, Bladed Gauntlet could be a sweet card with Crystallizer and Eternium Rover coming the turn before it. I think control warrior might shock some folks this expansion

 All three of these are so against type, I love it! I also pulled a golden Splintergraft, so I'm feeling the challenge of using him (vs. dusting him and pulling another...).

I'd would like to get Bolvar, Fireblood with all the new divine shield stuff to work, but I'm expecting it to be too slow still.

I want to try a meme deck with Prismatic Lens, 1-cost secrets, Sound the Bells and finally Illidan Stormrage.

I will try odd spell damage mage with Black Cat.  I will also play many meat wagon mech decks!

Let's face facts though.  There are no new freeze cards. Moorabi is dead and blizzard gave up on it.  You have a better chance of activating him by happening to have Glacial Shard in your hand and accidentally rolling him off of The Storm Bringer.

Gloom Stag can only ever become an addition to an already established odd deck, no odd deck will ever be made around this card, just not worth it. Good luck with theorycrafting tho, that is ofc part of the fun as well :)

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Gloom Stag can only ever become an addition to an already established odd deck, no odd deck will ever be made around this card, just not worth it. Good luck with theorycrafting tho, that is ofc part of the fun as well :)

 Amusingly, I actually have a decent odd druid built in my collection (It has a decent winrate though it will probably do much better with the addition of biology project). One obvious card it doesn't run is Gloom Stag because it is a beast and messes up witching hour.  Gloom Stag is just not worth it even if you establish an odd deck :P

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Gloom Stag can only ever become an addition to an already established odd deck, no odd deck will ever be made around this card, just not worth it. Good luck with theorycrafting tho, that is ofc part of the fun as well :)

 Amusingly, I actually have a decent odd druid built in my collection (It has a decent winrate though it will probably do much better with the addition of biology project). One obvious card it doesn't run is Gloom Stag because it is a beast and messes up witching hour.  Gloom Stag is just not worth it even if you establish an odd deck :P

 So, a spin on taunt druid? Or different beast synergy? Either way, glad you could find some odd-Druid luck, even without Gloom Stag, lol. I once tried to run a Void Ripper style Druid to flip all of its high health/low attack minions into a sudden burst attack turn, but it just wasn't consistent or fast enough.

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Gloom Stag can only ever become an addition to an already established odd deck, no odd deck will ever be made around this card, just not worth it. Good luck with theorycrafting tho, that is ofc part of the fun as well :)

 Amusingly, I actually have a decent odd druid built in my collection (It has a decent winrate though it will probably do much better with the addition of biology project). One obvious card it doesn't run is Gloom Stag because it is a beast and messes up witching hour.  Gloom Stag is just not worth it even if you establish an odd deck :P

 So, a spin on taunt druid? Or different beast synergy? Either way, glad you could find some odd-Druid luck, even without Gloom Stag, lol. I once tried to run a Void Ripper style Druid to flip all of its high health/low attack minions into a sudden burst attack turn, but it just wasn't consistent or fast enough.

 Yeah, it's just taunt druid with starfall, baron geddon and such to not die to aggro. Most of the important bits of the combo are odd anyway and since you can't run DK in taunt druid, I thought the hero power might be useful. It's obviously not as good as classic taunt druid because of the lack of wild growth, swipe and critical 8 drops to resurrect

Void ripper actually sounds like an incredible idea! Not just in meme druids, but in real taunt druid too. You get fat dragons stuck to the board fairly often and since no one is going to play around it, maybe I can surprise people with a lethal sometimes. I need to try this out