Hello. I recently opened a gold legendary and decided to disenchant it to craft evenlock. I have seen a lot of it while playing and it looks pretty cool. However, I never see any streamers playing it and I can’t find any good YouTube videos from after Boomsday. It seems not too hard to play, but I want to know things like when to draw against certain matchups, whether you play giants before using geist against odd warrior, etc. Can anyone help me?
I don't know a resource, but the general idea is to think of it as aggro against control opponents and control vs aggro opponents.
Your biggest advantage against control, particularly control warrior, is that you can pack a lot of punch into one or two creatures over and over again. Giants, Infernals, Reavers, LK, etc are all dangerous on their own, and if you play correctly you can put pressure on opponent's life while not allowing them to get good value on sweepers.
Your biggest advantage against aggro is the warlock sweepers and self-heal. Also, your cheap creatures are ultra efficient. Btw, I recommend running doomsayers, some people don't but it's a hell of a bonus against the t1 mana wurm. If you're playing against aggro, you normally need to make use of your life tap quite a bit, but against mage, strongly consider holding off on multi-tapping.
Couple of things to consider. Against Token druid you MUST hold defile until he uses soul of the forest. You can't stand up to the double board fill without it. Against Maly and Tog druid, you are playing full aggro with your larger creatures. If you walk into a 4-5 spreading plague, it's going to hurt and it's not worth playing out multiple small creatures.
In my opinion, the best course of play against Control Warrior is to mulligan everything for Geist. Yes, everything. It's not productive to do a t3 Giant if it eats a shield slam every turn 4. If you can geist the shield slams and Omega Assemblies, you should be g2g.
That's just a rant to get you started. Feel free to ask anything. I finished last month #32 on NA and all of the final day was even lock.
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Thank you for the advice. My one question is are you sure that doomsayers are good? I know that vs said that they’re terrible for the deck and it should be a beatdown deck. I can see both of your points but I think that they have a valid point, as I know early giants and 4/10s are possible, along the 2 drops. You did finish really well last season though so I also value your doomsayer advice. Not sure who to follow.
My personal opinion having played this deck to death:
Doomsayer is an absolute Godsend agaisnt aggro decks like ZooLock, or Odd Warrior, etc. It's pretty rubbish against control decks overall, but is occasionally handy - though against control, you want to be pressuring, which DS prevents.
So, it depends on what you are facing a lot of. See a lot of aggro? Tech him in. Getting a lot of control / combo matchups? Find something more useful like Mossy Horror, etc.
Though Mossy Horror is also god damn amazing against Salty-tears Zoolock... :-D
Yeah, I think they aren't literal dead cards against control and the tradeoff against aggro is too good.
Against control, just snipe a tar creeper or something and be happy.
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So I agree 100% with everything here that the first guy said, but don’t cut doomsayers. He saves you against Afro too much, and in the mirror it’s clutch to play it the turn before you opponent can play giant, fits giant in that matchup is huge
Be careful not to draw too much against druids (except spiteful and maybe token) to avoid burning cards through naturalize (only play around 1 at a time, not 2 though). Same with non-Odd rogue for Vanish/Sap. Similarly, against a hunter with a secret, it might be freezing trap, so play a card before attacking if you're at 10 cards in hand. Even if it's explosive trap, it's better to lose 2 health on a drake than to get a giant destroyed by freezing trap.
So I agree 100% with everything here that the first guy said, but don’t cut doomsayers. He saves you against Afro too much, and in the mirror it’s clutch to play it the turn before you opponent can play giant, fits giant in that matchup is huge
Brother, NEVER save on the Afro. Too much cool to lose..
Hello. I recently opened a gold legendary and decided to disenchant it to craft evenlock. I have seen a lot of it while playing and it looks pretty cool. However, I never see any streamers playing it and I can’t find any good YouTube videos from after Boomsday. It seems not too hard to play, but I want to know things like when to draw against certain matchups, whether you play giants before using geist against odd warrior, etc. Can anyone help me?
I don't know a resource, but the general idea is to think of it as aggro against control opponents and control vs aggro opponents.
Your biggest advantage against control, particularly control warrior, is that you can pack a lot of punch into one or two creatures over and over again. Giants, Infernals, Reavers, LK, etc are all dangerous on their own, and if you play correctly you can put pressure on opponent's life while not allowing them to get good value on sweepers.
Your biggest advantage against aggro is the warlock sweepers and self-heal. Also, your cheap creatures are ultra efficient. Btw, I recommend running doomsayers, some people don't but it's a hell of a bonus against the t1 mana wurm. If you're playing against aggro, you normally need to make use of your life tap quite a bit, but against mage, strongly consider holding off on multi-tapping.
Couple of things to consider. Against Token druid you MUST hold defile until he uses soul of the forest. You can't stand up to the double board fill without it. Against Maly and Tog druid, you are playing full aggro with your larger creatures. If you walk into a 4-5 spreading plague, it's going to hurt and it's not worth playing out multiple small creatures.
In my opinion, the best course of play against Control Warrior is to mulligan everything for Geist. Yes, everything. It's not productive to do a t3 Giant if it eats a shield slam every turn 4. If you can geist the shield slams and Omega Assemblies, you should be g2g.
That's just a rant to get you started. Feel free to ask anything. I finished last month #32 on NA and all of the final day was even lock.
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Thank you for the advice. My one question is are you sure that doomsayers are good? I know that vs said that they’re terrible for the deck and it should be a beatdown deck. I can see both of your points but I think that they have a valid point, as I know early giants and 4/10s are possible, along the 2 drops. You did finish really well last season though so I also value your doomsayer advice. Not sure who to follow.
My personal opinion having played this deck to death:
Doomsayer is an absolute Godsend agaisnt aggro decks like ZooLock, or Odd Warrior, etc.
It's pretty rubbish against control decks overall, but is occasionally handy - though against control, you want to be pressuring, which DS prevents.
So, it depends on what you are facing a lot of. See a lot of aggro? Tech him in. Getting a lot of control / combo matchups? Find something more useful like Mossy Horror, etc.
Though Mossy Horror is also god damn amazing against Salty-tears Zoolock... :-D
Yeah, I think they aren't literal dead cards against control and the tradeoff against aggro is too good.
Against control, just snipe a tar creeper or something and be happy.
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So I agree 100% with everything here that the first guy said, but don’t cut doomsayers. He saves you against Afro too much, and in the mirror it’s clutch to play it the turn before you opponent can play giant, fits giant in that matchup is huge
If you have trouble against Odd Warrior you may want to tech your deck with the Mecha'Thun package. It's an instawin ;)
first u need to install hs and then tap tap tap turn 3 giant and u are a pro now
Remember when turn 1 Yeti was considered OP?
Sigh.... those were the days! lol
Mostly agree with what's above, except for Doomsayers. They're okay in the deck, but not good enough to include them in my opinion.
The VS list works really well : https://www.vicioussyndicate.com/deck-library/warlock-decks/even-warlock/standard-even-warlock-4/
Be careful not to draw too much against druids (except spiteful and maybe token) to avoid burning cards through naturalize (only play around 1 at a time, not 2 though). Same with non-Odd rogue for Vanish/Sap.
Similarly, against a hunter with a secret, it might be freezing trap, so play a card before attacking if you're at 10 cards in hand. Even if it's explosive trap, it's better to lose 2 health on a drake than to get a giant destroyed by freezing trap.
Use your noggin it's a very powerful and easy deck to play. Mull For Defile and Hellfire against Aggro and Giant against everything else.
Brother, NEVER save on the Afro. Too much cool to lose..
Golden Hero Collections thus far; -
Europe: Druid, Hunter, Paladin, Mage, Priest, Rogue, Shaman, Warlock, Warrior (9/9)
Americas: Druid, Mage, Paladin Shaman (4/9)
Everywhere else: Workin on it.. (0/9)
I also like to Tech in a Demonic Project or two as a free win against Combo decks, especially Mecha'thun, Shudderwock or Malygos.
https://outof.cards
Sjow plays a Lot of evenlock in his stream on Twitch, i recommend It
Thijs used to play it, I would imagine he has videos on YouTube of it if you want to see it played.
Everything Shadowrisen said is really good advice.
I can recall watching Firebat play evenlock in his youtube channel having Purple and Zalae as guests, you might find it helpful.
Other than that, maybe have a look at recent tournament matches involving the deck.