I miss the old Warlock, 9 cards in hand Warlock. Chop up your soul Warlock, skeeming a master plan Warlock. I hate the new Warlock, the always zoo Warlock The spam your board Warlock, smorc in the face Warlock. I miss the hand warlock, the always tap warlock I gotta to say at that time I'd like to use warlock See I invented warlock, it wasn't any warlocks And now I look and look around and there's so many warlocks I used to love warlock, I used to love warlock I even had turn 4 giant, I thought I was warlock What if Blizzard made a song about warlock Called "I Miss The Old Warlock, " man that would be so Warlock That's all it was Warlock, we still love Warlock And I love you like Warlock loves Warlock
Very creative concept, but just 1 question, why play villian instead of Mechanical Whelp? If you play that instead of villian, you can cut all the buff cards and add in anti aggro/combo cards since Da Undatakah will give you infinite value anyway with Seance and Test Subject. Summoning a 7/7 is better than an 8/5 anyway and you can even magnetize Zilliax on it
Maybe I further explain my suggestions, they are based on 2 criteria:
1. Increase survival chance
2. Synergy with the deck
The aim of the weasel deck is to shuffle as much garbage (weasels) into your opponent's deck, while not being affected by it. Archbishop has anti-synergy with this strategy as this deck will not go into fatigue, you have to kill your opponent when they are drawing bad cards, not drawing bad cards with them. You have a lot of draws to minimize the impact on some weasels in your deck but adding archbishop will just lower the effectiveness of those draws as they are thinned out by your opponent's cards. Adding weasels into your board using cube and stuff is much better than archbishop.
If you are concerned about early quest completion Crystalline Oracle is a much better deathrattle to add as it generates value for you instead of just turning a 1 mana beast into a 0 mana beast which is much less impactful.
The idea of drawing boar, surrender to madness, beastmaster and hatchling when facing aggro also seems bad, you have 8 bad cards that count as your win condition. This is why I suggest using Majordomo as your win condition, it seems silly but not so silly with Amara and also your opponent drawing bad cards. 8 damage a turn is a lot, removing majordomo plus killing you in a single turn with garbage in their hand is very hard for your opponent. This is not a meme addition, it is actually good in this deck.
Curator is a crazy good card in the deck, drawing one of your win condition (weasel) and also coldlight which also draws you 2 cards.
I understand your concern with elise though, maybe putting in Crystalline Oracle is better as you are going to win as Majordomo anyways
Cube turns 1 weasel into 3 but mirage caller just turn 1 into 2 so cube is actually better. Now I think about it, the advantage of drawing the spirit with Bwonsamdi may not be enough to cover the fact that it is shuffling things into your deck. Using mirage caller and cube will be better as they don't shuffle garbage into your deck.
Without Shadow Visions, relying on 2 mass hysteria against aggro is impossible, so this is why Excavatedevil and Scream is so important.
Like control warrior, this deck needs more survival tools instead of the dream of getting a lot of big boars. Aggro decks are your main concern as you should always win control and combo with their decks filled with trash. You may argue my suggestions make the deck go into fatigue more easily, but before you go into fatigue you already killed your opponent by hitting their face 8 damage a turn (which proves to be an effective finisher by quest warrior). The 8 health problem is not a concern due to Amara and the low-quality draw of your opponents. Hope this explains my point of view.
Cool deck idea of combining baku hero power with the weasel strategy, although it is hard for the deck to work without Shadowreaper Anduin and N'Zoth, the Corruptor.
I don't think Helpless Hatchling (corrupts your twilight call) and Stonetusk Boar is worth running despite your synergy with Untamed Beastmaster and Bwonsamdi, the Dead as your deck is a value deck. Archbishop Benedictus is also not good in the deck as this deck aims to put rubbish into your opponent's deck. This just fills your deck with the rubbish you put in your opponent's deck.
This deck is good but it needs a win condition that take advantage of your opponent drawing rubbish. I am thinking Majordomo Executus. It seems dumb but when your opponent's deck is filled with rubbish, they can't kill you even when you are at 8 health. Also you have Amara, with enough setup, you will turn into 40 health rag so easily while your opponent draws weasels every turn.
Psychic Scream as you mention is an excellent addition to the deck, it puts rubbish in your opponent's deck (like weasels that your opponent played to prevent those from corrupting your draws). Also you mentioned evolve shaman is the worst matchup well psychic scream just make them scream.
There are also other cards that I think is perfect to your deck: Elise the Trailblazer to increase the quality of your card draw, Zola the Gorgon to get another Amara or other value cards, The Curator draws you coldlight plus weasel, Excavated Evil to further corrupts your opponent's deck and is another good board clear, maybe one Carnivorous Cube to make more weasels plus progress on the quest.
Also changing 1 Shadow Word: Death into 1 Potion of Madness can also help with aggro and in the late game steal a weasel and shuffle it into your opponent deck, but I am not sure about this change.
Conclusion: Very good idea but I think can be refined by
-2 Boar, -2 Hatchling, -1 Benedictus, -2 Untamed Beastmaster, -2 Surrender to madness (Win condition changes to mainly weasels also some of these cards are bad draws)
+1 Elise, +1 Zola, +1 Majordomo (win condition: opponent can't kill you with weasels), +2 excavated evil and +2 psychic(more board clear plus corrupt opponent deck),+1 Curator (drawing coldlight and weasel, that is a lot of draw), +1 cube (more weasels)
Very good idea and deck concept! Tell me what you think about my suggestions.
Don't understand why people think this deck is pointless. The reason why the upgraded hero power is called soul tap is that instead of dealing 2 damage to your life total, you are dealing 2 damage to your opponent's soul. This is actually a decent deck and when you win your opponent, you are permanently damaging their soul.
This is why I wanted to make odd warlock work because there isn't a more powerful deck that can damage your opponent's soul in real life.
Used this deck and understand why fibonacci brought this to the tournament. Except for the weakness to mechathun and paladin dk otk decks, this deck doesn't do too bad against other decks.
This deck is hard to pilot and definitely worth to give a try if you are a fan of control warrior as it is challenging, fun and actually quite powerful.
People who say odd warlock is useless, I beg to differ, I have been trying to make odd warlock work since baku came out and fail miserably since I thought a full aggro direction is what this deck should be but it turns out it is a more midrangy token direction that is better. Finally someone did it. The main advantage of baku warlock is not the 2 damage it saves you. It is the shame you bring to your opponent once they loses to you.
Hemet will destroy Innervate and Naturalize, which is part of the combo. This deck can draw the whole deck in around turn 12. By the time you drew both the combo and Hemet you probably already emptied your deck. While Hemet just make it harder to pull off the combo as you have to play it and kill it.
I tried completely removing the murloc package and put in a mech/ Scarab Egg variant of this deck plus more token synergy cards like Lost Spirit, Defender of Argus and so far it seems quite good
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Full version:
I miss the old Warlock, 9 cards in hand Warlock.
Chop up your soul Warlock, skeeming a master plan Warlock.
I hate the new Warlock, the always zoo Warlock
The spam your board Warlock, smorc in the face Warlock.
I miss the hand warlock, the always tap warlock
I gotta to say at that time I'd like to use warlock
See I invented warlock, it wasn't any warlocks
And now I look and look around and there's so many warlocks
I used to love warlock, I used to love warlock
I even had turn 4 giant, I thought I was warlock
What if Blizzard made a song about warlock
Called "I Miss The Old Warlock, " man that would be so Warlock
That's all it was Warlock, we still love Warlock
And I love you like Warlock loves Warlock
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Very creative concept, but just 1 question, why play villian instead of Mechanical Whelp? If you play that instead of villian, you can cut all the buff cards and add in anti aggro/combo cards since Da Undatakah will give you infinite value anyway with Seance and Test Subject. Summoning a 7/7 is better than an 8/5 anyway and you can even magnetize Zilliax on it
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Maybe I further explain my suggestions, they are based on 2 criteria:
1. Increase survival chance
2. Synergy with the deck
The aim of the weasel deck is to shuffle as much garbage (weasels) into your opponent's deck, while not being affected by it. Archbishop has anti-synergy with this strategy as this deck will not go into fatigue, you have to kill your opponent when they are drawing bad cards, not drawing bad cards with them. You have a lot of draws to minimize the impact on some weasels in your deck but adding archbishop will just lower the effectiveness of those draws as they are thinned out by your opponent's cards. Adding weasels into your board using cube and stuff is much better than archbishop.
If you are concerned about early quest completion Crystalline Oracle is a much better deathrattle to add as it generates value for you instead of just turning a 1 mana beast into a 0 mana beast which is much less impactful.
The idea of drawing boar, surrender to madness, beastmaster and hatchling when facing aggro also seems bad, you have 8 bad cards that count as your win condition. This is why I suggest using Majordomo as your win condition, it seems silly but not so silly with Amara and also your opponent drawing bad cards. 8 damage a turn is a lot, removing majordomo plus killing you in a single turn with garbage in their hand is very hard for your opponent. This is not a meme addition, it is actually good in this deck.
Curator is a crazy good card in the deck, drawing one of your win condition (weasel) and also coldlight which also draws you 2 cards.
I understand your concern with elise though, maybe putting in Crystalline Oracle is better as you are going to win as Majordomo anyways
Cube turns 1 weasel into 3 but mirage caller just turn 1 into 2 so cube is actually better. Now I think about it, the advantage of drawing the spirit with Bwonsamdi may not be enough to cover the fact that it is shuffling things into your deck. Using mirage caller and cube will be better as they don't shuffle garbage into your deck.
Without Shadow Visions, relying on 2 mass hysteria against aggro is impossible, so this is why Excavated evil and Scream is so important.
Like control warrior, this deck needs more survival tools instead of the dream of getting a lot of big boars. Aggro decks are your main concern as you should always win control and combo with their decks filled with trash. You may argue my suggestions make the deck go into fatigue more easily, but before you go into fatigue you already killed your opponent by hitting their face 8 damage a turn (which proves to be an effective finisher by quest warrior). The 8 health problem is not a concern due to Amara and the low-quality draw of your opponents. Hope this explains my point of view.
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Cool deck idea of combining baku hero power with the weasel strategy, although it is hard for the deck to work without Shadowreaper Anduin and N'Zoth, the Corruptor.
I don't think Helpless Hatchling (corrupts your twilight call) and Stonetusk Boar is worth running despite your synergy with Untamed Beastmaster and Bwonsamdi, the Dead as your deck is a value deck. Archbishop Benedictus is also not good in the deck as this deck aims to put rubbish into your opponent's deck. This just fills your deck with the rubbish you put in your opponent's deck.
This deck is good but it needs a win condition that take advantage of your opponent drawing rubbish. I am thinking Majordomo Executus. It seems dumb but when your opponent's deck is filled with rubbish, they can't kill you even when you are at 8 health. Also you have Amara, with enough setup, you will turn into 40 health rag so easily while your opponent draws weasels every turn.
Psychic Scream as you mention is an excellent addition to the deck, it puts rubbish in your opponent's deck (like weasels that your opponent played to prevent those from corrupting your draws). Also you mentioned evolve shaman is the worst matchup well psychic scream just make them scream.
There are also other cards that I think is perfect to your deck: Elise the Trailblazer to increase the quality of your card draw, Zola the Gorgon to get another Amara or other value cards, The Curator draws you coldlight plus weasel, Excavated Evil to further corrupts your opponent's deck and is another good board clear, maybe one Carnivorous Cube to make more weasels plus progress on the quest.
Also changing 1 Shadow Word: Death into 1 Potion of Madness can also help with aggro and in the late game steal a weasel and shuffle it into your opponent deck, but I am not sure about this change.
Conclusion: Very good idea but I think can be refined by
-2 Boar, -2 Hatchling, -1 Benedictus, -2 Untamed Beastmaster, -2 Surrender to madness (Win condition changes to mainly weasels also some of these cards are bad draws)
+1 Elise, +1 Zola, +1 Majordomo (win condition: opponent can't kill you with weasels), +2 excavated evil and +2 psychic(more board clear plus corrupt opponent deck),+1 Curator (drawing coldlight and weasel, that is a lot of draw), +1 cube (more weasels)
Very good idea and deck concept! Tell me what you think about my suggestions.
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How about Voltaic Burst? It seems like a natural fit in the deck. Maybe also Feral Spirit
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Mana Tide Totem instead of acolyte? Also The Storm Bringer and Thrall, Deathseer have good synergy with tokens. Maybe you can even fit in Shudderwock if you have more battercries
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Don't understand why people think this deck is pointless. The reason why the upgraded hero power is called soul tap is that instead of dealing 2 damage to your life total, you are dealing 2 damage to your opponent's soul. This is actually a decent deck and when you win your opponent, you are permanently damaging their soul.
This is why I wanted to make odd warlock work because there isn't a more powerful deck that can damage your opponent's soul in real life.
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Used this deck and understand why fibonacci brought this to the tournament. Except for the weakness to mechathun and paladin dk otk decks, this deck doesn't do too bad against other decks.
You just aim to cycle quickly and leave ideally 1 Execute or Shield Slam, 1 Brawl, also either/both Harrison Jones/Weapons Project combo or/and Omega Assembly for the Dead Man's Hand cycle. Also ideally you should play Scourgelord Garrosh before Dr. Boom, Mad Genius.
This deck is hard to pilot and definitely worth to give a try if you are a fan of control warrior as it is challenging, fun and actually quite powerful.
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People who say odd warlock is useless, I beg to differ, I have been trying to make odd warlock work since baku came out and fail miserably since I thought a full aggro direction is what this deck should be but it turns out it is a more midrangy token direction that is better. Finally someone did it. The main advantage of baku warlock is not the 2 damage it saves you. It is the shame you bring to your opponent once they loses to you.
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"He doesn't really treat himself as a hunter, even though he calls himself the lord of the hunt"
This card works well in token decks as you may get a good hunter minion like King Krush or Savannah Highmane although you may get bad minions like Jeweled Macaw .
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Why not put in Corpsetaker when it is such a natural fit to this deck
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Hemet will destroy Innervate and Naturalize, which is part of the combo. This deck can draw the whole deck in around turn 12. By the time you drew both the combo and Hemet you probably already emptied your deck. While Hemet just make it harder to pull off the combo as you have to play it and kill it.
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I tried completely removing the murloc package and put in a mech/ Scarab Egg variant of this deck plus more token synergy cards like Lost Spirit, Defender of Argus and so far it seems quite good
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Glad you find success with this deck!
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Thanks! Glad you like the deck