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On a side note: Mirror image is very useful against embiggen druid if you time it correct. ;)

To be perfectly clear: If Embiggen Druid has a perfect draw (1-2 times Embiggen, both Breath of Dreams, a dragon and Strength of numbers ...) it is very VERY hard to win against it. But that is true with every class... ;)

With a less perfect draw, Embiggen Druid is actually easy most of the time. To win you have to understand the weakness of this deck: It features very little heal and has no real comeback capabilities if it looses board control. Furthermore it has rather low card draw.

Depending of your initial hand your best chances to win are the following strategies:

1. Play Aggro against him. Perfect start would be Learn draconic in turn 1, zephyris or dragon speaker in two, Messenger Raven or Animal Companion in three... and so on. Go face until he will eventually overwhelm your forces on the board in the midgame. Then stall the game (frost, board clears, etc.) until you can face him down (e.g. with some face damage spells from discovery).

2. Lunas Galaxy and card draw. Try to Luna as early as possible and discover spells with extra card draw, e.g. Malygos Interlect. Use your board clears to get the upper hand on the board and value him down. This will work only if you draw luna very early in the game. Obviously Luna is best played along dragon mage or with learn draconic. Be careful not to be crushed by him in the mid game if following this startegy.

3. Reno him: Delay his troups with frost spells, board clears, zephyris, secrets, etc. Heal or armor up if possible. Get to turn 10 with this strategy (or turn 9 with coin). Use Reno to clear his unstoppable board. After this you have more ressources for the endgame than him. :)

4. If nothing helps: Trust the power of the Puzzle Box. You can play it as early as turn 5 with dragon mage and coin. From my experience, while it can kill your game it is more likely to give you a serious advantage and can even win you the game. If you have nothing to loose, you can just win. :)

Hi there,

I had to accept that the new dragon face hunter is indeed the nemeses of this deck. After more than 100 games I am down to a 35% WR against it. All other hunter types very quite win-able, but it is tough.

If you face a lot of them consider removing sheep, khartut and cobald spellkin for something like rolling fireball, nightmare alagham and maybe frost armor - but i have not tested that.

I also noticed, that this deck should not be played when you are tired. I had several loses due to stupid plays where I used e.g. dragon mage without holding a dragon, without a useful spell or due to stupid uses of zephyris, ...

The good news is: Against all other classes I am still running a very solid winrate somewhere between 52% (for galakrond rouge) and 68% (yes, that is against priest). Most games were played rank 5 and higher.  And it is still plenty of fun.

Since the deck got some attention and several likes I will write a guide soon starting with muligan tipps. I keep you posted.

You win by out-valuing and out-lasting your opponent. The deck allows several combos that generate insane value. Amazin Reno is just another nice lategame board clear and a 5 point heal. His special board clear is very useful against embiggen druid, resurrect priest, galakron warlock and galakron shaman since these classes can build very annoing sticky or immune boards or have a late game big turn which will fill their board as their win condition. His hero power is super rng though. ;)

This is my mid-range giant summoning mage. If the cards favor you, you can have 6 giants crushing everything on turn 6. I am currently climbing the ladder with this deck. :)

I am currently winning around 75% from rank 10 to 5. Favorable matchups are all control decks without early board clears and plenty hard removals. This deck wins agains bomb warrior most of the times, but it depends a little bit on card draw. Token druid is 50:50. Aggro hunter as well. It wipes the floor with Khadgar dragon mage (no board clears!), bomb hunter, secret paladin and dragon warrior.