Check out this Wild OTK Priest Deck with Auctionmaster Beardo
Tonight we're shining the light on a card that many may not be too acquainted with, Auctionmaster Beardo! It's one of those oddball Legendaries that seems like a cool idea but not many people have made it work. SlaveToTheVaporwave has changed this though and brings to us a Priest deck which has been perfected over time to achieve a 57% winrate.
How it Works
We'll give you a short rundown on things, but you really want to go check out the full guide before you start playing.
- This isn't an easy deck to play. Practice makes perfect.
- Your primary source of evil is Raza the Chained and Auctionmaster Beardo.
- You want to get these two cards out on the board and use cheap spells to refresh that hero power while under an effect that makes your healing deal damage. Sources of this would be Auchenai Soulpriest if you're setting this up over many turns, or a nice Embrace the Shadow the turn of.
- Justicar Trueheart is here to help you deal more damage for the same amount of mana later on.
- You don't always need to combo to win. N'Zoth, the Corruptor and the strong early game Deathrattle presence can take games.
Winrate
SlaveToTheVaporwave has achieved a 57% winrate through over 230 ladder matches since late January. With 21 games played in this past season, he's hit an 81% winrate with a score of 17-4. Can you do better?
The Decklist
Interested in giving it a spin yourself? Here's the list!
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Agreed. There's a guaranteed win condition, while here you are just waiting for random opportunity, that may never occur.
What random opportunity? There's a pretty direct gameplan when you're playing the deck, and need fewer specific cards in your hand to combo.
Every time, you go "N'Zoth" or "OTK combo", I read "two different win conditions". And you know what does that mean? 2 win conditions? Less consistency.
Please, don't be mad. I will definitely give it a GO for some times. Cause I like cool decks and this tries to be like that. But I read your guide. You need to have a lot of cards for that OTK. Like Beardo himself is 3 mana (2 with Thaurissan, I guess) and then you need 5? cheap spells. It's 6 cards already. Also, specific. It's not like you have 2 of each. While in Chansey Priest (spawn of shadows - garrison commander combo) you only need 4 cards. And you need preparation only by Raza, not Raza + Justicar.
P.S. Yeah, and you don't need Emperor for that combo.
I'm not mad, and sorry if I came off that way, I just want to make sure we're communicating clearly. This deck is hard to explain, and hard to evaluate without seeing it in action. For example, with the two preparatory cards you mentioned, you don't even need EmperorThaurissan ticks if you've whittled away your opponent with board presence: Auctionmaster Beardo, Embrace the Shadow and 5 1-mana spells lets you deal 24 damage without having played Emperor Thaurissan; and Justicar Trueheart isn't necessary at all when you're using exclusively Spawn of Shadows, and is only needed sometimes with Embrace the Shadow/Auchenai Soulpriest. Furthermore, the cards that work with N'Zoth, the Corruptor are also the ones you're using to assemble your combo, so I think of it as a very dynamic combo rather than a deck that tries to go in two completely different directions. It's very fine tuned, and hard to explain the intricacies thereof; so hopefully if you do get to try it and you play it correctly you will get a better idea of it.
Thanks for the feedback!
I thought it is gonna be double radiant shadow visions into shadow visions OTK
The problem with that is you need to be very lucky with your draw order to pull that off. You need no duplicates in your deck to get your hero power to cost (0) from Raza the Chained but need two duplicate cards in your deck, so you'd need to draw and least one Radiant Elemental and one, but not both Shadow Visions before playing him, and need to draw the rest of your combo pieces (second Radiant Elemental, Auctionmaster Beardo and a source of damage) before drawing the second Shadow Visions.
While more memey, that version of the combo would sadly be too inconsistent to play semi-seriously.
Yeah, playing a (one) duplicate was doable in the era of just Reno, but with Raza and Kaza around as well even that is too much consistency lost.
What about Radiant Elemental? Wouldn't be nice to have in order to discount your cheap spells to 0?
Usually, Emperor Thaurissan does the trick. I feel like you only need one of these - I go more in depth about which to use in the tech substitution section of my guide.
Is Mukla, Tyrant of the vale a valid substitute for Toshley?
It's less optimal, but I think it would be the best available option. As I said in the comments of the deck, other reasonable substitutes (from best to worst) would be: Sylvanas Windrunner , Cairne Bloodhoof, or for an extra-budget option, Shifting Shade.
Wow, that's alot of dust. Looks like a ton of fun though.
The guide doesn't try to say it's the best deck ever, and the deck advertises itself first and foremost as having a 57% winrate in the title. It's merely suggested as a different deck you can play if you have some cards you otherwise wouldn't be using. Constructive criticism is always appreciated, but from this response it doesn't even seem like you read the guide.
I was playing something similar with a different combo in standard before reno rotated. Glad to see a combo deck doing some work in wild.
Yep followed this deck list or one very similar and its amazing
No SW:D ?:O
I found it wasn't needed in an average matchup. I suggest switching Holy Smite for it if you're playing against a lot of control - you can read a more in-depth explanation of this choice in the tech substitution section of the guide.
Thank you so much for the feature! I hope people enjoy playing this deck, feel free to message me or comment with any questions.
Why isn't Garrison Commander in the deck?