The Trump Theorycraft Train to Knights of the Frozen Throne
The self-proclaimed Mayor of Value Town has been up to his usual post-reveal theorycraft now that the entire Frozen Throne set is out in the wild, and oh boy does he have some ideas. Below you can find all of Trump's creations. It sure will be interesting to see if any of them can go further than his Old Gods C'Thun Druid!
Spotlight: EZ Big EZ Jade
A take on Jade / Ramp Druid for Frozen Throne. Give yourself plenty of extra mana crystals, survive, and go to town with huge hitters. Let's take a look at the new cards that are joining the roster.
Spreading Plague
A great anti-aggro card! Will easily help you to sustain yourself from the mid-game to ensure you'll get to play some of those powerhouses. Why was this printed again?
Malfurion the Pestilent
Control Powerhouse. The best friend of Fandral Staghelm, another card residing in the deck. If you can pull the combo off, it's some easy board control for you. No combo? No problem! Bringing out Fandral later still works with the Plague Lord hero power for excellent control. He's also a bit cheaper than other heroes, which is a huge plus.
Ultimate Infestation
Five fives for five plus five! The card is seriously insane and if it doesn't end up being an auto-include in most Druid decks, it's probably been nerfed by Blizzard. What's not to love about stupid amounts of value?
The Lich King
Do we even need to mention this dude? The Lich King has been forecasted as an auto-include for a lot of decks due to the insane value of the cards he spawns. There are a couple of Death Knight cards that aren't the best, but he's too good to pass up. Learn more about the Death Knight tokens on his card page.
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Spotlight: Corpsetaker Control Paladin
Upgraded Control Paladin! Onward to see the new Frozen Throne cards being used in the deck.
Chillblade Champion
Honestly not entirely sure if this is the best card for the slot, and the community is pretty evenly split about this being playable or bad, but it does help us ensure we can give Lifesteal to our Corpsetaker! It's guaranteed to give us health back, so that's nice.
Corpsetaker
We're already making use of most of these keywords in the deck which means you're on point for a trip to Value Town! Running a couple of these guys is pretty much just adding two extra Wickerflame Burnbristle into your deck.
Do note however that you only get the effects provided that they're still in your deck. Your hand or discard pile do not count.
Uther of the Ebon Blade
Uther is a strong independent Death Knight who don't need no Tirion Fordring (please excuse his inclusion in this deck). Effectively giving you 20 health, DK Uther will be able to help you trade efficiently into the opponent and if you can manage the control game very well, you can end up with the four horsemen on your side for an automatic win. What a fun card this is going to be!
The Lich King
Refer to the deck above where we mentioned The Lich King.
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All The Decks!
In total, we've got 14 theorycrafted Frozen Throne decks from Trump. Do you have any awesome ideas for new decks?
You're going to wanna cut Gnomeferatu for...anything really. Maybe that new 2-mana lifesteal card warlock got.
True, I just really love the battlecry of Gnomeferatu! Can't wait to play it!
Why all the hate?! These decks are THEORYcrafted.. Whoever believes that anyone can reliably predict the upcoming meta is just retarded. Imo its simply interesting to check out what he made his mind up on and what decks might be possible
Stop. Just stop. His decks never works
Trump would get weather forecasts in Saudi Arabia and Antarctica wrong. Even listening to him play and try to predict his opponent's moves is cringeworthy, compared to Brian Kibler.
"Warlock Quest gets five stars." All you need to know. Hm, Trump hasn't done those star reviews yet ...
For Kripp's salt, he's legit on predictions and on what is ailing Hearthstone. And when he does venture out of arena with a crafted deck, it's fun. Dude just hates the boring, brainless aggro of the ladder.
Kibler is too nice except when he faces decks that annoy him (pirates, rogue quest), but the man plays my style for the most part. So there.
Thijis isa Euro-trash a-talking douche -- but his videos are worth watching for entertainment and he'll run any deck. Ditto with Firebat, just North American.
BTW if you want a Trump-like nerd who is less of a jagoff, try Regis Killbin on YouTube. He's doing the star reviews, so it will be interesting what was five-star and struck out in his predictions. Plays a bit too much aggro or extreme meme decks though for me to follow his playing.
PS f--k Trump for saying Priest was going to suck again. It didn't in Un'Goro.
It's like you just want to get downvoted :/
Looking at these initial decks. I bet he is going to get a lot of the card reviews wrong yet again.
He will probably rate Brrrloc 1-Star and get a handful of neutral cards wrong.
Are you sure Trump made these decks? perhaps we're talking about another Trump here.
The only proo player that truly understands the game is Brian Kibler ! Rest of this noobs are just "famous" streamers... ok Kripp is prettyyyy good in Arena.
Brian Kibler is the best !
I am so tired of Jade druid, in any form or function.
Trump just a another hyped gamer..
He's ironic and makes a lot of fun about himself. If you take him seriously all the time, you are more autistic than he is.
Yes his predictions are often wrong, but he is very critical with himself, doing re-reviews of his ratings, showing and admitting how wrong he was at a lot of cards. He is no way arrogant!
(No offense to Trump, I watch his vids for years. :) )
Take one solid look at the photo of Trump that they used for this post on the front page and tell me that's a guy that takes himself too seriously.
Trump isn't wrong on mostly everything, sure his reviews aren't perfect but who's are? Apart from the apparently almighty Toast people seem to take his word as the word of God on here. Trump's theorycrafts have been for fun and competitiveness if you actually watched part of his stream he said this on multiple occasions. Jeez, some people are so quick to hate, just because he's not the number one player in the world. In fact, throughout expansions he will create decks to be competitive as well as fun, mostly down to his own ideas.
Trump is horrible at theorycrafting and card reviewing.His card reviews are especially atrocious.
Most of these seem like meme decks to me . I did some theorycrafting of my own I am pretty sure meta will not look anything like this . Some cards included by trump are hard to get value from (corpsetaker) or are just straight up meme cards (penguin) I believe the meta will look like this .
Good old murloc paly. Some control might be viable.
Good old pirate warrior Taint warrior will get better . There might appear tempo warrior .
Ramp druid will be better but without the jades .
Mid shaman will become better . Evolve will still be playable .
Freeze mage might become more popular (especially if people play more control)
Priest will play more dragons and maybe N zoth
Rogue will probably play the same miracle as ever but with new weapon it becomes better .
Warlock will be a little better but still not great due to luck of insta big heals . (You can play a big life steal minion but it does not matter if you are dead the next turn ) . Demons might see some play but it's not gonna be strong .
Hunter will not exist .
I think you're right with several of the decks, but I see aggro/token druid to be very good.
"Terrible"
no offense to Fluff the Best Deathwing, this type or articles are promoting netdecking immensely. release months should have the most diverse meta which make them most fun.
e.g. comparing your OTK idea with others' in the Decks page and finding out that some guy built a more consistent deck than yours is the ultimate experience here. imo theorycrafting, saving the deck, sharing, commenting is the best feature of this site. but when a streamer does this bad players are gonna copy these relatively strong decks without questioning.