Notable Player Decks for the 2017 Asia-Pacific Summer Playoffs
The Summer Playoffs continue! This weekend, players from the Asia-Pacific region will be competing for their share of $25,000 and a ticket to the Summer Championship taking place this October. Below you will find the decks from most of the notable players competing at the event.
We'll also have a dedicated survival guide for this weekend so you don't miss any of the action.
Thanks to Chimera and FrostyFeetEU for helping me prepare these lists.
Decks Class Breakdown
Druids and Priests? No way! Compared to last week's European event, we're seeing less Mages in the mix and some additional Warlocks.
Decks Archetype Breakdown
Jade Druid and Highlander Priest remain tournament meta staples.
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R.I.P Rogue & Hunter
Big surprise... everyone brought a Druid... again...
Is DDaHyoNi targeting Jade Druid?
I thought the same thing. Seems like the man has some balls. Hope it works out for him....
Can someone explain the concept of Highlander Priest and why so many players in this tournament are playing it? I am not against the deck or saying anything bad about it. I just want to learn about it.
Why is it called Highlander? Is it a hard counter to something like Jade Druid? Can you explain the win condition(s)?
It's called Highlander because it can only give one! Meaning every card has only one copy in the deck to get the battlecry effect of Raza. Together with the priest DK Anduin you can burst your opponent down. Often supported by Lyra to create even more cheap spells to refresh your hero power.
highlander decks are decks that contain very few or no duplicate cards to trigger the effects of (in the case of standard priest) Kazakus and Raza the Chained. Highlander priests as of today win by using Raza the Chained and Shadowreaper Anduin to get a refreshable 0 cost hero power and spam yoir opponent to death.
Highlander decks are also called singleton decks (because there is only one of each card in your deck) or reno decks (named after the father of highlander decks, Reno Jackson).
Apologies for the wall of text!
Highlander Priest is named so because of the movie Highlander which had the tagline "There can only be one" which the Magic the Gathering community used for their decks where they played one of each nonbasic land card.
It's so popular especially against the Jade Druid matchup because being a mostly spell based deck it makes power tools such as Spreading Plague borderline useless and has outs for plague if it does go off in the form of Shadow Word: Horror, Dragonfire Potionetc.
Also depending on the build Skulking Geist destroys Jade Idols removing Jade Druid's ability to infinitely shuffle them back into the deck and using Shadowreaper Anduin (or a 10 mana Kazakus potion) to finish off the other large Jade cards usually leading to victory.
The more common win condition is the interaction between Raza the Chained which makes your hero power free and Shadowreaper Anduin which makes your hero power do 2 damage and refreshes whenever you play a card making every card you play an extra 2 damage to face or to things on the board to control them which is devastating because Anduin destroys the large minions when you play him so you can pick off stragglers and usually win board that way. Burgly Bully helps with this strategy by making spell based decks (like Jade Druid or the mirror) give you coins which are free triggers for your new hero while giving you even more mana to play more cards for more triggers.
If the above doesnt seal the deal Prophet Velen is the finisher, since it doubles the damage you do turns go like this for Velen. HP for 2, play Velen *refresh* HP for 4, play coin *refresh* HP for 4, play Holy Smite for 4 *refresh* HP for 4, coin *refresh* HP for 4 (INSERT ANY OF THE OTHER 6 1 DROPS AND CONTINUE) also Lyra the Sunshard generates random spells which can cost 1 or 0 to help.
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wait, what?
So many identical lineups...