StanCifka Shares His Top Five Theorycrafted Decks for Kobolds & Catacombs
Check out resident Hearthstone pro StanCifka's top five theorycrafted decks for Kobolds & Catacombs. What sort of decks are you hoping to play with the new cards?
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Armor Warrior
Dead Man's Hand stays one of the least popular archetypes despite being decent at many points in time, but I believe this is mostly due to game length. It has received more support in the new expansion which might finally push it over the line of becoming a deck that you can no longer ignore. Do not look for an easy win condition in the list - what you'll be trying to accomplish is going nearly infinite with shuffling and Battle Rage/Coldlight Oracles, while clearing threats and keeping your life total high. Drywhisker Armorer and Unidentified Shield will help you with the first, while Reckless Fury and Bladed Gauntlet should greatly assist you in the latter.
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Bloom Warlock
Whether or not it will prove playable once again, two mana DOOM! will stay forever in our hearts. The combo is certainly not known for its lack of card advantage, but your life total is a whole different story. That's why you needed fairly ineffective cards like Earthen Ring Farseer to heal up. With Kobolds and Catacombs coming, you can solve that problem way easier thanks to Amethyst Spellstone, which is able to heal you for 7 while also killing a minion - all that for 4 mana! Fueling it shouldn't be an issue with a fresh set of cards post-combo, especially when both of the other two new additions, Kobold Librarian and Vulgar Homunculus, also serve that purpose - while being from good to incredible on their own as well.
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Dragon Priest
Number three is probably the most classic deck you are about to see today and is also the safest bet on which one is going to see the most play. It proved very competitive in the past and although it only contains a total of 4 new cards, it's hard to overlook their sheer brutality.
- Duskbreaker is a discoverable Hellfire that adds a 3/3 body instead of damaging you
- If you are not sure how to evaluate Twilight Acolyte, try to compare it with another long-time staple, Aldor Peacekeeper.
What I see as the biggest argument against Dragon Priest is the fact that Minigun (Razakus Priest) is also going to improve a ton, so dragons' spot in the sun is going to be dependent on how the meta is going to shape up.
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Mill Rogue
Back into the creative waters. This deck goes very deep on new mechanics and is able to attack from many different angles.
- Evasion helps set up your Valeera the Hollow and burying any card advantage your opponent may have.
- Sonya Shadowdancer and Zola the Gorgon can bounce Coldlight Oracles to overdraw/mill slower decks.
- Fal'dorei Strider generates a lot of stats in the process.
- Elven Minstrel brings all the pieces together.
It's certainly possible that one of the standalone cards or interactions will prove stronger than the other and finds home in an existing deck while the rest fades into memory, but for now, before the meta-game settles, you have a great opportunity to play with all the toys at once!
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Secret Mage
This deck is pretty modest as far as the amount of new cards goes, but they sure make up for the quantity with quality. This is where the single best piece of the set (in my opinion at least) Aluneth finds a perfect home. You can drop your hand fast, run a lot of spells so your freshly drawn four has immediate impact and the games end quick enough that you don't have to be afraid of losing to fatigue before your opponent dies from severe frost-burns. It's pretty hard to evaluate Explosive Runes compared to Mirror Entity, I like it way better when lots of defensive minions like Tar Creeper are around, but even without that, it's another great addition to the secret mind games.
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Mill Rogue looks like a ton of fun
I like mill rogue as well. Have my upvote.
Dragon Priest is going to be so busted...
Thanks for sharing! This is when I think Hearthstone is at its most fun - just before an expansion when everyone is ready to try a whole bunch of new stuff and likely get really pissed off when they don't get enough legendaries and get eaten alive by the trolls still playing Frozen Thrones tier 1 lists!
I'm personally looking forward to trying out a Rhok'delar hunter (probably not good, but very different!) and trying out some King Togwaggle shenanigans.
The control warrior deck does not really have a win condition [except fatigue the opponent into conceding].
Rogue and Warlock decks gave some interesting ideas.
That's the win condition, is a fatigue warrior deck.
Love all of it ! :D
What is wrong with you ppl?
Post replying "crap decks" without arguments is called empathy.
Someone shared some of his thoughts. Why are you verbally attacking? You can either argue or ignore.
You can propose your own original thoughts
em·pa·thy
noun
the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.
Well, show a little empathy to Vzolfar instead of just calling him out, thatguy517.
Think he meant ''Pathetic'', as in ''It is indeed pathetic to see people shitting on a deck - or a comment - with no argument whatsoever, without in turn providing them self anything to that table of discussion. '' ^^
As all of the new cards got revealed, the hype reached its peak , and the fierce discussion on the new meta culminated on the forums, there was still something missing, something that ties all of those things together ... Stan PogChamp Cifka decided to descend from the Heartshtone Proplayer Heavens to shed wisdom and illuminate the path ... Now all of the stars have aligned and thus the expansion can safely roll out. Thank you basedGod CifkaStan.
i like warlock
mill rogue.. why not The Darkness?
You want to mill their cards. Not make them draw them. You will mill the candles.
Fal'dorei Strider puts cards in your own deck and since you arent planning on milling yourself they are a bonus to the draw
Because you're not trying to mill your own cards, but you are drawing a lot - that's why Fal'dorei is good
Because it puts the ambushes in your deck and not the opponent's