Fractured in Alterac Valley Wild Combos
Questlines are upon us, as well as a lot of support for other archetypes! Here, we'll talk about potential combos available in Wild mode once these new cards are released.
Until now, Twig of the World Tree has been the easiest 1-card way to play 20 mana worth of stuff in one turn. Now that there’s a way to exceed the normal mana cap, this twig can also be used as one big super ramp to get those 10 crystals early and permanently.
With a new legendary that supports Big Beast Hunter decks, Oondasta can make even bigger swings than before. If Wing Commander Ichman pulls him out of the deck and you manage to Overkill something, you get another Beast from both our hand AND your deck.
The real intention of Magister Dawngrasp is to cast a big Fire, Frost, and Arcane spell. However, Mages do have access to Shadow spells and can also be recast by the Battlecry. There are 3 Shadow Mage spells. Book of Specters is greatly discouraged. Mask of C'Thun is a good option and is the only one of the three that exists in standard. While it certainly is the more viable choice for competitive purposes, there are always people who enjoy a certain level of chaos that Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron provides.
Facilitating OTKs hasn’t been too big of a problem for Paladins, and here’s a new way to do it. Once your deck is empty, here’s what you need to do. Have a Cavalry Horn with 1 remaining Durability, then play your Wild Pyromancer. Attack with the horn to pull Mecha'thun out of your hand and Equality to kill everything. Your whole board will be cleared, which will secure you the win as long as nothing else was in your hand when using this combo. C’Boom!
Priest has plenty of Deathrattles to choose from, and they’re quite proficient at spamming copies of them. Convincing Infiltrator has been one of the most prominent minions among Priest’s options. If Xyrella, the Devout triggers its Deathrattle several times, it can easily surpass even the Battlecry of a fully invoked Galakrond, the Unspeakable.
Immediately upon being revealed people right away were thinking about how they can use Najak Hexxen to permanently keep the stolen minion. While silencing Najak with Purify or bouncing him with Youthful Brewmaster are decent ways to do this, using the long forgotten Recombobulator is the most tempo efficient way to prevent Najak’s Deathrattle from losing you your prize.
Making the most out of Tamsin's Phylactery requires both a big enough Deathrattle to abuse and the ability to summon several minions to give the Deathrattle. Warlock decks that fill the board are typically aggressive, and Kobold Sandtrooper fits that kind of deck really well. Even just giving 2 minions this Deathrattle is the damage equivalent of a Fireball to the face.
We’ve seen in the past how a continuously discounted SN1P-SN4P can lead to some crazy burst damage. Now Warriors have access to their own unique version of this type of combo. This effect can be done can be done with two Mechwarpers, but just using To the Front! accomplishes the same thing while costing (1) less, requires one less card, and discounts ALL minions. At full mana with a Mech already on board, you can generate 16 damage straight from your hand!
We hope you give some of these combos a shot. Maybe you'll even discover your own! There are always new ways to use your cards, so experiment away!
Another fun one is dreadsteed plus desecrated graveyard
The mind control combo can be done with 0 mana silence on 4. that might be relevant, since it’s early enough to steal a giant from evenlock
i made a mistake
>Does this combo require more than 7 mana?
Then you're never playing it in Wild. Hunter and Warrior played their quest reward on turn 5.
But I’ve also encountered a Highlander Shaman that ran Ice Breaker so I’m not the only one memeing out here
Memes > Viability
That's my philosophy for every Article involving Wild Combos with New Cards. Will these combos appear in ranked games? No, but they exist and the point is to make them known.
Every one of these combos is too slow to be used again Quest Pirate Warrior and Odd Quest Hunter.
The point of this article isn't to provide solutions to the current meta
Glad someone understands. Any RaptorWithWings articles isn't gonna help you climb any ladders, but they do offer fun alternative ways to use Hearthstone cards.
Mmmm... Reno Big Spell Mage with puzzle box in wild? It's just too tasty not to try it out. I may never get to legend in wild, but... that's a sacrifice I'm willing to make.
It's just a real shame that Clumsy Courier doesn't count as "you" casting the spell for the sake of Magister Dawngrasp to recast it later. (or Grey Sage Parrot for that matter)
Yeah, Big Spell Mage support has really gone away from playing those spells and instead indirectly casting them. I wish Dragoncaller Alanna wasn't so useless in the deck she was made for.
You can do an OTK with the Phylactery using the sandtrooper's deathrattle. You need Tamsin Roame + Wicked Shipment (upgraded to summon 6 imps) + Tamsin's Phylacteryx2 + Plague of Flames. Thats 9 mana for 42 damage.
Sacrificial Summoner has also some fancy uses in wild. There is a version of giantlock that uses Happy Ghoul since there is so much healing in the deck. In that deck you can use the summoner on the ghoul to summon Injured Marauder. Or you can use the summoner on Frenzied Felwing in discolock to summon a Doomguard on turn 3.
Astral Communion also could be fun with the new Druid hero
Oh dang, I forgot about Wildheart Guff being able to help you recover from the discard. That'd be fun!