Sredna's Top 3 legend Dragon Warrior
- Last updated Jul 10, 2016 (Old Gods)
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Wild
- 23 Minions
- 5 Spells
- 2 Weapons
- Deck Type: Ranked Deck
- Deck Archetype: Dragon Warrior
- Crafting Cost: 8140
- Dust Needed: Loading Collection
- Created: 7/7/2016 (Old Gods)
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Why should i play dragon Warrior?
Since the meta is flooded with Warriors and Shamans which are both pretty good matchups, espescially shaman which i consider almost a free win. Druid might also be considered a free win. Impyyy who i tested this deck with, had a very high winrate versus Druid. However this deck is very consistant against most decks, and is definitely worth trying out.
Card choices
1x Blood To Ichor = Blood To Ichor is to good of a card not to run but two of them is overkill since minions are usually better.
1x N'Zoth's First Mate = This card is insane. It's great as a trader vs early cards and great as an execute activator for later in the game. The deck also kinda lacks one drops.
EDIT:
1x Fierce Monkey and 2x Frothing Berserker = Fierce Monkeys are really good against aggro especially against Shaman. Fierce Monkey is also insane to play right before a Frothing Berserker, so they dont just die. Frothing is too good of a card to not have 2.
1x Drakonid crusher = Two Drakonides are just too many and the card is not that insane. Not much more to say.
1x Onyxia = Onyxia is just so much board pressure that its insane. It wrecks zoo. Synergy with dragons.
Deathwing = Deathwing is by far the best card in the deck. It has so much pressure and it clears their board. Usually you don't discard a lot of cards. BGH is not a thing anymore which helps a lot.
Finley guide
Generally it's like this but it's really different. I think i have taken every single one besides Paladin.
Tier 1
Mage, Warlock and Druid
Tier 2
Hunter and Rogue
Tier 3
Priest, Shaman and Paladin
Replacements
Onyxia = Nefarian or second Drakonid.
I don't know what else to replace so let me know in the comments
Mulligan
Generally you would like to look for a curve. You maybe want to toss away N'Zoth's First Mate if you have a War Axe. The mulligan will seem very similar vs a lot of the classes. Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion and Faerie Dragon is usually keeps against all classes. Blood to Ichor is way better on coin.
Warrior
Sir Finley, War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
If you have a great curve you can hold Azure Drake aswell.
Warlock
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Ravaging ghoul, Blood To Ichor, N'Zoth's First Mate and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Shaman
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Blood To Ichor, N'Zoth's First Mate and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Druid
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Ravaging ghoul, Blood To Ichor, N'Zoth's First Mate and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Execute can also be held if you have a fine hand already.
Mage
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Blood To Ichor, N'Zoth's First Mate, Slam and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Rogue
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, N'Zoth's First Mate and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Eventually Blood To Ichor and execute together.
Hunter
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Ravaging ghoul, Blood To Ichor, N'Zoth's First Mate and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Paladin
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Ravaging ghoul, Blood To Ichor, N'Zoth's First Mate and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
Blood To Ichor is also great if you don't have coin against Paladin because of all the divine shields.
Priest
Sir Finley, Fiery War Axe, Alexstrasza's Champion, Blood To Ichor and Faerie Dragon.
Fierce Monkey and Frothing Berserker can also be held if you have a great curve.
But lets be honest you won't meet priest anyway.
Matchups
Warrior
Tempo/Dragon Warrior
Line up your plays agianst theirs so there plays on curve won't be very good. For example play Fierce Monkey on turn 3 to counter their Kor'Kron Elite on turn 4. If you can drag out the game you will usually win by playing more big threats than them for example Deathwing. Be careful for easy Execute on your Deathwing.
C'Thun/Control Warrior
Go very aggresive only do value trades but dont play more than 3-4 minions since brawl can screw you really hard. Try to make him use all his removal and maybe if you didn't win yet you can Deathwing his C'Thun. Remember against C'Thun Warrior that you can Slam or Blood To Ichor a divineshield on C'Thuns Chosen since it won't kill them.
Warlock
Zoo
Try to get as many efficient trades as possible while not letting them get anything on their but will make all their buff and burst cards useless.
Renolock
Try to play very aggresive without going all in. Try to make sure he can't Reno Jackson and clear you board at the same time since he will most likely win the game off it. Try to play as much around twisting nether as possible.
Shaman
Aggro/Midrange Shaman
Try to get as many efficient trades as possible while not letting them get anything on their board will make all their buff and burst cards useless. Against midrange Shaman calm down and don't get rekt by lightning storm. KILL HIS MANA TIDE TOTEM.
Druid
Yogg/Token Druid
Try to clear his board and stabilize. If that is not possible try to stall your way to Deathwing. Execute can either be used on big threats or for tempo on Violet Teacher or Fandral Staghelm.
Mage
Tempo Mage
Kill his Flamewakers and Sorcerer's Apprentices. This matchup is pretty straight forward just kill his minions and don't get rekt by flamestrike. It's not so important to get super efficient trades since his minions are super important to him and Yogg is the only way to win without them.
Rogue
Miracle/N'Zoth Rogue
Try to add as much pressure to him as possible so he will have to play on his backfoot so he will have no tempo. This way he will be forced to play inefficiently and you can stall for Grom, Ragnaros and Deathwing since rogue can't really deal with them. What are they going to do Sap? NO. Against N'Zoth rogue wait for N'Zoth with Deathwing if you can.
Hunter
Midrange Hunter
This matchup is pretty easy to play. All you have to do is trade into his minions especially his beasts so you can play around Houndmaster as much as possible. Try to gain as much board pressure before turn 8 as possible so you can deal with his Call of the Wild.
Paladin
Aggro Paladin
This matchup is just all about clearing every single minion he has since it will make half of his deck useless. This way he can't buff his minions and he will concede. Try to play as much around divine favor as possible.
N'Zoth Paladin
This is pretty much the same as against control Warrior. Do not overextend but try to keep pressure on him. Deathwing is essential to beat his N'Zoth but don't give him Deathwing if he got sylvanas back.
Priest
To be honest i dont know. I assume it's the same as control Warrior but i have only played two games so i don't really know.
Since you won't be meeting Priest anyway i hope this is alright.
Thanks for reading my guide :)
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I don't think either of those can really be substituted for Deathwing here. Deathwing is essentially an emergency out if you are behind at the end of the game and don't have any other plays. It clears the board and gives you a chance to win if your opponent doesn't have an answer, which by that point in the game they most likely don't.
Hello and thanks a lot for posting the deck! It is lots of fun and I wanted to know if lacking Onyxia is a dealbreaker.
I know you had replacements for her, and I really did sub Nefarian in, just wanted to know how much of a differance it has on the deck's potential.
Thanks for your time both answering and posting the deck.
I saw this deck yesterday and really wanted to play it but, I did not have Deathwing. Debated with myself all day yesterday about wether or not I should just bite the bullet and break down 1350 worth of epics and goldens. Decided to craft him and went from rank 11 to rank 5 easily. I've only been playing Hearthstone for about 4-or-5 months and have been unable to get past rank 8. I have been enjoying Dragon Warrior already but the addition of Onyxia and Deathwing make it so much better. This deck has a lot of tempo and generally all your opponents aoe is used up making Onyxia hard to deal with. On the other hand the only match-ups I've been Struggling against is N'Zoth decks. 9 out of 10 times vs this archetype I was left with Deathwing into Sylvanas Windrunner. Anyways pretty stoked about making it to rank 5. Hopefully I can use this deck to carry me to legend.
GL
Hey, ty for deck, i was stucked to rank 14, tryed this deck, passed to rank 12 but now i have a bad shape (idk why), from rank 12 i've been demoted to rank 15, i was rank 4 last season and i'm sure this deck can carry me to rank legend (mby i am a bad player)... Anyway, i don't have onixia so i replaced her with Nefarian but i was thinking... Isn't Alexstrasza better than Nefarian as a replacement? i mean she cost 9 mana, have 8/8, and that battlecry can help me as counter for control decks and counter for aggro decks bcs she heal me up to 15 hp :/...
i don't think she fits since she will often heal them
I replaced Sir Finley with Inner Rage bcs synergy with Gromm, and worked rly well, Alexstrasza saved me few times(agains CTRL warr, reduced his hp at 15 and next turn one shot with Gromm+Inner Rage+Another minion from my board) or agains aggro decks when in the turn 9 i was with 5hp and then healed me at 15 hp and woned. Alextstrasza worked really well for me :/ Better than nefarian, usually on turn 9 my hp is rly low vs aggro and vs control he's at ~20 hp :/
I just can't seem to get past rank 4 with this deck. I really like it with the dragon synergy, but I am not as proficient with the lower amount of card draw. My strong matchups are against Zoolock, Hunter, Mage, etc. I've found that I do lose a few to Shaman and Druid and Warrior obviously. Any tips? I find that I a little worse with this deck in comparison to Tempo Warrior.
Got drunk, YOLO crafted Onxyia and Deathwing just to play this deck- cause they classic! #only1500DustLeftNoYoggSadFace?
Can I replace Deathwing with Deathwing, Dragon lord?
I wouldn't recommend it no. Deathwing is not in the deck for his name, but rather because you usually run out of tempo around turn 10. By that time if everything else has failed you can clear your opponents board without the drawback of discarding an entire hand. Usually your opponent will have used up all of their removal on Grommash, Ragnaros, Onyxia and the Drakonid Crushers. Classic Deathwing is a game-winner.
This list is amazing! First time I've made it past Rank 6 since I've been playing this game. Now 3/4 through Rank 5, hopefully I'll be able to hit Legend, if not I'll still attain valuable experience against the better players on Hearthstone.
I have no problems with any other Warrior, Lock, Shaman lists. As mentioned above the Yogg Druid List is a tougher match, but it can be won. Some are smart enough to hold their Yogg in anticipation for Deathwing, but that doesn't always work out for them, since the deck has many ways to still pressure. Thank you so much Sredna, this list is amazing. 75 wins away from my Golden Warrior (which'll be my third Golden Hero!)
Peace OUT!
Glad you like it :)
This is definetly a valid substitution but i disagree on him being proactive since he in my opinion is reactive. Onyxia on the other hand is proactive and requires an answer. I would play Onyxia for the dragon synergy for sure but i can see why you wouldn't like her.
Congrats on the finish!
This is hands down the best list i have ever net-decked. Win streak from 14 - 8 and still going. I always keep an eye out for good dragon decks because who doesn't love dragons :) It creates great tempo and I've never run out of cards.
Also I have changed my view of Onyxia as this card is actually quite hard to deal with for your opponent. Prime removal has usually been exhausted dealing with my midrange minions and/or gromash/ragnaros when its played so it usually gets decent damage in. Well done!
Glad you like it and good luck laddering :)
Thinking about a replacement for Onyxia. I have Nefarian, but I'm not sure that works very well. Any thoughts on replacing Onyxia with Rafaam?
i thought about Nefarian but i really like the dragon synergy. Second Drakonid crusher could be good aswell
Just used your deck to hit the golden warrior hero! Video ;)