Hearthpwn

Update - **Part 2 Deck and Guide** added. Once you have added the Tier 1 & Tier 2 cards to this deck you can use this deck to push Legend rank.

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Update - Cut 2x Voodoo Doctor for 1x Chillwind Yeti and 1x Boulderfist Ogre. The Yeti and Ogre are cards which have so much more equity than the Voodoo Doctor. Even though the base of this deck is to flood the board with cheap troops the Yeti and Ogre give such great value for their cost and provide u a chance to win the late game.

Intro; This is a Zoo deck made with all basic cards. This is a good start to learning the Zoo deck archetype. The Zoo deck is great because it is one of the best ways to make Legend rank as a Free To Play Hearthstone player who doesn't have a ton of great cards in their collection.

Guide: The Power of this deck is in the hero ability lifetap. Your goal is to make efficient trades and overwhelm your opponent by having more cards than they do. You don't want to lifetap on turn 2. You first want to establish a stronger board of minions than your opponent. If you can kill his minions while keeping yours alive go for the minion. If you think your opponent will attack your minion let him do the trading and hit your opponent's face. If you can trade one if ur weaker minions to kill their minion you should.

An example would be if you have a 3/2 Bloodfen Raptor with Mortal Coil in your hand. Your opponent in a Shaman who annoyingly played a Totem Golem for his turn 2. You can hit his 4 health minion with ur raptor and then kill it with a mortal coil. Elven Archer also works in the same way to make trades. You use the one damage battlecry to finish off the Totem Golem  Now you have traded ur weaker minion for his stronger minion and drawn a ard. Once you add teir 1 cards in the deck you will have more ways to trade. 

When the game starts one of two tohings happen. You go first or you go second and get the coin. Whether you go first or second will slightly affect which cards you  want to mulligan. The problem with this basic deck is cards like Elven Archer, Abusive Sergeant(Once you add this replacement it will create some question on turn 1), and Voodoo Doctor may not realize their full value if you play them on turn 1.

If you have the coin in hand I think you can keep Elven Archer because you can use that 1 damage battle cry vs what they play on turn 1. However if you go first it can be okay you send back Elven Archer hoping for a Goldshire Footman or Voidwalker.

Its is generally always good to have three 1 mana cost minions In your hand. Then you can play three minions by turn 2. That is always a good result.

One Turn 1 with the coin having a combination of Flame Imp & Voidwalker is a premium play. You can use the coin to get both the minions on the board and the taunt of the Voidwalker protects your Flame Imp

On Turn 1 without the coin you generally want these 1 drop cards. 1) Flame Imp 2. Argent Squire 3.Voidwalker, 4.Goldshire Footman 5.Possessed Villager  6.Elven Archer 7. Abusive Sergeant8. Voodoo Doctor

Throw away Mortal Coil unless you already have two other 1 mana cost minions in your hand.

Never keep Soulfire

**Note if you already have a minion to play on turn one then Abusive Sergeant and Voodoo Doctor become premium and you should keep them as well. These are great cards to get value from their battle cry on turn 2 especially if you can also play a 3rd 1 mana cost card.

A great turn 1 hand is this combo Voidwalker Voodoo Doctor Mortal Coil or Elven Archer.

If you go first and have only a Voodoo Doctor you should still play it even though you won't be able to utilize the healing effect. The same goes with Abusive Sergeant once you add it. Obviously you would rather have a higher tier 1 drop to play, so that's why I recommend sending these cards back into the deck if you don't have an alternative play on turn 1. If one of these two cards ends up being your only option on turn #1 you should play it despite losing some value. The reason is that with the Zoo deck your goal is to flood the board with minions and make efficient trade. Getting minions on the board is a good start to this.

Another mistake that players make is to keep a premium 2 drop card like Acidic Swamp Ooze or Dark Peddler without having a premium card to play on turn 1. You do not want to sacrifice a strong turn 1 for a premium turn 2.

Cards Worth Crafting To Improve Deck