Sunday, October 16, 2016

Hearthstone - Blast from the Past VLPS's Handlock 2.0 (fun deck)

Let me say from the outset that this deck totally destroys control variants of Warrior decks and potentially control druid decks as well, but does poorly against most other decks that run hard removal or finish games by turn 7. Still, it's extremely satisfying to play a deck that runs huge taunt minions until the enemy runs out of removal. The game plan, as always for handlock, is to tap early and often to get a big hand, then slam down your big minions and put up taunts via Faceless Shambler, Sunfury Protector and Defender of Argus. Twilight Drake is an automatic keep in your starting hand as it should usually be the first minion you play. Against aggro it is also advisable to look for your Hellfire early on and Sylvanas with Shadowflame for later in the game. Otherwise, good value comes from Mountain Giant with taunt minions and Twilight Drake with taunt minions. Refreshment Vendor and Earthen Ring Farseer provide some healing (though not as well as Antique Healbot, R.I.P. because of Standard format) while the long term plan is to use Lord Jaraxxus to finish off your opponent. Note that Emperor Thaurissan is often used to reduce the cost of Lord Jaraxxus, so keep that in mind when deciding whether or not to play the Emperor. A combo deck variant of this list takes out Sylvanas, one Shadowflame, and one Defender of Argus to be replaced with Leeroy Jenkins, Faceless Manipulator and Power Overwhelming. Your mileage may vary if you are relying on the 20 damage burst from this combo because even though you are tapping often, you may not get all the pieces you need before these combo cards become dead weights in your hand.

Sorry for the poor quality deck image below the cut, it was taken directly from VLPS's stream, which you may find here. Decklist:




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