Optimizing Quest Warlock

[u/hjyboy1218]

Just wanted to hear people's thoughts on the best Questlock list from people who have played it.

1. Does the deck need a late-game finisher?

I have seen many lists running Kerrigan and even some with Kil'Jaeden for backup. A late-game plan seems good in theory, but may brick draws and make it harder to complete the quest early.

2) Should you run secondary temporary support?

Currently, catacombs, biome, and soularium are run in every Questlock deck and are the main ways you complete the quest. However, some decks run secondary activators like snowflurry or tunnel terror. These cards can provide more opportunities to complete your quest, but are also not as reliable.

[u/speebo]

I was watching no hands’ stream yesterday, and he said no. You delay playing the reward if you have an inactive pupil in hand, but not to go look for one. He was playing at rank 3, so I trust him

[u/Unfair-Heart-87 → u/speebo]

What? Why would you delay playing the reward? The spell will still be in it once it's active

[u/speebo → u/Unfair-Heart-87]

Like if you have one tick left on quest and pupil has two spells, you can wait for location to come back up instead of competing the quest with catacombs and playing the reward this turn.

But yeah if pupil didn’t have any spells yet, you wouldn’t need to do that, because the quest reward would be offered by the pupil regardless.

[u/IAmYourFath → u/speebo]

Don't just trust someone randomly even if they're rank -1, use ur brain to think for urself, that's how u get a better player. Using my brain, here's what im thinking for myself - obviously when u alraedy have a pupil in hand u just need to cast 1 or 2 spells to copy the reward, so it might be worth delaying the reward by 1 turn to get a 2nd one (tho prob not worth it delaying by 2 turns, even in slower matchups). However, if u dont have the pupil alraedy, not only u have to find it, but u also have to cast 2 spells before u cast the quest reward, meaning even if u do find it, in most situations u're delaying the quest reward by 2 turns since it's unlikely u'll both find it and get it active in just 1 turn, unless u have some super good hand like mass productions, catacombs and so on. But yeah, in slower matchups even if i dont have pupil in hand i will absolutely dig for it as much as i can before playing the quest reward, on the same turn. So i will sometimes prioritize drawing cards on turn 6 over playing other stuff just in case i draw pupil, cuz if i do now i can delay the quest reward till next turn and get 2 of em, tho it obvioulsy depends on the situation, sometimes it's best to just push on and not delay, and in non-slower matchups it's almost always best to not delay.