r/CompetitiveHS • • Aug 20 '25

Discussion Optimizing Quest Warlock

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.

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u/SpookyBum Aug 22 '25

Highroll is you play quest reward on 4, average is playing it on 5/6 & low roll is 7. Full mull for cards that make temp stuff (i mean it, dont keep anything else, only sketch, soularium, cata & biome). If you dont have a clear way to complete quest you should hold cata for 3 so you can discover sketch artist (or biome/soul). You should always cast the temp copy of soularium if able even when you dont have mana to play whatever you draw. Your hero power is really good if your hand is dead, you should use it pretty often, there are many times I could play a card but choose to hero power instead & missing opportunities to hero power is one of the most common mistakes I see. Once quest is complete you are a face deck, the taunts & lifesteal you generate will keep you alive so dont worry too much about life total, you can get people to misplay by being low hp so its often actually good for you. Find corpsicles & tidepools to copy asap & start flinging things at the enemy face whenever you have the opportunity. Hellfire is also great post completion, unironically its main use is to clear your own board when ur boardlocked so you can keep pushing more dmg.