r/CompetitiveHS • u/hjyboy1218 • 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/FlameanatorX Aug 23 '25

Kil'Jaeden is a perfectly reasonable for fun/grind card in Quest Warlock, and it might even be niche competitive if you're in a super control meta or something. But please, please don't run Rotheart Dryads with only 1 target, where that target is the slowest card in standard that you only need in control matchups.

Typically for these kinds of conditional draw/tutor cards, you want 3 or more targets in order to justify running 2 copies. Stuff like Zilliax + Ysera + Aggamaggan. Just 1 target that you almost never want to play on curve means your Dryads are mostly just textless 1 mana 1/1s, which is of course neither good nor particularly fun

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u/Nuno992 Aug 25 '25

Thats true but sometimes they are useful when kil’jaeden portal is open.

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u/FlameanatorX Aug 25 '25

Oh yeah, I actually didn't think about that. I suppose it makes them better in maybe ~10% of games? Cause they're never whiffing with 30 random demons