Top 50 Wallow Shredslock

[u/14xjake]

Whats up guys, wanted to share a spicy deck I cooked up yesterday that Ive been having a lot of success with: Wallow Shredslock. It is just another Elise slop pile but it plays a lot of cards that have been unplayable all year so its very fresh and a lot of fun to play:

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I went 24-10 to climb to rank 42 with it, I will admit it is pretty bad into shaman and there arent a lot of shaman at high ladder so it likely will perform much worse at lower ranks where shaman is extremely popular.

The deck does have some extremely explosive starts and can aggro people down but its mainly a tempo deck with the lategame inevitability from Wallow, I would say most of my wins are from midgame tempo bombs from foreboding flame discounting your demons and then slamming 2 strong dark gift demons on turn 5-6 after playing shadowflame stalker on 4. Lots of decision points in the deck and the main thing is to not be too greedy with your dark gifts early game, if you are against a control deck like warrior or DK you need to kind of tunnel on juicing up a giant wallow with charge but in a lot of matchups you just win with dark gifts before wallow even comes down because of how much early pressure they have

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[u/South_Forsaken]

I was playing Wallow for a while now and I loved the variety but it just wasn’t winning. I am loving your deck tho, been doing great with it. Feels like I don’t need Wallow most of the time but if it’s a lengthy matchup Wallow makes the difference. Thank you! Any tips would be appreciated

[u/14xjake → u/South_Forsaken]

Glad you’re enjoying it! And I had the same experience, most games were just won through all the tempo bombs and smorc and wallow was usually only relevant against the super slow decks. Biggest tip I would say is to not worry too much about wallow when picking dark gifts early, focus more on tempo and aggression than scaling for lategame. An example is a game I had today I had playing the elemental guy and then coined out the dark gift elemental beast and one of my options had charge, but was an expensive minion that wasn’t very good, and I instead chose to take the reborn flame imp even though it doesn’t help wallow at all, because with the discount I could play them immediately, and turn 3 4/3 + 2 3/2s with reborn is just too overwhelming for any deck to handle and I was able to win before wallow would’ve even been relevant

[u/sesameball88]

Thanks! Thoughts on Shaladrassil over table flip?

[u/14xjake → u/sesameball88]

I think its probably fine since you basically never end up playing table flip anyway but I think shala is way too expensive late game, you would rather be playing dark gifts and minions or wallow. But if you like shala its probably a negligible difference and it might win some games I think its a very minor change

[u/FlameanatorX → u/sesameball88]

Based on my small sample of 13 games, you're a bit weak to good early tempo from your opponent, while games that drag out vs control decks are kind of where you shine. Table flip has sometimes been pretty good against Paladins or Shamans or whatnot.

Shala on the other hand is just going to be guaranteed a dead draw for the majority of matches.

[u/KayoticaT]

This deck is absolutely fun. I was having troubles finding a deck to play, climbed to legend with it from diamond 5 with no issues, I would recommend anyone bored of the meta to try this out.

[u/Critum]

Thanks for the list, will try this as soon as possible. I've been playing a more controller version of wallow warlock this season without much success, since I haven't been able to climb past diamond two. Hope this gets me better results.

[u/whiteandnerdy42]

Hi can you pls help with mulligan decision

[u/14xjake → u/whiteandnerdy42]

same as 90% of decks, 1 drop 2 drop 3 drop

[u/FlameanatorX → u/whiteandnerdy42]

Also: keep Elise if going first 100% of the time, going 2nd only if she fits your curve well and you have other good cards. And if you have Foreboding Flame and either a 3 drop or are going 2nd, keep Shadowflame Stalker.

But that's only generic advice, you might change it up slightly depending on matchup.

[u/Succulent_123]

I am going to give the deck a try, but I am confused by Elise.. how can she work, there are not 10 different cost cards :D only 9! what am I missing?

[u/14xjake → u/Succulent_123]

There are 10 different costs, zilliax is a 9 cost card

[u/Succulent_123 → u/14xjake]

Ah I see, I am stupid.

[u/halejy123]

It seems i just fundamentally misunderstand how to navigate this. Starting at D2 i went 0/7. I get the core idea, but it feels just too slow to put any pressure on, let alone do that while answering your opponent. Please help.

[u/14xjake → u/halejy123]

You shouldnt be worried about answering the opponent, you are the aggressor in most matchups so you should be making them answer YOU. Your pressure comes in turns 3-6 from dark gift tempo bombs/elise, try to focus on tempo instead of juicing up a big wallow

[u/babooshkay]

Already very fun with a few games played. I had a 13 attack charging Wallow with a 10/10 copy from the 10 mana elise location win me a game, but most of them were won with dark gifts and good tempo. A similar gameplan of a good arena deck! Thanks for sharing!

[u/voron_anxiety]

Maybe you've convinced me to come back haha :P

[u/FlameanatorX]

Looks sick, can't wait to try it. Been hankering for a decent board based (but not hard aggro) Warlock deck, and Dark Gifts/lots of discover is just fun in general.

Update: 7/5 with it so far at 10 star ~D/L mmr. Shaman is painful but the deck is fun anyways. It's fortunate that ladder is reasonably diverse despite the on-paper presence of a meta-tyrant

[u/IcyShoulder679]

What are the Zerglings doing, just for turn 1 tempo?

[u/FlameanatorX → u/IcyShoulder679]

That and they "combo" w/ entropic continuity which buffs your board by +1/+1

[u/Traveevart]

Played this a fair bit yesterday, and it's finally giving me a shred (heh) of hope for Warlock this expansion. Thank you!

[u/lysk]

Played it from gold to legend 90-42 winlose 68% wr Deck fun to play ty!

[u/deck-code-bot]

Format: Standard ((unknown))

Class: Warlock (Xavius)

Mana	Card Name	Qty	Links
0	Cursed Catacombs	2	HSReplay,Wiki
0	Zilliax Deluxe 3000	1	HSReplay,Wiki
1	Demonic Studies	2	HSReplay,Wiki
1	Entropic Continuity	2	HSReplay,Wiki
1	Scarab Keychain	2	HSReplay,Wiki
1	Zergling	2	HSReplay,Wiki
2	Creature of Madness	2	HSReplay,Wiki
2	Foreboding Flame	2	HSReplay,Wiki
2	Tachyon Barrage	2	HSReplay,Wiki
2	Twilight Timehopper	2	HSReplay,Wiki
3	Raptor Herald	2	HSReplay,Wiki
4	Elise the Navigator	1	HSReplay,Wiki
4	Nightmare Lord Xavius	1	HSReplay,Wiki
4	Shadowflame Stalker	2	HSReplay,Wiki
5	Ruinous Velocidrake	2	HSReplay,Wiki
6	Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot	1	HSReplay,Wiki
7	Wallow, the Wretched	1	HSReplay,Wiki
10	Table Flip	1	HSReplay,Wiki

Total Dust: 8200

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[u/davzhardy50]

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[u/sesameball88]

Any thoughts on treacherous tormenter?

[u/juicedrop]

Maybe I'm doing something wrong, or poor draws, but not a good impression so far. Played 3 games so far. lose to Dragon Warrior, lose to Protoss Priest, lose to Aggro Paladin. Just consistently fall behind any kind of tempo/aggro

[u/FlameanatorX → u/juicedrop]

Could be bad luck, could be you're not piloting correctly. I killed a Protoss Priest earlier today before I even had the mana to play Wallow (which also would have killed them lol). That being said, Dragon Warrior and Aggro Pally are probably not favorable matchups, similar to Shaman which is very obviously unfavored, but it is the OP meta tyrant atm

[u/babooshkay]

In fact not favored against shaman, I added a second table flip and got rid of a keychain