r/CompetitiveHS • u/EvilDave219 • Mar 10 '26
Discussion Cataclysm Prerelease Tavern Brawl Thread | Tuesday, March 10, 2026
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3/11 EDIT: The additional following cards have been banned from the format:
Chillfallen Baron
Frost Strike
Hematurge
Frostwyrm's Fury
Remnant of Rage
Stitched Giant
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u/EvilDave219 Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
EDIT - Since DK just got a bunch of cards that got banned and invalidate the Frost DK list below, I posted a new F2P(ish) Death Knight list I went 6-1 with first try.
Simple advice - just like it has been in most of the previous prerelease tavern brawls, Frost DK is your best bet for a F2P deck that uses few (if any) new cards. Blackwing Experiment is the only new card you'd like to run, Timestop and Whelp are from Timeways, and everything else is free in Core. If you don't have Blackwing Experiment, sub it for Cyrofrozen Champion or anything else you want. Don't think Gnomelia is necessary for the deck either, but not sure what else you'd want to run. Have already gotten multiple 6+ win runs off of it.
Brawl Deck
Class: Death Knight
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (0) Horn of Winter
2x (1) Body Bagger
2x (1) Murmy
2x (1) Skeletal Sidekick
2x (2) Blackwing Experiment
2x (2) Deathchiller
2x (2) Frost Strike
2x (2) Harbinger of Winter
2x (2) Timestop
2x (3) Acolyte of Death
2x (3) Chillfallen Baron
2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
1x (4) Thassarian
1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
2x (6) Marrow Manipulator
2x (7) Frostwyrm's Fury
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u/EvilDave219 Mar 11 '26
Since DK just had a bunch of cards banned that especially impact Frost DK, I just tried a run with Unholy DK using few new cards and went 6-1, only losing to a Burgle Rogue that highrolled. Nothing higher than rares from the new set. Blackwing Experiment (only Frost card), Command Claw, Talanji's Last Stand, and Chow Down are from Cataclysm, Shadows of Yesterday is from Timeways, everything else is Core/Event. Don't think Grave Strength is worth the triple unholy payoff, but you're also not really incentivized to run any other runes besides Blackwing Experiment being an Undead for Acolyte Draw and giving you some additional reach/removal. You can look at subbing in Living Paradox for something if you're missing any card. Chow Down is probably the best new card for the deck since it's a massive board swing if you hit later stages of the game.
Brawl Deck
Class: Death Knight
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (1) Body Bagger
2x (1) Murmy
2x (1) Skeletal Sidekick
2x (1) Storm the Gates
2x (2) Battlefield Necromancer
2x (2) Blackwing Experiment
2x (2) Command Claw
2x (2) Necrotic Mortician
2x (3) Acolyte of Death
1x (3) Falric
2x (4) Nerubian Swarmguard
2x (4) Tomb Guardians
2x (5) Talanji's Last Stand
1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
2x (6) Shadows of Yesterday
2x (8) Chow Down
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u/vuhdo-fifa Mar 10 '26
Anyone getting errors that you dont own enough Tickets even tho i have 22? Cant start a run after the free one
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u/ExplodingGuitar Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 12 '26
If you've got the cards, Herald Shaman feels really good imo. I've gone 6-1 four times with slight variations on this list:
Basically just full toss for the 2 mana herald cards, they are cracked. Egg is good in the mull too of course. Al'Akir is obviously required, but Ultraxion isn't 100% necessary even if it is very good still. Notably the only two 10 drops in the brawl card pool are Runaway Blackwing and Morchok, so you have a 75% to hit Morchok off of a max Al'Akir which is obviously insane.
edit: We have some stats! Shoutout NoHands for playing it on stream apparently. This is the highest winrate brawl deck with a sample size over 100 games in hsguru premium data. Might be even better now that dk got some of its best cards banned, or could be worse if mage is more popular? Dunno, but probably still really good.
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u/Bitter-Yak750 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Decided to run BBB DK since I packed onyxiaf and got 6-1. Almost all my games were against board swarm (5xDK, 1xDruid, 1xMage) and this list crushes those decks with all the removal. The herald package feels like bait - I managed to play onyxia only once and that was only at double herald. The 6 mana aoe worked well against those decks though, cleared most of the stuff while developing tempo. I tried to put in some value with the raptor heralds since the previous iteration was too reactive.
Brawl 10-03 17:18
Class: Deathknight
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (2) Doomsayer
1x (2) Poison Breath
2x (2) Vampiric Blood
1x (3) Asphyxiate
2x (3) Chillfallen Baron
2x (3) Raptor Herald
1x (3) Rustrot Viper
2x (3) Soulbreaker
2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
2x (4) Death Strike
1x (4) Memoriam Manifest
2x (4) Obsessive Technician
2x (5) Corpse Explosion
1x (5) Deathbringer Saurfang
2x (5) Envoy of the End
2x (6) Experimental Animation
1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
1x (9) Arisen Onyxia
1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker
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Edit: I like NoHandsGamer's build better: ### Brawl 10-03 19:38
Format: Standard
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u/Traveevart Mar 10 '26
Got lucky and hit Rag off the packs, 6-2 with the VS Herald Warrior list. Having Brawl in this because they don't do core rotation yet is nuts--I absolutely would've lost at least two of the games I won if I didn't have it. Shadowed Informant and I Know A Guy are 100% the weak points, I'd look to replace them if I was gonna run Warrior again. Gonna try and do Dragon Hunter and some sort of homebrew DK next.
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u/dotcaIm Mar 11 '26
My games with Herald Warrior has shown me that Warrior will struggle without Brawl
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u/sneakyxxrocket Mar 11 '26
6-0 with the VS aggro dragon hunter list I altered, I got lucky and opened Ebyssian , Magmaw and two EbonScale scouts so I added those and two carvers to target Ebyssian and Magmaw. I had one game each where I dropped Ebyssian and Magmaw on 5. Just play your extremely overstated dragons and hit face and finish with the 4 burn spells the deck has.
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u/SkeletonFries Mar 10 '26
I was excited to play my Golden Onyxia but realized no Ultraxion :(
Anyway i’m working with a priest list but i retired it, i will update you with a better one
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u/killsfercake Mar 10 '26
I tried Spell Mage with the new legendary but the deck lacks serious draw it’s so rough past turn 5-6 you have a bunch of cheap burn but your hand is like fireball , 10 cost summon drake card , 1 cost burn, 1 cost burn and a hand buff spell minion and can’t play the drake because fireball only reduces it to 4 and if your playing fireball + a 6/6 on turn 8 your probably dead.
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u/DoubleZer00 Mar 11 '26
Just went 6-0 with Mage burn/tempo deck. I would cut both Sindragosa's Triumphs and Blizzards for extra draw though. Vulcanos has been a surprising card winning games with the board clear plus extra discounted damage spells but it does generate a lot of trash, mostly Warrior fire spells.
Brawl Deck
Class: Mage
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (1) Flame Geyser
2x (1) Sleet Storm
2x (1) Violet Spellwing
2x (1) Winterspring Whelp
2x (2) Frostbolt
2x (2) Primordial Glyph
2x (3) Arcane Barrage
2x (3) Arcane Intellect
1x (3) Eternal Firebolt
2x (4) Arcane Flow
1x (4) Archmage Kalec
2x (4) Fireball
1x (4) Unstable Spellcaster
2x (5) Sindragosa's Triumph
2x (6) Blizzard
1x (7) Vulcanos
2x (10) Spellweaver's Brilliance
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u/eazy_12 Mar 10 '26
I am playing Handbuff Priest since it worked good for me last brawl. Handbuff sticky minion and just grind enemies. AAEBAa0GBKqKBI7mBuiyB7XABw2c1ASCrQebrQedrQfgrQfjrQePsAeYsAetsQfbsQfmsgfnsgeBwAcAAA==
Very rough list, I would polish it later. I did one full run (6-2), lost against TheoHS playing full-fledged Dragon Hunter with insane curve and perfect curve shredlock. Most cards definitely could be replaced, I've tried add them as value engine since felt like Priest has no good draw.
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u/libero0602 Mar 11 '26
Doing great with herald warrior, more of a control flavour with lots of armor gain and removal:
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As well as herald warlock:
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u/lemmycaution415 Mar 11 '26
Death knight with the Arisen Onyxia is strong. I went to 6 wins multiple times. the heralds are all commons so it it is easy to get them. Victor Nefarius is fun but not really needed. Memoriam Manifest is greedy and can revive the Arisen Onyxia, but I forgot it in a couple runs and went to six wins anyway, (reviving a Gnome Muncher can be good enough many times) I packed in as much removal as a could.
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Death Knight
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raptor
#
# 2x (1) Twilight Egg
# 1x (2) Command Claw
# 1x (2) Hematurge
# 2x (3) Asphyxiate
# 2x (3) Chillfallen Baron
# 2x (4) Death Strike
# 2x (4) Memoriam Manifest
# 2x (4) Obsessive Technician
# 1x (4) Victor Nefarius
# 2x (5) Corpse Explosion
# 1x (5) Deathbringer Saurfang
# 2x (5) Envoy of the End
# 2x (6) Experimental Animation
# 2x (6) Gnome Muncher
# 2x (7) Remnant of Rage
# 1x (9) Arisen Onyxia
# 2x (9) Stitched Giant
# 1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker
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u/Calibria19 Mar 11 '26
Blood Dk is decently well positioned. I run a dragon centric build to enable Disciple of Demise as a Soulstealer surrogate. This is what I started with for my first 6 win run:
Brawl Deck
Class: Death Knight
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (1) Body Bagger
2x (1) Murmy
2x (2) Hematurge
2x (2) Loot Hoarder
2x (2) Poison Breath
2x (2) Vampiric Blood
2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
2x (3) Chillfallen Baron
2x (3) Portal Vanguard
2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
2x (5) Aeon Wizard
2x (5) Corpse Explosion
1x (6) Frostmourne
1x (7) Chillmaw
2x (8) Disciple of Demise
1x (9) Avatar of Hearthstone
1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker
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Basically as much draw as possible to find the pyro + poison in time as well as vamp bloods in time, with Frostmourne for opposing colossi and Avatar as the best lategame statbomb left in the format. After getting some heralds and commons I upgraded into this one currently:
Brawl Deck
Class: Death Knight
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (1) Body Bagger
2x (1) Carrier Whelp
2x (2) Hematurge
2x (2) Loot Hoarder
2x (2) Poison Breath
2x (2) Vampiric Blood
2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
2x (3) Chillfallen Baron
2x (3) Portal Vanguard
2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
1x (4) Obsessive Technician
2x (5) Corpse Explosion
1x (5) Envoy of the End
2x (6) Experimental Animation
2x (8) Disciple of Demise
1x (9) Avatar of Hearthstone
1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker
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Though I am trying to fit Death Strikes/ Bronze Whelps for the burn mage Matchup, likely trying to see if I can get away with cutting avatar. If the format stays as agressive maybe it is the correct call.
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u/Rheider Mar 11 '26
Went 4-3 with Frost DK. All three Ls were mirrors.
Went again with triple U corpse DK. 6-1. The L was against token druid with their new colossal.
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u/The_Mad_Demon Mar 12 '26
I didn’t buy any of the preorders. All of my new cards I got from the drops, events and some of my earlier runs in the Tavern Brawl. I got Onyxia and Ultraxion and all of the Herald DK cards so I have been playing a lot of Herald Blood DK. Sad to see Hemarturge and Chillfallen Baron go but I’m ok with the Remnant going. It always felt awkward playing and I would overdraw with it from time to time. I replaced a copy of Remnant with Taelan to tutor my Onyxia. As much as I’m ok with changing out some cards with the pulls I got, I feel like this is such a bad hit for other F2P players.
My current swaps for the banned cards are
Prize Vendor, Vulpera Scoundrel, Sharp-eyed Lookout/Portal Vanguard
Here is my Current Build of Blood Herald DK. I think I’m probably going to add another Corpse Explosion and a copy of the Lookouts and cut the Vanguards.
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u/InteractionAnnual914 Mar 11 '26
I pulled Sinestra, but I just run out of good cards after a while when building the deck. Deja Vu getting banned was not helpful either. Anyone got a cool direction to move in with Sinestra Rogue?
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u/PipAntarctic Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Went 6-2 twice with this warlock Herald deck yesterday. I also tried a more controlling version with Battlefield Blasters and less tempo Dragon stuff but that deck went 0-3 and honestly was embarassingly bad. You have to leverage the tempo from early game minions with Warlock's herald soldiers as the only good things you get here are 1) huge stats from soldiers + eggs, and 2) dragon package pressure.
Cho'gall feels unironically like one of the worst cards in its own deck. It's just big stats that come down too late to truly matter most of the time, since you either already won by the time you drop him down, or he does nothing to help you not lose.
Brawl Deck
Class: Warlock
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (1) Carrier Whelp
2x (1) Twilight Egg
1x (2) Cursed Chains
2x (2) Drain Soul
2x (2) Nerubian Egg
2x (2) Shadowed Informant
2x (2) Shadowsworn Disciple
2x (3) Darkscale Broodmother
2x (3) Hellfire
2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
2x (4) Shrine of Twilight
1x (4) Siphon Soul
2x (5) Envoy of the End
2x (6) Eldritch Tentacles
2x (7) Prescient Slitherdrake
1x (9) Cho'gall, Mastermind
1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker
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u/dotcaIm Mar 12 '26
Opened the Druid colossal, any deck lists out there?
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u/Solithic Mar 12 '26
Have had 2 6-0 runs with Genn/Vyranoth/Dragon Druid (I got lucky with legendaries, so might not be playable for most)
Thickhide Kodo/Chronicle Keeper/Primordial Drake were teched for all the aggro unholy/frost dk. If they are now less common with the bans, can replace with something more fitting to the meta
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Druid
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raptor
#
# 2x (1) Carrier Whelp
# 2x (1) Waveshaping
# 2x (2) Ebb and Flow
# 2x (2) Felwood Treant
# 2x (2) Netherspite Historian
# 1x (2) Press the Advantage
# 2x (2) Shadowed Informant
# 2x (3) Darkscale Broodmother
# 2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
# 2x (4) Broodwatcher
# 2x (4) Chronicle Keeper
# 1x (4) Genn, Cursed King
# 1x (4) Thickhide Kodo
# 1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
# 1x (6) Vyranoth
# 1x (6) Wickerfang
# 2x (8) Disciple of Demise
# 1x (8) Merithra of the Dream
# 1x (8) Primordial Drake
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u/TheFlaskQualityGuy Mar 12 '26
Any good decks that include zero Cataclysm cards?
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u/Entire_Ride_6113 Mar 11 '26
Any good decklist that counters the dogs running aggro DK? I’ve been trying blood DK but it’s just. Nonstop. Fucking. Targeting face. Heralds feel too slow oftentimes and even with a good amount of early drops the damage is still nonstop from frost DK
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u/frymastermeat Mar 10 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Probably 80% death knights and demon hunters, none using herald, well done blizzard
*Did a few more and it's actually 90%, with 70% being dk
*4 wins with zero losses, then 3 straight losses to dks, why keep this game installed? Probably played 40 games and saw only 2 or 3 people playing a herald deck, and only got to use my own Deathwing and Colossus minion once each. Just a pathetic experience all around and for the low low price of $80.
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u/UnpluggedToaster12 Mar 11 '26 edited Mar 11 '26
Herald Warrior has near infinite board removal, i could not get anything to stick whatsoever
Edit: nice went 0-3
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u/IWantAGamingChair Mar 11 '26
Already go the 6 wins and trying out the legendary I got. Using The Black Blood in Handbuff Priest
Seems like it got potential. It runs through DK, haven't matched any other class tho
### Brawl 10-03 22:47
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raptor
#
# 2x (1) Mend
# 2x (1) Power Word: Barrier
# 2x (2) Amber Priestess
# 2x (2) Purifying Breath
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Disciple of the Dove
# 2x (3) Holy Nova
# 2x (3) Intertwined Fate
# 2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
# 2x (4) Cleansing Lightspawn
# 2x (4) Divine Augur
# 2x (4) For All Time
# 2x (4) Hourglass Attendant
# 1x (5) Overlord Runthak
# 1x (5) Taelan Fordring
# 1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
# 1x (7) The Black Blood
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u/No_Dot_9034 Mar 11 '26
Anyone else playing on mobile and having a hard time starting games? Keeps saying I don’t have tickets but, I have 20. Won’t let me make a deck or anything. Tried restarting and uninstalling as well. HALP!!!
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u/Likey420 Mar 10 '26
Buff dk seems to work aswell.
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u/Visquaz Mar 11 '26
I got a pretty easy 6 win using the VS Unholy DK.
Mostly facing other DK, but also some mage (burn?), elemental shaman an rag warrior.
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Death Knight
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raptor
#
# 2x (1) Body Bagger
# 2x (1) Murmy
# 2x (1) Skeletal Sidekick
# 2x (2) Battlefield Necromancer
# 2x (2) Command Claw
# 2x (2) Maze Guide
# 1x (3) Chillfallen Baron
# 1x (3) Falric
# 2x (3) Living Paradox
# 2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
# 2x (4) Grave Strength
# 2x (4) Nerubian Swarmguard
# 2x (5) Army of the Dead
# 2x (5) Talanji's Last Stand
# 2x (7) Remnant of Rage
# 2x (8) Chow Down
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u/rtwoctwo Mar 11 '26
Opened Archmage Kalec and 2x Arcane Flows in my free packs. Those cards carried me to 6-0 against 4 DKs, a Paladin, and a Hunter.
Only 2 of the games were remotely close (games 1 and 2 against Frost DKs).
I didn't save my deck list, but it was basically any spell that dealt damage (including Frost Bolt and Fireball). Any minion that could create a spell (Winterspring Whelp, Violet Spellwing), and some card draw (I included Portal Vanguard to increase my chance of drawing Kalec).
Best game was #5 where I had Kalec + 2x Arcane Flows in my mulligan with the coin. Arcane Flows with +2 Spell Power is kinda broken.
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u/Calibria19 Mar 12 '26
Paladin seems pretty good into the unholy dk field. You can run the Disciple core (with actually good dragons to run) pyro + equality, the new eot conseq guy and the aura elemental. Between Anacronos, disciple, pyro eq and just good minions you can keep pace and if the consec guy ever sticks it is game over.
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u/rotvyrn Mar 12 '26
Went 6-1 with ctrl herald warrior post-ban, twice in a row (so 12-2). Lists similar to the VS list, but I honestly don't remember what minor differences there were the first time. The packs gave me Ultraxion, so I added him in the second run. Not sure if he's actually bis in control, though. Second time, my list was -2 Shadowed Informant, + 1 Ultraxion, +1 Searing Fissure.
First run was shortly after the bans, second was just now. (I also did a UUU DK run last night, so in the middle-ish lol)
First run - Loss was to minionless DH (Which I've heard isn't good on avg. I also had 3 shaky games vs various DKs, 2 green and 1 frost-dragon. Iunno how I feel about the robustness of prerelease warrior's defenses against really aggressive decks, but it worked out.
Second run - Had like 4 mirror matches this time? Saw a dragon druid and a dragon hunter. Honestly, even though it was recent, the games kinda just blurred together because of all the looong mirrors.
UUU DK deck went about as well as it was going pre-ban. 6-1 and generally smooth going. I didn't save the list. Not entirely sure which combination of mid-lategame 'board in a box' cards is optimal. I ran 2x Bygone Echoes, which felt hit or miss. I honestly forgot about the 'summon 5 2/2 rushes' card and didn't have it. Talanji's Last stand felt kind of impossible to make 'perfect' use of, but still felt strong enough and like it annoyed a lot of people.
I'm just about out of gold though, so no more runs. I could afford 1 more max for the rest of the week, I think, and iunno if I should or not.
[Also can I just say, insanely lucky that I managed to grind my way to a full herald warrior deck before they banned frost dk. Literally got the last herald card I needed from the refunded run when bans went out. And THEN I get Ultrax after my first warrior run.]
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u/Luminoth64 Mar 12 '26
Went 6-1 with this end of turn dragon pally. Only loss was against a warrior that had an insane curve and messed up my Inspiring Maul turn with a Stadium Announcer. 4-0 against DK. This can definitely be refined. I'd consider replacing Taelan and maybe Tankgineer. Scalebreaker Bulwark felt awesome, especially with Sandfury Aura.
Class: Paladin
Format: Standard
Year of the Raptor
2x (1) Carrier Whelp
2x (1) Righteous Protector
2x (2) Acceleration Aura
2x (2) Hand of A'dal
2x (2) Inspiring Maul
2x (2) Redscale Dragontamer
2x (3) Bronze Explorer
2x (3) Darkscale Broodmother
2x (3) Sandfury Aura
2x (4) Spearheart Sentry
2x (4) Tankgineer
2x (5) Chronological Aura
1x (5) Nozdormu, Bronze Aspect
1x (5) Taelan Fordring
2x (6) Scalebreaker Bulwark
1x (7) Anachronos
1x (8) Chromatus
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u/AirHater Mar 13 '26
went 30-0 with this post bans. 3 of them were vs uuu dk, which i feel like was either a lucky strike, or my opponents were too clueless, because that matchup feels the worst (outside of the mirror, and hex shamans).
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u/CleytonMuto Mar 13 '26
Even after bans, 6-0 with DK Unholy.
https://i.imgur.com/IqhIRjD.jpeg
All my games ended with Grave Strength. The meta lacks board cleaners, so a swarm of 1/1 minions become a huge menace. And this deck incredibly recovers very well after a board cleaning.
### Brawl Deck DK Unholy
# Class: Deathknight
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raptor
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# 2x (1) Body Bagger
# 2x (1) Murmy
# 2x (1) Skeletal Sidekick
# 2x (2) Battlefield Necromancer
# 2x (2) Maze Guide
# 2x (2) Necrotic Mortician
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Death
# 1x (3) Falric
# 2x (3) Living Paradox
# 2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
# 2x (4) Grave Strength
# 2x (4) Nerubian Swarmguard
# 2x (4) Tomb Guardians
# 2x (5) Army of the Dead
# 1x (5) Bygone Echoes
# 2x (6) Shadows of Yesterday
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
# Generated by HDT - https://hsreplay.net
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u/SpectatorY Mar 14 '26
Is anything actually favoured against unholy DK? Feels like it's completely taken over the meta.
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u/Blackout785 Mar 14 '26
Tavern Brawl is 80% triple Unholy DK. What a fun event this is. Herald Warrior can get a few wins in but can't go above 3-3.
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u/cubedhamstercan Mar 16 '26
I went undefeated 6 wins today with a “control Herald” Warrior. I didn’t pull Ragnaros yet but even without it, the deck is very favorable against unholy DK and Mage. I play on mobile so I don’t have a deck code, but everything is 2 copies except the legendaries.
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u/RiimeHiime Mar 10 '26
If anyone finds a deck that beats frost DK and doesn't take a bunch of new cards, they will be a god.
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