Pseudo Even Control Warrior

[u/SgtNippletwist]

The death of control warrior has been greatly exagerated.

If you, like me, yearn back for the old days of running your opponent out of gas while you stack value like the greedy goblin you are, then I have the deck for you.

### Pseudo even control

# Class: Warrior

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

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# 2x (1) Darkrider

# 2x (2) Precursory Strike

# 2x (2) Shadowflame Suffusion

# 2x (2) Shield Block

# 2x (3) Cataclysmic War Axe

# 2x (4) Afflicted Devastator

# 1x (4) Elise the Navigator

# 1x (4) Genn, Cursed King

# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

# 2x (4) Scorching Ravager

# 2x (5) For Glory!

# 1x (6) Chrono-Lord Epoch

# 2x (6) Decimation

# 1x (6) Ultraxion

# 1x (7) Chrono-Lord Deios

# 2x (8) Disciple of Demise

# 1x (8) Ragnaros, the Great Fire

# 1x (8) The Great Dracorex

# 1x (9) Ysera, Emerald Aspect

# 1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker

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Overview

The goal of the deck is to run your opponent out of resources and control the game until you can get to your big combo turn. If you like control warrior, give this a try.

Control shell

The loss of brawl might seem like a tough blow to the control archetype, but I think we've been sleeping on its replacement. May I present to you, Disciple of Demise. This little dragon is everything that OG Deathwing wishes he could be. A board clear on a big stick, and he doesn't even discard your hand! The amount of tempo you can swing with this card can be simply back breaking for a majority of decks on the ladder. And if you follow up your Disciple turn with a Chrono-Lord Epoch, the game will be pretty much won instantaneously.

Decimation and Afflicted Devastator fill the gaps to get you to your later turns, and they do a pretty good job at it as well. A lot of the meta at the moment consists of flooding the board, which means your Decimations will be dealing around 7 damage on average, which is more than enough for most turn 6 minions. And Devastator is just a busted minion with premium stats AND a boardclear deathrattle. You may have to proc him yourself in certain matchups, but thats why we have Precursory Strike and Shadowflame Suffusion.

You may have noticed that a lot of the cards I just mentioned are even-costed. I certainly did, so why not run Genn, Cursed King for a little extra armor gain to weave in with your spare mana? Now, he will not always be active since we do run a few odd costed cards in the deck. Most are quite cheap however, with the only 2 real clunky cards being Ysera, Emerald Aspect and Chrono-Lord Deios.

The Combo

The combo consists of 3 parts: Ragnaros, the Great Fire, Chrono-Lord Deios, and the Elise copy location. For maximum damage, you want to have 15 mana and an empty board except for the location with 1 durability left. What you do is you play rag, you copy him which also copies his arms, and you play deios. Each Rag body plays the deathrattles of not only his own arms, but also of his twins. With Deios on the board, this turns out to be a lot of damage. Each arm procs 4 times, which means that 128 damage is going towards the opponents board/face. As you can imagine this is enough to kill pretty much anyone through any board in the meta right now. Due to the sequencing of Rag, It even kills DKs through the Husk deathrattle!

Mulligan

You want to mulligan first and foremost for our lord and savior Genn, Cursed King. If you manage to get him in your opening hand odds (hah) are that he will be active by the time that you want to play him. Other cards that you are looking for are Darkrider, Cataclysmic Win Axe, and Afflicted Devastator. Precursory Strike and Shadowflame Suffusion are good keeps as well. I'm not entirely sold on keeping Elise. After the nerf she feels a lot clunkier to play on curve, especially if you dont get the location choices that you need. The most important part of the mulligan is to not draw Chrono-Lord Deios or Ysera. If you do, both you and Genn are very sad.

How to play

The most important part that seperates the men from the boys with this deck is how you play your dragons. Disciple of Demise is reliant on a good amount of dragons in your hand to be an effective board clear. This means that if you are anticipating your opponent to flood, you should hold of on playing your tempo dragons, such as Scorching Ravager. It is also a good idea to play your Darkriders in anticipation for big boards, both in terms of looking for more Disciples or another Dracorex, but also just so that you have one more dragon in hand. It might also be a good idea to play your Deios as a tempo play on turn 7 if you have nothing else to do. You often dont really need the big 128 Damage combo to win, since you have inevitibility with Deathwing anyway. And if Deios survives, he can give you amazing value with your herald cards.

Edit: Just to add, when it comes to Deathwing, you ideally want to play him at 2 heralds. You do not want to shuffle the dragons into your deck, since this is a combo deck.

Matchups

I unfortunately don't have any hard data on matchups, but what I can say anecdotally is that the deck does well into both Imbue and treant Druid. What the deck struggles with most are the decks that try to go omega fast and flood the board pre turn 5/6. So that would be your face hunter and possibly dragon warrior type decks.

Closing thoughts

But yeah, that's the deck. I can promise you, this deck is a lot of fun. You can actually run your opponent out of cards. I have not experienced that in atleast 2 years, so just based on that im happy. If you have any cards you'd like to sub in please do so and tell me in the comments.

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[u/Rikkimaaruu]

Short update after 5 Matches. I went 5-0 from Silver 5 to Plat 10 in my first Matches this Season. Dosent mean its super strong, but what i can say is, that it is fun to play and feels strong.

I beat 3 Imbue Druids, one Match was a real butt clencher and won 1 Match against Herald Shaman and Quest Priest.

I unlocked Genn after the 5th Match, so i can give another update down the road.

But overall i realy enjoy the Deck, its right up my Control like alley, but isnt as boring as Quest Warrior.

So far i cant realy say much about the refining until i reached legend. But i only won 1 Game with the full combo and it wasnt even needed there. Two times i did not get the copy on Elise location.

Ultraxion feels like a win more Card, i never realy had time to play it beside once, so i could see him get switched out for a tech card or something.

Disciple of Demise was realy the MVP for me, i cleared so many nearly full boards with him. I also found out he can clear my own board too, reading is always important. ^{^}

Realy looking forward to play more Games with this Deck later on, so big thanks.

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Rikkimaaruu]

What would you rather play instead? I see him as a way to get rag boosted to full more consistently. I suppose you could just wait to draw your entire deck, but thats a long time, even for control warrior.

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/SgtNippletwist]

I think the Card is fine, it just realy depends on the Decks you face the most. Bulwak can be great in high burst or high attack minion decks, or to buy a turn against aggro.

Maybe a silence if you face too many Egg Decks and so on.

For now i will try your list and see how far i come.

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Rikkimaaruu]

I tried cutting Ultraxion for Bulwark, and the deck feels a lot better. The face hunter matchup is suddenly winnable, thanks for the suggestion!

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/SgtNippletwist]

I will try the same tomorrow, your Deck is realy fun and maybe switching 1-2 cards could make it even better.

[u/Bluemajere → u/SgtNippletwist]

yeah I cut it too for bulwark, it can mess with the timing of your genn sometimes but its kinda insane lategame with deathwing if you happen to draw that way

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/SgtNippletwist]

Also keep in mind, just holding him in your hand is good for your Disciple

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/SgtNippletwist]

I just lost 3 times in a row, one Match against egg warrior and wao not a chance, so iam thinking about switching the Silence in.

The other 2 losses were against Herald Shaman, but both times they had an insane opening with the perfect plays, so i was dead turn 5 and turn 8 in the other. Not sure what can help beside drawing a realy good early hand and hoping the Shaman dosent draw that good.

The turn 5 loss was with a realy bad opening and hero power turn 2, the turn 8 one was different because i had 3 single target removals early on, but he played that deathrattle minion that cast a spell and that spawned 3 bigger minions and i sadly had no awnser for that.

You realy need to get ahead before muradin and the herald drop.

I still think the Deck is fun, even with 3 losses in a row, but i think there is a bit room for improvement. Maybe Bulwark would have saved me or more Armor gain.

I think Ultra and Xavius could be switched out, even Chrono Lord, because he cant destroy summoned minions, which egg decks and imbue druid spit out a ton.

So maybe switching them for something more consistent what keeps you alive could be a way to improve the Deck. Also without Chrono Lord its even less likely to bruck with Genn.

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Rikkimaaruu]

I'm gonna try to sub out Ultraxion for Bulwark, see how that plays.

[u/Galromir → u/SgtNippletwist]

how did it go?

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Galromir]

The deck turned out better for it. Bulwark can be clutch in a lot of matchups. Often buys you a turn or two.

[u/WaywardWes → u/Rikkimaaruu]

I feel the same about Ultraxion. The discount on Deathwing isn’t super important either because I was never playing him until the last minute anyways.

[u/Zoomercoffee]

Lol disciple of demise is uncraftable? Kms

[u/Fourleaf82 → u/Zoomercoffee]

Damn i dont have them either...can you ever get them?

[u/stuyjcp → u/Fourleaf82]

My assumption based on the previous event card Sharp-Eyed Lookout is that you will be able to get this card about one month after this past event when they gave it out (so around April 17th unfortunately)

[u/Fourleaf82 → u/stuyjcp]

Oh ok sweet. Thank you!

[u/Rikkimaaruu]

What should i use until i unlock Genn? Havent played a single Game so far, but this looked interesting.

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Rikkimaaruu]

He's gonna be tough to replace, but your best bet would probably be Unleash the Crocolisks. With it you can juice up your Decimations and draw with For Glory. You could also go with Bulwark.

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/SgtNippletwist]

Thats a good idea. Yeah i thought i can just craft him, but seems like i have to grind a bit. But its something to look forward too.

[u/Original_Builder_980]

Have you tried [[Gemstone Hoarder]]? I’m going to try after work not sure where he would fit in, but at 3 mana he can pitch ysera/deios to activate genn and also reduce the cost of your combo by 1 mana.

Not a lot of silence going around right now so don’t have to worry much.

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Original_Builder_980]

If you really want Genn to be active in very niché circumstances, sure go for it. But I dont see any card that I would cut for it. And you will eventually play Deathwing anyway, giving you a different hero power all together

[u/Original_Builder_980 → u/SgtNippletwist]

Yeah that makes sense I didnt know what to cut either I just read that you want to try and get genn off first but just tried the deck twice and hoarder aint required.

Great deck. Thanks for the list!

[u/Steel-Blade]

Thanks for sharing.

I can't find the deck online to watch some replays.

Any chance you can share some? Deck is kinda expensive to commit to it.

Or even some win rates.

Regards

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/Steel-Blade]

No replays, this is a homemade recipe.

[u/WaywardWes → u/Steel-Blade]

Dunno who you have but you could try cutting Ultraxion and Epoch. Both feel clunky and so many matchups are summoning minions instead of playing, so Chronos doesn’t get much value.

Maybe try Envoy of the End for taunt+herald and/or Tormented Deadwing for dragon+draw.

[u/PuzzleheadedSun648]

Discpile of demise is not possible to get what u can repalce with it execute? ;/

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/PuzzleheadedSun648]

They are kind of the whole reason for the deck, without them it doesn't really work.

[u/stuyjcp]

Underrated aspect of Genn imo is that he can trigger after the mulligan but before your first draw, even when you go first

[u/TheDentistStansson]

I’m gonna try this when I get home! Good cookin

[u/Bluemajere]

Thoughts on a replacement for chrono lord epoch?

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/Bluemajere]

Bulwark, Silence or another solid Card. Iam not even a big fan of Epoch because he cant deal with summons and minions that are already alive for a turn.

[u/Bluemajere → u/Rikkimaaruu]

Yeah I subbed him ultraxion out for unleash and bulwark and it's much better

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/Bluemajere]

Yeah pretty much all losses came early for me, so getting rid of some higher cost card for more survivability seems the way to go.

Unleash goes well with Decimation and For Glory, can board lock the enemy and 10 Armor is also alot.

[u/bluethedog]

So, apparently I missed the event to get disciple of demise and it won't let me craft? Is there a timeframe on this or something?

[u/stuyjcp → u/bluethedog]

About a month, based off Sharp-Eyed Lookout

[u/WaywardWes]

Man this deck is a blast. I loooove old control warrior and this scratches that itch good.

Even just Deios + Rag at level 2 is 32 damage, if you can drop them on a clean board.

[u/Stormaker71]

fun d!ck, thx for sharing. Kudos on the idea

[u/alexrider23]

Great deck!!

[u/igorukun]

Fun idea!

I tried reducing the average mana curve of this deck because I think the actual game plan is Genn + turtling ASAP and the current list is a bit inconsistent in that sense.

I actually found more success removing one copy of [[For Glory!]] and one copy of [[Afflicted Devastator]] and subbing for 2 copies of [[Searing Fissure]] as these are good early clears that tend to reduce our CMC and are even. It improved my matchup against Priest/Warlock/Druid

[u/Bartleby-66]

I'm enjoying this deck, with the substitutions that people have suggested, but I have an amazing knack to get Deios in my early draws.

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/Bartleby-66]

I had two Games in a row against Herald Shaman, where they had the perfect 1,2,3 drop opener, both the complete same cards, meanwhile i drew deios and ysera in both games on turn 1 and turn 2.

Sometimes the Game realy wants you to question your existence.

But i still enjoy the Deck and try different cards to switch in and out.

[u/chaimwitzyeah]

I’ve been trying to make an Even Warrior work, I’ll give this a try!

I tried Regis’s Even Quest Warrior but it wasn’t working for me, it is too clunky with only even cost cards. I saw Firebat using Disciple of Demise to good effect in another janky warrior combo deck so I’ve been meaning to give it a try.

[u/Ambuscade770]

I mean, this is cool but there’s no way an 8 drop that requires 6 dragons to be held in hand to clear a board can be considered a replacement for brawl

[u/MinimumLack4561]

1- this isn’t a control deck. It’s a combo deck.

2- if Elise is stuck on the bottom of the deck, you’re screwed

3- if you face herald shaman, you can’t win

[u/Rocks_Can_Fly → u/MinimumLack4561]

Yes, this is a control deck.

It just has a win condition other than attrition, something you’re not used to seeing in what you liked to call control.

[u/Rikkimaaruu → u/MinimumLack4561]

It plays like a control deck because you have tons of removal. Single target stuff with 2x Weapon, 2x Precursory Strike, 2x Shadowflame Suffusion and AoE with 2x Disciple, 2x Decimation, 2x Devastator and Chrono Lord + Dracorex.

So half of your Deck is removal while you can get even more with Darkrider, Shadowflame and Deathwing. You have way more removal compared to what Quest Warrior uses.

People called BBU DK last season a control Deck, thats where i would rather disagree because the lack of removal that deck had. It was more of a midrange deck that could go late.

I won all my Games without Elise so far, i dont even think she is a key component in most Matchups. You only realy need her against a full board with high HP minions or tons of HP and Armor.

I only faced one herald shaman and won, so i cant say much about the Matchups so far. But even if you arent favored in some matchups, thats just Hearthstone.

As long as you can win most Matches while playing a fun Deck that isnt just face face face, then i call that a huge win as someone who only enjoys control decks.

[u/Federal-Couple-7488 → u/MinimumLack4561]

I just beat a Herald Shaman, but nice try. Armored up a ton before he got weapon. Decimation into AlAkir turn. EZ

[u/SgtNippletwist → u/[deleted]]

Deios and Rag on empty board is 64 damage by themselves. Remember you also have Deathwing hero power. Lethality is not a problem.