Imprisoned Scrap Imp

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*sigh
I know that Imprisoned Scrap Imp is one of the key cards that makes Zoo Warlock viable but these numbers are pretty nutty. I just went through the first couple of Zoo Warlock decks to look at win rates and I feel like these numbers are a little insane. The card is pretty consistently the highest win rate card in these decks by a far margin - even in decks that have 45-55% win rate.

90.5% Kept Percentage, 66.8% Win rate
98.8% Kept Percentage, 65.5% Win rate
97.9% Kept Percentage, 62.9% Win rate
95.9% Kept Percentage, 64.7% Win rate
88.1% Kept Percentage, 65.9% Win rate
76.6% Kept Percentage, 65.1% Win rate
91.7% Kept Percentage, 71.7% Win rate

To put this in perspective, Battlefiend (highest winrate card for tempo hunter) is kept 98.8% of the time and has a 65.6% win rate in a deck with higher win percentage in total.

So yeah. The card is pretty nutty.
Lowest key tryna make this deck and prey for Imprisoned Scrap Imp in my opening hand because the deck is hella cheap ¯_(ツ)_/¯

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Don’t worry, demon hunter’s keeping zoo in check.

I’m sure you, like everyone else in here, is grateful for that.

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Another overtuned mistake that Blizzard will ignore as long as possible.
Pisses me off that other classes get cards like these and mage got junk play and pray cards.

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When I took Zoo for a spin DH was one of the best matchups for me.

It really feels like DoD DR Rogue. Hard Mulligan for the Imp and win if you find him with overstated minions.

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To all of you I brutally argued that Scrap Imp would see play…

told ya.

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Who would have thunk it, an aggro deck keeping a cheap card In the majority of games…

What’s more surprising is the roughly 10 percent of people throwing it away in mulligan.

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Well it’s not exactly just aggro keeping a cheap card - OP made a comparison to Battlefiend, but I think a better comparison would be within its own deck.

Imp’s Winrate of 66,8 vs Guardian Augmerchant of 55,4%, for example. Or 65,2% for Imp vs 53,4 for Argent Squire, comparing it to second best minion to keep.

The size of the power gap is incredible. It’s not just a best keep by a small margin, it’s the best keep by a landslide. It tells us that playing Zoo “the classic way” is clearly suboptimal, and one should play it as a highroll deck, looking almost exclusively for Scrap Imp on mulligan, kinda like Keleseth worked. So I guess you could argue that it is indeed a bad trend in winrates, as it indicates an unfun state of Zoolock - instead of typical zoo consistency, we have a spread more similar to a ramp deck, where you have to get your ramp or get screwed.

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Can’t really speak for constructed since I haven’t ran into it but I can affirm that whenever this is played on turn 2 in arena, the game is generally over.

That is, unless I’m outplaying my opponent every single turn.

The card is very powerful and frustrating to play against.

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Honestly surprised Blizzard hasn’t HoF’d Stonetusk Boar yet. Especially with all these handbuff mechanics flying around.

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