NOTE: If you just want full budget decks, then try checking these out:
https://www.metabomb.net/hearthstone/gameplay-guides/best-budget-ashes-of-outland-decks-cheap-deck-lists-for-the-casual-hearthstone-player
I’ve been working on some decks for new players. These decks are “more budget than budget”, I went with these guidelines:
- 2 copies of most commons,
- 1 copy of rare except 2 copies for key rares,
- 0 epics and legendaries.
Because you may not have 2 copies of every card for “budget decks”, these serve as an in-between between the Basic cards and expansion cards as you build up your collection. Should you craft commons or wait until you open up in packs? It can help to wait for the long term, but can also make it difficult to play a deck in the meantime.
Decks with the Basic + Classic cards fall very short in gameplay in 2020, but adding commons/rares from the current expansions - Outland/Descent/Uldum/RoS can go a long way. Discover and card/minion generation are your friends to help find the extra value you need to keep up in a match.
These decks can be upgraded right away if you happen to have 2 copies of a rare card, or an epic here and there. All these were able to win games at Diamond 5, and even if you lose, you’ll feel like you can keep up with some decks and learn as you keep playing.
Druid - Big Ramp
2x Breath of Dreams and 2x Overgrowth are key cards to “ramp up” your total mana and play big minions early. Emerald Explorer also extremely good for a common. This one was purposely unrefined and could definitely have some more 2 ofs in the deck.
Summary
F2P Druid - AoO
Class: Druid
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
1x (1) Strength in Numbers
2x (2) Breath of Dreams
2x (2) Faerie Dragon
1x (2) Ironbark
1x (3) Bad Luck Albatross
2x (3) Bogbeam
1x (3) Candletaker
2x (4) Evasive Feywing
1x (4) Germination
2x (4) Overgrowth
2x (4) Swipe
2x (4) Twilight Drake
2x (5) Big Ol’ Whelp
2x (6) Emerald Explorer
1x (6) Evasive Wyrm
1x (6) Gyrocopter
1x (7) Evasive Drakonid
1x (8) Twin Tyrant
1x (9) Burly Shovelfist
1x (10) Living Monument
1x (10) Scrapyard Colossus
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Hunter - Midrange
A Midrange Beast Hunter hasn’t been popular for quite a while, but this list I made felt good to play. Key cards which are priority for 2 copies are Scavenging Hyena, Unleash the Hounds. Other cards you can try 1/2 copies or put in some non-beasts if you don’t have other substitutes.
Summary
F2P Hunter - AoO
Class: Hunter
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
2x (1) Helboar
2x (1) Shimmerfly
2x (1) Timber Wolf
2x (1) Tracking
1x (2) Dire Wolf Alpha
1x (2) Explosive Trap
2x (2) Hench-Clan Hogsteed
1x (2) Phase Stalker
2x (2) Scavenging Hyena
2x (3) Animal Companion
2x (3) Bad Luck Albatross
2x (3) Desert Spear
1x (3) Diving Gryphon
2x (3) Kill Command
2x (3) Unleash the Hounds
1x (4) Burrowing Scorpid
2x (4) Houndmaster
1x (5) Tundra Rhino
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Paladin - Budget Librams
This one needs more testing, a previous build didn’t go well, so I went for more dragons and big minions at the top-end of the deck like the Druid deck. Ashes of Outland has 3 Augmerchants you can try, and not just in Paladin. For Librams to work, you want the 2 copies of Aldor Attendant and Aldor Truthseeker.
Summary
F2P Libram Paladin
Class: Paladin
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
1x (1) Murmy
1x (1) Rocket Augmerchant
2x (2) Aldor Attendant
2x (2) Hand of A’dal
2x (2) Libram of Wisdom
2x (3) Bad Luck Albatross
2x (3) Bronze Explorer
2x (4) Consecration
2x (4) Truesilver Champion
2x (5) Aldor Truthseeker
2x (5) Big Ol’ Whelp
2x (5) Recurring Villain
1x (6) Gyrocopter
2x (6) Libram of Justice
1x (7) Evasive Drakonid
1x (8) Twin Tyrant
1x (9) Burly Shovelfist
2x (10) Scrapyard Colossus
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Warrior - Pirate
I tried without a Southsea Captain and the deck narrowly lost to Priest through 37 attack of Arcanite Reapers, so I put one in. The card’s a epic so you could just try a 2nd Dread Corsair.
Summary
Budget Pirate
Class: Warrior
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
2x (1) Imprisoned Gan’arg
2x (1) Sky Raider
2x (1) Southsea Deckhand
1x (1) Upgrade!
2x (2) Battle Rage
2x (2) Bloodsail Raider
1x (2) Corsair Cache
2x (2) Cruel Taskmaster
2x (2) Parachute Brigand
1x (3) Bonechewer Raider
1x (3) Fiery War Axe
2x (3) Skybarge
1x (3) Southsea Captain
1x (4) Cult Master
1x (4) Dread Corsair
1x (4) Hoard Pillager
2x (4) Kor’kron Elite
2x (4) Restless Mummy
2x (5) Arcanite Reaper
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Mage - Dragon Bigspell
Mage has been difficult to say the least, to find a very budget deck. Many key cards that have good value in Mage are at least Epic.
I tried a tempo deck and it just ran out of steam. So, with more spell generation through Arcane Breath, Magic Trick, and big spells that can be cheated out with Kael’thas, this deck can hold up for much longer and swing the tide in your favour. It feels much more like you’re playing a powerful mage rather than trying to tempo out and blast damage to your opponent to finish them off. That is very difficult to do nowadays without also losing board very quickly.
If you happen to have a Power of Creation this would go right into the deck, otherwise 2nd Deep Freeze is fine. 1 Dragoncaster felt good, a 2nd one could be even better.
Alternatively, one could go down the Highlander “no duplicates” route, however Zephrys is needed to justify such a deckbuilding restriction.
Summary
F2P Mage
Class: Mage
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
1x (1) Arcane Breath
2x (1) Learn Draconic
1x (1) Magic Trick
2x (1) Ray of Frost
2x (1) Violet Spellwing
2x (2) Frostbolt
1x (2) Sorcerer’s Apprentice
1x (2) Starscryer
2x (3) Arcane Intellect
1x (3) Bad Luck Albatross
1x (3) Counterspell
1x (3) Flame Ward
2x (4) Fireball
2x (4) Twilight Drake
1x (5) Big Ol’ Whelp
1x (5) Cobalt Spellkin
1x (6) Blizzard
1x (6) Dragoncaster
1x (6) Kael’thas Sunstrider
1x (7) Evasive Drakonid
1x (7) Flamestrike
1x (8) Deep Freeze
1x (8) Twin Tyrant
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Budget Thief Rogue
Summary
Budget Thief
Class: Rogue
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
2x (0) Backstab
2x (1) Dragon’s Hoard
2x (1) Pharaoh Cat
2x (1) Praise Galakrond!
2x (1) Spymistress
1x (2) Ambush
1x (2) Dirty Tricks
2x (2) Eviscerate
1x (2) Sap
2x (3) EVIL Miscreant
2x (3) Hooked Scimitar
2x (3) Questing Adventurer
2x (3) Seal Fate
1x (3) SI:7 Agent
2x (4) Devoted Maniac
1x (5) Faceless Corruptor
2x (5) Shield of Galakrond
1x (7) Galakrond, the Nightmare
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Budget Galakrond Priest
Summary
Budget
Class: Priest
Format: Standard
Year of the Phoenix
2x (1) Disciple of Galakrond
1x (1) Imprisoned Homunculus
2x (1) Renew
2x (2) Penance
1x (2) Sethekk Veilweaver
2x (2) Shadow Word: Death
2x (2) Thoughtsteal
2x (3) Apotheosis
2x (3) Breath of the Infinite
2x (3) Shadow Madness
2x (4) Devoted Maniac
2x (4) Holy Nova
2x (5) Convincing Infiltrator
2x (5) Sandhoof Waterbearer
2x (5) Shield of Galakrond
1x (5) Time Rip
1x (7) Galakrond, the Unspeakable
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Decks for other classes are not ready yet!
Feel free to change up the decks. You probably don’t have the exact cards, but this is a more attainable goal to look forward to.
What makes a card good like Bad Luck Albatross will have to be another topic entirely.
Thanks for reading!