so i’ve come up with 2 otk versions for how to do the achievement “a warlock’s truce” where you need to kill both heroes by playing a riftcleaver
i have to give credit where it is due, my inspiration comes from these three places:
disguised toast’s hadronox/abomination otk
markmckz’s soul devourer & undatakah otks
rarran’s struggle in his “most insane achievements” vod
and also a shout out to the reddit thread that has people struggling with naval mines, but i knew there had to be a better way than fiddling with that:
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/1fdpfda/new_achievements_added_for_older_sets_are_genuine/
ok onto the deck lists:
abomination:
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mechathun:
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now, be forewarned that i never intended to craft the riftcleaver and i never opened one in a pack, so my deck lists can certainly be tightened up if you own it … i used the discover cards to get it and i wound up finding it quite frequently … enough to do multiple tests with the decks and complete the achievement all today
in any case here’s how the decks work:
abomination/soul devourer damage factory:
- have soul devourer get the buff from an imprisoned scrap imp (3/5 stats)
- use thaurisan/rod/ysera to get enough mana cheating to be able to play the following sequence (in my case i got three procs of thaurisan on all but two of my combo cards, one proc he was alone and zola’d a copy back to hand, and then next turn used a reverberations to get 2 more procs – mileage may vary, i was also at at least 15 mana, i’m pretty sure the opponent had ysera too):
-play soul devourer
-play a drakkari embalmer to give devourer reborn
-play cover artist to copy the devourer as a 3/3 (the 3hp and 5hp statlines are important)
-play an abomination
-play a corpse raiser on the abomination
-play a reverberations on the abomination
-play riftcleaver kill the 1st abomination (idk it matters which abom is the target, but that’s what i did)
note: in the game i got the achievement, i used this deck code & play order and my combo damage was 56 total … though i used a dark pact on the corpse raiser just prior to playing the riftcleaver … i’m not sure on board spacing if it matters since the damage is going to clear everything off anyway, but in one of my botched tests against the innkeeper, i didn’t have enough mana to copy the abomination (or have a riftcleaver that test, i was using a low cost “destroy” spell for some of the testing) and i think somehow despite not being an otk, because of the board spacing difference i actually wound up doing closer to 90 total damage … so there may be other optimizations that can be done
mechathun/soul devourer/undatakah wombo combo:
- discard mechathun with wing welding on a setup turn (in a rare circumstance you may need to just cost reduce mechathun and all the other combo cards a lot and still be able to pull this off, but it is designed to work around mechathun costing health instead of mana just in case …)
- get it back at some point with chogall on another setup turn (or the same one if the mana/occasion lines up)
- silence rin and have her die prior to the combo turn
- have ticking abomination die (optionally silenced as well) prior to the combo turn
- have thaurissan do as much cost reducing as possible (2 procs on all the combo cards and 15 mana i think ought to make it work, but mileage may vary)
- final combo turn:
-play summoning portal
-play infernal (15 hero hp is perfect)
-play soul devourer
-play mechathun (reduces you below 15 hp, but if not its okay because of next step)
-play twisted tether on mechathun to buff undatakah to 15 hp
-play undatakah (should get ticking abomination/rin/mechathun as deathrattles)
-play baron rivendare (see note)
-play riftcleaver targeting undatakah
note: baron is needed to ensure that mechathun works because you need the double tick-abom going off and killing everything prior to the transfer of the deathrattles to the soul devourer, this ensures when devourer’s newly acquired deathrattles proc, that there were no remaining minions on the board, at least, that’s what i suspect from my testing … in my tests i tried to get this to work without undatakah/baron, without soul devourer, and without baron, and the only way that worked was the full combo … rin is added just in case to make sure that any cards in hand or deck remaining (there shouldn’t be many left with the amount of setup/mana needed to pull this off, but i think you should be able to do this with at least 4 extra cards in hand/deck and perhaps up to 8) … that being said, because rin is there it can potentially operate as an alternate win condition through fatigue, though against the innkeeper, if you did it right, even with a fatigue death the mechathun animation should play, so its kinda double kill on both sides (but if you are up against a 40 card deck or ice block or something the mechathun should work regardless … it does vs. the innkeeper, still need to to the achievement again in ranked with this deck)
one other thing to be aware of in my “discover riftcleaver” version – should you also not want to craft the card yet get this achievement – you need to choose demons that are not going to mess up your undatakah or your cards … i ran into one scenario where i had to choose between discarding and taking a deathrattle and i choose a targeted discard so i could get the cards back with chogall … so be careful if you are going to play this riskier version … and in general the setup to this version is a lot trickier and you may wind up needing to reset more often because of certain trickyness with when certain cards appear (i.e. deck consistency is rough, but workable)
there are also probably more efficient/alternate setups using other cards i don’t own nor particularly care to craft like tamsin’s phylactery and shallow grave … you can refer to the markmckz otks vods for an idea of how to utilize those
i think that’s about it, i hope this helps anyone looking to do this achievement or at least give inspiration for a more refined approach to otk’ing this one off the list … please let me know if there are any questions – happy achievement hunting