Now that the cards have been revealed, and the fact I haven’t seen a post like this, yet. What archetypes are you looking forward to trying out during the first week Wild Wild West Meta? Me?
Spell Damage Mage & some sort of Ramp Beast Druid (looked fun during the reveal today).
Shardlock Holmes seems like a nice deck
Instructor Fireheart -> Dwarven Archeologist x2 -> Fireheart -> Lightningbolt * 10 combo
Instructor Fireheart plus 2 Dwarven Archaeologists just seems like guaranteed fun, no matter what you discover.*
*As long as what you discover costs 2 or less.
Some kind of big demon soul shard warlock, spell damage mage, tempo mage, quest hunter in some form.
exodia mage, i liked using it before, glad it kinda is back.
Pure paladin, now with good minions
Steal your opponents deck priest
Mrgl prime spam
Zoo priest for sure. Probably something with mage so can use the cool Kel’thuzad portrait from pre-ordering, and likely some kind of demon hunter, need to get that to level 60 at some point… Probably highlander quest shaman too as there is lot of nice new cards for quest shaman in the set.
Like what? Highlander quest shaman is my favorite deck but the battlecries I’ve seen are lackluster.
Rattlegore deck with undertakah and bloodsworn mercenary.
Instructor Fireheart
Groundskeeper
Wandmaker
Steward of Scrolls
Also with all that spell generation added, can also put Marshspawn in the deck now and reliably able to get it’s battlecry off, despite not having more than a couple spells in the deck itself.
Quest Mage.
Priest with Mindrender Illucia.
Malygos Warlock.
New Archetypes i’m too blind to see.
Ramp Druid in some form.
Zoo Warlock if it’s broken.
Shaman - Hyper-Burn or control HL (no quest)
Priest - Steal tempo (frazzled, feast, luminance… and stealers)
Mage - Spell damage / exodia (probably a mixture, still theorizing)
Neo-Zoolock (got a few ideas, dunno yet)
Budget Rogue aggro
Hermionie face hunter (mini jeeves, forgot name)
Zoolock and some sort of Big Warrior.
I don’t think a pure zoo priest will be nearly as effective as an actual midrange priest build. Zoo hinges too much toward aggro, and priest just doesn’t have the draw to make that work. However, midrange priest is looking quite powerful to me, and I plan on building a midrange dragon buffing priest day 1!
–The difference between a zoo build versus a midrange build will be the curve. If the deck sticks to almost exclusively 1-3 cost cards or less and caps out around 5 mana == zoo. Midrange builds typically have 4-8 cards that cost 6+ mana as their top end to close against control, and a higher costed threat density in general.
— Alura is probably the card I’m going to try out first. I definitely want to try some sort of Tempo Buff Priest with her. Maybe trying her with parts of the Priest/Warlock package. And maybe with some Eggs and Teron.
I might try her out in Paladin as well.
— Some sort of Spell Damage Mage. Potion of Illusion shenanigans are another option in Mage.
— Maybe Spell Damage Shaman as well.
In no particular order:
Voracious Reader takes care of the draw problem for zoo priest.
the deck that beat any decks