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When Onyxia’s Lair treasure wow gold packs hit the World of Warcraft TCG, I remember my friend Jay cheap wow goldLaske being enamored with one wow gold card in particular: Cull buy wow goldthe Weak. While hischeap wow gold plan included the Building on a Budget no-no Leeroy Jenkins, I held on towow gold the idea of taking my biggest dude and chucking it at my opponent’s face, preferably for thecheap wow gold win.
Time marched on. Through the Dark Portal introduced a potentially powerful off-curve cheap wow goldcard in Debros Cousin-to-Moon, but the connection to that buy wow gold previous idea didn’cheap wow goldt click immediately. Then I realized that a conventional, wow gold aggressive Horde curve could end with a big whopping Debros and her massive ATK. And massive ATK wow gold can only lead to one cheap wow goldthing . . . *throws Debros*
Hero: Radak buy wow goldDoombringer
Allies (30)wow gold
3 Debros Cousin-to-Mooncheap wow gold
3 Elder Moorfwow gold
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2 Moko Hunts-at-Dawncheap wow gold
3 Morfielwow gold
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4 Waz’lukcheap wow gold
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3 Cull the Weakwow gold
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3 Finkle Einhorn, At wow gold Your Service!
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Cannon Fodder
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Waz’luk is slightly more buy wow goldphysically repellent, but the cheap wow goldTroll Mage does do one wow gold thing well—dome people immediately. The extra point of damage can mean the difference between victory and death, so manage wow gold your offense well. Like his bigger brother Taz’dingo, Waz also combos very buy wow goldwell with Torek’s Assault—a cheap wow goldgreat way to spend turn 2 wow gold resources.
While Elder Moorf is buy wow goldnominally a 1-drop, in practice hecheap wow gold really plays more like a 2-drop. You don’t want to run the fragile Druid out there without an open resource to pay for his power. A potentialwow gold 3 ATK is a lot more menacing than 1. The Elder also doesn’t want to come buy wow goldout that early. He wants to cheap wow goldpair with Debros Cousin-to-Moon wow gold on the turn that you throw her. Since most opponents will be wary of your ATK-pumping shenanigans, Moorf will probably wow gold leave the board quickly.cheap wow gold That means you have to play him like you’re only buy wow goldgoing to get one use outcheap wow gold of him.
The thinking is the same buy wow goldfor Debros, who is your best cheap wow goldammo for Cull the Weak. Ideally, wow gold you want to get her into the fray with six or seven resources out, buy wow goldwhen her ATK will be large already. Her low cost means that you will have resources available to pump Elder Moorf or raise her buy wow goldATK in another way before cheap wow goldhurling her at your opponent directly.
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One of the best tricks after buy wow gold laying Debros is to pass with at least four resources open. Since she’ll have 6 ATK at this point, your opponent will buy wow gold probably be eager to attack cheap wow goldand trade her for something wow gold inconsequential, like Mya, Dragonling Wrangler’s Mechanical buy wow goldDragonling token. Nuh-uh, says Sudden Reversal. At a cost of only 1 resource, this generic ability kicks Debros to a temporary buy wow gold10 ATK and sets you up forcheap wow gold a nice, big Cull the Weak. She wow gold was dying anyway, right? The beauty of this play is that most opponents won’t expect it, so they’ll walk right into wow gold it. Who plays with janky cards like Sudden Reversal anyway, right? We do, that’s who.
Kalnuf Eagleheart rounds out buy wow goldour 2-drop selection withcheap wow gold excellent stats and a surprisingly helpful text box. The 3-drop slot sees a pair of Heroes buy wow goldof Azeroth wow gold veterans, Vesh’ral and cheap wow goldTaz’dingo. While it seems like every Horde ally with an apostrophe or dash in its name has made the list, these two are really worth their slots.wow gold Aggressive game plans always benefit from the shot in the arm that is buy wow goldferocity. An opponent who expects cheap wow goldVesh’ral always has to wind the clockwow gold ahead, since death can come in a flash. While Veshy buy wow goldis straightforward inwow gold application, Taz’dingo remains the model of Horde versatility and utility. That point of damage he buy wow goldbrings to the table wow gold can knock out cheap wow goldan opposing ally, draw you a card from Torek’s Assault, or just plain inch your opponent buy wow goldcloser to death.wow gold In this deck, all cheap wow goldthese uses can and will come into play.
We encounter our first buy wow goldPet on turn 4 with Morfiel. Thischeap wow gold will strike some of you as odd—especially those enamored with Sarmoth in most conventional Warlock control decks. But in this aggressive strategy, wow gold Morfiel’s ability to take a licking and keep on kicking is an buy wow goldenormous advantage. Also, never cheap wow golddiscount his game text, which can throw a monkey wrench into your opponent’s plans for an buy wow gold entire turn. wow gold Morfiel also makes Radak Doombringer’s hero power actually relevant, unlike in our Bloodoath Pet deck from buy wow gold a little while back. While the cheap wow goldSudden Reversal trick doesn’t work for obvious timing reasons, Elder Moorf certainly does, buy wow goldsetting you up wow gold nicely for a 5-cost (in total) salvo worth 6 damage. Not a bad way to finish a game.
Our favorite 6-drop, buy wow goldMoko Hunts-at-Dawn, again sits at cheap wow goldthe top of the curve. If you can swing wow gold with him on turn 6, swing again with For the Horde! or buy wow gold Elder Moorf the next turn, and cheap wow goldthen Cull the Not-So-Weak, you’re wow gold looking at a 15–25 points of damage over two turns—from one buy wow goldally!
More Fire
The abilities buy wow goldin this deck can wow gold be grouped into two cheap wow goldcategories: do more damage and draw more cards.
Only one of these buy wow goldcards fits the wow gold latter category: Life cheap wow goldTap. In all fairness, Life Tap is a lot like a quest. Its purpose is to refill your hand, buy wow goldbecause a deck wow gold that likes to make multiple drops in a turn presents a terrible problem to the healthiness of your buy wow goldhand size. You wow gold draw only one card cheap wow goldper turn, but are looking to play something like two to four. What better way to stock buy wow goldup than to trade wow gold health for cards? You’re not winning anyway if you don’t win quickly, after all.
Ritual Sacrifice is buy wow golda deceptivelywow gold powerful card. The bits cheap wow goldof damage here and there from Waz’luk and Taz’dingo really start to add up, and buy wow goldSacrifice tips it over wow gold the edge. This deceptively simple ongoing ability adds extra utility to every ally you play and can bring buy wow goldthe game to a closewow gold that much soonercheap wow gold in a flurry of final-turn shadow damage.
Steal Essence is buy wow gold what it is: efficientwow gold direct damage with a spot of healing. Whether aimed at the opposing hero’s wow gold face or at an ally, it’s buy wow goldequally cost-effective. wow gold Steal Essence cheap wow goldbalances Life Tap wow gold quite nicely (almost like they designed it that way . . .) and is an buy wow goldinstant ability. That’s a wow gold lot of goodies for 2 resources.
The Sudden Reversal buy wow goldtrick with Cull thewow gold Weak was explainedcheap wow gold in detail earlier, but lest we forget, you can always just Reversal to trade a buy wow goldsmaller ally of yourswow gold for a larger ally of your opponent’s. An opponent who gets a bit greedy and tries to bully your buy wow goldsmaller troops with a big fattie might be cheap wow goldsurprised to see a sudden +4 ATK smack in thewow gold face. It helps tremendously that buy wow goldthis card is inexpensive, wow gold which enables you to avoid awkward situations involving your resources.
Search for Ammo
While the concept buy wow goldof “the curve” is wow gold generally applied cheap wow goldto allies, it also makes sense to talk about a curve for quests—especially in aggro buy wow golddecks, which succeed by wow gold using their resources to maximum efficiency. Essentially, a curve just stacks the increasing costs of buy wow golda card in such a way that wow gold you can cheap wow golduse your resources as efficiently as possible. This means more cheap-to-complete quests buy wow goldwhich steadily decrease wow gold in quantity as they increase in cost to complete.
For this crop of buy wow goldquests, I started with four Torek’scheap wow gold Assaults and two copies of For the Horde!. Costing only 1 resource to complete, both provide buy wow goldflexibility, and wow gold Torek’s standscheap wow gold out as one of the most cost-effective ways of drawing a card in the game. For the Horde! buy wow gold is better later in thewow gold game, as your army makes a final push on your opponent’s health.
At the 2-cost level, buy wow gold I like Kibler’s Exotic Pets here,cheap wow goldpartly because half the deck is allies and partly because allies make up such an important buy wow goldpart of this deck’s plan. Withoutcheap wow gold them, both your aggro and your combo planswow gold stall.
The 3-cost slot belongs buy wow gold to Finkle Einhorn, At Your cheap wow goldService!. Not surprising, considering that eighteen of your allies are legal targets for this buy wow goldquest. I envision wow gold flipping this quest most often for Debros Cousin-to-Moon, either to apply pressure via attack or to set up buy wow golda second Cull the Weak. Quite cheap wow goldnasty, if you ask me.
Solanian’s Belongings buy wow gold rounds out the top ofwow gold the curve for quests. This excellent Horde-only card can really do it all, simply because it gives buy wow gold you renewed access to abilitiescheap wow gold you’ve already played. Need damage? Put back a Cull or a Steal Essence. Need to draw buy wow goldcards? I guess we’re sewow gold eing Life Tap. The part where you only get both effects if your hero is a Blood Elf barely crosses my buy wow gold mind anymore; this effect is just cheap wow goldthat good.
Side out the Weak
Some familiar faces buy wow goldlurk in the sidewow gold deck.
Eye of Kilrogg needs buy wow goldno explanation, aside from why it’s cheap wow goldnot in the main deck. I felt that the wow gold main deck plan of attacking and then finishing out buy wow goldcombo-style would get diluted if cheap wow golda reactive element like Eye was inserted. wow gold That takes nothing away from the utility and buy wow goldbrutality of this card.
Zygore Bladebreaker buy wow gold is relegated to the wow gold side deck because cheap wow goldI’m hoping that the equipment hate floating out there, in the form of the “Chipper” buy wow goldIronbane / Moira Darkheart wow gold duo, will begin to suppress solo-style decks. For those times when you need a surefire way to break buy wow golda troublesome weaponwow gold or armor, though,cheap wow gold Zygore is still the man for red.
Nyn’jah, on the other buy wow gold hand, is a tad bit wow gold greedier. He notcheap wow gold only wants to deprive the opponent of his or her precious armament, but he also buy wow gold wants to play with wow gold it himself. Is he a bit fragile? Yes. But there are times when it will take an opponent one too many buy wow gold turns to find an answer for this cheap wow goldlittle Rogue, and in the meantime,, we can wreak havoc with someone else’s toy.
Chucking Rares
Many of the rares buy wow goldI talked about in the firstwow gold go-aroundcheap wow gold with Radak are applicable. The rare I want to talk about today is so out of this world that buy wow gold I had to devote thiswow gold section to it and it alone.
Yes, I’m talking about buy wow gold Barov Peasant cheap wow goldCaller.
No other card can better buy wow gold utilize these eager wow gold plebeians than Ritual Sacrifice. Combined with Elder Moorf, these proletarian pugilists can run in for buy wow gold a total of 5 ATK, and cheap wow goldthen get destroyed with Ritual Sacrifice forwow gold another 3 damage spread about however you like. This buy wow goldreally amuses me to no end, cheap wow goldand it should amuse you too.
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While this deck hews much buy wow gold closer to cheap wow gold“fun” than “competitive” on the TCG spectrum of things, I think you will be wow gold surprised at how effective a deck buy wow gold built around picking wow gold up your own guys and throwing them at your opponent can be.
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