by JR Cook - 10 years ago     show comments

Some claim Hearthstone is Pay to Win. We believe that’s simply not true. With a little bit of practice and understanding of game mechanics you can easily find success with cheaply made decks. Each Monday we’ll give you a budget deck that you can easily craft with little to no time/effort/gold. Some of these will help you get up in the ranks early on, some may even get you to legendary. Make sure you check all our past budget decks if this one is not to your liking.

So in the first week we showed you a cheap alternative to the Warlock Zoo deck, one that Trump even played recently and scored 3rd place in the Tavern Takeover Tournament. Last week I showed off a Priest deck that I have been having a lot of fun with on my alternate “free to play” account I’ve been fiddling around on. This week, with the popularity of KitKatz Warrior Deck on the ladder, I thought I’d bring you a simple midrange Warrior deck for those looking to play Garrosh in the ranks.

KitKatz warrior deck is not something new players will be able to play as it’s completely stacked with legendary cards. If you like that style of play though, let’s take a look at a budget version below.

Total Crafting Cost: 1,280 dust

Midrange Budget Warrior By Waibcam (Hearthhead)
Class: Warrior

Cards sorted by Low Cost

Warrior (20)

• Inner Rage x2
• Whirlwind x2
• Fiery War Axe x2
• Heroic Strike x2
• Cruel Taskmaster x2
• Frothing Berserker x2
• Mortal Strike x2
• Arathi Weaponsmith x2
• Kor’kron Elite x2
• Arcanite Reaper x2

Neutral (10)

• Amani Berserker x2
• Bloodsail Raider x2
• Wild Pyromancer x2
• Acolyte of Pain x2
• Argent Commander x2

The Strategy

Now, this deck is going to play similar to KitKatz’s Warrior deck in a way that it’s about keeping board control. You want to deal with their minions efficiently and effectively and keep board control at all times. With that said, you should mulligan aggressively for some good 2 drops such as Amani Berserker or Fiery War Axe.

Use your Inner Rages and Cruel Taskmasters for helping deal with your opponents minions when they’re down to 1 health or use them on your Frothing Berserkers or Acolyte of Pains. Try to save your Mortal Strikes when you’re down to below 12 health to try and deal with larger minions your opponent may play late game or to be able to use as a finishing move.

The biggest difference between this deck and KitKatz is the fact that you don’t have huge late game finishers like Grommash Hellscream or Alexstraza. Instead you will want to use your Mortal Strikes, Arcanite Reapers, Bloodsail Raiders, and Argent Commanders effectively to try and get those killing blows. They are worth saving in your hand when you can, but also don’t feel like you have to if you need to continue maintaining board control.

Overall this is a pretty fun deck to play and you should see yourself with a positive win/loss ratio involved with it if you play it right. It’s not as fun as laying down those huge legendary creatures late game, but if you don’t have the cards to do that, then this deck should suit that play style just fine.

Have you tried out this deck and have any success with it? Anything you would change that would make it better and still keep it in the budget category? Let us know in the comments below!