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Tavern Takeover: A look at KitKatz’s Decks

by - 10 years ago

kitkatzPVP-Live’s Tavern Takeover Series was this past weekend and if you missed it there’s about 8 hours of VOD footage you can watch. This week we wanted to cover the top 4 players and their deck lists. Yesterday we covered Alchemixt and his aggro heavy approach as he took home 4th place. Today we’re going to look at the 3rd place winner, father of warrior control, and Team Curse teammate to Alchemixt – KitKatz.

Several people are probably familiar with KitKatz without even knowing it. If you’ve ever played a warrior on the ladder with 50 million legendary cards, then they’re playing the deck that KitKatz made famous. Of course a tournament with KitKatz in it wouldn’t be complete without his warrior control deck, but he did bring a couple other decks with him to take home the 3rd place prize and net himself a small bit of that $3,000 prize pool.

Let’s take a look at what he played

Midrange Shaman

This decklist was the exact same deck list that the winner, StrifeCro, used. It’s a fairly cheap deck to craft and we go over it in more details on our Budget Deck of the Week article that went up earlier today.

StrifeCro Midrange Shaman
Class: Shaman

Cards sorted by Low Cost

Shaman (18)

Neutral (12)

Warrior Control

This is the deck that KitKatz made famous. It’s a straight up control deck that focuses on stalling as much as possible early game and keeping your opponents board cleared while you build up your own armor. The tides start turning late game when you can pump out the legendary monsters like Baron Geddon,  Ragnaros, and Grommash Hellscream. If you can’t get your opponent down quick enough you can always save up a turn 9 Alextraza to drop them to 15 life immediately. The deck is all about drawing cards, making valuable trades, and just being a complete pain in the ass to beat down.

If you have the legendary cards to play this deck, it is quite possibly the best control deck in the game. It’s definitely not a deck for beginners.

KitKatz Warror Control
Class: Warrior

Cards sorted by Low Cost

Warrior (21)

Neutral (9)

Miracle Rogue

Ever play Solitaire? That’s what playing a miracle rogue feels like. This deck is your pretty standard miracle rogue deck although KitKat’s version uses 2 Fan of Knives instead of 1 by not having a 2nd Azure Drake. Other than that the deck revolves around a turn 5 or 6 combo that normally involves Gadgetzan Auctioneer, preparation, some other spell, and conceal to draw a bunch of cards. After that you’re able to start beating down your opponent before you unleash the Leeroy, Shadowstep, Leeroy, Shadowstep, Leeroy combo to finish your opponent off.

KitKatz Miracle Rogue
Class: Rogue

Cards sorted by Low Cost

Rogue (23)

Neutral (7)


JR Cook

JR has been writing for fan sites since 2000 and has been involved with Blizzard Exclusive fansites since 2003. JR was also a co-host for 6 years on the Hearthstone podcast Well Met! He helped co-found BlizzPro in 2013.


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