Tavern Takeover: A look at KitKatz’s Decks
by JR Cook - 10 years ago show comments
PVP-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)
- Earth Shock x2
- Lightning Bolt x2
- Rockbiter Weapon x2
- Flametongue Totem x2
- Feral Spirit x2
- Hex x2
- Lightning Storm
- Unbound Elemental x2
- Doomhammer
- Fire Elemental x2
Neutral (12)
- Argent Squire x2
- Harvest Golem x2
- Chillwind Yeti x2
- Defender of Argus x2
- Azure Drake x2
- Argent Commander x2
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)
- Execute x2
- Shield Slam x2
- Whirlwind x2
- Fiery War Axe x2
- Slam x2
- Armorsmith x2
- Cruel Taskmaster x2
- Shield Block x2
- Kor’kron Elite x2
- Brawl
- Gorehowl
- Grommash Hellscream
Neutral (9)
- Acolyte of Pain x2
- Big Game Hunter
- Azure Drake
- Faceless Manipulator
- Harrison Jones
- Baron Geddon
- Ragnaros the Firelord
- Alexstrasza
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)
- Backstab x2
- Preparation x2
- Shadowstep x2
- Cold Blood x2
- Conceal
- Deadly Poison x2
- Blade Flurry
- Eviscerate x2
- Sap x2
- Shiv x2
- Fan of Knives x2
- Edwin VanCleef
- SI:7 Agent x2
Neutral (7)