by JR Cook - 9 years ago     show comments

Wing 3 has arrived and with it I have some deck lists for how to beat Heroic. I’ll be honest, the deck lists for Omokk and Rend Blackhand should serve you well. However, the fight for General Drakkisath (or who I eventually started calling General Dickweed) is a complete crap shoot. Seriously though, that is the worst and most frustrating fight in Adventure Mode history and the only way I pulled a victory is through the AI being stupid. So hey, good luck and here are the deck lists and videos. If you have a better way of beating Drakkisath I would love to hear it in the comments.

Highlord Omokk

His heroic ability costs 0 and destroys a random enemy minion. Because of this, we just have a handful of minions in this deck. I didn’t do this in the video but playing Kel’Thuzad with duplicate can be really fun. On normal mode I had 3 Kel’Thuzads and they just keep duplicating themselves until you have a board full of them eventually. Control the board and potentially have some fun being Ragnaros for a bit. If you need an alternative strategy, you can always fill the board up with small minions.

Omokk
Class: Mage

Mage (26)

• Arcane Missiles x2
• Ice Lance
• Mirror Image x2
• Flamecannon
• Frostbolt x2
• Arcane Intellect x2
• Duplicate x2
• Ice Barrier x2
• Ice Block x2
• Cone of Cold
• Fireball x2
• Polymorph x2
• Dragon’s Breath x2
• Blizzard
• Flamestrike x2

Neutral (4)

• Feugen
• Stalagg
• Kel’Thuzad
• Majordomo Executus

General Drakkisath

I hate this fight. You get 1 mana crystal and everything costs 1 to play. He gets 2 mana crystals. So he gets to play 2 things a turn to your one. What sucks is it’s near impossible to control the board this way. Sure, you can clear the board in some cases and then he plops 2 more things down. It eventually comes down to if you have a Kel’Thuzad and a taunt minion in play, he won’t attack. This is probably a bug but it seems to be the only way you can actually beat him which is pretty ridiculous.

I put Lorewalker Cho in there hoping to get some of his spells to use against them. Foe Reaper 4000 is also really good with this deck.

Dannie Ray suggested getting multiple Kel’Thuzads on the board to stall until you can taunt up proper, you can check out his decklist here.

Drakkisath
Class: Druid

Druid (16)

• Naturalize x2
• Dark Wispers x2
• Recycle x2
• Starfire x2
• Ancient of Lore
• Ancient of War x2
• Ironbark Protector x2
• Tree of Life x2
• Cenarius

Neutral (14)

• Lorewalker Cho
• Faceless Manipulator x2
• Sludge Belcher x2
• Sunwalker x2
• Sylvanas Windrunner
• Dr. Boom
• Foe Reaper 4000
• Kel’Thuzad
• Ragnaros the Firelord
• Sneed’s Old Shredder
• Alexstrasza

Rend Blackhand

Rend Blackhand cycles through his hero power and can summon different minions with it. It usually starts out with 3 2/2 whelps and then 2 2/2 orcs with taunt. So getting an early Explosive Trap can help set the mood for the game. He can also get an 8/8 so having a couple Big Game Hunters can help. The toughest part of this matchup is just keeping board control going. Once you have it though you can just continue plunking away at him and overall it’s a fairly easy fight.

Dannie Ray used roughly the same strategy, but check out a slightly different decklist and some extra tips here.

Rend Blackhand
Class: Hunter

Hunter (8)

• Hunter’s Mark x2
• Explosive Trap x2
• Quick Shot
• Unleash the Hounds x2
• Gladiator’s Longbow

Neutral (22)

• Doomsayer x2
• Explosive Sheep x2
• Knife Juggler x2
• Mad Scientist x2
• Big Game Hunter x2
• Deathlord
• Mind Control Tech
• Cult Master
• Faceless Manipulator
• Grim Patron x2
• Sunwalker x2
• Stormwind Champion
• Sea Giant
• Molten Giant x2