It's been less than a week since the release of the Darkmoon Races mini set but we're already feeling like it's been longer with how many decks we've been showcasing with so few new cards. It is truly amusing how a few handfuls of cards have lead to so much experimentation - the perfect meta shakeup that we needed. It's still too early to call but the mini set experiment that Team 5 tried appears to be a success!
In today's spotlight of Standard decks we've chosen to highlight three Druid lists that Ike was playing with early on in the expansion and found success with on ladder. While they have some gameplan patterns in common, each one has its own different style and we're confident you'll enjoy exploring the class with them!
Ike is a Hearthstone professional player, streamer and a very skilled deckbuilder and we've already featured some of his creations in the past (for example this Elemental Mage to counter Evolve Shaman). Make sure to drop him a follow and show some support!
Ike's Guardian Druid
Ike suggests two different builds for Guardian Druid: the first one runs a more value-oriented package Exotic Mountseller, Ysera, Unleashed and Yogg-Saron, Master of Fate - it is quite similar to the one we're used to, with the inclusion of the new Moonfang, Dreaming Drake and Resizing Pouch. This iteration aims to keep building board after board and, despite not having any form of big burst like Survival of the Fittest or Savage Roar, it can pack quite the punch if left unchecked.
Ike's Gibberling Guardian Druid
While the one above is a more control-oriented version, we can say that this take on Guardian Druid is far more aggressive: in fact, Ike decided to give up on the late-game big hitters in place of early board control. This second list runs a rather large token package, with Gibberling (Token Druid is not very good at the moment, but don't let that distract you from the fact that this little thingy can snowball wins on wins), Speaker Gidra, Keeper Stalladris for extra copies of Leader of the Pack and the new Arbor Up, which seems to be criminally slept on by part of the community.
Ike's Treant Druid
Yep, Treant Druid. Despite not ever being at the top of the meta, this archetype keeps getting support, and Darkmoon Faire is no exception: Silas Darkmoon gave us Faire Arborist (not in this deck) and the new Arbor Up, which is an additional Savage Roar and a Landscaping in a single card. [Hearthstone Card (Goru, the mightree) Not Found] and Aeroponics are two of the best support cards this archetype has ever received, but Shrubadier and Treenforcements are good as well, so you should definitely give this deck another chance now that the new meta isn't figured out yet!
What do you think of these decks? Have you played any of them yet? Do you have your own takes on these archetypes? Share your own deck creations with the community by adding them to our deck database via our deckbuilder and sharing them in the comments below.
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Comments
Arbor Up is a scary card. I decided to try out a Spell Druid for fun last night (the list posted on this site) and accidentally climbed to Legend... Oops?
The second culprit, though, which I'd never taken note of, is Solar Eclipse. Double Savage Roar for five mana, double Arbor Up for five mana and a Lightning Bloom, that hits HARD.
I've mostly been fiddling with a minion-free Druid deck. It's fun at least. Not sure how good it is, but it feels like it should be at least competetive. I'm still tweaking it. I've seen builds with Blessing of the ancients, but that's spent too much time clogging up my hand when I need to be producing a constant stream of threats until I can Savage Roar.
I dropped Blessing of the Ancients to a single copy, because I also found it was often stuck in my hand until the lethal turn. Perhaps a second Solar Eclipse can replace the remaining copy.
This is my current version:
I'm actually surprised no one has posted anything about the playing dragon maly druid with Resizing Pouch to get more Moonfires or Lightning Blooms. Fairly difficult to pilot, but that's more or less because its a largely aggro meta right now.
The new Druid cards are really cool, they have revitalised a bunch of already existing archetypes which we haven't seen in quite some times. Besides the three linked above, Feno has had a lot of success with his Spell-based token druid, and I love my own Embiggen Druid: