Emerald Sleeper

Emerald Sleeper

Version 7 - Ready for Saviors of Uldum
Difficulty: experts only
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 About this deck:

The only Realm I opened Zephrys the Great was on Asia and the same goes for the new Druid quest Untapped Potential so I tried to make a deck with both of them. The task was very difficult, since playing the new Druid quest and a Highlander deck to enable the battlecry from Zephrys the Great was impossible, it was just too inconsistent. More than 60 games were played and the deck went through a ton of iterations. Then, finally, the breakthrough was here:

Some of you might know about the Emerald Dream from World of Warcraft, it's the same dream Ysera talks about. In this dream everything is foggy green, like the glow around choose-one-cards when you finished the new Druid quest. So the idea was born to let Zephrys the Great just sleep in the Emerald Dream until his battlecry is active - hence the name of the Deck "Emerald Sleeper".

The deck is very difficult to play, you need a lot of experience and knowledge about the current meta. On Asia realms there is also a very different and more versatile meta than in Europe (the home of all aggro players) which is the reason why on Asia this deck has a very high winrate and on Europe is does not (I crafted the cards later on Europe servers just to find that out).

Since this deck is unique and everybody thinks you are just playing the standard Druid quest meta deck you do have a huge advantage in terms of surprising your opponent with very strong plays. You can play this deck aggressive, but usually the game plan is to finish the quest, play Hakkar, the Soulflayer and then Archivist Elysiana to kill the blood cards from your deck.

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How to play this deck and some tipps:


Keep Worthy Expedition and Wrath in any matchup. Against aggro also keep Mind Control Tech, Ferocious Howl and Conjured Mirage. Against slow control decks you can keep Nourish and Juicy Psychmelon.

It's ok to eat some damage in the early game while you are on your quest because Hidden Oasis will be a huge swing turn: it not only summons a 6/6 taunt and heals you for12, it will also enable your Crystal Stags and you can play an Anubisath Defender for free. The latter goes for Starfall and Nourish, so you have at least 6 cards to cheat them out for free (more if you discovered additional high cost spells from Worthy Expedition).

The Juicy Psychmelon will draw you up to all of your 4 endgame cards, so keep your hand size in mind when you play this card. If you don't draw it early enough, you might want to fish with Jepetto Joybuzz for your Hakkar, the Soulflayer and Archivist Elysiana. Otherwise keep Jepetto Joybuzz after you played Archivist Elysiana but if you go for this plan, then choose minions with useful battlecries where the stats don't matter. If none of those works because of a bad draw then try to reduce their cost with Dreampetal Florist.

Conjured Mirage is the hidden star of this deck, it stopps aggro rushes for one turn and shuffles 1 extra card into your deck, so you will fatigue slower. You need that, because you have so much card draw: double Ferocious Howl, double Nourish, Jepetto Joybuzz and Juicy Psychmelon.Conjured Mirage will slow your incoming fatigue down (if it does not get killed which is the case most of the time). Archivist Elysiana will add 10 cards. In most cases you will have enough cards that you do not fatigue before your opponent dies to the blood of Hakkar, the Soulflayer. Only control Warriors who also play Archivist Elysiana can be a problem, especially if they have an early Dr. Boom, Mad Genius. In that case, save your time, they have too much removal and only the created cards from Archivist Elysiana can decide the match in your favor.

- I'll add more here after I got some feedback
 
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