Zoo Warlock Deck List

[KingMe 289]

25 minutes ago, Guest TheKeck said:

Of course, this is the budget deck.  A lot of people don't have Leeroy. :)

 I know this a budget deck but it is the budget version of the archetype that focuses on Doomguard as the primary finisher and I was mentioning the version I liked that runs Leeroy Jenkins.  Both decks were a little different in how they carried themselves. The post though was intended to raise awareness of the other versions at the time while stating that the deck in question was still a good deck. :P  

[evictednoise 3]

I always find myself in a very bad position if opponent plays Doomsayer at turn 2. Most often the game is over for me at that point... Suggestions?

Edited June 8, 2017 by evictednoise

[KingMe 289]

1 hour ago, evictednoise said:

I always find myself in a very bad position if opponent plays Doomsayer at turn 2. Most often the game is over for me at that point... Suggestions?

Crazed Alchemist is the perfect tech for that situation. He is also good against taunts and can also be used on your own minions to get a little extra damage. 

[Strongpoint 74]

On 09.06.2017 at 2:40 AM, KingMe said:

Crazed Alchemist is the perfect tech for that situation. He is also good against taunts and can also be used on your own minions to get a little extra damage. 

And against shamans it becomes 2 mana 2\2, battlecry destroy a totem of your choice.

[KingMe 289]

55 minutes ago, Strongpoint said:

And against shamans it becomes 2 mana 2\2, battlecry destroy a totem of your choice.

This is also true. lol

[Soturimunkki 1]

Great deck - two games, two wins against Hunter Aggro and Midrange Shaman. Thanks for sharing!

[Guest Mike]

In Xixo’s version, is there anyway to swap Gul’dan in? I just pulled that card, and I really want to use it, but the other three decks available that use him I’ve had no luck with. I know it’s user error, though, and not the decks themselves. 

[Arkpit 101]

I'm really enjoying having a Zoo now that actually contains a majority of demons!

That being said, how should I deal with the "Mage hunters"? I've lost every single game as Warlock vs. that thing...

[Caldyrvan 377]

What do you mean by Mage Hunter? 

[darquill 1]

I'm playing a lot the budget version of Zoo.

What I find is that if I try to play the control game by trading minions I end up loosing steam by mid game when the opponent drops big minions which I cannot remove anymore because I normally have the hand swarmed with 1-2 cost and little else that can effectively act as a removal (only 2 soulfires as a removal).

Any suggestion? Am I playing it wrong?

Thanks

[Caldyrvan 377]

The budget Zoo deck provided here is solid for a start but not really up to date. There are indeed more big dudes around these days maybe even more now with K&C, we will see.

I'm playing a totally different Zoo deck, got tired of the same stuff all the time, but maybe you can add 2x Bonemare they provide a lot of stats. Even if you are not doing well with them it's not a waste, they are just common and fit in other decks :)

Even in a Zoo deck the state of mind "everything must be cheap" is no longer viable, I guess. If the game goes on longer you will not win it by dropping an Abusive Sergeant on turn 15 :D

Edited December 12, 2017 by Caldyrvan

[darquill 1]

I'll have a look at some more efficient decks and see if I can make them :)

EDIT: although I'd like to have less of a pure aggro deck to be honest.

Thanks

Edited December 12, 2017 by darquill

[Caldyrvan 377]

For additional board control you could add Despicable Dreadlord.

Maybe Hooked Reaver is worth to try but I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. 

[Keizoku 185]

3 hours ago, Caldyrvan said:

Maybe Hooked Reaver is worth to try but I haven't tested it thoroughly yet. 

It's a clunky card. If you can actually activate it on curve then you're probably getting (graphical description of sexual violence censored) so hard even a 7/7 taunt won't save you, and in the late game it's nice but not stellar. Insult to injury, Bloodreaver Gul'dan only brings it back as a 4/4.

[Caldyrvan 377]

As I said, I haven't tested it enough yet, but it's not totally correct what you say, with the new small demons you take more damage than before, I had a lot of games where my health was much lower than I was used to, in times before K&C, and it's definitely possible to get to low health fast while being ahead or even on board.

And you can drop the Hooked Reaver and follow up with the spellstone, hopefully upgraded to level 3 taking out an enemy minion and restoring a significant amount of health.

But if you throw it in you deck with any plan in mind, hoping it will work, then you are probably right :D

It's true that it is not the best target for Gul'dan but in a zoo you might summon it as a plain 4/4 instead of a 2/1 or a 3/2, looks fine for me then :)

Edited December 12, 2017 by Caldyrvan

[Keizoku 185]

2 hours ago, Caldyrvan said:

with the new small demons you take more damage than before

Even if you go completely overboard on self-damaging minions, the best you can do is 12 damage for 6 mana (2 Librarians, 2 Imps un Homonculus) going into turn 4. Which means that to be down to 15 you're either playing someone who's disregarding the board yet hitting your face (Spell Hunter?); or more realistically you've had a bad start and you're getting your teeth punched in. Add to that 4 mana is where the big removals start to hit the board and you have a card that is in a weird position. Like its older "4 mana 7/7" brother, it can win you the game singlehandedly if both activated and uncontested and it can work as a finisher later in the game for Zoo where any cheap big minion is one more for the opponent to deal with, but overall it is a clunky card.

[Arkpit 101]

Amnesiac gets #1 with this demon zoo thing, meanwhile I get shot down by everything never leaving Rank 18 (Not legendary no).

List of things I've never won against with zoo because they out-aggro the sh!t of me:

Paladin aggro (lots of divine shield and buffed recruits)
Rogue aggro (Both Keleseth and Quest reks me everytime)
Hunter No minions (I just don't have any answer for this when they throw out 4 3/3 wolves in a turn)
Priest Dragons (The boardclear of 3damage at turn 4 is just stopping zoo right there and dragon potion just a few rounds after)
 

Not seen much else out there, seems to be without a doubt the popular stuff atm and I don't see any warlock deck matching them :/

[Caldyrvan 377]

I feel the same about warlock. He wasn't really great in previous meta and even though he got some nice and really good cards, they all get countered by the tools other classes got.

[FanOfValeera 253]

5 hours ago, Caldyrvan said:

I feel the same about warlock. He wasn't really great in previous meta and even though he got some nice and really good cards, they all get countered by the tools other classes got.

For zoo yes, but I think control warlock has great potential. Its weapon and legendary are niche maybe, but Voidlord is totally insane, with Possessed Lackey and Master Oakheart and of course Skull of the Man'ari. Then you just N'Zoth, the Corruptor to get like 2 back, then you Bloodreaver Gul'dan (which I think is the best DK in the game) to fill up your whole board with taunts, while getting a awesome hero power (think of it like both effects of Druid DK hero power in one)

[Caldyrvan 377]

I saw several vids which looked liked that and it felt totally boring :D

All this hiding behind taunts for ages ... I could play quest mage(and I would rather not), feels the same.

[Arkpit 101]

2 hours ago, FanOfValeera said:

For zoo yes, but I think control warlock has great potential.

It is making Warlock extremely limited in potential though and the combos you're looking for require like a 10k dust deck so you won't even have any of that unless you're throwing money at the game or disenchant a ton cards that may or may not be useful in another meta further down the road.

As for me, don't have any Voidlord, don't have Oakheart or the Man'ari weapon and with like 300dust left after I crafted Patches due to wanting to go Zoo this round since I saw this deck reaching rank1 and assumed it would be viable but so far it's really not.

Edited December 14, 2017 by Arkpit

[Guest Thorgrimm]

This in reference to Amnesiac's Rank One Legend Demon Zoo deck.

I'm looking for some ideas on replacement of the Southsea Captains and Patches since I don't have said Patches, any thoughts ?

[Howcho 0]

Came looking for the same answer, arrgh, me ain't gots no Patches.

[positiv2 953]

Without Patches the Pirate, remove the pirate package for generic zoo cards like Dire Wolf Alpha or Vulgar Homunculus, among others. Zoo is one of the most flexible decks out there.

[shot 0]

This deck will be worse after rotation, but will it be unplayable or just bad?

Edited April 11, 2018 by shot