Control Warlock Deck - Forged in the Barrens

Control Warlock Deck Mulligan Guide

Control Warlock regularly spends its early turns using Life Tap to fill its hand for optimal turns late in the game. You should mulligan with this in mind and not expect to play many cards before turn 3.

• General Mulligan — Armor Vendor, Spirit Jailer, Luckysoul Hoarder.
• Mulligan Against Aggro — Soul Shear, Drain Soul, School Spirits.
• Mulligan Against Control — Tickatus.

Control Warlock Deck Strategy

As a Control Warlock, your aim is to shut down your opponent with removal and run them out of cards. You should try to continually draw as many cards as possible with Life Tap while staying in control of the board. Your Health total will often be a limiting factor, so you should use removal swiftly to prevent taking any unnecessary damage. Populating the board with small minions like Armor Vendor, Spirit Jailer, Luckysoul Hoarder also greatly help to slow down the board, providing you the room to focus on drawing cards.

Throughout the game you should be constantly aware of your Corruptable cards to ensure they are readily corrupted for when they are needed. With this in mind, consider prioritising higher-Cost cards over lower-Cost ones if they achieve a similar goal on the board if you are able to Corrupt additional cards in the process.

When it comes to winning the game, you will largely rely on controlling the board until you are able to gain a large burst of tempo from Y'Shaarj, the Defiler to refil your hand with your Corrupted cards.

Against Aggro, your whole gameplan should be to survive. This means that it is especially important to take as little damage as possible. In the mid game, you can stop using Life Tap to minimise the amount of self-damage you take. You will largely win the game through the use of removal and small amounts of damage from whatever minions you can get onto the board. It can therefore sometimes to be beneficial to play cards like Luckysoul Hoarder and Strongman without their effect activated in order to prevent damage as soon as possible.

Against Control, there are two main routes to victory. Firstly, you can play a corrupted Tickatus subsequently followed by Y'Shaarj, the Defiler to invalidate large portions of their deck. With this in mind, you should try to Corrupt and play Tickatus as soon as possible. Alternatively, you can play Lord Jaraxxus as you enter the late game. The new Hero Power, INFERNO!, that you will be provided with allows you to play a consistently play 2 Mana 6/6 minions each turn, which will grind down the resources of any control deck over time.

Control Warlock Deck Card Swaps

• Against Aggro — Add 2x Death's Head Cultist for 2x Ogremancer.
• Against Control — Add 1x Expired Merchant for 1x Free Admission.

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