Cheap Archaedas Warlock Zoo Deck (Heroic Mode)

Last updated on Nov 19, 2015 at 19:21 by Sottle 19 comments

The following deck can be used to defeat Archaedas on Heroic mode. It is based around the Constructed Zoo deck and aims to tempo out the opponent, leveraging buff cards to take advantage of the free minions you are given each turn.

Card List

Warlock Cards
1 Flame Imp Legacy 2
1 Power Overwhelming Legacy 2
3 Imp Gang Boss BrM 2
3 Void Terror Legacy 2
4 Shadowflame Legacy 1
5 Doomguard Legacy 2
Neutral Cards
1 Abusive Sergeant Legacy 2
2 Crazed Alchemist Legacy 2
2 Dire Wolf Alpha Legacy 2
2 Knife Juggler Legacy 2
2 Nerubian Egg Naxx 1
3 Ironbeak Owl Legacy 2
4 Defender of Argus Legacy 2

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Strategy

Zoo is an excellent deck for taking advantage of small token minions. Numerous cards like Shattered Sun Cleric, Dire Wolf Alpha, and Abusive Sergeant can enable you get use out of the statues you are given, while cards like Power Overwhelming and Void Terror can be used to take them off the board while gaining a benefit. This is important, because allowing Archaedas to build a huge board of statues on your side of the board stops you from developing your own minions, and enables him to deal massive damage with Shattering Spree.

The most important thing in the fight is to mulligan for a way to kill the first statue he summons on his turn 1. There are numerous ways to do this, but Flame Imp plus Abusive Sergeant is the most beneficial, especially if you can get another 1-drop to go along with it. Once you are able to achieve this and gain board control, the fight becomes fairly simple to dominate, since he plays no efficient way to get back onto the board.

Watch out for Sacred Trial, the Paladin Secret he plays. The best way to neutralise this is to pop it with a Deathrattle minion such as Nerubian Egg or Haunted Creeper.