Rumble Run Druid Shrine Guide

Bonds of Balance is a Shrine that relies on gaining a large amounts of Attack with your Hero to turn your Shrine into a powerful minion. If you pick this shrine, you will start your Rumble Run with the following 10-card deck.

To utilise Bonds of Balance, you should try to stack your Hero with Attack damage as quickly as possible to turn your Shrine into a powerful minion as quickly as possible. You should focus on using your Hero to clear off enemy minions while your Shrine should be used to attack opponents directly to preserve its Health. Taunt minions are also excellent choice to defend your Shrine and allow its Attack value to reach a critical mass.

You should default to picking the Feral card bucket most of the time as all of its cards revolve around boosting the attack of your Hero. As you will also be attacking with your Hero a lot, the Going Wild card bucket is also a great choice and provides you with tools that synergise with your Hero Power. Lastly, you should look for a mix of card draw, such as Nourish, and ways to give your minions Taunt, such as Mark of Nature or Mark of the Wild.

When choosing Teammates after your second and fourth win, The Fan Favorite should be your first choice if it is available due to its natural synergy with the Shrine. If it is not available, Succoring Skyscreamer is also a great choice as it synergises with the Armor naturally provided by most of Druid's Attack-giving cards.

If you managed to win 6 rounds and have the opportunity to upgrade your shrine, Favor of the Gods should be your first choice as it will give you an easy way to defend your Shrine. If it is not available, Fortified Spirit is a great second choice for keeping your shrine defender. If neither of these options are available, Everlasting Devotion and Pact with the Loa are reasonable alternatives.

Gonk's Armament is a Shrine that rewards you for consistently gaining Armor, allowing you to fully refresh your Mana Crystals every time you do so. If you pick this shrine, you will start your Rumble Run with the following 10-card deck.

Gonk's Armament is an incredibly powerful Shrine. While it is slow in the early game, it is capable of incredibly fast and powerful turns in the mid-late game. You should plan out your Mana usage each turn very carefully and find combinations of cards to use all of your Mana Crystals, the last of which should grant you Armor in some way. It is important to remember that your Hero Power is a source of Armor that will also refresh your Mana Crystals, effectively providing you with a "Pay 2 Mana to refresh all of your Mana Crystals" effect.

The Feral and Natural Defence card buckets contain a large number of Armor-gain cards and you should prioritise picking up these a lot of the time. Due to the ability to refresh Mana Crystals, you will play a large number of cards each turn. When given the choice, you should focus on picking higher-Cost cards in your buckets overall as it is very easy to run out of cards with the ability to refresh your Mana. Lastly, you should mix in a good amount of Midrange minions, such as those found in the Beasts, Going Wild, and Wise Decisions card buckets to round out your deck.

When choosing Teammates after your second and fourth win, Succoring Skyscreamer should always be your first choice if it is available. The card draw it provides to pair with your ability to refresh Mana Crystals will provide a lot of quick victories. Water Spirit should be your second choice as it will allow you to reach the late game much faster where your Shrine thrives. If neither are these are available, then there is no priority over the remaining teammates.

If you managed to win 6 rounds in a row, then you will have the ability to upgrade your Shrine. Favor of the Gods and Pact with the Loa should be your first 2 choices to ensure your Shrine stays up for as long as possible. If you find yourself regularly running out of cards, especially if you were not able to pick up a Succoring Skyscreamer, then Boon Reaper is also a very solid third choice.

Gonk's Mark gains a 1/1 buff for every minion you play and rewards you for being able to flood the board. If you pick this shrine, you will start your Rumble Run with the following 10-card deck.

Gonk's Mark is a solid Shrine that has great snowball potential. You should try and flood the board with as many small minions as possible to maximise the number of buffs obtained from the Shrine. As board space can be very limited, you should continually trade off your minions to make space for new ones to keep utilising the buff effect.

There is no single card bucket that greatly favors the Gonk's Mark Shrine. Instead, you should keep your eyes peeled for cards that provide multiple minions in a single card across multiple buckets. Some examples include Wisps of the Old Gods and Dark Wispers from the Nature's Blessing card bucket, Living Mana, Force of Nature, and Landscaping from the Saplings card bucket, and Living Roots from multiple buckets. To pair with these, you should look for board-wide buffs such as Power of the Wild and Mark of the Lotus from the Nature's Blessing card bucket and Soul of the Forest from the Saplings bucket.

When choosing Teammates after your second and fourth win, you should prioritise picking Zandalari Striker when it is offered due to its strong board-wide buff. Alternatively, you can pick up Astral Raptor as a secondary choice as an easy way to populate the board. If neither of these options are available, then all of the remaining teammates are reasonable.

If you managed to win 6 rounds in a row, then you will have the ability to upgrade your Shrine. Everlasting Devotion should be your highest priority and will allow you to double up on the buffing effect of your Shrine. Pact with the Loa should be your second choice, allowing you to keep your Shrine active for the maximum amount of time. Lastly, if neither of these choices are available, Favor of the Gods can be picked to provide some added protection for your Shrine.

After each victory, you will be offered a choice of 3 different card buckets that you can add to your deck. Each bucket contains 3 cards that fit a certain theme and will help shape your deck in different ways.

The table below contains a list of all the possible Druid card buckets. The comments section contains further details of each bucket and when to choose them.