Who the new Paladin hero Arthas wants to own, she expects Hearthstone Challenge to defeat the Lich King with all 9 classes.
To help you with this venture, we've rounded up a few decks that are up to the task. In this first of two articles you can find sample decks for warriors, hunters and the druid.
The Hearthstone Warrior vs. the Lich King:
There are several options for the warrior:
A "problem" for the Lich King is the combination of Kel'Thuzad + public defender in phase 2, which can be exploited. The deck is designed to survive and at the beginning of phase 2 with a skirmish to destroy all but one captured soul. It is important that you do not have a servant on the board and that all souls are not "accidentally" destroyed. In this case, phase 3 would begin immediately.
After the skirmish you only have to survive with the remaining ridicule servants and your hero skills until you have 10 mana and can play Kel'thuzad + public defender. From this moment the Lich King stops attacking with Frostmourne, instead he attacks only with the captured soul. With this combo you hold out until the Lich King has pulled his way through his entire deck and most of the cards have been burned because of his full hand. Behind this bulwark you play a servant like the Scaled Nightmare, who can kill the enemy in an attack after a few moves, then you destroy the captured soul with your Kel'Thuzad and then the Lich King with your nightmare. As an alternative to the scaled nightmare, cards such as Gruul, Naxxramasschemen or Restless Adventurer are also possible.
One possible deck list:
2x (1) shield strike
1x (2) prey hamsterers
2x (2) fiery war ax
2x (2) executions
2x (2) public defender
1x (2) armorer
1x (2) Just try it!
1x (3) monkey with weapon
2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
2x (3) shield block
2x (3) Destructive Ghoul
2x (4) blood blade
2x (4) Bloodhoof Warrior Hero
1x (5) cobalt blue ban scale
2x (5) skirmishes
1x (6) Scaled Nightmare
1x (6) Justiziarin Treuherz
2x (6) shieldmaiden
1x (8) Kel'Thuzad
Decklist for direct import into the Hearthstone client:
Just copy it and go to Collection -> Create new deck with the code in the clipboard:
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Alternatively, a deck works with the combination: Stubborn original snail and Alarm-o-bot. To do this, you pack all of your strongest servants that you have in the deck. With the mulligan, i.e. the starting hand, go for a primordial snail and a bot, if in doubt, just give up and try again until you have the combo. Then you play the Sture Urschnecke in turn 2, the Alarm-o-Bot in turn 3 and from then on you have a new large servant on the board every round. Since the Lich King has no spells of mass destruction, your army will eventually overwhelm him.
The Hearthstone hunter against the Lich King
The best chance for hunters is to take advantage of the Vicious cub or the Ass-eating hyena. Backyard Stray + Scavenger Hyena is a good combo to start with.
The evil cub can almost alone decide the fight for itself if you can protect it until it comes to an attack. If possible, you should choose Windfury (it mutates again on the 2nd attack) and stealth as your first ability, so you are almost guaranteed another attack. With "Cannot be chosen as the target of spells" it is safe from the single target annihilation spells of the Lich King. Then you just keep strengthening it with + 1 / + 1 or +3 attack or +3 life points.
The "Crackling Sharptooth“Gives you another option to reinforce either the hyena or the young with a mutation.
A deck variant could look like this:
2x (1) backyard strays
2x (1) Mark of the Hunter
2x (2) scavenging hyena
2x (2) ice cold trap
2x (2) grandmothers
2x (2) crackling sharp tooth
2x (3) eagle horn bow
2x (3) malicious cub
2x (3) barrel!
2x (3) Let go of the dogs!
2x (3) stone height defenders
2x (3) animal companions
2x (3) fatal shot
2x (4) dog masters
2x (4) multi-shot
Decklist for direct import into the Hearthstone client:
Just copy it and go to Collection -> Create new deck with the code in the clipboard:
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The Hearthstone Druid versus the Lich King:
Druids have it relatively simple and use a variant of the currently very popular Jade deck. In phase 2, hide behind the mock servants who you summon through the epidemic and fabricate as many jade golems as possible. With Fandral Hirschhaupt + Jadeidol or Goblin Auctioneer + Jadeidol you can create ever stronger servants and defeat the Lich King.
2x (0) excite
2x (1) earthen scales
2x (1) jade idol
2x (2) wild growth
2x (3) jade blossom
1x (4) Fandral deer head
2x (4) Guardian of the Mire
2x (4) jade spirit
2x (5) Druid of the Claw
2x (5) maintenance
2x (5) epidemic focus
1x (6) Aya Blackpaw
2x (6) goblin auctioneer
2x (6) Jade Hemoth
1x (6) Sylvanas Windrunner
1x (7) Malfurion the Afflicted
1x (8) The Lich King
1x (10) Vile Contagion
Decklist for direct import into the Hearthstone client:
Just copy it and go to Collection -> Create new deck with the code in the clipboard:
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You can find the remaining classes in Part 2 of this article.
