Mulligans
General Mulligans
Keleseth is an auto-keep and probably fire-fly as well (maybe drop if no other good cards vs control). Always keep Spiteful vs Control and with a good hand vs others. Keep early game vs aggro and consider MCT vs paladin.
Crypt Lord can be dropped on 3 or 4 with a 1 drop, even better on 6 with MCT!
I took the Spiteful Druid deck I was playing pre-expansion and I’ve changed it around a bit. Deck performs well vs Aggro with strong early game and a lot of taunts. Crypt Lord is not new but finds a place in this deck. Zola is also a great addition as it can copy the Spiteful as well as many other useful tech cards.
Spiteful Summon is now twice as strong with the removal of the old gods and with 4 ways to silence deck can at least hold it’s own vs Warlock.
(Edit, added in a 2nd MC tech to really deal with Paladin and switched in Cobalt Scalebane as it fits better with this deck, especially Crypt Lord). So far used current list to climb from 3200 to 800 on EU.
Match-ups – Strong vs Odd and Even Paladin, favoured vs Hunter, Priest and Shaman. 2/2 vs random other Spiteful Druids and unfavoured vs Warlock ,although actually MCT can win games if held back for a chance to steal a Voidlord! Possibly worst matchup is vs Aggro Mage as there’s no removal for Mana Wyrm and if their first secret is explosive runes instead of counterspell is can be very hard to stick on board – and later on they easily burn through taunt.