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Mulligans
General Mulligans
Wild Growth for a bit of ramp. Witchwood Apple helps lower the cost of Mountain Giant. Wrath (especially with the cheap hero power from Genn Greymane) can help draw toward your buff cards. Oaken Summons pulls either Astral Tiger or Violet Teacher, the latter of which can generate tokens along with the Treants from Witchwood Apple. Wispering Woods is your alternate token generator.
A midrange evens-only token druid sketch. Spells and your 1-mana hero power help you control the board and build your hand-size, with the goal of summoning lots of cheap minions to buff or sending giants to lead go for big hits.
This looks like a very nice deck, I really like the direction you took with Violet Teacher and the Giants. Astral Tiger seems a little less interesting than Ironwood Golem but the fact Tigers come back in hand again and again justifies their utility for the synergies of the deck, so well done I will definitely try this out 🙂
Why would you bother making even token druid when the hero power isn’t necessary for the archetype.
It’s a cool idea, but it seems kinda off.
A theory I have about the odd and even decks is that, because of all the hero powering, you’ll necessarily hold cards in your hand for longer and player fewer cards per turn. As a result, cards like Whispering Woods and Mountain Giant should be better in an even-only deck than they would in a deck without that restriction. Yeah, the hero power isn’t key to the archetype, but I don’t think it hurts, especially if one wanted a more midrange token deck instead of aggro, which is what I want to try out.
Honestly I think this is a pretty solid list, only card im questioning is astral tiger and maybe plan summons. I think cutting them for cards like dire wolf alpha and druid of the swarm would fit the token theme better. Or at least replacing astral tiger with something stronger
*oaken summons not plan summons
Yeah, I was kind of on the fence about including those. I wanted to put in Oaken Summons to increase the chances of having Violet Teacher on the field, and Astral Tiger was to help ensure that drawing Oaken Summons late in the game would still be useful. Dire Wolf Alpha and Druid of the Swarm both seem like solid options, but I think they push the deck more toward aggro and away from midrange (not a problem, of course, just a change of strategy).
Yeah I see what you are saying astral is really good with oaken because you always draw something