JimmyRaynor’s Highlander Malygos Druid – Doom in Tomb

Spooky season is upon us and brings one of the most ambitious events in Hearthstone history; Doom in the Tomb. This event will see the return of 23 Wild cards to the Standard format (2 cards for each class and 5 neutrals), so the shakeup to the meta is expected to be sever. And since it’s spooky season, what better way to terrorize your opponent, than the looming threat of being annihilated by the god of magic himself? While this particular deck exists in the meta right now, the addition of a couple of returning cards, such as Ragnaros the Firelord, adds more threats to it, giving you more win conditions. With this list, you will be able to play like a normal Quest Druid deck, but you give up some of the mid-range threats, in order to play a Highlander deck, that allows you to include Elise the Enlightened and Zephrys the Great.

While you can certainly win through minion battle, or by taking advantage of you Ossirian Tear, after you complete the Untapped Potential, the real interesting part of the deck is all the different ways it can take advantage of Malygos with Flobbidinous Floop, Faceless Manipulator, Emperor Thaurissan and Jepetto Joybuzz. You can certainly opt to follow a very straightforward gameplan, using Juicy Psychmelon to draw all your late game (Malygos is the only 9-cost card, so it’s guaranteed to be drawn) and either use your minions, like Ragnaros the Firelord, to fight your oppoenent, or you can surprise him with several copies of Malygos and a Moonfire that will hit like a truck.

The most reliable way to pull of a Malygos win, is to get a tick of Emperor Thaurissan on Flobbidinous Floop and Faceless Manipulator, then use Elise the Enlightened while you’re holding both of them, discounted, along with Malygos and Moonfire. After spending a turn dropping the god of magic on the board, you follow it up with using 2xFlobbidinous Floop and 1xFaceless Manipulator for +15 spell damage total, then use your 2 Moonfires for 32 damage to the enemy.

But, this is the most bland, albeit reliable, way to pull off the combo. There are a number of more complicated ways you can do it, involving drawing Malygos or Kun the Forgotten King through Jepetto Joybuzz, that can net you over 50 damage to the opponent’s face, but they will need a significant amount of setup (and of course luck), which you may not have, so you will need to make a decision early on in the game about what route you will follow.

Another thing to keep in mind is that you can use the same kind of combo setups that Malygos requires for the returning Ragnaros. Although this does not guarantee lethal, it can often clear a small board of big minions, while threatening lethal for next turn, which means that the copies of Ragnaros have to be dealt with immediately, or you will just run away with the game after a couple of turns.

And as if those win conditions weren’t enough, you can just complete Untapped Potential and use your new Hero Power, Ossirian Tear, to out-tempo your opponent. Cards like Wardruid Loti, Oasis Surger and Hidden Oasis are truly powerful when used this way and can provide a lot of tempo and value, which can snowball to a win, if handled correctly.