[S33 Legend] Midrange Druid

Some of you might remember me from few seasons ago posting a same’ish decklist which I climbed to Legend with.

Well, back in that season (S26 to be exact) the meta was kinda same as it is now, only Pirate Warriors were Aggro Shaman / ZooLock, and Control decks mainly Warrior and RenoLock. This meta (if we can call it that, when are 5 days in new expansion) has pretty much same elements that pre-Shaman/Yogg nerfs had = Aggro and Control, where Midrange Druid really shines.

Midrange Druid is really in an awesome spot now, because it is fast enough to win Control decks and naturally good against Aggro. The only real weaknesses back in the day were Midrange Hunters, which are non-existent at the moment.

Main Matchups:

Pirate Warrior is a joke when you are running two Feral Rages, Druid of the Claws, Ancient of Wars and one Dark Arakkoa on top of that. You don’t even have to tech Acidic Swamp Ooze in. Just curve nicely and that’s it.
Edit 1: Swap’d Mire Keeper for Acidic Swamp Ooze simply ‘cos the sheer amount of aggro weapon classes on ladder right now.

RenoLock has always been an easy one for Midrange Druid, because RenoLock has difficulties dealing with midrange minions. Just don’t over extend to Twisting Nether and you are basicly good to go. Keeping two minions on the board is just fine, cos they all have decent amount of damage (lowest being 3).

Jade Druid is also a pretty easy matchup, because it just simply takes too much time for them to get the Golems rolling. Go aggressively to face, but keep opposing Druid‘s Swipe always on mind and play around that. Sylvanas Windrunner is also a very key card in this matchup, ‘cos they naturally try to play as many Jade Golems as they can, and can’t deal with Sylvanas Windrunner because of that.

Dragon Priest is probably the hardest matchup, because that is the only other Midrangy deck at this meta. Luckily for us Priest has always problems dealing with our 4 attack minions and even Dragonfire Potion doesn’t kill Azure Drake. Dragonfire Potion is the main thing you have to be aware of, but even that is relatively easy to dodge, since so many of your lategame drops have more than 5 health.

Reno Priest is almost as easy matchup as RenoLock, or maybe even easier. It has the same difficulties as RenoLock, since it can’t deal with midrange minions as easilly. It also only has one Shadow Word: Death and Entomb, which makes your minions even more annoying to deal with. Shadow Word: Pain has only three targets in our deck and Potion of Madness is a dead card without Pint-Size Potion. Also as I mentioned already in Dragon Priest matchup, the 4 attack minions are pain in the ass for Priest. Again; just watch out that single Dragonfire Potion and maybe Kazakus spell if you see him picking 5 or 10 mana card (which he/she shouldn’t have time to pick, ‘cos you have to pressure them constantly).

Token Druid isn’t yet a real metadeck that you see so often, but I can tell you it is going to take a big leap in popularity soon, when people get tired of playing Jade Druid. If(/or when) that happens you can swap Arcane Giant or Ragnaros the Firelord for Baron Geddon and it would make the matchup easier.

Hope the analysis helps and happy laddering! If you have any guestions I will be happy to answer 🙂

Edit 1: Updated the decklist and Pirate Warrior machup