Sparkz’ – 4 Steampunk Ponies [Feat: Toshley] (Season 41, Wild)

    I have decided to mess around with making a Wild version of the now “Combo Pally” thanks to a lot of cards (actually a card from every set) that we have access to in wild we can make a more consistent version. The problem with Burgle bully is that your opponent knows what you are trying to accomplish and if you lose both without your opponent casting a spell, then you can’t do your combo. Thanks to Emperor Thaurissan we can balance out the cost of everything to a nice 2 mana for each step. We require more cards for our combo because of it, but we gain the benefit of consistency. The combo set-up goes as follows.

1. Acquire 3 spare parts and Beardo

2. Play Emperor Thaurissan 

    2a. Be in DeathKnight mode

3. Play Auctionmaster Beardo + hero power + spare part + hero power + etc… 

4. Win and return to step 1

Against certain decks you can win merely with N’Zoth and Reno, esspecially aggro.

Fencing Coach was removed for Solemn Vigil‘s draw power as it gives the power to get to the needed cards more quickly. Without the Coach we have to hit all 3 spare parts and Beardo, but we can draw into our other targets more effectively as well.

        Cards are ordered for substitutions in most expensive to least expensive. Epics and Legendaries not shown are either too important to the deck, to good to skip, or just very common to own.

Ragnaros, Lightlord
    The goal of Light-Rag is to put a powerful body on the board while at the same time we can recover from earlier issues. Unlike some of the other substitutions on the list Light-Rag is pretty easy to find replacements for.

1. Forbidden Healing is a solid replacement to gain somewhere between 12-16 health.
2. Spikeridged Steed an alternate form of stall that forms 12 health, transformation bait, and protection for your Horsemen so you don’t necessarily have to do the combo every time. 
3. Bonemare a less powerful version of Spikeridge but still effective, combos in terms of curve because we have four 6 drops.

Toshley 
    He might seem really important but we still can generate 5 spare parts without him. I highly suggest not replacing Toshley but because he is so uncommon and I mainly have him for reasons of insane deck syngery/combo value. I want to throw out ways to replace him so that you can still play the deck. When we are replacing Toshley from the list we don’t want to replace him with another deathrattle, but we would rather want to replace him with something that will maintain our odds of getting as many spare parts from our other mechs as high as possible. The only reason this is a concern is because sometimes spare parts are given a chance to grant so much value that you can’t ignore using them at that point in time. 

1. Spikeridged Steed powerful stall tool and is just great as it acts like a sludge belcher but doesn’t interfere with N’zoth
2. Elise the Trailblazer high value tool that files into the 5 cost slot as effective value because there is no direct replacement for Toshley.
3. Sunkeeper Tarim Although not quite a powerhouse in this deck he can still provide value and slow down the enemy from time to time.
4. Captain Greenskin & Harrison Jones + a Weapon
        These are more of a package replacement than a single replacement. Greenskin works better in a meta where Snowball and tempo decks like Overload shaman, Tempo Warrior and Mage, and Midrange Elemental Decks are common. This is because over the course of the game we have an available 10 Turns worth of weapon swings. That is an easy 10+ Turns you can play Greenskin on and having immediate answers against tempo decks is important so that they can’t snowball on you, and if they haven’t snowballed yet you can use your weapon to hit minions more often. Harrison Jones works better in a meta with Aggro Shaman, Pirate Warrior, Control Warrior, and Medivh Mage/Priest. With those decks you need to either A) Be as efficient with your life total as possible while drawing out your answers or B) Prevent them from getting gaming winning weapon value. I call this the combo replacement package because if you pick Harrison I suggest replace Gluttonous Ooze with Coghammer, but if you pick Greenskin I suggest picking Rallying Blade. Keep in mind I only suggest doing the Greenskin replacement if you have all of the listed divine shield minions.

Wickerflame Burnbristle 
     Unlike some of our other legendaries Burnbristle is to weak to change the game in a control match-up but incredibly strong in an aggro match-up, and the goal here is to have a card that can slow down the enemy.

1. Aldor Peacekeeper A very effective card and even though one might not restore health with the card, preventing damage has the same effect as healing. For example changing a Flamewreathed Faceless into a 1/7 instead of a 7/7 is 6 health restored for each time time it swings at your face, and we also got a 3/3 body which isn’t bad.
2. Coghammer This replacement goes more attached with the Greenskin or Harrison trade but here you would still pick Coghammer even if  you chose Greenskin. The Gluttonous Ooze stays with this swap really nailing in the purpose of the Anti-Aggro mechanics of Wickerflame.

Gluttonous Ooze
        This is just a beefed up Acidic Ooze and the armor gain normally isn’t going to change to much but helps swing the game more in your favor against aggro. 

1. Acidic Swamp Ooze The simple trade out that will always be there
2. Toxic Sewer Ooze The Gadgetzan Ooze that didn’t seem much constructed play works well when also having Harrison in the deck, but otherwise just role with the Swamp Ooze.