Returns & Exchanges Tavern Brawl

This week’s Tavern Brawl is Returns & Exchanges! Choose a class and build a deck with 20 minions. The deck will have 10 random spells added to it. At the start of the game, you draw a hand from the original deck you created. Once you decide on your mulligan and draw the cards from it, the decks will be then swapped. You are then given the Gift Receipt card that allows you to decide to swap the deck to your opponent, but it costs 5-mana. Each player starts with 20 Health instead of the normal 30.

Gift Receipt (5-Mana): Refresh your Mana Crystals. Swap decks with your opponent and destroy their Gift Receipt.

If you have the coin, you will be the first to decide if you want to swap the decks back and it won’t allow your opponent to do the same. So, if you make too bad of a deck you might end up with it yourself!

Quick Information

  • Reward: Card Back
  • Format: Wild
  • Create Your Own Deck: Yes

Official Description for the Returns & Exchanges Tavern Brawl

The only thing better than receiving a gift, is returning it! Build a deck of 20 minions, we’ll give you 10 random spells, and then gift it to your opponent. Let’s see who wants to swap back?

Returns & Exchanges Tavern Brawl Deck Lists

The deck building challenge of this is quite interesting. If you build too bad of a deck, then you are going to get a poor starting hand and your opponent could end up giving you the deck back. If you build too good of a deck, then your opponent might get off to a really good start and just win. This is particularly problematic with the lower health you start with. Try to go mid-way with the deck and build it to potentially utilize your hero power so hopefully your opponent can’t take advantage of it and you can. Discard Warlock is a really good option for this sort of thing! Leave us your suggestions for potentially effective lists in the comments.

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17 Comments

  1. dagungun
    December 21, 2018 at 5:15 AM

    Whizbang got banned

  2. michael pajon
    December 19, 2018 at 2:32 PM

    I’ve won 5 times and received nothing, what gives!?

    • Lampcaptain
      December 19, 2018 at 4:25 PM

      Literally same. Blizzard support is also so irreparably dense that they can’t understand that this is a widespread issue.

      • GrantBud
        December 19, 2018 at 5:22 PM

        I think only reward is cardback. You may already have it. No pack.

        • Evident - Author
          December 19, 2018 at 8:33 PM

          This is the answer, you only can earn a card back this week.

      • Yeahsure
        December 20, 2018 at 3:07 AM

        Someone’s irreparably dense alright. 😀

  3. Mattthr
    December 19, 2018 at 2:01 PM

    Lost first game of this with Rogue – my deck randomly contained Myra’s Unstable Element, opponent drew it, cast it & swapped their empty deck with mine 0_o

  4. caramel cookie
    December 19, 2018 at 1:57 PM

    There seems to be a bug with whizzbang: i start with 30 life whereas everyone has 20.

  5. Paul
    December 19, 2018 at 11:23 AM

    No pack this week? I won a brawl and got a card back.

    • Css09
      December 19, 2018 at 2:31 PM

      QUICK INFORMATION
      Reward: Card Back

      …it’s literally in the description above.

  6. Meno
    December 19, 2018 at 11:18 AM

    I’m trolling with Rogue. Put in a bunch of weapon synergy cards and no weapons. You play the usual aggro rogue with your opening hand of at least a few pirates, while they cringe.

  7. Guitarboy2111
    December 19, 2018 at 10:29 AM

    You can use Whizbang the wonderful which removes the restriction to only include minions, and you get one of the deck recipes for the tavern brawl!

    • Grant
      December 19, 2018 at 10:44 AM

      That’s awesome. You even get 30 health. But don’t forget to swap before enemy uses hero cards ????

    • SlapLaB
      December 19, 2018 at 12:51 PM

      Surely that’s a bug…

      • Grant
        December 19, 2018 at 5:23 PM

        He’s just that wonderful