Tavern Brawl Top 2 – Standard

This week’s Tavern Brawl is Top 2 Standard! Pick a class, then choose two cards from Standard, your deck will be filled with 15 cards of each! This is a great brawl because games are extremely fast so it allows you to finish up your quests easily!

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Official Description for Tavern Brawl

The Innkeeper is wondering which two standard cards work best together. Show him – choose 2 cards and we’ll fill your deck with them!

Reward

This week you will receive one Classic pack as a reward for winning a game!

Top 2 Class & Card Choices

Here’s some of the combinations that have been working in this brawl. Let us know in the comments what has been working for you! Grabbed a lot of ideas from this Reddit post, so credit to them for the creations!

Any Class

Druid

Hunter

Mage

Paladin

Priest

Rogue

Shaman

Warlock

Warrior

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120 Comments

  1. Pandamonium
    May 21, 2018 at 3:45 PM

    Personally my favorite brawl. Kitty power!

  2. J
    May 21, 2018 at 1:25 PM

    I really enjoyed using Jeweled Macaw and Dire Frenzy!!!

  3. SlapLaB
    May 21, 2018 at 2:08 AM

    This has been one of the best brawls!

    So which one is the best deck? Are there any stats somewhere?

  4. DoubleBeatLoaf
    May 20, 2018 at 9:29 PM

    power of the wild & snowflipper penguin

    going second with 3 flippers and a POTW was almost insta-win. but was about 75-80% otherwise.

  5. Helioshadow
    May 20, 2018 at 7:17 PM

    Honestly had tons of fun stomping the meta decks with Bring it On + Warpath. Beats all minion decks, destroys spell-burn decks, and beats Mill Druid (explanation later in the comment). You essentially have a full board clear in one card as well as 150 armor’s worth of cards in your deck.
    It destroys decks which spam minions, since Warpath kills basically everything that a meta deck would run, and Bring it On gives you enough sustain to last past the early flood. After that point, they’re in topdeck mode and you’ll have a good-sized hand, and if you count the minions they play and Warpath accordingly (trading 1-for-1 against a deck with half minions, and 1-for-2 against a deck which runs all minions).
    Against Mind Blast Priest, simply weave in Hero Powers and Bring it On when you recognize they’ll have lethal with the perfect hand. Warpath on the Radiant Elemental is easy, especially if they commit on Mind Blasts over healing Radiant Elemental. Your 150 armor will easily outdo their measly 75 (as you’re trading 10 for 5), and they’re never going to get anything safe on the board past turn 5. As for Twig/Starfire Druid, they’re not going to be able to deal more than 45 damage burst, and by then you would’ve already brought it on at least 2x (and even then, they’d need to get extremely lucky). I’d say the same thing about other burn decks if there were any, but I don’t think there is. But on the off-chance that Fireball + Pyroblast is a thing in an extremely fast paced Brawl, then I’d say you’re facing a difficult matchup.
    Mill Druid is an odd matchup, but if they’re running Naturalize + Branching Paths or Feral Howl, they won’t be able to clear their hand of Naturalize (since it requires a minion, and neither of you have minions) and thus mill some of their cards (preferably their non-Naturalizes). You out-armor their Feral Howl (since it 1: costs more, meaning you can weave in more hero powers, and 2: if they’re greedy on hand size, they’ll probably Mill, since they can’t get rid of naturalize and Feral Howl adds another card to your hand). Branching Paths is a weird matchup, but you’ll out-armor them because you do the same thing for 4 mana and one card (including your hero power), plus they’ll still Mill due to the overabundance of Naturalize.

    The best thing about the deck is that it doesn’t get countered by anything in the meta. Deck-shuffle cards aren’t really a thing in the brawl since it usually entails a loss in tempo (a valuable asset to most meta decks), and a Mill Druid that’s also runs minions is too slow for the fast-paced meta, feeds the enemy minions, and doesn’t have enough survivability nor card draw to survive for long. And the decks which do more damage to your face than you could possibly have in your deck (mostly Mage with late-game damage) are too slow for the meta.
    The only matchups which I’d fear are either the mirror (which will probably end in a draw if not get down to the wire and end up in the favor of whoever uses their Hero Power more), Upgrade Warrior (which I don’t really see but can pose a big threat), or some sort of Dead Man’s Hand abomination (which doesn’t exist in the meta).

    Yes, I spent too much time on this when the brawl ends in a few hours… But I wanted to show how smart I was x3

    • Pandamonium
      May 21, 2018 at 3:45 PM

      I beat that build with Black Cat and Arcane Missiles. It outraced the armor and removal with the 1 cost cats.

  6. Thrombin
    May 20, 2018 at 3:07 PM

    This Brawl has been great fun. All sorts of combos:

    Warrior (Animated Berserker, Frothing Berserker)
    Priest (Inner Fire, Lightwell)
    Hunter (Jeweled Macaw, Animal Companion)
    Shaman (Murkspark Eel, Murmering Elemental)
    Warlock (Soulfire, Clutchmother Zavas)
    Rogue (Sinister Strike, Eviscerate)

  7. Lowe18
    May 20, 2018 at 1:20 AM

    PALADIN: Lost in the jungle + Sound the bells! is a much more better deck for this Brawl.

  8. Thuthith
    May 19, 2018 at 1:26 PM

    Crystalized Oracle + Squashling on a Priest. You use their deck against them while keeping your health topped off with Squashling (echo).

  9. 1stDestroyer
    May 19, 2018 at 9:14 AM

    I have 2 decks that should really be on this list:
    Fire Plume Harbinger + Servant of Kalimos (has extreme value endgame)
    Squashling + Happy Ghoul (great burst of 0 mana 3/3 minions in the beginning and has good healing)

  10. Vengyik
    May 19, 2018 at 9:09 AM

    I managed two fun decks:

    Firstly a Feral Gibberer + Cold blood rogue. That was simply funny.

    Than the Naturalize + The Darkness druid. Its OP.

    The most fun deck against was a mage with Black Cat + Deck of wonders. I lost, but enjoyed!

  11. Nickname23
    May 19, 2018 at 7:08 AM

    Pls, blizzard, give us top 3, top 4, top 5 tavern brawl, too 😀

  12. Superawseome
    May 19, 2018 at 5:54 AM

    Hunter – explosive trap, deathstalker rexxar
    Beats most agro decks such as murloc because they never trigger the trap until they have 30 dmg on board above 3 health, then you rexxar and if they have no minion above 4 hp you won the board.
    Also beats hyena hunter, and call to arms knife juggle pali.

  13. Gondlink
    May 18, 2018 at 7:10 PM

    In my opinion, Mill Druid with Naturalize and Novice Engineer, so if your opponent doesn’t spawn minions, you can! (and it also gives the same card draw as the branching paths, with less of a chance to get it again due to having to use 2 rather than 1 card).

    and there is a fun rouge deck that consists of Cold blood and Young Dragonhawk.

    • Vendell
      May 19, 2018 at 5:58 AM

      Terrible idea, any mage deck that just has Frostbolt and Fireball or some other face burn will absolutely destroy you way before you get them down to 0 cards in deck.

      • Nope
        May 19, 2018 at 2:35 PM

        So use plated beetle. Seems to be pretty effective.

  14. Colin
    May 18, 2018 at 5:00 PM

    Bit late to the party, but been having a lot of fun with Unstable Evolution + Witch’s Apprentice.

  15. SylviaLastname
    May 18, 2018 at 1:45 PM

    Southsea Deckhand + Cold Blood is fun.

  16. Gosbee
    May 18, 2018 at 12:44 PM

    Lost in the jungle and sea giant is gr8

  17. oseiz
    May 18, 2018 at 11:06 AM

    hallucination and tess best time in hearthstone in a long time my winrate has been aboit 50/50. tip against mill druid try to find twig its kinda broken whit tess

    • GhostlordTV
      May 20, 2018 at 5:53 PM

      Thank you, friend. I subbed out Hallucination for Blink Fox and am 3/3 so far. Best part is I have golden Blink Fox and Tess so the matchup is just so fun. 🙂

  18. Nkerklaan
    May 18, 2018 at 9:48 AM

    The meta seems to have mostly settled into Duskbreaker priests and Mana Wyrm/Black Cat + Arcane Missiles. Was wondering why I wasn’t seeing more paladins until I tried Call to Arms + Knife Juggler, went up against Dusbreakers, and was out of Knife Jugglers by like turn 7.

    • KarmaIncoming
      May 18, 2018 at 11:57 AM

      For me, shadow ascendant and either tar lurker or tortollan shellraiser worked quite well

  19. Enviousdeath
    May 18, 2018 at 8:28 AM

    Would Crystal Core work?

  20. Lunate
    May 18, 2018 at 5:36 AM

    I have had good success with this 2 card mage deck so far.
    x1 Frost Nova
    x1 Fireball
    try to start your hand with mainly frost Nova as delaying tactics until you can use multiple fireball

  21. Antiliani
    May 18, 2018 at 2:28 AM

    Haven’t seen this one here yet. Earthen scales + ironwood golem. Try it 🙂

    • Nicolas
      May 18, 2018 at 5:09 AM

      I tried it and was surprised, so far i’ve got 3 wins in a row. I won against 2 mages and 1 warrior. If you have the coin you can stop their attack, and then, since you have many earthen scales, you just gain all your life back in armor. Really great deck. I recommend it

  22. Obizoth
    May 18, 2018 at 12:40 AM

    hunter —-> timber wolf + crackling razormaw

    • Debussy
      May 18, 2018 at 9:59 PM

      JM and the CR is a very good combo too.

  23. Bse
    May 18, 2018 at 12:24 AM

    Rogue
    Hallucination + Blink Fox is so mutch fun

  24. Jaime
    May 17, 2018 at 9:11 PM

    Lost In The Jungle + Crystal Lion. I am amazed how well it works

  25. Flow
    May 17, 2018 at 7:08 PM

    Voodoo Doctor + Happy Ghoul = So Fun!!!

  26. Gody322
    May 17, 2018 at 5:35 PM

    Not kidding my highest win rate deck was Angry Chicken and Fallen Sun Cleric with Mage. I won almost 100% of the games I went first, going second is really tough though and I lost like 80% of those games.

  27. Jon
    May 17, 2018 at 3:35 PM

    You’d be amazed how many opponents have conceded on turn two or three when they see my golden Angry Chicken drop and get hit with Dark Conviction.

  28. LookLikeThis
    May 17, 2018 at 2:03 PM

    Sorcerers Apprentice + Primordial Glyph is nuts trust me.

  29. TheFiftGuy
    May 17, 2018 at 1:51 PM

    Also Cleric+Inner Fire is pretty good too.

    You go Cleric (coin cleric) into inner fire everything the moment it can attack

  30. Gody322
    May 17, 2018 at 1:32 PM

    Angry Chicken + Dire Frenzy = 100% win rate

  31. Mathieu
    May 17, 2018 at 12:40 PM

    Curse of weakness + anything (currenly running Lifedrinker)

  32. ximtor
    May 17, 2018 at 12:18 PM

    Angry Chicken + Power Word: Shield xD

    • Gargaduk
      May 19, 2018 at 7:23 PM

      Tried that too, didn’t work 🙂

  33. Set
    May 17, 2018 at 11:27 AM

    just won 12 – 0 and counting with mana wyrm and arcane missles

    • Gargaduk
      May 20, 2018 at 3:20 AM

      Mirror Image and Knife Juggler. Beats everything, especially Mana Wyrm mages 🙂

  34. Titto23
    May 17, 2018 at 10:06 AM

    I pretty much enjoyed the Hunter’s spirit with:
    Candleshot + Southsea Deckhand;

    Is dumb and deadly as it sounds

    • Jim
      May 17, 2018 at 9:19 PM

      Also for Hunters, Crackling Razormaw and Scavenging Hyena Dominates the Druid combo of Naturalize and armor cards. Just make sure you adapt some minions to immunity from spells and hero powers.

      Wait until Turn 4 against druid. If you have The Coin, turn 3. Make sure you play the hyena and then adapt it. Playing before you can combo this out will just get it naturalized. Then it’s pretty much auto win, don’t be afraid if they are trying to fatigue you.

      Worked well against Arcane Missiles and Mana Wyrm also. Dire Mole and Crackling Razormaw also wins.

  35. Lakos
    May 17, 2018 at 9:05 AM

    Radiant Elemental + Unidentified Elixir

    For the diversity:)

    • Jon
      May 17, 2018 at 10:11 AM

      I had the same idea!
      I didn’t win 100% of the time, but it was probably the most fun out of any combo I’ve tried.

  36. HiroBR
    May 17, 2018 at 8:55 AM

    The best are Mana Wryn+ Frostbolt
    I only loss to a druid with naturalize+Druid of the scythe the rest are a easy win!

  37. Daniel Blanc
    May 17, 2018 at 8:43 AM

    Mountain giant and apple turn 3 8/8 are fun