This week’s Tavern Brawl is “Yellow-Brick Brawl”!
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Official Description for Yellow-Brick Brawl
Each player is given Dorothee, which grants Charge to minions on one side and Taunt to the other. Build a 10 card deck and we’ll give you three copies of each!
Yellow-Brick Brawl Chalkboard
General Information
- You get one Standard pack for your first win this week.
- This is the fourth time we see this Brawl. Last time we’ve seen it on May 3, 2023.
- It’s a PvP Brawl.
- The Brawl’s format is Wild.
- It’s a Constructed Brawl. You select a class and pick 10 cards, then you’re given 3 copies of each (to create a 30 cards deck).
- You have a Dorothee on your board all the time. Minions you put on her left side have Charge, minions on her right side have Taunt. It’s an Aura effect so it’s applied all the time, Silencing or Transforming affected minions still leaves them with Charge/Taunt.
- Dorothee can’t be interacted with at all – she can’t be targeted, damaged, destroyed etc. But she still takes a board slot, so you have 6 left.
- The idea is to put sturdy minions – Divine Shield, Reborn, high health etc. on the Taunt side and then minions with positive effects when they attack or simply low health and high attack on the left in order to kill your opponent. But it won’t be that simple because they will also have Taunts up all the time.
Yellow-Brick Brawl Deck Lists
The decks shown below are from the previous time this Brawl was up. Add your decks in the comments so we can post them here!
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Kayn Sunfury destroys the idea of this brawl, but Pogo Hopper is still king of it (and of many many other tavern brawls too)
Brawl Deck – Even Warlock
1 x (0) Raise Dead
1 x (2) Recombobulator
1 x (4) Seadevil Stinger
1 x (4) Smothering Starfish
1 x (6) Antheron
1 x (6) Glenn Greymane
1 x (8) Gigafin
1 x (10) Goldshire Gnoll
1 x (12) Mountain Giant
1 x (20) Molten Giant
Revised Brawl Deck – Even Warlock 32 wins ,3 losses
1 x (0) Raise Dead
1 x (2) Recombobulator
1 x (4) Seadevil Stinger
1 x (4) Smothering Starfish
1 x (6) Antheron
1 x (6) Glenn Greymane
1 x (8) Gigafin
1 x (10) Goldshire Gnoll
1 x (10) Lokholar, the Icelord
1 x (20) Molten Giant
another tavern brawl ruined by pogo hopper :-/
Turns out an aura that gives Taunt to minions works really well with a card that rarely ever sees play. I am talking about Plaguemaw the Rotting!
This deck shuts down any deck that doesn’t have spell-based minion removal. Just stall until you have enough mana to throw out a Plaguemaw + any 1-drop (make sure the 1-drop gets the Taunt aura, NOT the charge aura). The following turn, protect Plaguemaw with cards like Robes of Protection and Obsessive fan!
# Brawl Deck
# Class: Druid
# Format: Wild
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# 1x (0) Aquatic Form
# 1x (0) Innervate
# 1x (1) Banshee
# 1x (1) Biology Project
# 1x (1) Crowd Surfer
# 1x (1) Druid of the Reef
# 1x (3) Robes of Protection
# 1x (3) Spawn of N’Zoth
# 1x (4) Obsessive Fan
# 1x (4) Plaguemaw the Rotting
Another good deck idea that I faced was Evolve Shaman, because turns out whenever you evolve a minion, it re-gains the charge from the aura, and thus gets to attack again. The list I faced used revolve, which happened to be a great counter to Plaguemaw.
Great idea with this Plaguemaw, I will try it. Even better then the endless Dreadsteed 😀
This one’s cool also! The idea is to finish the “The Caverns Below” quest by shadowstepping Bloodsail Flybooter a bunch, play the quest reward and finish it with a Recurring Villain (on the taunt side). Since the quest reward always sets his attack to 5, he’s immortal!
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Rogue
# Format: Wild
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# 1x (0) Preparation
# 1x (0) Shadowstep
# 1x (1) Bloodsail Flybooter
# 1x (1) Breakdance
# 1x (1) Gone Fishin’
# 1x (1) Patches the Pirate
# 1x (1) The Caverns Below
# 1x (1) Togwaggle’s Scheme
# 1x (2) Swindle
# 1x (5) Recurring Villain
Awesome Snobold&Catacombs combo! Miss the old dreadsteed? Well here’s the alternative! Lots of opponents conceding to this one after you get the infinite taunt.
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Rogue
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
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# 1x (0) Backstab
# 1x (0) Counterfeit Coin
# 1x (0) Preparation
# 1x (2) Shiv
# 1x (3) Fan of Knives
# 1x (3) Mimic Pod
# 1x (3) Sonya Shadowdancer
# 1x (4) Kobold Illusionist
# 1x (5) Lesser Onyx Spellstone
# 1x (9) Valeera the Hollow
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
I had some fun with the following list yesterday.
The idea is to cycle through your deck with Gadgetzan Auctioneer and drop some huge charged Edwins and Giants.
Shadowstep enables huge and unexpected bursts when played on Edwin/Arcane Giant.
Preperation
Counterfeint Coin
Backstab
Shadowstep
Eviscerate
Razorpetal Lasher
Edwin VanCleef
Sherazin, Corpse Flower
Gadgetzan Auctioneer
Arcane Giant
Murlocs for the win!
1x Fiery Bat
1x Patches the Pirate
1x Crackling Razormaw
1x Kindly Grandmother
1x Scavenging Hyena
1x Bearshark
1x Southsea Captain
1x Vicious Fledging
1x Necrotic Geist
1x Savanah Highmane
Considerable replacements: Geist => Bittertide Hydra (sacrifise board clear for more face dmg), Bat => Alleycat (1 less dmg but potential more buff to Hyena), Bearshark => Animal Companion (stronger overal, but inconsistent)
Necro geist is sick in this brawl, just put it on the charge side, any spawned ghoul has charge. Can be combo-ed with any 1 cost minion to board clear on 7 mana, and establish board presence.
Vicious fledgling with charge
Southsea captain pulling 3 2/2 patches,
Any jade-centric deck
You’ve inspired me to make this:
### Brawl Deck
# Class: Druid
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
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# 1x (1) Jade Idol
# 1x (2) Ancient Watcher
# 1x (2) Druid of the Swarm
# 1x (3) Jade Blossom
# 1x (3) Vicious Fledgling
# 1x (4) Jade Spirit
# 1x (4) Strongshell Scavenger
# 1x (5) Nourish
# 1x (6) Aya Blackpaw
# 1x (6) Necrotic Geist
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
It’s fun, especially when you hit Scavenger with two Watchers ;D
Kabal Lackey
Mana Wyrm
Archanologist
Medivh´s Valet
Shimmering Tempest
Arcane Intellect
Frozen Clone
Kirin Tor Mage
Mirror entity
Kabal Crystal Runner
Why is this brawl giving classic packs unlike the previous 3 brawls that gave KaC packs while this one is the one nearest to the expansion release?
feelsbadman
common this is total bullshit, all decks in the guide have wild cards and its a standard brawl… total laziness on topdecks side
Yeah I am SUPER confused, I can;t choose ANY wild sets when creating a Tavern Brawl deck this week but it seems some people can??????
Take a look at the date these were posted. This brawl IS standards only. The site literally just reposted an old post from when this brawl was brand new and allowed wild cards.
HAHA, thanks buddy! 🙂
Hey, I’m really sorry about this. This is pretty standard practice for Tavern Brawls that are repeats, but when I originally edited the post I didn’t realize it was a Standard Brawl. If I had, I would have just created a new post instead. I did mention that we were working on fixing it, unfortunately with the new expansion coming out I haven’t been able to get back to it yet.
Pretty much the C’thun warlock on the bottom of the post.
But instead I will be using rogue and change dreadsteed with the 9 mana 4/4 that instakills and adds the slain minions stats to C’thun.
Standard Pirate Warrior super Quick win:
1x Patches the pirate
1x Southsea Deckhand
1x N’zoth’s First Mate
1x Bloodsail Cultist
1x Southsea Captain
1x War Axe
1x Dread Corsair
1x Kor’kron Elite
1x Naga Corsair
1x Bittertide Hydra
I have amazing success as a rogue with this Murloc/C’Thun deck for this brawl. Pacing and knowing when to lay down your ‘Thistle Tea’ is key. Try it out and tell me what you all think. 🙂
1x Murloc Tinyfin
1x Grimscale Oracle
1x Murloc Tidecaller
1x Murloc Tidehunter
1x Disciple of C’Thun
1x Twilight Elder
1x C’Thun’s Chosen
1x Crazed Worshipper
1x Thistle Tea
1x C’Thun
Now go annihilate!
deathrattle rogue 100% win rate in every matchup:
journey below
loot hoarder
nerubian egg
ironbeak owl + light’s champion to counter dreadsteed which is the only other decent deck.
unearthed raptor
baron rivendare
piloted shredder
twilight summoner
sylvanas
Fun priest easy win brawl xD (with purify)
1x purify
1x ressurect
1x shadow word pain
1x shadow word death
1x Barnes
1x Shadow madness
1x Shifting Shade
1x Onyx Bishop
1x Sylvanas Windrunner
1x Ragnaros the fire lord
How are you playing this!?!?!?! I can’t choose ANY wild cards……..
Posts were from last year fam
demon warlock win rate 99%
Sacrificial Pack, Dark Peddler, Nerubian Egg, Void Terror, Pit Lord, Voidcaller, Doomguard, Floating Watcher, Dread Infernal, Fearsome Doomguard
GREAT WALL of CHO (Shaman)
very strong + lot of fun + Dreadsteeds are piece of cake 🙂
– Dust Devil (first piece of final combo)
– Rockbitter weapon (second piece of final combo)
– Runic Egg (just for cheap draw)
– Loot Hoarder (just to trade and draw)
– Nerubian Egg (double taunt)
– Ancient Watcher (cheap taunt)
– Eerie Statue (even better cheap taunt)
– Flamewreathed Faceless (powerful charge for removals)
– Lorewalker Cho (trolling enemies = lock or get opponent spells)
and finaly – EARTH SHOCK !!! (counter to Dreadsteed and surprising activator for Eeerie Statue)
Have a lot of fun with this deck. No auto-concede againts Warlock. Many interesting situations (mostly caused by presence of Cho)
Enjoy 😉
PS: Drawing cards are as cheap as possible, because of Overload. Also do not keep Dust Devil in opening hand. You want to keep it for final blow 😉
40+ wins with only 1 loss
***Thats not playing against warlock decks and the broken dreadsteed card in this tavern brawl
Paladin
– Ancient Watcher
– Neurbian Egg
– Harvest Golem
– Barnes
– Piloted Shredder
– Feugen
– Stalagg
– Cairne Bloodhoof
– Sylvanas Windrunner
– Kel’Thuzad (had Ragnaros the Firelord at first but then switched to KT. KT seems to be better)
My rogue list. It does pretty well, 13-0 as of now:
Preparation
Swashburglar
Eviscerate
Undercity Huckster
Edwin Vancleef
Shadow Strike
SI: 7 Agent
Tomb Pillager
Xaril
Dark Iron Skulker
Stalagg, Feugen, Baron Rivendare and Moat lurker, plus any 6 cards to get you to the combo (Might want some silence)
you guys have all been running bad decks…. the best deck by far is malygos rogue in this brawl, i have had like a near perfect win rate with it and have been running
malyogos
auctioneer
barnes
emporer
thalnos (could do something else like loot hoarder)
tomb pilligaer
sinister strike
eviscerate
shiv
the only real weakness is against zoo like decks that will kill you really earlyand if you dont draw minions
prep
Rogue is pretty amazing this week. I’ve had great success running miracle Van Cleef:
Prep
Backstab
Coldblood
Pit Snake
Eviscerate
Sap
SI:7
VanCleef
Tomb Pillager
Auctioneer
All I see are fucking smorc shamans with flamewreathed faceless, unbound elemental, tunnel trog etc. FFS I play tavern brawl to have fun not to deal with the bullshit in ladder.
Here is my Combo Priest:
-Inner Fire
-Ancient Watcher
-Divine Spirit
-Doomsayer
-Duskboar
-Mind Blast
-Nerubian Egg
-Am’gam Rager
-Ice Rager
-Lightspawn
The Echo Giants Mage deck wrecks Dreadsteeds. You’re sure to have 3+ polymorph effects to remove Dreadsteeds permanently. The only possible situation where it could lose is if no polymorph effects were pulled from Cabalist’s Tome and the Warlock got an extra Dreadsteed from Bane of Doom. But otherwise, Giants > Dreadsteed.
How many dreadsteed decks have you played against? I have encountered over 10 echo mages so far and, well i guess they just played wrong.
I am SOOOOOO fricken confused, how are people playing Dreadsteeds!?!?!? its a wild card and as far as I can tell this is a standard brawl, I cant choose any wild sets………
C’thun seems slow, but is good for warrior (with 3 brawls lol).. also because of the tripled minions I got him to reach more than 20 attack.. Clears the board and charges face for the kill..
Slow but FUN!!
Tried building around C’thun.. in turn 10 he’s 20/20 (or more) because of the duplicated minions.. does 40 damage (or more!) total…
Clears the board then charges the opponent’s face for the kill.. lol
SEEMS SLOW BUT FUN!!
Every deck is a Dreadsteed deck. So here’s what I’m toying around with (in its current evolution):
Silence
Resurrect
Shadow Word: Pain
Ironbeak Owl
Shadow Word: Death
Shadow Madness
Onyx Bishop
Cabal Shadow Priest
Sylvanas Windrunner
The Black Knight
You have more Dreadsteeds than the Dreadsteed deck does.
Aviana, innervate, Alexstraza, Ancient of war
This rules.
Ypu can flesh out the rest howecer ypu like but i used
Fandral, raven idol, wild growth, nourish, yogg
Lotsa kill comboa w 3 aviana and 3 qlexstraza
Used a freeze Mage with Ice lance, frost bolt, Thalnos, medivhs valet, Frost nova, ice block, forgotten torch, arcane intellect, fireball, polymorph. Polymorph slot could be something different, haven’t experimented though.
A slow but fun “counter” to Dreadsteel is Mekgineer Thermaplugg. Why would you attack face when your Leper Gnomes can do all the work?
I used the Patron Warrior list but with Ironbeak Owl instead of Blood Warriors
Try Evolve Shaman, things that get evolved gain the effects of Dorothee, so it becomes a extreme tempo swing when paired with charge.
Here’s my list:
-Tunnel Trogg
-Evolve
-Totem Golem
-Nerubian Egg
-Tidecaller Bilefin
-Ancestral Knowledge
-Pantry Spider
-Coldlight Oracle
-Master of Evolution
-Spellbreaker
I did a Deadsteed Warlock that worked well for me:
Leper Gnome
Power Overwhelming
Dark Peddler
Darkshire Councilman
Drain Life
Shadow Bolt
Void Terror
Dreadsteed
Kara Kazham!
Dr Boom
Im cheating with Dreadsteed, its broken
Dreadsteed Warlock becomes even more ridiculous if you pair it with Violet Illusionist. You can start to throw in cards like Pit Lord and Flame Imp without needing to worry about their battlecries. Plus, if you go into fatigue, you’re virtually invulnerable.
Resurrect Priest
Resurrect does really well because it over powers the board with both a charge minion and a taunt minion making it incredibly difficult for the opponent to counter the sticky/high health minions
Resurrect
Nerubian Egg
Emperor Cobra
Injured Blademaster
Piloted Shredder
shifting shade (i really want to replace this guy but not sure with what)
Onyx Bishop
Black Knight (not sure if hes worth, i sort of want to replace)
Dr Boom
Sea Giant
Good deck, try it out before you judge. it really ramps up between turns 3-7
Astral druid is pretty fun. With 3 copies of astral and innervate your chance of drawing both in the first two turns is pretty good. A charging deathwing that clears the board or ragnaros with taunt by turn 3 is such a nightmare for your opponent.
Knife juggler to make dreadsteed taunt even better
dreadsteed infinite taunt broken
Dreadsteed is insane, so people need to pack silence for that. On taunt side, it is an impassable 1/1 minion. On charge side, it can infinitely attack and just wipe a board. It depends on which side is taunt and which is charge and how the Dreadsteed resummons.
Nice one!
It’s hard to send one Dreadstead through 5 taunting Molten Giants. Lulz
Aggro Shaman:
Argent Squire
Dust Devil
Spirit Claws
Tunnel Trogg
Lava Shock
Maelstrom Portal
Totem Golem
Whirling Zapomatic
Lightning Storm
Flamewaker
Put the windfury on the charge side and bigger things on the health side if you need them, save if you lose board and try to clear taunts with board clear.
Two words:
Patron Warrior.
Thank me later.
Whirlwind, Grim Patron, Frothing Beserker, Warsong Commander, Revenge, Shield Block, Blood to Ichor, Execute, Cruel Taskmaster, Inner Rage.
You can substitute most of this deck for other cards! Yay!
Too slow. Doesn’t work that well.
It would’ve worked, too, if it weren’t for you meddling Dreadsteeds!
Deck good, list bad. I’ve been playing Patron since a minute after this brawl came out and my current list is:
Frothing Berserker
Spellbreaker (Ironbeak dies to your own whirlwinds so it’s pretty bad)
Fiery War Axe
Death’s Bite (how were you missing this?)
Acolyte of Pain
Whirlwind
Emperor Thaurrisan (discount your combos)
Inner Rage
Armorsmith (Holds the board really well and buys lots of time)
The last slot has been flipping around but I think Battle Rage is better than Execute or Unstable Ghoul, which were my other choices.
The only decks I’ve been struggling against are Feugen/Stalagg decks, but for the most part they are slow so you can still steal wins with Frothing combos.
It basically plays like Pre-Nerf patron warrior. Enjoy it!
Good list, it just misses Patron.. Just that.
That’s awkward. Lmao I guess Patron is probably better than battle rage, but that explains why I keep not drawing patrons -_-