I’m Sheng, a Legend rank constructed and 7+ win-average arena player. I run HearthstoneCoaching.com where our coaches have helped many students achieve the same results.
Introduction
Last month I released a set of Starter deck guides for new players built from the Basic, Naxxramas, and Blackrock Mountain card sets. In the past month, I've received a lot of questions from readers about how they could upgrade their deck over time with cards they open from booster packs.
Initially, I set out to build a mega substitution chart, but found that it wasn't able to capture the synergy between cards that's so important for top-tier constructed decks.
Thus, I've written a new series of guides geared towards the same audience of players who have completed the single player expansions, and want to further improve their decks.
Budget Restrictions
In order to emulate the collection of a player who has only played Hearthstone for a little while, I wanted to set a realistic limitation on the cards I could include into each deck. After some though, I came up with this criteria.
- Access to all cards in the Basic, Naxxramas, and Blackrock Mountain card set. The thought process here is that most players would be willing to spend money on the single-player adventures. They're a really good deal and are not worth grinding for with gold.
- Restricted to only using Commons and Rares from booster packs, with the total cost of a deck not exceeding 1000 dust.
Guide Breakdown
Now that you know the criterion for building these decks, here's what each guide includes, for every class.
- Introduction
- Deck Requirements
- Deck Design Principles
- Deck Playstyle (Overview and Strategy)
- Card Choice Breakdown
- Mulligan Guide
- Combos
- Gameplay Video
- Upgrades
- Conclusion
I've also brought back the upgrades section in case people want to see what an unhindered version of the deck looks like that may be capable of reaching Legend rank. This time it includes direct substitutions, so you don't have to wonder about what cards to keep or take out. It's very clear.
The Guides
Budget Midrange Druid -- 640 Dust
- Budget Midrange Druid is an extremely flexible deck that is built around the efficient mana-acceleration of cards like Innervate and Wild Growth. With this extra mana, a Druid is able to play mid-game threats early, making it extremely difficult for opponents to catch up.
- Budget Face Hunter’s goal is to beat your opponent down as quickly as possible. The general theme of the deck is to get onto the board extremely quickly with minions like Leper Gnome and Worgen Infiltrator, and then finish opponents off with direct damage spells and charge minions.
- Budget Tempo Mage’s goal is to control the board early on with extremely cost-efficient minions that synergize remarkably well with Mage’s cheap class spells.
- Budget Aggro Paladin seeks to claim the board early and never put the foot off the gas. The goal of the deck is to play small cost-efficient minions that benefit from each other and to overwhelm your opponent before they have answers.
- Budget Control Priest is a deck that utilizes Priest’s ability to heal as an offensive and defensive weapon. The two key minions in our deck are Northshire Cleric, which serves as a card draw engine and Auchenai Soulpriest which allows us to use Circle of Healing, Zombie Chow, and our hero power offensively.
- Budget Mech Rogue is a midrange deck whose goal is to utilize Mechwarper to develop a board of Mechs as quickly as possible while eliminating our opponent’s threats using Rogue’s efficient removal spells.
- Budget Mech Shaman is a midrange deck whose goal is to utilize Mechwarper to develop a board of Mechs as quickly as possible, and then utilizes the burst from Windfury cards and Fire Elemental to finish off opponents.
- Budget Zoo Warlock is an aggressive deck that relies on the synergies between its many small minions. In addition, cards like Imp-losion simultaneously help build board for you while eliminating opponent’s threats.
- Patron Warrior might just be the most synergistic deck in the history of Hearthstone. Each card in this deck works towards our strategy of surviving until we can bring out Grim Patron or Frothing Berserker to kill our opponent off in a single-turn. Thanks to the low cost of this deck, we haven’t cut too many cards from it to stay within our budget with the notable exception of Grommash Hellscream which isn’t completely necessary.
Don't have 1000 Dust?
Don't worry, I've got you covered. Check out my previous Starter deck series that don't require any dust to build.
- Decks with Basic Cards Only
- Decks with Basic + Naxxramas Cards Only
- Decks with Basic + Naxxramas + Blackrock Mountain Cards Only
Conclusion
Deck construction was one of the hardest things for me to learn when I first picked up this game, so I hope this will help you guys that are newer to the game bridge that gap.
As always, I'd be very happy to answer your questions on this thread or on the guides themselves. Enjoy!
Want to learn more?
If you’re interested in reaching Legend rank, or earning unlimited gold from arena, my team at HearthstoneCoaching.com would love to help! We’ve provided over a thousand hours of excellent coaching to students around the world.
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