The American proved that Druid is still strong without Malygos or Yogg-Saron.
To the casual Hearthstone fan it will look like the big, fat, expensive cards are the ones winning the game every time, whether it’s the volatile and potentially destructive effect of Yogg-Saron or the burst enabling power of [card]Malygos[/card] that turns innocent [card]moonfire[/card]s into face-melting burn.
That is not the case. Ever since the class was re-imagined in what threats it plays, it’s always been about [card]fandral staghelm[/card] as the midrange-defining card combined with the new removal tools in [card]living roots[/card], [card]feral rage[/card] and [card]mulch[/card]. Everything past that point has been playing around with different concepts that can be put on top of that core and it just so happened that Malygos and Yogg-Saron work in that particular meta. They aren’t the only options, though.
During the Last Call AM Invitational, American player Matt “Noblord” K made sure the world knows that. Noblord cut any combination of Yogg, Malygos and even [card]violet teacher[/card] win conditions and went for the good old “fat dudes ramp”, a style that went out of fashion long ago. Noblord’s deck is built on top of a familiar core and ramps towards a sextet of big threats, featuring double [card]ancient of war[/card] and [card]arcane giant[/card], [card]ragnaros the firelord[/card] and, to top it all, [card]deathwing[/card].
As every Druid deck, the ramp struggles against bullying aggro lists like Zoo, but has good match-ups against slow decks which give him the time to mana-up and play its monstrous threats early. And if you don’t fancy that particular style of play, you can always pick and choose from the 40 decks from Last Call AM available here.
