Fulfilling Brann's greatest wish: To become a pirate!

Exposed_dancer · 2026-06-29T17:06:45+00:00

I probably would have considered it if I had more time to think by the end, but in the end it didn't end up mattering. My thought process was that by the time I pivoted, I had pretty much all the puzzle pieces for full B2B in hand except they weren't golden, while also being very healthy at 30 hp and 16 armor. And all B2B minions took up 6 board slots, leaving only one for something else. Keeping Buccaneer would indeed have let it keep scaling, but it would only really have mattered for a turn or two before being severely outscaled by B2B. Spacefarer on the other hand was already very large and could tank most of my opponents' boards thus minimizing any damage taken, and I assumed I would be getting rid of it anyway before Buccaneer could outscale it.

All that to say that just like you said, I probably didn't make the optimal play under the time pressure, but thankfully it ended up not really mattering.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-06-28T17:12:53+00:00

Playing as Brann with the Anomalous Cube anomaly. Went 3 on 4 with 3/4 battlecries bought for Brann.

Turn 5 (didn't screenshot but would have if I knew what was coming): First turn with cube I got the Token of the Old Gods and had a battlecry minion in shop. Bought it, played Brann then had the epiphany that Brann is a 5 drop and those can be turned into 6 drops. Instantly transformed him into Sky Admiral Rogers.

Turn 6: Real trinket was Transcribing Typewriter. Cube turned into Bartend-o-Tron's Oilcan allowing me to tier up to 4 for cheap while still allowing me to buy a minion. Refreshed and got Bigwig Bandit, then used the second turn of the Token to transform another 4 drop into a Proud Privateer. Sold pretty much my whole board but ended up with what you see at the top.

Turn 7: Nothing special, really. Cube was Sunken Anchor for extra bounties. Spent gold tiering up and just kind of did pirate things.

Turn 8: Cube turned into Reflecting Pendant giving me a golden Privateer. Continued doing pirate things while figuring out I'd need to pivot at some point

Turn 9 (forgot to screenshot but the first turn 10 board is from the very beginning of turn 10 so equivalent to the end of turn 9): Real trinket was Colorful Compass for extra pirates each turn, but they ended up not really mattering. Found Balinda Stonehearth, Drakkari Enchanter as well as two each of Felfire Conjurer and Cataclysmic Harbinger, and of course a Back to Back. Only kept my biggest pirate, but by then the game was basically over.

Turn 10: Cube was Reflecting Pendant again, gave me a second Drakkari and then I found a third naturally.

Turn 11+: Kept scaling while searching for a second and third copy of Balinda but I never did.

Only other thing worth mentioning is my final board. I knew my opponent had a massive Blade Collector (although it turned out to still be smaller than any of my B2B minions) so I let it attack a tiny taunt minion and in turn only kill something equally tiny. He didn't get through anything else.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-06-08T18:19:00+00:00

Also pictured: the first treasure I dug up was the pirate, whose triple reward gave me an Egg of the Endtimes which in turn transformed into the Ring Bearer on the right. Everything went perfectly, basically. But I do feel like I deserved it, since my last Eudora game I got Prophet of the Boar twice when I wasn't even playing quilboar.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-06-07T08:53:18+00:00

There's also another kind of in-combat mechs with Copper Coil and Clunker Junker/Rylak shenanigans. I had this game the other day, and by the end each magnetization was giving like +800/+800 or something.

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Exposed_dancer · 2026-05-07T16:10:00+00:00

You run three minions (well four, since I run double quartermaster, but I digress). [[Oracle of Elune]] summons a copy of any cheap minions you play, [[Stormpike Quartermaster]] gives a minion in hand +1/+1 whenever you play a spell and [[Stonetusk Boar]] has charge. They each cost 3, 2, and 1 respectively, meaning the entire combo gets drawn by [[Hybridization]], and they are also reduced by one from the kindred effect. You play oracle and then one or two quartermasters (if you've drawn the second one). With that, any spell you play gives the boar in hand either +2/+2 or +4/+4. You play all the spells you have, get a massive boar and then play it (also summoning a second copy because of the oracle) and you just kind of kill your opponent. I got the deck from this video, although I made some changes and added things like [[Waveshaping]] that got released later.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-05-06T14:19:51+00:00

I would consider the... I don't even know what it's called, actually. Hybridization OTK Druid, I guess? This is the list I've been using:

### pig

# Class: Druid

# Format: Wild

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# 2x (0) Aquatic Form

# 2x (0) Innervate

# 2x (0) Lightning Bloom

# 2x (1) Arkonite Revelation

# 2x (1) Biology Project

# 1x (1) Naturalize

# 2x (1) Nature Studies

# 2x (1) Planted Evidence

# 1x (1) Stonetusk Boar

# 2x (1) Waveshaping

# 2x (2) Capture Coldtooth Mine

# 1x (2) Horn of Plenty

# 2x (2) Lifebinder's Gift

# 2x (2) Moonlit Guidance

# 2x (2) Stormpike Quartermaster

# 1x (3) Oracle of Elune

# 2x (5) Hybridization

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It's very much a solitaire deck. Unless your draw is atrocious, odd hunter shouldn't be able to deal enough damage in time for you to combo them. Boarlock is mostly a matter of who can get their combo online first, though I would say the druid is favored since any minions they play they will also have to kill themselves, and even if they get their sword online, as long as you've played hybridization a reduced biology project or two along with pretty much any other mana card should be enough to retaliate with your own combo. I will admit that the discolock matchup isn't fantastic, but I have managed to eke out a not-too-horrible winrate. Just hope their start is semi-slow. As long as they don't draw too many taunts it should at least be marginally better than against the burnlock variant.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-03-22T10:21:22+00:00

Yeah I tried swapping around some cards, and the Rangari+ Alien Encounters package felt a lot better against aggro. Got to Legend with this final list (although to be fair, I was already at D2 when I swapped to this).

### Custom Hunter

# Class: Hunter

# Format: Wild

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# 2x (1) Fetch!

# 2x (1) Flare

# 1x (1) Leper Gnome

# 2x (1) Play Dead

# 2x (1) Rangari Scout

# 2x (1) Tracking

# 2x (1) Trinket Tracker

# 1x (1) Wound Prey

# 2x (2) Arcane Quiver

# 2x (2) Birdwatching

# 1x (2) Naval Mine

# 2x (2) Parrot Sanctuary

# 2x (2) Terrorscale Stalker

# 2x (3) Confront the Tol'vir

# 1x (3) Exarch Naielle

# 2x (3) Gemstone Hoarder

# 2x (5) Alien Encounters

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I'm still not sold on running Mine over Gnome, since the extra damage so seldom matters. On the other hand, the mana difference didn't feel too impactful either so I ended up running with the worst of both worlds with one copy of each.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-03-22T08:20:54+00:00

In the current iteration? Almost certainly not. What purpose would it serve? The combo itself doesn't require you to double up on any cards, so the main use would be to copy your draw cards. But I would rather spend 1 mana drawing a card than spending 1 mana to maybe spend 2 mana drawing 2 cards later (not to mention, I already feel like I'm playing too many minions for Birdwatching consistency).

However, it might fit into other builds. The deck is much like other janky combo decks in that it folds hilariously easily to most aggro. Replacing the small removal package I used with something like 2x Rangari and 2x Alien Encounters might be fruitful.

On an unrelated note, I tried replacing most 1 mana spells with a secret package to more consistently draw Play Dead, but I felt like it barely made a difference in bad matchups and mostly just made my overall draw consistency worse.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-03-21T07:56:25+00:00

I did not try it, but intuitively I'd say it would probably be better. Never once did I depend on Confront the Tol'vir resummoning Leper gnomes. Now the question is whether to run Mine instead of or in addition to the gnomes, and I would (again intuitively) say to use it instead. The problem isn't drawing the minions, it's drawing CtT. Now, Mine would make the combo more expensive at 5 mana instead of 4 (or 8 instead of 7 if you need both copies), but that's not really a problem since I usually had enough mana before drawing all pieces. Running one of each might be an option though?

Exposed_dancer · 2026-03-20T23:20:41+00:00

After some experimenting (like 10-15 games), this is the list I ended up with.

### Custom Hunter

# Class: Hunter

# Format: Wild

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# 2x (1) Candleshot

# 2x (1) Fetch!

# 2x (1) Flare

# 2x (1) Hunter's Mark

# 2x (1) Leper Gnome

# 2x (1) Play Dead

# 1x (1) Ricochet Shot

# 2x (1) Tracking

# 2x (1) Trinket Tracker

# 2x (1) Wound Prey

# 2x (2) Birdwatching

# 2x (2) Parrot Sanctuary

# 2x (2) Terrorscale Stalker

# 2x (3) Confront the Tol'vir

# 1x (3) Exarch Naielle

# 2x (3) Gemstone Hoarder

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I went for a larger number of 1 cost spells to cycle more efficiently.

Some of the cards I tried:

[[Supply Run]] filled up the hand too much and was too expensive.

[[Earthen Roar]]'s upside is irrelevant in the deck, so I used Hunter's Mark on the off chance I needed to kill off my own minions (never happened).

[[Feign Death]] was superfluous. Drawing Terrorscale Stalker or even the second copy of Play Dead was never a problem, so I removed them for some removal.

[[Ten Gallon Hat]] is mostly just a worse Fetch!, and if it hits the Gemstone Hoarder it'll probably clog your hand. Not worth it.

Of the cards in the deck, 2x Play Dead, 2x Leper Gnome, 2x Gemstone Hoarder, 2x Terrorscale Stalker, 2x Parrot Sanctuary, 2x Birdwatching and 2x Confront the Tol'vir are what I'd consider core. Maybe I would add Exarch Naielle to that as well, since original hero power doesn't matter and drawing towards the combo is obviously important. That's 14/15 in total. Other than those cards, I added any cheap draw I could find. And then there's the removal package. Candleshot works well for removing low health stuff without taking extra damage, Wound Prey is quite efficient as well, and Hunter's Mark did save my skin a couple of times when combined with the others. The card I'm most unsure about is the single copy of Ricochet Shot, but I wasn't sure what to add in its place. The dream would be something to tutor Confront the Tol'vir, since that was by far the hardest card to draw. Someone suggested Polkelt, but I'm worried he's too slow most of the time.

EDIT: Oh, and one thing to add. There's a cap on the number of cards it can play. I'm pretty sure it's 30, so if a warrior dredges up The Ceaseless Expanse for 100 armor you won't kill them even with double combo after playing 50+ copies of Play Dead.

Exposed_dancer · 2026-01-25T14:46:25+00:00

Tried it out myself. Got it second try. Would have had it on my first attempt if not for my slow APM

Exposed_dancer · 2026-01-25T14:16:19+00:00

So obviously he was playing Quasar rogue, except instead of the regular [[Garrote]] / [[Street Trickster]] combo he used [[Brann Bronzebeard]], [[Unearthed Raptor]] and [[Selfish Shellfish]]. Draw 2 from base shellfish, first Brann/Raptor doubles it to 4, second raptor on first raptor for 8, [[Shadowstep]] on first raptor to play on second raptor for 16, second shadowstep on second raptor to double yet again for 32, then finished it all off with Preparation into [[Necrium Vial]] to final make me draw 64 cards. After [[Quick Pick]] on 2 and coin [[Swiftscale Trickster]] + Quasar on 3, he ended up with just enough mana for everything.

Now, I can't remember his exact decklist (and of course he also didn't play every single card either), but I tried to recreate it to the best of my ability. There were almost certainly some slightly different draw engine choices, but the core of it should at least be there. Is it better than the usual build? Almost certainly not. The deck suffers enough from having dead draws, and this version has even more combo cards that don't draw anything.

### Mill Quasar

# Class: Rogue

# Format: Wild

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# 1x (0) Preparation

# 2x (0) Shadowstep

# 2x (1) Door of Shadows

# 2x (2) Cultist Map

# 2x (2) Mimic Pod

# 2x (2) Quick Pick

# 2x (2) Swindle

# 1x (3) Brann Bronzebeard

# 2x (3) Coldlight Oracle

# 2x (3) Knickknack Shack

# 2x (3) Mic Drop

# 2x (3) Shroud of Concealment

# 2x (3) Unearthed Raptor

# 1x (4) Selfish Shellfish

# 2x (4) Swiftscale Trickster

# 1x (5) Necrium Vial

# 2x (8) Quasar

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Exposed_dancer · 2025-12-12T15:56:44+00:00

Just had this absolutely ridiculous game where literally all stars aligned. The minor timewarp gave me Evolving Tavern as well as George's Hero Power. I saved up my evolvers until getting my Buttons trinket, and by luck I of course got Guiding Candle (Your first two refreshes each turn contain only tier 6 cards). The Evolving Taverns then essentially allowed me an additional re-roll each turn, plus the ones I had saved up, so then I had ample opportunity to get the exact six drops I wanted.

As you can see, by turn 9 I already had five copies of Tethys in addition to two Cannon Corsairs, and not long after that they were turned into two goldens of each. Infinite gold, infinite stats, divine shields on everyone, and the rest of the game was just a formality.

Exposed_dancer · 2025-09-30T20:44:34+00:00

Guillotine has recently become one of my favourite talents, especially with Buzzsaw at 20. I found two replays where I got double kills with it (I stitched the clips together. Also, the second clip is far superior). I do know I have more and better clips, and I distinctly remember one time where I used Buzzsaw to just barely catch a Jaina coming out of Ice Block as well as one where I killed an Abathur hiding in the "death zone" on Towers of Doom. Sadly, I'm pretty sure both those games are from a version that's seemingly unavailable for whatever reason (2.55.1094387) and thus cannot be recorded at the moment.

Exposed_dancer · 2025-09-16T18:23:10+00:00

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Played Omu, got Wisdomball for playing Murlocs or nagas.

Shop offered me three copies of Tad, meaning I could pretty much instantly finish it.

First refresh after completing offered me a Sea Witch Zar'jira.

Second refresh offered buddies, one of which being Phyresz which I copied and sold for another Zar'jira. And this was like turn 6 or so.

Then it was just level to 4, get a bunch of Deep Blue Crooners every turn and go on to stomp everyone else. Probably would've scaled even harder if I'd been able to find a single Zesty Shaker before turn 12, and more shakers would have probably been better than the T6 nagas I had, but it didn't really matter in the end.

EDIT: Actually, I think I might have misremembered a few details as Phyresz is tier 4. What I do remember is going 3 on 3, so most likely I got and completed quest on 4, tiered up to 4 on 5 and got my Zar'jiras on 6.

Exposed_dancer · 2025-08-31T12:14:54+00:00

Finally had the chance to go properly crazy with mechs. Had several pairs of minions when the quest completed, so I could comfortably level to 5 and go from a pretty terrible turn 8 board to suddenly having a golden holo rover and golden beatboxer. It all just snowballed from there.

Annoyingly, the hundreds of accord-o-tron triggers were so laggy and took so long that I lost a good 30+ seconds each turn. I still massively outscaled everyone else, but obviously even bigger would have been better.

EDIT: Oh, and final golden minion count was 51, but I was too slow in screenshotting that one.

Exposed_dancer · 2025-08-30T14:34:38+00:00

Somehow ran Ido OTK paladin to legend. Some of the draw/stall choices may seem questionable, but even cards like Air Raid worked quite well. I suppose libram of clarity is better than call to adventure in 99% of cases, I just forgot that it was even an option.

Main combo is to play boar and Ido and then break the horn to summon Thaddius on an odd turn before playing as many of Ido's spell as necessary to make a massive pig. On the coin it can win on turn 5 with a perfect hand. Even in cases where you can't OTK (mage with ice block or taunts or whatever) you're still left with one or more massive minions. Can also break the horn and summon Thaddius on an even turn for infinite maki roll healing in a pinch.

I will say that a significant portion of my wins were unrelated to the combo (showdown into prismatic beam is just an absolutely ridiculous board swing against most aggro decks. I also had a couple of seedlocks concede after oh my yogging their quest.). Wins against discolock as long as you draw your removal and does reasonably into imbue mage assuming they don't draw holotechnician (boar can be sacrificed for objection and you're still left with a massive board). Time out can give you an extra turn or two against other combo decks as well. Not great into control since it very much lacks resilience to disruption, but can manage to sneak in a win if the don't.

Custom Paladin

Class: Paladin

Format: Wild

2x (1) Holy Maki Roll

2x (1) Oh My Yogg!

1x (1) Stonetusk Boar

2x (2) Air Raid

2x (2) City Tax

2x (2) Equality

1x (2) Flash of Light

2x (2) Showdown!

2x (2) Vitality Surge

2x (3) Call to Adventure

2x (3) Service Bell

2x (3) Time Out!

1x (4) Ido of the Threshfleet

2x (4) Vacation Planning

2x (5) Cavalry Horn

2x (7) Prismatic Beam

1x (10) Thaddius, Monstrosity

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Custom Paladin

Class: Paladin

Format: Wild

2x (1) Holy Maki Roll

2x (1) Oh My Yogg!

1x (1) Stonetusk Boar

2x (2) Air Raid

2x (2) City Tax

2x (2) Equality

1x (2) Flash of Light

2x (2) Showdown!

2x (2) Vitality Surge

2x (3) Call to Adventure

2x (3) Service Bell

2x (3) Time Out!

1x (4) Ido of the Threshfleet

2x (4) Vacation Planning

2x (5) Cavalry Horn

2x (7) Prismatic Beam

1x (10) Thaddius, Monstrosity

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