I've always enjoyed the combo druid style of play, and with the introduction of Jeppetto in the newest expansion, it sounds like some of the combo druid variants are doing pretty well. Sitting on about 6k dust and thinking about crafting the rest of the cards for aligner druid. Is this a smart craft and is there a current decklist that is working for people in the 5-L climb?
Posted Apr 28, 2019, 10:01 PM UTC
I think CONCERNEDMOM had an Aligner list with Jeppetto in it at the start of the expansion, so checking his Twitter feed would probably be the best place to look. That being said, while Jeppetto sort of works in the list, the combo will brick if he draws any two of the 7-health minions. As a result of that, if you're looking for a good AK Druid list with him in it, Togwaggle Druid would be a safer bet.
Strictly inferior to other Druid archetypes because of hand size issues. You can do it as a laugh for a 30 percent win rate of course.
While I haven't played Star Aligner with Jeppetto, I have played Togwaggle a decent bit.
The deck feels decently strong and has safeguards in case in you brick a combo piece (Naturalize and Innervate). If Azalina or Tog get pulled by a Deathlord or Hecklebot (it's happened to me), then you just insta-concede. If you hit Azalina or Tog with Jeppetto, you don't even need Aviana or Kun. If you hit Aviana with Jeppetto, then may god have mercy on your opponent.
Also a decent counter to Darkest Hour Warlock and Big Priest with the ramp and Poison Seeds.
However, it's just a bit slower than I would like simply because of the nerfs to Druid's ramp, but the Togwaggle combo is just as backbreaking as before. I'd imagine Star Aligner is even slower and has far too much potential to brick with Jeppetto where as in Togwaggle he helps no matter what he hits.
Bad. like it should have been. that shit ran rampant for a couple months before blizzard realised that it was Bonkers broken.
Not sure why u being downvoted. But I agree too that the deck is bonkers pre-nerf. Too much holding power, too much enabler, too easy to find combo pieces and too easy to win. Unless if the opponent specifically tune his deck to disrupt u.
Haven't seen Star Aligner around at all, I suspect it is not fast enough after the mana ramping nerfs and needing so many additional pieces. Jepetto can help, but can be clunky if it screws up the 7hp minions drawn. I'm very doubtful of it being good enough for 5-L.
Toggwaggle is still around in its place. There's a guy in this thread a bit ago that had luck with the Cube-Rag variant that I'm interested in trying (just need to recraft Aviana).