About two days ago I pulled a Varian Wrynn out of a pack and thought it would be alot of fun to make a home for him. I’m a big fan of the basic Control Warrior decklist but I didn’t feel like he belonged, due to the fact of making the battlecries of Shield Maiden, Harrison Jones and Justicar useless if they are put into play from his ability. So I thought I’d go a different direction.

I felt like cards with strong deathrattle abilities work well with Varian, also cards with strong end of turn effects like Ysera and Ragnaros seemed like a good fit. But I also wanted some early game creatures that could still be relevant if put into play with his ability later in the game, so I went with a taunt/bolster early game.

With taunt creatures you are generally getting low attack/high toughness which your opponent is either going to have to silence or trade multiple creatures to kill, the high toughness also helps with AoE like Hellfire and Lightbomb. Armorsmith, Bash, King’s Defender and Execute give us some early game control and for card draw I went with Battle Rage early game and late game it’s Ysera and Varian. Here is the deck list:

Other tech cards I threw in were Kel’Thuzad, Sylvanas + Brawl, and Troggzor. The Gorehowl is also really nice to clean up their board and keep your guys intact for when you wanna bolster.

So far the deck has been playing really well and has been catching alot of people off guard since when most people see a warrior they think Control or Patron. It’s probably not gonna set the ladder on fire but it is something different and fun to play. Let me know what you think creeps, and as always, what would you cut or add?

Updated decklist can be found here and here.

~ 16bitSocrates