Sapphiron was another duel where I couldn’t think of a good counter for his hero power. His heroic power basically clears your board every turn, while he builds up his board with minions that can’t be affected by spells and hero powers. He also has 2 spells that deal 8 damage to your hero each, so you really need to keep your health up.

Initially I started with a control warrior deck, but I didn’t get very far. I would do damage with weapons and charge minions, but I couldn’t do enough damage to Sapphiron and to his minions. I ended up switching to a Dreadsteed deck which was a winning and fun strategy. Here’s my deck:

• Sacrifical Pact x 2
• Corruption x 2
• Mortal Coil x 2
• Dark Bomb x 2
• Demonfire
• Explosive Sheep x 2
• Nerubian Egg x 2
• Demonwrath x 2
• Drain Life x 2
• Shadow Bolt x2
• Wolfrider x 2
• Hellfire x 2
• Baron Rivendare
• Dreadsteed x 2
• Antique Healbot
• Siphon Soul
• Reckless Rocketeer
• Majordomo Executus

The key to this deck was to summon a Dreadsteed on turn 4. The rest of my cards were damage spells to destroy minions or to hit the hero. Often times my Dreadsteed died 3 times in a single turn (Sapphiron hero power, attack, AOE)! In my winning game, I pulled off the Baron Rivendare + Sacrifical Pact combo to have four Dreadsteeds on the board at one time (could have had more if I was able to attack something). I also won as Ragnaros for fun. Dreadsteed is a fun deck but the animation gets a bit boring after watching them die 50 times in a game.

Posted by Kevin in Blogs Tags: games, hearthstone