I got stuck on Dark Iron Arena so I skipped over that and tried Emperor Thaurissan first. His hero power is pretty tame, it just does 30 damage to a target of his choosing – i.e., instant death. Lucky for us, his wife is there to prevent him from using his hero power. The tradeoff is that his wife is 3/1 and will attack you every turn (along with whatever other minions the Emperor plays).
My first approach to this deck was to use a face hunter deck to try and do as much damage as quick as possible. I handled the wife with a Crazed Alchemist and Abusive Sergeant if available (thereby turning her into a 1/5). However after playing this a couple of times, it didn’t work out – I typically was only able to get rid of his armor before I died.
Next I switched over to Priest. Along with the Alchemist trick, I could heal her, give her more health, and use Power Word: Glory to offset the damage. Here’s my deck:
- Circle of Healing
- Silence x 2
- Light of the Naaru
- Power Word: Glory x 2
- Power Word: Shield x 2
- Abusive Sergeant
- Northshire Cleric
- Divine Spirit x 2
- Acidic Swamp Ooze x 2
- Crazed Alchemist x 2
- Ironbeak Owl x 2
- Museum Curator x 2
- Velen’s Chosen x 2
- Eydis Darkbane
- Dragonkin Sorcerer x 2
- Holy Champion
- Lightspawn x 2
- Holy Fire x 2
I ended up winning on the first try, and it wasn’t difficult at all. Moira was a 1/5 Power Word Glory’d, healing me for 3 health each turn. I also had my Holy Champion out which achieved was 31/3 at lethal (I killed Moira too for good measure).