OurHearthstone Control Warrior Deck List Guidefeatures all of the essential information you’ll need to know when you pilot this deck in the Rise of Shadows meta! We’re featuring a full mulligan guide, play strategy, card choices, substitutions, and the most popular deck for this archetype. I’ve also included a couple of alternative deck options at the bottom of the guide!
Control Warriorhas been a long time staple in Hearthstone for a long time. While it’s not always the strongest deck, it usually provides players who like slow methodical games a way to play. The deck usually relies on building up a ton of armor while removing minions from the board with cheap spells, and the version being played right now in Rise of Shadows is no different. This deck is sometimes referred to as “Wallet Warrior” because it can cost quite a bit to play the deck due to all of the required Legendaries. Don’t let that fully deter you, if you’ve got most of the card this deck can be worth giving a shot!
Control Warrior Deck List for Rise of Shadows
This is the most popular list right now, but if you’d like to try a different variant, I’ve included some more at the bottom of the guide!
Situational Keeps
Control Warrior Play Strategy
We have two different game-plans, against aggressive decks we’re doing our best to keep the board clear and build up our health total. We’re happy to use all of our resources just to keep them from getting too far ahead of us and getting our health too low. Against slower decks, however, we’re looking to gain as many resources as possible. We want to stretch out theOmega Assemblyand make sure we get three cards out of it. We’ll want to make sure to wait as long as we can to popArchivist Elysianato get the most value out of our deck and her cards. We’re potentially going into fatigue turns against slower decks, so we will need resources for the long haul.
Early turns are just all about keeping the board manageable, and using our removal and AOE to do that.Eternium Roveris quality for this early push, butWeapons Projectand eventuallyWrenchcaliburwill also provide valuable support to us. Yes, while it’s not great to give our probably aggressive opponent a weapon, it’s better than us getting repeatedly smashed by minions. Don’t be too greedy withExecuteagainst faster decks, we want to take out any threat as quickly as possible. Against slower decks, however, you’ll want to conserve your removal as much as possible for any late game value generators.
As we head into the mid-game, we’ve hopefully added at least a couple of bombs into our opponent’s deck. We aren’t a full on bomb deck, but we’re looking to get into the late game and those bombs are likely going to play a factor in killing our opponent faster. They also obviously buff ourBlastmaster Boom, and we’re going to want to get full value out of him.
If you’re against a slower deck, then look for the combo ofWeapons ProjectandHarrison Jones. This is a great way to use this card, and we can get a few draws out of Harrison. Not only that, if we’re against Rogue or another Warrior we can break their current weapon and replace it with the likely less damaging Weapons Project version. Harrison is also a great card against Rogue and other Warriors.
If we’re in no threat of immediate death, then we’ll want to playDr. Boom, Mad Geniusas soon as possible. His hero powers can offer a tremendous amount of value, and we’ll likely be able to use them just about every turn. At this point, if we’re still alive we’ve likely gassed out our aggro opponent and should be able to put them away.
As for control opponents, we’re still trying to out resource them. The ultimate card for this isArchivist Elysianafrom the new Rise of Shadows expansion. We can discover 5 cards, and we will get 2 copies of each of those that we replace our deck with. We’ll obviously want to wait pretty late in the game to do this, and hopefully our opponent will get stuck into fatigue while we’re still pulling out resources from our deck each turn.
Control Warrior Tips & Combos
Control Warrior Alternative Deck Lists
We featured a specific list that we feel is likely the most optimal, but there’s some other versions that might fit your play style or card collection better.
