OurMalygos Hunter Deck List Guidewill walk you through the ins-and-outs of this new deck in the Rise of Shadows meta! We’re featuring the most popular deck list, mulligan guide, play strategy, card choices, and even substitutions if you are missing some of the cards.
Malygos Hunteris a bit of a surprise deck that has shown up in the early stages of the Rise of Shadows expansion. It seeks to useJepetto Joybuzzto get a couple of your powerful cards as low cost so you may play them in combination with spells. The ideal situations is you get yourMalygosandAlexstrasza, so you can drop your opponent down in health and burn them out with your spells. While this is the ideal situation, there are other cards in the deck that give you possibilities for other win conditions.
Malygos Hunter Rise of Shadows Deck List
This archetype has shown promise in the very early stages of the Rise of Shadows set. Keep in mind it is likely to be very weak to aggressive decks, so if you are running into a lot of those you’d be likely better off not playing it.
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Malygos Hunter Mulligan Guide
We’re mainly looking for either cards that will protect us in the early game, or hoping to find our main combo generator.
Situational Keeps
Malygos Hunter Play Strategy
This deck has a whole lot of nothing in the early game, so we’re generally looking to get into the mid-game as unscathed as possible. This means you are utilizing just about all of your spells to quiet down the board and not allow our opponent to overrun us too early. If you can avoid it, attempt to saveRapid Firewhich does a ton of damage when combined with our cheapMalygos. That’s one of the most important spells we’ll need to burn out our opponent, it will do 8-damage for each one we can cast if we’ve got Malygos and Vereesa’s weapon.
Like I said in the opening, the early game is just to survive. You might end up using those Arcane and Deadly Shots against small minions, but it’s worth it to keep yourself from getting too far behind.Secret Plancan be a good early play just to get a Secret our opponent might have to deal with.Animal Companionis going to be one of your better cards, it gives us an early minion to get trades with or delay our opponent.Unleash the Houndsis another solid one for clearing boards or at least removing a minion or two. If you may, save your cheaper direct damage likeArcane Shot,Rapid Fire, andKill Commandfor us on our opponent.
As we transition into the mid-game, we do have a bunch of spells that can protect us. Stuff likeMarked Shot,Wing Blast, andBaited Arrowwork well for removing minions.Unleash the Beastis surprisingly good here as well, and can quickly dispatch a minion and force our opponent to deal with it rather than damaging us.
As we head into the late game, we’re hoping to have drawnJepetto Joybuzzat some point. The ideal situation of this deck is having Jepetto on turn eight, and being able to plop him down and get a low costAlexstraszaandMalygos. On the next turn, we’ll be able to reduce our opponent’s health to 15 with Alextrasza, drop Malygos on the board, and burn them out with spells. This won’t always happen though, so sometimes we’ll have to improvise. Also in the deck isVereesa Windrunner, and her weapon gives us +2 Spell Damage for the turn if we attack with it. That gives us additional firepower if we didn’t get the Alexstrasza or Malygos, or we just need a bit of a boost in damage.
If worse comes to worse, we still haveZul’jinin our deck. By the time we’ll be able to play him we should have cast quite a few spells, so he’s going to potentially clear the board and give us some minions that we’ve gotten from cards on the board. There will be times when this potentially puts us in a winning position, or give us enough time to delay until we can get our combo pieces.
Malygos Hunter Card Choices
In this section, we’re taking a look at why each of the cards has made it into the list.
Malygos Hunter Card Substitutions
This deck is pretty specialized, so you aren’t going to really be able to replace much in terms of the legendaries. There are some different spells you’re able to run, and this archetype hasn’t been completely figured out yet.
