OurHeartstone Pirate Warrior Deck List Guidetakes a look at this archetype for the Descent of Dragons expansion! This set brings back the potential of an old classic, one that brought a smile to aggro players everywhere. That’s right, it looks like Pirate Warrior might just be ready for its resurgence in the Standard meta. While it isn’t a foregone conclusion, the deck has certainly received some powerful options that could push it into the forefront of the ladder.
Pirate Warrior is a pretty notorious deck, and while it has largely been out of Standard for a while it has still been wreaking havoc in Wild. The deck was at its peak whenPatches the Piratewas at full strength and popping out of the deck to smack you in the face on just about every turn one. Some of those powerful cards were eventually nerfed or rotated out, so the Standard format could breathe a sight of relief. Breathe easily no longer, because based on some of the new cards brought on in the Descent of Dragons expansion, it looks like this list is back on the menu.
Pirate Warrior Deck List
Here’s a look at thetop performingPirate Warrior deck in Descent of Dragons so far:
Possible Keeps
Play Strategy & Card Combinations
The name of the game is aggression. You want to take over the board immediately and start pressuring your opponent. Weapons will likely be used frequently to take out minions on our enemy’s side of the board. This will allow our minions to get in repeated damage turn after turn. As we get into the mid-game, however, we will want to turn those sharp objects towards the opponent and finish them off for good!
One of the main ways to lose as an aggressive deck is to quickly run out of resources. That’s why a card likeAncharrris so insane! Not only is it a weapon, which this deck loves, it will generate you additional cards that you will likely be able to slam on the table immediately. Make sure to attack first with this weapon in most cases, you might get a card that fills the situation better than what is in your hand!
Skybargeis another interesting addition to Warrior’s Pirate synergy mix. It’s not a Pirate itself, but it can get quite out of hand if you can pair it with some cheap ones. You really don’t want to play this on turn three, try and wait to get at least a couple of triggers.
Upgrade!has been added to the list to bolster Ancharrr,Livewire Lance, andArcanite Reaper. We really don’t want to be playing it for the 1/3 weapon, because that will dilute the weapon pool ofHoard Pillager. We only want to be getting one of those three weapons listed previously.
Faceless Corruptorappears on its face to be one of the craziest cards in the Descent of Dragons set. It will standout in decks like this one that run a lot of cheap minions. By runningTown Crier, we will be able to grab it pretty reliably. This card might end up so problematic that opponents will just about never be able to leave anything on the board without worry about having to deal with two 5/4s. The one issue with this card in a deck like this is the high cost. If we get this in our hand too early in the game, we might not be able to push enough aggression to get value out of it.
Your minions should have really punched your opponent pretty close to destruction as we go into the later turns. We’ve got bothArcanite ReaperandLeeroy Jenkinsas potential options to finish them off. If your opponent isn’t in the teens by the later turns and they’ve got a board, you’ve likely lost the game. This deck doesn’t exactly have a lot of comeback mechanics in it. Sometimes it works out that way with aggressive decks like this, that’s just the Pirate life!
