The Armory World Of Warcraft

The Top 8 of NACC 2011 featured a wide ranging collection of talent and unique decks which will give players everywhere plenty to consider at their local Battlegrounds and abroad. While conventional wisdom says that this author should be spending his precious few pages of space breaking down the crème de la crème from Las Vegas, instead I am going to dive into a deck you likely did not hear about. The reason for this is simple. The pilot—yours truly—did not win the NACC. He did not even make day two.

Leading up to the Continental Championship, I had every resource and advantage a player could hope to have. I shared a house with Brad Watson, Dan Clark, Ben Isgur, Stuart Wright and others—all of whom had well defined ideas about the tournament and each of whom had powerful options in their arsenal I could have chosen to pilot.

Instead I decided to do something strange.

Rather then sleeve up one of the many amazing decks which were laid in front of me on a silver platter, I did something irrational. I built a completely new deck on the eve of the tournament and despite—or perhaps because of—the warnings of my fellow friends and card floppers, I pushed forward with a design where both the Earth and Moon meet and Moonfire is abundant.

Hero: Arturius Hathrow

Allies: 10 Limited, then you have played against this deck. The concept is rather simple; equip the Worgen hero with Earth and Moon and a way to heal damage each turn. The three card combo allows the Druid to keep damage off all while machine gunning opposing allies and heroes. Arturius Hathrow is a highly synergistic deck which tries to interact with its opponent multiple times each and every turn. While some of the synergies are obvious—such as Regrowth plus the hero flip—others require a bit of an explanation.