Are there ANY cheap decks that beat control warrior?
i got legend w/only control warrior last season. zoo is a pain in the ass, maybe the biggest pain in the ass. sure you have a shit ton of removal but your creatures are shit and they keep flooding the board. armorsmith and frothing both die to soulfire which is a real pain in the ass. taskmaster doesnt do shit because they run like 4 total 1 health minions (2 priestess 2 abusive, squire has shield so it doesnt count). war axe is good for 2 creatures, sometimes. only 1 if they start with the bullshit priestess coin voidwalker and get a 4 hp taunt off the bat. gorehowl sucks cause it costs you hp and blows your entire turn 7.
anyways the reason you only win like 35% of the time as warrior is because they apply constant pressure to your board with low cost high value minions and you only have 2 full board clears, AND THATS IF YOU RUN BRAWL + GEDDON and are able to stall long enough to draw them. i used to not run geddon cause i thought it was a shit card, had jones in there instead because of all the warrior mirrors/shamans/hunters (fuck your eaglehorn bow) but i had to switch over just because everyone and their mother played zoo last season. if you dont draw into at least one of those cards you lost. plus even if you manage to board clear twice theyre still throwing shit at you so you have to draw one of your big ass late game threats to close it out, that isnt rag, because rag sucks when they have 5 minions out at once and 3+ of them have like 2 health.
so what you need to beat zoo as control warrior is
1. mulligan for armorsmiths, frothings, and war axes
2. draw into shield blocks to stall for mana, hopefully shield slams/whirlwinds are coming up around this point
3. draw into brawl/geddon
4. draw into finisher (ysera, grom, onyxia if you run that)
and this is really hard to do. imo control warrior is all about knowing your cards and knowing your late game really well, outplaying the enemy using your superior knowledge of the game and thinking about probabilities the entire time. like if youre playing against a druid, what is the chance he has fon + roar in his hand because if i use gorehowl to kill this baine it will drop me to 14 hp which is enough for the combo to kill me, etc. you use your smarts and endgame knowledge to beat the other guy. but the zoo matchup is retarded because it always goes one of two ways and there is absolutely zero thought from either side regardless of the outcome. youre dead by turn 7 or you have 20 hp on turn 7. the matchup is brainless and entirely dependent on what the warrior player draws. fucking horrible matchup because even if it goes your way you know it didnt take an ounce of skill to get the win.
tl;dr fuck zoo
