World of Warcraft Community Magazine Issue 13 | Page 35

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don’t know, when you draw the
last card of your deck, the next
turn, you take 1 damage instead
of drawing, 2 the next turn, 3 the
next, etc. (Geometric series, man,
gotta love ‘em!). Fatigue Druid uses
cards like Naturalize, Coldlight
Oracle, and Grove Tender to fill up
your opponent’s hand, ideally faster
than they can play those cards.
Furthermore, any time they would
hold eleven cards in their hand, that
one over ten gets burned -- a free
removal spell for you! Then, through
healing and board clears in the
form of Healing Touch and Poison
Seeds, they stall out the game, to
the point where their opponent
will literally not have any cards.
Playing Fatigue Druid decks is
about countering your opponents’
threats so that the mechanics of
the game will deal them all the
damage they need. The deck has
no high-attack minions, because it

inspired fear in the hearts of players

themselves would die. The win, then,

doesn’t need them. It has a clear

both old and new. This is the

comes from dealing lots of damage

goal, and does not include cards

absolute opposite of Fatigue Druid:

fast. You won’t see a late game

that do not contribute to its main

it overloads on low-cost minions

strategy in the form of Sylvanas

goal. Its WinCon is dealing fatigue

to play more threats in the early

Windrunner or Dr. even any of the

damage, and every card contributes

game than opponents can respond

Giants because they don’t help this

in part to reaching that goal.

to. The catch is that it can easily

deck do what it wants to. Instead,

run out of gas: Hunter aggro decks

HunterTaker proves itself as a

commonly say that they aim to kill

particularly explosive demonstration

their opponent the turn before they

of the idea of a WinCon because

Undertaker Hunter (Huntertaker)
is a deck that has, in the past,

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