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of the synergy inherent in its early

especially amazing in this deck:

against this deck is no fun, and

drops. The latter half of its moniker

not only does it buff up the

why it was the object of much hate

comes from the card Undertaker,

Undertaker, but it also refills your

from the community during its

which, before it was nerfed, gained

hand with a random Beast when

extended presence on the ladder.

1 Attack and 1 Health whenever

it dies. Because you’re going to

you summoned a minion with a

be able to play two or more cards

Deathrattle effect. Not only did this

each turn after turn 3, card draw

derided with the alias Wallet

increase how potent it would be, but

becomes hugely important in

Warrior for the glut of Legendary

the +1 Health was effectively a mini-

succeeding with HunterTaker.

minions that make up its late-

heal, forcing your opponent to devote

Control Warrior, occasionally

Let’s look at some of the cards

game, is easily the most popular

not in the deck to further understand

deck in the Control archetype in

how well-crafted this deck is. There

Hearthstone currently, as well

are almost no removal spells. There

as ever. Its mentality going into a

HunterTaker decklist, we can see

is Kill Command, but Explosive

game is to neutralize the threats

that almost all of the Deathrattle

Shot, Deadly Shot, or Multi-Shot

its opponent puts out through

minions are there: Leper Gnome,

are nowhere to be found. This is

solid removal spells and incredible

Haunted Creeper, Loot Hoarder,

because the deck doesn’t need to

amounts of armor, soaking up all

and Mad Scientist. Webspinner is

focus on removing big threats: it

the enemy effects before dropping

creates threats too big to be ignored.

a massively powerful minion

It completely dominates the game,

like Ragnaros or Alexstrasza.

even more resources to killing it.
Taking a look at a standard

ideally from turn 1. It’s entirely
possible to use the Coin to get an

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The synergies this deck achieves

extra mana on turn 1, play Leper

are through minions like Acolyte

Gnome after Undertaker, and turn

of Pain and Armorsmith, that draw

2 follow that up with a Webspinner

cards and gain armor whenever

and another Leper Gnome. You’ve

minions are damaged, respectively.

then got a 1/1, two 2/1s, and a 4/5

With Death’s Bite and Whirlwind,

Undertaker, on your opponent’s turn

you can assure that if there is a

3. You’re in a position where you

particularly nasty minion on the

control your opponent’s actions:

other side of the board, you can get

they cannot ignore your Undertaker,

rid of it with a well-timed Execute,

because it will kill them by turn 6

or Shield Slam if you’re particularly

or 7, and therefore, they cannot

equipped. Both Control Warrior and

develop any threats of their own.

HunterTaker also work especially

It’s not hard to see why playing

well in their respective classes due