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Types of Strategies
If you've already played a few matches - won some, lost others - then you've started putting together the first pieces of the puzzle of what separates a glorious victory from an agonizing defeat. You're also now ready for our deckbuilding strategy guide, devoted to helping you make the all-important decisions that will shape your deck. How can you get the most out of your cards? How do you find the most powerful card combinations in your collection, and what ways are there to disrupt your opponent's strategy and to create an advantage for yourself?
The Basics: Threats, Answers, and Inevitability
Let's start with a typical gameplay example. Your opponent managed to reduce your hit points to four, and she's got Zygore Bladebreaker in play, an ally with an ATK of four. Unless you find a way out of this situation, your opponent will win the game on her next turn. Biting your lip, you draw a card, and as luck would have it, you draw Tristan Rapidstrike, an ally with three ATK and protector. You play your ally, knowing that even though you're not out of the woods just yet, you've at least bought yourself some time to possibly turn the tide of battle.
This example illustrates three important concepts: inevitability, threats, and answers. In the World of Warcraft Trading Card Game, you win the game when your opponent's hero either takes damage equal to the hero's health or when your opponent runs out of cards. Inevitability means establishing a situation in which you will inevitably win the game, just like in the example above where your opponent had an ally capable of defeating you and you had nothing to stop her. The means by which inevitability is established are called "threats," and the means by which threats are countered are called "answers."
When building your first deck, this is the first thing to keep in mind: your deck should include threats that let you establish inevitability as well as answers to your opponent's threats. Sometimes, the lines between threats and answers become blurred. For example, you could have drawn Starfire instead of Tristan Rapidstrike. Normally, Starfire would be considered a threat, but in this case it can actually be used to counter a threat, which makes it an answer. The ability of some cards to function as both threats and answers is called "versatility"; we'll go into a little more detail on this aspect later.
Let's see how different balances of threats and answers translate into different deck types and play styles.
Types of Decks, Types of Strategies
Before you begin building your deck, you need to take a look at your cards and determine which strategy you'll choose to establish inevitability. Do you want to quickly overwhelm your opponent with powerful allies and direct damage abilities, or do your cards favor a strategy of disruption and of sabotaging your opponent's strategy? In other words, will your strategy rely more on threats or will it incorporate mostly answers?
Brute Force: The Aggro Deck
Decks that rely on a superior number of threats to defeat their opponent are commonly known as "aggro decks." These decks usually try to put more threats on the board than the opponent can answer. Since aggro decks normally don't contain a lot of answers, most of them try to execute their strategy as quickly as possible so that the opponent can't play any of his own threats. Inevitability is established very early in the game. Aggro decks are fairly resilient against disruption, which makes them great counters against control decks.
Divide and Conquer: The Control Deck
If you want to build a deck that consists mostly of answers, you are probably looking at what's called a "control deck." Control decks try to win by making the opponent simply run out of threats by providing an answer to everything that's thrown at them. This type off deck excels at disrupting an opponent's strategy, for example by attacking enemy resources and by reducing the opponent's card impact (more on both strategies later). Control decks usually establish inevitability over time in the later stages of a match. The disruptive quality of answer-heavy control decks allows them to perform very well against the last major deck type: combo decks.
Surgical Precision: The Combo Deck
A deck that relies on a very specific card combination to win is called a "combo deck." Combo decks may resemble control decks at first because they often include a decent amount of answers to buy some time for the combo pieces to fall into place. The biggest strength of a combo deck is that it establishes inevitability "out of the blue," and a well-built combo deck will give the opponent as few clues as possible about the trap that's waiting for him. Because the only way to effectively counter a combo deck is to disrupt the combo, aggro decks with only few answers have a much harder time against this type of deck than control decks.
To sum up, these are the three basic strategies:
Put down more threats than your opponent can answer, or
Force your opponent to run out of threats, or
Create a "super threat" combination that immediately puts the game in your hands.
Now that we've talked a bit about strategy, it's time to talk about what you need to execute your strategy: resources.
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