Hearthstone Deck Guide for Heroic Naxxramas - The Arachnid Quarter
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I beat Anub'Rekkhan with an inervate/alarm-o-bot druid, Faerlina with a weenie priest with a few choice heal synergy cards, my lightwarden was a 21/4 when I killed her, and Maexxna with a warrior deck with bouncing heal minions, chargers, weapons and removal, attritioned it to death.
For a much, much cheaper way to defeat Maexxna - build a Warrior deck, stock up on Charge creatures, weapons and quasi-weapons or damage spells. Kor'kron Elites are your best friends in the whole wide world.
This deck has a few essentials that don't fit the theme, though, specifically Voodoo Doctors and Cleave.
Maexxna will often lead with some small-time minions like Webspinners, another Haunted Creeper or, if you're lucky, a Nerubian Egg. Yes, lucky - you WANT that threat of a 4/4 hanging over you.
See, here's the thing; it's actually fairly easy to get Maexxna to fill her entire board with 1-damage minions like spectral spiders (hit the first two Haunted Creepers with a Cleave) and Webspinners. At that point, there's essentially nothing she can do but keep punching you. The match turns into a damage race. If you can draw a Voodoo Doctor reasonably early, that plus the Warrior's armor power will drop her damage to at most three per turn, or two if she played a Nerubian Egg. A couple of Shield Blocks will give you a bit more breathing room, but if you really want, you can invest in heftier heals like an Earthen Ring Farseer (dropping her effective damage to one per turn), or even a Priestess of Elune to stretch things out indefinitely.
Once that's done, it's just a matter of throwing as much damage as you can at her. Maexxna doesn't have any heals in her deck, and she'll bounce your Charge creatures back into your deck every turn, so scrounge up every weapon, Charge creature and damage spell you can find - Bluegill Warriors, Wolfriders, Kor'kron elites, Mortal Strike, Heroic Strike, Fiery War Axe, Arcanite Reaper... Really, you can probably make this deck work without spending any dust at all.
This deck has a few essentials that don't fit the theme, though, specifically Voodoo Doctors and Cleave.
Maexxna will often lead with some small-time minions like Webspinners, another Haunted Creeper or, if you're lucky, a Nerubian Egg. Yes, lucky - you WANT that threat of a 4/4 hanging over you.
See, here's the thing; it's actually fairly easy to get Maexxna to fill her entire board with 1-damage minions like spectral spiders (hit the first two Haunted Creepers with a Cleave) and Webspinners. At that point, there's essentially nothing she can do but keep punching you. The match turns into a damage race. If you can draw a Voodoo Doctor reasonably early, that plus the Warrior's armor power will drop her damage to at most three per turn, or two if she played a Nerubian Egg. A couple of Shield Blocks will give you a bit more breathing room, but if you really want, you can invest in heftier heals like an Earthen Ring Farseer (dropping her effective damage to one per turn), or even a Priestess of Elune to stretch things out indefinitely.
Once that's done, it's just a matter of throwing as much damage as you can at her. Maexxna doesn't have any heals in her deck, and she'll bounce your Charge creatures back into your deck every turn, so scrounge up every weapon, Charge creature and damage spell you can find - Bluegill Warriors, Wolfriders, Kor'kron elites, Mortal Strike, Heroic Strike, Fiery War Axe, Arcanite Reaper... Really, you can probably make this deck work without spending any dust at all.
Another great guide!
I beat Maexxna with a really cheesy Priest deck. Allowed her side of the board to fill up with 1/1's, used Priest heals and spells to stay alive until I drew Alexstraza then kept playing her until Maexxna died of fatigue damage... I'm not proud of it haha!
I beat Maexxna with a really cheesy Priest deck. Allowed her side of the board to fill up with 1/1's, used Priest heals and spells to stay alive until I drew Alexstraza then kept playing her until Maexxna died of fatigue damage... I'm not proud of it haha!
Maexxna is really easy, all I did was fill my paladin deck with damage and heal battlecrys; two consecrates to smash open those haunted creepers and flood her board with 1-1's; two humilitys and my aldor peacekeeper (Though all I ended up humilitying was a an emperor cobra) and a bunch of weapons to hit her face. As long as you keep her board full of 1 attack minions it's easy enough to heal more than she hits and wear her down a bit for fatigue which will kill her. I didn't even have an alexstraza and both my truesilvers got burned but I still won by a wide margin.
One other thing I realized later on is that I could have cleared cards I didn't need like my surplus voodoo and elven by playing them then hitting them with an elven to kill them so they don't get bounced back to my hand and fill it up, or even worse kill an enemy and let maexxna play something better.
One other thing I realized later on is that I could have cleared cards I didn't need like my surplus voodoo and elven by playing them then hitting them with an elven to kill them so they don't get bounced back to my hand and fill it up, or even worse kill an enemy and let maexxna play something better.
not the deck I ended up beating the spider with but I had a hilarious scenario of having deathwing being constantly brought back to my hand to board wipe for like 7 turns in a row