What the deck does

Pretty simple — you use cheap artifacts (Coral, Hand, Jars, Fang) to juice up your battle mage early, then start messing with your opponent’s board using Pudge or Meat Hook, preferably both!

You either:

yank their avatar and beat down on them
yank their minions and win trades with the artifacts.
or just beat them down with buffed battlemage while disable minions protect your sites

Strengths / Weaknesses

+ Pros

Fast early scaling
Hook effects = big tempo swings
Flexible strategy (hook or smash)
buffs help push trades

– Cons

Needs setup (artifacts or hooks)
Gasses out against control and huge minions

Game Plan

Plan A (best case)

Play early artifacts
Drop Pudge or use Meat Hook
Pull something →spin attack or negate damage with goswit/plate
try and get the Avatar on your side of the board as soon as possible

If this works, you’re set.

Plan B (no hooks)

Stack buffs on battlemage
Use your disabling minions to control space
Win fights with combat tricks

Opening Hand / Mull

Keep:

Coral / Hand / Jars / Fang
pudge

Nice to have:

Meat Hook (if you already have early stuff)

Mull:

Hands with no early play

You want tempo ASAP!

Key Cards

Pudge + Meat Hook

This is the deck. Pulling units = free wins if used right.

Bailiff

Backup plan. Good body with hook(basically a bigger pudge).

Artifacts (core engine)

These make your deck work. Don’t waste them — use them to win trades.

Rhongomyniad

Closer. Slap it on something and end the game.

Matchups

Vs Aggro

Trade early
Don’t get greedy
Hooks are defensive tools here

Vs Control

Go fast
Buff early
Make them have answers

Vs Midrange

Comes down to positioning
Save hooks for value
Don’t throw them away

Tech / Flex

More removal → bury/disenchant (for their toolbox)
amazon warriors
More finishers → for consistency

Sites

Go:

Homesite → forward
then branch left/right back from homesite

Adjust based on where they go.

Positioning = everything for hooks.

TLDR

Buff early → hook their stuff → win trades → push in

If no hooks → just beat them down with big buffed battlemage

Feed Da’ Pudge

@The Blue Knight