[Hearthstone] Winning Your Control Warrior Mirror Matchup (OUTDATED)

Control warrior sucks in this meta due to many pallys and droods. Nevertheless, control warrior still popular because its versatility. When you climbing up the ladder with control warrior, a mirror matchup is inevitable. So, you should win those game in order to make the most out of your time spent (prepare for 30mins intense battle!). In this post, I will help you win those long decisive battle between badass garrosh and/or magni.

I encounter mirror matchup a lot, and ended up winning most of them, because I know exactly how I should play. My deck is not greedy compared to other control warrior, but because of some silly mistake opponent made I can extract the most value out of my control warrior deck. Here's my stats :

Greedy conwar will help you win the game, but not necessarily. As long you don't make a single mistake when your opponent does, you will win. So, skill will determine the output of the mirror matchup. If you have an opponent with equal skill, then of course the greedier deck will win.

Okay, without further ado, let's jump in to the guide:

1. Mulligan

This is one of the important factor in this game. You should look for Brawl, Justicar, Weaps, some Removal, and sticky minion like Belcher or Piloted if you run it. Why brawl? you want to use brawl as soon as your enemy put his Dr.Boom on the board to get the maximum value. Other than that, brawl didn't do much within this matchup. That's why you need to get it as soon as possible to guarantee that it will hold a value. Many conwar didn't get the value of his brawl and easily lose the game. Justicar is self explanatory here, you need to change your hero power as soon as possible in order to stack up many many armor. Weapon is used to remove early drops because you don't want to throw any hard removal for silly minion. Sticky minion is used just to play something when your hand is already full.

2. Don't draw in most situation

This game most likely will goes to fatigue, so don't draw unless it's really necessary. Quite often I faced an opponent that use shield block casually and they just lose.

3. Keep track enemy deck especially removal

Use something like Hearthstone Deck Tracker will help you keep your enemy deck tracked nicely. If your opponent haven't dropped his Ysera yet, always make sure that you can remove it when it dropped. Save spare execute or slam for that particular card, because if your opponent draw more card from Ysera you're most likely lose.

4. Don't waste execute, don't keep them too long either

Why? simple, because execute is a worthless card if there's no activator. I really happy when I drop grom casually without activating it and in the end the opponent didn't have any execute activator. Having execute sitting in your hand without activator is really painful.

5. Acolyte of Pain is your FRIEND

Usually when you face mirror matchup you think like "aw damn i run 2 acolyte and shieldblock if he don't run acolyte surely he has more value". This is where your mindset is wrong. Acolyte of pain is really good card, and that's because every control warrior run Sylvanas Windrunner. Now you understand what I mean, give your acolyte of pain to your opponent, and in particular scene you can even mill him. be careful dropping your own sylvanas though, because this strategy can also be used against you. Safest way to play sylv is slam her for a ysera.

Additional tips : use sneed's instead of ysera. sneed's will absorb 2 removal while ysera card is not that great. Sneed's also more versatile in other matchup because you could drop it while using hero power. 

I think that's all. Hope it help you fellow warrior. If you have anything to discuss feel free to reach me via email :)