How to win the Paradise Recipe Hearthstone Tavern Brawl

Hi, again, it’s Gus Ferrari and there’s nothing better than cruising around the Spiral Isles for a little Hearthstone Paradise Recipe Tavern Brawl action. What do you need when you’re taking in all the majestic beauty of the islands? A great drink.

The Sprial Isles offers several. Today, we’ll be visiting a legend. This guy has been freelancing ever since they trashed his place in Dalaran, but now Bartender Bob has opened a spot in paradise. He’ll be serving up a “Health” Drink that’s so good you won’t want to exceed recommend the daily serving size of 0 grams.

We’ll also be trying out the Divine Brew and Nightshade Tea. We’ll end this drink flight with a Cup o Muscles. It’s great for all you aspiring Warriors out there. Each of these concoctions comes in a Seabreeze Chalice brought to you by your own Drink Server.

While you’re having your fill, you’ve also got a Brawl to win. So let’s discuss how to win the Paradise Recipe Tavern Brawl.

This week’s Tavern Brawl is an introduction to Perils in Paradise where we get to try out some of the expansion’s most interesting cards and deck recipes — and win a card pack in the process. Though oddly absent from Fractured in Alterac Valley, this type of Brawl has become a regular addition when we get a new expansion. Most recently, we had a Badlands Recipe for Showdown in the Badlands, and a Whizbang Recipe for Whizbang’s Workshop.

If you were on the fence about what cards are worth crafting or how much of your hard-earned gold to plunk down on packs, this Brawl is designed to let you give the new expansion a trial run.

Tavern Brawl basics

Name: Paradise Recipe Tavern Brawl
Description: There’s perils in paradise! Choose a class and enjoy the latest deck recipes!
Fun level: 5/10
Difficulty: 9/10 to 4/10 depending on your class, deck, and opponent
Replayability: 5/10
Format: Standard
Type: PVP
Deck: Provided
Rewards: 1 Standard card pack (this can include any card from any set in the current Standard rotation)

For this Brawl, you choose your class and you’re assigned its deck recipe. These are premade decks, and the same decks you’ll find on the deck creation screen, but there is one big differences for the Brawl. You get the deck with all the cards regardless of whether you own them or not. You’ll have every Legendary and Epic card you need for the deck.

Each class has a recipe meant to give players a good introduction to how the class will play in Perils in Paradise. These recipe-type Brawls appear close to release of the expansion, though some appear closer than others. The Brawl is generally more fun when we get it closer to the release like this one.

All of the decks for this Brawl were made by Hearthstone content creators. According to the descriptions of the decks, all but one of these players met their spouse through the game. It seems Hearthstone is the path to true love. Maybe they should rename the game Heart-Stone?

How to win the Paradise Recipe Tavern Brawl

Let’s look at each deck and a quick tip for playing it. You can only choose the class: the deck will be assigned. Each class received a new recipe with the expansion. While you might still see a Showdown in the Badlands or Whizbang Workshop recipe on the collection screen when you make a new deck, only the Perils in Paradise-themed decks are available in this Brawl. To get started, pick the class you’re most comfortable with, and don’t be afraid to concede the match if the game isn’t going your way.

If you’re just looking to nap your card pack for your first win, my play testing seemed to indicate that Demon Hunter is a strong choice, but any of the classes can get the win.

Death Knight

• BabyBear’s Deathrattle Death Knight
• This deck was built by BabyBear, a top ranked Legend player, Master Tour competitor, full-time Hearthstone streamer, and Jamebre’s wife. They met through Hearthstone.
• For a deck named “Deathrattle,” it contains only six Deathrattle cards: Reska, Eliza Goreblade, Frostbitter Freebooter (x2), and Mining Casualties (x2). You have plenty of little minions, but you’ll need at least 10 of them to die just to get Reska down to 10 mana.

Demon Hunter

• BabyBear’s Pirate Demon Hunter
• This deck combines the aggressive nature of the Demon Hunter with the most aggressive minion tribe: Pirates. Marin the Manager is a nice boost, but if the game is going according to plan, your opponent will be dead long before you need the treasures.

Druid

• Rarran’s Taunt Druid
• This deck was built by Rarran, a regular Legend player and one of Hearthstone’s biggest content creators.
• Hiking Trail is one of the new Location cards you open quicker based upon some action. For this one, it’s gaining armor. That armor will be critical in surviving the early turns as you get your taunt minions out. Not only does this deck have several excellent taunt minions, Hydration Station will bring three of them back to life.

Hunter

• Rarran’s Big Beast Hunter
• This deck does have a couple of big beasts like King Plush, Thunderbringer, Toyrannosaurus, and Beached Whale. It also employs the Warrior Tourist Ranger Gilly. This will let you play around the Tourist keyword introduced in Perils in Paradise.

Mage

• LanguageHacker’s Spell School Mage
• This deck was built by LanguageHacker, a Hearthstone Grandmaster, rank 1 Legend player, competitive tournament winner and TheHousewife’s husband. They met through Hearthstone!
• This deck is built to cast spells from as many different schools as possible. It has Holy, Fire, Frost, Arcane, and Shadow covered. Then you have Discover Magic to take care of the other spell schools. Your Holy spell comes thanks to your Paladin Tourist, Rayalla, Sand Sculptor. All these different spell schools make for a powerful cast of Elemental Inspiration. Instant board, just add water!

Paladin

• The HouseWife’s Tempo Tourist Paladin
• This deck was built by TheHousewife, a regular Legend player in Standard, Wild, and Twist. She’s also married to LanguageHacker, whom she met through Hearthstone.
• Mage and Druid have dabbled in the Tourist concept, but TheHousewife went all in with this Paladin list. This deck is all about tempo: you should never finish turns with leftover mana. I wouldn’t have thought that Rogue and Paladin would go well together, but the two classes complement each other well.

Priest

• Jambre’s Control Priest
• This deck was built by Jambre, a Hearthstone Grandmaster, rank 1 Legend player, competitive tournament winner and BabyBear’s husband. They met through Hearthstone!
• Control Priest! Could it be? After trying to make Priest a more aggressive class, it’s nice to see the developers return to Anduin’s roots. It’s telling, though, when the highest cost card in a Control Priest deck is just 7 mana. Will the deck be competitive? It certainly has been in my testing, my your mileage may vary.

Rogue

• LanguageHacker’s Thief Rogue
• This deck is a Pirate package combined with cards to generate cards from other classes and synergize off of them with cost reductions, or other beneficial effects. There’s an inherent randomness to the deck that will plague its consistency. Will it be a-vast amount of fun? Dead men tell no tales…

Shaman

• Jambre’s Spell School Shaman
• This deck is similar to the Spell School Mage. This time you’ve only got Nature, Fire, Fel, Shadow, Frost covered. Your big payoff is Razzle-Dazzler. While you know what you’ll be getting off Elemental Inspiration, there’s a bit less predictability with Razzlel-Dazzler.

Warlock

• The HouseWife’s Self Damage Warlock
• There are plenty of ways to do damage to your hero with this deck. The payoff comes with cards like Fearless Flamejuggler and cheap Molten Giants. You’ve got one Lifesteal card with “Health” drink, and a quasi heal with INFERNAL! Pop’garth can give Lifesteal to your Fel spells, but the only one in the deck already has Lifesteal.

Warrior

• Day9’s Sandwhich Warrior
• This deck was built by Day9, a storied Blizzard gamer, regular Legend player, and popular strategy game streamer.
• The deck is built around The Ryecleaver. You’ve got lots of great targets for your sandwich, but with six cards costing 7 or more mana, you’re going to endure some awkward hands, and games that are over before you ever really got to do anything.

I love this Brawl

As a casual, free to play player, this Brawl is great. It gives me a taste of what these decks play like and lets me target those cards I need to craft. These decks will continue to get refined as players get more experience with them, and other decks may arise that aren’t part of these recipes. I’ve been burned too many times to go spending big on dust to craft cards. So for now, enjoy the Brawl and let the meta work itself out.