Let's Build: Badaruu

Let's Build is a new series I'll be throwing out there. It's where we take a hero that's underused or just bad, and make him playable with at least a 2:1 Win/Loss Ratio in Quick Matches. This will expand our knowledge of the game and playstyles beyond our comfort zone, show Wulven where the glaring weaknesses in their set is and jut be plain old fun. so jump in! Everyone is encouraged to build the deck and test it along side me.

To start this first build off, Badaruu, let's get a basic premise down. I believe Badaruu, if to work, will be a solo hero. Too much ally support would be a hindrance to keeping his bows out and pumped. That said, I believe an Evil Ascendant Build is likely the best course of action.

Early worries: Badarru has very few options for good draw. He also has very few ways to deal with large allies and sustain damage over extended games. Because of this I'm going to recommend we do everything possible to slow down the opponent as well.

1 - Badaruu

Allies:

4 - Fire Snake
4 - Flayer
4 - Deathbone
4 - Belladonna

Abilities:

4 - Aimed Shot
2 - Surprise Attack
3 - Rapid Fire

2 - Shriek of Vengeance
2 - Ley Line Nexus

Weapons:

4 - Soul Seeker
4 - Guardian's Oath

Armor:

2 - Night Prowler


Why the weapon choices?:

Between health gain and damage, and excellent defender protection, I think these are the weapons that will give you the best chance to succeed.

Night Prowler?:

While a weak combo, Badarru's ability gives us a unique early advantage to stomp decks with bad draw. If you have board, Prowler+Oath will wreak havoc early. What better way to draw than to eliminate your opponents cards your they deemed important?


I'm having trouble getting this deck off the ground, so hunters with experience on the shadow side are more than welcome.


Strengths: Going first. This deck tries to come out swinging and go for the KO early.

Weaknesses: Builds with good draw. Armored and or high health enemies. Builds with board wipe.

I'm interested... I'll make sure to keep up to date, as for advice... I have 0 experience with hunters lol, so I guess this will be a learning experience for me.

Good luck!

Good to see some interest in Baduruu.

As a solo artiste, you may wish to consider Into the Forest as well. Would Tracking Gear work better than Battle Plans? At least you can lay your traps depending on the opponents available allies. Or just ragequit if you see 4 FB and a Nova.

I've tried Baduruu a bit.

Gargoyles and DMTs work quite well with Evil Ascendant and your bows. I would suggest sprinkling them in. They're also a source of hero damage. Can you really win with only one source of damage (Baduruu)?

I'm finding Badarru just can't win. Lol

With EA and no allies you can't do enough damage to win, and control fatter allies. The only plus side is abilities like Boris' and Eldawen's are negated entirely.

Without EA, you're playing the ally battle back and forth with Badaruu as support. I haven't found a good ally combination because of his terrible draw.

try this one out. i have been tinkering with him for the better part of a week, and this is the build that i have found to work the best for me.

not sure that it's up to 2:1, but it's close enough. i am at least at 1.5:1

hope it helps you in your quest

baduruu

couldn't get more than a 2 or 3 game win streak with it though. just kept running into either crap hands, or strong opponents with hyper-tuned decks

If you wanna delay and lessen their cards, HBM may be a good option, combined with Cobraskin u further make their card less and prevent them from getting to 5 to LLN your bow. Then you reach 5 resource first and NP and steal their already-not-enough cards.

Oh yeah, it's Baduruu, not Badaruu or Baduuru.

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If you wanna delay and lessen their cards, HBM may be a good option, combined with Cobraskin u further make their card less and prevent them from getting to 5 to LLN your bow. Then you reach 5 resource first and NP and steal their already-not-enough cards.

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And then shriek to destroy their card draw options. If you go the denial route it is essential to deny the opponent theirs. Maybe something like this if you want cobra skins and HMB?

http://shadowera.gondorian.com/deck1....4se170.1se087

(its a toss up between katar or guardian oath)

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Originally Posted by bobwei

If you wanna delay and lessen their cards, HBM may be a good option, combined with Cobraskin u further make their card less and prevent them from getting to 5 to LLN your bow. Then you reach 5 resource first and NP and steal their already-not-enough cards.

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Bob runs a mean Baduruu. My experience comes from his deck. I can't make it win much though, bobwei has better results.

I'm having some success throwing caution to the wind and running first turn allies.

Snake
Flayer
Deathbone
Bella

I'll update the top.

KT

I had some success with my Baduruu deck. He's not dominating but I've ran 5 game win streaks with this deck:

Kind of a BellaDuruu

18 Allies
4 Brutalis
4 Infernal Gargoyle
3 Death Mage Thaddeus
4 Belladonna
3 Shadow Knight

7 Hunter Items
3 Poison Arrow
2 Flame Arrow
2 Death Trap

6 Utility
2 Shriek
2 Ley Line Nexus
2 Sacrificial Lamb

8 Hero Items
4 Wrath of the Forest
4 Soul Seeker

New to posting here (1st one) - but been playing for a while (Sinthea is game name - old D&D character name lol)... that outta the way - I was thinking about doing this same thing the other day after not seeing Badaruu as an opponent for a long ass time. I just built the deck (below) and it has gone 3 outta 4, that being said the 3 wins were vs. decks I consider to be weak also, and the loss was to a version of the WC deck... so obviously needs more testing. Deck is 46 - to big imo but still working on the trimming. Basically play delay and follower kill until you have board, then total concentration on the hero seemed to work best.

Gargoyle x4
Thadeus x4
Shadow Knight x4

Poison Arrow x4
Rapid Fire x3
ITF x4
HBM x 4
Shriek x3
Evil x3
Acid Jet x2
Santa x2 (just added for fear of card draw problems)
Ley Lines x2

Soul Seeker x4
Guardian x2 (removed 2 of these to add in the Santa's)

Thanks for reading.

(PS - if you are searching me - sinthea - started using the deck today in a match with 'Flame Swordsman')

swapped out the santa x2 for fire arrow x2 for damage on fatties (who seam to be the bane to this deck). did not play much this weekend - but still pushing 2/3 wins.

I like using the more challenging players. Use 2katars when my bows are destroyed...4ss 4gaurdian, 4 prowlers 4evil pair with the guardian bow and crimson vest give you lots of health even if you aren't attacking. Multiple acid jet and one nexus. I will post the whole deck later. I am a glutton for punishment only really have a Logan and baduruu deck. Shadow font is a must have deck is winnable but really rough...and expensive. Since trying to make it I have fell pretty far down the ladder

Some T4 combo's with Baduruu's ability summon I have managed to use quite well with Baduruu:

Shadowspawn to protect your allies from opponents ability
Wrath of the Forest (with a 2cc ally still out you can also sometimes suicide him at this point for draw and to chip an ally for SS to gain heal)
Cobraskin Wraps, draw + resource denial
Surprise attack on T3 Gargoyle for draw and chip damage for weapon to finish off

Hello,

Ive started playing this game again and because my rogue was a bit boring i started a BADuruu,

after ive lost alot of games ive started looking at all the cards that excist, so i came up with a deck where ive won like 6 games in a row.

its not the best deck and ive been lucky with my enemies and my hand but its alot of fun.

lets cut it to the deck:


Hero: Baduruu

Allies:

4x Brutalis
2x Infernal Gargoyle

Abillites:

4x Surprise Attack
3x Aimed Shot
2x Death Trap
4x Here Be Monsters
4x Shriek of Vengeance
1x Acid Jet
2x Bad Santa

Items:
2x Night Prowler
4x Cobraskin Wraps
4x Soul Seeker
4x Guardians Oath

Total 40 Cards

For the Allies, Brutalis is a 1:4 card, with a cost of 2 . Garg 2:4 with 1 dmg reduction.
Those arent bad with Suprise attack, whitch is your only draw potential card. You can play Brutalis if you go first then 3rd turn Suprise attack. Both of them make -1 and it takes 2 turns to be +0 but if you play them well they can make easy +2 and more handcards.

Here be Monsters and Cobraskin Wraps destroys enemies ress. Whitch slows them down. Not only that they cant destroy your weapons with LLN but they are also slowed down, if they play only items/ monsters with huge costs.
Both of the cards are +0 Cards so you dont lose any of your hand cards.

Weapons, well Soul Seeker is a 3 dmg weapon if played with Baduruus summoning spell and can be a 4 dmg weapon with aimed shot, witch means it kills all 4 costs allies that are ingame, and if you keep the enemies ress low they cant cast bigger creatures that cause problems. Guardians Oath isnt as good, but the only other valid Weapon, since the Beetle Demon Bow requires Shadow Energy (whitch we need alot) and old iron dagger and katar are to weak / have low durability.

Nightprowler is a great card if you cant play your allies or your opponent hasnt got any good drawing cards, whitch you cant destroy with Shriek. Also its +0 or even +1+2

Death Trap,Bad Santa, Acid Jet are situational. i would replace acid jet with LLN if i had the gold for it. Death Trap isnt bad i you lose all your ress destroying cards and your enemy gathers 5+ ress just put them down so they have to sac one of the monsters, its ofc a 1:1 exchange card. For Bad Santa, if the enemie has great drawing power its just a great card, you can use it to give your opponent 0 cards and you make +2 or +3

Well thats it for the Deck, im thinking to improve it but atm i dont have that much time. I think it would also be possible to play baduuru with Wrath of the forest, but there are to many armor destroying cards atm in the game and theres no protection to it. So it might be worse then this.

PS: Why the hell does baduruu look like a mage? come on this guy doesnt look like a hunter at all. And whats this iron whip arround him? srs change his artwork, maybe more people would play him then....