Just hit legend with Rafaam Warlock, I genuinely feel like its a sleeper pick in the current meta.
Deck list at the end.
I went 50-35 this season, I hit legend with Herald Warrior last season but I like Rafaam a lot as a characters so I wanted to give this one a shot.
The rafaams have excellent mid-range potential and boost survivability a lot against aggro decks. Archmage Rafaam did an incredible amount of heavy lifting in dealing with the biggest threats from druid. Animancer + Ultragigasaur won a solid 30-40% of games alone which was incredibly goofy, I think the 40 card deck makes that combo much more viable since you are less likely to draw both dinosaurs before turn 5.
The vast majority of match ups were against paladin and the shadowsworn disciple + cursed chains combo allowed me to shut down the biggest threats, primarily nozdormu (while also giving my board divine shield which is hilarious)
I probably pulled off timethief in ~30% of my wins, the others were either out-tempo-ing my opponent with high value Rafaam swings or just Gigasaur-ing on turn 4/5.
This is just my opinion, but I feel like one of the primary reasons I reached legend was because nobody currently knows how to play against Rafaam properly. I encountered a whole 1 other warlock in my 85 games, and they were playing quest.
Anyhow, here is the decklist that I used:
### Rafaaaaaaam
# Class: Warlock
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Scarab
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# 2x (0) Cursed Catacombs
# 2x (1) Conflagrate
# 2x (1) Critter Caretaker
# 2x (1) Eternal Toil
# 2x (1) Glacial Shard
# 2x (1) Mortal Coil
# 1x (1) Tiny Rafaam
# 2x (2) Cursed Chains
# 2x (2) Drain Soul
# 1x (2) Green Rafaam
# 2x (2) Shadowsworn Disciple
# 1x (2) Sheltered Survivor
# 2x (3) Hellfire
# 1x (3) Murloc Rafaam
# 2x (3) Whelp of the Infinite
# 1x (4) Elise the Navigator
# 1x (4) Explorer Rafaam
# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius
# 2x (5) Possessed Animancer
# 1x (5) Warchief Rafaam
# 1x (6) Calamitous Rafaam
# 1x (6) Eldritch Tentacles
# 1x (7) Mindflayer R'faam
# 1x (8) Giant Rafaam
# 1x (9) Archmage Rafaam
# 1x (10) Timethief Rafaam
# 2x (11) Ultragigasaur
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