Maexxna Guide for the Curse of Naxxramas

Table of Contents

• 1. Health, Hero Power, Cards, Etc.
• 2. Video
• +3. Strategy and Deck Building
  • 3.1. Easy Hunter Deck
  • 3.2. Easy Mage Deck
  • 3.3. Easy Paladin Deck

Maexxna is the third and final boss of the Arachnid Quarter, the first wing of the Curse of Naxxramas. Most of the information in this guide is aimed at Heroic mode, because the Normal mode of the boss can be defeated using basic decks (such as the ones we have here on Icy Veins).

While most of the information here is mostly aimed at Heroic mode, it will also greatly help you for Normal mode.

	Normal	Heroic
Health	30	45
Hero Power	Web Wrap costs 3 mana and returns a random minion to your hand.	Web Wrap is on auto cast (it costs 0 mana) and returns 2 random minions to your hand.
Deck	3x Webspinner 2x Acidic Swamp Ooze 2x Dire Wolf Alpha 6x Haunted Creeper 2x Nerubian Egg 1x Necrotic Poison 2x Reincarnate 2x Emperor Cobra 2x Shade of Naxxramas 2x Stoneskin Gargoyle 2x Anub'ar Ambusher 2x Sludge Belcher 2x Sea Giant
Extra		In addition to the 6x Haunted Creepers in her deck, she starts with 2 Haunted Creepers already on the board.

We put up a video on Youtube to show you how to defeat Maexxna.

When building a deck to beat Maexxna, you will have to deal with her Hero Power and, in Heroic mode, with the initial pressure created by the 2 Haunted Creepers. Since she will keep returning your minions to your hand, you can take advantage of her Hero Power by relying heavily on minions with Battlecry and/or Charge:

• Novice Engineer and Coldlight Oracle can provide card advantage;
• Voodoo Doctor and Earthen Ring Farseer can provide healing;
• Alexstrasza can heal you back to 15 health each turn as well as bring Maexxna from 45 to 15 health;
• Wild Pyromancer can provide AoE damage should you play a spell heavy deck;
• etc.

Since you can only have 7 minions on the board at any time, Maexxna can also be easily defeated by allowing her to expand on the board with weak minions and simply outheal the damage with your Battlecry minions.

To help you beat Maexxna, we created the three decks presented below. You can also get some inspiration from them to create decks for other classes.

Hunter Cards	Neutral Cards
2x Hunter's Mark 2x Timber Wolf 2x Tracking 2x Explosive Trap 1x Flare 2x Misdirection 2x Eaglehorn Bow 2x Kill Command 2x Unleash the Hounds 2x Starving Buzzard	2x Stonetusk Boar 2x Bluegill Warrior 2x Knife Juggler 2x Wild Pyromancer 2x Wolfrider 1x Leeroy Jenkins

Mage Cards	Neutral Cards
2x Arcane Missiles 2x Ice Lance 2x Arcane Explosion 2x Frostbolt 1x Arcane Intellect 2x Frost Nova 2x Ice Barrier 2x Ice Block 2x Fireball 2x Blizzard 2x Flamestrike	2x Voodoo Doctor 2x Mad Bomber 2x Novice Engineer 1x Wild Pyromancer 1x Alexstrasza

Paladin Cards	Neutral Cards
2x Blessing of Wisdom 2x Humility 2x Equality 2x Holy Light 2x Aldor Peacekeeper 2x Consecration 2x Truesilver Champion 2x Guardian of Kings	2x Elven Archer 2x Stonetusk Boar 2x Voodoo Doctor 2x Bluegill Warrior 2x Novice Engineer 2x Earthen Ring Farseer 1x Leeroy Jenkins 1x Alexstrasza