I don't play fatigue decks but does excavated evil work in that deck style? I understand it's great anti-aggro, but it's gonna delay the start of enemy fatigue damage by one turn every time you play it.
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I don't play fatigue decks but does excavated evil work in that deck style? I understand it's great anti-aggro, but it's gonna delay the start of enemy fatigue damage by one turn every time you play it.
CarbonatedFalcon
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I literally cannot complete my quests to win as mage with a freeze mage. Lost like 7 in a row. And I can't play tempo cause I don't have flamewakers. I'd do the shaman side of the quest instead, but I'm also missing the BRM and LoE cards to make cancer.
If they draw it it also becomes a pretty much unusable card in their hand, making it easier to trigger overdraw
Try mech mage witn antonidas, its still fairly consistent.
Shaman is blizzards wrath at people who complained about face hunter.
Still don't want to craft doom hammer
Finally got another legendary and it's another tinker....on one hand, 400 dust, on the other there are so many legendaries I need the odds seem low for a second of the same.
Still don't want to craft doom hammer
Finally got another legendary and it's another tinker....on one hand, 400 dust, on the other there are so many legendaries I need the odds seem low for a second of the same.
I'm not sure that's a huge problem if you're using up a fair amount of mana and early silences on Naga Sea Witch instead of the other things you need to get through.
Like if you're using your owl on Sea Witch, you're not using it on Sludge Belcher or Ancient of War.
Super Nothing
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But the only forced draws he has are Coldlight Oracles. I doubt he's going to be able to mill cards very often, especially since he's not running Brann. Coldlights are more for forcing fatigue damage for lethal rather than for milling in that particular deck.
Randomizer123454444
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I think you are right, if opponent doesn't have an aggro deck then that slot might be used for something better. So if I face a lot of aggro: Excavated Evil x2. If not...?
So, I need to replace them with something. Something 4 - 5 manacost. I'm thinking..
- Kezan Mystic?
- Faceless Manipulator?
- Nexus-Champion Saraad?
I need to select total of 2 cards. I'm leaning towards Faceless + Saraad. I'm not feeling like Shadow Madness because I don't have Shrinkmeisters, SM seems a lot less useful for me.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
You likely want to start by cutting some of the bad cards, like mind vision. Then perhaps fit in 2x cabal and maybe a shrinkmeister or two.
I'm not too keen on fatigue priest because often fatigue matches are decided by board state and you run very few minions and then your hero power is also weak overall because you run few minions.
I think 1 excavated is fine. 2 if you can fit it. It isn't even bad if it delays the game by 1 turn because it is going to very often be a dead draw for your opponent.
I'm not too keen on fatigue priest because often fatigue matches are decided by board state and you run very few minions and then your hero power is also weak overall because you run few minions.
I think 1 excavated is fine. 2 if you can fit it. It isn't even bad if it delays the game by 1 turn because it is going to very often be a dead draw for your opponent.
I can't see the decklist, whatever hosting it uses is blocked at work. I was just commenting on the potential merits of excavated evil in a mill deck.
Even without Shrinkmeisters it's still a great control card. I'd even suggest double Wild Pyromancer as a board clear over EE.
I'm running Saraad in my Reno Priest deck. Excellent card, but not one you'd want to use Faceless on.
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Took a couple weeks back, but I guess I'm back in.
Trying to do heroic for the new adventure. I've cleared the first two wings on heroic already.
Trying to do heroic for the new adventure. I've cleared the first two wings on heroic already.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I hate seeing pro matches decided by shit like innervate boom bot and then crazy good bot rng.
Crazyorloco
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I took a break from this game...and now that I've returned I see lots of people using Reno Jackson. I guess I have to switch up my decks a bit.
People hatin' on Shamans are Face Hunter players ...
YES! I WENT THERE!
SHAMAN AND ROGUE FOR LIFE!!!
Not true, i play face hunter AND secret paladin!
That's ISIS level of evilness!
I still dont get why Dr Boom hasnt nerfed by now. Maybe Blizzy's data shows that he's ok? Dunno.
This is the game we play.
All hail the one true king of Hearthstone, the one true OG Doctor.
That's not true because they have admitted that the card is very strong and very popular. Their defense for not nerfing is that they don't want to nerf a Legendary because a lot of people craft it as their first Legendary and they will feel bad if it gets nerfed. Also they said Dr 7 seems better right now because the other 7 drops aren't as good. Overall they are happy to see a strong card in the 7 slot being used.
Stats wise Dr Balanced is in more decks than some common cards like Shredder and Azure Drake. Now that is truly mind blowing considering Dr is a Legendary and not everyone may have a Legendary. But who the fuck am I kidding everyone crafts him and throws him in all their decks as soon as they get it.
To be fair to ISIS, they only behead people and sell women into sexual slavery.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I didn't mean to cause a string of dr. boom babyrage. I don't think its OP, I just don't want to see a player like hotform lose that way.
Same thing with ragnaros in the past. I didn't like watching games decided by rag rng. Rag isn't OP either.
Same thing with ragnaros in the past. I didn't like watching games decided by rag rng. Rag isn't OP either.
Too late, you have already triggered us!
TetraxShards
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I wish I could play this game more. I really like it, watch tons of stuff about it, but after a few wins my ladder anxiety kicks in and I get the shakes pretty badly.
If nothing else, I would avoid these bloody Priests at low ranks. I can take getting steamrolled, because it's quick, watching these goons faff about, desperately clinging to life, it's not that fun. At least play full Randuin Wrynn, don't play the diet Mr. Steal Yo Cards version.
I think I traumatized my last opponent. Managed to get Brann -> Tomb Spider -> two Highmanes. Not much will stop four of those.
If nothing else, I would avoid these bloody Priests at low ranks. I can take getting steamrolled, because it's quick, watching these goons faff about, desperately clinging to life, it's not that fun. At least play full Randuin Wrynn, don't play the diet Mr. Steal Yo Cards version.
I think I traumatized my last opponent. Managed to get Brann -> Tomb Spider -> two Highmanes. Not much will stop four of those.
irfaanator
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honestly I'm beginning to not like excavated evil because I always forget to play around it myself so i screw myself over. Also it being 5 mana for some reason is a big issue too
Yeah but it pretty much killed the 7 slot.
I mean there's no decision on picking a 7 Mana card: Its Boom, its always Boom.
Damn is it ever satisfying to beat a fatigue/Mill Rogue via fatigue. He vanished, he sapped, he had Brann and was ganging up his oracles and healbots but he still lost.
What wasn't so fun was stealing my opponents Flamewalker, buffing it up to 16/16 only for them to use the mind control they got from Nefarian.
What wasn't so fun was stealing my opponents Flamewalker, buffing it up to 16/16 only for them to use the mind control they got from Nefarian.
Dr Boom is balanced because your opponent will always have a BGH in hand immediately after you play it.
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
Holy shit, the meta recognition is real.
I'm playing mid range paladin with Harrison Jones, I get that card from mulligan. I'm against a priest.
On turn one, I tell myself "Wait until the priest entombs my Tirion and then I use Harrison against him".
That happens and I win. YAAAAAAS.
I'm playing mid range paladin with Harrison Jones, I get that card from mulligan. I'm against a priest.
On turn one, I tell myself "Wait until the priest entombs my Tirion and then I use Harrison against him".
That happens and I win. YAAAAAAS.
Feels good when something happens as you want it to happen right?
You can pick Chillmaw in a dragon deck.
WTF? There was no sarcasm in that post, lol. I literally wanted to tell you that I know that feeling when you know what's coming and you win because of it.
Calm down, dude.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
yoshi plz
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Anyone else feel like if you see a Magni or Medivh portrait you know they are playing Control or Freeze/Giants/Grinder? Or is that just me
CraigerGamer
Member
Ladder anxiety is real.
If I see a Magni, I know that they'll play an all golden Control Warrior.
BananasWithGuns
Member
God Joust is such a shitty fucking mechanic.
Not even Healing Wave is worth running it's so bad. How Blizzard thought it would change anything at all is beyond me.
Not even Healing Wave is worth running it's so bad. How Blizzard thought it would change anything at all is beyond me.
Super Nothing
Member
I was running a Beast Hunter at the end of last season just for the hell of it and had King's Elek as one of my 2 drops. That god damn thing won the joust maybe 20% of the time. I managed to lose a joust to a Cogmaster. A fucking 1 drop beat me in a joust.
Ahh yeah I run one in my afore mentioned rogue deck, might be the reason I had such success against said shaman deck.
Dr. Boom is fine, it's almost every other big drop that sucks. If I'm using 7+ mana to play a card it better be damn strong. In comparison 2/4 drops in the game are just insanely strong, it's not proportional at all. We're at a point that most of big drops in the game just plain suck, if you remove Dr. Boom from the game, they still won't see play. The only other playable 7 drops is Archmage and maybe rarely Chillmaw/Geddon. 8 drops isn't any different, you have Tirion and Grommash because they are worth the mana. Rag is really rare these days. 9 drops too just sees two playable cards and I'd argue Ysera isn't all that good for NINE mana.
We don't exactly have choices here anyway that Dr. Boom would be limiting them.
We don't exactly have choices here anyway that Dr. Boom would be limiting them.
Just count to ten before pushing the post button. I need to do that every time I loose to face hunter.
I might even write a post which spews the most vile and gruesome things I want to happen to face hunters. But before clicking post I read the comment, laugh it off and walk away.
Work in customer service a few weeks and you'll learn self control very quickly. (Well either that or you end up in prison for murder...on second thought...Yoshi please don't ever begin working in customer service)
Yoshichan
And they made him a Lord of Cinder. Not for virtue, but for might. Such is a lord, I suppose. But here I ask. Do we have a sodding chance?
I worked with customer service (basic local networking)... I know the pain... Never again. But yes, I'm really improving my anger management lately but with all the stress and chaos around me, it's hard to contain and depressure myself.
CraigerGamer
Member
What deck are you currently running? ever thought about streaming? I think you might speak for many in the community...
just lost to one as hunter, couldn't get past duplicate sludge belcher despite having two owls in the deck O____O
https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/3vm0s2/lessons_from_magic_the_gathering_bad_cards/
This is an interesting article explaining "bad cards" from the designer of magic with good analogy of hearthstone.
It gaves a good explanation about dr boom, there are a lots of cards around that cost that are also super good but that looks like shit next to it
This is an interesting article explaining "bad cards" from the designer of magic with good analogy of hearthstone.
It gaves a good explanation about dr boom, there are a lots of cards around that cost that are also super good but that looks like shit next to it