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Hearthstone |OT5| Corrupted Deeprock Salt
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The Mango Sentinel
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Is there a reason to keep more than one copy of a legendary? Unless you're talking about a golden one.
If they nerf a card you can dust it for full value for a limited time. Basically a dupe boom if he's nerfed would give 1600 dust instead of 400 you would get doing it now.
I'd still hold onto it either way since that would feel really shitty to lose out on unless you really need the dust right now.
Yeah, that's been my reasoning as well. Might as well wait because I don't need the dust that bad. Damn Sylvanas still evading me though
The Mango Sentinel
Member
Son of a bitch. I would've held on to mine if I knew that.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Next expansion will probably have some anti-secret tech that doesn't do anything. Secret Paladin will dominate for a few months after that until Blizzard finally breaks and nerfs it.
I really think we're going that route with the cards they have been releasing.
That sounds weak to be honest. Unless it also destroys the secrets that try to activate.
That's 2 mana you could be spending on your hero power. Flare is too slow for the current Hunter decks.
A neutral seafaring minion (next expansion will have more pirates) with a flare-like battlecry could work.
Thats a bit too strong. make it a 6/8
This sounds reasonable... print it as a Paladin card MingLee
Face Hunter is favored against Secret Pally anyway, and nobody plays Midrange right now.
Haunted
Member
oh you guys
If you really want to win against Secret Paladin, the way isn't to think about putting singular tech cards in your deck but to actually play a deck that's good against them. Face Hunter, Aggro Shaman, Aggro Druid, Freeze Mage, Control Priest. The real reason why Secret Paladin is good is because they win at board control, so if Blizzard wants to have a deck that completely wins at that aspect of the game, then fuck the board.
Of course. That's why the claims of "anti-secret tech" are laughable just how anti deathrattle tech to stop Undertaker did nothing before that.
Hydrophobic
Member
I'm a kind of infrequent player and the highest I've ever gotten in a ranked season is 16, so I don't play against the popular meta decks nearly as much, but yesterday I faced my first Anyfin Paladin deck. I just thought he was playing a shitty deck until he ran two Bluegill warriors into my minions (having already played Murloc Warleader), and then I realized that short of an esportal miracle I wouldn't be able to kill the paladin before he played Anyfin. I beat a secret paladin with my rattle rogue later on, though, so it all evened out.
I had the most horrible match making today, it was almost parody lol. Played secret paladin. it was just face hunter, freeze mage and priest if not mirror. Druid? tempo mage ayy. I said f it I play patron again, I wanted to try that monkey patron anyways, it's renolock and reno warrior and a whole bunch of priests. Actually I won every single priest but the other tow just never works. Next time against reno I guess I keep Grommash... Every it's like that they're super greedy and I would have lethal with Gromm but of course never draw it in time... in the end I didn't climb much.
It looks like there is a new? face hunter deck is going around now. They run flamejuggler, double arcane AND Leeroy. So monkey patron overall worked the best today, if you're lucky it looks like cancer is majority rather than reno on rank 5-6 still.
I feel zoo is good too, the fast one without demons.
It looks like there is a new? face hunter deck is going around now. They run flamejuggler, double arcane AND Leeroy. So monkey patron overall worked the best today, if you're lucky it looks like cancer is majority rather than reno on rank 5-6 still.
I feel zoo is good too, the fast one without demons.
Holy shit dude, that was hard to read.
CraigerGamer
Member
Played against an awful Mage deck last night. It was just slow and he had every heal in the book except Reno. It was a 20 minute match. I was playing mid-range hunter and slowly whittled him down to lethal next turn. he had 2 health and I had 5. He had nothing on the board. The dude then plays a Blingtron 3000 and gets a weapon for exactly 5 and kills me. I almost threw my ipad against the wall.
You should go back and watch that Kripp video again because he clearly says that Paladins hard counter Warrior.
In any case the thing is that with the LoE buff Warriors are temporarily inflated in power level. If they don't get great cards again for next expansion then they will be the worst Arena class again because they still got Warsong Commander and Bolster in their arsenal shitting up their drafts. And that hero power is still the worst hero power in Arena.
CraigerGamer
Member
I think a 4 Mana 1/4 where all secrets played while on board will trigger for both players. It keeps the secret paladin viable but it makes the player think twice about when to pop MC on the board.
You get rekt by Paladin if you try to play a control game, but they often can't do much when you drafted a good curve and are bashing their face in with weapons by turn 6. You don't ever want to use your hero power. If Warrior got hard countered by Paladin it would be shit tier because half of the goddamn arena is Paladin. I'll check the video again after work.
As for the second part, I mean that's a given. Since arena is about consistency the latest set always defines a class. Paladin, Rogue, Mage and Druid get good to busted commons with every set while the other classes are shuffling.
Super Nothing
Member
That would be unplayable. 4 mana for those stats is terrible. All Secret Pally has to do to go back to business as usual is kill a 4 health minion that doesn't even trade well. In every other match, it's a completely dead draw.
4 mana 1/4? secret paly will laugh at you playing that. 4 HP dies like to everything paladin has, it's the magic number for the class.
Been thinking of what new (overpowered) cards Blizzard can/is going to introduce with future expansions along the lines of Mysterious Challenger and Mad Scientist. They seem to be going for the whole "play a minion, battlecry play a random card(s) from your deck, so imagine a Warrior minion 3 mana 3/4 battlecry: equip a random weapon from your deck. Probably awesome for Face Warrior.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Was looking at Hogger and it got me thinking about what it would take for Blizzard to maybe go back and rework/rebalance some old legendaries that never see play. I know people have always wanted that for Illidan but Hogger is one I'd like to see too. It's such a cool card that sees no play because the stats are shit.
RumblingRosco
Member
Hogger hard-counters Deathwing.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
Holy shit thats amazing
You mean Ice Hogger, and Ice Gnolls.
CraigerGamer
Member
I kept the stats low because of the fortune it would bring along with it. I think if you up it too much the card would be just as OP as MC and you would see the archetype die. I mean, the best turn 4 minions out there right now are Shredder (4/3 plus RNG), Argus (2/3 (buff), Elise (3/5), Tomb Spider (3/3) Discover a beast (I like it anyway) so I thought it would fit.
Maybe bump it to a 5 as a 3/6 and All Secrets effects occur for both players.
This card would be useful not just for playing against secret pally but it would also make the asshole mages have to think twice about all the stupid asshole secrets they play as well.
Professor Lich
Member
The only problem with that are things like Misdirection, Freezing Trap, and Spellbender(to a lesser extent). Do they just get destroyed? I guess Spellbender could just give the Mage a 1/3.