CarbonatedFalcon
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I crush like 7 guys in a row with Zoo until I run into a P2W Druid deck 
GG Mr. Golden Black Knight.
GG Mr. Golden Black Knight.
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KojiKnight
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I crush like 7 guys in a row with Zoo until I run into a P2W Druid deck
GG Mr. Golden Black Knight.
Sorry, but as long as you run Zoo, you aren't allowed to complain. It's in the rules.
Reynad's most recent contribution to the meta and the dumbest Hearthstone deck to date: http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/44560-reynad-zoo-warlock (original version, pretty sure most people are playing slightly modified versions by now)
You flood the board with cheap high-value or buffing minions, tap if you need more cards and finish the opponent with Soulfire/Doomguard/Argent Commander(/Power Overwhelming/Leeory).
Tatersalad
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Yeah, not much else priests can do. Most of their stuff seems pretty gimmicky.
That build is one of the worst priest builds tbh. very unreliable and depend on a lot of dumb factors.
SlickShoes
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I crush like 7 guys in a row with Zoo until I run into a P2W Druid deck
GG Mr. Golden Black Knight.
I was doing really well until I ran in to asshole after asshole playing warlock zoo and getting perfect card draws.
P2W because he had a Golden Legendary? idiot.
I only play Priest in ranked and rely on all RNG cards to win me games, because I can't take Hearthstone that serious anyway.
Turn 3 coined Mind Games, getting a Ironbark... Nothing feels better. Thoughtstealing / Mindvisioning all the cards I need lol
Also put in Gelbin for funs sake, but may be throwing him out soon...
Turn 3 coined Mind Games, getting a Ironbark... Nothing feels better. Thoughtstealing / Mindvisioning all the cards I need lol
Also put in Gelbin for funs sake, but may be throwing him out soon...
Ironbark is one of the worst cards in rank....
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call_kotaku
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It's actually not awful, I think most of the stigma against it was from when Priest was OP and you were just giving him a free minion that you had no way of killing.
Generally people run bigger threats in their decks and it's not a huge deal if they get poly-ed/hexed, or really even black knighted, and if they don't remove it it's a pretty good card.
Basically, I play it before I play rag just to get people to use their removals or BGH
sorry, didnt read mind game, thought it was thought steal.
I meant the card in general is bad in on constructed, there are much better alternative like ancient of war/lore.
Beat two legend in rank using Gaara druid, feels good.
I'm currently playing at rank 18, so most people don't even have a single legendary in their deck. Ironbark doesn't suck at that rank haha
Rank 19 > 14 streak with no losses on my Zoolock today.
Everything gets smashed in the face. Even huntards are too late with their UTH in turn 6/7
Rank 18 in a new season can be surprising.
Everything gets smashed in the face. Even huntards are too late with their UTH in turn 6/7
I'm currently playing at rank 18, so most people don't even have a single legendary in their deck. Ironbark doesn't suck at that rank haha
Rank 18 in a new season can be surprising.
TheContact
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more maintenance really? I like to get a couple games done in the morning before work =(
I crush like 7 guys in a row with Zoo until I run into a P2W Druid deck
GG Mr. Golden Black Knight.
Yeah man, I know that feel... I hate losing a game that I know I outplayed the other player but just don't have access to the 3 big legendary cards he drops on my face at the end of the game. Game is P2W as fuck.
Actually it isn't. Zoo's a very viable strategy and just the game itself has issues with zoo-style strategies doesn't mean its somehow a "dishonorable" thing.
However getting wrecked by a gold Black Knight does hella suck. Time vs Money will always frustrate players.
Zookeeper detected
Honestly if Zoo got rocked by BK on turn 6 he's already lost. You should be closing in on lethal at that point. All you should need is doomguard/soulfire. Plus the whole point of zoo is to flood the board with cheap minions. The loss of one taunter shouldn't throw you into a tizzy.
wakajawaka
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I have 12 legendaries and haven't payed a cent.
Ironbark is the absolute best hard removal bait to pave the way for Rag/Ysera/what have you.
God I love facing zoo warlocks on my Druid. I think I'm one of the only Druids who runs both swipes and both starfalls. Everything I have is taunts/big taunts/tauntable and the only time I lose to zoo is when I mess up
The problem is that it eats up your entire turn 8, on which you could have played Rag for an immediate effect, only to trade one for one with a cheaper card. If you're not ahead this tempo loss often costs you the game, and before that it's a dead card outside of Innervate shenanigans.
Vigilant Gambit
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Saw this for the first time yesterday with a silenced Lightwell played turn 2.
I was pretty god damn upset. Damn thing hit me for 24 damage. I didn't see it coming at all because I had never seen that god damn card before.
AntiFacebook
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Maybe I miss something,but what's so special about black knight?
Removing a single minion with taunt is only helpful in some very specific and rare situation, and the attack&health aren't very good for its cost.
Removing a single minion with taunt is only helpful in some very specific and rare situation, and the attack&health aren't very good for its cost.
Lol the first time a priest got me with it. They. Played the creature thats attack is equal to its health. First they played two cards that got it's health to 11. Then on the next hand doubled its health twice. I had no cards in my hand to deal with it so I took 44dmg to my face and just said thank you and laughed
That's why he shifts in and out of the meta depending on the commonness of taunts, hence not seeing much play in the current Hunter/Zoo-dominated meta (might be different on Legend), very similar to BGH. Cards with a tempo or card draw effect that also put a decent body on the board are just really strong in general, see Azure Drake, Keeper of Lore or even SI:7.
Last but not least Black Knight together with Mark of the Wild is the only viable unconditional hard removal option Druids have.
v how could I forget the piece of shit that is Fire Elemental
RumblingRosco
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Anytime you can kill a minion and play a minion at the same time, you're creating card value and board control. That's why Fire Elemental is so good; it is a solid minion and can usually take out a small minion "for free" thanks to its battlecry. Black Knight is more situational, but the upside is huge if you throw it down and can remove an Ironbark Protector, Tirion, Al'akir, or any massive Taunt minion that was given taunt by Defender of Argus or Sunfury Protector... and the Black Knight minion by itself isn't absolutely horrid, like the glass cannon that is the Stormpike Commando.
Druid can Mark of the Wild + Black Knight to remove any minion. Expensive and, again, kinda specific. But when you need it you're glad you've got it.
KojiKnight
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Generally a really bad idea to try constructed the first week of ladder reset
It's not rush, it's mid-game control, at last the current itterations.
Zoo is not control.
Current versions are, or at least were toward the latter part of last season.
The meta shifted to go anti rush, and instead of going for face they used lots of buffed small minions to keep the early board clear so they could get to face with slightly bigger stuff mid-game. The same shift that saw the super effecient mid-game Hunter emerge.
Perhaps I should have said they're not always rush, at least the majority of Zoo decks I played during the last couple of weeks seemed to have shifted away from just going straight for face.
Hydranockz
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The 20-25 range should be fine with the recent updates though, right? I was a 15 and started this season at 21. I'd imagine those first few ranks should be a breeze.
partyphone
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I was playing ramp druid last night and didn't lose a single game to zoo or lifecoach hunter so I hope there's a lot more of that today.
people would be crazy to play handlock today, right?
people would be crazy to play handlock today, right?
Works well against that FOTM aggro mage list running around.
partyphone
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someone was talking about that deck on another forum I visit but I have yet to encounter it. the only mage I saw last night was running that mid-rangey one that was basically trumps f2p mage with a few legendaries thrown in.
there was so much zoo. which was glorious. they have no good way to deal with druid of the claw, sunwalker, ancient of war on turns 3, 4 and 5.
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