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Hearthstone |OT| Why tap cards when you can roll need [Naxx final wing out now]
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super-famicom
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Fixed that for you.
New players probably expect unleash. Brawl, not as much.
Onion_Relish
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Can People Please tell me how shit my deck is? I'm pretty new to hearthstone, don't have a ton of amazing cards but I do alright for myself. I'm open to any suggestions. I've noticed that the deck does well in certain rush circumstances and it can hold out in much longer games due to how many potential taunts I have. I just find that If I don't pull any monsters out early i'm boned, and because I don't have starfall my sweeping options are limited. That's why I currently have - in my deck as a sort of nuke option.
Malfurion - Level 29
Level 0: Innervate
Level 1: Naturalize - Elven Archer - Young Dragonhawk
Level 2: Mark of the wild, Power of the Wild, Wrath, Doomsayer, Faerie Dragon
Level 3: Healing touch, Mark of nature, Savage Roar, Magma Rager, Tauren Warrior, Wolf Rider
Level 4: Bite, Soul of the Forest, Swipe, Defender of Argus, Keeper of the Grove, TAZ'DINGO
Level 5: Druid of the claw (2), Stanglethorn Tiger,
Level 6: Starfire, Archmage, Reckless Rocketeer
Level 7: Ancient of Lore, Ancient of War
Level 8: Ironbark Protector
I've experimented with the imp summoner woman, knife thrower and other things trying to summon a veritable "zoo" but it doesn't seem to work well with the Druid style. Any advice is appreciated
Malfurion - Level 29
Level 0: Innervate
Level 1: Naturalize - Elven Archer - Young Dragonhawk
Level 2: Mark of the wild, Power of the Wild, Wrath, Doomsayer, Faerie Dragon
Level 3: Healing touch, Mark of nature, Savage Roar, Magma Rager, Tauren Warrior, Wolf Rider
Level 4: Bite, Soul of the Forest, Swipe, Defender of Argus, Keeper of the Grove, TAZ'DINGO
Level 5: Druid of the claw (2), Stanglethorn Tiger,
Level 6: Starfire, Archmage, Reckless Rocketeer
Level 7: Ancient of Lore, Ancient of War
Level 8: Ironbark Protector
I've experimented with the imp summoner woman, knife thrower and other things trying to summon a veritable "zoo" but it doesn't seem to work well with the Druid style. Any advice is appreciated
Brawl is the best. It's bailed me out so many times.
One highlight I had today however was making a Mage deck w/ ONLY spells to get the "Use 40 Spells" daily quest as quickly as possible, ended up winning my first match which was really funny. Got spanked my second match but got the 40 spell mark in those 2 matches so it was worth it.
That being said, I'm still horrid at Arena. I dunno if it's because I primarily use Warrior in constructed and always pick Mage/Pally when given the option (Which is like 80% of Arenas it seems like I can pick one of those 2) but I can get 3-0 runs going, and without fail I never crack 4. The best run I've ever had was months ago when I went to 6 wins, but the past month I haven't sniffed anything past 4, usually in the 2-3 range.
It's still worth playing for me because I always get excited doing the draft, and I'd rather play Arena instead of buying a pack outright, but man I wish I was more skilled.
Aquavelvaman
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So far I'm 7-0. The curve really hasn't been bad. Totems and lightning bolts easily take me through the first rounds, but I haven't really had trouble drawing 3s early either.
Can we discuss King Mukla for a bit?
I can think of nothing really solid to play this in other than Hunter decks and decks with card draw to try and force your opponent to have a full hand early and miss out on cards.
Neither of which seem too particularly compelling to me.
Can this card be effective in another way?
I can think of nothing really solid to play this in other than Hunter decks and decks with card draw to try and force your opponent to have a full hand early and miss out on cards.
Neither of which seem too particularly compelling to me.
Can this card be effective in another way?
That's what it's for.
Mukla was a pretty big Legendary in Board Control Warlock and Tempo Rogue decks. They basically just kill your ability to have a minion to use Bananas on and coast on Mukla's body.
hypersheep
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I think you should definitely be running two swipes and two innervate. Innervate is almost always a useful card, letting you get high cost minions out earlier. Swipe is an excellent board clear and is even better when comboed with spell power. I see you have an archmage, but that's quite expensive for spell damage. I would recommend kobold geomancer for that.
You also have some really useless cards in your deck, specifically elven archer, young dragonhawk, and magma rager. Elven archer can be used to enrage or ping, but you can already ping with the druid hero power and you only have one potential minion to enrage. Young Dragonhawk is bad because it only has one health and its windfury is almost useless. Magma rager is useless because it dies to almost anything. You could probably throw in another power of the wild, wrath, or faerie dragon to replace these.
I also have to wonder why tauren warrior is in this deck. It will probably not survive long enough to enrage, given its 3 health, and ironfur grizzly pretty much trades better because it has 3 instead of 2 attack. If you want another taunt I would just throw in another Senjin.
And why do you have Bite? As far as removals go, it's quite pricy, and won't even kill the most popular four drop, the Chillwind Yeti. Soul of the forest is also not an optimal card, as it requires a heavy minion presence to be useful. I might replace those two cards with chillwind yetis or another keeper of the grove. Reckless rocketeer also doesn't do much in this deck. It's a card that's more often seen in aggro, something which your deck is not given its lack of low drops.
Also, you might consider another ancient of lore if you have one, as it's an awesome card. You might also want consider some more big minions for the late game.
To put it bluntly, it's really shit.
Basically, the first thing to do is to stop putting only 1 card of each type. It sort of messes up your draws, and makes it so some cards you'll never see. Also, you'll never see any Druid deck without 2 Swipes, gotta get that in there.
Minions with 1 health are generally considered to be terrible. 3 of the classes take it out with ease and they are far too fragile to do anything significant. Young Dragonhawk is probably bottom 5 cards in the game tbh. Magma Rager is pretty close too.
If you really want to fight against rush decks then you should put in minions like Harvest Golem, Argent Squire, Earthen Ring Farseer, Mad Bomber, sunfury protector, etc.
You might want to look at this deck just to see how another Druid deck is conscucted. Token Druid is verry aggressive and requires a good amount of dust but should give a decent starting point. (You can also look up Anchient Watcher Druid and Ramp Up Druid)
http://www.liquidhearth.com/forum/constructed-strategy/1765-deck-guide-token-druid#four
Been playing this game on and off for a couple of months now and I just don't have the patience to grind gold to get into Arenas. Need to be more vigilant about completing quests everyday so I can get a couple of Arena's in per week. Only Legendary I've unlocked in the past couple of months is Deathwing, who is basically useless in the current Metagame. I really don't want to have to dump a bunch of money into the game just so I can be competitive in ranked. How many Arena runs do most people get in per week?
slightconfuse
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Just got a king crush out of an Arena pack 
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))My curiosity piqued when I opened a Golden Mukla, but as I clearly despise Hunters I will likely just dust it and get something else.
Mobius and pet octopus
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It is sorta nice seeing mages on the ranked ladder again but I still hate playin aggro/burn mages lol
But I just played an odd one that was using ancient watcher/silence. Seemed pretty bad tbh.
It looks like many decks iare going pretty low curve more aggressive/tempo again kinda reminds me of the meta just before midrange hunter without the control shift, which I assume is around just higher rank than me atm since I haven't bothered to play much. I think control would rise over some of these aggro decks, maybe not mage though cause at least in my experience mage is very good against control warrior/druid.
I'll have to rank back up to see how it is at higher ranks. My deck should do well assuming I get backstabs, si7agents, and perdition blades early on.
But I just played an odd one that was using ancient watcher/silence. Seemed pretty bad tbh.
It looks like many decks iare going pretty low curve more aggressive/tempo again kinda reminds me of the meta just before midrange hunter without the control shift, which I assume is around just higher rank than me atm since I haven't bothered to play much. I think control would rise over some of these aggro decks, maybe not mage though cause at least in my experience mage is very good against control warrior/druid.
I'll have to rank back up to see how it is at higher ranks. My deck should do well assuming I get backstabs, si7agents, and perdition blades early on.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Mukla is a pretty good card imo. I wouldn't dust him unless you really want something else.
Ironically I hate him the most in my hunter deck which I don't play often. I only get solid use out of him with tundra rhino for the charge.
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Just for example from my last match vs ramp druid.
They love to give away tempo with turn 2 wild growth.
I respond with turn 3 mukla.
What can he do? Nothing! lol, almost. I think the worst case scenario is that he uses both bananas on mukla and then uses innervate + BGH. Maybe I get the card advantage in that since he played 2 cards to remove 1 card. Maybe I have backstab and I get tempo back right away.
This particular time he didn't do that. Later he used the bananas on a gadgetzan auctioneer. Big card value out of those. But he also used mark on it giving it taunt so I could black knight it. There is a certain point where card advantage won't help you much, especially because he plays a lot of big cards taking up an entire turn. Anyway, my point is that you can negate the impact of the bananas. And when you do it well, you are actually getting a tempo advantage out of them simply using the bananas since that is 2 less mana they can use on other cards. So you get tempo out of dropping a big minion, if mukla goes 2:1, great. If you get damage out of him, you are much closer to lethal. I just love this card. Certain match ups and scenarios really vary though and dropping him late vs some classes is bad (usually argent commander x2 double banana bad). Also sap is a great counter.
Mukla is definitely worthy of holding on to. But like I said earlier, I wouldn't blame you if you wanted to get other cards. Just get the cards you want to play with first imo.
The meta right now is mostly Miracle Rogue since it beats Control Warrior and mid-range Hunter, the other two decks of the meta.
Mobius and pet octopus
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FormallyFamicom
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Why does Nozdormu cost 9 mana? The text on the card isn't worth one more mana cost than Ragnaros.
Control Warrior can do nothing vs Miracle Rogue except hope they don't draw well.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
I feel like the ladder is all aggro right now. Everybody's running fast decks to rank up asap.
Good let them fuck off from lower brackets.
jstevenson
Sailor Stevenson
Realizing your only chance of winning a game is to top deck an Azure Drake, play it, and have it draw a Swipe which will clear a Gadze and four treants.... and then do it.
I felt so bad
(0-2 Druid deck ended up 8-3... not bad!)
I felt so bad
(0-2 Druid deck ended up 8-3... not bad!)
I use him in my Zoo deck to.
call_kotaku
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It's a really good play against classes besides priest or mage if they don't have a minion on the board during turn 2, because most classes don't have a good removal card on turn 4 to get rid of it. I think it compares favorably to other early large body plays like blademaster/circle or ancestral healing, or innervate yeti/dotc, and is probably a better play on that turn than animal companion unless you're against zoo or something.
Mukla + Divine Favour = epic ass whupping.
Just faceless your Armorer and climb to 50 life or something
It's more that once Miracle Rogue gets going, it doesn't matter that I spike that high. They can deal ~40-50 damage in a few turns without too much trouble. Control Warrior just doesn't have the Taunts to stop the Leeroy burn so it's pretty much a case of "I hope I get Frothing online and kill you first."
Edit: I guess that's really just the best way to put it: Once a Miracle Rogue starts doing it's thing, Control Warrior typically can't do anything at all to stop it so it just has to hope to win before the Rogue beats them. The Rogue is in the driver's seat the entire time.
You're not outplaying someone until you are at a point when no matter what they dish out you can handle it. Adjust your deck, or change your play style.
There are no game changing legendaries that I have faced yet. Even in arena...(except maybe Lord Jaraxxus) Multiple Legendaries on the other hand I have more of a problem dealing with. If you're worried about Legendaries end game, keep a card destruction or silence always in your hand.
BananasWithGuns
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Made an Enrage Warrior just for kicks but, man, that deck style is garbage.
I guess people have just seen it too much by this point. The second you lay down any of your key cards they're trading as fast as possible and the low health of all the Warrior and Enrage minions makes for a lot of unfavorable trades.
Deck is pretty fun just because it's so unique but yeah, no way it's going to have a remotely respectable win rate.
I guess people have just seen it too much by this point. The second you lay down any of your key cards they're trading as fast as possible and the low health of all the Warrior and Enrage minions makes for a lot of unfavorable trades.
Deck is pretty fun just because it's so unique but yeah, no way it's going to have a remotely respectable win rate.
call_kotaku
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Wow ran into my first murloc deck in well over 2 weeks. What a hero
he got druid-ed, though
Miracle rogue really shine vs 2 things
1-Slow start since there is no way he can pressure you into using spells.
2-No taunts/Silence which control warrior dont run usually.
Of course warrior can win if he get really good cards like shield/armorsmith/task
Gonna start randomly streaming Hearthstone here and there. #RoadTo1Viewer
SuperSonic1305
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Too many priests in ranked.
Another reason that Miracle Rogue is all over, this article points out that most of the top players are playing it.
http://www.liquidhearth.com/forum/h...-season-1-final-rankings-and-what-they-played
http://www.liquidhearth.com/forum/h...-season-1-final-rankings-and-what-they-played
RumblingRosco
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I'm away from my computer this weekend so I can't share my Shaman deck, but can someone link me a common Midrange Shaman? I feel like my Shaman is a bit slow and am looking for ideas to speed it up. Running Ysera right now which I think really has to go, it just isn't fast enough and often feels like a dead weight.
80% of the time you can pick Mage/Pally?? I have played over a dozen Arenas and NOT ONCE have I seen Mage and maybe pally twice
I had the same luck as you in arena until I drafted an amazing Priest deck that had great mana spread and lots of good dudes. Went 7 wins but could have done better. Lost one game to stupidity.
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