The spare part that creates taunt is a horn, and it makes me laugh every time.
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The spare part that creates taunt is a horn, and it makes me laugh every time.
TetraxShards
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I think he means BattleTags.
Xamtheking
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I love these new cards
Xamtheking
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Floating Watcher synergy with Warlock is broken
If you guys wanna setup a Google Doc I can add it to the OP.
Super Nothing
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I'd play it in a Rogue mill deck and Shadowstep it off the board. Play Fel Reaver followed by a bunch of cheap ass spells, Shadowstep Fel Reaver back into your hand so that now it's cheaper and can't be used against you.
You mean shadow step it on the same turn you play it? Wouldn't have any effect. Fel reaver doesn't discard your opponents cards when you play cards.
Yes it's different and yes it's harder. You need more skill in:
Deck making basics (which is a huge component already)
Improvising plays
Knowing the cards and detecting synergies while drafting
Yeah, I think Druid of the Fang is going to be crazy good in constructed and arena. It's basically a War Golem with "Battlecry: Summon a 2-mana Beast".
Lol, where is the highlight for this? Enhance-o Mechano is so broken after it affects even 2 minions. You get value on 1 minion alone depending on what you get. And from what I've seen, if you hit 3 minions, at least 1 becomes windfuried. Any windfuried minions is pretty crazy, imo.
It's probably going to be played in a revamped token Druid with Violet Teacher into power of wild combos into Enhance-o-mechano.
BlackBuzzard
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He isnt even out yet but he is already screwing me over.
Mobius and pet octopus
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Yeah I could see that kind of working in a token druid deck I guess.
You could have a shade up, violet teacher and the potw.
Next turn enhanceo and savage roar. If the shade gets hit it is likely at least 14 damage. The violet teacher brings 10 if windfuried, the apprentice brings 8.
So something like 18 to 34 damage. heh. Assuming the teacher gets windfury and non others, that is a solid 23 damage.
So the counter cards will always run an expansion behind. That's how they defeat power creep.
So, I drafted a mage deck on arena today, and thought it was absolute shit. Like, I was fully expecting to go 0-3 due to the lack of big minions. Yet, I went 12-2 with it.
And the rewards:
The plays that saved me: Duplicates + Echo of Mawhatever = insane card value. Echo in particular allowed me to play Argus several times through the matches, despite only having one copy of it, and thus keep my momentum even if the opponent cleared the board. Flamecannon was also extremely useful to keep the board in check, and having so many Dark Iron Dwarfs allowed me to make favorable trades despite having mostly low mana minions.
And the rewards:
The plays that saved me: Duplicates + Echo of Mawhatever = insane card value. Echo in particular allowed me to play Argus several times through the matches, despite only having one copy of it, and thus keep my momentum even if the opponent cleared the board. Flamecannon was also extremely useful to keep the board in check, and having so many Dark Iron Dwarfs allowed me to make favorable trades despite having mostly low mana minions.
I'm finishing up one of my old arena decks and there is a clear advantage of having GvG. I can't make the same plays I would normally have made prior to the update. Still 4 - 1 with hunter, but man, the games have been difficult going up against anyone with decent GvG cards. Thankfully, I'm still getting matches with other people who also have old Arena matches left. That's going to go away quickly, however.
Arena Power Play:
Turn 6 - Boulderfist Ogre
Opponent drops something
Turn 7 - Hit/kill somehting with Ogre, then Recombobulate it.
This will turn the tide strongly in your favor and probably assure your win.
Recombobulator is the new top-teir epic for Arenas. Especially if you get meaty 6-drops to use it with.
Edit: I'm also loving the Anodized Robo Cubs. I drafted 4 of them.
Turn 6 - Boulderfist Ogre
Opponent drops something
Turn 7 - Hit/kill somehting with Ogre, then Recombobulate it.
This will turn the tide strongly in your favor and probably assure your win.
Recombobulator is the new top-teir epic for Arenas. Especially if you get meaty 6-drops to use it with.
Edit: I'm also loving the Anodized Robo Cubs. I drafted 4 of them.
Echo of Medivh man
FormallyFamicom
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Amaz thought the same thing until he got an Anima Golem. Pretty much lost him the game.
BlackBuzzard
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Of course not.
RumblingRosco
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But I make gold by playing arena...
I actually made gold thanks to this. So, thanks Blizzard!
My gold has been climbing faster with gvg arenas, so I'm really glad to play with them already.
Edit: I think there's a conspiracy to have Cho spawn from Sneed's Shredder when you have spells in hand. I've seen it spawn Cho 3 times out of 5-6 times total since yesterday. Cost me my run :/.
Other than Hunter, I'm really looking forward to building Mill/Stall Druid. Hope I get at least one Tree of Life in my earlier packs.
Xamtheking
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I recombobulated into Millhouse once
It was fun
With the new cards, the individual random events seem less important, and there are lots of them so they tend to cancel out. The really consequential stuff has a pretty low chance of happening. Like, the range of possible outcomes from a piloted mech is not that big, excepting a very small number of outliers. So I mostly find it refreshing, so far - it adds uncertainty that players need to deal with without making the matches come down to luck.
I've seen very little of the really awful, game-changing randomness that Brawl, Ragnaros, and Sylvanas (or MCT in arena) consistently produce.
I've seen very little of the really awful, game-changing randomness that Brawl, Ragnaros, and Sylvanas (or MCT in arena) consistently produce.
All the random minions popping up just makes it more random. I don't see a difference in challenge or fun. More chaotic? Yup. More fun? Not necessarily.
It has definitely been making for more memorable games so far on my end. Having a mage get lorewalker cho from a piloted mech, I could tell we both were just hoarding spells and barely playing anything. Game ended up going into fatigue due to how long he stayed on the board and slowed the game down, but I had to think a lot about when I wanted to actually kill him and I had to use the mage's flamestrike I got to do it, then play around it with my other minions.
I seem to keep losing games to legendaries now, though. I've seen more than one deathwing, a ysera I had no way of dealing with, etc. and I haven't played all that many matches. RNGesus is still not on my side with that as I never get legendaries in my drafts.
I seem to keep losing games to legendaries now, though. I've seen more than one deathwing, a ysera I had no way of dealing with, etc. and I haven't played all that many matches. RNGesus is still not on my side with that as I never get legendaries in my drafts.
Super Nothing
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Oh, I totally misread that card. I was thinking the discard applied to both players. Hmmm. I guess it could be used in Handlock with Shadowflame or Priest with a ton of silences. That misread changes everything I was thinking about the card.
Hearthstone at its core is about randomness setting up unpredictable situations. This is just further in that direction.
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