Primetime evening hours always seem to be a meat grinder compared to weekends and very late night. Getting wrecked tonight.
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Primetime evening hours always seem to be a meat grinder compared to weekends and very late night. Getting wrecked tonight.
Mobius and pet octopus
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This chart seems like a really useful tool for both arena and deck construction. I'll be using it to fine tune my decks to figure out optimize mulligan strategies in constructed.
http://ihearthu.com/mulligan-math-what-are-the-odds/
Assuming it is actually accurate of course. Seems off though since if you mulligan 3 cards with 2 target cards I thought the chances were higher than 27%.
http://ihearthu.com/mulligan-math-what-are-the-odds/
Assuming it is actually accurate of course. Seems off though since if you mulligan 3 cards with 2 target cards I thought the chances were higher than 27%.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I haven't played ladder much this season. But seems to be the same old hunter/mech aggro mage decks being played with some ramp druid mixed in.
But seriously, vomit decks... I'm coming for you.
Just a 6 damage AOE, plus a 12/12 being played, and effectively a cold blood (sword oil + spare part for 1 attack) on the shade... all for a mere 6 mana with prep and coin.
But seriously, vomit decks... I'm coming for you.
Just a 6 damage AOE, plus a 12/12 being played, and effectively a cold blood (sword oil + spare part for 1 attack) on the shade... all for a mere 6 mana with prep and coin.
Been saying this since forever although a better change would be to just change its rarity and give Mages some other free class card instead. By making it an Uncommon/Rare you are less likely to run across it in Arena.
Flamestrike is Constructed is fine, strong enough to be played in decks but not OP.
If they REALLY wanted to balance arena, they would offer the same amount of rarities to everyone. And weight hero specific cards to all rarities. Fireball has no business being a common card in arena, it's the mist broken card in the format. Flamestrike you can play around at least.
Hah, just won as a control warrior vs a mill rogue. It came down to fatigue for both of us with me having a Dr Boom + 4 Boom Bots (he sapped Boom earlier) on board vs him with 2 3/3s. I was dead next turn to fatigue, but had Brawl so the Boom Bots damage all went to his face.
Professor Lich
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It's always funny when people try to fake you out with a spell card. Had a Paladin put me three health and for a couple seconds hovered a spell over me. I was sure I was dead considering the rush deck he was running but then he conceded. Had to of been Lay on Hands since he was already in Fatigue. Really surprised he didn't have another Concentrate or even Avenging Wrath though.
Turn opening "I'm sorry" into a flurry of face attacks has won me many undeserved games.
call_kotaku
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Decided to try Arena Value for my latest arena run, went 0-3 for the first time in as long as I can remember.
To be fair I did choose warrior because it was my daily and I don't have the cards for playing it in constructed
To be fair I did choose warrior because it was my daily and I don't have the cards for playing it in constructed
He isn't terrible. If you go for it make sure you're running Harrison as well.
I think he's best in Mage (you can use water elemental and chugga chugga to freeze out your opponent if you don't have a Harrison handy) but not bad in Priest. Run Recombobulator for ultimate fun
Sounds reasonable.
Looking at the list of 5-mana stuff it can turn into, Recombobulator actually looks great to use on Blingtron.I think he's best in Mage (you can use water elemental and chugga chugga to freeze out your opponent if you don't have a Harrison handy) but not bad in Priest. Run Recombobulator for ultimate fun
Blingtron + Harrison + Recombo is what Amaz was using in his full stealing mode deck shortly after GvG release. That version is really strong against aggro but gets rekt by heavy control, I don't think he ever revised it though. The other day he was arguing on his stream that Priest is kinda bad right now, and coming from him that says a lot.
Hey guys, about a week ago I watched Jeff Green play Hearthstone on Twitch and thought about giving it a shot.
It has dominated my life this last week
Played various classes for a few days, so far so good. I tried the Arena 3 times without knowing what I was doing, I won *1* game after a lucky opening, was thrashed in all other games.
Then I thought, what the hell, this is the best fun I had in a long time, might as well spend some money. I bought Naxxramas and bought 5 extra packs of cards.
So yesterday I finished the main quest of Naxxramas and received the KelThuzad card. Of course I had to try it out at once.
No joke, this happened the first time I played with the card in my deck.
Infinite Thaddius!
Now it's probably time to start reading up on strategy. After taking a quick glance on how to construct an Arena deck I won the first 4 games in a row. Just by selecting a lot of cost effective monsters and removal spells. The difference was huge compared to my initial attempts.
It has dominated my life this last week
Played various classes for a few days, so far so good. I tried the Arena 3 times without knowing what I was doing, I won *1* game after a lucky opening, was thrashed in all other games.
Then I thought, what the hell, this is the best fun I had in a long time, might as well spend some money. I bought Naxxramas and bought 5 extra packs of cards.
So yesterday I finished the main quest of Naxxramas and received the KelThuzad card. Of course I had to try it out at once.
No joke, this happened the first time I played with the card in my deck.
Infinite Thaddius!
Now it's probably time to start reading up on strategy. After taking a quick glance on how to construct an Arena deck I won the first 4 games in a row. Just by selecting a lot of cost effective monsters and removal spells. The difference was huge compared to my initial attempts.
Blackwing Lair or Molten Core (Firelands?) feel more likely since they already made Flame Leviathan a card in GVG, but I'd agree that Ulduar would make a way cooler Naxxramas-style raid expansion with a single-player element than either of those two.
RumblingRosco
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OK, the first ~1:00 of this video made me laugh. Watch how quickly Amaz plays his first card... never seen a card played so fast like that. I actually laughed pretty hard, more than I should have really.
Brofist
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I don't think flamestrike was ever 7. All the freeze spells got their cost increased by 1 though.
TetraxShards
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So this has been going better than expected:
Not shown: double Sea Giant, Mind Control
Four Mages and a Paladin so far. 6-3 incoming, but as someone who isn't very good at Arena I'm so pleased already.
Not shown: double Sea Giant, Mind Control
Four Mages and a Paladin so far. 6-3 incoming, but as someone who isn't very good at Arena I'm so pleased already.
RumblingRosco
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I think you mean "I think Flamestrike was always 7" right?
That's a stupidly good arena deck.
x2 Shrink and x2 Cabal?
x2 Holy Nova for clear?
Card draw in Cleric +PWS?
ALL your 4 drops are pure value... Mid game owned.
Late game with giants.
Nice.
Nefarian seems conspicuously absent as a card, I think some kind of Blackwing Lair/Descent expansion is likely. Molten Core is an iconic and classic raid but Ragnaros and Baron Geddon are already cards and most of the other bosses in Molten Core are more boring conceptually. Lots of snakes. Garr might be an interesting card, though.
partyphone
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been playing this. it's fun. no one expects 24 points of burst.
Professor Lich
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Had someone run that combo yesterday and Day9 also decided to mess with that combo as well. Chances are people will start running it more then people will start expecting it!
Kinguin Charity tourney starting in 10 minutes
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TetraxShards
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WE DID IT BABY! I've joined the 12 Wins Club (would've been 12-0 but lost at 11-0 game to a Kobold Geo Flamestrike):
DEM REWARDS:
DEM REWARDS:
Lies, it's still 4 minutes from now
Hey Kinguin, here's a "donation" for you. ( ° ͜ʖ͡°)╭∩╮
I based it off the r/hearthstone posting, technically the stream is live!
Mobius and pet octopus
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Noxious commentary... boo.
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In theory if it is gonna mirror Naxx they need a raid with multiple wings, but not to many wings/bosses.
That means things like LRBS/UBRS, Strat, Kara ect... would in theory all be out because to large for one expansion if they want to try and shoot for $25 DLC again.
Idk tho...
That means things like LRBS/UBRS, Strat, Kara ect... would in theory all be out because to large for one expansion if they want to try and shoot for $25 DLC again.
Idk tho...
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Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
I wish people were a bit more experimental in Casual mode. It's the same shit as Ranked. Hand locks and mechmages and zoo. Zzzzz
Dismal priest arena draft.
No legendaries. One epic (Blood Knight was actually the best choice, lol). No Holy Novas, Auchenais/CoHs, etc. A ton of 4-drops like Spectral Knights and Azure Drakes and Yetis.
At least I got a Cleric and a PWS, first time I've seen either in Arena for Priest.
Oh, at least I have two MCs and a Velen's Chosen….lol
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Totalled by a rogue with all the staple rogue cards and a Dr. Boom to boot. How is that fair.
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Huh, 2-1 now. Did ok against another priest with even worse cards, and a shaman.
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Yup, 2-3. Awful. Pack had two Crackles in it at least. lol.
No legendaries. One epic (Blood Knight was actually the best choice, lol). No Holy Novas, Auchenais/CoHs, etc. A ton of 4-drops like Spectral Knights and Azure Drakes and Yetis.
At least I got a Cleric and a PWS, first time I've seen either in Arena for Priest.
Oh, at least I have two MCs and a Velen's Chosen….lol
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Totalled by a rogue with all the staple rogue cards and a Dr. Boom to boot. How is that fair.
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Huh, 2-1 now. Did ok against another priest with even worse cards, and a shaman.
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Yup, 2-3. Awful. Pack had two Crackles in it at least. lol.
poppedcollar69
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so fuckin sick of sylvanas
BlackBuzzard
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Yeah i don't know what the fuck is up with EU arena but the decks i faced at 3+ are ridiculous bordering on constructed lvl decks. Meanwhile i cant draft a truesilver champ to save my life great balance in this game.
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