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Can't go wrong with Troggzor or Sneed. I probably want Sneed as my next to craft just because I love RNG silliness.
Harrison, easy.
He's really that good despite half the classes not even having weapons?
homeworkfilms
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Echo Hobgoblin Mage Deck just wrecked me. Interesting take on aggro I suppose.
He's meta dependent but yes he's really good.
Super Nothing
Member
Even when you don't have a weapon to break, he's still a decent body for the cost. From that list, I would cut Thalnos and Ysera. I would go with either Troggzor or Harrison. I actually crafted both of those recently myself. I've gotten more use out of Harrison so far. I've had Sneed's for a while, and I just haven't gotten much use out of it. He's pretty slow and I'm not a fan of the RNG.
Best bm from playing all day yesterday, I had lethal against a warlock with 3hp, warlock wasn't making any moves on his turn, leading me to think he was doing that "I'm going to lose but I'm waiting for the rope before I concede" crap people pull. Nope, rope came and then Lord Jaraxxus and then coin and then an Infernal. I lost that one.
Worst bm goes to the idiot mech mage who emoted "sorry" after all their moves and "thank you" after all mine. So I waited for the rope every turn and beat them on turn 9, at the rope, after spending my whole turn emoting "greetings" before putting them out of their misery. Childish but effective.
Oddest was the Shaman who was pretending to be a bot (waiting for rope before even mousing over a card) for the first 3 turns before playing normally afterwards. Maybe trying for a concession?
Edit: shaman and warlock are the two classes I don't even have up to 10 yet, I get them mixed up.
Worst bm goes to the idiot mech mage who emoted "sorry" after all their moves and "thank you" after all mine. So I waited for the rope every turn and beat them on turn 9, at the rope, after spending my whole turn emoting "greetings" before putting them out of their misery. Childish but effective.
Oddest was the Shaman who was pretending to be a bot (waiting for rope before even mousing over a card) for the first 3 turns before playing normally afterwards. Maybe trying for a concession?
Edit: shaman and warlock are the two classes I don't even have up to 10 yet, I get them mixed up.
That's an 11/10 bm especially with the Jaraxxus play as Shaman
How can you even expect that
What a god
A Sentient Keyboard
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I'd swap out the shadowboxers with mechwarpers, they fill in almost the exact same slot (2 mana 2/3 mech), but I think their ability is much more useful in mech decks, especially if you add gazlowe. I'm not even quite sure why the original deck uses shadowboxers, they're not that great and the deckbuilder doesn't seem to be aiming to make heavy use of their ability:
EDIT: Nevermind, the original deck runs shadowboxers in addition to mechwarpers, which makes sense.
He's kind of like what flare used to be, but for weapons. A 5/4 for 5 mana isn't great, but the incredible swing you get against a weapon class is so strong that its fine. He's more useful than Loatheb in the current meta imo.
I guess he also played Tirion,Vol'jin and Grommash.
With less hunter and control warrior in the meta Harrison isn't as good as he was a few weeks ago, but he's still really good. Trades with loatheb and Sylvanas and ancient of lore, kills the front body of a sludge belcher and lives. The light's justice card draw is amazing too.
I'm pretty sure I played that person, too. I lost, though.
FiveSix4Three
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Yeah its pretty hard to get shadowboxer rolling (not worth going out of your way to achieve), but when he does its pretty insane.
Had a late game board of 2x boxers and 2x cleric against a pally. Chaos reigned.
Had a late game board of 2x boxers and 2x cleric against a pally. Chaos reigned.
Super Nothing
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There are tons of Paladins around now. I broke a few Ash Bringers yesterday pretty much sealing the win. And most Rogue decks are running Sharpsword Oil. If you can break just one buffed weapon (especially an Assassin's Blade) then you've probably already won the match.
Taunt up. The decklist I saw ran only one mark and one owl. It dries up fast so if you can stem the bleeding you're ok.
Currently contemplating what legendary (for general purposes) I will go for next with my dust. What you think, GAF?
Have:
Baron Rivendare
Dr. Boom
ETC
Feugen
Gazlowe
Kel'thuzad
Loatheb
Lord Jaraxxus
Maexxna
Malorne
Mekgineer Thermaplugg
Old Murkeye
Stalagg
Toshley
Vol'jin
Ysera
Thinking of:
Alextrasza
Ragnaros
Sneed's Old Shredder
Sylvanas
The Black Knight
Have:
Baron Rivendare
Dr. Boom
ETC
Feugen
Gazlowe
Kel'thuzad
Loatheb
Lord Jaraxxus
Maexxna
Malorne
Mekgineer Thermaplugg
Old Murkeye
Stalagg
Toshley
Vol'jin
Ysera
Thinking of:
Alextrasza
Ragnaros
Sneed's Old Shredder
Sylvanas
The Black Knight
Sylvanas. Then Rag. Then BK.
Professor Lich
Member
Yeah, that's probably some serious synergy I'm missing with the Mechwarpers, forgot about them. I'll try switching them out or maybe with another mech. Thanks for the catch.
Super Nothing
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I agree. I crafted Rag a while back, and he's just not that useful in most decks. You have to be ahead for him to be any good, otherwise, his RNG can just fuck you over. Expensive Legendaries are supposed to do something on the turn that they're played, but Rag is often just spend 8 mana, remove a Leper Gnome. Every time I play him on a board with a ton of minions, I'm screaming at him to hit some critical target, and he's just like, "Fuck you, Silver Hand Recruit!"
partyphone
Banned
all the mid range decks that were running rag have probably replaced him with dr boom.
Where do you run Malygos? I've had some fun with Moonfire/Swipe on Druid, but that requires some pretty lucky draws.
RumblingRosco
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I was trying to figure out how the hell that would happen. I see now he meant Warlock. All I could think of those was Sneed's --> Lord J --> Panda --> play Lord J from hand... but even then the opponent would see it coming.
Spell Druid too. I don't think the deck is that inconsistent, but I don't rely solely on Malygos anymore (I did when Auctioneer was useful). I've tried Spell Shaman too, but obviously the card is too slow to get the best combos. Most people run it with Rogue, but it's not common anymore.
But hey, that's why I said fun. It's probably not a deck you want to get Legend with.
He's bad against aggro but good against midrange (excluding paladin) or control. Really threatening against Handlock, for instance. If he can kill a creature that's the least bit beefy that's a solid 2 for 1 unless he gets BGHed. The fact that everybody is running BGH right now limits his use, though.
I think the prime example of a Malygod deck is the rogue one.
Chmpocalypse
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Best bm from playing all day yesterday, I had lethal against a warlock with 3hp, warlock wasn't making any moves on his turn, leading me to think he was doing that "I'm going to lose but I'm waiting for the rope before I concede" crap people pull. Nope, rope came and then Lord Jaraxxus and then coin and then an Infernal. I lost that one.
Worst bm goes to the idiot mech mage who emoted "sorry" after all their moves and "thank you" after all mine. So I waited for the rope every turn and beat them on turn 9, at the rope, after spending my whole turn emoting "greetings" before putting them out of their misery. Childish but effective.
Oddest was the Shaman who was pretending to be a bot (waiting for rope before even mousing over a card) for the first 3 turns before playing normally afterwards. Maybe trying for a concession?
Edit: shaman and warlock are the two classes I don't even have up to 10 yet, I get them mixed up.
Real talk: the sheer number of assholes playing this game has me just quitting instead of conceding now.
The worst is a thing I see in arena sometimes. You are near death and you know your opponent can topdeck potential lethal. So they say "well played" and then hover over the card or point it at your face or something, but they never actually play it. Like they have diddly squat but they try to trick you into thinking they have lethal.
And then you taunt them and they put down their voodoo doctor or haunted creeper or whatever.
That's why you never concede until you actually see them playing out lethal.
And then you taunt them and they put down their voodoo doctor or haunted creeper or whatever.
That's why you never concede until you actually see them playing out lethal.
If people emoting bothers you, then squelch. I make a habit of passing a greetings then immediately squelching. Emotes add nothing for me; I'm only roping if I have something to genuinely consider and don't need the distraction of the other players' impatience - if there were an option to default emotes off I would. If I really have anything to say or ask I'll friend after the fact.
Ego poisons the mind and instills a misplaced sense of entitlement to cards/RNG that will only stifle your creativity and limit your judgement. I find more pleasure in my victories and more lessons from my defeats when I play with magnanimity. Real talk.
RumblingRosco
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That worked for me once actually, the "Well played" and hover bluff. I have only used it about 4 times in my thousands of HS matches, so I only pull it out when I feel the match has played out in a way that it'll work, but yeah.
Also, you especially never concede against a Mage if they have only 1-2 HP. You never know if they'll pull a Flame Leviathan.
I'll have to look into that, Rogue is probably my favorite class. And I only play for fun, could care less about legend rank. The more wacky the deck, the more I'm into it.
partyphone
Banned
fan of knives for 6 damage is pretty funny
Professor Lich
Member
Just casted Eviscerate on a minion who popped from a Shredder as it was in the air, made me miss lethal. I think I've seen that happen in the video, just can't play too fast I suppose.
RumblingRosco
Member
I remember quite a few videos of people accidently targeting Whelps summoned by Leeroy because the punks fly in all weird.
I have Gazlowe. Threw it in my deathrattle/mech priest and took it into a game.
I promptly lost without ever drawing Gazlowe.
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