Meh, if I don't make it, I don't make it. Not like it's going to hurt. But I'm liking the way it plays so far. We'll see how far I get before March.
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Meh, if I don't make it, I don't make it. Not like it's going to hurt. But I'm liking the way it plays so far. We'll see how far I get before March.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
Ok so I bought some decks and crafted Grommash for my Warrior. In my next game, Turn 8 I was down to half my health, the Paladin I'm playing has a full field of buffed recruits and full health, while my field was empty. Turn 9, I got Alexstrzsa, putting his health down to 15. His turn, he ignored Alex and buffed his minions and attacked. Turn 10, I did Grommash/Cruel Taskmaster, 20 damage in one round (Alex and enraged Grom) and won. Damn that was an insane comeback.
Rocking midrange druid lately and feeling like the deck is really well positioned. Mech mage is still stupidly overpowered but well, you cant beat them if they draw right with almost any deck so whatever. But liking how my deck perform against anything else. Combo finishes just are too good to pass, lots of people dont respect the combo and get punished.
Gully State
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Looks like I'm caught up with starter card unlocks ( all heroes to lvl 10.. felt faster when I just unucessarily drew out the game against AI) and have a size able collection, pulled two legendaries from consecutive packs- Vol'jin and Archmage... Do these two see play at higher levels?
Mobius and pet octopus
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I won't mind watching totalbiscuit get wrecked.
Nope. Nobody plays those gimicky priest decks above rank 15. They aren't consistent.
Yes, both are good class legendaries. Keep them both.
BananasWithGuns
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They're both great. Antonidas sees a lot of play right now, especially in mech mage with spare parts but he can really find his way into any mage deck honestly. Vol'jin can result in some crazy swings depending on what you steal health from and if you can kill that minion on the same turn you trade health with it.
poppedcollar69
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i just got a pack that probably ranks in the top 10 packs ive gotten! molten and lay on hands, and a rare
Brofist
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I'm starting to wonder if its even worth playing conservatively in arena. In most games that I try to trade sensibly I either eventually get run down by a very aggressive deck or eventually lose out to 1 (or more) big AoE spell, especially against mage. Seems pointless to play the long game against mages.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
I know it's a very rare combination of cards, but it's still lame that it can happen. I had like 45 HP at the time, too. Lol.
Golgo 13
The Man With The Golden Dong
Yeah, Druid has insane finishers. And more chances to do them, too. I haven't fought many in the 13-16 Ranks, at all. Mostly Mages, Hunters, Paladins.
StaffyManasse
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Last night after some good old RNG rage that made a simple win six times quest take forever, I bought a booster that had legendary, epic and a rare. Don't even remember the other cards, went to sleep right after opening, but the epic was some shaman(?) murloc and the legendary was Toshley.
I'm pretty sure I'm going to dust the murloc, but Toshley? Can I make him work? I play varying (not mech) mage and priest decks.
I'm thinking it's not that much of a game changer a legendary would suggest, but am I missing something?
I'm pretty sure I'm going to dust the murloc, but Toshley? Can I make him work? I play varying (not mech) mage and priest decks.
I'm thinking it's not that much of a game changer a legendary would suggest, but am I missing something?
I might be in the minority here but I really like Toshley. He can trade really well with any minion his own level or below plus he has both a battle cry and death rattle effect. Sure, he's not a must have for any deck but he's fairly decent.
Professor Lich
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Toshley has done some good work for me in my Priest deck, for the most part he's easy to keep alive. Only issue is that he's a slow response to the slew of good five drops but deals with them well if you can get him to trade. Not the best against Sylvanas though worst case he'll only have two health.
StaffyManasse
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Maybe I'll give Toshley a go in my priest deck. At least the parts are good for easy late game Wild Pyromancer activations.
If it's rare then I'm not sure how it's also lame.
If it's not rare and OP then it's lame.
ESL finals were pretty neat yesterday. The face hunter vs control warrior games of chakki and zalae were both so close. Silentstorm's demonlock did major work. It didn't seem like the winrate of his other decks was very good. Savjz should have played oil rogue instead of druid i think.
Flood of demolocks on ladder incoming.
Flood of demolocks on ladder incoming.
Toshley is 6 mana though. And if he was 5 mana he'd be better than all of those.
which is fine, the deck is skill intensive a newb trying to play it will wreck hard, the deck is full of nice and small interactions and without knowing thwem right is just a pile of garbage cards (mistress of pain, abusive sergeant,...)
I have a 6 now, so I'd be all about it. It's weird though, lately Hearthstone has been lagging pretty bad at times on my iPad Air. It never used to be like that.
Yeah, I really don't count Implosion purely as a demon card. I was remembering the justsayians "demon deck" when I posted that last night.
And the creators comment on his "demon" deck
Mengy
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Maybe not below rank 15 but up around 20 they are everywhere, and it's real hard to deal with them. I absolutely hate playing against the priest class up around rank 20, it seems like they all have the same deck with small variations in legendaries and I've (not lying here) lost my past 13 matches against priests. Yep, I've not won against a priest in the past 13 times I've played against them. Not won once. They just seem to have superior card synergy, great card drawing, and answers for everything on the board. It's so damn frustrating. I'd play the damned class but I don't have a good number of the cards that they all are playing so I can't make it work.
In comparison I have decent win rates against every other class no matter what class I'm playing up around ranks 17-20, it's only the priests giving me these problems.
I think from now on I'm just going to insta concede against priests, why waste my time even trying...
Professor Lich
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Why does this deck even run Voidcallers? Is it just bait for silence/removal? I only ask since I feel like it could ruin Jarraxus.
It was primarily used to drop Jaraxxus and taunt him up. Not much can past a 4/16 body.
It's like a Priests worst nightmare.
I'm pretty sure the deck was made to counter mech mage,so that should be by far the best match up.
No idea how good it is against hunter,but I think it should do pretty well.
It's decent against hunters too but I needed to make an adjustment to it because there was a bad card in the deck for that matchup, and it was missing an essential card for that matchup.
Except you better hope you can argus it up before the priest and use SW
ain on it. I generally try my hardest not to drop Jaraxxus on the board as a body because it's too easy for the Priest to fuck with it, and Jaraxxus is very essential to be used for the Infernals in the Priest matchup.Silent Storm's Demon deck makes me pretty mad. It's really close to a demon deck I was running a month ago and had to drop because of all the aggro on ladder. Only about 4 cards are different and it brings down his mana curve. I wonder if that's enough to bring the deck up to par.
Of course one of the best things about the deck was people having no idea what they were up against. That won't be the case and I totally expect to see the ladder full of demons this week.
Of course one of the best things about the deck was people having no idea what they were up against. That won't be the case and I totally expect to see the ladder full of demons this week.
Yeah I'm pretty annoyed that it's getting popular too because one of the advantages it had was how unknown it was. Maybe it's time to switch to handlock when opponents start keeping their early removals in the starting hand.
Which is why I don't think it will do as well as people think. Granted its a good deck but for laddering I would rather opt for something else. Still, I expect the meta will shift towards it this week.
call_kotaku
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Hunter is actually a really solid Arena class, I wasn't expecting it.
Lots of value commons and glaivezooka wrecks people
Lots of value commons and glaivezooka wrecks people
Gully State
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I'm not sure I'm playing Loethebb correctly. Every time I put him down...seems like it doesn't really stop the opponent from doing anything. I've played him both early and late...Usually he just gets quickly dealt with.
Think about when and how to use him. To prevent aoe clears to protect your board, prevent burn, stopping rogue and druid combos, loatheb after freeze mage drops Alex, etc. Such a great card.
Brian Griffin
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I was playing Fatigue Druid vs. Control Warrior and he had 30hp and around 45 armor at the end. I think I took him to 12 fatigue before he died.
Yeah. Bomb Lobber is the great new bomber card.
Heh. Same. But if a lot of us non-streaming, experimenting folks were coming to these conclusions independently, one of the faces of HS was inevitably going to come to that same place.
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thepotatoman
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Ok, so how important is the coghammer you think? I have none of those and am running low on dust.
Madder Bomber can be great in Arena, but you have to play them on a favorable board for you. You can usually stack the RNG odds in your favor. Problem is when you use him that way some times he becomes a dead card in your hand.
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