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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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I played a few games an hour ago. Had no problems.
I was doing a warlock arena the other day, and I played a mage at 4-0 that played Young Dragonhawk + Duplicate onto an empty board turn 4, then played both the Duplicated Dragonhawks, used their hero power, then passed on turn 5. No words.
I'm always sort of relieved to face mages/paladins at the 10+ stage of a run. Going into those matches, I'm at least vaguely aware of what I'll be up against. It's when I'm at 11 wins and fighting a warrior(rogue, shaman, etc.) that I'm most worried. Last time that happened, the warrior wasn't actually fighting back too much early on, but then I promptly lost to turn 7 Boom, turn 8 KT.
You can craft all cards with a gem in the middle.
Well that is true. Wasn't even a good deck I was up against. Just a mixture of poor decisions and drawing my end game early on.
Well that is true. Wasn't even a good deck I was up against. Just a mixture of poor decisions and drawing my end game early on.
LanceVance
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So I finally beat General Drakkisath on heroic with a cheesy 29 spell, majordormo executus deck.
Could not have been closer (ignoring the draw from pws).
Dat topdeck
Could not have been closer (ignoring the draw from pws).
Dat topdeck
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How does that work? He can take control of your majordormo?
I just duplicated KT with a shaman and used a lot of taunts for that boss
LanceVance
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He plays mindgames, so the only minion he can get from it is M-E. Killed it with Shadow word death, he turned into rag with 8 health, then I killed him with spells just before his minions killed me. (It also resets the mana so there were a few turns where he didn't play anything due to the high mana cost of his creatures).
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but he still had his 50 armor,no?
LanceVance
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Nope it destroys his armor too!
Consort is the only reason you would make a dragon paladin. Everything else comes into place around it. If BT forces you to play more dragons that otherwise would not be placed instead of better cards, then BT might be making your whole deck worse.
I'll add you too so we can spectate each other when needed.
Professor Lich
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Should work just fine though. It's pretty much the equivalent to Grommash and Taskmaster. My only advice in can think of is to run a Gorehowl if you have one. I think it could help close the damage gap.
Consort's strength diminishes the fewer dragons you have in your deck though. Instead of a 5/5 that draws an innervate, it becomes a 5/5 that might draw an innervate, or a 5/5 that draws an innervate that you can't use for several turns.
Heyo_Rockbreaker
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Did anyone else just drop connection on the U.S. servers?
This is the Dragon Pally I've been using from ranks 11 to 6.
I don't track my winrate but it's been high so far. Around 80% or so I'd guess. 3-0 vs Face hunters but the main deck I've been seeing is that secret mage or whatever it's called.
I see a lot of people not including Boom in their Dragon decks and opting for Alexstrasza or something instead. That's a mistake. Boom is too good. Fit it in your deck somewhere.
Anyway I've seen people debating Muster recently and I opted not to include it in my deck. It's a good card of course and a muster/quartermaster combo can certainly win you the game... But I find there's better choices in this meta. Too often a quartermaster will sit in my hand with useless stats as a mage pings down all of my guys. Then I'll fall too far behind and unable to catch up. And well muster against face hunter... Too often they draw UTH on me. I'm definitely doing better with those cards out of my deck.
I don't track my winrate but it's been high so far. Around 80% or so I'd guess. 3-0 vs Face hunters but the main deck I've been seeing is that secret mage or whatever it's called.
I see a lot of people not including Boom in their Dragon decks and opting for Alexstrasza or something instead. That's a mistake. Boom is too good. Fit it in your deck somewhere.
Anyway I've seen people debating Muster recently and I opted not to include it in my deck. It's a good card of course and a muster/quartermaster combo can certainly win you the game... But I find there's better choices in this meta. Too often a quartermaster will sit in my hand with useless stats as a mage pings down all of my guys. Then I'll fall too far behind and unable to catch up. And well muster against face hunter... Too often they draw UTH on me. I'm definitely doing better with those cards out of my deck.
Nah five other dragons is plenty. It's way better for you to play a Consort and then wait for a dragon than to be playing mediocre dragons or dragon-synergy cards before a consort. Twilight Drakes are not good enough for the deck and don't really offer any synergy with Consorts.
Here's my revised list, had to play a Mystic in there because of the meta.
Now if only we would get more good value dragons in the 6-8 mana cost, this deck would get even more powerful.
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What are the counters to mech decks?
And face hunters?
Let's say i want to make a deck that wins against mechs most of the time, even if it loses to everything else. How would it look like?
And face hunters?
Let's say i want to make a deck that wins against mechs most of the time, even if it loses to everything else. How would it look like?
Gorehowl has been pretty good as a finisher. Alternatives are fun, though.
Deathlords and AOE, I guess. I made a troll deck with Deathlords and Shadowstep so you could re-summon them at 8 health a couple of weeks ago.
I kind of wish they had a collectors case like you see in trading card stores with a limited number of cards each day. You could check the case everyday and maybe buy something for money if it pops up on random rotation. It would kind of gate the pay to win community but give you a shot to get some stuff.
Think of it like you're buying dust in order to craft the cards you want.
You talked about weakening a deck by running sub-optimal Dragon cards and here you are with Alexstrasza in the deck. She's pretty weak if you're running her for healing and mid-range decks are going to be going face enough you can't really use her for damage.
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Alex is great in control matchups where you don't go face until very late game. And against aggro I have played her plenty of times for 7 mana on turn 6. Consort is most powerful with Alex and Ysera at the moment.
It averages out to about 100 dust per pack, actually.
RumblingRosco
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And allow for more than two copies of any card of course.
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Oh yeah, no doubt. I just meant Gorehowl with the Crusher. It'll only deal 11 damage but activates on 15. You could also use Death's Bite but with control Warrior, chances are you'll want to be more liberal with the AoE it has.
Yeah, that sounds like a pretty good sequence. Gorehowl as early as turn 7, optionally kill an enemy Taunt minion with it, and then on turn 8 or later, Crusher + Charge for 8 mana. 17-18 damage assuming your opponent is already at 15 health or less.
Loving the shenanigans you can pull off with double Resurrect.
Thatnumberguy did something similar last month when he made his breakthrough.
Thatnumberguy did something similar last month when he made his breakthrough.
I really wish they'd add a 'ban this class from matchmaking' option, other games do it and it would fix almost everyone's annoyances at the same time. Don't like playing face hunter? Ban. Don't like playing druid? Ban. Such an easy option to include that would make the game instantly better.
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Everyone will just ban all the classes except the one that their deck is best against
You'd only get one ban pick.
Depends what you feel like.
Some people like masturbating their egos in this game in ladder, so I think I'm going to lean towards arena from now on.
I have a feeling hunters would have trouble finding games.
Not that that would be a bad thing.
Neverforget
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I just started 2 days ago and I am hooked! I'm feeling my social life fading away already 
I am following the OP advices and reading beginners tutorials and whatnot.
My mage is lvl14 and I'm doing well on casual mode so far.
Any advices are welcome
I am following the OP advices and reading beginners tutorials and whatnot.
My mage is lvl14 and I'm doing well on casual mode so far.
Any advices are welcome
I just started 2 days ago and I am hooked! I'm feeling my social life fading away already
I am following the OP advices and reading beginners tutorials and whatnot.
My mage is lvl14 and I'm doing well on casual mode so far.
Any advices are welcome
Post deck list.
You're gonna lose but worth playing it out just to see what their strategies and cards are. Shouldn't be worried about winning when you first start out. Get the hang of how the game is played and start getting packs as your gold grows.
Heyo_Rockbreaker
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Yea gotta learn somehow. It might as well be from experience.
Secrets are intimidating when you first start out but they aren't anything OP (some might disagree). They do affect newer players the most who haven't learned how to play around them yet.
Singularity42
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Grim Patron warrior is pretty damn fun. Even if I lose I still enjoyed the game and most of my losses are my own fault.
I'm crushing face hunters with it so that is a bonus
I'm crushing face hunters with it so that is a bonus
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