Haunted
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Tracker says I faced exactly 30% warriors in my last ranked games around 14-13. Not all were Patron, though, some straight up control warriors as well.
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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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Welp. I did that and the 2 packs were garbage
Even with johnsmith's deck I can't advance past Rank 13, again everyone has Dr. Boom.
Definitely more Warlocks. I hardly ever see zoo anymore, though. A lot of different midrange decks.
I was running a cobra shot for a few days. Then the ladder started getting faster again o I cut it.
Filling time with Innkeeper built decks while the organizers are drawing up the next set of matches.
AntiFacebook
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I got a second ragnaros. Any chance Blizzard will nerf it anytime soon?
Nope. The card has survived for so long and currently it's not that strong compared to what you face on Ladder (good against Handlock though).
The only Legendary that is on the nerf list is Dr Balanced. After that there's a huge gap, probably Emperor Thaurissan but no way that gets the stick and Dr Balanced doesn't.
To counter Patron I guess
Maybe, but the meta seems to have shifted to patron counter-counters. Strange that they're popping up now.
Ben Brode + Kripp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1ioY1KO79A
Officerrob
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Yeah, I'm not buying Brode's argument on how Nozdormu is a good card
Wafflecakes
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Lol. Just started an arena run with 2 fireballs, 1 pyroblast, and archmage antonidus.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Brode trying to convince people one of the most notoriously bad legendaries is actually good? Probably need to watch
Officerrob
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His argument is that Nozdormu has an interesting/fun mechanic, so it's a good card. Who gives a shit though if it's attached to an overpriced card that absolutely nobody plays
Isn't that a standard tech card for Druid now? Either that or MCT. It's in my Druid deck.
Ben Brode will defend the existence of certain bad cards because that's his job.
It's also his job to say that certain cards aren't clearly broken.... that is until they are nerfed in which case it's his job to argue why those cards are in fact broken.
That said I still enjoyed this Ben Brode video. More community managers and such need to put out similar videos and give their opinion on certain mechanics/particularities about the game. You can only say so much on Twitter at one time.
Kezan is just hitting too often these days to not run one in mid-range/control decks.
LMAO @ one of Ben Brode's explanation.
"Understanding why Eye for an Eye is a bad card is what makes you go from being a bad player to a good player."
ROFL! That's like the bull shit that Ninja Gaiden players spew when the bloated movelists for the weapons is criticized.
"Some moves are just skill test. The skill test is that if you are using those moves then you are a bad player and thus get punished for using them!"
"Understanding why Eye for an Eye is a bad card is what makes you go from being a bad player to a good player."
ROFL! That's like the bull shit that Ninja Gaiden players spew when the bloated movelists for the weapons is criticized.
"Some moves are just skill test. The skill test is that if you are using those moves then you are a bad player and thus get punished for using them!"
FiveSix4Three
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God i'm so fucking tired of hyper aggro bullshit. 8 straight games.
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That is copied verbatim from MaRo, chief designerblogger of MTG, who justifies bad cards as a skill test.
I agree that not all cards can be good otherwise they'll run out of product to push very quickly but come on.
I agree that not all cards can be good otherwise they'll run out of product to push very quickly but come on.
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Who paid you to grab Dr. Pavel?
First time playing arena since GvG came out. First 3 matches are against Mage. Ah, Hearthstone.
Yep 4 out of 5 were mages. 2-3. So lame.
Yep 4 out of 5 were mages. 2-3. So lame.
Yeah Kripp said that he wasn't proposing that EVERY card be good, he knows that's an impossibility. There will always be bad cards simply because cards are judged based on relative strength to each other.
What he's saying is that completely trash/useless tier cards that have obviously better analogues should be bumped up from "useless" to "mediocre".
MTG is a different case. That's a physical card game, they can't go back and change already released cards... that's just not how it works. Sure you can re-print a card but that's not worth the effort. Hearthstone is in a very easy position for the devs being able to tinker cards at will because it's an online only game. They should be taking advantage of it more often.
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Ha don't feel too bad about it shit happens, for example today i was one dmg off lethal with drake and evis, i should have attacked for 1 dmg in an earlier turn but i like saving my weapons charges, i fucked up. Also guys i have been playing oil rogue all day today and even tough i have been stuck in rank 7-6 it's been super fun, what a fantastic deck.
Just went back to oil rogue after going on a bad streak with tempo mage. so good
NobleGundam
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So I wanted to test Hunter if he's capable of being more than just face or mid-hunter. And it turns out he is:
The first test was to see how many times I could beat the AI (Expert) and won 5 times without any problems.
Next step was to see how well my Mech - Giant hunter deck would hold against with a real player.
And payed off so good. The hand lock player conceded.
The first test was to see how many times I could beat the AI (Expert) and won 5 times without any problems.
Next step was to see how well my Mech - Giant hunter deck would hold against with a real player.
And payed off so good. The hand lock player conceded.
The best of Eloise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzgE4ZDL_k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSzgE4ZDL_k
FieryBalrog
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MTG is not a different case. They don't release bad cards in every single set for 20 years by accident. It's not like every set comes out, a bunch of bad cards get printed and the MTG designers wring their hands and say " whoops! Oh geez! We tried so hard to print no bad cards but failed miserably again!"
I disagree with Mark Rosewater about a lot of things but his article on "why bad cards exist" is a really great explanation of this topic.
I would also add to Brodes points that arena is more interesting when cards vary in power level on multiple axes and are also sometimes flat out better than each other.
She really is a phenomenal pick-up for them/their brand.
She's a good player and she's effortlessly funny while streaming.
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So that Elder Scrolls Card Game.
Trying to get that Hearthstone $$$!
Trying to get that Hearthstone $$$!
It's great to run in secret decks too since it counters both other secret decks and decks that have Kezans in them. Secret steal backs!
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Kez is like auto win again face hunter if you gank their 2 dmg to all secret.
Scrolls? Or Elder Scrolls? Hah
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