TheChewyWaffles
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I've done better with my Druid deck, but mech mages are a pimple on the ass of Hearthstone.
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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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I ended up crafting those two cards because I wouldn't get them from packs after I had drawn like four or five legendaries. Defender of Argus is only 100 dust.
Why don't you just craft Defender??
Or they could just remove the class.
BananasWithGuns
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call_kotaku
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There should be a legendary that when on the board that lets you use your hero power as many times as you want in a turn, but changes it to a random power after every use. So you can theoretically do 5 different hero powers on a 10 mana turn.
None of the hero powers (besides warlock) is really all that amazing late game, but it'd be fun for the RNG
None of the hero powers (besides warlock) is really all that amazing late game, but it'd be fun for the RNG
Craft the rares you need. Epics, I can see waiting for.
Saw a post on Reddit from someone who tracked win rates by coin usage in arena from popular streamers. They found that coining out a 4-drop gave the highest win rate, with coining out a 2-drop the second highest. Everything else was well below those two plays.
Shrinkmeister is not a 2 drop. Or rather, it isn't a 2 drop on curve. It is extremely rare to actually drop a shrinkmeister on turn 2, as its whole purpose is to manipulate enemy health for cabal shadowpriest / shadoword pain purposes.
They have things to drop on 4 (Auchenai + Circle of healing, piloted shredder), but really nothing that works on turn 2 for them.
Not that this makes it any better a play on curve, but people underestimate Shrinkmeister's ability to set yourself up for very favorable trades. If you have a 3/2 on board and your opponent has a 3/3 or a 2/3 or something, you can use Shrinkmeister to set yourself up for a free kill. It's especially powerful if you can use it to reduce 2 damage from two of your own minions instead of one. That makes Shrinkmeister exceptionally good in arena, even if you don't have something like Cabal or Pain.
Right, it's good in arena. Much less effective in constructed on 2. A 3/2 turn 2 with nothing else gained isnt really what I'd call a real turn 2 any more than Id call wild pyromancer a turn 2 drop (although at least there you can potentially coin).
I was thinking about making a mill warrior with this in it. Maybe some mechs.It may not be an amazing card, but it sure does give me an AMAZING feeling when that mine draws at the perfect time.
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toddhunter
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The most important thing is to plan ahead.
Say you have a 2 drop on turn 1. Do you coin it out? Well, what are you going to do on turn 2? If you have another 2 drop it is a good play to coin one out. Otherwise you just wasted it or you are relying on top decking a play.
In practice this typically means a 4 drop on turn 3, since you probably don't have a good 3 drop and after that turn the coin isn't as valuable.
Playing midrange hunter (snake trap) and am stuck around rank 13 for some shitty reason all I play are Paladins and priests over and over and over again
I'm finding it extremely difficult to deal with muster quartermaster etc. as midrange.. The shielded minibot openers every single time also just destroy me, might just be a bad night, I just started climbing today even though the season ends in 3 days
I also get zoo players but I'm about 90% on them so that's fine
I have played some games with face hunter as well but with only getting matched against Paladins and priests that was short lived
I'm finding it extremely difficult to deal with muster quartermaster etc. as midrange.. The shielded minibot openers every single time also just destroy me, might just be a bad night, I just started climbing today even though the season ends in 3 days
I also get zoo players but I'm about 90% on them so that's fine
I have played some games with face hunter as well but with only getting matched against Paladins and priests that was short lived
Gully State
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Seeing the same thing as you. I just went tempo Mage to counter after I finished my hunter challenge
toddhunter
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Running Sylvanas and feign death might help? It can help to turn a match around or get more value out of highmanes.
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thepotatoman
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Webspinner, haunted creeper, and knife juggler juggles should be able to take care of minibot's shields at a better value than most deck's openers. After that it's just like most other 2 health early minions, with ideally a mad scientist taking it out.
For the 8 mana combo, I guess you'd ideally have enough board presence from Highmane and Boom that he can't afford the slow play of that combo for fear of you ignoring it and just killing him over the next one or two turns. Loatheb can also be timed to counter that 8 mana combo instead of just using him as a 5 drop, since muster is a spell.
Otherwise I don't think there's really anything special about playing against it. Just fear every Recruit as a possible future 3/3, fear the turn when he gets 8 mana, and otherwise play normal.
EDIT: If you're good against zoo but bad against palidan, it could be a sign of you overtrading. With Zoo you can win by making him run out of cards to play, but with Paladin, you really have to focus on attacking his health resource, since you'll never win the card resource battle.
I agree that I have been overtrading in the matchup.
My draws have been less than ideal in terms of midrange as well, my highmanes are usually in the opener sans coin and have been unlucky on the curve front in general
Great advice thank you
Playing Freeze Mage, first Match Paladin with Kezan, 2nd Match Paladin with Kezan, 3rd Match FACE HUNTER WITH KEZAN. WTF!!!!
Amaz threw that game so badly. It was almost impossible to lose with his hand...then shadowflame happened...
Such awful Handlock play from Amaz
Amaz threw that game so badly. It was almost impossible to lose with his hand...then shadowflame happened...
Yeah, when I play Freeze Mage I instantly concede if I see a Kezan.
This Paladin-play from Forsen.
It amazes me at how bad at decision making some of these pros are.
I think that's mostly just Forsen.
Forsen has been pretty bad at it but there's been more than just him, even Kolento did some really dumb stuff.
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I noticed something strange - if your oponnent has a weapon, and you have Misdirection which makes one of the opponent's minions attack him, that minion suffers damage from the weapon.
It's a unique interaction they probably added to make Misdirection more useful but didn't bother mentioning in the card's text.
The burden of knowledge is real
Basically, your weapon is out on your turn, but not on your enemy's turn. There's the animation that happens at the end of each turn that shows that.
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This one is genuinely very funny when the stream lags and everyone spams it, then the stream comes back.
FiveSix4Three
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I hate how i can't mass disenchant when i have a second boom waiting on the nerf bat.
#firstworldproblems
#firstworldproblems
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Makes sense,I didn't think about it like that.
Mobius and pet octopus
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The first sap was pretty bad. He just got lucky that his opponent couldn't take advantage of his lack of saps.
I don't think they said it will cost him the game, but that it could cost him the game.
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