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Hearthstone |OT4| The warsong has ended, please patron other decks
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I'm not sure it fits well into the traditional tempo mage deck, but maybe when there are less aggro decks out there, it could work well. Hard to predict at this stage. I will certainly try it =)
I don't really play hunter as much these days, but I'm thinking it will actually look something like old school Starving Buzzard + Unleash the hounds/Sunshine Hunter.
Should be "fun" to have a different Hunter archetype if true.
Main problem with this archetype is that just like Feign Death Hunter it gets punished by Face Hunter.
"Oh you drew a bunch of cards... great I will just kill you anyway".
I guess having stuff like Arcane Shots and Tracking in the early game can help you counter some aggression anyway. Especially with Power Shot.
The Brawl games which I've won with Hunter fall into three categories:
1) Mage had a terrible draw and I was able to gain control of the board very early.
2) A modest L&L draw netted me beasts people would actually put in a Hunter deck.
3) A whopper doubled L&L (played twice) with a hand full of cheap spells gave me card advantage out the butt even if the cards were only so-so.
1) Mage had a terrible draw and I was able to gain control of the board very early.
2) A modest L&L draw netted me beasts people would actually put in a Hunter deck.
3) A whopper doubled L&L (played twice) with a hand full of cheap spells gave me card advantage out the butt even if the cards were only so-so.
Golden Slumbers
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Just hit the big 500 with mage and made it to rank 3 for the first time. Feels good :^)
A 4th win condition is you some how survive until turn 10 and the Mage over extends the board and you can punish with Acidmaw + UTH combo.
Grats!
Yup--managed that once. Felt pretty good.
Right now only Mage Dragon and Warrior Dragon seem any good (actually Warlock Dragon deck too if you include Malylock in that archetype). Druid can sort of work with their ramp cards but it's not really that great.
Probably should wait until the expansion for better dragon decks.
Also it doesn't matter that Rend Blackhand can kill a Dr Balanced main body... Rend Blackhand will get killed by the Boom Bots anyway. You are just better off using a BGH in that situation. Rend Blackhand's more common targets include Emperor Thaurissan, Loatheb, Harrison Jones and the big cahuna... Ysera.
Aquavelvaman
Banned
Just got 2x King Krush from LnL and won a joust on a master jouster. Control hunter is here.
It would be nice to think that control hunter could be a thing, but I'm afraid that any slower hunter variant will still be a very aggressive deck, so calling it "control" is a bit silly.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Stuck at rank 11 all day today -_-
I've tried Patron, Oil, Handlock, Control Warrior, Face Hunter, Midrange Hunter, Tempo Mage, Freeze Mage, Zoolock.
But really, the most consistent ladder climber right now is Eboladin.
Spam it brehs. Spam it to your Golden Epic.
But really, the most consistent ladder climber right now is Eboladin.
Spam it brehs. Spam it to your Golden Epic.
WesternHeretic
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I've been playing eboladin all month. Can't get pass rank #2 though. Just cap out there then fall to like #4 then climb back to 2 and been repeating.
Wafflecakes
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Is brawl going to be the same two heroes all week?
Officerrob
Banned
Yep. Sure would have been nice if they would have put a little thought into not making the Hunter deck garbage
Wafflecakes
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Funny. I was thinking the opposite lol.
Same goes for any TCG in the last 20 years brah.
which version are you using? you bothering with Consecration and Annoy or just going straight to the face?
yeah, he's quite bad. Some people think he will be good in a tempo mage deck, I'm guessing they don't have much experience playing a tempo mage deck. Playing Rhonin is nothing but losing tempo. It's very unlikely you can use him effectively and late game tempo mage doesn't survive, you need a direct reliable finisher on turn, this is a war golem first and then maybe a finisher.
Polyboar though definitely is great for tempo mage, versatile cards like that are really important for a tempo deck. Since tempo mage is quite draw dependent and not everything goes according to plan most of the time cards like that really help. While sheep stays in your hand most of the time, it cost too much for what it is and there is only one way it can be used.
You need one with coghammer, one annoy-o-tron and one equality. Obviously you need consecration, if some deck doesn't it's trash.
toddhunter
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Polyboar is great.
Rhonin is being underrated too. It needs a specific deck perhaps, but we'll see it generating fireballs yet.
Rhonin is being underrated too. It needs a specific deck perhaps, but we'll see it generating fireballs yet.
As Strifecro mentioned probably one of the best minions to throw into a Mirror Entity.
Panda it out to avoid the deathrattle. Definitely not worth putting a panda into the deck just for that though Firebat did it in a big tourney last year where he got to use BGH twice thanks to that.
didn't play for a few months, decided to come back for tgt. this just happened at 7-1. i'm still baffled.
I don't get it.
turn one coin, worgen, pass
didn't play for a few months, decided to come back for tgt. this just happened at 7-1. i'm still baffled.
Be kind to Nate Dogg. He tries his best while being dead.
Oh didn't notice the crystals heh. Yeah that's strange.
call_kotaku
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I just thought of the perfect nerf to mad scientist
make his deathrattle a joust like skeleton knight's
make his deathrattle a joust like skeleton knight's
I just thought of the perfect nerf to mad scientist
make his deathrattle a joust like skeleton knight's
I would love this.
Mobius and pet octopus
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New tavern brawl, "everybody was joust-fu fighting"
One rule: Nothing happens unless you win a joust.
Attacking face? Joust says 50% chance to miss.
Playing a minion? Joust says no way.
Knife juggler proc? Only if joust!
Turn begins? Did you win joust?
One rule: Nothing happens unless you win a joust.
Attacking face? Joust says 50% chance to miss.
Playing a minion? Joust says no way.
Knife juggler proc? Only if joust!
Turn begins? Did you win joust?
I think Twilight Guardian is underrated as well. I think it's odd to have fencing coach rated so highly but few inspire cards rated highly. Surely the card lives and dies by inspire effects? I'm surprised Paletress is rated so highly, as well; she just seems too fragile to me.
Just make it double or nothing.
Attack face, win Joust? get free windfury.
Turn begins, win Joust? Play two turns in a row.
My brawl idea. "Oops! All Spiders!"
You pick a class. Everybody gets 2x copies of every spider card in the game, across all classes (webspinner, nerubian egg, beneath the grounds, anub'ar ambusher, anub'ar weblord, haunted creeper, ball of spiders, spider tank, maexxna, anubarak) plus assorted random spells from your class.
You pick a class. Everybody gets 2x copies of every spider card in the game, across all classes (webspinner, nerubian egg, beneath the grounds, anub'ar ambusher, anub'ar weblord, haunted creeper, ball of spiders, spider tank, maexxna, anubarak) plus assorted random spells from your class.
crazygambit
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Nozdormu is the biggest shit show in this game. I can't believe they made something as stupid as that.
A mage pulled it out portal against my patron warrior. Neither of us could play for like 2 turns and whoever managed to get his client to respond first won (it was me by killing the stupid thing). That card really needs to be deleted from the game. They've removed discard mechanics on the opponent because it's not fun, yet they leave this shit unchanged. It's ridiculous.
The Tavern Brawl matches take so long. Maybe it's people not being familiar with the cards yet, but even so you gotta sit through the joust animation, people sitting there for 80 seconds reading cards, the "everyone gets a card!" abilities etc. What happened to my turn five lethal utopia?
crazygambit
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Not necessarily. Fencing coach is something you could almost run on Face Hunter if Leper Gnome wasn't so good. Like I prefer a Turn 3 Leper + Hero power, but only by a little. So even if you don't have inspire cards on your hand is not terrible to play it on curve. And you don't have to use the hero power right away.
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