Yeah Hungry Crab is actually a good pickup from webspinner against Paladin now, lol.
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Hearthstone |OT4| The warsong has ended, please patron other decks
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Yeah Hungry Crab is actually a good pickup from webspinner against Paladin now, lol.
I watch hearthstone streams from time to time and i dislike two decks the most: Patron and ice block mage. I like watching crazy random things the most. Seeing warriors sit back and try to set up one hit kills isn't interesting. (just saw that lifecoach match where he lost to the patron). I also don't like force of nature savage roar combos either so.....i just don't like a lot of stuff about this game.
Digital Limit
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What's wrong with Ice Block Mage? Probably one of the cooler (heh) thematic decks out there.
I don't like the stall pacing of the games i've seen, a lot of freezing, two ice blocks, alextraza.
Mobius and pet octopus
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I assume he means freeze mage. It is a deck that basically wins or loses based on the order of its card draw. As the other player there is very little you can interact with or do to beat it. IMO it is the least interactive deck and fortunately there are some hard counters available (mainly warrior) which stops it from being a consistent powerhouse on the ladder.
NamikazeBurst
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Some people have all the luck. A Paladin I just fought in the arena had Muster for Battle, Murloc Knight, Justicar, Shielded Minibot, Warhorse Trainer, and more. Meanwhile I am a Mage with no frostbolt, flamestrike, or fireball.
Yup, freeze mage is garbage. No interaction. No attempt to gain the board. Just stall, stall, stall, emperor, alex, antonidas, win.
I think the game actually knows what happens before the animations show, because you can't queue up attacks for certain things, like if a shredder is going to drop a taunt, for example
The thing that makes it bad is you can't prevent it. It's what will always keep this game far behind (strategy wise) something like Magic. Of course it will be more popular though.
They also make it so easy to get into a game and play that, as many issues as I have, I still really, really enjoy it.
Tell me about it, my latest Pally arena run gave me no muster, no murloc, no weapon, no blessing of kings, no consecration, , no hammer of wrath, I couldn't even be bothered to play it after I drafted it. It was too sad. I'll come back to it when I've calmed down.
We shall see. I did get a shredder and 2 Tusker's so we'll see how jousts go but really there was nothing much there.
TheChewyWaffles
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I've seen so many of those murloc rider guys summon ADDITIONAL murloc rider guys. Seems way too common! 
Mobius and pet octopus
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He probably has 1 mysterious champion and way too many secrets to be worth running. In other words, he probably goes 1-3 or something bad lol
The 2 boombots and a 1/7 for 7 would still be playable in arena I think
Good. Fight the cancer with cancer.
Skilled counterplay from the most skill based class in the game.
bronkonagurski
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What levels are you playing at? Not that I'm doubting you. I really have not dug in on the ladder play yet this month. Just curious.
bronkonagurski
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Hunter decks cost like 100k dust man.
Finally draft a good arena deck, but went 4-3 because of one game the opponent went murloc knight -> murloc knight -> murloc warleader, one game of face hunter quality deck with unleash the hounds and kill commands, one game where the guy went spellslinger -> bane of doom -> mal'ganis.
And my deck had 2x Fire Elementals, 2x Piloted Shredder, 2x Power Mace.
This game sucks. Back to drafting another 3 bad decks to get one good one to lose to more RNG.
And my deck had 2x Fire Elementals, 2x Piloted Shredder, 2x Power Mace.
This game sucks. Back to drafting another 3 bad decks to get one good one to lose to more RNG.
BananasWithGuns
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Why do I keep running into Mages using Spellslinger?
I'm not sure how they gave the ok to MC as it is now. Sure, you want to make Paladin's secret to see play, that's a good thing to aim for, to make old cards playable, there is really no other way to make them playable than to put all of them into play at once either, that's fine. But this is a 6 drop 6/6, that's ridiculous. Normally when you have a 6 drop that does something significant, it's no longer a 6/6. See Sylvanas or Emperor and those are legendary. We have highmane as a 6 drop class card, which is a 6/5 with a strong deathrattle, Coldarra Drake, is a 6 6/6 but the effect actually cost mana to use and it's not an instant value effect, so it makes sense it's a 6/6. MC has no stat drawback, that's ridiculous, even if your secrets end up not doing much, this thing trades so well. It should definitely be a 5/5. The effect is definitely as strong as Emperor that saves you mana or Sylvanas that can maybe steal something, this one draws up to 5 cards and play them for up to 5 mana value, yeah....
I still don't think the deck is very good but it is annoying when it has now become the new cancer.
I still don't think the deck is very good but it is annoying when it has now become the new cancer.
Mobius and pet octopus
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it's a solid 3/4 creature that gives you a spell. Spells have a lot of synergy with creatures tempo mages usually play, you will usually have a better chance to get value out of the spell then your opponent. It's a really good card.
After finishing rank 8 last season I am aiming for the rank 5 chest this month and figured why not try Grim Patron?
And damn this deck is strong, I had zero experience with it and had to craft two Frothings, but I completely annihilated my opponents even though I overdrew in two games (destroyed my Thaurissan and my last Patron lol), granted I am still at a very low level, but I am a believer now.
And damn this deck is strong, I had zero experience with it and had to craft two Frothings, but I completely annihilated my opponents even though I overdrew in two games (destroyed my Thaurissan and my last Patron lol), granted I am still at a very low level, but I am a believer now.
No, I run Lifecoach's version, which looks like this:
2x Inner Rage
2x Execute
1x Shield Slam
2x Whirlwind
2x Fiery War Axe
2x Battle Rage
2x Slam
2x Armorsmith
1x Unstable Ghoul
2x Shield Block
2x Acolyte of Pain
2x Frothing Berserker
2x Warsong Commander
2x Death's Bite
1x Gnomish Inventor
2x Grim Patron
1x Emperor Thaurissan
I don't have Grommash either, but I don't think he is absolutely needed. It's always nice to have another win condition, but I think the basic Patron deck is already more than strong enough.
Against face hunter you need to score good armors from your armorsmiths and spend some of your combo pieces to kill their minions (inner rages and sometimes whirlwind effects if it gets you good value). Armorsmith is definitely the deciding card in the matchup with shield block. Always mulligan for those two cards.
As a handlock player, I welcome these new types of control warriors losing tempo and board control by playing a 3 health minion on turn 6. Too easy.
I'm gonna give it a couple week until Justicarr gets dropped from control warrior. I don't see how getting 40+ armour is useful. Something that doesn't affect the board isn't enough to justify the tempo loss for a control deck.
I'm gonna give it a couple week until Justicarr gets dropped from control warrior. I don't see how getting 40+ armour is useful. Something that doesn't affect the board isn't enough to justify the tempo loss for a control deck.
Same kind of deal. Weapons are important too. It's easier to finish mech mage since they fill the board, but beware of fireball finishers and don't let them fill the board too early. Always be aware of turn 4 Blastmage and don't leave a Cogmaster in play turn 1, he will get followed by annoyatron and you will take a million damage from him.
Thing is, you don't play Justicar for tempo. You drop it when it's safe and if you honestly think that 40 armor doesn't matter, then I don't know what to say.
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