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Hearthstone |OT4| The warsong has ended, please patron other decks

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manhack

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I am loving this new brawl! Not only it is original and fun, but it is also kind of semi-balanced, even if it tilts a bit towards annoy-o-tron you can beat him as long as you don't let him stablish early board dominance and then bring on your heavyweights (mad bomber, dr. Boom, etc). Great stuff!



I am -this- close to being able to forge a legendary. Common sense says Dr.Boom, but coolness says "Paletress, Anthonidas or Illiadan" :p

Funny I was thinking that the boom bot was the stronger deck.

Also, super happy I got a golden dreadsteed from my Rank 5 pack. Don't have that card yet, so very cool.
 

Cantaloup

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I have the quest to observe a game. Is there a list of GAF players I could send friend requests to? Or could I post my Blizzard account info here?
 

dimb

Bjergsen is the greatest midlane in the world
I almost wish I got a card I would want to DE.
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Magnus

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Man. A whole lotta you get to rank 5 every month! I reliably get up to rank 7 or 8 these days but I usually hit a wall right there.

Hey wait - when did brawl timing change? It's up already in North America and only has 3 days left??
 

ZealousD

Makes world leading predictions like "The sun will rise tomorrow"
Got 3 priest cards myself. Circle of Healing, Lightspawn, and Shadowfiend.

I already had one golden Lightspawn so that evened me out there. I didn't have a second Shadowfiend either, so even though its not really a playable card I appreciated picking it up.
 

gutshot

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Man. A whole lotta you get to rank 5 every month! I reliably get up to rank 7 or 8 these days but I usually hit a wall right there.

Hey wait - when did brawl timing change? It's up already in North America and only has 3 days left??

Today is Thursday.
 

Dreavus

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Squeeked into rank 15 last night, which was nice since I had time for about 2 matches total.

Ended up with Golden deadly shot and Golden Implosion, pretty cool. I thought 15 awarded 2 golden commons but I guess that's actually rank 10.
 

Baffey

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opened a gold animagolem ... instant dust

should I let the ladder settle down for a bit before i start playing again ? or SMOrc to rank 5?
 
opened a gold animagolem ... instant dust

should I let the ladder settle down for a bit before i start playing again ? or SMOrc to rank 5?

I like the early days of the ladder in a month. Good players are willing to test more decks because losing ranks is a big deal, so you often see different stuff at this point even from competent players.

You could be a little lame and go smorc though
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Sonic626

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I have a dismally small friend list and keep getting stuck when I get Spectate quests. I play at random times but would like to be able to knock these out. Add me if you're interested (and feel free to spectate me for the same): Sonic626#1289.
 

Hanzou

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I like the early days of the ladder in a month. Good players are willing to test more decks because losing ranks is a big deal, so you often see different stuff at this point even from competent players.

You could be a little lame and go smorc though
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"because losing ranks IS NOT a big deal" is what you meant to say, correct?
 

Owzers

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playing against Patron warriors is a joyless experience that i usually concede to at some point, at least awful freeze mages give me hope before Alextrazsa, then frost bolt, ice lance, ice lance.
 

gaiages

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I have a dismally small friend list and keep getting stuck when I get Spectate quests. I play at random times but would like to be able to knock these out. Add me if you're interested (and feel free to spectate me for the same): Sonic626#1289.

I'll add you, my friend's list is quite small too (and, to be a bit rude, only one or two of them have a decent win ratio... not that I'm really one to talk). I'll have to do it when I get home later tonight, though.

Now, for a question. This week's Tavern Brawl is kicking my bum. I'm still a bit new at Hearthstone (playing for a couple months, finally getting the hang of proper decks builds, although my card collection is still lacking), anyone have any advice for it? I just lost 5 in a row, though the last one was down to luck and the other player getting the perfect random weapon from Bigtron. I just want my pack :(
 
I tried out poisoned blade last night and it wasn't that terrible. If your opponent doesn't have weapon destruction and is slow (like all these fatigue warriors), you can get a huge weapon. So decks that run a lot of removal don't have a way to interact with your gameplan. And I actually almost won except I had to use blade flurry a turn earlier than I would have liked. And I also used perhaps a little bit more resources on that blade flurry than I should have. But at one point I had 11 damage on the weapon with 3 charges. If I swung once a turn earlier at 10, got a second swing in at 11, and then blade fluried, that would have dropped my opponent down to less than 10 hp (filthy control warriors 40+ hp pools). And from there I could have taken him out with eviscerate and the rest of my deck.

I think of the card as a sort of end game plan that is difficult to interact with. And perhaps a little bit better than I thought it would be. Maybe worth trying to build a deck around it.

"because losing ranks IS NOT a big deal" is what you meant to say, correct?

Right
 

Dahbomb

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Got golden Tree of Life, disenchanted it and got enough to make a new Legendary.

Made Antonidas. Now I can finally play Freeze Mage for real!


Edit: NVM I don't have a 2nd Ice Block. I guess I can still wing it.
 
Another boom bot RNG casinostone outcome. I have UTH. He plays dr. boom. I have azure drake on board. I summon 5 hounds. Fireball his dr. boom. Go face with drake. And first boom bot hits drake. 4 minions on board + face. 1/5 chance + a 1/2 chance to then kill azure drake.

1/10 outcome.

People call tempo mage casino mage, and they aren't wrong, but dr. boom is consistently the biggest rng-swing based card and that is neutral and not even really in the hands of anyone. At least when you start the slots with tempo mage, you generally do so when the odds are in your favor. With dr. boom you just play it when it seems opportune and hope for the best with your boom bot rng.
 

Dahbomb

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Another boom bot RNG casinostone outcome. I have UTH. He plays dr. boom. I have azure drake on board. I summon 5 hounds. Fireball his dr. boom. Go face with drake. And first boom bot hits drake. 4 minions on board + face. 1/5 chance + a 1/2 chance to then kill azure drake.

1/10 outcome.

People call tempo mage casino mage, and they aren't wrong, but dr. boom is consistently the biggest rng-swing based card and that is neutral and not even really in the hands of anyone. At least when you start the slots with tempo mage, you generally do so when the odds are in your favor. With dr. boom you just play it when it seems opportune and hope for the best with your boom bot rng.
Dr Balanced gonna Dr Balance.

Enough said.
 
We really need more strong 7 mana cards to balance Dr 7. Cards like Malorne simply don't have enough impact. I'd love to see poison mechanics where monsters start out strong but get progressively weaker. 7 Mana 9/9 that becomes a 7/7 next turn, 5/5 after, etc.
 
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