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Hearthstone |OT5| Corrupted Deeprock Salt
- Thread starter ZealousD
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BRB hitting legend with zoo.
Professor Lich
Member
I'll probably never hit Legend because any deck that's too consistent makes me bored.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Well that was odd. Drew my Healbot and the game said it cost 4 mana for some reason. Played Thaurrisan and it went down to 3 then on my next turn it went back up to 4.
BananasWithGuns
Member
No, nothing that could have reduced cost.
The only thing out of the ordinary that comes to mind is a Summoning Portal that I played the previous game but it didn't affect any other cards so I have no idea.
Cause we're better thieves than rogues, we snatching yo people up!
Karsticles
Member
Lorewalker Cho is hilarious in the Brawl. I have 7 coins in my hand right now.
RumblingRosco
Member
The second part of your post answers the first part. Fucking Paladins ruin everything.
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
wrong thread
Dr.Horrible
Member
God damn freeze mages.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Actually kind of glad Priest is losing stuff like Deathlord and Lightbomb. The completely reactive nature of current Priest decks is just awful for the game.
Why is it bad for the game? Why is having a deck where the win condition is to control what the other plays a bad thing?
Especially when every other deck wins by playing minions on curve or setting up some cheap combo.
As long as it's not too broken where it's insanely hard to beat, decks like these are healthy for the game.
I fucking hate this game sometimes. All night has been nothing but shit draws from my deck. I went 3 games where it was, and this is serious, drawing only small cards, to drawing only high cards, back to drawing only low cards. I literally went 3 games without seeing any of my middle part of my deck. Even with two clerics pulling cards when they could. Hell I haven't seen my twilight guardians all night yet. But fuck running into nothing but face hunter and zoolocks who just happen to get perfect drops.
veloxStrix
Banned
Just went 12-0 twice in a row on EU arena. Why can't I get games like these on NA? :l
WesternHeretic
Member
You should refine your deck then. It's obvious that it is not consistently giving you what you want. Thats why deck like secret paladin, mid range druid, zoo, renolock, patron etc.. are all so popular.
You're not handicapped by your mulligans. I play mostly paladin and druid and never had that problem then I tried to learn oil rouge and oh boy the mulligan phase is infuriating. Even when i follow mulligan guide for oil rogue i still don't have the card i need 30% of the time. Then i watched pros play it and it's obvious they adjust their gameplan like 2-3 turns in advance because they already know they are not getting what they want. I still have a lot to learn on oil rouge.
I just secret paladin my way up to 5... derp time to farm golden the rest of the month.
Acerac
Banned
I used to main the class and the only card I'll sorely miss in Vol'Jin. Losing him will hurt badly. Such a well designed card, and the custom emote v Warriors is awesome bonus flavor.
BananasWithGuns
Member
I'm all for decks that thrive on controlling the board but when the deck makeup becomes nothing but stall, removal and card theft it just reaches a point of ridiculousness in my opinion and that's essentially what control Priest has become. I guess we'll see what happens in the new expansion but I'd like to see control Priest be something aside from completely reactionary.
If only packs gave me legendaries as frequently as portals do...
I think only issue is when Priest ends up stealing cards through playing a control game and if you tried to play a counter control (minus playing Jaraxxus) you lose too because they gain deck advantage over you.
Two Cabals steal your two small minions, two Entombs steal your two big minions and then 2 Thoughsteals also put them 2 cards ahead in terms of deck advantage. In addition, 2 Deathlords put cards from your deck into the battlefield early, usually removing their battlecry effect and then getting board clear with the rest of your minions.
I stated when Entomb was first revealed that the card would be nuts in a control meta. Priest was always strong in this meta because of Mind Control but Entomb is technically better than MC because Entomb delays fatigue by one turn, MC doesn't.
Two Cabals steal your two small minions, two Entombs steal your two big minions and then 2 Thoughsteals also put them 2 cards ahead in terms of deck advantage. In addition, 2 Deathlords put cards from your deck into the battlefield early, usually removing their battlecry effect and then getting board clear with the rest of your minions.
I stated when Entomb was first revealed that the card would be nuts in a control meta. Priest was always strong in this meta because of Mind Control but Entomb is technically better than MC because Entomb delays fatigue by one turn, MC doesn't.
I was playing a deck today that ran one copy of a golden Chillwind Yeti. I had a Priest Thoughtsteal it, and he played it against me on turn 5. I played my own Yeti the same turn that he played it, and removed his by using Abusive Sergeant on a minion that was already on the board. He Entombed that Yeti and then played it again the next turn. And that was with a zoo deck in which the biggest drop is a Doomguard.
You can't play anything good against a Priest, damn thieves.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Spending 6 mana to remove a yeti... the value
Spending 6 mana to remove a yeti... the value
A golden Yeti! That makes it worth an extra 2 mana easy.
By the way, if you go first.. would you play Abusive Sergeant turn 1 against a Mage? I see it as a major tempo loss for the mage to have to coin ping, but I'm not sure it makes up for the lost potential of the Sergeant. Maybe depends on whether you got the egg? It's been probably a year or more since I last played zoo, so I'm probably doing dennis moves all over the place.
i lost a game last night when a priest thoughtstealed my golden monkey and played it before me.
i was upset.
irfaanator
Banned
yes. everyone bms sometimes
Had a great run with Zoolock today against a bunch of Paladins. I probably would have done worse if the decks weren't so weird (Secret with Quarter/weird Murloc Paladin). Was still very satisfying but it did get me thinking about how much Zoolock is getting hurt in Standard. No Creeper, Egg, Loatheb and Implosion will probably stop the deck from being competitive unless it gets new tools with the new expansion.
I've entombed a 1 or 2 drop with Velen's on it before. The trades on board were so bad that it was still worth it.Spending 6 mana to remove a yeti... the value
glhf
Fuck whatever manner of bm insecure people conjure in their head.
gg
Imbued in me since my first Bnet games in '98 and I'll be damned before unlearning basic manner. Be the change you want to see
(I don't Well Played first if I win through some really bad bullshit luck though)
its crazy how you know exactly what deck you're up against and what 90% of their cards are by turn 3 or 4.
i guess that's what card games are all about i guess.
its not even about matchups anymore really. any of the current meta decks can take you to legend, its just about who draws the better stuff at the right time.
i guess that's what card games are all about i guess.
its not even about matchups anymore really. any of the current meta decks can take you to legend, its just about who draws the better stuff at the right time.
Haunted
Member
I played at a friend's place recently, he hadn't played ladder in a while so we started out at rank 25. Super refreshing experience, you could never tell what would come next.
I did run into something like that once. They didn't get to drop Patrons but played Frothing and Whirlwind.
Looked awful.
Needs Kripp + Frodank + Kibler 👌
Firebat did a deckdocker on that deck not long ago
These line ups.... Second no name player is coming. Identical line up to first no name player. Druid, paly, shaman, warlock. full on cancer.
Then against them you have the established players, with line ups aimed directly at thecancer ones. Just line ups show which players are experienced in tournament scene and which just got there farming ladder with cancer.
Then against them you have the established players, with line ups aimed directly at thecancer ones. Just line ups show which players are experienced in tournament scene and which just got there farming ladder with cancer.
It's why I'm not playing the game until the changes, you're just going through the motions playing this game right now. I don't expect it to be much better with the standard ladder either, I'm sure there'll be broken shit in that too. This game is just much more fun to watch others play on Twitch, I'm fine with that.
There is waaaaay more variety, people do end up just seeing what the top decks are but not everyone mimics them since you might have to pay a good amount of money.
You'll see more budget decks than anything else.
Karsticles
Member
MtG has a lot more variety because there are a lot more ideas floating around within each set than HS has.