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Hearthstone |OT5| Corrupted Deeprock Salt
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MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I never even knew about this card. Very cool.
Most people probably don't.
1, it requires someone to play mindgames and 2 it requires someone to have no minions in the deck.
BananasWithGuns
Member
He's incredibly charismatic, I'll give him that.
Officerrob
Banned
Watching him play rank 25 was like a game I didn't even recognize
He really is. It's also true, his volume can't be turned down and thats even more awesome.
BreezyLimbo
Banned
Oh, is the uh, deck restrictions in place already for ranked and casual?
MetroidPrimeRib
Banned
I got Voltron in Arena three times in one run. Probably my best moment
And then also throw down Bolf Ramshield.
I love that a lot of people thought Elise Starseeker was going to be a gimmick and she is actually viable in Priest and Warrior decks. I've even played her in control rogue, but that deck has issues anyway. I hope this shows how cool the next expansion can be if the H.S. team is firing on all cylinders.
Something important about standard Dragon Priest that I noticed while watching the Scamaz tourney is that without Velen's Chosen their minions can't really trade upwards against a similar mana minion even with the dragon buff. Abusive Sergeant might actually be a good card in the deck especially if it's running Museum Curators because that minion also has no board impact without Velen's.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Have you tried it in paladin? Seems like it could work because paladin doesn't really rely on many spells and turning your unused early games cards like minibot into legendary minions would be supreme.
Karsticles
Member
Why does that deck run Curators, anyway?
Personally I don't think it's good in Dragon Priest because as I said it has no board impact and Dragon Priest doesn't have good board clears especially with Lightbomb gone so you can't really afford to play value cards like it. Curator is a value card because it can give you high value minions on top of the 1/2 body so it's good in a control matchup. That's why Control Priest plays it because they can afford to lose board control early on and get it back with Lightbomb and Auchenai Circle.
irfaanator
Banned
it gives the deck a good two drop when you can't activate wyrmrest agent.
Haven't considered paladin. I guess it could work in a fatigue style paladin, but not sure how I'd set it up.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Too bad Paladin stomps your ass anyway.
toddhunter
Member
OMFG I got KILLED BY VOLTRON FIRST TIME EVER IN THE NEW BRAWL!!!
BRB forgot I even had that card.
Haven't really seen too many paladins, which is nice. 1 in the last 20 games; it was a murloc paladin. I've seen 5 in the last 40 games.
Ranks 15 - 9 are filled with all kinds of decks at the moment.
Oh well done with Shaman and going to keep plugging away on golden rogue.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Lucky :/. I was just messing around with inspire Shaman and ran into like 5 secret Paladins in a row lol.
Hunter charge plus timber wolves = win
People in that tournament are running unrefined decks. A lot of experimental stuff that won't survive after this tournament.
I guess they want the chance to acquire a Chillmaw.
The nice thing is that the variation of which high end dragon you go with isn't completely set in stone. I know most would say go with ysera, but I'm making it work with chromaggus, there's chillmaw possibilities as well. I'm sure most of the high end dragons might find a spot in sometimes version of dragon priest.
I'd like to run something like a mid-range shaman, but the list I tried from Tempostorm felt gutless and like it had no real win conditions, unless I added in Bloodlust.
Karsticles
Member
I see a lot of priests run it in general, and it doesn't seem that much better than Scarab Beetle.
It's super good on regular Control Priest because you can get Sylvanas, Deathlord, Dark Cultists et. Lots of good Deathrattles.
However, we were talking about the value of Curator in Dragon Priest after Standard format. In Standard, Priest loses Deathlord and Cultist as options which makes Curator weaker overall. And besides for Dragon Priest you want tempo more than card value so dropping a 1/2 on 2 without a way to buff it is weak.
Portugeezer
Member
Hunter needs some board clear.
This is like the 3rd Brawl they have done this and in all 3 Brawls rushdown/burn damage still prevailed.
Last one was the Blingtron weapon Brawl and everyone just played a face weapon deck.
Though I don't think we are getting 40HP games. Those Brawls needed that extra buff because damage to face was just higher on average. Regular games don't play out like that.
SonicXtreme
Member
I love it when I drop freezing or misdirection on a board with 2 health enemies then emote spam them into thinking I'm a facer with explosive ready so they waste a turn lol. This is why emotes rule for poker moves like that
Luckily those moments happen more often than someone calling your bluff. People don't think things through or have some sort of backup plan. Thank god for brash behaviour.
I won 2 games in a row in a similar way sometime ago.
Mage esportals anubarak, emotes me. I got nothing and there is no way I'm killing the mage in 2 turns, I play my explosive trap and kept on playing as if it was a freezing, killing his other minions and so on. The cool thing is that before the lethal turn the mage had to check the trap anyways only to realize the bluff.
Karsticles
Member
Me go face.
Me lose with dignity.
Does a 9-cost card cost 11 after Freezing Trap?