Somewhat disappointed by the lack of creative decks in brawl this week. Usually Sunday is a great day to experiment because be then everyone has already received their pack and ideally should only be playing to have fun. Nevertheless I'm going up against a stream of aggressive ladder decks. Seen one confuse Priest - the rest was just garbage.
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How do people get their legendaries these days? It must be a few months since I even saw a legendary, I thought it was supposed to be one every 20 packs, or did they nerf that? Can you only get them by buying the real money bulk packs or something now?
I still only have the adventure legendaries plus Dr. Boom and one or two other garbage legendaries, and I've been playing nearly a year now.
I still only have the adventure legendaries plus Dr. Boom and one or two other garbage legendaries, and I've been playing nearly a year now.
BananasWithGuns
Member
Pity timer guarantees you'll get a legendary within 40 packs so if you keep opening a certain type of pack you'll eventually get a legendary within that time frame.
I've been using this site recently for tracking it. It's pretty basic but it does the job.
FormallyFamicom
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Wouldn't say it's the most creative, but I've been running a Control Warrior deck in the brawl, with a few extra cards to tech around Mage's 4 health minions. Had great success with it; only have lost to bad draws and Unstable Portal BS (yo Malygos, really?) once each out of 10 games or so.
decide to try a beast hunter deck with no gvg or naxx cards on ladder at rank 10. win first 2 game sand think I might do ok, then get completely trashed the next 8. Absolutely nothing I could have done to win with the draws I got.
EDIT: going first is such a huge disadvantage against all the face/control decks. 2 card disadvantage sucks.
EDIT: going first is such a huge disadvantage against all the face/control decks. 2 card disadvantage sucks.
Trigger_happy
Member
I like how anyfin paladin is so favored against control warrior, almost makes up for all these times i had to auto-concede against them while playing as freeze mage.
anyfin paladin is a control deck to counter control decks! its great.
it loses to freeze mage tho
If anything the Murloc Paladin is favored against Freeze Mage, the matchup is similar to Patron Warrior vs Freeze except you don't have as good a hero power. The trick is to draw into your heals and save them after burn or Alexstraza is used. You also need to minimize the number of Fireballs they get from Antonidas. Then to finish them you need to wait until they're Fatigued and burst them down to 1 hp-ish with Anyfin.
Thanks, that's really helpful. This reddit post where they got their info from is really interesting too, it says that the best strategy is once you got a legendary from one type of pack (e.g. GvG) it's best to switch to buying another type of pack as the pity timer will have reset.
Huh didn't realize it was live, thought I was watching a rebroadcast. Anyway crane's Worgen deck is inconsistent as hell considering he's running Patrons as well, Ekop should win the rest of the matches
edit: nevermind Ekop is throwing the game FailFish
Portugeezer
Member
Top deck Tomb Spider vs Aggro Druid into Tundra Rhino for lethal... feels good man.
EU CASTERS 4Head
RumblingRosco
Member
As Control Priest, I can often best Murloc Paladin now if I get my Entombs early. It sounds crazy, but just Entombing Murk-eye and if you can get a second Entomb on a Bluegill you basically guarantee a win. Lightbomb and Holy Nova take care if the rest.
Lol did it again. I should start counting how often they do it just for some fun.
Portugeezer
Member
lmao @ the sax music for combo
you never win if the paladin knows how to play his deck. I only lost once to a priest and was because he thoughstole an anyfin, I never lost to an entomb. just know when play your murlocs and when you have to suicide them with pyro. Is basic knowledge of the matchup. If you can entomb a charger that paladin was a total noob.
If I would be on the priest side I would try to race and put preassure, its the only way.
Portugeezer
Member
play like an idiot then BM when finishing the match
Still not punished by the rope, maybe he will learn some day.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OFbFHVVtHUs
Cool video by Noxious explaining the soul/themes of a class. This one covers Druids.
Cool video by Noxious explaining the soul/themes of a class. This one covers Druids.
IT was played earlier today in the G2 tournament. It's the same after any tournament, someone will see it, and then go and do it in game
RumblingRosco
Member
Yeah, Entombing a charger totally depends on the opponent not suiciding their charger right away. I'm only in the 13-15 ranks though so maybe bad plays are more common here.
Ha, figures. Still, it was nice to not be killed by a Secret Pally for a change.
The Control Priest vs Anyfin Paladin is pretty straightforward once the Paladin does these 2 things:
*Hard mulligan keep Anyfins in hand. Minimize changes of Priest Thoughstealing Anyfin.
*Always use Chargers to suicide. If you aren't able to do that then use Pyromancer to suicide your Murlocs.
The match up then becomes unwinnable for the Priest like it's unwinnable for every other Control deck. This deck will dominate if the meta slows down even a tad bit. Right now you can just rush it down and kill it before it gets anything going. Usually the Paladin can stuck with bad cards in hand for the situation which includes just heals and draws.
*Hard mulligan keep Anyfins in hand. Minimize changes of Priest Thoughstealing Anyfin.
*Always use Chargers to suicide. If you aren't able to do that then use Pyromancer to suicide your Murlocs.
The match up then becomes unwinnable for the Priest like it's unwinnable for every other Control deck. This deck will dominate if the meta slows down even a tad bit. Right now you can just rush it down and kill it before it gets anything going. Usually the Paladin can stuck with bad cards in hand for the situation which includes just heals and draws.
MetroidPrimeRib
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It's almost like Anyfin is a stupid fucking card.
Portugeezer
Member
Pretty cool.
Professor Lich
Member
What about Molten Giants with Brewmasters? That was always fun.
Portugeezer
Member
Why is AlSky not doing the damage when he could have popped?
I don't get it. Playing like he had a Kezan or something.
I don't get it. Playing like he had a Kezan or something.
The only way his play made sense is if he still had heal in his deck. He had no option but to pop Fibonacci's block first and hope that Fibo has no heals because he would 100% already lose the game in a fatigue war.
I feel that a lot of these players made it into the tourneys playing simple decks and have very little experience in control vs control matchups.
haha it was great.
You don't say...
Karsticles
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Brief summary?