Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
mass silence on 5 webspinners turned the game around for me. Only had to win 1 for the pack.
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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
- Thread starter ZealousD
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My random suggestions for Tavern Brawls that I thought off while on the toilet:
*Old Gods vs the Grand Tournament
You can either draft all Old Gods cards or all Grand Tournament cards.
*Evolution Complete
Minions evolve on the board one turn by 1 mana then de-evolve the next turn (also by one). Cycle continues on.
*Clone Wars
Make a deck of 10 cards. You now have 2 additional copies of those cards in your deck (Legendaries included).
*Lightlord vs Ragnaros
Pre-made deck where one character is Lightlord and one is Ragnaros. Ragnaros is more aggressive, burn centric where as Lightlord is more control, heal centric.
*Anything Will Happen
Choose a class... you can pick ANY cards from the collection including cards from other classes. However, you must pick 10 cards from Classic, 10 from TGT and 10 from Old Gods (so even split).
Extra:
*Reversing Switch
Build a deck as normal. At the start of the game, half of the deck at random is swapped with your opponent's.
*Mass Confusion
Attack and Health value of minions are swapped permanently.
*Last Man Standing
Your hero is immune as long as you have at least one minion in play. At the beginning of each turn, all minions are silenced.
*Capture the Flag
Flag is a 0/5 minion spawned on random. Immune to spells and minion effects. Effect: Your hero is immune. Deathrattle: Spawn a Flag for your opponent.
Both players start with a flag.
*Power Overwhelming
All cards have their numbers increased by one.
Ex: Flamestrike costs 8 mana and deals 5 damage.
Flamewreathe: Costs 5 mana is a 8/8 and overloads for 3.
Big Game Hunter: Costs 6 mana, is a 6/3 and kills minions which are 8 attack or higher.
*Old Gods vs the Grand Tournament
You can either draft all Old Gods cards or all Grand Tournament cards.
*Evolution Complete
Minions evolve on the board one turn by 1 mana then de-evolve the next turn (also by one). Cycle continues on.
*Clone Wars
Make a deck of 10 cards. You now have 2 additional copies of those cards in your deck (Legendaries included).
*Lightlord vs Ragnaros
Pre-made deck where one character is Lightlord and one is Ragnaros. Ragnaros is more aggressive, burn centric where as Lightlord is more control, heal centric.
*Anything Will Happen
Choose a class... you can pick ANY cards from the collection including cards from other classes. However, you must pick 10 cards from Classic, 10 from TGT and 10 from Old Gods (so even split).
Extra:
*Reversing Switch
Build a deck as normal. At the start of the game, half of the deck at random is swapped with your opponent's.
*Mass Confusion
Attack and Health value of minions are swapped permanently.
*Last Man Standing
Your hero is immune as long as you have at least one minion in play. At the beginning of each turn, all minions are silenced.
*Capture the Flag
Flag is a 0/5 minion spawned on random. Immune to spells and minion effects. Effect: Your hero is immune. Deathrattle: Spawn a Flag for your opponent.
Both players start with a flag.
*Power Overwhelming
All cards have their numbers increased by one.
Ex: Flamestrike costs 8 mana and deals 5 damage.
Flamewreathe: Costs 5 mana is a 8/8 and overloads for 3.
Big Game Hunter: Costs 6 mana, is a 6/3 and kills minions which are 8 attack or higher.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
That's the problem. I do hex both of those and end up holding bloodlust in my hand with an empty board lol. On top of that some of these control Paladins are holding fat minions for late game that your exhausted hand and board just can't deal with. Like Lightlord for instance. I guess if they are lucky enough to top deck doomsayers, Wild pyromancer, both equalities, consecrations, and there their attack reducers then I deserve to lose. Problem is nearly every person I play seemingly has the dream top deck. Lol. It is awesome though when you get a game and you realize your opponent is praying they draw the correct card....and can't. Or your opponent has 20 health and sees your board as a non factor and you bloodlust them.
I do need to learn how to better bait the equalities though. Maybe the better start is to legitimately let the game get up there in turns and hold most of my cards in my hand. I have been playing mine mostly only to seem them extinguished.
Is this constructed or arena?
Portugeezer
Member
LifeCoach is currently evaluating the decks in his own mad scientist way... (with the hair to match)
SkullHydra
Member
Then maybe don't play the mode that is completely RNG? It's just one pack of Classic cards for winning.
If that was Arena, Mage would be so much higher. Seriously, Mages can suck it in Arena.
TetraxShards
Member
Kibler went in on Entomb on stream yesterday as well. Basically said both it and the card you get can end up dead draws a lot of the time.
The truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Sometimes I'd rather have Shadow Word Death, sometimes Entomb. SWD wrecks anything that isn't a deathrattle, and there are less big things with deathrattle around. It also costs half of what Entomb does. By the time you can play one, getting rid of one thing might not make a difference. Sort of how Holy Nova is worse than Consecration if you are behind. But Entomb can win you the game if your opponent plays a big thing with a good battlecry when things are relatively even, or the dream of Tirion or something similar. It's definitely less good with the immortal Dr. Balance gone from standard.
That tournament last week with the two Priests in top 4 all had double Entombs. I have not see a Priest deck in recent times not run Entomb.
Entomb is crazy crazy good in a non hype aggressive meta. You could argue that we are in a hyper aggressive meta right now but there are enough slow decks around. Even with Secret Paladin and sticky Zoo in Wild,Entomb was seeing a lot of play.
A ton Priest cards are dead draws. Draw circle of healing with no Auchenai? Dead draw. Shadow Death against Zoo? Dead draw. Holy Nova against midrange sized minions? Dead draws. Cabal with no 2 attack minions in play? Dead draw. That's the nature of the control game play specifically Priest which has so many conditional removal. Fact of the matter is Entomb is the least conditional tool Priest has gotten to date.
Entomb is crazy crazy good in a non hype aggressive meta. You could argue that we are in a hyper aggressive meta right now but there are enough slow decks around. Even with Secret Paladin and sticky Zoo in Wild,Entomb was seeing a lot of play.
A ton Priest cards are dead draws. Draw circle of healing with no Auchenai? Dead draw. Shadow Death against Zoo? Dead draw. Holy Nova against midrange sized minions? Dead draws. Cabal with no 2 attack minions in play? Dead draw. That's the nature of the control game play specifically Priest which has so many conditional removal. Fact of the matter is Entomb is the least conditional tool Priest has gotten to date.
And Recycle patiently waits for the Pit Lord meta.
Yeah those stats seem to match up with the explosion of people on my friendslist playing Hearthstone, but also other games.
C'thun buff cards should have the C'thun animation whether or not you actually run c'thun in your deck.
This has happened to me a few times but can't 100% confirm, say you thoughtsteal/shifting shade a twilight elder and it lives for 2 turns. The C'thun animation doesn't happen but if you entomb your opponent's C'thun it receives the previous buffs from twilight elder making it a 8/8 instead of a 6/6
This has happened to me a few times but can't 100% confirm, say you thoughtsteal/shifting shade a twilight elder and it lives for 2 turns. The C'thun animation doesn't happen but if you entomb your opponent's C'thun it receives the previous buffs from twilight elder making it a 8/8 instead of a 6/6
lifecoach is notoriously bad at evaluating cards.
platypotamus
Member
Good stuff here. Really like the CTF one in particular
Karsticles
Member
I also got to live that dream, thanks to Ram Wrangler. I have gotten him a few times from Tomb Spider as well.
I wonder if there's someone excited about these matches, somewhere. I am SO grateful that RNG lets me win on the first try pretty much every week so I don't have to play again.
Depends on what you need. If your classic collection is very small than you should probably get those first. However, Old Gods packs can get you a bunch of C'thun synergy cards you can slot into a bunch of different C'thun focused decks. So it's up to you.
Yes, don't Feign Death or Huhu on him..
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
Yeah these Idol/Spider/etc brawls are random and incredibly slow so I can't even use them to do quests so you just hope you get lucky first try so you don't have to play another garbage match.
The idol match was still kind of fun though since there was strategy involved in when to go for minions, what kind of minions you want to go for, when to go for spells and when to just play a minion instead of constantly discovering. The Spider Brawl is just bad.
Playing Patron Warrior in Wild. I'm facing a Mage, he plays a Mad Scientist, which I kill with my axe, followed by a Secret out of hand. I play Unstable Ghoul, Mirror Entity.. I coin out an Armorsmith and kill it, +2 armor and the Ghoul gets duplicated in his hand. Mage concedes instantly.
Haven't played this since before nax came out, and only really lightly touched it, playing around with a lock.
Figured I should try and get it another go, I know it's probably something I would really like if I invested time into it.
I bought the explorer's adventure thing, speaking of that, can I not buy nax anymore?
I also bought 15 of the whispers booster packs. I forgot how fun it is to open booster packs, even fake digital ones.
Not sure what cards are good or not, not even sure what class I want to play.
Probably Paladin because I like the Belf pally hero, and I got an animated pally card, and Ragnaros who is now a paladin for some reason?
Anyway, how is the mobile version of this game? Played like 2 matches with it, ran smooth, does it have any downsides?
Figured I should try and get it another go, I know it's probably something I would really like if I invested time into it.
I bought the explorer's adventure thing, speaking of that, can I not buy nax anymore?
I also bought 15 of the whispers booster packs. I forgot how fun it is to open booster packs, even fake digital ones.
Not sure what cards are good or not, not even sure what class I want to play.
Probably Paladin because I like the Belf pally hero, and I got an animated pally card, and Ragnaros who is now a paladin for some reason?
Anyway, how is the mobile version of this game? Played like 2 matches with it, ran smooth, does it have any downsides?
Fibonacci (one of the best Control Warrior players in the world) was streaming today and in his deck he had Tentacles for Arms. LOL. He said it was just for fun, though, and recommended Grom instead.
http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/fibonaccis-standard-control-warrior-may-2016-season-26/
Here's the list. I haven't watched much of the stream yet, I'm looking forward to watching the replay this evening, though.
http://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/fibonaccis-standard-control-warrior-may-2016-season-26/
Here's the list. I haven't watched much of the stream yet, I'm looking forward to watching the replay this evening, though.
Gentle Rodriguez
Member
It's honestly terrifying, everything's fine until turn 8 and then you're fucked for sure if they had a board and are probably still fucked even if they didn't.
It really is and yet I barely see any? Turn 8 is pretty much a i won button
I just need more good cards; I've only just started playing. That C'thun sh*t is super annoying so I don't think I'm going to get involved with that. Though the free packs I got for launch actually had some really useful cards in them.
RecRoulette
Member
I don't have the patience to get better at Arena, at least at worst I'm breaking even.
how do you deal with aggro shaman?
Considering Sylvanus is still the card I fear most with dragon/c'thun priest, entomb is the perfect answer every time.
Karsticles
Member
The two cards that scare me the most in this game are Sylvannas and Ragnaros. Both of them can pretty much decide the game if they are played at the right time.
Tirion just pisses me off, he doesn't scare me. There's no "wrong time" to play Tirion.
Karsticles
Member
I have been getting a lot of those lately, but only when I play Control Priest. Which is funny, because I have something like a 30% win rate with that deck, but no one gets salty about my ~75% win rate with Hunter.
The weird thing about his analysis is that it was a good card before, but now that silences are more expensive it's a bad card?
I don't understand. It bypasses the need to silence, making it stronger than before.
Playing a Tirion before you have see two Entombs against a Priest is game losing.
Karsticles
Member
Then you might never play him, since one of those Dragon Priest decks you shared with me had only one Entomb.
"I know i shouldn't play Tirion now but i don't have many other plays soooooo i'll play him."
*entombed*
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
this, priest is a tough matchup since you have to bait the entombs,
If I was you I'd get two Classic Packs for every Old Gods pack until you feel you have a decent Classic Collection and then I'd focus on Old Gods.
Karsticles
Member
Makes me regret DEing my Sea Giant.
irfaanator
Banned
the cthun buff is tied to the player not cthun itself so that's why it came out as an 8/8 for you.