not really? there's tempo mage that runs the one c'thun card because it's a 2 mana 3/2 with spellpower but it's not a cthun deck.
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Hearthstone |OT6| C'THUN for President! Why pick the lesser evil?
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not really? there's tempo mage that runs the one c'thun card because it's a 2 mana 3/2 with spellpower but it's not a cthun deck.
TheSadRanger
Banned
I hate how whenever you play casual in this game to do some quick dailies with your weaker collections of certain classes that douchebags play the same shit thats in meta.
Go play freaking ranked.
Go play freaking ranked.
toddhunter
Member
Careful.
Pirate murloc yogg hunter can win games in the last week of the month. The trap is always thinking a deck is a lot better than it is.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
I've seen some streamers play c'thun mage. I have played some c'thun tempo mage as well. It's not bad. I think if I refine it some more, I'll play it a bit more. I think it needs rag or antonidas though. C'thun is rough to rely on alone.
With a quick calculation, it's about 20% if you go first and mulligan hard for them. I might be wrong though
So watching the disguised toast video on C'thun interactions. I didn't know you could satisfy the 10 atk requirement without having a C'thun in the deck. That's actually pretty big.
toddhunter
Member
That sounds pretty rough. And people say playing aggro is easy.
Flame jugglers hate me, seriously. I have taken one out and put in a ravishing ghoul in it's place for some certainty.
Rag loves me though, almost always hits where I want it to.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
N'Zoth in Wild Secret Paladin is pretty great.
Rosenskjold
Member
Two priest games in a row.
First game:
- Topdecks MC when I have grommash out
- Tirion from forbidden shaping
- Grommash from Thoughtsteal
Second game:
- Topdecks Harrison Jones after I play Malkorok and get Assasin's blade
--> Which gives him shadow word death that reduces the board threat
- Plays Wild Pyromancer, Power Word Shield and Forbidden shaping in a desperate attempt to regain some board presence, I have 4 minions with 3 hp on board ready to lethal.
--> Forbidden shaping spawns Wild Pyromancer that does that final 1 hp needed to clean my board.
Is priest just built entirely around luck or what?
First game:
- Topdecks MC when I have grommash out
- Tirion from forbidden shaping
- Grommash from Thoughtsteal
Second game:
- Topdecks Harrison Jones after I play Malkorok and get Assasin's blade
--> Which gives him shadow word death that reduces the board threat
- Plays Wild Pyromancer, Power Word Shield and Forbidden shaping in a desperate attempt to regain some board presence, I have 4 minions with 3 hp on board ready to lethal.
--> Forbidden shaping spawns Wild Pyromancer that does that final 1 hp needed to clean my board.
Is priest just built entirely around luck or what?
Karsticles
Member
Sort of. Control Priest builds in answers to everything you could think of. Then it has to hope it draws them at the right time.
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
Play Yogg and Load. Hunter with 28 spells, 2 of which being lock and load, and the other two being Kings Elek and Yogg Saron for a nearly guaranteed Yogg draw.
After falling way down from 5 with N'Zoth Rogue, converted that deck to wild, I have climbed back up with Yogg and Load. Many times I am winning before Yogg is played, and usually I still have 10 or so cards left in my deck when I do end up playing it so I don't even die of fatigue like some greedy Yogg users. Also Call of the Wild is insane, and lock and load and infesting your minions can grant you another call of the wild.
It's an extremely fun deck to play, and dare I say competitive for the time being.
Priest is built around fuck you Garrosh, all of your shiny things are mine now.
bunbun777
Member
Ohwow just realized my war deck has no 5 drops, never really have noticed since I'm always doing some sort of card draw shenanigans. Don't be afraid to icor your own acolyte. Malkorak has only lost me one game with cursed blade. Varian seems pretty good he almost always pulls out a kokran elite it seems. I call my deck DancingMasta, you wrestle at first them usually just overtake.
Mobius and pet octopus
Member
Karsticles
Member
They're like getting an automatic "B" in deck drafting school. You might miss a few, more subtle options, but you will get a solid, playable deck.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Do you get a chest for wild and standard or only the higher ranked one of either?
Highest rank across the two
Man-is-Obsolete
Member
I wish. N'Zoth rogue in wild is actually a lot of fun since you have sludge belcher and healbot and nerubian egg
So I've been playing Hearthstone again and in the last week I opened like 10 packs from arena runs and such.
A week ago I get a Golden Death wing Dragon lord, awesome!
3 days ago I open a deck, get a normal Death wing Dragon lord, im like ok, maybe Ill dust one of them and its alright.
Today I open another deck,and what do I get? Death wing Dragon lord...
A week ago I get a Golden Death wing Dragon lord, awesome!
3 days ago I open a deck, get a normal Death wing Dragon lord, im like ok, maybe Ill dust one of them and its alright.
Today I open another deck,and what do I get? Death wing Dragon lord...
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I wish because Secret Pala is easy game
bummer
Lol piloted shredder x2 + Redemption for 3 times total gave me thalnos, nat pagle and ooze
The dragons shall kneel before me. aaahhh ahhhhh dunna duna dun
How do people even play this game without Harrison Jones?
bunbun777
Member
They just ooze it.
What's the point? You Harrison a doomhammer, overdraw and burn some cards, and the Shaman inevitably topdecks his other one the next turn anyway.
Karsticles
Member
How many times has the new Warrior legendary given you Doomhammer? Just curious.
Meta snapshot decks are notoriously blind to the actual meta. With Rogue, Shaman, Warrior, Paladin and Renolock all having good representation, Harrison has never been this useful before. Plus the old Dr. 5, Loatheb is out.
4 times in about ~120 games.
Yesterday I got Poisoned Blade (the rogue weapon where hero-powering increases attack power by 1) 3 times in a row. It's pretty bad because it's a 1/3 and by the time you hero power enough to make it a decent weapon, you've probably drawn a better one.
One of those games if I had gotten a 4-attack or better weapon I would have had lethal that turn, and over the next two turns my opponent gained 22 armor (damn C'thun Warriors) and ended up winning.
Sucks, but Malkorok generally is very good. The times I've gotten a clutch Gorehowl, Arcanite, or Truesilver to either get lethal or flip the board definitely make it worth the variance.
Ooze is often a better decision
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Secret Keeper into Noble Sacrifice + Avenge is the nuts.
Karsticles
Member
I wish I could make a viable Poisoned Blade deck. Thanks for the info.
I see them get a lot of comments, but maybe people just don't have anything to say?
I commented while spectating! I've found it a mixed blessing that my recent decks I've posted haven't gotten any feedback--the one time I posted a deck that did get feedback, it was two pages of a couple of people shitting all over me because the beast druid list I created ran combo and therefore wasn't really a beast druid.
Karsticles
Member
This is the deck I want to make.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Secret Paladin is so braindead I massively misplayed twice and still won easily against Warrior, through a brawl.
Meta Snapshot regularly avoids tech cards. Doesn't mean it's indicative of what people actually run.
dog can pull double duty for concede decks
also kibler needs his own dragon category
no love for ratsmah on the arena front?
Also I love reynad streams, reynad is by far my favorite salt vendor.
I can only have so much salt in a lifetime
What?
The meta snapshot decks are FULL of tech choices (often very questionable ones). I very often wonder why and how Tempostorm comes up with these decks that everyone takes as gospel and runs to the ladder with. Perhaps the last few have gotten less bad, but the last time I looked their decks were full of weird choices with little or no explanation as to why.
This part is 1000% true. Just because tempostorm says so, doesn't mean that's what people play. It is a base and most good players will iterate on that in a useful way to fit the types of decks they are facing.
Only 5 of the 32 decks played by the top 8 players at the preliminaries ran Harrison:
DeerJason's Tempo Warrior
Napolean's Midrange Shaman
Napolean's Midrange Hunter
Duane's N'Zoth Druid
Bradfordlee's Tempo Warrior
A good card yes, but not a necessity.
Because tournament play has a wider range of classes that people are forced to play. Harrison isn't autoinclude but it's one of the strongest cards in the game right now.
irfaanator
Banned
that and people are banning shaman. W/ midrange only running one doomhammer and warrior w/ one gorehowl, you can really mess up their game plan. Obviously you don't want to burn cards, but burning 1 or 2 isnt bad for the advantage