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It's solid. Whether a hunter deck with secrets can still reliably work is another thing, but that card is mad tempo.
It's already out. Go to the Play Store and check.
Cloaked Huntress is on paper an excellent card. Issue is that Hunter has gotten excellent cards in the past but they don't use them in the common decks because it runs opposite to what their most popular deck wants to do which is play beasts on curve. If you have a deck of secrets then that means some turns you will be giving up tempo and that's a big no no.
That said week 1 is really week minus Firelands Portal.
That said week 1 is really week minus Firelands Portal.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
So how long for all the dragon paladin pieces?
Week 4 - https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/4wy7yo/with_the_new_patch_the_order_of_card_releases/
Problem as I see it is that you need Huntress and secrets in your hand at the same time to gain said tempo. Miss out on either in your mulligan and you got some "dead" cards in your hand. Maybe a new archtype will arise but right now bow/animal companion looks to be the better options to occupy the 3 mana slot in hunter decks.
Cloaked Huntress is way worse than Challenger and Mad Scientist, because they "draw" the secrets and put the, into play for free, while Huntress only does the later.
It's also very similar to Kirin Tor Mage, a card that was never worth playing..
On top of that, hunter have a very crowded 3 mana slot.
I'm just not sure which card you would take out for it.
As a result, I don't think huntress is going to change all that much about the current hunter decks.
It might get played since it's a 3/4 with an upside and maybe hunter start playing another freezing trap, but that's about it.
I'm fairly sure hunters are going to play Barnes, which could be another factor in this cards favor.
It's also very similar to Kirin Tor Mage, a card that was never worth playing..
On top of that, hunter have a very crowded 3 mana slot.
I'm just not sure which card you would take out for it.
As a result, I don't think huntress is going to change all that much about the current hunter decks.
It might get played since it's a 3/4 with an upside and maybe hunter start playing another freezing trap, but that's about it.
I'm fairly sure hunters are going to play Barnes, which could be another factor in this cards favor.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Thanks, bummer.
I think the benefit of Cloaked Huntress is that Hunter secrets are the most "fair" when played at full mana cost. It's the reason you still see a secret or two in Hunter while Mage only ever runs Ice Block, dropping an Explosive, Bear or Snake Trap on Turn 2 isn't necessarily a horrible loss of tempo. I don't know if Huntress will see play in regular midrange Hunter but I think she'll do a lot for spell-focused Hunter decks. Playing Huntress with Lock and Load or maybe Auctioneer could make for a massive swing turn.
veryslowhand
Banned
How many wings in this adventure? Don't know if trying to go free or just throwing the 20 euros
The new zoo cancer already out from week 1 smh
Four like LoE
Four like LoE
Should be all four wings, since Book Wyrm is in wing 4. I'm dieing to put more dragon cards in my Dragon Paladin deck.
Firebat thinks that Blizzard/Brode will start communicating more after the Priest debacle and the latest Designer Insight. Problem is that we've already been here before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpS6odMAAJ4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpS6odMAAJ4
toddhunter
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Yep people are thinking about it a bit wrong.
It isn't a "you play 6 secrets MC style" and win card. It is a you play a 3/4 plus a secret at the same time for 3 mana, control the board while doing even more damage and then win with call of the wild card.
Hunter is already strong, this just makes it even less likely that you can stabilise.
The problem is there is a 3rd condition besides having the huntress and a secret...you have to want to play the secret as well. You don't want to play a huntress into a bunch of 1 mana minions with freezing trap. So you say play your other drops instead...well you are less likely to have to other drops if you're putting 6 secrets in your deck.
If huntress is going to work I think you need to run it with like bear and cat trick since those are less conditional.
I dunno, the meta hasn't been nice to conditional 2 card combos...curve is king. It might be viable but I'm guessing the standard hunter without huntress will be better.
Wow.
Thought for sure that'd just be Jungle Panther. Makes Bear Trap look super lazy.
I like how they put more cards in the first week and put mostly class cards in it to get a card for all the classes out there right away
hope that becomes a thing for future adventures as well
There's a short term for the card type: tempo. Something that hunter used to have :b
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Really dislike this way of a rollout just put all of it put there. Now the meta is gonna be in flux for 4 weeks all the while some decks teasing you with almost being there.
I wanted Medivh first...
First week is the first wing and the prologue put together. That's why it has more cards.
yeah I thought it was more than the others not even counting the prologue too but on second glance that isn't true
regardless i'm still glad they got a card for every class out there right away
Portugeezer
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Nice. I expected the 4/2 panther that we have already, like how Bear Trap gave the 3/3 bear.
Ivan A Nguyen
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Had an amazing game yesterday. It was a testament to the power of not giving up. I was trying out a new mage deck and I had run through all of my cards. I was at 1 HP and my next turn would hit me for fatigue.I was playing a priest so I was already in disbelief that I might lose. He had thrown out a card that switched healing to damage and he had his C'thune in play. I had a mage apprentice out and nothing else. I had spent all my spells taking him down to 8 health. I refuse to consed and end my turn. He tosses out the C'thune 'If C'thune has more than 10 attack then heal for 10 health' card and was shocked to see him take 10 damage to the face! Of all the things he could have done, including just ending his turn, he did the one move that killed himself.
I've never been so surprised by a play in my entire Hearthstone career. I'm taking it as a win.
I've never been so surprised by a play in my entire Hearthstone career. I'm taking it as a win.
Portugeezer
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Secret Hunter with Lock and Load = Turn 5, Cloaked Huntress + Lock and Load + 2 or 3 secrets which could generate some more cards, possibly more free secrets...
... then everyone plays Secret Eater and Cloaked Huntress will die off. First couple weeks are going to see a lot of hard counters to the new cards, speaking of which, it is time to craft Harisson Jones.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
My last 2 wins in wild ranked were insta concedes.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
yes, the next game was against token druid with the nut draw, 2 eggs into buff into buff into savage roar. Didn't get my consecration in time.
Mind sharing your deck list? I have been playing a lot of Yogg Hunter this week but not consistently winning in ranked.
Blizzard have announced their plans for gamescom next week.
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http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20216483/
The Hearthstone tab only has one item at the moment:
But Thijs said that that we should be excited, so I expect something new (tournament mode, achievements, ui overhaul, profile update, saved replays
cardbacks
http://eu.battle.net/heroes/en/blog/20216483/
Remember when you could target with Tink :3
What if Amaz reworked Priest? Showing you the concept @ 8AM PDT!
[edit] He is going to upload to youtube. Cards looked interesting what suprises me he got rid of Silence
[edit] He is going to upload to youtube. Cards looked interesting what suprises me he got rid of Silence
2x Hunters mark
2x On the hunt
1x Tracking
1x Bear trap
2x explosive trap
1x frozen trap
1x Kings elekk
2x lock and load
2x quick shot
2x animal companion
2x deadly shot
2x eaglehorn bow
2x kill command
1x power shot
2x unleash the hounds
1x explosive shot
1x emperor
2x cotw
1x Yogg
Usually after your opponent plays C'thun that's the only minion on the board, so in that sense there's no bad outcome with Tinkmaster. Turning a 20/20 into a 5/5 and preventing Doomcaller from proccing is still a win/win.
Also, no, I don't remember that because I started in Jan 2015 long after Tink was nerfed.
irfaanator
Banned
Being a tad optimistic aren't we?
ok I'm not expecting anything at all, specially after the expansion is just releasing, but, realistically speaking, disregarding gamescom, is it too crazy to expect some kind of new game mode announced this year? play mode and tavern brawl are hardly enough.
I'm expecting their Blizzcon announcement to be details of the Arena rebalancing they've been talking about.
I do think they need more modes and features, but I suspect they won't roll those out until they feel they're happy with how the existing content works.
They've addressed the regular mode with rotating sets and ranked rewards, and they've addressed Adventures by giving out 45 cards, much more unique content, and a more accessible price. That leaves Arena as the prime target for polishing up.
I think that amazon credit thing is a little busted, I have like 30 bucks across 3 dummy accounts. The thing is you can log in with any of them into hearthstone and buy stuff on your one battle net account. You obviously can't stack them but still, lol. I'm wondering if they will block this?
I don't want new modes; I want the existing ladder to be reworked.
Of course, if they add a compelling alternative to ladder with awards that are as least as good as chests + golden heroes, I'd be happy.
A tournament mode where I can queue up BO5s all day would be fun, as long as the rewards are there.
Of course, if they add a compelling alternative to ladder with awards that are as least as good as chests + golden heroes, I'd be happy.
A tournament mode where I can queue up BO5s all day would be fun, as long as the rewards are there.
Nah. There's no way I'm setting myself up for disappointment with those expectations.
I honestly hope we'll hear something about a tournament mode akin to the one in Starcraft II.
Realistically speaking they will just felate themselves over how amazing Old Gods is and how they were geniuses for bringing Standard (there's your whole new game mode!!!), and also you should buy their upcoming expansion Karazhan (coming August 16!!!) and you'll get a NEW CARDBACK if you buy all wings on week one (with real money)!
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