Barely see any quest rogue, shaman is definitely popular now though.
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Hearthstone |OT9| Our raid wiped in Icecrown Citadel
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BigJonsson
Member
Priest steals one of my minions for a turn, double its health twice, makes it a 28/28, attacks my face, triggers ice block..........concedes when the buffed up trash minion comes back to the winning side
BreezyLimbo
Banned
I smiled
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I've gotten full water packaged out of nowhere twice in the last 24 hours. That's some bullshit.
bangbang i'm a timpani
Banned
Has anyone tried out fibonacci's crazy ass OTK warrior?
https://twitter.com/FibonacciHS/status/863944164232351744
https://twitter.com/FibonacciHS/status/863944164232351744
bangbang i'm a timpani
Banned
i have no idea but this dude does chinese meta breakdowns and apparently its the new hotness over there:
http://www.hearthhead.com/news/rogue-claims-the-throne-hearthhead-chinese-meta-bulletin-3
i think something with buffing leeroy?
I know by word that fibonacci is kind of famous by building decks that are out of meta, yet pretty good, but I have never tried one since I always lack the legendaries included in the decks.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
you seclude leroy in hand to guarantee the buff by don hancho to make it a 11/7 charge then inner rage it to 13/6 or 15/5 and make a copy with sudden genesis for 10 mana total and 26 to 30 damage from hand.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
I've been going back between rank 2 and 1 with gunther mage myself for a couple days.
So much aggro druid ruining my days.
So much aggro druid ruining my days.
Whick deck is gunther mage?
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
burn mage made popular by some guy called psygünther.
Just had this happen in a Gunther Mage mirror. We must have traded mana binds about 20 times before the game finished.
It's the burn/value mage.
Slowly climbing the Wild ladder with a Menagerie Hunter. I think the deck is pretty bad, but I am trying to make slowly optimise it. This was my latest match:
https://hsreplay.net/replay/rKMKVRJZfbaPZY6AN4byie
https://hsreplay.net/replay/rKMKVRJZfbaPZY6AN4byie
Classic Zoolock had Voidwalker and Flame Imp as some of the best 1 drops in the game at the time. Blizzard has since printed so many better 1-drops. Back then people were blaming the hero power for Zoo's dominance. Turns out it was just the fastest deck in the game at the time.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
You're ignoring the presence of PO
Zoo's demise precedes PO getting moved to Hall of Fame.
Classic only decks with no epics or legendaries... what does that even leave? Zoo obviously, maybe a face or midrange hunter and midrange mage. Paladins weren't a thing, warriors, rogues and priests needed epics and/or legendaries for their decks, druids were built around FoN and shaman needed Doomhammer or Al'Akir to finish games.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
That wasn't a demise but a pause due to an unhealthy meta for the type of deck it is and yet it still was a bottom tier deck on the climb just before ungoro.
Lone_Prodigy
Member
I made a bloodlust murloc shaman deck to finish a quest. Ran up against zoolock twice.
The Mage Deck almost builds itself.
You can build a mage secret deck that isn't far off tier 1 in standard.
It's extremely far off if you have zero secret synergy cards. You weren't around then, but secrets were considered completely useless pre-Naxxramas expansion.
I was stuck at 15-12 for ages this month. Was playing Miracle Rogue for the first time, but even when I switched to a deck I knew I was getting trounced.
Figured I should probably be consistent, so I took Murloc control Paladin and just pushed. Finally made it to r6 ***** on a massive win streak, and of course that final game I get utterly decimated.
I was really wanting to hit 5 so I could go back to my Miracle Rogue with the rank checkpoint, and I figured I'd be in for a losing streak and return climb which felt really off-putting. Said "a couple more games then call it for tonight".
Next game was versus a Miracle Rogue just to rub it in. They made some really inefficient plays early on to remove my just enough on-curve Murlocs and couldn't recover. Great I thought, final boss will be something annoying...
Any guesses?
Pirate Warrior.
I laughed a bit when I drew mid game cards both times, but even more when all my cards from then were on-curve perfectly and he had the worst draws I've seen for a PW. He quit turn 4.
That felt pretty great.
Now I can relax and enjoy the game again for a bit. I'll only push for Legend if I make it to rank 3 by just playing for fun, so we'll see.
Still, second month in a row I hit r5 and I hadn't done that for over a year. Tracking my games and studying up pays off, it seems.
Now to make a mess with my MR and play unintentional gatekeeper for a while. I'll probably pass on my last battle happiness for a fair bit...
Figured I should probably be consistent, so I took Murloc control Paladin and just pushed. Finally made it to r6 ***** on a massive win streak, and of course that final game I get utterly decimated.
I was really wanting to hit 5 so I could go back to my Miracle Rogue with the rank checkpoint, and I figured I'd be in for a losing streak and return climb which felt really off-putting. Said "a couple more games then call it for tonight".
Next game was versus a Miracle Rogue just to rub it in. They made some really inefficient plays early on to remove my just enough on-curve Murlocs and couldn't recover. Great I thought, final boss will be something annoying...
Any guesses?
Pirate Warrior.
I laughed a bit when I drew mid game cards both times, but even more when all my cards from then were on-curve perfectly and he had the worst draws I've seen for a PW. He quit turn 4.
That felt pretty great.
Now I can relax and enjoy the game again for a bit. I'll only push for Legend if I make it to rank 3 by just playing for fun, so we'll see.
Still, second month in a row I hit r5 and I hadn't done that for over a year. Tracking my games and studying up pays off, it seems.
Now to make a mess with my MR and play unintentional gatekeeper for a while. I'll probably pass on my last battle happiness for a fair bit...
Man Highmane sure is OP AF when there are no other big minions allowed in the format LOL.
That said, it seems like there are a few viable decks around for this brawl. Old School Zoo is still pretty good since Voidwalker and Flame Imp outclass most 1 drops that exist and there isn't stuff like Knife juggler in every deck with 3 attack on turn 2 to trade off of. Hunter is strong mostly because of Highmane and Kill Command as anyone could have guessed. A face rushing paladin with Divine Favor is probably ok since most classes won't have any AoE to speak of you can flood the board. Mage is pretty decent mostly off the back of the usual suspects, Fireball, Frostbolt, & mana Wyrm. Priest is bad since they don't have many good late game minions to stall out to, although Auchenai + Circle and Injured Blademaster can take over games. Overally a pretty good brawl that reminds us how boring the game used to be. IMO, I'm much happier with decks these days than those old decks.
That said, it seems like there are a few viable decks around for this brawl. Old School Zoo is still pretty good since Voidwalker and Flame Imp outclass most 1 drops that exist and there isn't stuff like Knife juggler in every deck with 3 attack on turn 2 to trade off of. Hunter is strong mostly because of Highmane and Kill Command as anyone could have guessed. A face rushing paladin with Divine Favor is probably ok since most classes won't have any AoE to speak of you can flood the board. Mage is pretty decent mostly off the back of the usual suspects, Fireball, Frostbolt, & mana Wyrm. Priest is bad since they don't have many good late game minions to stall out to, although Auchenai + Circle and Injured Blademaster can take over games. Overally a pretty good brawl that reminds us how boring the game used to be. IMO, I'm much happier with decks these days than those old decks.
I've been running a Priest deck that tops out at Gurubashi Berserker and Temple Enforcer, and it has been working great so far.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Just had the dumbest game against secret mage with gunther mage. He swings the game back in his favour with Yogg when I had him dead next turn only to discover three cabalist tomes (2 from glyphs, 1 from a tome) and a bunch of burn to finish him off anyways.
Next game. Medivh into Prophet of Velen into Pyroblast, lol. Hearthstone can be stupid sometimes. Back to rank 1 for 4th time this season.
Next game. Medivh into Prophet of Velen into Pyroblast, lol. Hearthstone can be stupid sometimes. Back to rank 1 for 4th time this season.
I was around, but I was super f2p/casual.
It worked for me since I had the perfect curve in the games I played. Mana Wyrm > frost bolt > Kirin Tor mage into a free secret which gave me tempo > then I had all kinds of removal to close out the game.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Nice got Illidan from brawl pack. Cab use the 400 dust right now.
You'll be fine. You're not me. On Old Gods launch I crafted N'Zoth and the very next pack I opened after an arena run contained a N'Zoth.
Thalnos is really good in a lot of decks. He's a great two drop in general. Certainly a worthy craft IMO. Especially if you like playing Mage.
ArcticDonkey
Member
I did it guys, hold me. I made it to rank 5. This is my legend.
There was so much Pirate Warrior around 6 & 5. All my regrets around crafting Lightlord went out the window. Fucker saved me so many times. It is such a satisfying feeling to survive the initial PW onslaught and just keep playing taunts as they buff their weapon to 9/3 or whatever.
There was so much Pirate Warrior around 6 & 5. All my regrets around crafting Lightlord went out the window. Fucker saved me so many times. It is such a satisfying feeling to survive the initial PW onslaught and just keep playing taunts as they buff their weapon to 9/3 or whatever.