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Hearthstone |OT9| Our raid wiped in Icecrown Citadel
- Thread starter ZealousD
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Basic generic meta deck. Good for quests
### Control Mage
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
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# 2x (1) Mana Wyrm
# 2x (2) Arcanologist
# 2x (2) Frostbolt
# 2x (2) Medivh's Valet
# 2x (2) Primordial Glyph
# 2x (3) Arcane Intellect
# 2x (3) Ice Barrier
# 2x (3) Ice Block
# 2x (3) Volcanic Potion
# 1x (4) Eater of Secrets
# 2x (4) Fireball
# 1x (4) Polymorph
# 1x (5) Harrison Jones
# 1x (6) Meteor
# 2x (7) Firelands Portal
# 1x (7) Flamestrike
# 1x (8) Medivh, the Guardian
# 1x (9) Alexstrasza
# 1x (10) Pyroblast
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Thanks, I have Harrison but will have to substitute something for Alexstrasza.
I also have 1 Primordial Glyph and 1 Ice Block, which means mage will be pretty tough to win for me, lol.
Haha yeah Alex and ice block are two of the most important cards in the deck.
22 ice blocks should be enough for anyone!
I would straight up concede. No TB win is worth that!
I kind of hate mage and priest with a passion (playing as, playing against, existing in the game), so I guess it's not surprising I didn't craft anything.
I hate every faction but Mage (mine) and Hunter (easy for me to beat) so yeah I get it.
There's actually a tempo list one of the streamers was using that worked to decent effect that you might have the cards for. No legendaries. Avian is nice. Don't have a link but here's the one I made based on it (I don't think I tweaked it much -- added one Ice Block and one Crystal Runner, and I think removed Eater and Ooze though you can certainly tech those back in. I just like Ice Block here not even for the block itself but just b/c the deck is so reliant on having unpopped secrets):
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
no one wins with ice block.
there seems to be a bug, I get revealed my opponents card draw sometimes
does Maelstrom really beat patches? I mean, I can do 22 damage + hunter hero power and just win
does Maelstrom really beat patches? I mean, I can do 22 damage + hunter hero power and just win
Yeah I was theory crafting when I said that. My first game was Hunter patches vs Maelstrom Portal and it was still an easy win with Patches. I just had to use the hero power on Turn 2.
hey_monkey
Banned
bahahaha tavern brawl is the tits with Patches.
edit: just beat a patches rogue because I was playing patches druid. DAT 1 PT ARMOR
moar edit: I can't wait to see what all funny junk people pull to anti-patches. This brawl will be so good. brb, brawling all week
edit: just beat a patches rogue because I was playing patches druid. DAT 1 PT ARMOR
moar edit: I can't wait to see what all funny junk people pull to anti-patches. This brawl will be so good. brb, brawling all week
Source / link? I don't see any patch notes.
Patches druid seems like it could be the best deck if you get lucky and pull any of the +1/1 cards as your random ones. That will put you above probably anything.
The +1 armor won't help you beat a hunter patches, but your random cards seem like they would be more likely to be good vs the hunter's.
The +1 armor won't help you beat a hunter patches, but your random cards seem like they would be more likely to be good vs the hunter's.
Patches hunter.... facehunters wet dream
hey_monkey
Banned
That's what I was hoping for - any of the +1/+1s, but turns out the armor did kinda save me.
You can lose in the last turn if your opponent (like shaman or paladin) pulls out a weapon
Fucking shaman and his jade claws
Edit: now that I think about it, I lost that one because I ran out of patches since the last bunch of patches was in my hand
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
What a disappointing reaction from Blizzard.
I think I know what deck is going to get a big boost out of this...
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRATE WARRIOR.
So get ready to see a lot more of that one for sure.
With that nerf probably making Caverns Rogue no longer a top tier deck, Pirate warrior fills most of that void in the aggro/aggressive style deck. Rogue was more of a combo deck than aggro, but since it generally won quickly So we have to think what decks were being held down by the cavern rogue deck. I don't really know what those were though. Most of the decks that lost to it also lost to stuff like Pirate warrior or Midrange Hunter.
Maybe Mid Hunter is the one that benefits the most? Hard to say. I'll be happy to keep playing cavern rogue when I have the rogue cards quest though. The deck is still fun to play, even if it's terrible.
PIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRATE WARRIOR.
So get ready to see a lot more of that one for sure.
With that nerf probably making Caverns Rogue no longer a top tier deck, Pirate warrior fills most of that void in the aggro/aggressive style deck. Rogue was more of a combo deck than aggro, but since it generally won quickly So we have to think what decks were being held down by the cavern rogue deck. I don't really know what those were though. Most of the decks that lost to it also lost to stuff like Pirate warrior or Midrange Hunter.
Maybe Mid Hunter is the one that benefits the most? Hard to say. I'll be happy to keep playing cavern rogue when I have the rogue cards quest though. The deck is still fun to play, even if it's terrible.
People played Mage to counter Quest Rogue, so if there are fewer quest rogues Mage will presumably not be as popular.
Pirate Warrior was already an auto win vs Crystal Rogue.
This nerf helps Jade Rogue and every control deck.
well
http://www.vicioussyndicate.com/vs-data-reaper-report-53/
13% of legend decks were Crystal Rogue. it's way less prevalent prior to legend.
If Pirate Warrior was rising due to the fall in decks destroyed by Crystal Rogue, a decline in Crystal Rogue should be bad for Pirate Warrior.
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
Why would pirate warrior win from losing an opponent that was close to a free win.
Slow decks benefit from this. Quest Warrior, Druid, slower paladin builds. All the decks that could neither outvalue or race the deck.
I guess I'd never heard of people doing that. I thought they played Mage because it was a good deck. Pirate warrior / aggro druid already crushed quest rogue.
The players that played quest rogue for quick wins will be playing pirate warrior.
Err you not getting quick wins with q rogue
Familienoberhauptvogel
Banned
It was my first craft from ungoro so I got a lot of worth out of it but disappointing nonetheless. I quite enjoyed the deck and even facing it never considered it problematic.
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Makes Quest Rogue less viable, but I still don't think it actually helps some of the other class' quests become more viable.
This is a good point. Quest rogue leads to roping on your turns rather than quick turns.
not really aimed at class quests
more aimed at allowing control decks to exist
I'm okay with this nerf. I don't think it will push Quest Rogue completely out of play. Also 5 minions for 5/5 everything makes more sense.
Even with a bullet in quest rogue's head, you can still target control with Jade Druid. It's not like control gets a free ride now.
I'm excited to play in an unsettled meta for at least a little while after the nerf. I'm not convinced this particular change was needed, but any change is good when the meta starts feeling stale, at least in the short term.
I'm excited to play in an unsettled meta for at least a little while after the nerf. I'm not convinced this particular change was needed, but any change is good when the meta starts feeling stale, at least in the short term.