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Hearthstone |OT9| Our raid wiped in Icecrown Citadel

Beckx

Member
But Auctioneer into Innervate into Jade Idols is a crazy combo. Do you really need more than one Infestation?

Infestation turn, Infestation saved my ass against burn mage. Kept me out of lethal. Auctioneer needs so many preconditions to do anything comparable.
 
Crafting needs:
Ultimate Infestation x2
Druid DK
Paladin DK
Rogue DK
Xarill
Yogg
Fandral Staghelm
Corpsetaker
White Eyes
Sneed
Pyros

4400 dust.

FML.

Infestation can effectively handle that combo on its own, without having to hold spells. It allows you to ramp with nourish more freely, use Feral Rage for removal if you have to etc. And Infestation is more resilient to Skulking Geist. Not to mention it provides direct damage and a better board presence.

You run two to better your chances of getting one and because you can find some use out if the second because it does so many things.

Infestation turn, Infestation saved my ass against burn mage. Kept me out of lethal. Auctioneer needs so many preconditions to do anything comparable.
That all makes a lot of sense. Funny how a card a lot of people were unsure of is now a 2x.
 
Mage with 1 HP left, I was using an Eye for an Eye secret. The mage casted Firelands portal which summoned a Hallazeal, he then frostbolted my face which instead of killing him it kept him with one hp, I was frozen so I couldn't hit his face. He won the game in the next turn.

Thanks RNG.
 
that's right..

learned from Tavern Brawl Hunter plays

Bummer, but I thought as much. Trying to work out a Wild Pyro / Toxic Arrow combo but I don't think it'll work out.

There's Fallen Sun / Shattered Sun Cleric, but a turn six or seven, three card combo is probably too clunky and slow. Was thinking if Immune would work, Deathspeaker would be a better combo because it would leave the poisonous Wild Pyro up.
 

Nachos

Member
Anyone been able to get the rogue death knight to work outside of slightly-modified versions of the old miracle lists? I've been having a lot of fun with a combo deck using the curator and a bunch of murlocs/beasts/dragons, but I can tell there's no salvaging it into something competitive.
 

TankUP

Member
You asked for the consensus best list. On day two.

Don't blame him, I'm the one who called Zalae's list the consensus best, and that's because I hang out in Discord channels where semipro and high legend players hang out and they were all buzzing about Zalae's jade druid all yesterday.
 

Blizzard

Banned
I always forget about Obsidian Statue's Deathrattle.
I don't get a ton of use out of it, but I'm pretty sure one game the player was trying to command a different strong minion to attack after killing Obsidian Statue. When the other minion vanished out of under their mouse I could almost feel a mental pause through the internet.
 

Nickle

Cool Facts: Game of War has been a hit since July 2013
Any fun Archbishop Benedictus meme decks? I opened him in a pack but I don't want to disenchant him.
 

TankUP

Member
Any fun Archbishop Benedictus meme decks? I opened him in a pack but I don't want to disenchant him.

You're in luck... this was posted literally 12 minutes ago by one of the best priest players in all of Hearthstone:

https://twitter.com/Zetalot2/status/896069910488469504

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Hybris

Member
I don't get a ton of use out of it, but I'm pretty sure one game the player was trying to command a different strong minion to attack after killing Obsidian Statue. When the other minion vanished out of under their mouse I could almost feel a mental pause through the internet.

Yeah it can really create some awkward turns. Though I am finding myself underwhelmed by the performance of this card. Maybe my expectations were a bit too high.
 
Does anyone else think this expansion seems even more reliant on Legendaries than the last?

I get the problem with the Quests was that if you didn't have one, you couldn't access the new archetype at all - but if you did get one, it was quite easy to put together a deck that didn't require legendaries to be particularly competitive as completing them relied mostly on commons/rares/old cards. This set, I'm struggling to build anything exciting out of the 60 packs I opened - this could just be me being a terrible deckbuilder, but I've never struggled so much trying to get decks to not sck.

I have DK Gul'Dan, but no other epics or rares to enable a control strategy viable.
I have DK Malfurion but don't have Fandral, that new 10 mana epic, the taunt summoner etc.
No Lich King for either - I suppose I should just bite the bullet and craft this one though.
 

Nickle

Cool Facts: Game of War has been a hit since July 2013
Nah, it looks like N'zoth priest and if shit goes haywire you start playing their deck instead. :SeemsGood:
I feel like the deck would be much better without Benedictus, although I imagine that's going to be the case for every Benedictus deck.
 

Ketch

Member
I'm in a weird spot where I have enough legendaries and dust to get like one good deck out it..... but of course it's waaaay to early for that. So now I'm just kind of running shitty non omptimized memes.
 
But Auctioneer into Innervate into Jade Idols is a crazy combo. Do you really need more than one Infestation?

Look at it this way

Ultimate Infestiation is like 2 and a half pot of greeds. Thats insaane. Auctioneer needs preconditions to use it, and it can be countered after your turns over. You might not even get to utilize it for more than the 4-8 possible mana(if you saved 2 innervates).

Infestation also guarantees a dead enemy minion and your board having a minion. Druids already have Nourish too, auctioneer is simply redundant and worse. Its like taking an Iron Bark instead of the Lich King. For Druids, auctioneers been pushed out.

Edit: reading along I see others have also responded to you about infestation. Well, more opinions is always good right?
 

Yaboosh

Super Sleuth
Hotform is testing bane of doom as a way of getting some of the strong discard demons onto his board. Seems a little too high roll but still seems a little interesting.
 

Hybris

Member
Think I'm going to try some combo warrior tonight when I get home. Blood warriors, arcane giants, dead man's hand. Should be strong against all the greedy decks out there at the moment. Pack in all the card draw like acolyte, blood rage, slam, shield block, etc. I think it has potential. As long as I can keep the draw engine going, I don't see how most of these decks will deal with 6-8 arcane giants and multiple per turn.
 

Beckx

Member
Fuck. Keep thinking Bolvar is better than he is and thought he had taunt. I had lethal too


I had two death knights on board and a third in hand, and stupidly clicked the hero power before playing the third. Dupe, fml. Still won the game at least.

What are you finding with Bolvar? I kind of wanted the card since I don't have the traditional big hitters for paly yet. At least I can have a flaming dwarf on a stegosaurus!
 

A Pretty Panda

fuckin' called it, man
I had two death knights on board and a third in hand, and stupidly clicked the hero power before playing the third. Dupe, fml. Still won the game at least.

What are you finding with Bolvar? I kind of wanted the card since I don't have the traditional big hitters for paly yet. At least I can have a flaming dwarf on a stegosaurus!

Oh you're mistaken, my decisions were much worse than that. i was playing Pirate Warrior and I was facing a Paladin. The Paladin drop Bolvar on 5 and instead of throwing my cards into his face and winning, I threw them into Bolvar and I didn't even clear him. He then steeded it on 6 rip
 

vall03

Member
Why are all matchups below Rank 20 so damn hard right now? Everyone has a Death Knight ffs. What the hell are all of these people doing in this low rank?
 
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