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EndlessSky
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Extremely early impressions: This deck is insanely good, and I have no clue how aggro will ever be in the meta this coming month as long as this deck exists. It has so much draw so it is really consistent. Taurus is so good, may even be worth a 2 of. Taurus also makes me think that storm haven will probably be extremely good too.
Tempo forest sounds good to me with all the cards they've been given, but I haven't been able to make it work yet. I just run out of cards before I'm able to finish the game and the opponent can remove my stuff too easily. I'm going to keep trying it though, because it seems pretty fun.
Got to keep in mind a lot of people are playing bad stuff right now though, so these impresions don't mean much lol.
Too many decks to try, too little time so far lol.
Tempo forest sounds good to me with all the cards they've been given, but I haven't been able to make it work yet. I just run out of cards before I'm able to finish the game and the opponent can remove my stuff too easily. I'm going to keep trying it though, because it seems pretty fun.
Got to keep in mind a lot of people are playing bad stuff right now though, so these impresions don't mean much lol.
Too many decks to try, too little time so far lol.
pollux seems low key OP... at least in arena. It's pretty much Tia that is way easier to activate sans the ward.
I drafted 3 of them and just activated them with carrot and wiseman, it rolled over man. I would say it's not unreasonable for constructed.
How does Aether work? You need to have 10pp for Aegis or 9? It says less than.
I drafted 3 of them and just activated them with carrot and wiseman, it rolled over man. I would say it's not unreasonable for constructed.
How does Aether work? You need to have 10pp for Aegis or 9? It says less than.
EndlessSky
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Yeah, you need 1 more mana than what it pulls out. I've never actually had to pull out Aegis with it yet, it's mostly for playing Aether on curve and getting a 5/7 ward to help stall. The whole deck is just a stall and draw machine lol.
After playing against a bunch of forests as various decks, I think that Cassiopeia is quite worse than will of the forest. It costs 1 more, and the body with it isn't really good. Also, you sometimes want to play will of the forest after you evolve and crash a follower into the opponent's biggest thing, but even though Cassiopeia comes with a body you can't really do that.
Edit: Using Aether to pull Aegis on turn 10 mean you have 4pp left to remove stuff with tribunal or 2 red hot boots. Not bad when you don't have an evo to drop Aegis on turn 9. Currently on a 7 game win streak with the deck in mid masters. I want to try out other decks though lol.
After playing against a bunch of forests as various decks, I think that Cassiopeia is quite worse than will of the forest. It costs 1 more, and the body with it isn't really good. Also, you sometimes want to play will of the forest after you evolve and crash a follower into the opponent's biggest thing, but even though Cassiopeia comes with a body you can't really do that.
Edit: Using Aether to pull Aegis on turn 10 mean you have 4pp left to remove stuff with tribunal or 2 red hot boots. Not bad when you don't have an evo to drop Aegis on turn 9. Currently on a 7 game win streak with the deck in mid masters. I want to try out other decks though lol.
EndlessSky
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According to a redditor, once you hit level 110, a new 5 star achievment unlocks and you get 400 gold, and the next star is for level 120 for another 400 gold. If it is true and follows suit for levels 110-140 (there are new character flairs in the data dumps, so that's prob the lvl 150 rewards) then that is a total of 11.2k gold for leveling all the characters.
It's going to take quite a while, but those are pretty good freebies.
It's going to take quite a while, but those are pretty good freebies.
Congrats, mayne!
Now you just need to get that Dorothy-action!
edit: That premium telescope looks pretty nice too!
I took a break pretty early last set and come back to find Golden Lion nerfed? What happened? Lion / Tea Time or something?
I've got two and Iooking to dust something for more hot sneks.
Otherwise, Witch looks like a lot of fun this set!
EndlessSky
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Got a 7 game winstreak with this Prime Dragon Keeper deck. Pretty fun if you like aggro. Thinking that it may need a 2nd staircase to try to get dragon keeper more consistently, but it has been working so far, so eh.
Also 2478 Nep doesn't seem as good as I thought it would be, but I guess Nep decks usually take a while to fine tune. I want to try commander sword next, but I'm missing quite a few legendaries for it.
Also 2478 Nep doesn't seem as good as I thought it would be, but I guess Nep decks usually take a while to fine tune. I want to try commander sword next, but I'm missing quite a few legendaries for it.
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XisBannedTier
I like that dragon deck, still need one after all this time and thats pretty much as budget as dragon is gonna get LOL
Neutral haven was the strongest deck after the second set of nerfs, because it could crazy explosive on turn 4-6.
Most decks couldn't handle that, but CBlood was a pretty good counter.
Since my last deck idea was a massive faliure, I'm now playing control sword, featuring Leonidas, Roland and Alexander.
Roland is basically a tech card, but I'm not sure what I'm actually teching against lol.
Regardless, she saved mea few times ,so she can stay.
I don't have Barbarossa , nor Gewain, but they should be quit good.
Lux is awesome and basically a 3 three of in anything, but aggro.
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'enry 'ollins
Just like how I got 3x Alice last expansion, I've ended up with 3x Barbarossa out of 5 legs total. I suppose I'm making a Support Cannon control deck and just lose to Ramp haha.
EndlessSky
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Dang, I tried to play super aggro sword today to try to quickly climb the 2000ish points I need to get to top 10k masters for the reward, but I barely managed a 50% winrate lol. Oh well, it's just 10 packs. That's what I get for not playing much this month.
Gonna get started on trying to make tempo forest work for me, as well as try out other fun deck ideas I have like ptp shadow. Also still need to do all those new story chapters.
Gonna get started on trying to make tempo forest work for me, as well as try out other fun deck ideas I have like ptp shadow. Also still need to do all those new story chapters.
I'm playing my huuuge pile of arena tickets, I have like 15 left, probably stop buying packs and go infinite now. Take Two is a lot better now, it feels balanced and fun after a long time. Mr. Moon card is very good addition to arena, it helps you not lose to cheese like aegis, spawn or bahamut that easily. I see it offered every run so far, probably because of set bonus or something. I suggest if you see it pick it, it's probably one of the best neutral cards to draft. I feel sword is a bit too strong still, their new cards are too good. Haven has been poor but I feel even forest is viable now. So far got 3 5 win runs and my worst run was 3 wins with haven. Getting 4 wins very easily now.
I didn't get daria, but I opened a Lion and an Alice from these arena runs, pretty good. You can win SFL packs from arena too.
As for constructed, that super aggro forest deck seems really good, takes skill and it's fun to play. I like it, Liza wrecks dshift and dragon just fine. Elf song combined with Liza feels broken, not many things answer that board turn 5. Still no where as bad as Alice was.
I didn't get daria, but I opened a Lion and an Alice from these arena runs, pretty good. You can win SFL packs from arena too.
As for constructed, that super aggro forest deck seems really good, takes skill and it's fun to play. I like it, Liza wrecks dshift and dragon just fine. Elf song combined with Liza feels broken, not many things answer that board turn 5. Still no where as bad as Alice was.
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'enry 'ollins
Opened a Daria. Below avg leg count redeemed.
Sword doesn't need Albert to win anymore.
turn 1 1/1 storm or 1/2
turn 2 2/1 rush
turn 3 2/2 storm
turn 4 slacker
turn 5 round table assembly into 2x Juliet
turn 6 wow you're not dead yet? Alwida's command.
nice game.
I can see either Juliet or Round table being on first nerf list. Probably slacker thing too, that card is effectively better than windgod or cynthia lol.
turn 1 1/1 storm or 1/2
turn 2 2/1 rush
turn 3 2/2 storm
turn 4 slacker
turn 5 round table assembly into 2x Juliet
turn 6 wow you're not dead yet? Alwida's command.
nice game.
I can see either Juliet or Round table being on first nerf list. Probably slacker thing too, that card is effectively better than windgod or cynthia lol.
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XisBannedTier
Made this last night
Been getting a TON of rage quits with it
Been getting a TON of rage quits with it
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XisBannedTier
1 month 10k
10k in a month is not even hard
Control mirrors are anything but short.
yeah you play those every 3 game in ladder, my bad
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XisBannedTier
Dragon is forever braindead cancer
Dragon is forever braindead cancer
It kills me. I like Dragon, but every time it rises up (TotG, SL) it's not for good reason... And much like TotG, it's largely a two-class meta, rather than an ideal three...
At least this time it wasn't like Cygames was aiming for PDK to be this massive bomb since they're finally past doing that with legendaries, but a month is still a long time.
Being said, I'mma try and ride this wave. PDK was a safe craft for me either way, and if it gets nerfed I get refunded (and I still have like 20k vials banked)
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XisBannedTier
Rune is still very strong atm
Dirt rune to be more exact
Dirt rune to be more exact
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XisBannedTier
Yeah dirt rune finally became a real thing with the last set, I avoided rune because phase and daria were both lame and borring as hell but now that dirt is kicking I play it pretty regularly
It sucks that PDK got channeled into ramp though, I rather them nerf stuff like sybil than pdk super hard. It finally made rush dragon a possible viable thing.
I want them to make discard dragon not crap though, but once that actually works it might be too good lol
I'm sure sword is going to get nerfed this month. Sword really is brain dead and one dimensional. My hope is that they gut Albert so that sword goes in another direction but it's not happening. They will nerf Juliet to 4. It's just a strictly better novice trooper right now and you play 6 of them basically now with added bonus that you can pull 2 of them from your deck at 5. Juliet will go to 4 with the upside that can be played for 2 in properly built commander decks. That makes sense to me.
PDK I think is very counterable and reasonable. Sword though, they go first and you have a slightly sub optimal hand you lose fast... I think there is probably like 20 percent gap for the deck's winrate going 1st/2nd, that's just unhealthy and toxic.
PDK I think is very counterable and reasonable. Sword though, they go first and you have a slightly sub optimal hand you lose fast... I think there is probably like 20 percent gap for the deck's winrate going 1st/2nd, that's just unhealthy and toxic.
PDK isn't healing anything, it's a plague.
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XisBannedTier
That says heading not healing
I hate PDK. It's hard to kill and once it's on the field and they can easily clear board every turn.
They should remove the can't be attacked part, reduce it's health or both.
Your idea for a roundtable nerf sonds good. As for CoCK, I think reducing thier health for 3 to should do the trick.
Although, I'm not sure if it really needs a nerf.
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XisBannedTier
Opened 3 got 2.
Rng is rng
Man, the last few days have been really bad and I didn't realize when it happened. The vast majority of the matches are PDK, with the occasional Aggro Sword to annoy me even more. I've finalized my Shadowcraft deck and it feels useless 90% of the time because I'm already dead by the time I can actually counter attack. Today it's even worse than 2 days ago actually...
lol just ran into that stupid havencraft card that lets you just "win the game" off of a countdown.
i hatttteeeee shit like that in card games. why make cards that literally make it so that you dont have to play the game? takes out all strategy. guess i have to run amulet removal in all decks now.
i hatttteeeee shit like that in card games. why make cards that literally make it so that you dont have to play the game? takes out all strategy. guess i have to run amulet removal in all decks now.
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XisBannedTier
Nah your goal is to just kill them before they can get it off, your goal with the game is to typically either run a shit ton of control or try to win the game by turn 6-8, destroying the card just helps them btw you need to banish it and there are not many viable ways to do that.
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'enry 'ollins
Super bad luck like I had this set. On the bright side, you still get more packs than hearthstone so it'll even out.