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Hearthstone |OT3| Preparing for the Ball of Spiders Meta
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In Arena?
Minsc
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Isn't this the same for all similar CCGs like MtG, etc? Combos win games by giving unfair advantages early on when conditions harder than "play 1 card on the 7th turn" are met, so people go for them.
That's just bollocks, there's a variety of viable control and midrange options. I don't know what kind of Aggro Priestyou're talking about but that's hardly new, Undertaker Priest was a thing and even then an aggro variant existing doesn't mean Control Priest os suddenly trash. Also yeah, depending on your definition anything that isn't hyper-aggro can be called a combo deck as every deck relies on synergy to be competitive in constructed. Control Priest in particular has always been extremely reliant on combos.
CarbonatedFalcon
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Playing old school Mech Mage at this point in the season starting at rank 19:
Cleared out all my quests, not a single loss.
Cleared out all my quests, not a single loss.
homeworkfilms
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Latest friend invite... "You fat noob"...
You let an Ogre Brute survive for three turns? Sounds like your opponent is winning anyways.
Professor Lich
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I bet ViviOggi was just playing with his opponent and allowed that brute to stay alive.
Professor Lich
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Just curious, what Priest deck were you playing?
Honestly, I had never played the deck and I needed to learn how to use it properly, so it will be stupid to run the deck on ranked and lose points just because there is some unwritten code of honor rule that makes you a jerk if you run handlock on casual
"The end is coming!"
Oooh, right
Their own card or did it drop from a Shredder too?
nvm it's in the history, that would have been insane though
own card
No I was talking about ranked, but in the one run I did in arena it was about the same. Got like 6 wins and 3 losses.
So I'm guessing it's smarter to save your gold for arena and not just buying new packs? Takes forever to get this shit!
Buy the expansions if you have any interested in ranked.
Anyone else take the approach of never using gold cards?
I hated using foils or foreign versions of cards in live MTG tournaments back in my day (15 years ago at this point, I feel old). All it denoted to my opponent was an additional familiarity with the game that wasn't beneficial to me for him to know.
I'd rather people think I'm a scrub ass scrub.
I hated using foils or foreign versions of cards in live MTG tournaments back in my day (15 years ago at this point, I feel old). All it denoted to my opponent was an additional familiarity with the game that wasn't beneficial to me for him to know.
I'd rather people think I'm a scrub ass scrub.
MetroidPrimeRib
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Just eviscerated my face on mobile. Cried for a little bit
Avinexus
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Savjv has been playing one on stream and in some tournaments for a few weeks.
Started a run on EU today and didn't get any legendaries although I did get an Ancient of Lore and Force of Nature. No Savage Roars though.
Haven't run into any legendaries yet either but now I'm nervous.
For casual yeah, but since most of my play is in ranked mode, once you're in the higher ranks I don't think it's really an advantage. I also love how some of the gold cards look so I use as many as possible.
these 12 win rewardswhy even bother
Not that I've ever even gone that far, but knowing the shitty payoff, I've cooled on Arena big time.
Nah, golden Cards are too beautiful to not use them. I even crafted 2 golden Mad scientists yesterday that i can put into my majonnaise-mage.
Also, Worgen infiltrator = best golden common in game.
This is why I use the vanilla blue card back. It's not like you really get to see your own card back anyway.
Gold cards are just too purdy not to use.
Chromaggus?
Or you had a voljin and he thoughtstole/Mindvisioned it?
Nefarian into Unstable portal/Duplicate/echo of medivh/Gang up?
Ressurect?
Dude. Not even. Piloted Shredder. You get a wicked spinning saw AND every two drop that comes out is a bonus gold card.
At least you got a Legendary (or 400 dust). Beats getting a fucking Golden Uncommon.these 12 win rewardswhy even bother
The card back point is a great one that I forgot to include. I use the vanilla card back, as well.
Haha yeah, that post was just a facetious follow-up to yesterday. While I would have preferred a bigger gold payout I can't seriously complain about ~300g and 400 dust.
As long as people are still running sludge belcher it's always relevant.
BananasWithGuns
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Pulled a Pagle recently and on a random whim I decided to throw him into my Shaman deck. He has been putting in a ridiculous amount work for me so far. Majority of the time I'm getting several draws off him. Just played against a Priest where I played him on turn 2 and he lived the entire game (which lasted 8 turns). Feel like I've kind of been misled about Pagle being awful.
Right now Harrison/Kezan seem like the slightly better tech choice but honestly unless you only run into Hunter and Patron TBK is never useless. Belcher is still massively popular, Druid is doing well and even just sniping an Annoyotron in the later stages of a Mech Mage/Shaman match can be clutch.
I haven't been using much of Harrison lately, but I did notice some Patron decks now running belchers. Seems to be a good idea, so I probably will still end up crafting a Black Knight.
Patrons can run dread corsair and sludge belcher. Midrange hunter sometimes uses sludge belchers and houndmaster and misha. The only meta deck where it's useless is pure face hunter, and even they get misha once in a while.
In bizzarro world maybe.
Defense: Warrior, Priest (2 arm, 2 heal)
Damage: Mage, Hunter (1 any, 2 face)
Minion: Shaman, Paladin (0/2, 1/1)
Removal: Druid, Rogue (wep, attack)
Draw: Warlock (-2 health)
Static: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior, Druid, Warlock
Dynamic: Mage, Shaman, Priest, Rogue
I love the Hearthstone classes and their hero powers. So full of character, so full of creativity. Constructing an appropriate theme around a limited base restriction of power with unlimited uses is so interesting. It is by far one of the coolest things about HS.
If/When we get another expansion, I hope there are more cards dedicated to affecting/altering the hero powers in more ways. More stuff like Priest's Shadowform or the Hunter card Steamwheedle Sniper.
Damage: Mage, Hunter (1 any, 2 face)
Minion: Shaman, Paladin (0/2, 1/1)
Removal: Druid, Rogue (wep, attack)
Draw: Warlock (-2 health)
Static: Hunter, Paladin, Warrior, Druid, Warlock
Dynamic: Mage, Shaman, Priest, Rogue
I love the Hearthstone classes and their hero powers. So full of character, so full of creativity. Constructing an appropriate theme around a limited base restriction of power with unlimited uses is so interesting. It is by far one of the coolest things about HS.
If/When we get another expansion, I hope there are more cards dedicated to affecting/altering the hero powers in more ways. More stuff like Priest's Shadowform or the Hunter card Steamwheedle Sniper.
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