It has been used now and then, not regularly but often in slowish decks with control properties, like the current control one, I've definetely used it several times before, but it's not used often because it's really slow
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It has been used now and then, not regularly but often in slowish decks with control properties, like the current control one, I've definetely used it several times before, but it's not used often because it's really slow
I am absolutely buzzing right now, just had the most intense game ever since I started playing. I FINALLY beat a Dr Boom Warrior who got to do all of his party tricks, the game was like 30+ minutes. Here's the last few seconds when I slowly realise I've actually won :D
There are some real assholes who play this game, spamming "I greet you" during my turn and then instantly tries to invite me to BNET after he wins. I just wonder how miserable their lives must be to feel the need to BM like that, especially when they had a better deck.
Just squelch everyone when the game starts. It makes games so much more peaceful.
Magic Arena added it in open beta, maybe even earlier. It silences all enemy emotes, doesn't let you emote either, and as far as I know it doesn't even show if they're mousing over their hero attempting to emote. It's glorious.
Of course your opponent will still sit there and rope you and make your game last 35 minutes sometimes, but at least you don't get to watch emotes through the process.
Of course your opponent will still sit there and rope you and make your game last 35 minutes sometimes, but at least you don't get to watch emotes through the process.
I sometimes greet the opponent, not often. I always do if they greet me first.
I always go "wow" when they do something cool.
I always say "well played" when the game is done, no matter if I won or lost. If I finish a quest during the match, instead I say "thank you" when it's over.
I always go "wow" when they do something cool.
I always say "well played" when the game is done, no matter if I won or lost. If I finish a quest during the match, instead I say "thank you" when it's over.
emotes are a very useful tool that honestly can win you games. in magic the head games are a bit more intense since you can actively counter, so snapping OOPS, NICE when you're trying to bait someone to either play into settle the wreckage, or bluff having it or a counter, can get you a response pushed in your favor sometimes. in HS it's not as important without active counterplay, but i still win games every now and then bluffing with emotes, or acting like i made a mistake when i really didn't and influencing people. if you were playing in person, the players face would give much more away, but emotes is all we have to interact, i never mute, if someone BM me i either whoop them in the game or deuce if i know they're wasting my time and it's impossible for me to recover.
Was playing odd rogue in wild against a warrior, got the Dr Boom hero card from a swashburglar, the warrior played scourgelord for a few turns and then his own Dr Boom.........the game must have gone half an hour and he won via fatigue and stacking armor all match lol
Speaking of Mind Blast, would Prophet Velen be useful in dragon control Priest? He's not a dragon, but he's so damn good when he sticks.
There are 44 priest spells in standard right now. 43 if you don't count the quest. About half of them are straight up good, so you tend to always have 1 or 2 options.
that's just bad manners. It might win you some games particularly w/ settle the wreckage but you'll be a dick regardless.
So when rotation hits, decks can include cards from Witchwood, Booms, Rasta and the new one...all others are gone, right?
that's right, only those and also classic.
Minus the cards the decide to Hall of Fame, which I hope are less this year, they are taking too many out of the set
So I took a long break from HS and recently came back and saw RDU playing a Shirvallah OTK Paladin deck with tons of card draw and heal. Not sure how viable it is but it's a ton of fun to play. Beat a few hunters with it too. He has guide on YouTube.
### OTK DK
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
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# 2x (1) Righteous Protector
# 2x (2) Baleful Banker
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 1x (2) Crystalsmith Kangor
# 2x (2) Crystology
# 2x (2) Equality
# 2x (2) Flash of Light
# 2x (2) Novice Engineer
# 2x (2) Potion of Heroism
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 2x (3) Time Out!
# 1x (3) Zola the Gorgon
# 2x (4) Consecration
# 1x (4) Hammer of Wrath
# 2x (4) Prismatic Lens
# 2x (5) Holy Wrath
# 1x (9) Uther of the Ebon Blade
# 1x (25) Shirvallah, the Tiger
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Also I had a blast watching the HCT winter qualifiers this weekend I really hope they don't kill the competitive scene. Some of those games with Viper were awesome especially the control shaman he brought
### OTK DK
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
#
# 2x (1) Righteous Protector
# 2x (2) Baleful Banker
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 1x (2) Crystalsmith Kangor
# 2x (2) Crystology
# 2x (2) Equality
# 2x (2) Flash of Light
# 2x (2) Novice Engineer
# 2x (2) Potion of Heroism
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 2x (3) Time Out!
# 1x (3) Zola the Gorgon
# 2x (4) Consecration
# 1x (4) Hammer of Wrath
# 2x (4) Prismatic Lens
# 2x (5) Holy Wrath
# 1x (9) Uther of the Ebon Blade
# 1x (25) Shirvallah, the Tiger
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
Also I had a blast watching the HCT winter qualifiers this weekend I really hope they don't kill the competitive scene. Some of those games with Viper were awesome especially the control shaman he brought
Rotation can't come soon enough. I refuse to spend dust on crafting Year of the Mammoth cards at this point and so many of the popular decks hinge of those cards. KnC needs to be cleansed from the meta (and that's coming from someone who plays Spellhunter!)
There's barely any decks that survive the rotation intact. Just a couple mage and warrior decks as far as I can see. Some odd decks might survive, depends on the new set. But I CANNOT WAIT. Only ~2.5 months to go.
There's barely any decks that survive the rotation intact. Just a couple mage and warrior decks as far as I can see. Some odd decks might survive, depends on the new set. But I CANNOT WAIT. Only ~2.5 months to go.
Even and Odd decks are definitely going to survive, but they will have to evolve. This is contrary to last rotation, where the best deck (Cubelock) lost nothing that couldn't be easily replaced. At least that's how I remember it.
I present to you, Peanut Shaman (-1 elise +1 zihi) vs Odd Quest Warrior.
The game did not go how I thought it would.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/sSfK4CBqLMaVfzXuWZKQ5Z
The game did not go how I thought it would.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/sSfK4CBqLMaVfzXuWZKQ5Z
Can y'all think of any possible combo disruption cards that don't just end the game against combo?
Zihi is a really great step in the right direction i think.
Zihi is a really great step in the right direction i think.
The best use of zihi imo was in kingsbane rogue. Could cycle copies back into deck with lab recruiter. But they had to go and kill kingsbane b4 rotation, smh.
I've been playing a lot of Mech C'thune warlock because memes. I got a quest today to play as priest or paladin and so it led me to this game.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/hWBMh7yy4pqV9NnZPHquMc
I knew the build he was using as soon as I saw he place the weapon. It's super defensive, but the downfall was his death rattle void lords. I only messed up one turn in this game where I had intended to psychic scream his void lord back into the deck. Caused me to burn alexstraza. The rest was pretty good. The weapon forced him to play a minion to the board each turn or else it'd be pulled out of his hand the next turn. I got the idea from a game where a paladin put spikeridge steed on one of my minions to delay the game.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/hWBMh7yy4pqV9NnZPHquMc
I knew the build he was using as soon as I saw he place the weapon. It's super defensive, but the downfall was his death rattle void lords. I only messed up one turn in this game where I had intended to psychic scream his void lord back into the deck. Caused me to burn alexstraza. The rest was pretty good. The weapon forced him to play a minion to the board each turn or else it'd be pulled out of his hand the next turn. I got the idea from a game where a paladin put spikeridge steed on one of my minions to delay the game.
I felt similar until I started playing Priest. It's just fun to wreck Hunter's. But it seems like Priest numbers are going up and mirror matches in this game are fucking dreadful.
I definitely like this meta more than the last though. At least it feels like there's actual playing involved with a lot of the popular decks.
Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of the meta, but at least Odd Paladin isn't completely brainless now. But there isn't a deck that I like playing. I can ladder with Spell hunter, I just don't want to? It's weird. I'm really just coasting until rotation to see how much more money I'll pump into this game.
This spring's rotation will be massive and I cannot wait. Been playing pretty minimally lately.
I'm only seeing 4 classes really. Priest, Hunter, Paladin, and Rogue. At least all 4 have multiple decks though.
At this moment I just wish I could sell my Hearthstone account but this is against the rules.
The game never been this boring.
The game never been this boring.
Curious to hear what other decks you are seeing then, could use some new deck ideas
I think this meta is alright. Still looking forward to most of the otk decks going away and the prevalence of hunters is boring.
Besides druid (6%) and shaman (2%), from my last 50 games every other class is between 10-20%.
So there is tempo + odd rogue, a few burgle mixed in. OTK + odd paladin. Elemental + odd mage. Couple priest decks but lately gallery priest pretty often. Several hunter decks. Odd quest warrior. Mechathun druid. Midrange or control warlocks, which are probably on the rise and at least one mechathun warlock. Only shaman isn't very notable in my last 50.
OTK paladin is so much fun to play I haven't enjoyed hs this much in a while. Almost like I have freeze mage back time out is basically ice block not sure why they allowed something like that after sending ice block to hall of fame but I love decks like that so I'm glad they did lol
Yeah, I am enjoying it too. A control deck with a win condition. It can even beat some combo decks, like I beat a mechathun druid last night by using steeds on their stuff. At the end he had to play mechathun with no board, hand, or cards to draw left. So as long as I didn't kill it or let it die, which is hard for him to force to happen, all I had to do was survive long enough for fatigue (was still at 40~ hp with heals and ebon blade swings left).
https://hsreplay.net/replay/29L8NMA6TCsgrKojH85KiX
Anyone here have a premium account for hsreplay? I am interested in learning the mulligan stats for a particular match up.
I pick it up for a month or 2 every year. what do you want to know?
Just the mulligan stats for this deck https://hsreplay.net/decks/JIjl3qOV...&utm_medium=client&utm_campaign=mulliganguide vs odd warrior if that is possible. I guess odd warrior with quest if you can get that specific. A screenshot would be more than enough.
It doesn't give per matchup mulligan data. just class.
The above average cards vs warrior are
Uther(duh) 81.7
call to arms (thinning 3 and drawing up to 3 towards uther seems good) 80.7
thekal 79.6 (i guess this helps you live turns vs quest?)
tarim 79.2
steed 79.1
heroism 77.9
looking at that i'm betting thekal steed and heroism are picking up points off the quest matchup. Heroism less so perhaps, picking up 2 draws with lynessa is pretty good in most matchups. It should also be noted that spkirediged and tarim are only kept infrequently. so you might not want to read too much into that.
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