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I like it. It's a good late game drop that you can pair with a Belcher or a Loatheb after your Boom has already eaten a BGH.

I'm planning to try faceless/frost/charge post rotation. Should be plenty of room with death's bite, shield maiden, and dr boom going byebye. Probably won't run Grom at all, much harder to activate and Dog already wasn't running him in the list mine will be based off of.

Decided to get 13 classic packs and open a golden tink and a greenskin. Who was the last pirate I needed.....but are you supposed to get 8xCaption's Parrot for that achievement? Because I did.

So what legend should I craft since I dusted the tink? I don't have the following classic ones (that seem relevant, since I only open bad legends)
Rag
Ysera
Alex
Grom
Maly
Baron
Jarax
Velen
Tirion
Anton

I tend to play warrior, lock, and mage mainly but I do branch into the other from time to time

Derpa_sl said:

So what legend should I craft since I dusted the tink?

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I tend to play warrior, lock, and mage mainly but I do branch into the other from time to time

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My answer is Alex.

He/She/It is a sort of an axiomatic hammer. Meaning, Alex helps to outright define 'Hearthstone The Game' itself by being that hammer that slams you whenever you forget to respect swinging too big. Alex is a defining characteristic of HS.

Ysera is also in that tier. Ysera is kind of like the slowest card ever. If your goal is to 'out-slow' the bad guy, then Ysera is your friend.

Rag is a powerful card but is simple random.

Grom is key for 'Wallet Warrior'. It really is a good card for what it is trying to be. Grom is a mean mother.

Malygos is a card that represents a style of play that I am not practiced in. Others here could probably speak more highly of Maly.

Baron Geddon is low on the totem pole. Useful in some Warrior decks but not pivotal to the meta in general.

Jaraxxus is a strong comeback card and is key to several good slow Warlock decks. I would put him near the top.

I never see Velen.

Tirion is a medium to slow Paladin staple. The amount of power you get for the mana, regardless of the exact situation at hand, is just plain good. An excellent card.

Antonidas is also key to an entire genre of Mage decks. When you work with him by feeding him the 1 mana spells he craves, he rewards you with the best hand of burn cards Hearthstone can offer. He is first class.

Just my 2cp.

Really annoyed with the future 'changes' concerning cards rotating in and out. I was working on completing each set from order and have been crafting GvG Legendaries after getting all of the staples from the expansions that are used and having completed the 'classic' collection. Means I have crafted 5 Legendaries that I will never used now. Feels bad.

At least they were not golden.

Ragnaros will once again become the neutral king mid to late game drop once boom is gone I think. The dude is just fun to play and can really swing a game.

Dudebro_sl said:

Ragnaros will once again become the neutral king mid to late game drop once boom is gone I think. The dude is just fun to play and can really swing a game.

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I think this is right on. I think Rag is nowhere near dead. The new rules change the game. Rag is aneutral classic. That elevates him practically to the rank of 'Seraphim' under these new rules. I think maybe Rag is now no longer an old man. Maybe he is now a young seed under a new regime.

This new meta is a fun chance to see the evolution that will occur in the meta. Each species (class) of deck will mutate and adapt to its new environment. Some will succeed, some will fail.

AngryGerbil_sl said:

This new meta is a fun chance to see the evolution that will occur in the meta. Each species (class) of deck will mutate and adapt to its new environment. Some will succeed, some will fail.

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Yea, that is why I'm kinda having a hard time deciding who to craft.

I'd always craft the most powerful neutrals first unless you only play 1 class.

Derpa_sl said:

Yea, that is why I'm kinda having a hard time deciding who to craft.

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I know its not the answer you want but I would WAIT. You don't know what this expansion will bring, a lot of people expect Alexstraza to get reworked so she might be a bad idea, you might want dust for new legends more. But you're lacking cards and want to play now, so out of those three classes I say Grom. Pretty much irreplacable warrior card, can even be worked into a patron list if you don't want to do control or don't have the cards. Antonio Dias is good, but I think he's overvalued for tempo and good but not absolutely essential in freeze. Jaraxxus has lost some value now that the control version of lock is geared more towards Reno than handlock style, and most zoos aren't doing the midrange demon shell at the moment.

But Rag can fit in a lot of places and like everyone's said he figures to only see his value increase in standard. Rag was many people's first legend crafted back in the classic days. I personally think he's underrated and like running him in tempo mage more than Antonio.

Rag is absolutely better than Antonidas in Tempo Mage, I have no idea where this obsession with running Antonidas in Tempo came from. Hell even Rhonin is better than Antonidas in Tempo.

Alex is a safe craft even if she gets changed because you'll get full dust value if she ends up unplayable.

Alex is used in the reno lock list that runs Leeroy/Faceless too. Not sure if that's what you're thinking of. Also can be in dragon decks, dragon versions of warrior for example.

Alex used to be a lot more common, entirely reasonable that she'll make just as much of a comeback as you're speculating Rag will.

It's one thing to talk about cards that are already being played, but speculating about cards that aren't currently played is almost pointless until the expansion comes out, or if that Tempo Storm writer guessed right and they implement standard this coming Tuesday.

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I'm just commenting, I'm not trying to stifle speculation.

I very much expect more dragon templates, without knowing what the new set is bringing of course. Dragon priest should be a much more viable path than control with all the tools they are losing. Maybe pally too since they are taking a huge hit. Priest at least still has entomb to deal with a Ysera.

Shrinkmeister won't even be noticed, I haven't seen a single priest running him since a week or two after Entomb came out. Hell, I only run a single Cabal in my dragon priest list. As I've said before I have some grave doubts about the future of dragon priest, losing chow, cultist, and chosen in one fell sweep completely eviscerates the oh-so-important early game of dragon priest.