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brekk

Dancing Dino Superstar
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First Arena draft as Mage, no fireballs, no pyros, lots of Flamestrikes. Second Arena draft as mage; 1 fireball, no pyros, lots of flamestrikes.

This shit is ridiculous, I have epic board control, but no means to kill someone. And FUCK Paladins with all their self heal.
 

Elerion

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You could always try drafting some minions.

If you have "lots of flamestrikes" you should get board control for free from turn 7 onwards, at which point you can kill your opponent with whatever.
 

Boloboy

Bronze Knight of the Realm
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Looking to sell my hearthstone accnt. Bought 3 of the 50 $ packs. Also have d3 and wow with mop attached to account. 200 obo prefer email money transfer.
 

ronne

Nǐ hǎo, yǒu jīn zi ma?
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I'll pay whatever the panda expansion costs, kinda wanted to try it for a bit.
 

Mures

Blackwing Lair Raider
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Rofl, just had a druid concede turn 3 after he coined and inverated twice to play sylvanas and give her the +2/2 and taunt turn 2 and then turn 3 I topdecked tinkmaster and turned her into a squirrel. About time a little rng went my way tonight.

Oh and he did a bm I greet you after he played it all so I gave him an I greet you right back after she transformed into a squirrel.
 

elidib

Vyemm Raider
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So I figured out why you were facing so many of that warrior deck tonight The Gentleman, it's what Kripp is playing to rank up.
 

Elerion

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It's also fun as shit to play, though. I threw a halfhearted version together with what I had lying around (Replaced Tink with another Execute, Cairne with Beast), played a couple of games, and it's a blast.

PS: I'm probably playing it wrong, but since I haven't bothered ranking up yet, there's room for a lot of mistakes on rank 25.
 

Pyros

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Trump was playing a warrior too last night, he switched from druid near the end of his streaming, so I guess warrior is the new meta now and everyone will play that. At least it looks fairly interesting and isn't quite as cheesy as some of the other stuff, I really like the addition of the auctioneer to cycle all your shit nukes and get the right cards or simply spam stuff to clear the board every turn, it looks very fun to play.

I'm trying to put together a shaman deck with some of the underused cards like Ancestral Spirit(minion returns to battlefield when it dies) and Windfury. Still not sure on windfury vs the 3/3 that gives windfury, mostly the 3/3 is more expensive but it does put something on the board too, if you count windfury as 2mana, that makes the 3/3 only 2mana too, so pretty nice but tougher to fit it in combos. So far it relies a bit too heavily on drawing Leeroy though, which is godlike with either of these, and rockbiter. With ancestral you can run leeroy into a mob, then run him into another, 2x 6dmg "nuke" to clear big guys, can also run it into the face for the 2nd one, and with windfury it's 12dmg to the face, potentially 18 if you have rockbiter too. Rest of the deck is fairly standard stuff.

I'm thinking I might want to get rocketeer maybe in the deck too or maybe scarlet commanders is good enough not sure. Need more card draws though most likely, thinking of putting 2 mana totems instead of the 2 earthen farseer, mana totems act like a pseudo 3 hp heal(since people will spend the 3damage to take them out asap) and draw you a card too, for the same cost, plus if the opponent doesn't have an answer right away it draws 2. Really would like a Thalnos.

Also uses 2 earth shock to remove taunts, great card for that so you can get the chargers/windfury shit through. But still need to craft a few cards for now.
 

Elerion

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The trickiest part about the warrior decks is that it can be really hard to see which variant you are up against, and the tactics will be very different.

If it's the giant version, you'll want to stall at ~15-19 life and then OTK him.

If it's Mir3y's version (Alex+Gorehowl+Charge and assorted legendaries as win conditions), you'll want to race him, and have big removal in your deck for the legendaries.

If it's the Raging Worgen version, you just want to race, and removal is pretty worthless.
 

Angelwatch

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Yeah, last night everyone was streaming Giants decks...

Anti-Aggro Druid can't beat Warlock Giant decks without exceptional RNG. Against Warrior Giants, they CAN win but games tend to go 30 minutes long as each player is countering the other person's counter. It's not a fun matchup.

Aggro Mage actually has a pretty good record against Giants. If the opponent is low enough to play Giants for free, they're low enough to burn down in 1 turn with Pyroblast. And Iceblock prevents it from being a OTK. I've only gone up against one Warrior OTK deck with aggro mage and beat him on turn 7 as he was still trying to figure out what was happening. I've played against quite a few of Warlock Giants decks and I can only think of one time I lost.

Right now I'm primarily playing Aggro Mage. It's a grind deck and it's 100% netdecked from Veev's deck. I tried to swap out a few cards and every time I do that I see why he included the particular card he did and, inevitably, swap back to the original. It doesn't win 90% of games. But it does win more than 50% (meta for the day dependent of course) and games are FAST. Generally I know by turn 4 or 5 if I'm still in the game or not and I, generally, win by turn 7 or 8. It's also a relatively cheap deck to put together requiring 1 Legendary (Bloodmage Thalnos) and 4 Epics (Iceblocks and Pyroblasts). Yes that's 3,200 dust but Thalnos should be among the first Legendary cards crafted and if anyone is serious about playing Mage, they're going to have the Iceblocks and Pyros.
 

Angelwatch

Trakanon Raider
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Also just an, obvious, observation:

Test Season 2 is MUCH more competitive than Season 1 was. I flew up the ladder last season and right now I'm floating between Rank 13 and 14 (I know I could go higher without a lot of bad luck if I played more but I can only play a few games at a time before I need to go do something else for awhile). People who were playing in Season 1 have access to a lot more cards now and a lot more decks are being posted and netdecked. While newer people are still trying to find which basic to replace a Legendary with, more and more people have the Legendary already or the means to craft it.
 
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Meeting quite a few rogues. I've been winning mostly with my druid but sometimes they manage to burst me down. At rank 13-14 now. Long ass way to legend still but enjoying constructed a lot so far.
 

Vaclav

Bronze Baronet of the Realm
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Third time running into some "XXXXGiraffe" guy in Arena in the past week (started taking notes of suspiciously close to constructed Arena decks on Wed) with a card for card clone of OTK warrior deck in arena with nothing deviating from the build with at least multiple epics represented.

Something's really smelling fishy - just getting the same class three times in a row should be rare, getting all the cards offered to support a build should be even rarer.... [and I only have done 4 arenas in the timeframe since I do FTP]
 

Famm

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Yeah dude, I feel like next you're going to tell us the Illuminati are fixing your arena matches against you.
 

Elerion

N00b
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If he's actually telling the truth and the same guy is repeatedly running arena with multiple Molten Giants with multiple Warsong Commanders and Brewmasters, or Alexstrasza+Gorehowl+Charge, it does sound cheateriffic. It's not inconceivable that the HS client is vulnerable to some memory hack.

I guess it's more likely that he's overreacting to losing to Warsong+Giant, Big Dude+Charge or another very feasible arena situation, though.

Try screenshotting it next time, or better yet, start streaming and upload the video for some internet fame.