Attog
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Guest, did you like the last podcast notification?? Well here's the second one, and for the third podcast! Yep. This Thursday 8-8-24 at 7pm Central
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Now that you point it out, I feel like a total dick. Sorry Amzin. I'll slink back into my hole for a bit.
That being said, I did collect some more data for my totally retarded Hearthstone experiment earlier. Went 5-3 again I am happy to report.
Nidhogg
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The only drawback to Violet Drakes is that if you have them you plan to have a full-ish hand to get the most out of them by turn 4. This will leave you in a severely bad spot vs. aggro decks. By turn 4 you are already >15HP with any kind of decent draw from your opponent. Having the luxury of being able to have a 2 and 3 drop to combat a rush without gimping your drake (If you go 1st, it's a 4/6 at turn 4 without playing anything. So your first kill spell, or turn 2 / turn 3 drop makes him a Yeti by default, and strictly worse from then out.)
Unfortunately the meta right now is 70% aggro decks, and 30% control/mid-game, so your games where your Twilight Drake gets to see Turn 4 with you only using hero power are few and far between.
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I don't see that much agro at all. I played ~10 games tonight in ranked (I'm rank 5 w/ Druid) and I hit 1 Hunter and 1 Murloc Warlock. I hit 2 control Rogues that where mid-game based, then your standard Druid, Paladin, and Warrior control decks as the rest. I will agree that they suck against agro. Druid control can beat hunter it just takes actually drawing the early cards instead of the late. I stopped playing Giant Warlock because of the Hunter decks though, because it's a completely horrible match up.
But even then, if the concern is against agro Senjin is going to be better, because they're just going to ignore your Yeti.
But even then, if the concern is against agro Senjin is going to be better, because they're just going to ignore your Yeti.
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If anyone happens to care there is a tournament tomorrow sponsored by Razer, Semi's up will be cast by Kripp and Trump. Best of 3 till ro8 then Bo5, 3 different hero's loser changes, must be able to stream (for if you get to semi's). $75 for first, $25 for second, and some misc giveaways during an AMA during the tournament and probably during the stream.
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goodbye Drake and the Shaman can play whatever 2-3 drop he wants right after
I've had that happen to me but once I play a game or two it just pops up out of nowhere. Not really a big deal. They'll probably fix it about the same time they fix being able to request a new daily.
Brand
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Enjoying this...I'm on day 3 since Open Beta started.
I'm pretty much just doing Arena. Can't seem to break the 8 win barrier, but I'm sure that will come. I haven't had to pony up any $ yet...Just chain running and banking packs, dust (which I need to go figure out how to use), and the Arena gold. Druid/Mage/Rogue seem the obvious draft selections with a focus on low curves of swarms...I've gone more controlly, but it doesn't seem nearly as consistent...Especially with the sheer numbers of usable 1-3 drops. No mana screw is nice, but it steals away part of the charm of optimal deck building.
I'll have to try ranked soon...
I'm pretty much just doing Arena. Can't seem to break the 8 win barrier, but I'm sure that will come. I haven't had to pony up any $ yet...Just chain running and banking packs, dust (which I need to go figure out how to use), and the Arena gold. Druid/Mage/Rogue seem the obvious draft selections with a focus on low curves of swarms...I've gone more controlly, but it doesn't seem nearly as consistent...Especially with the sheer numbers of usable 1-3 drops. No mana screw is nice, but it steals away part of the charm of optimal deck building.
I'll have to try ranked soon...
Gavinmad
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I wouldn't play high end shaman constructed without it, although it's more fair to say 'who the hell plays shaman'.
There are two things you can do with dust. You can either spend it all on the commons and rares you need to flesh out a budget competitive deck for ranked, or you can just bank it all and use it to buy legendaries while you accumulate rares and epics the slow way.
Mures
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Just about every shaman out there now? Silence is really strong in today's meta, one of the reason's druid is so strong is they have a silence attached to a 2/4. I see shamans run earth shock all the time, and they always get value out of it.
As far as yeti/sen'jin I've been running into a LOT of aggro between ranks 10-5, so much I changed out my yeti for a sen'jin in my druid deck. And I stopped playing the druid and went to control warrior I was seeing so much aggro. Had one hunter draw his entire deck against me due to stupid buzzard/uth and I still had nearly 20 hp/armor, felt great.
