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4-3. No Lighting Storm and no bursty win condition (Windfury/Windspeaker/Bloodlust) is going to screw you.Taking bets on how badly I do with this list.
Efficient removal is what Shaman are about. If you didn't have that you'd be 0-3, no question. But you also can't heal, so you can easily just deck yourself and die to fatigue if you don't have a win condition. Rockbiters are bursty with the Doomhammer, but it requires you didn't have to use them as removal... which is pretty unlikely with no card draw.
Well see that's the thing isn't it because I don't really see what the advice is being offered here or even if I agree with it. If a suggestion is been made to take bad cards just to fill out a curve I really don't think I agree. I could have 29 cards in my deck and only 3 2 drops and I'd still think an azure Drake is a better choice than a Mana Addict
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There's some variance in the level of people playing as the bad players run out of gold so you're only facing better players. That's also why it's somewhat easier at primetime.
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Good cards stuck in your hand are worthless though. Having something, even a 'bad' card on turn 2 to help slow down/trade with their early cards keeps you from getting so far behind that your 'good' cards later on don't even come into play. Bloodfist Ogre is a good card, but you wouldn't want 5 of them in your deck, as an extreme example. So, yes, you need to sometimes take relatively 'bad' cards to fill out your curve. It's obviously a balancing act, and you take the best card when possible, but a card's power level isn't the only thing contributing to winning. Using your mana efficiently each turn is just as important.
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The guy was at 14, I had dropped lightspawn previous turn, with a PW:S and inner fire in hand. Then drew the 2nd inner fire, so I just had to do it for the lulz.
I only have one lightspawn myself, and still missing a lot of common 'staple' cards. Have had to craft up stuff like loot hoarders and chillwinds, for example. That hogger in picture I literally opened from my arena run right before playing that match.
edit: err.. not inner fire, the double health card. Can't remember the name.
I only have one lightspawn myself, and still missing a lot of common 'staple' cards. Have had to craft up stuff like loot hoarders and chillwinds, for example. That hogger in picture I literally opened from my arena run right before playing that match.
edit: err.. not inner fire, the double health card. Can't remember the name.
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Stuff like that, not necessarily that card (yeti is part of basic set, right?) common cards I see in every 'budget' decklist that I hadn't even seen 1 of after about 12 packs.
edit: yea, was thinking of dark iron dwarf and silverhand knight. Plus ironbeak owl, loot hoarder, harvest golem and raging worgen. Looking over a couple decklists I used to start, had to craft up all those.
edit: yea, was thinking of dark iron dwarf and silverhand knight. Plus ironbeak owl, loot hoarder, harvest golem and raging worgen. Looking over a couple decklists I used to start, had to craft up all those.
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So, before I do the actual run, what do you guys think of this list? It's obviously a little heavy on 4s, but I couldn't pass up the fireballs, which all came after I had already picked up defender of argus, spellbreaker and polymorph early on (when they were far and away the best card of the 3).
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Gavin: I'd not take it hard, it seems to go that way with the invisible pairing stuff that they do - I noticed the same on my main account (hell, I think I got paired against Kripparrian last night - he plays under the name "Kripp" for his HS account, right? Oddly walked all over him with a ridiculously perfect draw though including a T1 Dust Devil [best card in the pack vs. Wisp and a Murloc - I was living the dream] getting two attacks in unmolested to start the match) - but when I made my secondary account suddenly I'm back to 9-3 to 11-3 averages, I'd wager you did well when you were getting paired against bad players and its slipping now that you're getting paired against great ones.
It bummed me out hard for a few days when it happened. Now I just log on my alt accounts every 3 days or so and unbum a bit. [And note - alt accounts ARE OK by Battle.Net rules - as long as you stick to 3 or less]
It bummed me out hard for a few days when it happened. Now I just log on my alt accounts every 3 days or so and unbum a bit. [And note - alt accounts ARE OK by Battle.Net rules - as long as you stick to 3 or less]