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TheBeagle

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First wing cards seem to be interesting for sure...Emp, Gang Up, and Grim Patron will all see use. Was just checking out the second wing rewards yesterday and meh...but the new druid card coming up next might make a beast druid closer to being viable, definitely don't dust that Malorne.
 

jooka

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lava shock should be useful right away. The rest I'm pretty meh about. Blackwing Technician could be good once all the cards are out.
 

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There are 4 or 5 interesting cards in the entire Adventure and we got 3-4 of them in the first wing. It's new content, so I give them credit for that, but it is pretty underwhelming.
 

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4 cards from the first wing are rated Excellent imo.

Gang Up makes Fatigue Rogue a real threat , and I wouldn't be surprised if you saw more in tournaments.

Grim Patron is amazing in Warrior. One of their better class cards right now

Emperor is going to be staple of every control deck.

Quick shot imo is very good for face hunter, and I explained why earlier in this thread.
 

jooka

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Just to be clear my last post was just about this weeks coming cards.
 

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It was 2pm EST last week. I actually just tweeted Zeriyah to try to get an answer about if that was going to be the time every week lol
 

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Well, something tells me they're going to do something to Druids. Complete bullshit that they can do nearly 20 damage when they start with an empty board. Blizzard has a history of not liking such thigns (IE, Miracle Rogue, OTK Warrior). I just lost the longest game vs a Druid like that. I was Paladin and had board control. He had 1 minion on the board (Piloted Shredder) and I had 4 minions. Treants + Roar and I'm dead. I was at 20HP.

That and every single tournament player is running druid. 100% of them.
 

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Druids and Hunters today boys. I have no idea how to beat both.
At least I beat up on the wanna-be mill r/ds.

I love the concept (back when I was all about the mill/control/deny in MtG) but it is weird to execute in HS just because of the lack of defenders' choice. I don't think anything other than agro can really dominate unless something slants it hard.
 

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Well, something tells me they're going to do something to Druids. Complete bullshit that they can do nearly 20 damage when they start with an empty board. Blizzard has a history of not liking such thigns (IE, Miracle Rogue, OTK Warrior). I just lost the longest game vs a Druid like that. I was Paladin and had board control. He had 1 minion on the board (Piloted Shredder) and I had 4 minions. Treants + Roar and I'm dead. I was at 20HP.

That and every single tournament player is running druid. 100% of them.
Druid has been like this forever though. I'm really surprised that the collective outcry of casual Timmy hasn't pitched higher over force/roar yet but the rank and file forum morons still seem consumed by hunter and Dr. Boom, used to be undertaker. I understand the hunter thing, but yeah druid is obnoxious in its own way. I have seen some bitching about oil rogue too but I think the real raging gets reserved for cheap and easy to play stuff. And for the Dr. Booms who are close to auto include across all archetypes.
 

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Predicting nerfs is tough. Nerfs are rare these days. Undertaker being last to get hit. Emperor is strong but I don't know if he's unbalanced. If he's drawn late his impact is rather weak. Other cards in that cost range can have a much stronger impact during all phases of the game.

He does allow for some OP shit to happen but it hasn't happened too often in most of the games I've played at least. He might be auto-include but that doesn't necessarily mean he's unbalanced. Loatheb was seen as auto-include for the longest time, too.

Dr Boom still screams the most unbalanced to me. Playing 9/9 with 7 Mana + 2-8 random damage is insane. I know they are holding off on nerfing but it's probably to see how BRM plays out and if any new card takes Dr. Boom's spot.

My prediction is Dr. Boom will be nerfed sometime after BRM and Emperor will never be nerfed.
 

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Druids and Hunters today boys. I have no idea how to beat both.
Priest matches up well against both. I've been playing this greedy priest that actually matches up really well against face hunter considering how greedy it is and against an aggro deck, I'd say you're still favored 60/40. The big threats means it can compete with any other deck, but you're usually using your big bombs to remove their stuff later in the game, so if you have a fast druid who curves out and has combo in hand he's probably going to burst you down.Priest - Deckbuilder - HearthPwn
This deck had at least a 60% win rate before the first wing came out, now its probably closer to 55%, everything was so volatile on the ladder and I haven't been playing as much to really notice changes. But changes I've made to the deck since I last posted it, I swapped tbk for et, easy enough; and I swapped the two shadow boxxers I had for sunfury protecters along with swapping rag for ysera. I've only played a few games since I swapped in the sunfury protectors, but I made the swap for two reasons: one while the shadow boxers give amazing value when their ability hits a value target they sometimes seem to want to just keep going face; and two et was often dropping cards like alex to 8 mana and alex + hero power isn't that amazing, but the reason the 9 mana dragons were rarely played is because 9 mana is a lot and all you're going to do that turn, I figure if I could alex or ysera + sunfury protector that would be a much larger impact; don't be afraid to play sunfury protector on curve against face hunter though.

And here is another "greedy control priest", I consider it more stall priest, a guy posted on liquidhearth. I played a few games with it, seems worse against the face hunter matchup, but you should still be favored against both.My two greatest Creations
 

Gavinmad

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Yeah they aren't nerfing force/roar and you're delusional if you think they will. It's been around forever at this point.
 

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Priest matches up well against both. I've been playing this greedy priest that actually matches up really well against face hunter considering how greedy it is and against an aggro deck, I'd say you're still favored 60/40. The big threats means it can compete with any other deck, but you're usually using your big bombs to remove their stuff later in the game, so if you have a fast druid who curves out and has combo in hand he's probably going to burst you down.Priest - Deckbuilder - HearthPwn
This deck had at least a 60% win rate before the first wing came out, now its probably closer to 55%, everything was so volatile on the ladder and I haven't been playing as much to really notice changes. But changes I've made to the deck since I last posted it, I swapped tbk for et, easy enough; and I swapped the two shadow boxxers I had for sunfury protecters along with swapping rag for ysera. I've only played a few games since I swapped in the sunfury protectors, but I made the swap for two reasons: one while the shadow boxers give amazing value when their ability hits a value target they sometimes seem to want to just keep going face; and two et was often dropping cards like alex to 8 mana and alex + hero power isn't that amazing, but the reason the 9 mana dragons were rarely played is because 9 mana is a lot and all you're going to do that turn, I figure if I could alex or ysera + sunfury protector that would be a much larger impact; don't be afraid to play sunfury protector on curve against face hunter though.

And here is another "greedy control priest", I consider it more stall priest, a guy posted on liquidhearth. I played a few games with it, seems worse against the face hunter matchup, but you should still be favored against both.My two greatest Creations
What rank have you got with the greedy deck? Looks fun . I've been spamming priest too but only got to rank 10 with the decks I've made centering around resurrect+blademasters/shredders (Resurrect ! - Hearthstone Decks)
I kinda stalled on that deck and changed to a mech deck that was posted on hearthpwn, which uses Foe Reaper:[LEGEND] Holy 4000 (deck guide) - Hearthstone Decks

There are a bunch of "Legendary" Priest decks posted on Hearthpwn that do not include Emperor
 

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What rank have you got with the greedy deck? Looks fun . I've been spamming priest too but only got to rank 10 with the decks I've made centering around resurrect+blademasters/shredders (Resurrect ! - Hearthstone Decks)
I kinda stalled on that deck and changed to a mech deck that was posted on hearthpwn, which uses Foe Reaper:[LEGEND] Holy 4000 (deck guide) - Hearthstone Decks

There are a bunch of "Legendary" Priest decks posted on Hearthpwn that do not include Emperor
I'm only ~13 right now this season, but the deck was climbing the ranks last season when I ended at 4 so I'm confident it can rank up to the top although it may need some tech swaps since the meta has shaken up.

I like the look of that savj's deck I may have to give that one a try as well.