Vaclav
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Thats been my experience with tirion too. He just gets insta-cc'd. I seem to get a lot more out of Rag. At least he can do something before he gets sheeped.
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Going back to Feral Spirit for a sec, since Shaman is also what I like to play. I too was in love with that card at first. It seems so powerful and technically it is but that Overload is just murder. It seems like, no matter when you play it, your opponent will over the course of the next TWO turns have a chance to overcome and get ahead of 2x 2/3 Taunt creatures and whatever piddly bullshit you play the turn after; which isn't really that large of a task.
It is a card that looks good on paper but does not play quite as well, imo.
That said sometimes the ability to just slam 2 taunts with teeth at any given moment can come in real handy. I tend to play with 1 and keep it in reserve, if I can.
It is a card that looks good on paper but does not play quite as well, imo.
That said sometimes the ability to just slam 2 taunts with teeth at any given moment can come in real handy. I tend to play with 1 and keep it in reserve, if I can.
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I'd say the most important card out of all of those is Tinkmaster. It depends on exactly what you want to play though. I think Tink fits in the most decks, and the removal is the most important. Alexstraza is pretty good too. I would wait on Black Knight, while it can be good it's the most situational of those.
Tinkmaster is most useful out of those imo. It's basically in every control deck. I don't use alex in any of my decks atm. Black Knight is very meta dependant.
Tinkmaster is only really good over say the Black Knight if you are playing a class that lacks a removal (sheep, hex etc) such as the Druid
Could some one post a decent "how to" on the play style of Handlock. I have / crafted all the cards for it and won a couple games but I feel it was just the raw power of the deck and not my strategy with card play.
There is a lot of ways to play Handlock, and that is the beauty of it.
Basic strat tho is to play Twilight drake on turn 4, then shield it on turn 5.
If you don't pick up the Drake then play watcher to sunfury.
It really doesn't matter if you get damaged in the first 4 rounds, because you will either get to play the damage, or card draw giants very early.
After round 4 it's just about overwhelming your opponent , and healing yourself which should be quite easy since all your cards are mid to late game.
Stipulation is if you pick up pagle early play him on round 2, but be careful not to go over 10 cards.
Basic strat tho is to play Twilight drake on turn 4, then shield it on turn 5.
If you don't pick up the Drake then play watcher to sunfury.
It really doesn't matter if you get damaged in the first 4 rounds, because you will either get to play the damage, or card draw giants very early.
After round 4 it's just about overwhelming your opponent , and healing yourself which should be quite easy since all your cards are mid to late game.
Stipulation is if you pick up pagle early play him on round 2, but be careful not to go over 10 cards.
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Black Knight, Tinkmaster or Alexstrasza? I say Tinkmaster. He's useful in a lot of decks and functions as removal for big, powerful, minions where a 5/5 is easier to deal with.
In other words, I'm 99% sure I just played against a Bot in Casual mode. It was a Rogue and it went for the face regardless of everything. It was a very methodical process in which it played cards and attacked. The really odd thing was watching as each card would light up (meaning that the person is examining or clicking on it) and then my portrait would light up. Then at the end of the turn my portrait would light up about 6 times in a row. It seems that the bot would go through the player's hand, play any card that was possible and then attempt to attack the face with anything that was available.
The thing that made it pretty obvious was that he completely ignored the board state. There were times where it was obvious that I had lethal if he ignored things and he still attacked the face anyway despite being able to, easily, deal with the minions on the board. Then I, intentionally, let him pop my Ice Block and, again, he ignored my minions and kept trying to attack my face.
I'm normally a skeptic when it comes to these types of things and give people the benefit of the doubt (such as assuming a player is just new) but this was such an odd occurrence that I'm pretty convinced it was a cheat/bot program. It's also the second time I've seen this exact type of behavior (the first was about a week ago). Back then I thought the same thing but being the first time I saw it I brushed it off. But I'm almost positive it's a cheat/bot program.
In other words, I'm 99% sure I just played against a Bot in Casual mode. It was a Rogue and it went for the face regardless of everything. It was a very methodical process in which it played cards and attacked. The really odd thing was watching as each card would light up (meaning that the person is examining or clicking on it) and then my portrait would light up. Then at the end of the turn my portrait would light up about 6 times in a row. It seems that the bot would go through the player's hand, play any card that was possible and then attempt to attack the face with anything that was available.
The thing that made it pretty obvious was that he completely ignored the board state. There were times where it was obvious that I had lethal if he ignored things and he still attacked the face anyway despite being able to, easily, deal with the minions on the board. Then I, intentionally, let him pop my Ice Block and, again, he ignored my minions and kept trying to attack my face.
I'm normally a skeptic when it comes to these types of things and give people the benefit of the doubt (such as assuming a player is just new) but this was such an odd occurrence that I'm pretty convinced it was a cheat/bot program. It's also the second time I've seen this exact type of behavior (the first was about a week ago). Back then I thought the same thing but being the first time I saw it I brushed it off. But I'm almost positive it's a cheat/bot program.