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Morrow
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Man I swear every single time I hesitate in dropping a 4th creature in Arena, for fear of Mind Control Tech, and then I weigh the odds and drop a 4th creature, my opponent ALWAYS follows with a Mind Control Tech. It's insane. And then every time I resist and don't drop a 4th creature, they don't have a MCT. You'd think it'd be a lot of confirmation bias, but it really isn't. Statistically I just have the absolute worst luck with MCT. It's pretty frustrating. I rate MCT a lot higher than I used to now in Arena, it can single handedly bring you from behind to ahead.
Well yeah, MCT is a near automatic 3-for-1 if it goes off. Unless you're going totally stomped, generally getting a 3-for-1 puts you pretty far ahead. MCT has always been one of the highest ranked cards in arena.
Playing around it is pretty easy. Are you ahead? Don't play more than three creatures. Are you behind? You might need to risk it. Are you playing vs a Mage? Don't play more creatures than you need to period, because Flamestrike. If playing vs any other class and you feel like you need to play more creatures, don't do it until you can play five+ creatures. That makes the tempo swing from MCT hurt a lot less. Paladins and Shaman in particular need to learn this rule, because their hero power creates minions.
Playing around it is pretty easy. Are you ahead? Don't play more than three creatures. Are you behind? You might need to risk it. Are you playing vs a Mage? Don't play more creatures than you need to period, because Flamestrike. If playing vs any other class and you feel like you need to play more creatures, don't do it until you can play five+ creatures. That makes the tempo swing from MCT hurt a lot less. Paladins and Shaman in particular need to learn this rule, because their hero power creates minions.
Gavinmad
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Except there's really no need to play around unleash anymore. Getting your board wrecked by unleash is unfortunate, but easily recoverable since they are no longer also drawing a card for each hound. And pretty much every deck has to be capable of answering a pile of 1/1s being dropped onto the board anyway because of muster.
Attog
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Drafted a fun shaman arena deck with 9 mechs, 3 powermaces and 2 fire elementals. Going second last night I put out mechwarper 1 on the second turn, third turn was mechwarper #2 and then mechanical yeti, fourth turn was powermace kill his guy and attack, fifth turn was coin fire elemental kill his guy, mace him in the face to buff my mechs and attack.
Morrow
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I just got 175 gold for 11 wins. I didn't even think that was possible. I've gone 11 wins a hundred times and never seen such a small payout. But oh, I got a Golden Common, so yay? It was a Paladin with 0 Truesilvers and only 1 Consecrate, so it was hard work, only for my last game to be a scrub spamming emotes on his 5th fireball. This game is so fucking annoying.
Vaclav
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You can get 1 pile of gold in a 11/12 win - it's rare but it happens, and 175 is towards the lowend of what's allowed if not the bottom. (I think a Dust pile is guaranteed if the second gold pile doesn't happen though - and a pretty hefty one, 400ish?)
Vaclav
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Why is that strange? Second best arena class is going to be a popular pick. Get used to playing against mages and paladins.
jooka
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