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(S19) Easy legend 4 Secrets Benfa with guide

  • Last updated Oct 16, 2015 (TGT Launch)
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  • 18 Minions
  • 10 Spells
  • 2 Weapons
  • Deck Type: Ranked Deck
  • Deck Archetype: Unknown
  • Crafting Cost: 5360
  • Dust Needed: Loading Collection
  • Created: 10/14/2015 (TGT Launch)
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  • Battle Tag:

    Benfa#2252

  • Region:

    EU

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Hey guys
I’m Marco,“Benfa” on hearthstone, from Italy. That’s my first post.

I really like deck building, a passion i got from magic the gathering. I was playing secret pally, but i noticed that i was losing a lot of games when drawing “useless” secrets, and i ended with only four of them.

I just hit legend today, not even playing for a few days, quite easily, with a very good win rate. I’m getting some interest so i start writing a guide.

Intro 

There are very good post of secret pally, a lot of specific things has been said, so i’ll skip all of these, i don’t really know what to write, i’ll try to focus more on theory, making a different guide, i hope you enjoy.

I don’t really like guides because i don’t believe in absolute statements. I’m not 100% sure on anything, the statements in this guide are no exception, and i often change my mind, completely. Doubt of those who have too many certainties.

Quoting the 4 rules of Descartes’ method:

Rule 1
“Never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such; that is to say, carefully to avoid precipitancy and prejudice, and to comprise nothing more in my judgment than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all grounds of doubt.”

Rule 2
“To divide each of the difficulties under examination into as many parts as possible, and as might be necessary for its adequate solution.”

Rule 3
“To conduct my thoughts in such order that, by commencing with objects the simplest and easiest to know, I might ascend by little and little, and, as it were, step by step, to the knowledge of the more complex; assigning in thought a certain order even to those objects which in their own nature do not stand in a relation of antecedence and sequence.”

Rule 4
“To make enumerations so complete, and reviews so general that I might be assured that nothing was omitted.”

My aim in this guide is helping you to think for yourself, and not to autopilot this specific decklist.
“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

It could be that this 4 secrets version is simply a worst one of classic secret pally, i don’t know for sure, like i’ve already said, but i think that to be a good deck builder you don’t have to give anything for grant, no cards are exceptions, and remember to think outside the box.

Try every solution, test the cards yourself, if your aim is a deep understanding of the game. You have to discover why a card is bad one or a good one, don’t let others telling you. “An unexamined life is not worth living - Plato”.

 

General guidelines

This is a tempo deck, for “tempo deck” i mean a deck that’s neither aggro or control, but is aggro-control. It is trickier for card and games choices. For a tempo deck key factors are:

  • making a constant pression, also on the mid game
  • trying to have the initiative, but being able to counterfeit aggression
  • staying on curve as much as possible, for not running out of cards too early

You’ll have to figure out when to attack and when to defend, often switching during the same game. It’s not that easy, the same for deciding to attack a minion or going face. Attack/defense and attacking face/minions are two big area that represents most of your decisions during a game, it’s not possible to give a specific guideline, luckily, because if it would be possible the game would be too easy, it’s where your ability and experience comes around, making you a better player than another.

It happens all the time that you can make different decisions, often i don’t know which is the best one for sure, you have to value pro and cons of every move, comparing your options, and putting all together deciding how to act, i don’t know other ways to procede.

Think, do not overthink. It seems a stupid thing to say, a lot of pro give the advice to use your rope to think, but different studies discovered that when facing a decision your inner experience and your instinct plays an important role, calculating in a really fast way a lot of factors, suggesting you the correct play, based on your previous excursus. When i don’t follow my inner voice and i “overthink”, changing my initial decision, more often than not, i end up with a worst one. I’m not saying to believe in the hearth of the cards (pokemon trademark), or not to think, don’t misunderstand me.

It ain’t over ’till it’s over. When you are in trouble it happens quite often that somehow you end up winning, so have faith and stay focused, you can make big comebacks or draw for lethal damages.

Aim for the sky. My aim is only one, being legend n.1, it’s not important if it’s not happening, and it should be the same for you. It doesn’t matter what’s your skill level, do not settle, if you want to be competitive, push it further and you’ll be surprised by yourself.

To be continued…

Legend proof: 
Legend 4 Secrets Benfa