Hearthpwn

1. This Deck needs refining. It doesn't feel very smooth to play

a. This is a budget deck. Using this deck to play in the competitive deck is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. You can still win, but it will require skill and finesse. However, If you do have the premium cards like Patches, Finga, Bittertide, And Living Mana use them.

2. I get S*** on my board clears

a. Aggro getting beat my board clears is common. Think of the meta as rock, paper scissors. Aggro beats decks trying to combo (quest rogue). Control Beats aggro. Combo beats control. It's not my fault rock loses to paper. Switch to scissors.

i. I know, I know most of us here don't have dust to just switch around decks and constantly counter the meta, so i'll give some tips on playing around board swipes.

• Enchanted Raven
• Fire Fly
• Argent Squire
• Innervate (if have ramp plan)
• Tortollan Forager (if have one drop)
• Ravasaur Runt (if have one drop)

 

2x Innervate - Ideally you want to use this to get 2 or 3 minions on the board and buff them really quick during the early game. If you draw this late use it to get a hero power in because besides that there is no use for it late game. Ex: its turn 7 you play poor man's bittertide and 2 drop with Innervate in hand, use innervate to get a hero power in because with the nature of your deck you will never have a chance to use it again.

2x Argent Squire - sticky - gets buffed later

2x Firefly - two 1 drops for the price of one

Extra Tip: ~ Thinking Phase ~ * you have argent squire and firefly in hand and only have enough mana to play one. Play Argent Squire. Basic rule of thumb here is play your stickier minions first. Argent squire has divine shield so it is more likely it will live another turn to get buffed.

2x Mark of Lotus - Buffs your tokens 

2x Enchanted Raven - sticky

2x Golakka - beats pirate warrior and pirate packages

2x Ravasaur Runt - ez adapt ; tip: don't hesitate playing it raw for tempo

2x Forager - We are not running murlocs ; meh replacement for bluegil

2x Mark of Y'Shaarj - Lots of beasts ; don't hesitate using on argent squire for tempo

2x  Power of the wild - if 3 minions always +1+1, if 2 or less consider panther for tempo or holding for a more powerful buff

2x Pantry - Beast synergy with mark of y'shaarj and you get 2 bodies to buff

2x Eggnapper - Helps zerg and drops raptors for beast synergy

2x Savage roar - Must include for token druid - easy way to calculate lethal add up the attack power on your board, then multiply the number of hits you have including your hero attacking x 2

2x Swipe - Because swipe

2x Frostwolf - Poor mans bittertide, think about it the average 5 drop is worth 5/6 of stats, considering you are constantly zerging the board you will usually have 3 minions by turn 5 and play this as a 5 mana 7/7 that doesn't overload ( shaman reference )

How I personally grind to legend - 

If you have never hit legend before, man let me tell you it is a grind. When I ask some of my friends why they sit at rank 5 instead of pushing for legend it's because it is to boring they say. Starting at rank 5 people start actually thinking before they play cards so it can feel like ResidentSleeper when you are playing against someone who always ropes. How do I get through it? I watch anime while my opponent takes his turn, do my trades, drag to the face then go back to watching anime. 

TL;DR section if you don't give a hoot about my personal stuff

Get to rank 5 by the middle of the month. Use the rest of the time to grind to legend. Rank 5 to legend takes just as long as 25 to 5. You have to win 25 more games against the best players to go from 5 -> Legend because there is no win bonus stars.

 

I will do an indepth guide if this guide gets more upvotes, but it's 9 PM and I'm trying to study for AP exams. However, I'm so overjoyed that my guide got a 100 upvotes, so here is a mini- guide.

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Druid (mirror) - Control The Board           ///   Jade - Hit The Face

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Hunter - Control The Board

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Mage - Pop Ice Block

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Paladin - Play Around Consecrate    *** If you have dust invest in hungry crab

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Priest - Rush His Ass                          *** Turn 5-6 you start getting Dragon Pot

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Rogue - Win Before Quest

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Shaman - Kill Spellpower Totem

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Warlock - If Zoo - Control The Board 

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Warrior - Pirate - Praise Golakka Crawler // Taunt - Go All In

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SUMMARY Basically, In aggro v aggro, control the board and you are good. In aggro v combo ie; jade or rogue, it's heavily favored so go aggressive, but don't stupid all in. In aggro v control you are heavily unfavored. I would suggest going all in because think about it this way. You want to play towards the world where you win the game. In the world where he has brawl you lost. However, in the parallel universe where he does not have brawl, you win. Play towards that. Granted, even while playing smart against control, it is simply an unfavored match up. Losing to control does not mean you are a bad player. Just keep switching decks to counter the meta. If this is your only deck and a lot of taunt warriors are qued up. Well I suggest that you take an F'ing break unless you want to derank.

TL;DR 

Aggro V Aggro - Whoever controls the board wins 50/50%

Aggro V Combo - You win 80/20%

Aggro V Control - You lose 20/80% - If they get bad hand I try to make miracles happen, but if taunt warrior has a nutty War Axe into taunt i just concede and try to look for favorable games.