I went 6-1 in this brawl. I got a bunch of rogue decks (LoE Maly, Kele, Oil and old-school miracle), 1 Undertaker Hunter, 1 C'Thun Warrior (but didn't get to play it, because the hunter opponent conceded :C). I wish I wasn't stuck with so many rogue decks - I really wanted to give other classes a try.
I love this brawl because its the only way to experience some of these old school decks pre-nerf. As some one who has been playing this game since the beta I have to say I just love going back in the past and remembering the days of when Naxx first released.
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So far I'm 0-3 because I keep getting matched against shit like Keleseth Rogue and im playing Firebats ZooLock which stands zero chance. 3 games, 3 Firebat Decks.
I'm enjoying seeing old cards like prenerf Knife Juggler and Zero cost Soulfire but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop pitching me against more modern decks that just seem to steamroll me..
Nice to see some old decks and old cards the way I got to know them (especially Innervate and FWA), but balance is kinda messed up. I played with Jade Druid against Freeze Mage. He dragged it to Turn 18 or so, where he finally realized that his Alex dealt 14 damage without scratching the 50+ Armor I had. It's probably a worse Matchup than even old Control Warrior.
As for replayability... it sucks you can't choose which deck you want to play, and it's not a Brawl for completing quests.
Played about 15 games so far, here's my favorite moments:
1. Druid played Dark Arakkoa into a Doomsayer. Apparently my opponent didn't know Druids ran that card without C'Thun. Stiil lost because Alexstrazsa has never removed armor as far as I know, but it was fun.
2. Won with the Undertaker Zoo with double Soulfire lethal and a 50/50 chance for one Soulfire to discard the other.
3. Won with the Aggro Shaman in a long and very close match with the Razakus Priest. Having played only the Wild version when it was meta, I thought he was going to kill me with Spawn of Shadows, then I remembered that it rotated out before Razakus/Shadowreaper Anduin was a thing.
4. Won with the Undertaker Hunter against the Freeze Mage. To be fair, my opponent did not play it very well. At the end, I was like "Oh, I win? Don't mind if I do."
5. Losing a Miracle Rogue mirror. (I had Firebat's; my opponent had Pavel's.) Sometimes 5 mana Auctioneer is not enough if you get Edwin VanCleef past the point of being able to play him on the miracle draw turn.
6. Pirate Rogue opponent gets Lab Recruiter from Swashburglar and uses it on Patches. It was a closer call than I thought it was going to be thanks to Blade Flurry, but I lost that one.
7. Getting Power of Creation from Babbling Book, and Vaporize from the other Babbling Book. I thought "What good is Vaporize against Freeze Mage?" Alexstrazsa ended up getting Vaporized when I thought my opponent was going to go for my Azure Drake. I won with 7 damage Fireball and ping a turn or two later.
BTW I began playing ladder in May 2015; I never knew the Undertaker meta. Undertaker seemed powerful way back when. Now we've seen many more nerfs. I love this brawl.
EDIT: Had this one just now.
8. My opponent was Midrange Druid versus Tempo/Pirate Rogue. Druid had Cenarius on board. I was at 21, he was much lower. Force of Nature plus Savage Roar goes off, but the Druid trades instead of dealing lethal damage to my face. Then I play another card or two and he concedes.
Ok, after playing a few of these brawls and some self-debating, here are my conclusions.
Speaking in general:
It's kind of fun to play in some champ's shoes, so to speak
It may be fun to play the pre-nerf cards and combos, ok
It might even be fun, albeit to some extent, to see decks from different epochs compete;
BUT the above is totally spoiled by the complete and utter umbalance in power-level. What chances does 2014's Chillwind Yeti stand against cards from, say, some 2018 deck? Next to none. Which in turn ruins the whole experience, sorry about that.
And please don't tell me "it's a brawl, this is only for a classic pack / 40 dust / some fun".
I have never played Freeze Mage, with the only possible exception being last year's version of this brawl. I hated playing against it so much that I dusted a golden Doomsayer early in my Hearthstone days, and I didn't want to become the monster, similar to my attitude toward Big Priest and especially Darkest Hour Warlock in Wild today. (I know that Freeze Mage was never the worst monster, I just thought it was the worst to play against.)
Yet, I won with it twice in 3 games in this brawl several years later. First was against Pavel's Rogue; I got my burn before my opponent got his. On the second one, I see Malfurion, I nearly concede on the spot, then I remember that it could be Firebat's Druid. Luckily enough, it was. I froze stuff, accidentally used Alexstrazsa when I was one damage off lethal next turn, Emperor Thaurissan reductions came soon after with more freezing stuff, and I had him. I knew how to do it properly, which was probably my greatest strength.
The only shitty thing about this brawl is getting a random deck, you should just be allowed to play whatever deck you want, every single one of them is busted on their on way so just let people choose their poison, this brawl is both unplayable and unejoyable, 95% of the players are just auto.conceding as soon as they see they don't get the deck they wanted without even looking at their cards, so yo not only have to hope and pray that you get the deck you want to play at some point but also hope when that happens your opponents don't simple concede without playing a single turn, this brawl would be huge and I guarantee you a lot of people would hop into it for more than a day (at most) if you could decide the deck you're playing.
I hadn't truly understood the brawl when I started it, so I decided to go for warlock, being my favorite class, and I see myself piloting the old cube lock.
I went 6-1 in this brawl. I got a bunch of rogue decks (LoE Maly, Kele, Oil and old-school miracle), 1 Undertaker Hunter, 1 C'Thun Warrior (but didn't get to play it, because the hunter opponent conceded :C). I wish I wasn't stuck with so many rogue decks - I really wanted to give other classes a try.
I love this brawl because its the only way to experience some of these old school decks pre-nerf. As some one who has been playing this game since the beta I have to say I just love going back in the past and remembering the days of when Naxx first released.
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So far I'm 0-3 because I keep getting matched against shit like Keleseth Rogue and im playing Firebats ZooLock which stands zero chance. 3 games, 3 Firebat Decks.
I'm enjoying seeing old cards like prenerf Knife Juggler and Zero cost Soulfire but please, for the love of all that's holy, stop pitching me against more modern decks that just seem to steamroll me..
4/3/19 RIP Keith Flint. 😔
so this is like 2/3 of the decks that have been absolutely broken on HS history... I LOVE IT. My favorite deck, Raza priest is back,hell yeah.
Nice to see some old decks and old cards the way I got to know them (especially Innervate and FWA), but balance is kinda messed up. I played with Jade Druid against Freeze Mage. He dragged it to Turn 18 or so, where he finally realized that his Alex dealt 14 damage without scratching the 50+ Armor I had. It's probably a worse Matchup than even old Control Warrior.
As for replayability... it sucks you can't choose which deck you want to play, and it's not a Brawl for completing quests.
It's alright, but not super exciting.
I love this brawl. I was able to pilot Pavel's Shaman to a win against Firebat's Rogue on my first brawl.
Lots of fun, looking forward to replaying after work.
got 16 wins from instant conceding opponents, wish you could choose the deck. Only able to play 3 real games.
Let me change your mind
Played about 15 games so far, here's my favorite moments:
1. Druid played Dark Arakkoa into a Doomsayer. Apparently my opponent didn't know Druids ran that card without C'Thun. Stiil lost because Alexstrazsa has never removed armor as far as I know, but it was fun.
2. Won with the Undertaker Zoo with double Soulfire lethal and a 50/50 chance for one Soulfire to discard the other.
3. Won with the Aggro Shaman in a long and very close match with the Razakus Priest. Having played only the Wild version when it was meta, I thought he was going to kill me with Spawn of Shadows, then I remembered that it rotated out before Razakus/Shadowreaper Anduin was a thing.
4. Won with the Undertaker Hunter against the Freeze Mage. To be fair, my opponent did not play it very well. At the end, I was like "Oh, I win? Don't mind if I do."
5. Losing a Miracle Rogue mirror. (I had Firebat's; my opponent had Pavel's.) Sometimes 5 mana Auctioneer is not enough if you get Edwin VanCleef past the point of being able to play him on the miracle draw turn.
6. Pirate Rogue opponent gets Lab Recruiter from Swashburglar and uses it on Patches. It was a closer call than I thought it was going to be thanks to Blade Flurry, but I lost that one.
7. Getting Power of Creation from Babbling Book, and Vaporize from the other Babbling Book. I thought "What good is Vaporize against Freeze Mage?" Alexstrazsa ended up getting Vaporized when I thought my opponent was going to go for my Azure Drake. I won with 7 damage Fireball and ping a turn or two later.
BTW I began playing ladder in May 2015; I never knew the Undertaker meta. Undertaker seemed powerful way back when. Now we've seen many more nerfs. I love this brawl.
EDIT: Had this one just now.
8. My opponent was Midrange Druid versus Tempo/Pirate Rogue. Druid had Cenarius on board. I was at 21, he was much lower. Force of Nature plus Savage Roar goes off, but the Druid trades instead of dealing lethal damage to my face. Then I play another card or two and he concedes.
162 ladder wins with Renouncelock and counting! Reno, Zoo, Cube, Even; they all run Renounce Darkness in my lists!
Ok, after playing a few of these brawls and some self-debating, here are my conclusions.
And please don't tell me "it's a brawl, this is only for a classic pack / 40 dust / some fun".
Yes, because when You get garbage like 40 dmg "OTK" mage vs DK druid that can armor up to 60 hp before turn 9 there's no point of staying in game.
Got my first "win" after I got druid and enemy was mage. He condeded on point. Balance is literally 0 out of 5 in this brawl.
Piloted Shredder, Knife Juggler, Mad Scientist, Dr. Boom
Need to be removed from this game
I have never played Freeze Mage, with the only possible exception being last year's version of this brawl. I hated playing against it so much that I dusted a golden Doomsayer early in my Hearthstone days, and I didn't want to become the monster, similar to my attitude toward Big Priest and especially Darkest Hour Warlock in Wild today. (I know that Freeze Mage was never the worst monster, I just thought it was the worst to play against.)
Yet, I won with it twice in 3 games in this brawl several years later. First was against Pavel's Rogue; I got my burn before my opponent got his. On the second one, I see Malfurion, I nearly concede on the spot, then I remember that it could be Firebat's Druid. Luckily enough, it was. I froze stuff, accidentally used Alexstrazsa when I was one damage off lethal next turn, Emperor Thaurissan reductions came soon after with more freezing stuff, and I had him. I knew how to do it properly, which was probably my greatest strength.
162 ladder wins with Renouncelock and counting! Reno, Zoo, Cube, Even; they all run Renounce Darkness in my lists!
I'm a little confused because I have a win a game with Shaman quest, won as Shaman in brawl, but it didn't count ?
Turns out, the game was balanced from the start - each broken deck outplays each and vice versa. 'cept Zoolock. Zoo sucks. This is HS we deserved.
The only shitty thing about this brawl is getting a random deck, you should just be allowed to play whatever deck you want, every single one of them is busted on their on way so just let people choose their poison, this brawl is both unplayable and unejoyable, 95% of the players are just auto.conceding as soon as they see they don't get the deck they wanted without even looking at their cards, so yo not only have to hope and pray that you get the deck you want to play at some point but also hope when that happens your opponents don't simple concede without playing a single turn, this brawl would be huge and I guarantee you a lot of people would hop into it for more than a day (at most) if you could decide the deck you're playing.
Ah shit here we go again brawl
Trash brawl, i played a druid with a norish 6 cost and 5 cost norish how retarded.
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I hadn't truly understood the brawl when I started it, so I decided to go for warlock, being my favorite class, and I see myself piloting the old cube lock.
I felt right at home! <3
before Undertaker was nerfed, it got +1/+1 for every deathrattle you play. It was pretty op back in Naxx.
Easy packt. Got undertaker hunter and destroyed Pirate rogue! Really cool brawl.
I love this brawl, the best brawl they ever made. Have winrate 80+% I never minded there were so much noobs who cant pilot tournament decks :) :)