Hello Everyone! This is Jotto and welcome to the 3rd recap of the ManaGrind weekly tournaments, this week we had some old decks show up and a very interesting new deck that we haven’t seen in a while....
Mages are still hanging around as expected they fought through the now very anti Mage metagame with the frozen giant deck coming both 1st and 2nd. However I will not be talking about these decks this week, why? With the new Mage changes coming up the freeze based Mages will fall back down a bit so that we won’t have the severe Mage dominance that we have become used to. So what about the rest of the top 4?
Rogue cantrip is a very interesting deck that has fallen out of favour recently due to its severe weakness to burn decks such as the extremely powerful Mage decks. However the deck is still very powerful with the buffs it has at its disposal and the shear draw power at it has access too is mind boggling as between Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer, Azure Drake and the like. It will always have a full hand of useful cards that it can use to win the game, I would fully expect this deck to come back to the meta in force just like before the last patch.
The real highlight of the top 4 was the Shaman midrange deck, an archetype that we have not seen in months. As for a basic rundown of the deck, it capitalizes on shaman’s early removal and large midgame minions such as Fire Elemental and Earth Elemental. Shaman’s overload mechanic is also used to its fullest in this deck through Unbound Elemental and the many, many cheap removal spells with overload on them along with Stormforged Axe providing some sustained removal at the cost of life.
The deck also has the very powerful legendaries Ragnaros the Firelord and Sylvanas Windrunner at its disposal to provide a potent late game finished and a midgame anti removal beater respectively. Sylvanas Windrunner in particular is seen a lot as a counter to minion heavy decks that used damage based removal to solve their problems, if this tactic is used on a Sylvanas Windrunner it will result in a two or three for one as they might have to remove the minion that they lose to the Sylvanas Windrunner deathrattle trigger.
Finally take note of the one of silence in Spellbreaker. Silence has become quite unpopular even though it deals with many buff cards and early game threats such as Harvest Golem and most importantly it can unfreeze a minion on your board, this will often result in the Mage taking too much damage and having to play defensively as oppose to offensively with burn.
In conclusion with the new patch coming into effect I would recommend straying to more of an aggro style or midrange, for these decks can be very powerful and with the burn Mages weakening the won’t have to worry about some of the weaknesses that plague them in the current metagame.
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Earth Elemental is a great card overall, but I've lost matches where it was hard countered by Big Game Hunter. Not only have you probably just lost Board Control, you also hit turn 6 with the overload penalty.
This is not a review of the meta - this is a recap of what decks did well at the last Saturday tournament.
A review of the meta would include more than the top 4 but actually about the make-up of the opponents in the tournament overall. There was no Warlock rush in the top 4, does that mean no-one played rush or were they all defeated and how quickly? The top players are posted by Blizzard now every couple of weeks - maybe finding/polling these players for what decks they are playing to get an idea of the meta and their responses to the mana increases to freeze spells.
Just an idea, but if this is what this post is going to be like in the future - it might be in your best interest to rename the thread.
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Nozdormu wins you every game where you opponent has to go to the bathroom on turn 9.
This was a new idea we had in mind in regards to Jotto switching his weekly video recaps in an article form. We will most definitely revise the title as you are right and it does not portray the content accurately. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
Hello Everyone! This is Jotto and welcome to the 3rd recap of the ManaGrind weekly tournaments, this week we had some old decks show up and a very interesting new deck that we haven’t seen in a while....
Mages are still hanging around as expected they fought through the now very anti Mage metagame with the frozen giant deck coming both 1st and 2nd. However I will not be talking about these decks this week, why? With the new Mage changes coming up the freeze based Mages will fall back down a bit so that we won’t have the severe Mage dominance that we have become used to. So what about the rest of the top 4?
Rogue cantrip is a very interesting deck that has fallen out of favour recently due to its severe weakness to burn decks such as the extremely powerful Mage decks. However the deck is still very powerful with the buffs it has at its disposal and the shear draw power at it has access too is mind boggling as between Loot Hoarder, Novice Engineer, Azure Drake and the like. It will always have a full hand of useful cards that it can use to win the game, I would fully expect this deck to come back to the meta in force just like before the last patch.
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Minion (18)
- 1x Bloodmage Thalnos
- 1x Ragnaros the Firelord
- 1x Sylvanas Windrunner
- 1x Earth Elemental
- 2x Azure Drake
- 2x Defender of Argus
- 2x Harvest Golem
- 1x Spellbreaker
- 2x Faerie Dragon
- 2x Fire Elemental
- 1x Flametongue Totem
- 2x Unbound Elemental
Ability (10)
- 2x Feral Spirit
- 2x Lightning Storm
- 1x Forked Lightning
- 1x Hex
- 2x Lightning Bolt
- 2x Rockbiter Weapon
Weapon (2)
- 2x Stormforged Axe
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The real highlight of the top 4 was the Shaman midrange deck, an archetype that we have not seen in months. As for a basic rundown of the deck, it capitalizes on shaman’s early removal and large midgame minions such as Fire Elemental and Earth Elemental. Shaman’s overload mechanic is also used to its fullest in this deck through Unbound Elemental and the many, many cheap removal spells with overload on them along with Stormforged Axe providing some sustained removal at the cost of life.
The deck also has the very powerful legendaries Ragnaros the Firelord and Sylvanas Windrunner at its disposal to provide a potent late game finished and a midgame anti removal beater respectively. Sylvanas Windrunner in particular is seen a lot as a counter to minion heavy decks that used damage based removal to solve their problems, if this tactic is used on a Sylvanas Windrunner it will result in a two or three for one as they might have to remove the minion that they lose to the Sylvanas Windrunner deathrattle trigger.
Finally take note of the one of silence in Spellbreaker. Silence has become quite unpopular even though it deals with many buff cards and early game threats such as Harvest Golem and most importantly it can unfreeze a minion on your board, this will often result in the Mage taking too much damage and having to play defensively as oppose to offensively with burn.
In conclusion with the new patch coming into effect I would recommend straying to more of an aggro style or midrange, for these decks can be very powerful and with the burn Mages weakening the won’t have to worry about some of the weaknesses that plague them in the current metagame.
Jotto
If you want to see more content by Jotto you can check out his YouTube channel or check out his Twitch stream!
Love Unbound Elemental. It's such a fun card. :P Shammies ftw!
Anyone have lists for the top X? I'm not sure where to find lists in this deck. Thanks!
Earth Elemental is a great card overall, but I've lost matches where it was hard countered by Big Game Hunter. Not only have you probably just lost Board Control, you also hit turn 6 with the overload penalty.
This is not a review of the meta - this is a recap of what decks did well at the last Saturday tournament.
A review of the meta would include more than the top 4 but actually about the make-up of the opponents in the tournament overall.
There was no Warlock rush in the top 4, does that mean no-one played rush or were they all defeated and how quickly?
The top players are posted by Blizzard now every couple of weeks - maybe finding/polling these players for what decks they are playing to get an idea of the meta and their responses to the mana increases to freeze spells.
Just an idea, but if this is what this post is going to be like in the future - it might be in your best interest to rename the thread.
Nozdormu wins you every game where you opponent has to go to the bathroom on turn 9.
tfw no priests
I agree with the9tail, there really wasn't anything pertaining to the meta at all.
This was a new idea we had in mind in regards to Jotto switching his weekly video recaps in an article form. We will most definitely revise the title as you are right and it does not portray the content accurately. Thank you for sharing your thoughts!
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