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Having a lot of fun right now, trashing Big Priests with Jade Druid. :D 

Big shout out to my last opponent. Me playing a Thief Priest in Wild and him playing a Value Deathrattle Priest of some sort. Game went well over 35 minutes and I loved it. Shame it had to end but it was close, just 4 health in it at the end.

 During the game I managed to play 5 Obsidian Statues, 5 Shifting Shades and 6 Crystalline Oracles along with a stolen Shadowreaper Anduin and an Archpriest Benedictus

There were Bone Drakes everywhere and even an Amara, Warden of Hope on his side.

 It was the best game I've had in a very long time. So thanks fella, and I really hope you accept the Friend Request I sent. Honestly  I'm not salty! 😊 

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Another spam. Today I faced a hell ton of combo decks on the ladder. It was a really bad experience, cuz all they did was cycling and stalling. But luckily for me I faced some "normal" opponents and I got to rob them:

Renolock

Yeah, I stole their DK from one of my oracles earlier (didn't summon any demons, but nvm - this was still a nice catch). So my opponent had me cornered. They destroyed my deck and thought I was going to lose to fatigue. I swear, I love surprising people and beating them with their own cards:

Some turns later:

Healed for 20+.

And miraculously I managed to steal their DK again. If only they knew. :C

And against a Minionful Secret Hunter (they utilize stuff like To My Side! once they reach fatigue and go for Zul'jin).

In the early game Chameleos warned me about this legendary. So I wanted to build up some spells and surprise my opponent. I was kinda afraid that I will miss this opportunity. because I didn;t see Zul'jin for probably 15-20 turns after the first transformation.

 In case you haven't seen it yet, you're in Dane's video lol https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZQSKXM_h4

Just crafted the cards I was missing for Dane's Big Rogue, needless to say I haven't had this much fun in Hearthstone in a while

Playing against a Resurrect Priest today. Out of desperation, because I'm ahead, he uses Doom Pact from his Lich King and has to burn the next 3 cards in his deck. He loses both Velen and Malygos.

SO GOOD.

Played 7 games on ladder this evening. 1 opponent was Taunt Warrior and the other 6 were... Fucking Hunters.

Well, I shouldn't address them in such a negative way, since my score was 5-1. Blizz, keep sending 'em in my way!

Anyway, I have another consideration, which is salty and sad at the same time: some of those Hunters played well, but others were really terrible. I'll explain myself with example so that you can understand

1) Spell Hunter: he plays Spellstone; I play Duskbreaker to clean everything; he plays Freezing Trap and the other Spellstone and passes. Now, I'm not a Rank 1 Legend player, but damn that's just the dumbest play you can do there. I proceeded to attack in order to hope for such scenario and then I proceeded to clean everything up again.

2) Recruit Hunter: he kept going face (no meme intended: he didn't literally trade even once in the whole match) with everything he had. At some point, I had a 7/4 Twilight Acolyte and he had a 4 attack Zombeast with not much life expectations, but still he preferred to go face, and in the end he paid all those errors with me beating him without even using a single Mind Blast. In the same game, he wasted a Deathrattle activator on his Kathrena Winterwisp, even knowing that he had no Beasts in the deck because I killed both his Witchwood Grizzlys, both his Charged Devilsaurs and even his King Krush without dying in doing so

What I want to say is that there are some players that are really bad, but it's just that they have such powerful decks in their hands that even playing the way they do guarantees some remarkable results. It's just cards' quality that overcomes huge mistakes, and that's very sad in some cases.

When BM Goes Bad: Playing Mechathun Druid against a Secret Mage. I draw just abysmally while they draw very well - it's obvious by turn 6 or 7 that I'm not winning this. By Turn 11 or so they've got lethal so I throw down the toothless combo and "Well Played" and wait for the kill shot...but now they start emoting over and over and don't take lethal. Now this secret deck had a ton of pull in it, including Subject 9 and Glacial Mysteries, so funnily enough they enter Fatigue before I do. After I think 8 full turns of ignoring lethal while BMing, they're down to 10 life and 5 dmg Fatigue. I assume they were planning to kill me next turn before the Fatigue did them in, but I guess they weren't expecting that Starfire I had been holding. I am *a little* shamed to admit I did throw another "Well Played" at them when I ended my turn and the 6 dmg Fatigue blew them up.

Have been really struggling to put together a winstreak this season - plenty of times I've got two wins in a row, but always seem to get a bad matchup on that third game... Won two games in a row with control priest, queueing up for third match thinking "as long as it's not a warrior..."

The innkeeper bellows "Anduin Versus.... Garrosh" and my heart sinks. Maybe it's some janky rush warrior?! "None will survive!" oh crap.

And yet somehow I managed to scrape the win with a bit of luck and some good skill (I think!). I immediately started playing as aggressively as possible and managed to get in a bit of chip damage but my opponent was barely below 30 health and kept pumping out the armour. I saw my chance for a turning point when I drew picking Firetree Witchdoctor. I picked Free From Amber as my discovered spell, and from that I got a Malygos. That allowed me to chew through all my opponent's armour in one Mind Blast, setting me up to make a proper dent into their life total with my minions on board.

With both copies of Brawl played and not enough armour for an effective Reckless Flurry against my board of dragons, my opponent finally conceded. What made it extra special for me was the fact that my opponent was playing a full golden deck* - always feels extra good to beat a whale!

*at first I thought it must be a golden Whizbang deck, but after checking online it appears that the Odd Quest Warrior deck is no longer one of the Whizbang recipes. So it really was a full golden Odd Quest Warrior :O

Playing my Wild Keletesspionage Rogue against a Shudderwock Shaman. He takes an early lead, hitting my 4/4 HCT with his MCT, clearing my board with Maelstrom Portal, dropping Stormwatcher behind a bunch of taunts. Gets me down to 9 health. Wasn’t looking good. Opponent thought so too, as I’m hearing “Greetings” halfway through the match.

Finally, I’m able to stabilize with Valeera and drop Tess the following turn, who summons some minions, deals some AoE and then recycles the five Unstable Evolution I’d played earlier. Upgrades some of the minions to taunts and upgrades herself to Deathwing. Aw yeah, back in business.

Deathwing gets hexed. 

Game goes on some more, I get some useful heals from Academic Espionage. Finally I’m controlling the board and hitting his face again. Lovely. But we’re almost out of time, because I know when he drops Shudderwock, the Lifedrinker battlecries will just about kill me. 

Then I draw a one cost copy of The Storm Bringer. But I’ve only got three minions on the board. Hmm. Play Blink Fox, get Ghost Light Angler. HMM. I play three copies of the echoing murloc, which prompts my opponent to hit the Thank You button. Somebody has Omega Mind, methinks!

I hit face with my original minions and then I bring the Storm.

As I expected, he plays Omega Mind and fully heals with Volcano. Unlike how he expected when he thanked me, it doesn’t clear my board. Between the four minions I have left, there’s 21 damage on the board. Good, but not good enough to save me from Shudderwock.

And then Swashburglar gives me Lava Burst. GG, Shudderwock!

No feeling is better for me at the moment than taking a Big Priest over my knee and giving them a thorough spanking. Thanks Jade Druid! 

 And Loatheb obviously .. 

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 As you hit this thread kinda often, I've taken the liberty to copy your deck.
Played 4 games this morning and I justed wanted to say - thank you.
Even though I lost one of them (wave hello to a starting hand with N'Zoth, Psychic Scream & Anduin while drawing Sylvanas, 2nd PS, Benedictus before dying against some standard Odd-Rogue) and two of the wins weren't that spectacular, the last one made me realize, why you play such decks.
Faced a Secret-Y'Shaarj Hunter - let's call him "Me face".
Turn 4 he played Tracking into Master's Call and as he decided really fast, I knew what would happen. Played both Oracles, which he both kindly ignored, because Candle Shot has to go face. Traded his 1/1 Y'Shaarj and was able to coin-entomb the 10/10.
Oracle gave me Rexxar (which made N'Zoth summon some nice beasts), Chamelos turned into a full upgraded Spellstone and so on.
To give this lovely game the graceful ending, which it deserved, he killed himself with Zul'Jin, hitting his own face with both Kill Command and both Quick Shots.

Made it to Legend for the first time in Wild and first time ever!!! Played against 3 kingsbane rogues in a row and won all of them, with the last one my opponent was one off from beating me. I was playing odd rogue. Yes!! 

Crazy game last night: I'm running Fatigue Warlock and my opponent is running some kind of OTK priest drawing like crazy, but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. 

I managed to pop Azari, the Devourer and blew up his deck with about 10 cards left. I figured "I'm golden now" BUT WAIT!! He Psychic Screams my entire board back to my deck... I play a cople of minions down to repopulate my board, and then he plays Archbishop Benedictus and doubles it back into his hand with Zola, the gorgon. 

Play continues for a couple of turns before I blow up his deck for the SECOND time with Azari. Of course he plays his SECOND benedictus. Each deck has the exact same 10 to 12 cards now, so I throw a hail mary and shuffle a copy of Azari back into my deck using Baleful Banker, thus ruining my chances at going infinite with Glinda Crowskin. 

After the third Azari, he finally conceded, but its crazy that I had to blow up his deck THREE times. 

I wanted to add them as a friend, but my app crashed right after the game and I never found out who it was. 

Dragons Roar into double Duskbreaker, in Arena.  gotta be the sickest Roar of all time.  definitely is what won me the game.

First golden hero!

I came. I saw. I TOOK CANDLE.

Finally finished the Dungeon Run with all classes! My last class was Priest, and I finished the run with a Razakus deck that was loads of fun. I had to outlast The Darkness in the final stage in a game that took 30 minutes, as I had no choice but to let him die to fatigue (thanks, Reno Jackson!). Whew!

Now I kinda want to try Reno decks in wild, but alas, I don't have the dust...

Playing against a mecha’thun Druid with my OTK Priest. He’s down to two cards in his deck, 30 life, 20 armor. No cloning gallery—took a shot and burned it earlier in the game, but low rolled hard. Also, he burned my Maly with a naturalize.

I scream his Auctioneer, his owl, and my Ziliax into his deck. He’s got five cards. 

Next turn, I spell stone Lyra, a radiant, and a Gilded.  Lyra gives me another scream, so next turn I go face and then scream everything into his deck—all my minions, plus his auctioneer and his owl (again). Now he has eight cards.

I spell stone again, pull another Lyra, radiant, gilded. Then I coin out Eternal Servitude to pull out Lich King. Next couple turns, using my board, my hand, and my hero power I get him down to 3, but now he’s in fatigue. All he has to do is get rid of the cards in his hand (four).

The problem? One of the cards is Lyra, and one of the other cards is a spell.

Spell after spell, he couldn’t empty his hand, so it was GG. Never thought of using Lyra to counter Mecha’thun like that...