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I might delete the WIP Maly Rogue deck I posted, since this seems like it could be stronger. I'm still interested in figuring out if a hybrid would work any better, but because of the Sinister Strikes Eviscerate, Prince couldn't be in it... I'm not sure if that would just rebalance the power level, or reduce it. I was originally thinking Maly and Sinister Strike x2, instead of Gral, Sonya and Prince. Any opinions?

Edit: Forgot that Eviscerate is what negates Prince, not Sinister Strike. So the combo of Alex, Maly and Sinister Strike x2 would still be viable, but I dont know if there's enough card draw in this deck to justify the combo. It could be better just to keep it all about the buffing. But still, it's a really cheap OTK combo for this deck, for only subbing three cards... I'm torn, lol.

If you have to Google it (like most of us did), it doesn't matter how long you've been playing.

Bloodreaver Gul'dan has saved me so many times when playing this deck against control, or if the opponent has good tempo and keeps up with trades. You sure it's not optimal in this deck? Thinking about subbing one in for a Sea Giant, but I don't know if that would be the best card to drop to fit him in... Any advice? Or is he really just not worth using anymore?

Can this deck — and Cubelock in general, I guess — be played without Skull of the Man'ari? I'm still missing more than just that, but if I craft everything I need except the skull, it'll only cost me about 2000 dust, which isn't too bad... I can't figure out if it's a "win-more/snowball" card for this deck type, or if it's a key component.

I don't like doing this on principle. What I hate even more is when site admins don't just admit they're doing it for money. You can talk about these ridiculous "benefits" as much as you like, but what it really comes down to is your partnership with Twitch, and the value of our user accounts insofar as they can be leveraged and exploited by Curse for metrics and social media marketing.

And the pack giveaway... Really? You guys ran a giveaway in the announcement post so that the hundreds of lottery entries would drown out any negative feedback. And that's pretty shady, IMO. I'm really getting turned off by the way Curse does business. You guys have never been known for your ethics, but it seems like the company kept getting worse over the last 4 or 5 years..

If you guys might have been more honest about this, I wouldn't be nearly as salty about it. I don't feel like being part of a community that's owned by a company that does business like this. Maybe this was just the straw that broke the camel's back, I don't know. I'm not saying you guys are evil; you can't blame a corp for making money. But you CAN blame it for the WAY it makes that money, and I don't like the way Curse is making its money. In my own way, I won't contribute to your profits anymore, even if my influence is infinitesimal. All I can do is say thanks but I decline, so that's what I'm gonna do.

It's about money. Whether or not that's ethical, don't let them fool you into thinking it's about any other reason than profit... Regardless of whatever deals Twitch and Curse have that we don't know about, the value from the social media perspective alone is profitable.

I don't know if I'll participate after the change, either. I don't like doing this on principle. What I hate even more is when site admins don't just admit they're doing it for money; instead, they cobble together whatever they can find as "benefits," which in this case isn't much. "Leveling up your Hearthpwn account," lol yeah right... More like leveling it up in terms of its value to Curse, so it can be exploited for metrics and social media.

If you guys might have been more honest about this, I wouldn't be nearly as salty about it. Curse knew it was gonna get a lot of blowback on this, so they decide to run a comment lottery in the same post so that the negative feedback will be drowned out by comment entries. This is just dumb. Your motives in this are purely profit-driven. It's shady AF.

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It's not a meme or a joke. You thought you were so clever, standing on imagined legs.

This isn't to damage the database or fill it with garbage. This is a legitimate concern. Go be "smart" somewhere else. No one cares about your little spiel about how you think this is trash. This is an awareness post, nothing more, get it?

Don't clog up the deck database with fake, garbage-posts like this. If you really feel like you have something funny that you absolutely have to share with everybody, do it in the forums, where stuff like this is supposed to be posted.

Don't any of you guys care about the quality of the deck database? It's like the only thing you think about is getting a few laughs and meming hard for a minute, but afterwards fake decks just continue piling up in the database, forever. It's not like you guys have the wherewithal or hindsight to delete these decks, so it's like taking a shit in someone's house and then just walking out, without cleaning it up.

I'm trying to figure out how to optimize this deck, and get some feedback about how competitive it can be. Right now I really doubt it would work that well past Rank 15, but I haven't been able to put in the time to play more than a few games with it. Anyone got any card replacement suggestions? Or on the other hand, do you think that even with Prince buffing the rest of the minions, the whole Blood Knight Bubble Zoo thing still can't be competitive with the card we have? If so, I suppose there's always the next expansion...

Here's a link to the deck again:

I wonder why he left the Molten Reflection out... I guess he figured it's easy enough because of all the extra late-game options, although the whole point of the Alex/Giant combo is to reduce the opponent to 15 HP, so that you can duplicate the giant and do 16 face damage during the next turn. Right now, it's only a finisher combo if the opponent is already down to 8 HP, right?

I had to sub out Frost Lich Jaina with something, so I'm trying Medivh, the Guardian for the value. Although I'm wondering if the deck would be better served by just adding that Molten Reflection, since that one card is all it takes to pull off the "real" combo. Oh wait a minute, I just remembered that Simulacrum is there to duplicate the giant before it's played on the board, so lemme see... You put your two 8/8 giants out on the board for 0 mana, then play the quest for 5, end turn, now you've got 16 damage on the board and you play Alex... Yeah, okay, I get it now.

Just gotta deal with taunts beforehand, maybe with that extra 5 mana on the first turn. Hmmm... Now that I realize that, I'm wondering if there would be a better sub instead of Medivh... I was thinking about Ysera since it kinda fills a stalling role, but I dunno.

Prince is too good to cut. It means your minions are always winning trades. I found sonya to be really useful too.
I could see the Maly burst package working, but IMO, the lack of card draw would often leave Maly or the Strikes stranded in your hand.

Ffs guys, so many people complaining about how the Hearthstone designers are 'too stupid to see that a card is broken'... 

Remember when everybody thought Dr. Boom and Antique Healbot would be BAD, but Enhance-O-Mechano and Troggzor would be GOOD? 

Hmm yeah... Seems like it's not that easy to predict if a card will be good enough (not counting stuff like 4 mana 7/7's, which are obviously meant to buff a weak class). 

I would not recommend to get coaching by him. His coaching is cheap but also not very good. He gives you some Decklists (His on this site are not the good ones) and tells you have to learn them. Then he watches one or two games and says he has to "coach some other guy in high legend" or "do stuff" and goes offline. When you complain that you can't rank up he tells you "Try that Deck and watch me play it" or the same as i wrote before. All in all he just trys to convince you to buy more coaching and never REALLY helps you, just as much, so you don't think you get scamed (what he actually does in my opinion).

I would not recommend to get coaching by him. His coaching is cheap but also not very good. He gives you some Decklists (His on this site are not the good ones) and tells you have to learn them. Then he watches one or two games and says he has to "coach some other guy in high legend" or "do stuff" and goes offline. When you complain that you can't rank up he tells you "Try that Deck and watch me play it" or the same as i wrote before. All in all he just trys to convince you to buy more coaching and never REALLY helps you, just as much, so you don't think you get scamed (what he actually does in my opinion).

I want downvote button for this kind of content.

Until they don't make a short summary, preferably in written form, these videos are pure trash.

Thanks for posting an article that is not from youknowwho!

Great article! Thanks for bringing us articles like this.

And just FYI: The term ‘Zoo’ actually did originate from Magic: the Gathering like this article states. The term is super old (from long before the year 2000) back when a Red-White-Green deck became super popular and had only animals as creature (Apes, Cats, Elephants) and was thus named Zoo. Since then the color-combo has been given the name Naya for the Shard from Alara.

deck sucks

lose to  other control decks

Deck does not have a win condition. 

Deck plays well against midrange and aggro (of course). But against other control decks this one does not have a win condition. 

I added Rotface and went 3-2, but yeah, it's not that good.