StanCifka Shares His Top Five Theorycrafted Decks for Kobolds & Catacombs
Check out resident Hearthstone pro StanCifka's top five theorycrafted decks for Kobolds & Catacombs. What sort of decks are you hoping to play with the new cards?
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Armor Warrior
Dead Man's Hand stays one of the least popular archetypes despite being decent at many points in time, but I believe this is mostly due to game length. It has received more support in the new expansion which might finally push it over the line of becoming a deck that you can no longer ignore. Do not look for an easy win condition in the list - what you'll be trying to accomplish is going nearly infinite with shuffling and Battle Rage/Coldlight Oracles, while clearing threats and keeping your life total high. Drywhisker Armorer and Unidentified Shield will help you with the first, while Reckless Fury and Bladed Gauntlet should greatly assist you in the latter.
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Bloom Warlock
Whether or not it will prove playable once again, two mana DOOM! will stay forever in our hearts. The combo is certainly not known for its lack of card advantage, but your life total is a whole different story. That's why you needed fairly ineffective cards like Earthen Ring Farseer to heal up. With Kobolds and Catacombs coming, you can solve that problem way easier thanks to Amethyst Spellstone, which is able to heal you for 7 while also killing a minion - all that for 4 mana! Fueling it shouldn't be an issue with a fresh set of cards post-combo, especially when both of the other two new additions, Kobold Librarian and Vulgar Homunculus, also serve that purpose - while being from good to incredible on their own as well.
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Dragon Priest
Number three is probably the most classic deck you are about to see today and is also the safest bet on which one is going to see the most play. It proved very competitive in the past and although it only contains a total of 4 new cards, it's hard to overlook their sheer brutality.
- Duskbreaker is a discoverable Hellfire that adds a 3/3 body instead of damaging you
- If you are not sure how to evaluate Twilight Acolyte, try to compare it with another long-time staple, Aldor Peacekeeper.
What I see as the biggest argument against Dragon Priest is the fact that Minigun (Razakus Priest) is also going to improve a ton, so dragons' spot in the sun is going to be dependent on how the meta is going to shape up.
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Mill Rogue
Back into the creative waters. This deck goes very deep on new mechanics and is able to attack from many different angles.
- Evasion helps set up your Valeera the Hollow and burying any card advantage your opponent may have.
- Sonya Shadowdancer and Zola the Gorgon can bounce Coldlight Oracles to overdraw/mill slower decks.
- Fal'dorei Strider generates a lot of stats in the process.
- Elven Minstrel brings all the pieces together.
It's certainly possible that one of the standalone cards or interactions will prove stronger than the other and finds home in an existing deck while the rest fades into memory, but for now, before the meta-game settles, you have a great opportunity to play with all the toys at once!
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Secret Mage
This deck is pretty modest as far as the amount of new cards goes, but they sure make up for the quantity with quality. This is where the single best piece of the set (in my opinion at least) Aluneth finds a perfect home. You can drop your hand fast, run a lot of spells so your freshly drawn four has immediate impact and the games end quick enough that you don't have to be afraid of losing to fatigue before your opponent dies from severe frost-burns. It's pretty hard to evaluate Explosive Runes compared to Mirror Entity, I like it way better when lots of defensive minions like Tar Creeper are around, but even without that, it's another great addition to the secret mind games.
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Not one of these theorycrafted decks is running Weapon Removal.
Seems bad man.
I am looking forward to Miracle Priest with Dragon Soul and Lyra the Sunshard. Might not be the most viable deck, but it's sure gonna be fun.
StanLuL again
Too bad that the best option will be craft Razakus deck, even if is out in 3 months, the free wins will give you the gold to refund it.
With that said, i will play alot of mill rogue, looks fun.
stancifka in 2017 LUL
We are only waiting after you to theorycraft that SpellHuntard for us ;P
I'm glad he didn't try to force such an awful archetype to try and save face over it. Nobody in their right mind would run Spell Hunter with what tools they have now. Maybe after Mean Streets cycles out and takes some of the absolute dead draws you get with your """Legendary""" weapon out of the pool, and after they actually get decent value-costed spells.
Trump is a cardstone God (and also the president of Murica). Who are you?
having such strong feelings about someone you don't know personally and who didn't do shit to offend you, is quite pathetic tbh
Because is a feeling, i mean he’s a good guy, and it’s not like i go around bragginga bout him, i watched my fair amount of Trump’s video to get my opinion on him, and i certainly don’t watch him just to offend him, besides, my opinion is mine, so yes, i can hate him, it’s a feeling i have inside, but maybe your type of hate is different than mine. And oh, i saw the comment and added my opinion, all the justice warriors who thinks that my opnion on him is pathetic, they sre too expressing an opinion, it’s free and easy both to say you hate somone and to be the good guy and impling that internet comments are stupid, also being an hypocrite. ( not you my friend i’m repling to, you explained your opinions well )
It's called "ultimate attribution error" and it's essentially a personal cognitive bias that people create upon seeing/meeting someone and scrutinizing them. It's not anyone's particular fault. Everyone has it...I guarantee you that you've fallen prey to UAE at some point or another in your life and as a result you have ostracized/berated someone as an "outsider".
The only real pathetic thing is you calling other people pathetic. Trump streams, and has YouTube videos. He has his own wikipedia page. Hell, you probably know more about Trump's likes and dislikes then some of your distance relatives if you watch him every day. You are allowed to feel emotions about people you've seen.
Even if you never watched Trump, some small percentage of people will experience "hate at first sight" (this is usually attributable to the person's appearance).
Source: 3 semesters of Psychology and a switched major cause I didn't want to have to get a master's degree in psych.
You'd do well to remember this. But upon further review I have a feeling you're a troll based on your very very brief and rather crude post history: http://www.hearthpwn.com/members/SPAM_R33K/posts
His Mill Rogue doesn't have The Darkness. Not viable.
On the other hand if you mill only one candle, your darkness is just dead.
This guy gets it.
I will definitely play Cabal Shadow Priest in dragon priest. The combo with Twilight Acolyte look so good.