Top 5 Duels Moments of the Week
Welcome back to another Top 5 Duels Moments of the Week! Because of how crazy Duels can be with all of its treasures, people experience a lot of crazy once-in-a-lifetime moments. Here, ANYONE can share some of their favorite experiences from their Duels games.
5: Scroll of Blunders
Once in a while you encounter people who check the Book of Wonders straight out of the Yogg-Saron Public Library and use it as their 2nd Passive Treasure. It can both win OR lose you the game when you least expect it. One thing’s for certain, it’s definitely a game changer whether or not it helps. This unfortunate Warrior brought Magnetic Mines, the win condition for the Bomb Warriors. Rattlegore let out a medium sized roar when he suddenly found himself Shadowformed.
4: Opening a Can of Wyrms
Getting that sweet sweet turn 2 Wildfire is pretty satisfying in early stages of Duels runs. Without treasures, it’s hard for your opponent to keep things on the board while also dealing with frequent Mana Wyrms. When Reckless Apprentice presents you the opportunity to clean up the enemy board while filling yours up with Wyrms, you take it. It’s turn 4 on Round 1; Your Move.
3: Cooler Guys Stare Straight At Explosions
Yet another look at Bomb Warrior doing its thing, but this time with much greater success. As many know, playing a Scrapmetal Demolitionist while using Battle Totem delivers quite a few Bombs as well as provide a decent chuck of armor. But what is your hand also had not 1, but 2 copies of Zola the Gorgon? Late game, Bombs can take up a pretty big percentage of the opponent’s deck. But play a few dudes that shuffle 10 Bombs each, and you get an enemy deck with over 200 damage crammed in there. Not even Recycling is enough to save this Turalyon.
2: Humble Beginnings
Blizzard decided that Humble Blessings should cost (3) down from (5). HearthPwn user DoomsayerHS decided to make it cost (0), because why should you have to pay mana for anything? Having All Together Now lets Sky Claw become just cheap enough to coin out on turn 1 allowed Rally the Troops to draw everyone’s favorite 3/3 factory and make it free. Unidentified Maul pulls out a free Lothraxion the Redeemed the following turn. This is certainly a decent enough lead to stay ahead while slowly throwing minions at the opponent’s face.
1: Turn & Burn
Why bother going through the trouble of planning a strategic and intelligent win condition when your opponent is willing to just hand you one on a silver platter? HearthPwn user HewaT’s foe tries to start getting value out of their Malygos. Upon realizing that they just provided a nifty target for Ancient Reflections, the enemy was subsequently shot down with On the Hunt using the most unconventional Malygos Hunter combo.
Thank you DoomsayerHS and HewaT for your submissions!
If you’re a fan of Duels, or even if you just play it casually, feel free to take a screenshot of your amazing moment and send it to us. We plan to share the best ones every week, so don’t be afraid to share if you have something unique you’ve experienced.
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Thank you and good luck in all your future Duels!
Man, this post is awesome! Love when that type of crazy happens. I agree with comrade about XP on duels. More XP will be great!
Oh I gotta start getting some screenshots when crazy things happen in duels!
I like this, duels can make some weird conditions and getting a "god run" is always cool to see as infuriating as it can be on the receiving end of that
I wish they'd just remove the Scroll of wonders treasure. In my experience, you either high roll and win with it or it's a complete detriment.
Thanks so much for including this.. we need more resources for Duels - way better format imho than BG, which seems to have overtaken all content and - even against their better judgement in otherwise seemingly intelligent streamers - all streams! I jest... but BG is an awkward mode for HS...
I'd relish your personal XP tierlists, and maybe even a gentle push to Blizz to support Duels even more (leaderboards, stats and even maybe some tourny format!!)
I’ve had a lot of requests, on the previous post and multiple instances on my Duels Guide, to make tier lists/deck lists for Duels. I’m not against doing this. The guide I write for Hearthpwn has mostly general advice and doesn’t list specific strategies for the sake of simplicity.
The main reason I haven’t yet is because I don’t have any raw data to use to back up any of my points. It would 100% be based on my personal experience. However, I have 12 win runs for eight classes and 11 for the other two (not trying to flex, just stating my credentials). I believe I could give really helpful advice for racking up those Duels wins. It would include personal starting deck suggestions, drafting strategies, and significant combos.
If you’re interested in a more detailed article for Duels strategy and don’t mind that it’s all based on my opinion, I’m all for it. As a Man of the People, I’m here to help!
+1 for your personal Duels Tier List :)
+1 for me too!