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Insane Elemental Build with Arch Villain Rafaam in Hearthstone Battlegrounds.
Damn Rafaam looks like THAT!? extra beefy on this one
Is losing all your spells worth playing him?
Best intro in standard, meta defining for those organ chords alone.
Guys, should I just craft this in golden? I love the effect. I was thinking crafting a classic legendary in golden, but then this came.
Is anyone happy with crafting this in golden?
I crafted it despite opening regular from the pack. It's a fun card, but don't expect to climb ranked with it.
Pretty much what Queendom said. This is a fun card, not for climbing the ladder.
However, I will say I crafted it golden and I enjoy every time I play it.
My suggestion- if you decide to craft it golden, play it in casual or low ranks and have fun!
Princess Talanji i just made someone rage after playing her after Rafaam! huge combo
Noticed something in arena, I played him twice (in different games) still having half my deck and gave me Raza the Chained, next turn Raza had a yellow border and when I played him he did make my hero power cost 1, so I guess he doesn't give duplicate legendaries inside the deck, which puzzles me because golden monkey did shuffle duplicates. (It can be still just rng, but for getting 16 different cards two times in a row seems a bit like a stretch, and the game didn't last enough to draw each of the cards).
well since it gave you raza, we can presume you played wild, do you know how many legendaries are in wild? odds are not that great of getting duplicates
Nope, it was arena.
Yet, later in standard he gave me 2 chameleos. I'm starting to think it is a bug with how the cards id is working, other have cited examples of former bombs showing themselves to the opponent as blank bombs and the heal 4 minion showing its new minion drawing form when drawn. So, my guess is that if your deck was already full of singletons (if you're playing reno in wild or just didn't draft duplicates in arena) cards like Raza, Reno and Kazakus will still treat your deck as highlander even if Rafaam gave you duplicate legendaries.
From someone whose been using Handlock, Rafaam does shuffle duplicates. Whether that's a good thing or a bad thing, I'm not sure; I can safely say that it was just a coincidence.
Rafaam -> Princess Telanji is a pretty good combo that has happened against me twice in the past hour :)
got it golden from packs. honestly not to bad in a aggro deck when you run out of steam
Day 1 golden craft.
ARE YOU A REAL VILLAIN?
I think this card should, not even as a meme, be ran in Zoo decks.
Think about it, the statline is absolutely amazing for a Taunt body. And if you're cutting out an early game Demon, you can make space for this card. It offers a second chance to get value in the late game. There's a chance you low-roll, but there was a chance to low-roll with something like Yogg-Saron, Hope's End, granted that had a whole deck to go through.
The thing is, you're going to be replacing shit like undrawn/useless Flame Imps with a chance for something higher costed and higher valued. I see no reason why you wouldn't add this as a chance to catch up in late game. Remember, even cards like Hogger are better than a late game Voidwalker or Happy Ghoul (if heal zoo).
I see no reason not to run this.
Yep, got destroyed by a zoo deck because of this card. They were running out of steam and out popped Princess Talanji and enough decent bodies followed suit that it was gg!
Good in any Zoo Warlock decks. If you face a hard control opponent, this is your win condition.
And it counters Hakkar, the Soulflayer, btw.
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