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I'm thinking about taking my Jade Druid deck on the ladder, and I'd like to know how dealing with decks with Skulking Geist in them should affect how I play the game.

What decks are most likely to use this card, and what are good strategies to deal with it?

Ignore it completely and probably win anyway.

No one is running Skulking Geist because it turns out the main problems with JadeDruid are just the Jades themselves, and we were all kinda stupid for blaming Jade Idol in particular (myself included).

Just play the tempo game and probably win anyway, as you have Ultimate Infestation? The turn your opponent plays Geist is usually the turn they regret, as you can just play a bunch of Jades and win on board without Idol.

Some guy played giest against me and then i played lotus agents and picked up a jade idol and the he quit when i shuffled it into my deck.

Beating geist is easy. Just play all your idols for golems if you suspect your opponent is running it and beat them down with a tempo game.  Don't run auctioneer or cycle centric lists that focus on shuffling infinite idols

As for what decks run them, I've seen them in most mages and some priest/paladin so far

i will told you what the other guy do when i tech it in my deck:

just ramp as fast as you can. if you do good, at her turn 6 you will have 10 mana. then infest her geist (it is a meh/bad card anyway, don't gain stats, it is expensive and usually you draw too late) o nuke it and keep ramping. if you have malfurion the pestilent, you can keep pressing her to death

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No one is running Skulking Geist because it turns out the main problems with JadeDruid are just the Jades themselves, and we were all kinda stupid for blaming Jade Idol in particular (myself included).

Yay another jade Druid player.. 

It's very rare to see anyone play it, because:

1. It doesn't even make you autowin vs Druid or anything, so not that good

2. It's an epic, so people won't be really crafting it (especially so early in the expansion) to counter jade druid a tiny bit

So it just seems like it's better to run some card to support your deck instead of countering jade druid with skulking geist

Even if someone does play it i don't think it's possible to tell before they drop it, so just don't play around it at all!

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No one is running Skulking Geist because it turns out the main problems with JadeDruid are just the Jades themselves, and we were all kinda stupid for blaming Jade Idol in particular (myself included).

 Wrong

 hes not wrong Skulking Geist is a bad card  people are not going to run one card to counter one specific deck and then youre not certain to win against jades

Skulking Geist doesn't stop Jade Druid so much as it stops infinite value from Jade Idol .

I just crafted Malorne for my wild N'zoth Jade druid to really troll the people hating on infinite value.  It's an terrible card and a terrible way to 'counter' geist but I'm doing it for the meme value 

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I just crafted Malorne for my wild N'zoth Jade druid to really troll the people hating on infinite value.  It's an terrible card and a terrible way to 'counter' geist but I'm doing it for the meme value 

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I just crafted Malorne for my wild N'zoth Jade druid to really troll the people hating on infinite value.  It's an terrible card and a terrible way to 'counter' geist but I'm doing it for the meme value 

Precisely. The infinite value was the problem for other control decks. If they didn't manage to apply sufficient early pressure (which is hard for control), they can't even retake the board with their board clears because of the cheap jade idols spitting out huge minions non stop. At least this way, they have a fighting chance. 

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I just crafted Malorne for my wild N'zoth Jade druid to really troll the people hating on infinite value.  It's an terrible card and a terrible way to 'counter' geist but I'm doing it for the meme value 

 Never understood why people call malorne terrible. It's overstatted and can singlehandedly win games against grindy control decks.

Jade Idol is still a huge problem, it's just that skulking geist isn't the answer we were looking for. On top of that they got massive new early game defense and later game draw tools.

Three steps for Druid dealing with Geist:

1) Laugh at your opponent's naïveté for thinking Geist will make any difference 

2) Thank Blizzard for giving you Ultimate Infestation - the most broken card in Hearthstone history 

3) Proceed to demolish your opponent so badly that they uninstall Hearthstone 

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I just crafted Malorne for my wild N'zoth Jade druid to really troll the people hating on infinite value.  It's an terrible card and a terrible way to 'counter' geist but I'm doing it for the meme value 

 Never understood why people call malorne terrible. It's overstatted and can singlehandedly win games against grindy control decks.