On his first turn, he plays embiggen + Breath of Dreams that procs.
What do you do? Concede or something else? Bonus points for explaining which deck you are.
Honest answer (and with sincerity). I have faced plenty of Embiggen Druids with my Dragon Mech Hybrid Hunter deck and in situations like this, your best (and really only) option is to go ham on the opponent's face as quickly and aggressively as you can. They usually can't cope with the tempo and pressure.
Not to mention that the new card Rotnest Drake is hideously good at removing untargettable minions! :-)
But again, just as when the guy coins out the Breath of Dreams, playing TWO Embiggens on turn one is clear evidence of a person who has no idea what he's doing.
I suppose I should have added that in my response, but if a person double Embiggens that early, they gave you a window to win the game that they should not have given you.
I suppose a reasonable response would be that a person playing ONE Embiggen plus Breath doesn't indicate he knows what he's doing . . . it might indicate he just didn't draw the second Embiggen. Nevertheless, in either the case where he knows to hold the second OR he has another useful card in hand, you are staring at a sub 5% win rate as near as I can tell, unless you are playing a deck intending on winning or losing the game before any of the Embiggened creatures come down.
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Just beat one in wild with my highlander mage, he got double embiggen+ quest that summons minion from deck on turn one and until the 10 turn all minions he played where immune to spells and hero power.
managed to beat him after an alexanzra with double taunt dragons and a lucky kazakus whose 5 mana spell turned His 10/12 winged guardian to sheep... I love kazakus!!!!!
Oh yeah, Genesas made me remember, I'm only speaking of Standard.
Wild has plenty of game swingers that can mitigate the Embiggen plus tempo situation.
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But again, just as when the guy coins out the Breath of Dreams, playing TWO Embiggens on turn one is clear evidence of a person who has no idea what he's doing.
I had a mirror match and my opponent did just that. Should have been an easy win, but he somehow got the quest on next turn, then completed it 2/3 turns later (while I was building a tempo board) and luck-drew a 10/12 untargettable taunt. Sometimes watching someone do something stupid and get rewarded for it is quite exasperating.
On his first turn, he plays embiggen + Breath of Dreams that procs.
What do you do? Concede or something else? Bonus points for explaining which deck you are.
I concede, add my opponent to my friend list, congratulate them on their play, buy them some packs because they paid attention to me and that's something you rarely find nowadays, then I move on with my life.
Since I play control warrior it isn't harder than anything else.
Control warrior is absolutely the best deck right now with good matchups across the board. People just don't play it because the games take way longer than normal and people wanna rank up fast. Hence why the ******** face decks are so popular. People have the patience and attention span of a refrigerator.
I too play control warrior now and can sort of vouch for this. At first, I kept getting annoyed at those early embiggen into breath of dream plays, but realized after a while that I usually won anyway.
Supercollider solos their type of boards hard. Armor cards make sure you can face tank with the weapon and also win against face hunter.
i would probably concede and play arena or something
Honest answer (and with sincerity).
I have faced plenty of Embiggen Druids with my Dragon Mech Hybrid Hunter deck and in situations like this, your best (and really only) option is to go ham on the opponent's face as quickly and aggressively as you can. They usually can't cope with the tempo and pressure.
Not to mention that the new card Rotnest Drake is hideously good at removing untargettable minions! :-)
Case in point, I literally just played a game against Druid with my Dragon Hunter.
His turn 1 and 2:
Sidequest, Embiggen, Embiggen, Breath of Dreams
My response: Lethal in 6 turns. Where’s your untargettable taunt again? 😂
And literally the exact same thing on t he very next game.
Lethal by turn 7. 😂
But again, just as when the guy coins out the Breath of Dreams, playing TWO Embiggens on turn one is clear evidence of a person who has no idea what he's doing.
I suppose I should have added that in my response, but if a person double Embiggens that early, they gave you a window to win the game that they should not have given you.
I suppose a reasonable response would be that a person playing ONE Embiggen plus Breath doesn't indicate he knows what he's doing . . . it might indicate he just didn't draw the second Embiggen. Nevertheless, in either the case where he knows to hold the second OR he has another useful card in hand, you are staring at a sub 5% win rate as near as I can tell, unless you are playing a deck intending on winning or losing the game before any of the Embiggened creatures come down.
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Just beat one in wild with my highlander mage, he got double embiggen+ quest that summons minion from deck on turn one and until the 10 turn all minions he played where immune to spells and hero power.
managed to beat him after an alexanzra with double taunt dragons and a lucky kazakus whose 5 mana spell turned His 10/12 winged guardian to sheep... I love kazakus!!!!!
Oh yeah, Genesas made me remember, I'm only speaking of Standard.
Wild has plenty of game swingers that can mitigate the Embiggen plus tempo situation.
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I had a mirror match and my opponent did just that. Should have been an easy win, but he somehow got the quest on next turn, then completed it 2/3 turns later (while I was building a tempo board) and luck-drew a 10/12 untargettable taunt.
Sometimes watching someone do something stupid and get rewarded for it is quite exasperating.
I concede, add my opponent to my friend list, congratulate them on their play, buy them some packs because they paid attention to me and that's something you rarely find nowadays, then I move on with my life.
Bonus: I play Galakrond Priest.
I too play control warrior now and can sort of vouch for this. At first, I kept getting annoyed at those early embiggen into breath of dream plays, but realized after a while that I usually won anyway.
Supercollider solos their type of boards hard. Armor cards make sure you can face tank with the weapon and also win against face hunter.
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