Reynad made 3000 mistakes, he was mostly afking commenting on crap decks and his knowledge of dragon Priest is lacking to be gentle with terms. Im not sold on Chillmaw, (Chromaggus seems better especially now the deck has taunts), I'd cut 1 Velen's Chosen because minion tempo is needed and I'd lose the Holy Smite for maybe another 2 drop + something?
Anyway, dragon deck needs refining and don't copy this just because a known player with 0 exp with this made it. My 2 cents.
P.S: Even this half-assed attempt showed big improvement over past dragon decks, which makes me hopeful for this!
When the guy who popularized Zoo and Midrange Mad Scientist Hunter makes a deck that goes 19-2 and climbs to number 14 legend NA, it's probably worth posting and considering.
When the guy who popularized Zoo and Midrange Mad Scientist Hunter makes a deck that goes 19-2 and climbs to number 14 legend NA, it's probably worth posting and considering.
Did you see his matches? His 2 losses were total throws. He overextended against the handlock and didnt go face when he had no reason to fear moltens and he lost the other one by fucking up his mill because he was busy afk sleeping. This winning streak was NOT Reynad skill OR superior deckbuilding, it just happened. Many missplays and lost opportunities. This deck can be made better easily and his lack of experience with it showed.
But if the losses are total throws on his part....that means the deck's pretty good? because a "better" player would have gone 21-0 and probably hit number 1 legend with it?
But if the losses are total throws on his part....that means the deck's pretty good? because a "better" player would have gone 21-0 and probably hit number 1 legend with it?
Exactly my thought after reading Bloodmoth's post :)
I didn't watch him playing this but I'm totally excited for Dragon Priest. Played a little with my own list but reynad's looks really different from what I've been playing. To those of you who watched him play, how good was Vol'Jin? I don't have it but it looks like a cool card, I'd consider crafting. Did it fit in this deck?
I play Vol'jin in my own version and it is worth the spot. You aim for continuous stat-pumping on the field and minion battling and he promotes both. With the new cards, you can have like 1/3, 2/4, 3/5, 3/6 on-curve turns and with your healing/support if you use cards that both support and add stats it gets out of hand really fast. Same reason Rend Blackhand is actually playable in this deck.
But if the losses are total throws on his part....that means the deck's pretty good? because a "better" player would have gone 21-0 and probably hit number 1 legend with it?
The deck IS pretty good but it can become better. Lets not forget ENEMY decks are in need of research too because its a new meta, so results NOW are not to be trusted, general feel/way to play the deck is more important. More or less, dragon needed a bit more early tempo and reliable taunts, as well as a couple more dragon activators. Wyrmrest Agent and Twilight Guardian provided both. The meta also seems to be slowing down, which helps.
Reynad made 3000 mistakes, he was mostly afking commenting on crap decks and his knowledge of dragon Priest is lacking to be gentle with terms. Im not sold on Chillmaw, (Chromaggus seems better especially now the deck has taunts), I'd cut 1 Velen's Chosen because minion tempo is needed and I'd lose the Holy Smite for maybe another 2 drop + something?
Anyway, dragon deck needs refining and don't copy this just because a known player with 0 exp with this made it. My 2 cents.
P.S: Even this half-assed attempt showed big improvement over past dragon decks, which makes me hopeful for this!
You can't cut a velens, it's too important to combo with nova and smite and lets your minions especially taunts thrive in the aggro meta.
You can't cut a velens, it's too important to combo with nova and smite and lets your minions especially taunts thrive in the aggro meta.
The goal is to get ahead early and tempo, not rely on comeback/clear combos (Nova) that come after turn 5. There are 10000 Priest decks already that go reactive style. We are talking about a new deck.
Chillmaw is more or less anti aggro and anti patron. Mainly anti aggro, as you already have a lot of early game power, especially with reynad's aggro-centric variant of dragon priest. The deck runs some really good cards to stave off aggro and get good board control. As with any priest deck, all the cards have powerful value.
Right now chillmaw isn't that strong. Some of you might have noticed a lack of Patrons around(Patron is good vs all the token decks(paladin, druid, and aggro decks to some extent), as people are experiment with TgT, and none of the TGT cards help Patron. So that makes chill maw not that strong, other than being a 7 mana 6/6 taunt. He's kinda a filler pick, just like Rend Blackhand. Rend is played right now because genius Reynad realized that tons of legends were all around him( I don't mean player rank) due to the number of people adding the TGT legends they pulled from their packs. You usually see more legends around during the first days of a new expansion/adventure(such as the Troggzor and flame leviathans during early GvG). Rend is good at higher ranks, but pretty dang bad in lower ranks with all the aggro floating around.
tldr; Chillmaw is a semitech card used to stop mainly Patron, a deck which has seen a brief decline in popularity due to TGT, and is a decent card at stopping aggro, if you see aggro and Patron, you can use him, if not, don't. Just like in higher ranks Rend is better against the slower decks, but worse in lower ranks with all the aggro.
I really don't like this deck tho, it kinda feels like zoo...
I didn't watch him playing this but I'm totally excited for Dragon Priest. Played a little with my own list but reynad's looks really different from what I've been playing. To those of you who watched him play, how good was Vol'Jin? I don't have it but it looks like a cool card, I'd consider crafting. Did it fit in this deck?
I play Vol'jin in my own version and it is worth the spot. You aim for continuous stat-pumping on the field and minion battling and he promotes both. With the new cards, you can have like 1/3, 2/4, 3/5, 3/6 on-curve turns and with your healing/support if you use cards that both support and add stats it gets out of hand really fast. Same reason Rend Blackhand is actually playable in this deck.
Do you think Rend Blackhand is actually worth playing? I've played my own version of dragon priest that has been mostly successful without it. There's a couple of cards I'm still tweaking.
You can't cut a velens, it's too important to combo with nova and smite and lets your minions especially taunts thrive in the aggro meta.
The goal is to get ahead early and tempo, not rely on comeback/clear combos (Nova) that come after turn 5. There are 10000 Priest decks already that go reactive style. We are talking about a new deck.
still stand firm, an early velens can easily win you the game alone due to the tempo spikes.
Reynad's dragon priest is shit. If you get a bad draw or your opponent is has good tempo and aggro you can just concede cuz this deck only has 4-5 taunts and can be silenced rendering it ineffective when you are not lucky. Having played this deck while trying to rank up it seems almost impossible to get to rank 10. I may not be the best hs player but im definitely average. So you could say its the deck inability to adapt to different decks that causes it to be bad. Since there are many cards that rely you having a dragon in your hand and not many aoe, if you're stuck in a gang up of enemy minions having 3 or more health its quite game over for you as on turn 5 you can only holynova or blackwing corrupt.
Small write-up on the deck page.
Poetic.
Reynad made 3000 mistakes, he was mostly afking commenting on crap decks and his knowledge of dragon Priest is lacking to be gentle with terms. Im not sold on Chillmaw, (Chromaggus seems better especially now the deck has taunts), I'd cut 1 Velen's Chosen because minion tempo is needed and I'd lose the Holy Smite for maybe another 2 drop + something?
Anyway, dragon deck needs refining and don't copy this just because a known player with 0 exp with this made it. My 2 cents.
P.S: Even this half-assed attempt showed big improvement over past dragon decks, which makes me hopeful for this!
When the guy who popularized Zoo and Midrange Mad Scientist Hunter makes a deck that goes 19-2 and climbs to number 14 legend NA, it's probably worth posting and considering.
Did you see his matches? His 2 losses were total throws. He overextended against the handlock and didnt go face when he had no reason to fear moltens and he lost the other one by fucking up his mill because he was busy afk sleeping. This winning streak was NOT Reynad skill OR superior deckbuilding, it just happened. Many missplays and lost opportunities. This deck can be made better easily and his lack of experience with it showed.
But if the losses are total throws on his part....that means the deck's pretty good? because a "better" player would have gone 21-0 and probably hit number 1 legend with it?
Exactly my thought after reading Bloodmoth's post :)
I play Vol'jin in my own version and it is worth the spot. You aim for continuous stat-pumping on the field and minion battling and he promotes both. With the new cards, you can have like 1/3, 2/4, 3/5, 3/6 on-curve turns and with your healing/support if you use cards that both support and add stats it gets out of hand really fast. Same reason Rend Blackhand is actually playable in this deck.
The deck IS pretty good but it can become better. Lets not forget ENEMY decks are in need of research too because its a new meta, so results NOW are not to be trusted, general feel/way to play the deck is more important. More or less, dragon needed a bit more early tempo and reliable taunts, as well as a couple more dragon activators. Wyrmrest Agent and Twilight Guardian provided both. The meta also seems to be slowing down, which helps.
You can't cut a velens, it's too important to combo with nova and smite and lets your minions especially taunts thrive in the aggro meta.
The goal is to get ahead early and tempo, not rely on comeback/clear combos (Nova) that come after turn 5. There are 10000 Priest decks already that go reactive style. We are talking about a new deck.
Twilight Guardian is 3/6. That extra point of toughness matters.
Bad players whine.
Good players adapt.
Twilight guardian gets the bonus rather easily by turn 4, just getting another guardian also triggers it.
Chillmaw is more or less anti aggro and anti patron. Mainly anti aggro, as you already have a lot of early game power, especially with reynad's aggro-centric variant of dragon priest. The deck runs some really good cards to stave off aggro and get good board control. As with any priest deck, all the cards have powerful value.
Right now chillmaw isn't that strong. Some of you might have noticed a lack of Patrons around(Patron is good vs all the token decks(paladin, druid, and aggro decks to some extent), as people are experiment with TgT, and none of the TGT cards help Patron. So that makes chill maw not that strong, other than being a 7 mana 6/6 taunt. He's kinda a filler pick, just like Rend Blackhand. Rend is played right now because genius Reynad realized that tons of legends were all around him( I don't mean player rank) due to the number of people adding the TGT legends they pulled from their packs. You usually see more legends around during the first days of a new expansion/adventure(such as the Troggzor and flame leviathans during early GvG). Rend is good at higher ranks, but pretty dang bad in lower ranks with all the aggro floating around.
tldr; Chillmaw is a semitech card used to stop mainly Patron, a deck which has seen a brief decline in popularity due to TGT, and is a decent card at stopping aggro, if you see aggro and Patron, you can use him, if not, don't. Just like in higher ranks Rend is better against the slower decks, but worse in lower ranks with all the aggro.
I really don't like this deck tho, it kinda feels like zoo...
Do you think Rend Blackhand is actually worth playing? I've played my own version of dragon priest that has been mostly successful without it. There's a couple of cards I'm still tweaking.
I've won so many games from velens, I still stand firm, I'm about 80% win rate with this deck atm.
still stand firm, an early velens can easily win you the game alone due to the tempo spikes.
Reynad's dragon priest is shit. If you get a bad draw or your opponent is has good tempo and aggro you can just concede cuz this deck only has 4-5 taunts and can be silenced rendering it ineffective when you are not lucky. Having played this deck while trying to rank up it seems almost impossible to get to rank 10. I may not be the best hs player but im definitely average. So you could say its the deck inability to adapt to different decks that causes it to be bad. Since there are many cards that rely you having a dragon in your hand and not many aoe, if you're stuck in a gang up of enemy minions having 3 or more health its quite game over for you as on turn 5 you can only holynova or blackwing corrupt.
Poetic.