Hi everyone, this is my first forum post and it is a question on whether a F2P can still reach legend. I ideally want to play handlock and I already have 2 mountain giants but without cards like sludge belcher, loatheb, and faceless is it even worth trying? I still need 2 ancient watchers, 2 shadow flame, 1 sunfury, 2 drakes, 2 siphon, and 2 molten giants to get a simple base. Would it be possible to reach legend without faceless, jaraxxus, sylvannas, loatheb, sludgebelcher, etc? If so should I resort to zoo or wait until there is a new mech deck?
Any advice is great naxx cards are out of the picture and I wont be paying for packs any time soon. And total bankruptcy not including handlock cards is 1490 dust including lorewalker and bloodhoof. Thanks!
Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions, I am ngoing to put it off for now and run a zoo until christmas break. First week off 30 wins a day= 100 gold + 40-60 from the quest, I will save up for a week and buy the plague quater for Loatheb and Sludge and maybe I can get lucky between now and then and be able to keep my cairne bloodhoof. Thanks for all the help!
Why not. If you try hard enough. Bloodhoof is even playable in deck. One advantage is that you will have unique deck and people will not know what to expect
Good thing you will get 3 new GvG packs free in few days + gold from quests. Maybe you create nice deck including few GvG cards also.
No, you can't replace twilight drakes or molten giants in handlock, they're the core of the deck. It sounds like your collection is still extremely limited, my advise for you would be to forget about ranked for right now and just focus on arena.
If you're determined not to spend any money buying packs, then doing dozens and dozens of arena runs is the only way that you're going to be able to build a collection big enough to play decks like handlock.
You can still make a handlock, whether it can reach legend is another story, but you won't know until you try.
Shadowflame : sub hellfire
siphon : use earthen ring farseers. In my handlock I use both but you could get by with just one I think.
Not really much you can do about the watchers or the missing sunfury. You can use senjin for some more protection I suppose. I might also suggest subbing in some demons to make up for missing cards as well.
Thanks for the support, here is my current idea for handlock that i can still afford:
2x Soulfire, 2x Mortal Coil, 1x Power Overwhelming, 2x Ancient Watcher, 2x Ironbeak, 2x Sunfury, 2x Earthen Ring, 1x Shadow Bolt, 2x Defender of Argus, 2x Hellfire, 2x Shadowflame, 1x Sen'jin, 2x Twilight Drake, 1x Boulderfist, 2x Siphon Soul, and the 4 giants.
Could somebody with these cards try it? And should i try to save 700 gold over the next few weeks and by the plague quater and replace Shadow bolt, Boulderfist, and Sen'jin with 2 Sludge and Loatheb? Once again thanks for all the great replies
I can give it a try a bit later. Probably in 2 or 3 hours. Also, now that soulfire has been nerfed I would maybe drop one, and just use another shadow bolt or a dark bomb(once it is release). O and yea if you can get it, definitely replace the senjin with at least one sludge. I would only replace boulder fist once you have another giant.
Handlock as your F2P deck is interesting, since your missing so many cards. Your probably not reaching legend with so many missing cards, but just forget rank and a bad Handlock deck if it's fun. You don't need Faceless/Jarraxas/Sylvanas/Naxxramas. You need the basic cards for Handlock.
I want to say Handlock is worth trying if you could get the two Molten Giants and the Sunfury (also depends on what cards you have). Twilight Drakes and Ancient Watchers are also pretty important, but maybe you could use Sen'jin or Yeti until you get them.
Random replacement cards you might have are Hellfire, Earthen Ring Farseer, Mortal Coil, Power Overwhelming, Nerubian Egg, Sunwalker. Could even put in Harvest Golem, Azure Drake, and Shadow Bolt if you still need more cards.
Thanks for the support, here is my current idea for handlock that i can still afford:
2x Soulfire, 2x Mortal Coil, 1x Power Overwhelming, 2x Ancient Watcher, 2x Ironbeak, 2x Sunfury, 2x Earthen Ring, 1x Shadow Bolt, 2x Defender of Argus, 2x Hellfire, 2x Shadowflame, 1x Sen'jin, 2x Twilight Drake, 1x Boulderfist, 2x Siphon Soul, and the 4 giants.
Could somebody with these cards try it? And should i try to save 700 gold over the next few weeks and by the plague quater and replace Shadow bolt, Boulderfist, and Sen'jin with 2 Sludge and Loatheb? Once again thanks for all the great replies
Hmm ok well I tried your list out with 5 games. I won 3 and lost 2 . The two losses were to priest and shaman. The 3 wins were against a zoolock, another handlock, and hunter.
Thanks, I am going to work on a zoo for the time being, then open my GvG packs and spend a week getting gold for the plague quarter. I am going to try to save my cairne bloodhoof and add sludge belchers and Loatheb.
After GvG and Plague Quarter here is my goal: 2 Soulfire, 2 Mortal Coil, 2 Ancient Watcher, 2 Ironbeak, 2 Sunfury, 2 Earthen Ring, 2 Defender of Argus, 2 Hellfire, 2 Shadowflame, 2 Twilight Drake, Loatheb, 2 Sludgebelcher, Cairne Bloodhoof, 2 Siphon, 2 Mountain, 2 Molten.
Maybe change out a soulfire for a power overwhelming and if I have to, Boulderfist for Cairne. First ever F2P handlock in 2-3?!? Hopefully
Sounds like a good goal. I think I could have gone 4-1 but I didn't draw any board clear in one game :/ . Cairne and loatheb are good choices, they both work well in a variety of decks.
F2P Handlock can't exist, it's the same for F2P druid of ramp or F2P war control, it doesn't make any sense. :)
Hello i'm a F2p palyer, never spent a dime in the game and have a kitkatz control warrior Card by card (xcept for Cairne, wich i don't own and use Feuggen as filler replacement for him), so i say eff it F2p Handlock can exist if the Op is dedicated enough, in fact with the 2k dust i have at the moment i am able to just go and craft Jaraxus which is the only card i'm lacking to complete a handlock deck.
Hi everyone, this is my first forum post and it is a question on whether a F2P can still reach legend. I ideally want to play handlock and I already have 2 mountain giants but without cards like sludge belcher, loatheb, and faceless is it even worth trying? I still need 2 ancient watchers, 2 shadow flame, 1 sunfury, 2 drakes, 2 siphon, and 2 molten giants to get a simple base. Would it be possible to reach legend without faceless, jaraxxus, sylvannas, loatheb, sludgebelcher, etc? If so should I resort to zoo or wait until there is a new mech deck?
Any advice is great naxx cards are out of the picture and I wont be paying for packs any time soon. And total bankruptcy not including handlock cards is 1490 dust including lorewalker and bloodhoof. Thanks!
Edit: Thanks for all the suggestions, I am ngoing to put it off for now and run a zoo until christmas break. First week off 30 wins a day= 100 gold + 40-60 from the quest, I will save up for a week and buy the plague quater for Loatheb and Sludge and maybe I can get lucky between now and then and be able to keep my cairne bloodhoof. Thanks for all the help!
Why not. If you try hard enough. Bloodhoof is even playable in deck. One advantage is that you will have unique deck and people will not know what to expect
Good thing you will get 3 new GvG packs free in few days + gold from quests. Maybe you create nice deck including few GvG cards also.
without naxx you won't get legend.
simple as that
(this not talking about almost ALL the cards you dont have.. if you want to play warlock, i would go for zoo instead.. much cheaper)
No, you can't replace twilight drakes or molten giants in handlock, they're the core of the deck. It sounds like your collection is still extremely limited, my advise for you would be to forget about ranked for right now and just focus on arena.
If you're determined not to spend any money buying packs, then doing dozens and dozens of arena runs is the only way that you're going to be able to build a collection big enough to play decks like handlock.
F2P Handlock can't exist, it's the same for F2P druid of ramp or F2P war control, it doesn't make any sense. :)
Hello.
You can still make a handlock, whether it can reach legend is another story, but you won't know until you try.
Shadowflame : sub hellfire
siphon : use earthen ring farseers. In my handlock I use both but you could get by with just one I think.
Not really much you can do about the watchers or the missing sunfury. You can use senjin for some more protection I suppose. I might also suggest subbing in some demons to make up for missing cards as well.
Thanks for the support, here is my current idea for handlock that i can still afford:
2x Soulfire, 2x Mortal Coil, 1x Power Overwhelming, 2x Ancient Watcher, 2x Ironbeak, 2x Sunfury, 2x Earthen Ring, 1x Shadow Bolt, 2x Defender of Argus, 2x Hellfire, 2x Shadowflame, 1x Sen'jin, 2x Twilight Drake, 1x Boulderfist, 2x Siphon Soul, and the 4 giants.
Could somebody with these cards try it? And should i try to save 700 gold over the next few weeks and by the plague quater and replace Shadow bolt, Boulderfist, and Sen'jin with 2 Sludge and Loatheb? Once again thanks for all the great replies
I can give it a try a bit later. Probably in 2 or 3 hours. Also, now that soulfire has been nerfed I would maybe drop one, and just use another shadow bolt or a dark bomb(once it is release). O and yea if you can get it, definitely replace the senjin with at least one sludge. I would only replace boulder fist once you have another giant.
I recommend removing f2p from the title.
Handlock as your F2P deck is interesting, since your missing so many cards. Your probably not reaching legend with so many missing cards, but just forget rank and a bad Handlock deck if it's fun. You don't need Faceless/Jarraxas/Sylvanas/Naxxramas. You need the basic cards for Handlock.
I want to say Handlock is worth trying if you could get the two Molten Giants and the Sunfury (also depends on what cards you have). Twilight Drakes and Ancient Watchers are also pretty important, but maybe you could use Sen'jin or Yeti until you get them.
Random replacement cards you might have are Hellfire, Earthen Ring Farseer, Mortal Coil, Power Overwhelming, Nerubian Egg, Sunwalker. Could even put in Harvest Golem, Azure Drake, and Shadow Bolt if you still need more cards.
Hmm ok well I tried your list out with 5 games. I won 3 and lost 2 . The two losses were to priest and shaman. The 3 wins were against a zoolock, another handlock, and hunter.
Thanks, I am going to work on a zoo for the time being, then open my GvG packs and spend a week getting gold for the plague quarter. I am going to try to save my cairne bloodhoof and add sludge belchers and Loatheb.
After GvG and Plague Quarter here is my goal: 2 Soulfire, 2 Mortal Coil, 2 Ancient Watcher, 2 Ironbeak, 2 Sunfury, 2 Earthen Ring, 2 Defender of Argus, 2 Hellfire, 2 Shadowflame, 2 Twilight Drake, Loatheb, 2 Sludgebelcher, Cairne Bloodhoof, 2 Siphon, 2 Mountain, 2 Molten.
Maybe change out a soulfire for a power overwhelming and if I have to, Boulderfist for Cairne. First ever F2P handlock in 2-3?!? Hopefully
Sounds like a good goal. I think I could have gone 4-1 but I didn't draw any board clear in one game :/ . Cairne and loatheb are good choices, they both work well in a variety of decks.
What do you mean first handlock in 2-3?
Hello i'm a F2p palyer, never spent a dime in the game and have a kitkatz control warrior Card by card (xcept for Cairne, wich i don't own and use Feuggen as filler replacement for him), so i say eff it F2p Handlock can exist if the Op is dedicated enough, in fact with the 2k dust i have at the moment i am able to just go and craft Jaraxus which is the only card i'm lacking to complete a handlock deck.