Public service announcement: If you are playing the CW mirror match, your goal is to NOT draw cards.
Just played a guy in ranked around rank 10 or so who overdrew 2 cards, harrison'ed my 3/2 fiery war axe, slammed to draw etc. etc.
Unless you are really hurting for answers, DON'T DRAW! He conceded with 3 cards left in his deck while I had 14 or so, he had 35 health while I had around 20... both of us sat with 7 or so cards in hand for the entire match.
The mirror match is very counter-intuitive to "good plays", but yes, I did purposefully just play my Harrison Jones as a tempo minion and avoided destroying your weapons.
I actually think that you have to dig for Justicar. After that, you try to draw as few cards as possible, hold a quite big hand and then golden monkey at the right moment (ideally you will have acolytes and one other card draw like slam in hand or in the deck). Then it's just vomiting legendaries.
It's slightly more nuanced than this. It depends on how your Control Warrior is built. There's still a spectrum in how you build Control Warrior, it can be fatigue-oriented, it can be extremely greedy, it can be more towards the midrange spectrum where it can generate some aggression. If you determine that you need to be the aggressor, drawing is correct to try find the right ways to put pressure on your opponent because you know you would lose the fatigue battle anyway.
It's slightly more nuanced than this. It depends on how your Control Warrior is built. There's still a spectrum in how you build Control Warrior, it can be fatigue-oriented, it can be extremely greedy, it can be more towards the midrange spectrum where it can generate some aggression. If you determine that you need to be the aggressor, drawing is correct to try find the right ways to put pressure on your opponent because you know you would lose the fatigue battle anyway.
Agreed that there's more to it than this, it's just I see a lot of control players still playing super greedy/value against other control players, when you normally need to just be very patient, deal with each threat, armor up, end turn.
Playing against aggro is often much much easier since you are just struggling to survive and most turns the "correct" play is really obvious.
Public service announcement: If you are playing the CW mirror match, your goal is to NOT draw cards.
Just played a guy in ranked around rank 10 or so who overdrew 2 cards, harrison'ed my 3/2 fiery war axe, slammed to draw etc. etc.
Unless you are really hurting for answers, DON'T DRAW! He conceded with 3 cards left in his deck while I had 14 or so, he had 35 health while I had around 20... both of us sat with 7 or so cards in hand for the entire match.
The mirror match is very counter-intuitive to "good plays", but yes, I did purposefully just play my Harrison Jones as a tempo minion and avoided destroying your weapons.
Ibn Fahd.
I actually think that you have to dig for Justicar. After that, you try to draw as few cards as possible, hold a quite big hand and then golden monkey at the right moment (ideally you will have acolytes and one other card draw like slam in hand or in the deck). Then it's just vomiting legendaries.
Yeah, the guy conceded when he burnt his Justicar. His other burn was because his Ysera drew a tenth card and he burnt a Shieldmaiden.
Ibn Fahd.
It's slightly more nuanced than this. It depends on how your Control Warrior is built. There's still a spectrum in how you build Control Warrior, it can be fatigue-oriented, it can be extremely greedy, it can be more towards the midrange spectrum where it can generate some aggression. If you determine that you need to be the aggressor, drawing is correct to try find the right ways to put pressure on your opponent because you know you would lose the fatigue battle anyway.
Ibn Fahd.
yeah early justicar and avoiding draws certainly helps. I find holding onto alex till very late is game winner as well
CW warrior mirror = minimize draws. But honestly it seems to come down more to good Golden Monkey RNG. Sadface
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