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My perspective:
In a vaccum, you should have kept Twilight Drake and mulliganed Cobalt Scalebane. As a board control deck on the draw, pass-2-4 is a good curve. Twilight Drake is also better early game because you have more cards, and Scalebane isn't at its best on a board with nothing else. Let's assume the cards you replace end up the same for this example (so you have Tar Creeper and Curious Glimmeroot).
------Turn 1-------
Your opponent passes turn 1.
You draw Twilight Drake. In the video, you play Coin -> Netherspite Historian. In your post, you've mentioned that you were assuming you were playing against aggro druid based on what you'd seen in recent games (which turned out to be a good read, so well done) and you wanted to be on the board. My question to you is: what does a 1/3 do on the board for you? Were you planning to pick Faerie Dragon if it came up? You don't beat any played Druid one or two drop with a 1/3, so what does the body do? Also, once you've played Historian you don't have another two drop for next turn, meaning you're probably using your hero power at best, which is pretty much tempo suicide.
I agree with taking Cobalt Scalebane from the discovery choice.
----- Turn 2 -----
Your opponent plays Dire Wolf Alpha and passes. You draw Shadow Ascendant. Okay, so now you look like a genius because you drew a two-drop. Your (meaningful) options are:
1) Hit into the wolf and heal your guy. Tempo suicide so not worth considering.
2) Play Ascendant, hit wolf (leaves you with a 1/1 and opponent with a 2/1), Ascendant buffs other creature to 2/2 at end step. You finish with two 2/2's.
3) Play Ascendant, go face. You end up with a 2/4 and a 2/2.
There's a line of thought of "is wolf really their best turn 2 play?" or "What could playing wolf indicate?" but I don't think its worth exploring. Instead, we realise that our opponent will want to kill the Ascendant with the wolf to stop it accumulating value, and since that generally means it'll take damage equal to its toughness as it stands, we may as well not sink extra damage into it. So I'd take option 3, which is what you did.
Under my suggested gameplan of 0-2-4, you'd still be playing Historian this turn because it's not a straight trade and would require the Druid to sink mana into their hero power to kill it off, which would be amazing for you. Given that you drew two 3 drops, you could also go 0-3-3 and play the Glimmeroot or Tar Creeper this turn; I'd play Glimmeroot to get more options quicker. You probably don't need to play around Wrath against aggro druid and, even if they have it, that's 2/3rds of the mana next turn. Glimmeroot is a much more proactive play than Tar Creeper anyway.
--------turn 3-------
Opponent Mark of Y'sharrj's their wolf, eats your Ascendant. They then puke a Mark of the Lotus to give their guy +1/+1 and say go. You draw (another) Cobalt Scalebane.
Things aren't looking good, but your opponent is prepared to effectively waste cards to try and keep ahead of you on the board. They're choosing to not play around Shadow word:Death because they want to be able to beat your buffed historian on the board, and they probably know you're not running SW:D because of the current "Big Mana Priest" deck that you're looking like at this point.
Your historian can't beat the wolf in combat, so for now it's about the future turns. You have the choice between playing Tar Creeper or Glimmeroot. In the video, you play Tar Creeper and then smack Historian into the wolf, killing it. Assuming you're not playing at random, this leads me to think one of two things:
1) You were playing around a second Mark of Y'Shaarj.
2) You forgot how Tar Creeper works.
The first choice is extremely questionable. The opponent has seen fewer than 10 cards by this point and played a Mark already. The odds of them having a second are low and, even if they did, you could react the following turn by attacking with your Historian then. Could they be playing Mark of the Wild? Unlikely, but not impossible. Still, the proactive attack was unnecessary and leaves you in the crucial state of having no minions on the board in a board-control war after the wolf trades for Tar Creeper.
If you forgot how Tar Creeper works then... Don't do that next time, I guess?
If I'm honest, I would have played Tar Creeper here as well, but I would have gone face with Historian. In my mind, the Creeper trades one for one and I'm about to start playing big dragons, so that'll carry the board. Reading over the thread, it was better to play Glimmeroot; as mentioned above, it's the more proactive play and it gives you more options. It'll still die to the wolf but you'll be up a card and still have access to the Taunt later, which would have handy given what happens next...
0-2-4: You play Twilight Drake here, but he's got a lot of work to do.
0-3-3: You play whichever 3 drop you didn't play last turn.
------Turn 4------
Your opponent plays Vicious Fledgling. They play a Dire Mole too but it's irrelevant. You draw Mind Control.
Aside from drawing Mind Control, which was bad luck, you're basically dead here. You've lost board control with your board control deck. Your opponent has a 3-drop which is going to take over the game and even though you make Twilight Drake this turn, it doesn't matter. You need to be able to deal with Fledgling now and that doesn't happen. I could keep going over the rest of the game play by play but Flappy Bird snowballs so hard that the impact of your plays don't really matter anymore. And your opponent has Savage Roar because obviously.
I hope this helps.
even the trade with the direwolf was correct to kill it next turn after possible another buff he did nothing wrong you just telling people they misplayed something even tough you cant play correct by yourself and in 65% case it would be a jade so the coin was correct
If he was playing against Jade then it was even more incorrect to coin than it would be against aggro. Jade's optimal turn 2 is playing Wild Growth, or more often they hero power and say go. If you don't draw another two drop, then you spent your coin for nothing because you're just passing on turn 2.
well you cant avoid getting outtempo by jade the only thing i didnt get the twilight mulligan its his keycard, stil the coin was correct to get more valuable minions it isnt that unusual that spitefull priest have sometimes a downtime where he cant use all his manacrystals i have it often on Turn 7
MasterP2k, you're talking rubbish or trolling; I'm guessing you're one of the salty ragers who blame all their losses on RNG, while making fundamental mistakes like these. OP cares about other people's opinion, since he asked for it with this thread...and, astonishingly for you, he accepted he made a mistake, and is, hopefully, gonna try and think twice about making it again. You can, however, keep playing your way, and then complain about "luck" etc.
You can't stop the signal.
i end the discuss here its a waste of time...
I want to thank you all, aspecially the people who have been constructive. like someone earler said, I have several opinions to review and that's indeed the type of feedback I was hoping for. I was hesitant to make this post at the start, but the majority have been great and have given me very trueful and amazing feedback! So Probable in the future I will make more some of these posts and mistake video's to share and hopefully I will get your feedback again.
a special thanks to :
Arcengal, maroon5five, AbusingKel, AUzg, retoxidi, batterystaple, Wingdude22, Natsu0Nii
You guys bring good spirit to the table :D
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