Hearthpwn

played 3 games. 

first game with Kel'thuzad, I had an 'amazing' hand (the mana curve on this deck is something else) but opponent kept up with answers. it was a long losing game since several (random and not) boardclears leading up to cheap legendary spam while my heropower kept rolling the kitty. 

second game I got Rafaam. opponent conceded before I got to play.

third game as Kelthuzad, opponent played beyond horrendous. my hand was pretty eh, mostly 4-5 costs which is probably what the entire deck is made of. heropower kept rolling gargoyles and chow. I got beat down without really much of a chance.

at this point I figured that the new Kel's deck only chance was to beat down Rafaam before he gets all the boardclears and stocks up on legendaries, however the deck is not built at all to have any pressure, and the heropower is basically a waste of mana that can give anything from Echoing Ooze, Kitties and whatnot at a horrible rate, I basically never rolled a good thing from like 15 tries while my opponent was dropping legendaries. in short, don't dare joke about balance and Kel'thuzad having overall better cards. Kel has nothing like 0 mana removal and boardwipes followed by cheap legends. 

I was delighted to see they brought back the "Sorry" emote just for Kel'Thuzad!

LOL

Whatever they were planning this week must have fallen through. No way this was tested and played before deploying.

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played 3 games. 

first game with Kel'thuzad, I had an 'amazing' hand (the mana curve on this deck is something else) but opponent kept up with answers. it was a long losing game since several (random and not) boardclears leading up to cheap legendary spam while my heropower kept rolling the kitty. 

second game I got Rafaam. opponent conceded before I got to play.

third game as Kelthuzad, opponent played beyond horrendous. my hand was pretty eh, mostly 4-5 costs which is probably what the entire deck is made of. heropower kept rolling gargoyles and chow. I got beat down without really much of a chance.

at this point I figured that the new Kel's deck only chance was to beat down Rafaam before he gets all the boardclears and stocks up on legendaries, however the deck is not built at all to have any pressure, and the heropower is basically a waste of mana that can give anything from Echoing Ooze, Kitties and whatnot at a horrible rate, I basically never rolled a good thing from like 15 tries while my opponent was dropping legendaries. in short, don't dare joke about balance and Kel'thuzad having overall better cards. Kel has nothing like 0 mana removal and boardwipes followed by cheap legends. 

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I hope people on this realize that the only reason Rafaam is so good and Kel'thuzad is so bad is because everyone got upset about the opposite being true the last time An Evil Exchange was issued.

 I thought that was the case. Do you remember what's different?

Of course it's balanced - you get Rafaam in 50% of the times.

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I hope people on this realize that the only reason Rafaam is so good and Kel'thuzad is so bad is because everyone got upset about the opposite being true the last time An Evil Exchange was issued.

 I thought that was the case. Do you remember what's different?

 I believe Kel's power used to be "ressurect" basically if you didn't play any bad minions you could usually win by ressurecting any OP minion that you decided to put down.

 

My poor opponent ran his 5/5 into my 5/5 with the "only takes one damage at a time" ability. I was so glad they still had the sorry emote on these bosses right then and there :)

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I hope people on this realize that the only reason Rafaam is so good and Kel'thuzad is so bad is because everyone got upset about the opposite being true the last time An Evil Exchange was issued.

 I thought that was the case. Do you remember what's different?

 I believe Kel's power used to be "ressurect" basically if you didn't play any bad minions you could usually win by ressurecting any OP minion that you decided to put down.

 

Strange that people are complaining about balance on this one, played the brawl 6 times winning thrice with Kel'thuzad and only once with Rafaam. I do suppose it is luck based, but the decks seem pretty fair overall. Decent brawl.

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Strange that people are complaining about balance on this one, played the brawl 6 times winning thrice with Kel'thuzad and only once with Rafaam. I do suppose it is luck based, but the decks seem pretty fair overall. Decent brawl. 

Please be sure to update this comment once you've played a few more games and realized that it really is insanely unbalanced

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According to the pole, balance is at 2.7 or something lol. WHO THE HELL IS GIVING THIS OVER 1 IN BALANCE? 

This is why we can't have nice things, because people like you get to vote.

I got the 5 Tavern Brawl quest on Monday morning and prayed for a decent TB.  Then I saw this.  Anyway, did my share of conceding with Kel and others were nice enough to concede when I had Raf, letting me get by the quest.  I thank you all for that, really.

And no, it's not a good brawl at all.  Done till next week.

They have sorry emote

10/10

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Of course it's balanced - you get Rafaam in 50% of the times.

Y'know what really pisses me off? It isn't that KT's underpowered, it's that he's also just not fun to play. I love these types of brawls, and I love them because I can play ridiculous cards and do ridiculous things. The original Nef v. Rag, I still loved playing as Rag, though Nef was ridiculously OP, because I could play stupidly cool cards, like Golemagg. The first take on this one, playing as KT was great! You'd win one game in four, but you'd win it through a bonkers combo, infinitely resurrecting Gothik or whatever.

But this one? What can KT even do? Oh, I can play Mad Scientist and Feugen? I could do that in Wild! Hero Power? Just not interesting. Let's check out some of these unique cards... a 9 mana 2/5 that only does something if an enemy minion dies. Well, by that stage of the game the enemy minions are all legendaries, so that's unlikely. A 4 mana 0/5 with attack equal to the number of cards in my opponent's hand? How exciting. An 8 mana 3/3 that summons a 5/2 weapon that deals double damage to face - that'd be great if we didn't both have 60 health. A 4 mana 3/4 that summons a Chow (in my experience)... yeah, that'll do it. They don't even have unique voicelines! What the hell!

The emotes are amazing, I'll give Blizz that much. But that's only fun for so long.

No balance at all. I always win with Rafaam and always lose with Kel T'huzad

Kel you have to get some combos going- and set up that guy who summon then buffs skeletons.  Rafam has better hero power, but any synergy is typically RNG dependent.

Rafaam is much stronger, every game I've had him it wasn't even close, easy victory.