Hey, guys I usually play constructed and I'm gradually learning arena. What is your opinion on Dragons Synergy? Should I go all in when drafting or should I just avoid them all together?
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Usually you won't get much decent dragons. You mainly target on Azure Drake, Drakonid Crusher, Dragonkin Sorcerer, Faerie Dragon that are good cards on their own, while the best synergistic card is probably Netherspite Historian because it can give you legendaries that win games by themselves. I suggest you not to go all in in drafting because it's inconsistent to draft a lot of the relevant cards not to mention drawing them in game. Don't pick synergistic cards without having at least 3 cards of the same tribe.
I avg about 4.5 wins in arena, had several 12 wins so far (played a lot last year). Recently I had at least two Priest Arena where I got bunch of good dragon cards so basically drafted a dragon deck, but to my surprise it finished really bad, while recent Paladin runs with decent cards end up pretty good for me 7+ wins. So for me, Dragon synergies for Priest didn't work.
I avg about 4.5 wins in arena, had several 12 wins so far (played a lot last year). Recently I had at least two Priest Arena where I got bunch of good dragon cards so basically drafted a dragon deck, but to my surprise it finished really bad, while recent Paladin runs with decent cards end up pretty good for me 7+ wins. So for me, Dragon synergies for Priest didn't work.
It depends on where in the draft they start showing up and if the cards are good enough to be played on curve without synergy if need be. stuff like welp, while 1 drop is important, as a 2/1 might not even be able to trade into other 1 drops is pretty bad unless able to buff it somehow the following turn if it lives that long. Stuff like Drakonoid OP or Twilight Guardian is probably good enough to play without synergy (though guardian has to win out vs other epics). Blackwing corrupter/technician are more than likely okay to pick up in the common slots as well, but generally its better to play them on curve rather than waiting for activator.
When you look at optimized constructed decks with dragons, you are usually looking at 8-9 dragons minimum in the deck to make getting the synergies off reasonably high. Average arena draft will offer you between 1-2 dragons per run so generally not a good idea to go for the synergy cards like Blackwing corruptor. If however you get 2-3 in the first 7-10 picks, it's definitely worth considering taking more dragons and synergy cards.
I think the trap is being offered synergy cards like blackwing tech or corruptor in the first few picks and taking them thinking you will get enough dragons. Usually you will not.
I had good curve and something like 6-7 dragons, as I remember it was something like 1Twillight Guardian, 1 Azure Drake, 1 Drakonid and 2 priest dragons which discover a card in an opponent deck (forgot the name), 1-2 other dragons and 1-2 netherspite historians.
That new priest discover dragon is tempo neutral (gain/loss 0) and it looked that I have a kick ass deck, but it looks like if you are unlucky with draws, if you don't have that 3 mana minion "battlecry: give your minion +3 health" and some other buffs, and you meet (in example) Paladin with few buffs and weapons, you'll lose the board and you cannot recover.
Priest drafts nowadays in 1 out of 2 drafts you can start getting dragons like crazy, but it didn't work for me.
Hey, guys I usually play constructed and I'm gradually learning arena. What is your opinion on Dragons Synergy? Should I go all in when drafting or should I just avoid them all together?
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Usually you won't get much decent dragons. You mainly target on Azure Drake, Drakonid Crusher, Dragonkin Sorcerer, Faerie Dragon that are good cards on their own, while the best synergistic card is probably Netherspite Historian because it can give you legendaries that win games by themselves. I suggest you not to go all in in drafting because it's inconsistent to draft a lot of the relevant cards not to mention drawing them in game. Don't pick synergistic cards without having at least 3 cards of the same tribe.
How did you leave out Drakonid op?
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unlike beast/mech, it's too hard to make dragon synergy work in arena, usually only 0 to 1 dragon available per draft
I avg about 4.5 wins in arena, had several 12 wins so far (played a lot last year). Recently I had at least two Priest Arena where I got bunch of good dragon cards so basically drafted a dragon deck, but to my surprise it finished really bad, while recent Paladin runs with decent cards end up pretty good for me 7+ wins. So for me, Dragon synergies for Priest didn't work.
When you look at optimized constructed decks with dragons, you are usually looking at 8-9 dragons minimum in the deck to make getting the synergies off reasonably high. Average arena draft will offer you between 1-2 dragons per run so generally not a good idea to go for the synergy cards like Blackwing corruptor. If however you get 2-3 in the first 7-10 picks, it's definitely worth considering taking more dragons and synergy cards.
I think the trap is being offered synergy cards like blackwing tech or corruptor in the first few picks and taking them thinking you will get enough dragons. Usually you will not.
I had good curve and something like 6-7 dragons, as I remember it was something like 1Twillight Guardian, 1 Azure Drake, 1 Drakonid and 2 priest dragons which discover a card in an opponent deck (forgot the name), 1-2 other dragons and 1-2 netherspite historians.
That new priest discover dragon is tempo neutral (gain/loss 0) and it looked that I have a kick ass deck, but it looks like if you are unlucky with draws, if you don't have that 3 mana minion "battlecry: give your minion +3 health" and some other buffs, and you meet (in example) Paladin with few buffs and weapons, you'll lose the board and you cannot recover.
Priest drafts nowadays in 1 out of 2 drafts you can start getting dragons like crazy, but it didn't work for me.