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Has anyone pinpointed why arena is so miserable to play this expansion?

There's actually less inherently RNG cards tbh, it's just the powerlevel of particular cards are absolutely off the charts, like the cards ^ mentioned. Cube, void lord, hooked reaver are other cards that takes the cake. Cube is like an extremely crazier version of corpse raiser which is already a decent card, and corridor creeper is absolutely ridiculous and tbh should have its offering rates reduced for every class. Minions that breaks tempo games usually have some strong drawbacks, like King Mukla, Unlicensed Apothecary, and Keening Banshee. This card HAS NO DRAWBACK, and is still good in topdeck wars since it's still a 5/5. Either this card should be increased in mana cost (would be a good nerf to evolve effects too since there are tons of OP 8 mana cards) or its stats should be reduced.

Cursed Disciple has been doing a breakout performance for me in this meta.  I had this card in 4/8 of my 12 win drafts. 

It seems to be very powerful against priest.  There are also less hunters in the meta to candleshot it, not enough paladins with lost in the jungle, mages lose 2 mana to ping it, and rogues take a lot of face damage.

The success of this card completely depends on the meta so its understandable that a lot of you rated it 4.  I personally gave the card a 3 at the start of the expansion.  And now I would say its a 2 or 2.5.

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Corridor Creeper (1) +1 – Think most people missed this one. We had the card at a (2) which is an above average card, but not only is the 5/5 body for cheap and early, a great tempo play that can win the game right away, the condition to trigger is very reasonable. This card is actually one of the best neutral cards IN THE GAME right now, and has seen success in Constructed play as well. 

 

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Corridor Creeper (1) +1 – Think most people missed this one. We had the card at a (2) which is an above average card, but not only is the 5/5 body for cheap and early, a great tempo play that can win the game right away, the condition to trigger is very reasonable. This card is actually one of the best neutral cards IN THE GAME right now, and has seen success in Constructed play as well. 

 I called it as the sleeper card of the set and was surprised people had it as anything other than a 1.

I was incredibly wrong on everything else though, so it balanced out. 

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Since you people all love Call to Arms, I need some help understanding why. You simply cannot get enough 2-drops to be consistent. 8 total 1- and 2- drops? Nah, not enough. And that's an excessive amount of sub-three drops to get in my experience. I have been known to get more Call to Arms than targets for the thing, ffs! Feels like a trap card that looks good on paper, but sucks in practise. <4 sub-three drops in an entire draft is common now. Can't aggressively pick them when they're not offered. It feels like a 4 rating card to me.

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Since you people all love Call to Arms, I need some help understanding why. You simply cannot get enough 2-drops to be consistent. 8 total 1- and 2- drops? Nah, not enough. And that's an excessive amount of sub-three drops to get in my experience. I have been known to get more Call to Arms than targets for the thing, ffs! Feels like a trap card that looks good on paper, but sucks in practise. <4 sub-three drops in an entire draft is common now. Can't aggressively pick them when they're not offered. It feels like a 4 rating card to me.

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Maybe I'm just getting shafted on my numbers of early game minions that I'm offered, but we're talking eight sub-three drops, 6 games, and the majority of my calls pulled one minion. I usually get around 2-3 1/2-drops outside of lock - and that's aggressively drafting the blighters. That's the best arena draft I've had in terms of Call and call synergy. I've had calls just dead in hand because they would hit absolutely nothing before - One call is a risk, IMO, a second is suicide in almost every arena deck.

The thing is, even when I do get Call early and draft aggressively with bad 1- and 2-drops (4 if I'm lucky) - I then have to mull aggressively for them to, you know, actually have something to play. I'm pretty sure that I've not been offered any of the one or two drops you've mentioned, ND, other than drygulch, in the entirety of my post-KaC Arena runs. Seriously, how many targets do you feel is good for the card? And how do you get offered that many?

Guild recruiter? Very different card, has a non-negligible pool of targets to hit. Call? Getting boycotted by me, even first pick. When I get shafted on it reliably and I have 8 targets in the deck? I can't see the appeal.

I've just drafted a Hunter deck with 4x Crushing Walls. I wonder how that goes.

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Call to Arms has been performing very well for me. I got 2 in my last paladin run (and declined a third),  with only 4 1-2 drops, and ended up 12-2.

I was worried after the draft, but having two simply gave me more chances to draw one early. And I lost only one of the games where I quickly drew both. That card won about a third of the game straight away, and generally always gave me a huge lead.

 If you hit stuff with it, it's good. But I get steamrolled by aggro if I miss a two or three drop at the moment - but I'm meant to mull them away for the chance of a strong four drop on curve? That's not hype for a card I can understand, sorry.

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Call to Arms has been performing very well for me. I got 2 in my last paladin run (and declined a third),  with only 4 1-2 drops, and ended up 12-2.

I was worried after the draft, but having two simply gave me more chances to draw one early. And I lost only one of the games where I quickly drew both. That card won about a third of the game straight away, and generally always gave me a huge lead.

 If you hit stuff with it, it's good. But I get steamrolled by aggro if I miss a two or three drop at the moment - but I'm meant to mull them away for the chance of a strong four drop on curve? That's not hype for a card I can understand, sorry.

 I'd never mulligan away my 1-2 drops because I've got a Call to Arms in my hand, though I would keep it in my hand if I had a 1/2 drop. I've not played with it much really, but if you've got 6-8 1/2 drops in your deck then on average it should perform better than it has for you.

Wow...

I just got infinite Unstable Evolutions by transforming into a Sorcerer's Apprentice lol...

But then my opponent did a crazy Yogg O_o