I just made 12 wins (my first!) with this deck. Needless to say, 3 fireballs are very handy when it comes to clearing huge minions or nuking the face. Also, 3 kodos made it easy to counter opponent's mini minions and keep the board clean. The mirror entity secret synergizes well with Ethereal Arcanist during late games and helped me won a couple of games. (i once copied a Tirion! which is his second btw!). The most useless card would be the giant but the other 2 cards i was offered were worse... so.... meh... The 2 defeats were against another mage(he had lots of flamestrikes T_T ), and a rogue(he played very well).
i also attached the rewards that came along....gd luck!
back again, now with a rush mage, the last card that doesn't show in the image is the sea giant.pretty weird deck,elven archers and the sea giant mvps, almost never had to use my flamestrikes. first time 12 with mage strangely, still haven't hit the 12 with hunter and warlock, i'm gonna try for those in the next days. the prizes were pretty low quality unfortunately.
back again with some druid action, those 3 swipes were nice, but i had a pretty nice early game and a super strong late game. the game i lost was against a mage topdecking a pyroblast.
got 12 wins with this mage deck, some crap cards , pretty weird how i got to 12 with this, 3 or 4 games were won unfairly with the pyro. the arcane explosions were strangely very good with the archmage. the black knight made the difference in 2 games also. the rewards were weak sauce.
Started this run 1-2 and considered just retiring. Decided to go ahead and play it out since I felt it was still good enough to maybe pull out a 7-2 if I was lucky... Ended up going 12. :P
Rewards were one pack and 500g, so I guess it's time I finally start saving for Naxx.
YES! Finally did it again! Didn't expect this draft to be a 12 win deck (since it's short on 2 drops) but it just traded so well. I'm also including the draft in case people are interested in my draft decisions.
Been playing the game for less than a month, and after playing the classes to unlock all of the basic cards, I've been playing arena as my method to get rewards (and constructed only to complete quests). I'm a consistent 5-6 win player with a decent draft, but this is the first one where I felt like I had a pretty good shot despite no Truesilvers...
Started 3-0, lost one to a Druid deck where I had a terrible early draw and just couldn't get anything going and had nothing to remove his late game Ironbark. Got to 6-1 before losing my second one to a Rogue deck that had a great early game against my poor early game... then won the next 6 quite easily with only a minor scare against a quick starting Hunter deck that I was able to recover against and clear the table mid game and establish board control for win 10.
Only two difficult decisions I had in my draft were Hogger vs Illidan for my first Legendary (before I knew a Tirion was coming 3 picks later), but went with Hogger because creating a never ending stream of taunts was key in at least 3 or 4 games, and Youthful Brewmaster over a second Silver Hand Knight in the middle of the draft when my curve was pretty weak on the low end, which ended up being the right pick. My curve was pretty solid overall, maybe a little weak in 2 and 4 drops, but really strong in 4 cost spells to clear the board to carry me into a good position in the late game.
Went 12-1 with this priest deck. I followed Icy Vein's example of a control deck mana curve and the games went really smoothly -- with most of them ending with 30 health. During the drafting process, I passed on a third Holy Nova and at around 14 picks I had to start focusing on early game picks.
I have to say Demolisher was MVP, he took out 2 yetis in one match and it was the funniest thing ever. What the picture doesn't show is 2 Temple Enforcers and a Mind Control.
Oops... I just did it again! Twice this week! 12-2 with warlock. Warlock is my best class so far in arena with a 75% win rate. Had a tough start going 2-2 but the deck pulled through it and went 12. This is one of the most aggro decks I've ever drafted.
Here is the draft. Any questions? Feel free to PM me.
Twelve win Hunter! Gotta admit, the class is really growing on me (was one of my favorites back in beta, before the whole Unleash fiasco). Rewards were 460 gold and 2 packs, one of which contained Nat Pagle.
I just made 12 wins (my first!) with this deck. Needless to say, 3 fireballs are very handy when it comes to clearing huge minions or nuking the face. Also, 3 kodos made it easy to counter opponent's mini minions and keep the board clean. The mirror entity secret synergizes well with Ethereal Arcanist during late games and helped me won a couple of games. (i once copied a Tirion! which is his second btw!). The most useless card would be the giant but the other 2 cards i was offered were worse... so.... meh... The 2 defeats were against another mage(he had lots of flamestrikes T_T ), and a rogue(he played very well).
i also attached the rewards that came along....gd luck!
back again, now with a rush mage, the last card that doesn't show in the image is the sea giant.pretty weird deck,elven archers and the sea giant mvps, almost never had to use my flamestrikes. first time 12 with mage strangely, still haven't hit the 12 with hunter and warlock, i'm gonna try for those in the next days. the prizes were pretty low quality unfortunately.
Don't have the screens of rewards, but it was a 310 gold, 1 pack and a gold Savannah Highmane
Back with another couple of 12-wins, naturally with the two highest ranked classes ie Mage and Rogue.
Mage(EU) MvP: Pyroblast, such a dirty card. Get it early on and just be recklessly aggressive and win games you never deserved.
Rogue(US) MvP: Aside for the 4 Eviscerates - Prep+Sprint won me at least 9 of the games, such a devastating combo.
Since I'm not allowed to attach more than 5 pictures to a single post, I'll just tell the rewards for the Rogue run: 425 gold and 2 packs.
Got 12-2 with this rogue deck.
back again with some druid action, those 3 swipes were nice, but i had a pretty nice early game and a super strong late game. the game i lost was against a mage topdecking a pyroblast.
I went 12-2 last night with this Shaman deck. You can find the decklist HERE. And I discuss some of my card choices HERE.
"To build or destroy...only you decide which joy." - Last Crack
got 12 wins with this mage deck, some crap cards , pretty weird how i got to 12 with this, 3 or 4 games were won unfairly with the pyro. the arcane explosions were strangely very good with the archmage. the black knight made the difference in 2 games also. the rewards were weak sauce.
Started this run 1-2 and considered just retiring. Decided to go ahead and play it out since I felt it was still good enough to maybe pull out a 7-2 if I was lucky... Ended up going 12. :P
Rewards were one pack and 500g, so I guess it's time I finally start saving for Naxx.
Current Decks: Everfree (Ramp Druid), Nameless One (Control/Burn Priest), Discord (Thief Priest), Provost's Dogs (Aggro Rogue), Randar (Random Hunter), Cherubim (Zoo Priest)
I also made a thread here http://www.hearthpwn.com/forums/hearthstone-general/the-arena/14750-12-0-paladin-draft
12-0 Paladin
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YES! Finally did it again! Didn't expect this draft to be a 12 win deck (since it's short on 2 drops) but it just traded so well. I'm also including the draft in case people are interested in my draft decisions.
http://www.arenavalue.com/s/6M9w0q
Lights justice over silver hand knight was definitely the right choice.
So was alchemist over drake
Reward was 405 Gold and 2 packs.
Been playing the game for less than a month, and after playing the classes to unlock all of the basic cards, I've been playing arena as my method to get rewards (and constructed only to complete quests). I'm a consistent 5-6 win player with a decent draft, but this is the first one where I felt like I had a pretty good shot despite no Truesilvers...
Started 3-0, lost one to a Druid deck where I had a terrible early draw and just couldn't get anything going and had nothing to remove his late game Ironbark. Got to 6-1 before losing my second one to a Rogue deck that had a great early game against my poor early game... then won the next 6 quite easily with only a minor scare against a quick starting Hunter deck that I was able to recover against and clear the table mid game and establish board control for win 10.
Only two difficult decisions I had in my draft were Hogger vs Illidan for my first Legendary (before I knew a Tirion was coming 3 picks later), but went with Hogger because creating a never ending stream of taunts was key in at least 3 or 4 games, and Youthful Brewmaster over a second Silver Hand Knight in the middle of the draft when my curve was pretty weak on the low end, which ended up being the right pick. My curve was pretty solid overall, maybe a little weak in 2 and 4 drops, but really strong in 4 cost spells to clear the board to carry me into a good position in the late game.
My first 12-0 :)
Got Bloodmage Thalnos and Lorewalker Cho from the 2 pack rewards :)
Should have gone 12-0, but ran into Deathwing early in the run.
I recently started saving my arena decks so here are my latest 12 wins arena runs.
12-0 Paladin EU
12-2 Mage US
Arenavalue went offline so i can't see the rest of the decks . Another time
Went 12-1 with this priest deck. I followed Icy Vein's example of a control deck mana curve and the games went really smoothly -- with most of them ending with 30 health. During the drafting process, I passed on a third Holy Nova and at around 14 picks I had to start focusing on early game picks.
The Temple Enforcer and Lightspawn were on point, with the early game working really well with Power Word: Shield. Cabal Shadow Priest got me out of sticky situations and the Thoughtsteal was useful most of the time.
I have to say Demolisher was MVP, he took out 2 yetis in one match and it was the funniest thing ever. What the picture doesn't show is 2 Temple Enforcers and a Mind Control.
i toke a screen in advance...knew it would go 12 wins....best shaman deck i ever drafted
Oops... I just did it again! Twice this week! 12-2 with warlock. Warlock is my best class so far in arena with a 75% win rate. Had a tough start going 2-2 but the deck pulled through it and went 12. This is one of the most aggro decks I've ever drafted.
Here is the draft. Any questions? Feel free to PM me.
http://www.arenavalue.com/s/MkzRhQ
this is the area of the game i need the most help with... every arena team i've built since beta has yet to yield more than 4 wins... grrrrr
Twelve win Hunter! Gotta admit, the class is really growing on me (was one of my favorites back in beta, before the whole Unleash fiasco). Rewards were 460 gold and 2 packs, one of which contained Nat Pagle.
Current Decks: Everfree (Ramp Druid), Nameless One (Control/Burn Priest), Discord (Thief Priest), Provost's Dogs (Aggro Rogue), Randar (Random Hunter), Cherubim (Zoo Priest)