My first 12 wins in Karazhan. The only game I lost was at 5-0, when I went second and had to play from behind while not getting Blizzard or Flamestrike. Also had some favourable RNG here and there. MVPs are definitely the two Firelands Portal, Babbling Book and Flamestrike.
Yet another 12 win mage deck. 8 of my 14 games, including the last 6, were against mages. Arena is just silly now. This one was a good enough control deck with a good number of removals and plenty of threats to outvalue my opponent at the late game. My 2 losses were of course against mages who had more Firelands Portals than me.
I just got my second 12-0 Arena run with this Shaman deck. To be honest, I didn't this deck was that good after I drafted it, but it certainly outperformed my expectations. I was fortunate enough throughout my run to receive a decent curve in most of my matches, and to roll a lucky Spell Damage totem to activate my Spirit Claws and Maelstrom Portal when I needed them.
I think core reason this deck was able to perform so well was the lack of any truly weak cards. The worst card was probably the Avian Watcher, and the normally weak Wicked Witchdoctor actually did a good amount of work combined with my cheap spells and Primal Fusion. The most important cards in the deck are the 2x Hex and 2x Maelstrom Portal, which gave me both good single-target and good area removal.
With all of the taunts in Old Gods pretty much gone, aggro is back baby. Face is the place
Also, I forgot to take a screenshot of the decklist because I was too excited. I didn’t think this draft would get 12 wins, because I was 7-2 and lost both of my games to Mages. Fortunately, the last 5 wins, only 1 Mage was faced and I RNG’d the crap out of him. Swashburglar into Firelands Portal into Doomguard.
My first 12 wins with Shaman. I don't think there was a game where I didn't draw Spirit Claws within the first 4 cards, I also often had Rockbiter Weapon to back it up. Only lost to a Warrior at 2-0 because he kept playing taunts and gaining armour and just got out of the range for me to finish him off. MVPs are Spirit Claws and Rockbiter Weapon.
Cold blood have done more lethal in this run than I can count. I think I played it in most games. Seems 1 mana 4 damage with potential to do another 4 damage next turn is pretty craycray.
Draknoid Crusher came in big, literally I guess. Buffs the Technician which I got in at least 2-3 games, was a 9/9 in multiple games as well. Only one game did a Mage removed it, still won it when it came down to topdecking.
Deadly fork is overrated in my opinion. You never want more than one of this card, and it's honestly not that good to play on 3, since you don't really want to waste a turn playing a weapon when you can develop a 4. I've dumped this card in my opening hand several times, Scarlet/Brute/Harvest Golem are simply way more threatening.
12-2 Mage. Great tempo mage deck! 1 epic, 4 rares no legendary.
Overall, the Firelands Portal was not so much useful, but it saved me on the 12° game giving me Nexus-Champion Saraad, which I wasn't able to use but the enemy spent his whole turn for killing it.
In two games I had both Fireball and also North Sea Kraken in my hand, with the enemy under 20 of health, so I had the tought choice between a greedy face approach (Kraken on the face, double fireball the turn after) or to use the kraken to kill an enemy minion. Against a paladin I've choosed the latter because he could have an healing card while against a mage I've choosed the former, both games ended well!
Game #1: WIN Rogue 1st
Game #2: WIN Paladin 1st
Game #3: WIN Mage 1st
Game #4: WIN Mage 2nd
Game #5: WIN Warlock 1st
Game #6: WIN Mage 2nd
Game #7: LOSS Mage 1st. He had Antonidas and Ragnaros.
Game #8: WIN Rogue 2nd
Game #9: LOSS Priest 1st
Game #10: WIN Shaman 2nd
Game #11: WIN Mage 1st
Game #12: WIN Mage 2nd
Game #13: WIN Mage 2nd
Game #14: WIN Mage 2nd
Not a big reward: 255 gold and 2 golden rare (and 1 pack of course), but the cards were missing one so, not so bad
This deck was really OP. I didn't have a chance to play Reno Jackson because I always had the board so my life total was above 20 at all times. MVP is Spirit Claws, it allowed me to have board control and then just steamroll my opponents. I was a bit sceptical when I started the run because i thought I had too many 1 mana cards but it wasn't a problem in the end.
Solid aggro Rogue deck. Didn't have one clear MVP, it was more a team work. Didn't feel like a 12 win deck at first, let alone a 12-0 one. Knowing when to trade and when to start pressing going face was the key, I think. Most of the matches were pretty easy. Final boss was mage, I faced the same guy at 10-0 and 11-0, won both easily (sorry, ManglePants).
This deck is more of a meme than anything else. But it got the job done.
I was offered 7 or 8 Firelands Portals in the draft. Thus the gameplan was: hopefully play counterspell into double Medivh's Valet on turn 4, stall until turn 7 and then make the opponent uninstall Hearthstone.
The only games I lost were against a more consistent Tempo Mage and a flood Paladin who rekt me so hard by turn 6 it was funny. He even apologised for destroying me. Good sport!
My first ever 12 win win run. In my 13th match i played a warrior who drafted Prince Malchezaar and i lost hope at the start of the match, when he puts those 5 legendaries. But somehow i managed to win even though he played 2 of those 5 legendaries and the prince himself. That card should be removed from arena. Just OP when the player manages to play 3 or 4 of those legendaries.
Another one for a mage. I played this some time ago, but forgot to add it here, so this is done before changes to arena. Pretty OP deck, but I almost botched it when I was at 5-2 after 7 games. Luckily I was able to win all the rest of the matches. It's nice to see that "control deck" can win matches too.
12-2 Hunter, maybe the first time I got to 12 wins with a Hunter.
Deck was fairly average. Obviously Glaivezookas carried the game. But Giant Sand Worm is actually pretty OP too. Had a game where I topdecked Captured Jormungar, twice, after playing Tundra Rhino. Alas the second time my Rhino died but the first time made lethal.
I think I only faced 3 mages in this run, the final boss was a mage who died on turn 7, lol.
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Went 12-2 with probably the best deck I've ever drafted. Initially thought easy 12 wins with possibility of 12-0 but got out skilled by a mage who did turn 9 double fireball face turn 10 pyroblast face and a shaman who dumped his hand by turn 6 then top decked bloodlust. Crazy thing is this deck might have even been better if I had used heartharena or something. I've played arena a lot and have had multiple 12 win decks so I trust in my choices but there were a cards I was a bit iffy on.
My first 12 wins in Karazhan. The only game I lost was at 5-0, when I went second and had to play from behind while not getting Blizzard or Flamestrike. Also had some favourable RNG here and there. MVPs are definitely the two Firelands Portal, Babbling Book and Flamestrike.
http://www.heartharena.com/arena-run/27rpj5 .. this is the best deck ive ever drafted .. 12-2
Yet another 12 win mage deck. 8 of my 14 games, including the last 6, were against mages. Arena is just silly now. This one was a good enough control deck with a good number of removals and plenty of threats to outvalue my opponent at the late game. My 2 losses were of course against mages who had more Firelands Portals than me.
I just got my second 12-0 Arena run with this Shaman deck. To be honest, I didn't this deck was that good after I drafted it, but it certainly outperformed my expectations. I was fortunate enough throughout my run to receive a decent curve in most of my matches, and to roll a lucky Spell Damage totem to activate my Spirit Claws and Maelstrom Portal when I needed them.
I think core reason this deck was able to perform so well was the lack of any truly weak cards. The worst card was probably the Avian Watcher, and the normally weak Wicked Witchdoctor actually did a good amount of work combined with my cheap spells and Primal Fusion. The most important cards in the deck are the 2x Hex and 2x Maelstrom Portal, which gave me both good single-target and good area removal.
With all of the taunts in Old Gods pretty much gone, aggro is back baby. Face is the place
Also, I forgot to take a screenshot of the decklist because I was too excited. I didn’t think this draft would get 12 wins, because I was 7-2 and lost both of my games to Mages. Fortunately, the last 5 wins, only 1 Mage was faced and I RNG’d the crap out of him. Swashburglar into Firelands Portal into Doomguard.
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My first 12 wins with Shaman. I don't think there was a game where I didn't draw Spirit Claws within the first 4 cards, I also often had Rockbiter Weapon to back it up. Only lost to a Warrior at 2-0 because he kept playing taunts and gaining armour and just got out of the range for me to finish him off. MVPs are Spirit Claws and Rockbiter Weapon.
The rewards very pretty good too.
Turns out random mage cards are preeeety good...
12-1 Rogue. Standard Rogue things. No epics. Minimal rares.
Topdecked Skulker once, topdecked Assassinate once, topdecked Evis for lethal once.
Cold blood have done more lethal in this run than I can count. I think I played it in most games. Seems 1 mana 4 damage with potential to do another 4 damage next turn is pretty craycray.
Draknoid Crusher came in big, literally I guess. Buffs the Technician which I got in at least 2-3 games, was a 9/9 in multiple games as well. Only one game did a Mage removed it, still won it when it came down to topdecking.
Deadly fork is overrated in my opinion. You never want more than one of this card, and it's honestly not that good to play on 3, since you don't really want to waste a turn playing a weapon when you can develop a 4. I've dumped this card in my opening hand several times, Scarlet/Brute/Harvest Golem are simply way more threatening.
Faced 5 mages past 5 wins, lol.
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Reached #1 in NA arena leaderboard in May 2018 with a 9.07 average!
12-2 Mage. Great tempo mage deck! 1 epic, 4 rares no legendary.
Overall, the Firelands Portal was not so much useful, but it saved me on the 12° game giving me Nexus-Champion Saraad, which I wasn't able to use but the enemy spent his whole turn for killing it.
In two games I had both Fireball and also North Sea Kraken in my hand, with the enemy under 20 of health, so I had the tought choice between a greedy face approach (Kraken on the face, double fireball the turn after) or to use the kraken to kill an enemy minion. Against a paladin I've choosed the latter because he could have an healing card while against a mage I've choosed the former, both games ended well!
Not a big reward: 255 gold and 2 golden rare (and 1 pack of course), but the cards were missing one so, not so bad
Ridiculously effective deck:
Another 12 win, Again mage.
MVP= 2 Fireballs, 1 Bomb lover AND 4 (yes four/cuatro/quatre) Firelands Portals.
No flame strikes but one blizzard that i never draw.
Firelands portals make Mages unbalances, every run i got at least 2 of this card
Pd= Sry my english
This deck was really OP. I didn't have a chance to play Reno Jackson because I always had the board so my life total was above 20 at all times. MVP is Spirit Claws, it allowed me to have board control and then just steamroll my opponents. I was a bit sceptical when I started the run because i thought I had too many 1 mana cards but it wasn't a problem in the end.
Solid aggro Rogue deck. Didn't have one clear MVP, it was more a team work. Didn't feel like a 12 win deck at first, let alone a 12-0 one. Knowing when to trade and when to start pressing going face was the key, I think. Most of the matches were pretty easy. Final boss was mage, I faced the same guy at 10-0 and 11-0, won both easily (sorry, ManglePants).
It's not that I'm not happy for 12 wins, but come on blizzard, I had better rewards with 9-10 win runs...
They really need to rework the rewards system.
Anyone would have already quit this game with my unluck.
This deck is more of a meme than anything else. But it got the job done.
I was offered 7 or 8 Firelands Portals in the draft. Thus the gameplan was: hopefully play counterspell into double Medivh's Valet on turn 4, stall until turn 7 and then make the opponent uninstall Hearthstone.
The only games I lost were against a more consistent Tempo Mage and a flood Paladin who rekt me so hard by turn 6 it was funny. He even apologised for destroying me. Good sport!
*The tier guide will return*
Another Shaman 12 win run. MVP of this deck was Flametongue Totem. In combination with other totems or Silver Hand Knight or Feral Spirit it wrecked everything.
Rewards for this run sucked.
12-1 with Mage. 20-08-16.
My first ever 12 win win run. In my 13th match i played a warrior who drafted Prince Malchezaar and i lost hope at the start of the match, when he puts those 5 legendaries. But somehow i managed to win even though he played 2 of those 5 legendaries and the prince himself. That card should be removed from arena. Just OP when the player manages to play 3 or 4 of those legendaries.
Another one for a mage. I played this some time ago, but forgot to add it here, so this is done before changes to arena. Pretty OP deck, but I almost botched it when I was at 5-2 after 7 games. Luckily I was able to win all the rest of the matches. It's nice to see that "control deck" can win matches too.
12-2 Hunter, maybe the first time I got to 12 wins with a Hunter.
Deck was fairly average. Obviously Glaivezookas carried the game. But Giant Sand Worm is actually pretty OP too. Had a game where I topdecked Captured Jormungar, twice, after playing Tundra Rhino. Alas the second time my Rhino died but the first time made lethal.
I think I only faced 3 mages in this run, the final boss was a mage who died on turn 7, lol.
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Reached #1 in NA arena leaderboard in May 2018 with a 9.07 average!
Went 12-2 with this deck
It turns out that having 5 fireballs is pretty good.
Went 12-2 with probably the best deck I've ever drafted. Initially thought easy 12 wins with possibility of 12-0 but got out skilled by a mage who did turn 9 double fireball face turn 10 pyroblast face and a shaman who dumped his hand by turn 6 then top decked bloodlust. Crazy thing is this deck might have even been better if I had used heartharena or something. I've played arena a lot and have had multiple 12 win decks so I trust in my choices but there were a cards I was a bit iffy on.