So, I am relative new player, I started playing in boomsday, but really started playing half way through Rise of Shadows. Now I am starting to want play Wild. How do you even start? Please share your tips and tricks.
Well with Wild is really quite simple - just build the most broken deck you'll find, otherwise you'll be flustrated a lot.
Mech paladin is really cheap option and decent winrate. Or some kind of aggro paladin in general. Secret Mage is another cheap option that can win easily.
If you have more cards / dust have a look at quest reno mage or with less dust - tempo quest mage. But it is still almost 10k dust. Otherwise you can play resurect priest, darkest hour warlock, razakus, combo druid or some kind of a pirate warrior / armor warrior. Also there is Mecha c'thun warlock, but in current meta it's often too slow.
If you're new, I would recommend just waiting a while on Wild. If you don't disenchant cards as they rotate, you will eventually build up a wild collection. (Yes, this does take a long time.) Apart from that, if you want to start playing now, there are two strategies depending on how much dust/money you're willing to spend:
-Cheap option: Pick a single wild deck that seems fun/good to you and craft the cards you need. This option will vary in price depending on the deck you pick.
-Medium option: This option has better long term viability for playing Wild but it also is harder. You can build a strong Wild collection by crafting individually strong cards in the Wild set that are good across many different decks. Some cards that come to mind are Loatheb, Thaurissan, etc. If you want to go down this route, it may take longer to get a single "good" deck, but you will eventually have a very strong Wild collection. For specific cards to craft, there are many videos talking about what cards are most important in Wild; I personally recommend Solem for this.
If you're looking for specifically strong decks, Quest Mage decks are very dominant right now. For a long term deck, I have always found that Renolock performs well for me even with the varying metas. This deck also utilizes a lot of strong neutral legendaries that will help to strengthen your collections for other decks.
Well the question is, do you wanna climb the wild ladder, or do you just want to have some fun? In the lower ranks like above rank 10(which is now bronze silver and gold I guess? ) you will see some people playing the mentioned degenerate tier1 decks like burn mage or mech paladin, but also a lot of people playing whacky homebrew decks.
If you just wanna get a feel for wild and don't care too much about winning, grab any standard deck and just start playing. You will see a variety of decks and will quickly learn if wild is for you. You can then start going for specific decks by crafting certain cards or buying wild packs from certain sets.
If you wanna have a high winrate and reach legend, look for secret burn mage or mech paladin lists online, these should be the cheapest tier1 decks, switch off your brain and spam that shit until you reach legend. If you just keep playing one of those decks you will reach legend eventually, they are very strong yet easy to pilot, so if that is your thing go nuts.
In either case just give wild a try and play a few games with some standard deck to get a feel for it, it can be overwhelming at first but it is not impossible to get into it. Good luck.
Dont play wild man, it filled with disgusting raza priest,big priest,quest mage,reno mage,cubelock and any other broken archetype
Except for big priest, I would say all of these are interesting decks to play and play against. Obviously the power level is way higher in wild, that should be clear. And the "kill you by turn 5" aggrodecks of wild are way more annoying to me, at least you get to play the game against decks like renolock and there are legitimate ways to beat them.
I started playing in Beta and never disenchanted anything so I never had to lay out big money (just bought most standard expansions as they came out and bumped the collections up with quest and arena gold) so I have a solid Wild collection. If you are new to the game and don't want to spend obscene money then I'd suggest skipping it and sticking to Standard.
I think the best way would be to save enough Dust to craft some really good evergreen Deck. There are some top meta decks that are relatively "cheap". I'd also choose a deck that matches your play style as you'd have to play that one deck for a long time because every deck has it's own niche cards. If you like aggro I'd start by crafting something like a odd paladin list with Leeroy Jenkins, Baku the Mooneater and Patches the Pirate (those are probably the most necessary aggro legendarys) and then with time you could go over to odd rogue and other decks which have many legendarys and some epics in common. If you like combo decks I would personally recommend quest mage. It's not too expensive and very strong in the current meta (of course this might change with AoO). If you like Midrange Decks you might want to go for even shaman, which is one of the decks that will probably stay relevant forever. Then with Genn Greymane crafted you can one day switch over to more decks like even hunter. You should also take a look at your collection and compare it with pro deck lists. if you have a lot of cards for one list you might want to play that and just replace the cards you are missing. The Lists you can find everywhere online. Just to name a few examples: Tempostorm wild meta snapshot, hsreplay wild decks, vicious syndicate and many more.
But of course crafting a whole pretty expensive deck is a big commitment. If you just want to take a little peek into the format I would suggest you to play your current standard deck a little (especially after the rotation) and then decide if you want to commit to wild mode. That's what I did when I started playing wild back in Witchwood and I had a lot of fun looking at the crazy decks my opponents played and trying to find a niche to compete with them. (but I also already had quite some amount of cards from older sets). I hope this answers your question :)
Oh one more thing: the week or so after the expansion hits will be a time of testing in which you won't face so many meta decks.
I prefer wild because I still feel it has more variety than standard and I don't always loose my collection every year and have to get new packs. Instead I can always just craft the few cards I really want.
Edit: I forgot to talk about control decks. The problem with those is that they are very expensive. especially Reno decks (even though it feels even better if you can collect all the highlander legendarys). The exception are maybe some control warrior lists but I hate control warrior :)
If you're interested in home brewing your own decks, I'd just recommend crafting the cards you want to build a deck out of, if you don't feel like dropping money on packs. If you just want to play, there are loads of T1 deck lists that are relatively cheap to craft that you can find around the web.
The conclusion is that you can easily get around with a cheap aggro deck with little investment. Also, in order to get faster the meta cards, recommends buying 10 packs per set (to get the guaranteed legendary) and then focus in Kobolds&Catacoms and The Frozen Throne sets, that have more chances to give you a meta-friendly epic or legendary card.
As regards adventures, I think the most useful may be Naxxramas and League of Explorers.
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So, I am relative new player, I started playing in boomsday, but really started playing half way through Rise of Shadows. Now I am starting to want play Wild. How do you even start? Please share your tips and tricks.
you need to buy wild packs but it will cost alot of moeny to get lots of card so if you poor you should probly skip wild
Well with Wild is really quite simple - just build the most broken deck you'll find, otherwise you'll be flustrated a lot.
Mech paladin is really cheap option and decent winrate. Or some kind of aggro paladin in general. Secret Mage is another cheap option that can win easily.
If you have more cards / dust have a look at quest reno mage or with less dust - tempo quest mage. But it is still almost 10k dust. Otherwise you can play resurect priest, darkest hour warlock, razakus, combo druid or some kind of a pirate warrior / armor warrior. Also there is Mecha c'thun warlock, but in current meta it's often too slow.
If you are ready to buy wild packs - then buy 10 packs of every wild expansion, you'll get guarenteed legendary in first 10 packs of every expansion.
Otherwise, keep playing cheap aggro decks, that's the only cheap way to get into wild.
you'd have to buy an account that has all the wild cards. much cheaper and faster
Dont play wild man, it filled with disgusting raza priest,big priest,quest mage,reno mage,cubelock and any other broken archetype
I like secret mage. In the standard it's weak. So I just created a deck in a wild mode.
If you're new, I would recommend just waiting a while on Wild. If you don't disenchant cards as they rotate, you will eventually build up a wild collection. (Yes, this does take a long time.) Apart from that, if you want to start playing now, there are two strategies depending on how much dust/money you're willing to spend:
-Cheap option: Pick a single wild deck that seems fun/good to you and craft the cards you need. This option will vary in price depending on the deck you pick.
-Medium option: This option has better long term viability for playing Wild but it also is harder. You can build a strong Wild collection by crafting individually strong cards in the Wild set that are good across many different decks. Some cards that come to mind are Loatheb, Thaurissan, etc. If you want to go down this route, it may take longer to get a single "good" deck, but you will eventually have a very strong Wild collection. For specific cards to craft, there are many videos talking about what cards are most important in Wild; I personally recommend Solem for this.
If you're looking for specifically strong decks, Quest Mage decks are very dominant right now. For a long term deck, I have always found that Renolock performs well for me even with the varying metas. This deck also utilizes a lot of strong neutral legendaries that will help to strengthen your collections for other decks.
Well the question is, do you wanna climb the wild ladder, or do you just want to have some fun? In the lower ranks like above rank 10(which is now bronze silver and gold I guess? ) you will see some people playing the mentioned degenerate tier1 decks like burn mage or mech paladin, but also a lot of people playing whacky homebrew decks.
If you just wanna get a feel for wild and don't care too much about winning, grab any standard deck and just start playing. You will see a variety of decks and will quickly learn if wild is for you. You can then start going for specific decks by crafting certain cards or buying wild packs from certain sets.
If you wanna have a high winrate and reach legend, look for secret burn mage or mech paladin lists online, these should be the cheapest tier1 decks, switch off your brain and spam that shit until you reach legend. If you just keep playing one of those decks you will reach legend eventually, they are very strong yet easy to pilot, so if that is your thing go nuts.
In either case just give wild a try and play a few games with some standard deck to get a feel for it, it can be overwhelming at first but it is not impossible to get into it. Good luck.
Except for big priest, I would say all of these are interesting decks to play and play against. Obviously the power level is way higher in wild, that should be clear. And the "kill you by turn 5" aggrodecks of wild are way more annoying to me, at least you get to play the game against decks like renolock and there are legitimate ways to beat them.
I started playing in Beta and never disenchanted anything so I never had to lay out big money (just bought most standard expansions as they came out and bumped the collections up with quest and arena gold) so I have a solid Wild collection. If you are new to the game and don't want to spend obscene money then I'd suggest skipping it and sticking to Standard.
I think the best way would be to save enough Dust to craft some really good evergreen Deck. There are some top meta decks that are relatively "cheap". I'd also choose a deck that matches your play style as you'd have to play that one deck for a long time because every deck has it's own niche cards. If you like aggro I'd start by crafting something like a odd paladin list with Leeroy Jenkins, Baku the Mooneater and Patches the Pirate (those are probably the most necessary aggro legendarys) and then with time you could go over to odd rogue and other decks which have many legendarys and some epics in common. If you like combo decks I would personally recommend quest mage. It's not too expensive and very strong in the current meta (of course this might change with AoO). If you like Midrange Decks you might want to go for even shaman, which is one of the decks that will probably stay relevant forever. Then with Genn Greymane crafted you can one day switch over to more decks like even hunter. You should also take a look at your collection and compare it with pro deck lists. if you have a lot of cards for one list you might want to play that and just replace the cards you are missing. The Lists you can find everywhere online. Just to name a few examples: Tempostorm wild meta snapshot, hsreplay wild decks, vicious syndicate and many more.
But of course crafting a whole pretty expensive deck is a big commitment. If you just want to take a little peek into the format I would suggest you to play your current standard deck a little (especially after the rotation) and then decide if you want to commit to wild mode. That's what I did when I started playing wild back in Witchwood and I had a lot of fun looking at the crazy decks my opponents played and trying to find a niche to compete with them. (but I also already had quite some amount of cards from older sets). I hope this answers your question :)
Oh one more thing: the week or so after the expansion hits will be a time of testing in which you won't face so many meta decks.
I prefer wild because I still feel it has more variety than standard and I don't always loose my collection every year and have to get new packs. Instead I can always just craft the few cards I really want.
Edit: I forgot to talk about control decks. The problem with those is that they are very expensive. especially Reno decks (even though it feels even better if you can collect all the highlander legendarys). The exception are maybe some control warrior lists but I hate control warrior :)
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Thanks for everyone helping me out.
If you're interested in home brewing your own decks, I'd just recommend crafting the cards you want to build a deck out of, if you don't feel like dropping money on packs. If you just want to play, there are loads of T1 deck lists that are relatively cheap to craft that you can find around the web.
Please take a look to this video, he reviews the cards of all the sets.
https://youtu.be/uLz8jwdlvaY
This second video analyzes meta decks and proposes one cheap deck per class:
https://youtu.be/WfXDGjXjU6g
The conclusion is that you can easily get around with a cheap aggro deck with little investment. Also, in order to get faster the meta cards, recommends buying 10 packs per set (to get the guaranteed legendary) and then focus in Kobolds&Catacoms and The Frozen Throne sets, that have more chances to give you a meta-friendly epic or legendary card.
As regards adventures, I think the most useful may be Naxxramas and League of Explorers.