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Challenge #227 done

https://hsreplay.net/replay/AwB3ypy5qMtv2wZsQriL6G

Finally, a use for my golden Gurubashi Offerings!  They both even went off in the game :P

### #227
# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (1) Babbling Book
# 2x (1) Gurubashi Offering
# 1x (1) Open the Waygate
# 2x (1) Ray of Frost
# 2x (1) Runic Egg
# 2x (2) Doomsayer
# 2x (2) Mad Scientist
# 2x (2) Primordial Glyph
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Arcane Intellect
# 2x (3) Counterspell
# 2x (3) Frost Nova
# 2x (3) Mana Bind
# 2x (4) Animated Armor
# 1x (4) Echo of Medivh
# 2x (12) Arcane Giant
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Challenge #228
Trash Tier
Class: Any
Format: Any
Restrictions: 
Include 4 tier 5 and 5 tier 4 legendaries.  Tier 1 and 2 legendaries are banned.  SlydE's Tier List for reference

Quote from SlydE >>

I did some attempts at this but the deck were probably the worst I have ever tried! There are not many useful 0-attack minions and none who go in tempo mage. I also tried a freeze approach, but with 10 cards that have no business being in the deck (excluding Doomsayers) that failed miserably too.

Did you have something else in mind?? Control??

The 0-Cost drops are the main problem of the deck, so I try to go in different route, which I went for a magic carpet zoo for Mage. Babbling book as a 1-drop gave me this idea.

Although its not very good against control, felt like an instant lose to me since I don't have good cards to finish the game (Only sea giant). Won once in a fair game. Also, I have removed Arena Treasure Chest yesterday by editing deck challenge to make it fair, feels so bad to play it (I won't edit it next time again). So here's the deck in the box:

Done challenge #228

Result: Won against Big Priest who got Barnes twice from two Shadow Essences. I cut down his health to half with good minions and buffs on the board, and my game finisher is Galvadon. I always trust my paladin quest.

The only bad legendaries I have are paladin cards because of their flashy effect (Nozari, Liam, etc.), rest of others are disenchanted.

Four tier 5 legendaries: Quest, Mayor Noggenfogger, Rafaam, Nefarian
Five tier 4 legendaries: Ragnaros LIghtlord, Nozari, Toshley, Prince Liam, Glass Knight.
No high tier legendaries are used.

### Big Bad Legendaries
# Class: Paladin
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Adaptation
# 1x (1) Blessing of Wisdom
# 2x (1) Glow-Tron
# 2x (1) Righteous Protector
# 1x (1) The Last Kaleidosaur
# 1x (2) Crystology
# 2x (2) Flash of Light
# 1x (2) Lightforged Blessing
# 2x (2) Shielded Minibot
# 2x (3) Harvest Golem
# 2x (4) Blessing of Kings
# 2x (4) Consecration
# 1x (4) The Glass Knight
# 1x (5) Prince Liam
# 2x (6) Spikeridged Steed
# 1x (6) Toshley
# 1x (8) Ragnaros, Lightlord
# 1x (9) Arch-Thief Rafaam
# 1x (9) Mayor Noggenfogger
# 1x (9) Nefarian
# 1x (10) Nozari
#
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Challenge #229:
That's hurt
Class: Warrior
Format: Any
Restrictions: This will focus on self-damage warrior archetype.
Include 2x Improve Morale, 2x Cruel Taskmaster, 2x Overlord's Whip, and 8 more cards that damages your friendly minion or has benefits from being damaged (Amani Berseker and Warpath). Excluding 2x Dyn-o-matic.

EDIT: I forgot something, I'm looking forward to see one or more Blood Warriors if you have decent card collection. This is optional though.

#229 done!

### Angry Patrons
# Class: Warrior
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Improve Morale
# 2x (1) N'Zoth's First Mate
# 1x (1) Omega Assembly
# 1x (1) Patches the Pirate
# 2x (2) Armorsmith
# 2x (2) Cruel Taskmaster
# 2x (2) Warpath
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Blood Warriors
# 2x (3) Frothing Berserker
# 2x (3) Overlord's Whip
# 2x (4) Death's Bite
# 2x (4) Piloted Shredder
# 2x (5) Grim Patron
# 1x (5) Loatheb
# 1x (6) Emperor Thaurissan
# 1x (7) Dr. Boom, Mad Genius
# 1x (8) Grommash Hellscream
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I added far more than 8 card taking advantage of being damaged or damaging my minions, but I assumed that was ok...

Overrun a secret mage drawing badly, but had an epic loss to a zoo right before, almost grinding out his entire deck after an early Keleseth.

Sorry, not able to make anything creative right now but I hope these are ok to work with!

Challenge #230
The Year of the Dragon #4
Class: Mage, Warrior, Warlock, Rogue, Druid or Hunter
Format: Any
Restrictions: 20 or more dragons and dragon synergy cards.

Challenge #230 done

Actually might be a good deck.  I played vs an even shaman with a good draw before this and won comfortably.  Had to go again because HDT was off.  If only aggro/board decks were the only thing on wild ladder

### #230
# Class: Warlock
# Format: Wild
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (1) Mortal Coil
# 2x (1) Soulfire
# 2x (2) Darkbomb
# 2x (2) Defile
# 2x (2) Firetree Witchdoctor
# 2x (2) Netherspite Historian
# 2x (3) Nightmare Amalgam
# 2x (4) Scaleworm
# 2x (4) Twilight Drake
# 2x (4) Twilight Guardian
# 2x (5) Azure Drake
# 2x (5) Blackwing Corruptor
# 1x (6) Emperor Thaurissan
# 2x (8) Primordial Drake
# 1x (9) Alexstrasza
# 1x (9) Malygos
# 1x (10) Bloodreaver Gul'dan
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Challenge #231
Spells are fun, so FUN!
Class: Not mage
Format: Standard
Restrictions: Include 12 cards that do something with casting spells.  "After you cast a spell ...", "Your next spell ...", Vargoth, etc

Done #231

Result: Had many bad games due to difficulty of building good deck. Changed the deck and went overload synergy instead and it went unexpectedly good, atleast for once. The mechanic of it is also pretty fun, but heavily depends on spells, hard challenge.

### Spellslinger
# Class: Shaman
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (0) Zap!
# 2x (1) Lightning Bolt
# 2x (1) Sludge Slurper
# 2x (2) Elementary Reaction
# 2x (2) Likkim
# 2x (2) Mana Addict
# 2x (2) Unpowered Mauler
# 1x (3) Electra Stormsurge
# 2x (3) Feral Spirit
# 2x (3) Haunting Visions
# 2x (3) Lava Burst
# 2x (3) Unbound Elemental
# 1x (3) Zentimo
# 2x (4) Thunderhead
# 2x (4) Violet Teacher
# 2x (6) Gadgetzan Auctioneer
#
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Challenge #232
Become a Spellsword
Class: All except Mage and Druid.
Format: Standard
Restriction:
Include 2x Violet Spellswords and 16 spells or more.

Note: Violet Spellsword is just a worse Twilight Drake, just has a decent attack and mediocre health. My least-used favorite card.

EDIT: This might be the hardest challenge I've ever made, but that's because I'm also running out of ideas. I'll probably use one idea I have left for my next deck challenge. For now, good luck.

Challenge #232 done

https://hsreplay.net/replay/pSEfh6kdLDFJdLf2NSsJMA

Also reached fatigue on turn 8.  Burning all your cards never felt so good

### #232
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (0) Circle of Healing
# 2x (0) Forbidden Words
# 2x (0) Regenerate
# 2x (0) Silence
# 2x (0) Topsy Turvy
# 2x (1) Northshire Cleric
# 2x (1) Power Word: Shield
# 2x (2) Divine Hymn
# 2x (2) Seance
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 2x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (4) Violet Spellsword
# 1x (5) Mass Hysteria
# 2x (6) Gadgetzan Auctioneer
# 1x (7) Chef Nomi
# 2x (12) Grave Horror
#
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Challenge #233
Creepers & Corridors
Class: Any
Format: Any
Restriction: All minions must be insects, arachnids or worms.  Play at least 12 minions

Wish I didn’t forget about Priest, it made this challenge too easy.

Completed #233

Result: Fun theme challenge, but still tough as usual. Tried some decks, decided to go for a classic Aggro hunter because this class struggles in mid game to late game, even Deathknight won’t work. Anyways it’s over.

All 1 drops are really bad for Aggro. Less SMOrc, less fun.

### Insect Companions
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Shimmerfly
# 2x (1) Smuggler's Crate
# 2x (1) Webspinner
# 2x (2) Cat Trick
# 2x (2) Glaivezooka
# 2x (2) Haunted Creeper
# 2x (2) Plated Beetle
# 2x (2) Quick Shot
# 2x (3) Animal Companion
# 2x (3) Carrion Grub
# 2x (3) Kill Command
# 2x (3) Master's Call
# 2x (3) Unleash the Hounds
# 2x (4) Dire Frenzy
# 2x (4) Lifedrinker
#
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I had one in mind, but I find it's silly to implement that challenge, maybe I'll do it later. For now, here's a nice challenge:

Challenge #234
The Boomsday Zone
Class: Warrior
Format: Standard
Restriction:
Include 9 mechs or more, and 1x any Dr. Boom (Should be alone)
For each mech being controlled, include one actual living character that does not have a tribe. Because of that, every single one will control a Mech, for the rise of Boomsday Project again.

EDIT: Dr. Boom is an exception to count for numbers of mechs.

Just so I make sure I'm understanding this right, the living character restriction means we're going to end up with at least 18 minions in the deck, right?  And does the Dr. Boom Hero Card count towards the Boom quota, or do you only want one of the minion Booms?

Quote from Rang_Dipkin >>

Just so I make sure I'm understanding this right, the living character restriction means we're going to end up with at least 18 minions in the deck, right?  And does the Dr. Boom Hero Card count towards the Boom quota, or do you only want one of the minion Booms?

 Yes, you're right.

One Dr. Boom should be alone, this means they shouldn't be together.

Sounds good, thanks man!

4 days, posting a new one:

Challenge #235
The Blue Man Group
Class: Any
Format: Any
Restriction: 20 or more cards featuring Draenei art or characters.

There are way more of those than you think!

hum, what are draenei ?

Blue or pale skinned aliens with tentacles on their chins (male) or the sides of their heads (female).  Not to be confused with the faceless, who are darker skinned and have have octopus-like faces in addition to their tentacles.  Aldor Peacekeeper and Auchenai Soulpriest are good examples

Contrary to SlydE's post though, there seems to be a lot less of them than I originally thought.  You sure you didn't confuse some of them with blue skinned trolls from RR?  Because that would be slightly racist