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I don't have the time, the cards or the skill needed to reach Legend, at the moment. I'm OK climbing up a bit more every month. I got Rank 11 with Burst Rogue last season, I hope to do better this month with Midrange Palading and Oil Pirates Rogue.

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Just reached legend on EU, actually getting a nice rank.

Steamrolled through from rank 16 to rank 2, but took a while to move forward from that point. Decks I mainly played are Zoo and Freeze Mage, with some Druid and Midrange Hunter mixed in (Hunter is weak though).
Zoo is really strong, no wonder a lot of people play it currently. Counters Druid (less of them since February, but still a lot), decent against Paladin and Tempo Mage if they aren't really lucky, and the unfavored matchups are winnable too. I found interesting that Reno decks basically disappeared, I only met 2-3 while laddering.

 How do you feel about the Zoo vs Renolock matchup. I feel like if the Reno player doesn't draw Chow, Hellfire or Reno quickly, Zoo just overrun it pretty easily. Also I feel that Brann is painful to deal with early on for Renolock.

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Just reached legend on EU, actually getting a nice rank.

Steamrolled through from rank 16 to rank 2, but took a while to move forward from that point. Decks I mainly played are Zoo and Freeze Mage, with some Druid and Midrange Hunter mixed in (Hunter is weak though).
Zoo is really strong, no wonder a lot of people play it currently. Counters Druid (less of them since February, but still a lot), decent against Paladin and Tempo Mage if they aren't really lucky, and the unfavored matchups are winnable too. I found interesting that Reno decks basically disappeared, I only met 2-3 while laddering.

 How do you feel about the Zoo vs Renolock matchup. I feel like if the Reno player doesn't draw Chow, Hellfire or Reno quickly, Zoo just overrun it pretty easily. Also I feel that Brann is painful to deal with early on for Renolock.

 Last season I played mostly zoo and besides the secret-Paladins the most common opponents were the Renolocks. Imo it is a 50-50% matchup, but I would say that Renolock is slightly favored. Especially if it manages to put early on the battlefield a Mal'Ganis from its Voidcaller.

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I don't have the time, the cards or the skill needed to reach Legend, at the moment. I'm OK climbing up a bit more every month. I got Rank 11 with Burst Rogue last season, I hope to do better this month with Midrange Palading and Oil Pirates Rogue.

 if i may humbly suggest sth? If it really is about getting as high as possible for you: Stop playing gimmicky decks and stick to the tier 1 department... Midrange Pally is okish. Right now my suggestions would be Patron, Midrange Druid, Renolock, Tempo Mage or Secret Pala though. If you are good at it freeze mage is also sth ...

Many people want to be "original" and limit themselves in their success like that. If it is not about ranking but about "style" for you, just forget my advice. I just think there is a contradiction between "heading for legend" and playing stuff like Pirate Rogue, at least if "heading for legend" is the main objective!

No problem, thanks for the suggestion. Sadly I don't have most of the important cards for those decks. In addition, I would probably find Patron, Freeze and Renolock too slow, I don't like very long games! And I don't feel any sympathy for Secrepal. Midrange Druid would be nice if I could get the cards, maybe in the future.

I like a lot the feeling of the Midrange Paladin, it's the main deck I'm going to use. As for the Pirate Oil, I'd like to try it as a secondary deck. I used to play Oil Rogue (a cheap version, without Van Cleef nor Dr. Boom) but I'd like something with a bit more puch in the early turns; the deck should be good for rank 5-3, according to Icy Veins. I'd be happy with rank 10-9 this season, I don't think the Pirates Oil is so bad a deck for this :)

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Actually im sitting on 9/1 see aloooot of cancerPalas. Druid is actually not in favior for this shit damn hell lucky draw cancer.

Anysuggestion? Zoo is not an option for me.

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Managed to hit rank 5 on the first day of the season with aggro paladin, not played since but planning on secret paladin down to legend this weekend! Grind ahead

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 ah ok. cool then ;) you might additionally try an agressive zoo (don't need boom or Malganis in those versions) Zoo is fun, still deep to play and it can easily get you to legend... I did my first legend with a zoo back in january 2015 when I was about as "poor" as you are now collection-wise... here is a list (gormok is not necessary imho): https://tempostorm.com/hearthstone/decks/zoolock-meta-snapshot-46

Sure, I'm starting to hate Zoo, such a powerful, cheap deck! I can only beat them from time to time. Maybe I should craft a few of the cards and flirt a bit with the dark side of the Meta :) But for this season, I stick to my plan. I'm not in a hurry to get to Legend, I need time to get the cards. Thanks for the suggestions!

Can this zoo deck bring me to legend? (past zoo rankers?)

http://imgur.com/2IF2q4w

Just climbed to Rank 8 with Tempo Mage. Just trying to get these last 50 wins for golden :P . Will be going for 5 today then legend the following day.

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Can this zoo deck bring me to legend? (past zoo rankers?)

http://imgur.com/2IF2q4w

What kind of pace should I be on in going for legend?

5 is roughly halfway right? So should I aim for rank 5 in the next week or so?

Currently 10 if it matters..

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Actually im sitting on 9/1 see aloooot of cancerPalas. Druid is actually not in favior for this shit damn hell lucky draw cancer.

Anysuggestion? Zoo is not an option for me.

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Did you use Druid the whole climb? 

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Did you use Druid the whole climb? 

 Yes and I went from rank 15 to rank 5 in 1 day while maybe losing a grand total of 7 or 8 games. I had a streak all the way from rank 9 to 5 IIRC.

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Did you use Druid the whole climb? 

 Yes and I went from rank 15 to rank 5 in 1 day while maybe losing a grand total of 7 or 8 games. I had a streak all the way from rank 9 to 5 IIRC.

 decklist u used?

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Actually im sitting on 9/1 see aloooot of cancerPalas. Druid is actually not in favior for this shit damn hell lucky draw cancer.

Anysuggestion? Zoo is not an option for me.

how do any of you keep sane when you reach rank 1. Every game I feel so much pressure during rank 1 because if you lose you effed up and are going back to rank 2 and more and more pressure just builds up. 

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how do any of you keep sane when you reach rank 1. Every game I feel so much pressure during rank 1 because if you lose you effed up and are going back to rank 2 and more and more pressure just builds up. 

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how do any of you keep sane when you reach rank 1. Every game I feel so much pressure during rank 1 because if you lose you effed up and are going back to rank 2 and more and more pressure just builds up.