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In this http://www.hearthhead.com/news/iksar-patches-deck-is-maybe-the-single-hardest-deck-to-play Iksar, HS game designer. explain how he like the new deck builded around Patches the Pirate because of the difficulty to recognize the correct play to do. For who don't know Iksar is one of the first players, if not the first, who was hired by Blizzard;he was a legend player back in the beta days.

Because SMOrc is hard.

Patches the pirate is so bad at best it is just a 0 mana 11charge that isnt even that good

And a deck that runs that cards is probably just gonna be a tempo pirate warrior.

Patches is a really good card. Understand how tempo and value work. Patches will be a staple in every aggro pirate deck.

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And where is exactly the decision making in pirate warrior

 

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It's about the patches combo numbnuts... Patches - Gang up x2 - Captain - Kragg, or a similar combo. We'll first need to see if it's viable, at all though.

U have to condider that you don't draw patches. I mean how small are the odds of not drawing patches in the first let's say 5 turns? Because turn 1 and 2 opponent won't really care especially warrior and priest will laugh and think "Hmm was that a bug? Didn't really feel anything"

Patches is good, only because it would make your deck 29 cards, and that is amazingly better than 30

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Patches the pirate is so bad at best it is just a 0 mana 11charge that isnt even that good

And a deck that runs that cards is probably just gonna be a tempo pirate warrior.

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Patches is good, only because it would make your deck 29 cards, and that is amazingly better than 30

The effect of patches is a nice addition to hearthstone. About combo's, yeah unless they made cards to support patches it will just be crap. A 4/5 card combo with gang up and all that kind of shit you will only pull that off in like 1/25 matches. The card is fun but that's it

On its own Patches is good, an auto-include in any Pirate deck, but insufficient to call it a Patches deck unless you heavily build around it.

It could simply be a variant of Miracle Rogue.

I hope it is viable, and perhaps some new cards will make it more consistent.

It looks fun on paper.

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Patches the pirate is so bad at best it is just a 0 mana 11charge that isnt even that good

And a deck that runs that cards is probably just gonna be a tempo pirate warrior.

It is like a free stonetusk boar. The question is: "How good is a free Stonetusk Boar?" And I kinda think if you won't really be able to combo it with something else what means you have to NOT draw it, it will just be a 0 mana 1/1 charge minion that deals 1 damage and dies after that. With ships cannon you got at least immediate value to deal 4 damage at turn 3 for example. Guess Blizz has to reveal some potentially good pirate buff cards in order to make this card kinda good. In pirate decks it's just gonna be an extra body witch is also very good sure but I mean not game breaking good

Gang up is from BRM

Guys I read your comments and seems that a lot of you could have miss to read the interview link with Iksar. I'm gonna edit the post to make the link more easy to spot.

Iksar said that it was deck from the past year with ship cannon i guess, so this exp will bring nothing what he talked about( maybe this deck willbe viable in wild). Reading carefully is hard.

patches is a good card. if you play swashburglar turn 1 you get him out and you have enough damage on the board to kill a flame imp and you got a warlock card. or you play nzoths 1st mate and you have enough damage to kill a tunnel trogg next turn etc.