Finished this run a while ago, had a ton fun playing this deck! Lost one match to a rouge that out tempo'd me in the early game and I wasn't able to draw a board clear in time, the other to a warlock where I misplayed on a critical late game turn.
Rewards were nothing special. 2 gold rares, 225 gold and a pack.
Won a game against Kripp later that night on my alt account playing a crappy shaman deck lol.
Thanks god I got to draft Dr. Boom in this deck, because it was pretty mediocre overall (maybe for 7-8 wins at best). I didn't need it much in the first part of the run, but the last games it really shined, especially when I could play it on curve. My 21th 12-win run, 6th with Rogue. The 2 losses were both against rogues with really solid decks at 5-0 and 5-1.
Absolutely insane Warlock deck without Epics or Legendaries.
3 Implosions, 2 Imp Gang Boss, and 2 Darkshire Councilman. Needless to be said the synergy was insane. Oh and dire wolf alpha. How sweet was it to use 4 imps to kill a Bog Creeper? Now that was value.
2 losses were against Mages (obviously?) Obviously with board clears. Or I just didn't draw a single 1 or 2 drop in my opener hand. One guy top decked Polymorph for a lethal. Was pretty annoying.
Fearsome Doomguard was a good pick. HearthArena actually rated this lower but I didn't want to take too many Possessed Villagers. Fel Guard was another choice that wasn't the highest rating.
Some other highlights: Winning against a Rogue that wiped 5 of my minions with Dark Iron Skulker top deck. Lifetap into Power Overwhelming to kill a Senjin with a 1/1 imp was also pretty derpy.
Kind of unfortunate my last 12 win run was like almost 2 weeks ago, with reaching 2 11-wins in this gap and 2 10-win runs.
RNG festa, 12-2 Warlock. This is seriously the most epic way to win, like, ever. 11 wins, against a rogue. I draw Dark Peddler. Got Shifter Zerus. He had perfect lethal. Ragnaros Lightlord pops up. Heals back for 8. Rogue concedes.
Other highlights: Bane of Doom lethal. Happened at least 3 games. One game had a Malganis on turn 5, Rogue instantly conceded, lol. Power overwhelming into Shadowflame, also pretty gord.
Lost against a paladin on 11, guy had 2 consecration, coghammer, truesilver, keeper of uldaman, and was on curve. Didn't stand a chance.
With this run I'm now averaging 8 wins with Warlock, with 4 12-win decks in WOTG. Seems balanced.
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My first 12-win with Warlock! I'm super happy. It was my worst class in win rate in arena, even worse than warrior. This time I learned from experience: I have a very good win rate against warlock (almost 80%), but the ones that beat me always are the zoo styled decks. So this time I said fuck Heartharena, I'm going to try to make something similar to a zoo deck in Arena. And knowing that from the beggining was the key for success, I believe. It turned out to be an insane deck, with really good curve, almost always with a 1 drop in turn 1, a 2 in 2 and so on. Lots of early removal to help me control the board from the start which also served as burst to close games. Great quality minion overall, good taunts to defend my board allowing me to continue the face damage. Very good big drops. Frostwolf Warlord was always very big. Bane of Doom was always insane. Imp-losion was really important. Didn't even notice the lack of 4 drops, as I always had other thing to drop on that turn. I won a lot of games by turn 7.
2 Losses were against Mage at 4-0 and Rogue at 9-1. Amazingly, final boss was another warlock. And I got to do something I never had done before: getting value from Light's Champion. I had achieved control of board, when in turn 4 he drops his second Imp Gang Boss in a row, and that's when I drew it. I couldn't believe it.
Also, it has been my shortest time between 2 12-win runs, with 2 12 wins in the last 3 I played.
After like 7-8 runs below 5 wins, ended up with 2 12-win decks today. The cycle is real, because I recently got a 0-3 Warlock run.
The most questionable 12-win deck which is a Warlock with Target Dummy. A LOT of highlights though:
1. Final boss run: Paladin had Steward into Muster. I ended up with a 12/12 Blood Knight. Still almost lost this though because he had an Uldaman follow up. Eventually had too much tempo for him to come back. Blood Knight was vital in the 11th win against another Paladin. In this meta Blood Knight is just insane.
2. Target Dummy wizardry.
Yeah uh, this is one game, but Target Dummy came in clutch at least in two other games. Maybe not as game winning as this pic but, it made the opponent make awkward plays, such as Sapping a 3/5.
3. Voidcaller into Fearsome Doomguard. This happened at least 2-3 times. And HearthArena didn't even want me to take Fearsome Doomguard. Zzzzzz
I think what I realized recently is taking less 5-mana minions. HearthArena prioritizes stuff like Pit Fighter, Tiger, Psycho Tron a bit too much. I find my deck gets loaded with 5 mana minions which are just awkward curves, and they often rate it better than a vanilla 2/3 2 drop, which usually is good enough or else you end up with like 3-4 2 drops and would just lose to a tempo matchup.
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My first ever 12-0 win with a very strong Mage deck and also my 9th 12 win deck in WotOG. MVP of this deck goes to mad scientist, who I managed to play on turn 1/2/3 on 6 games, Cult Master, who almost guaranteed me 1-2 cards since my opponents ignored my mad scientist, and Flamestrike. Ragnaros was useful in only 2 games and polymorph was only really needed in 1 game.
Most memorable game was in the 10-0 win slot against Shaman. What's better than 4 mana 7/7? How about FOUR 4 mana 7/7's and THREE Fire Elemental! He also had a Tunnel Trogg.... If he wasn't so bad, I definitely would have lost that game.
I got value from trogg ALMOST EVERY GAME, I got early drops almsot always and the bomber always hit his bombs on 1 hp minions, almost no game was really close I just ended them quickly and painlessly..
Had some really intense games with this deck. Played 13 games 8 against Paladins, almost all had Truesilver, Keeper or a Board clear but I still managed to pull through.
MVP has gotta be Dr.7, played that card almost every game. Also kept it a few times in my opening hand to guarantee that its played on turn 7. I can't put into words how ridiculous that card is in arena.
A strong Mage deck. Most of the card choices are very powerful.
The removals were so good that Flamestrike was rarely used during the run. The combo of Fallen Hero and Coldarra Drake did an excellent job for most of the removals. My opponents had difficulties to kill the Coldarra Drake, and I had the Scaled Nightmare to follow up on.
Hey guys, first 12 win deck having never been beyond 5 before, so I figured I'd share (also first post!). This deck was pretty great to play - lots of charge and weapons, so very few dead draws when it got down to a top-deck war. The Ravaging Ghouls were the MVPs - they combo'd with Rampage and the Grim Patron more than once. I also got the dream of N'Zoth's First Mate into turn 2 The CoinBloodsail Cultist. Almost went 12-0, but lost to a rogue at 11. 12-1 works for me though.
Went 12-2 with a Murloc Tinyfin deck! My second ever twelve win run of Arena, and first on NA.
The MVPs of the deck were Tinyfin (No joke) and Crowd Favorite.
Tinyfin allowed for better trades in the early game for free, mages who decided to ping him instead of my 2 drop, hungry crab synergy, and finally free target for my Defenders of Argus.
My one big loss was at 8-0, where I faced a Druid with Kelthuzad, kind of an expected loss there.
The last mage I faced did flamestrike on me back to back, but Crowd favorite with all my battlecries overwhelmed her and to top off this whole run I lethaled her with Bane of Doom for exact lethal.
I'd say not to underestimate Tinyfin, he's cute and strong.
mvp: darkspeaker. the remaining bodies from harvest golem/infested tauren or the argent squire were perfect targets for it :)
last boss was a mage, I was all in, he flamestriked me and played bog creeper the next turn, I topdecked that only one assassinate... and I'm not even sorry. :)
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I actually got a mage to 12 wins in arena without a single board clear in my deck!
Finished this run a while ago, had a ton fun playing this deck! Lost one match to a rouge that out tempo'd me in the early game and I wasn't able to draw a board clear in time, the other to a warlock where I misplayed on a critical late game turn.
Rewards were nothing special. 2 gold rares, 225 gold and a pack.
Won a game against Kripp later that night on my alt account playing a crappy shaman deck lol.
Thanks god I got to draft Dr. Boom in this deck, because it was pretty mediocre overall (maybe for 7-8 wins at best). I didn't need it much in the first part of the run, but the last games it really shined, especially when I could play it on curve. My 21th 12-win run, 6th with Rogue. The 2 losses were both against rogues with really solid decks at 5-0 and 5-1.
You see the 12 wins coming while drafting. :)
Above average cards from early to mid with 3 Bog Creeper to seal the deal.
1 lost game due to a connection issue. My turn 1 was: coin 2x Bladed Cultist then weird disconnect. :/
Absolutely insane Warlock deck without Epics or Legendaries.
3 Implosions, 2 Imp Gang Boss, and 2 Darkshire Councilman. Needless to be said the synergy was insane. Oh and dire wolf alpha. How sweet was it to use 4 imps to kill a Bog Creeper? Now that was value.
2 losses were against Mages (obviously?) Obviously with board clears. Or I just didn't draw a single 1 or 2 drop in my opener hand. One guy top decked Polymorph for a lethal. Was pretty annoying.
Fearsome Doomguard was a good pick. HearthArena actually rated this lower but I didn't want to take too many Possessed Villagers. Fel Guard was another choice that wasn't the highest rating.
Some other highlights: Winning against a Rogue that wiped 5 of my minions with Dark Iron Skulker top deck. Lifetap into Power Overwhelming to kill a Senjin with a 1/1 imp was also pretty derpy.
Kind of unfortunate my last 12 win run was like almost 2 weeks ago, with reaching 2 11-wins in this gap and 2 10-win runs.
Regular NA Arena Leaderboard player.
Reached #1 in NA arena leaderboard in May 2018 with a 9.07 average!
RNG festa, 12-2 Warlock. This is seriously the most epic way to win, like, ever. 11 wins, against a rogue. I draw Dark Peddler. Got Shifter Zerus. He had perfect lethal. Ragnaros Lightlord pops up. Heals back for 8. Rogue concedes.
Other highlights: Bane of Doom lethal. Happened at least 3 games. One game had a Malganis on turn 5, Rogue instantly conceded, lol. Power overwhelming into Shadowflame, also pretty gord.
Lost against a paladin on 11, guy had 2 consecration, coghammer, truesilver, keeper of uldaman, and was on curve. Didn't stand a chance.
With this run I'm now averaging 8 wins with Warlock, with 4 12-win decks in WOTG. Seems balanced.
Regular NA Arena Leaderboard player.
Reached #1 in NA arena leaderboard in May 2018 with a 9.07 average!
My first 12-win with Warlock! I'm super happy. It was my worst class in win rate in arena, even worse than warrior. This time I learned from experience: I have a very good win rate against warlock (almost 80%), but the ones that beat me always are the zoo styled decks. So this time I said fuck Heartharena, I'm going to try to make something similar to a zoo deck in Arena. And knowing that from the beggining was the key for success, I believe. It turned out to be an insane deck, with really good curve, almost always with a 1 drop in turn 1, a 2 in 2 and so on. Lots of early removal to help me control the board from the start which also served as burst to close games. Great quality minion overall, good taunts to defend my board allowing me to continue the face damage. Very good big drops. Frostwolf Warlord was always very big. Bane of Doom was always insane. Imp-losion was really important. Didn't even notice the lack of 4 drops, as I always had other thing to drop on that turn. I won a lot of games by turn 7.
2 Losses were against Mage at 4-0 and Rogue at 9-1. Amazingly, final boss was another warlock. And I got to do something I never had done before: getting value from Light's Champion. I had achieved control of board, when in turn 4 he drops his second Imp Gang Boss in a row, and that's when I drew it. I couldn't believe it.
Also, it has been my shortest time between 2 12-win runs, with 2 12 wins in the last 3 I played.
After like 7-8 runs below 5 wins, ended up with 2 12-win decks today. The cycle is real, because I recently got a 0-3 Warlock run.
The most questionable 12-win deck which is a Warlock with Target Dummy. A LOT of highlights though:
1. Final boss run: Paladin had Steward into Muster. I ended up with a 12/12 Blood Knight. Still almost lost this though because he had an Uldaman follow up. Eventually had too much tempo for him to come back. Blood Knight was vital in the 11th win against another Paladin. In this meta Blood Knight is just insane.
2. Target Dummy wizardry.
Yeah uh, this is one game, but Target Dummy came in clutch at least in two other games. Maybe not as game winning as this pic but, it made the opponent make awkward plays, such as Sapping a 3/5.
3. Voidcaller into Fearsome Doomguard. This happened at least 2-3 times. And HearthArena didn't even want me to take Fearsome Doomguard. Zzzzzz
I think what I realized recently is taking less 5-mana minions. HearthArena prioritizes stuff like Pit Fighter, Tiger, Psycho Tron a bit too much. I find my deck gets loaded with 5 mana minions which are just awkward curves, and they often rate it better than a vanilla 2/3 2 drop, which usually is good enough or else you end up with like 3-4 2 drops and would just lose to a tempo matchup.
Regular NA Arena Leaderboard player.
Reached #1 in NA arena leaderboard in May 2018 with a 9.07 average!
Finally, i could make it to 12 wins again.
Rewards: 420 Gold, Classic & WOG Pack
My 2nd ever 12 wins. Got 12-2, but in the two games I lost, I misplayed heavily.
My first ever 12-0 win with a very strong Mage deck and also my 9th 12 win deck in WotOG. MVP of this deck goes to mad scientist, who I managed to play on turn 1/2/3 on 6 games, Cult Master, who almost guaranteed me 1-2 cards since my opponents ignored my mad scientist, and Flamestrike. Ragnaros was useful in only 2 games and polymorph was only really needed in 1 game.
Most memorable game was in the 10-0 win slot against Shaman. What's better than 4 mana 7/7? How about FOUR 4 mana 7/7's and THREE Fire Elemental! He also had a Tunnel Trogg.... If he wasn't so bad, I definitely would have lost that game.
My first 12 wins with Shaman.
This deck is almost constructed lol.
I got value from trogg ALMOST EVERY GAME, I got early drops almsot always and the bomber always hit his bombs on 1 hp minions, almost no game was really close I just ended them quickly and painlessly..
the MVP are trogg,powermace and 4 mana 7/7.
12-1 Rogue
Had some really intense games with this deck. Played 13 games 8 against Paladins, almost all had Truesilver, Keeper or a Board clear but I still managed to pull through.
MVP has gotta be Dr.7, played that card almost every game. Also kept it a few times in my opening hand to guarantee that its played on turn 7. I can't put into words how ridiculous that card is in arena.
A strong Mage deck. Most of the card choices are very powerful.
The removals were so good that Flamestrike was rarely used during the run. The combo of Fallen Hero and Coldarra Drake did an excellent job for most of the removals. My opponents had difficulties to kill the Coldarra Drake, and I had the Scaled Nightmare to follow up on.
Another nice combo is the old trick of Mad Scientist to get out either Mirror Entity or Effigy. I once got a Chillmaw out of Effigy when my opponent killed my Bog Creeper. The dragon synergy removed the entire board.
MVP: Coldarra Drake, this card almost won me the games all by its own.
Reward: 245 gold, a golden Wrath card, two card packs
Reached 12 on Paladin for the first time today, and boy oh boy was this deck a thing of beauty:
Every game I curved out spectacularly, this deck had one copy of pretty much every OP paladin card. Fun times were had
Hey guys, first 12 win deck having never been beyond 5 before, so I figured I'd share (also first post!). This deck was pretty great to play - lots of charge and weapons, so very few dead draws when it got down to a top-deck war. The Ravaging Ghouls were the MVPs - they combo'd with Rampage and the Grim Patron more than once. I also got the dream of N'Zoth's First Mate into turn 2 The Coin Bloodsail Cultist. Almost went 12-0, but lost to a rogue at 11. 12-1 works for me though.
Went 12-2 with a Murloc Tinyfin deck! My second ever twelve win run of Arena, and first on NA.
The MVPs of the deck were Tinyfin (No joke) and Crowd Favorite.
Tinyfin allowed for better trades in the early game for free, mages who decided to ping him instead of my 2 drop, hungry crab synergy, and finally free target for my Defenders of Argus.
My one big loss was at 8-0, where I faced a Druid with Kelthuzad, kind of an expected loss there.
The last mage I faced did flamestrike on me back to back, but Crowd favorite with all my battlecries overwhelmed her and to top off this whole run I lethaled her with Bane of Doom for exact lethal.
I'd say not to underestimate Tinyfin, he's cute and strong.
rogue deck without real 2 drops (OK, almost...):
http://www.heartharena.com/arena-run/nu6xtl
mvp: darkspeaker. the remaining bodies from harvest golem/infested tauren or the argent squire were perfect targets for it :)
last boss was a mage, I was all in, he flamestriked me and played bog creeper the next turn, I topdecked that only one assassinate... and I'm not even sorry. :)
No AoE 12Win Mage