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I think if you play Crystallizer after High Priest Thekal, you'll just lose 5 armor, gain 5 armor. 

I played a deck similar to this last month for hundreds of games, although the version I made was far more spell-based than minion based (so traps, Emerald stones, animal companion, flanking strike, etc.). I ended up writing it off as a failure and thinking Kripp's less ambitious highmane version was better, because I found it too easy to get screwed by drawing the high-cost cards you'd rather recruit instead of the early game cards you needed. At the last few days, I was stuck at rank 8-9 with a basically 50% winrate. 

Opting for a more minion based / Keleseth build around the core Charge Kathrena package is interesting, I might try it out. 

I run a Kathrina based deck, it's quite fun, but I climb fairly slowly with it. However, I can't really see a version that runs Shaw and Keleseth as well, the thing about running Kathrina is that you want to be fairly selective about the the beasts you put into your deck, and it's going to be hard to make a hunter deck that has a bunch of good, non-beast cheap minions that will benefit from Shaw and Keleseth. 

Edit: here's my version, which I've refined after playing more than a hundred games with it: https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1096058-winterwisp-park

I have Arfus, but I'm curious if you put in Arfus because you don't have Deathstalker Rexxar, or is there another reason? 

Also, how exactly does the deck win against Cubelock? That's the deck that gives my own Winterwisp-based midrange deck the most problems. 

You can complete quests in the mode right? That makes it the only PvE way of clearing your dailies, which is probably enough to make people revisit the mode occasionally once the novelty wears off. 

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I'm not hyped, this expansion looks fun but also weak.  I skipped Meantstreats cause I knew it would be bad, it totally was. 

This deck got me from rank 15 to 10-9, but I've now swapped to a more aggressive midrange hunter deck. This deck is 50-50 against jade druid, and has done pretty well against evolve shaman, quest mage and quest warrior for me, but pirate warrior, aggro token druid and midrange murloc paladin is often too fast unless you draw really well and they draw poorly, and it is often just a bit too slow to beat jade druid or Big Priest.

I like this slower version better, so I'd be curious to hear you thoughts on those matchups. 

I'm going to continue opening packs until the end of the month. If I had opened a ton of packs at expansion release,  I might have stopped earlier, but I only opened 33. 

My first was Deathwing, which I DE'd for Dr. Boom.

Second was Baron Geddon, which I still have.

Third was Don Han'Cho, which I recently disenchanted for Deathstalker Rexxar.

Fourth was The Lich King, which is probably my favorite because it means the death knight cards are golden as well. 

Doesn't Pirate warrior often beat every druid deck currently out there? 

The decks that seem really dominating at the start of an expansion tend to not stay like that. If druid is still dominating a month from now, Blizzard might target a card, but until then, I find it more likely that the meta will develop to beat jade, and it will be made a tier 2 deck. 

Haven't tried the deck, so keep me posted how it goes, but I worry that it suffers from the issue that my hunter deck did, which was being too slow to kill the opponent early, and not unfair enough to compete late game against control decks like druid, priest, warlock and mage. 

Is the deck a lot worse without Drakkari Enchanters? I know end of turn effects is the whole point of the deck, but I was wondering whether the value you usually get from them is critical.