I was playing aggro shaman at rank 5, 4 stars today and got stomped by a rogue who seemed to be playing an anti-aggro deck. He had the pirate package himself, but played Ooze, Defender of Argus, Earthen Ring Farseer, Brann, and that new combo-bounce-a-friendly card, in addition to the usual rogue suite of removal. When I was facing a 3/3 taunt Argent Squire and another taunt, I conceded... Well played by him for punishing aggro players. :P
I've often thought about a similar idea. If you have one deck of each class made, a "Queue Random Ranked" button appears, and it awards double-stars for incentive.
I opened about 306 packs, opened a ton of stuff (golden druid legendary!), and used my dust stockpile to create everything that I did not open... I ended this process with exactly zero dust... But with a complete (non-golden, obviously) collection a couple of hours after waking up.
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Then I got 102 compensatory packs, pulled two golden legendaries (pally guy and hero power refresher dude) and three normal legendaries. Now I have a dust stockpile for the next expansion. :P
50 from pre-order, 50 from gold, and 80 from Amazon Coins. So... 180 total. If this does not get me a full set (after burning dust), I'll buy another 40-pack with Amazon Coins.
I saw a similar deck on Eloise's Twitter (and several streamers playing it), so definitely not claiming any sort of uniqueness. Just posting in case anyone hasn't come across a deck they like yet. I'm an old guy without a ton of time to play, but I enjoy getting to rank 5 for the golden epic.
There are lots of changes you could make. I do like Malkorok quite a bit. Luckily, I haven't been given a Cursed Blade yet, but have gotten a couple Doomhammers and a Gorehowl. You normally get something with 3 attack, but getting a Truesilver Champion is a nice bonus.
Click the deck for some more thoughts about the deck, mulligan, and matchups.
I've been having a bit of fun with this Reno N'Zoth deck. Shifter Zerus can obviously be subbed out for almost anything, but I did enjoy the time he turned into Princess Huhuran. I would never take out Big Game Hunter, despite the nerfs. Too many good targets these days. I even targeted him with Shadowcaster recently against a C'Thun deck.
Those cards were probably in your deck anyway, so you mulligan aggressively for them when facing Thrall.
Other classes will have to adapt and consider running things like Mulch and Polymorph. Overall, I don't disagree with your point and kind of wish the card was a 6/6, but it isn't broken enough to need a nerf. If anything, I wish they had nerfed Doomhammer.
I bought the preorder + 80 packs with cash. I also bought 53 packs with gold and received the 13 free packs from Blizzard.
With the dust I had saved (a bit over 18,000), I was able to open or craft two of every common, rare, epic and one of each legendary -- EXCEPT The Boogeymonster; I'm down to 65 dust with no Boogeymonster in sight. The collector in me knows that I'll craft him some day if I don't pull him from a pack, but the player in me is glad that I never saw his ugly face while opening packs (although I did open three Soggoth the Slitherer).
I hope everyone else had a productive pack opening day, free of Boogeymonsters!
I'll have all the cards day one and might play something like this (obviously without the extreme number of tech cards - will swap those out depending on what the meta looks like). I want a screenshot with Ragnaros in both of his incarnations!
I mostly play on NA, and with a full-time job and wife, sometimes forget about Europe and Asia. I drafted this deck several months ago on Asia (note the lack of TGT and LOE cards) but forgot about it...
I picked it up on January 29, 2016 and promptly went 12-1 without too much resistance. Granted, this is a damn good arena deck and the large number of freezes and excellent removal cleared the way in many games, but it's worth considering this in the context of the evolving arena game. Like many players, I've been favoring rogue recently and it's often a tossup as to a pick of mage or paladin if rogue is not available (depending on my mood, often enough).
Anyway, I was mostly happy to go 12 wins but thought that the (really really) old deck would be interesting to those that follow the arena game.
(And for those interested, my opponents were almost all paladins and mages with 1 rogue, 1 druid, 1 warrior, and 1 shaman.)
I mostly play on NA, but drafted this deck on Asia some months ago. I forgot about the deck and just came back to it on January 29, 2016. I pretty easily went 12-1, but it's worth thinking about how the lack of TGT or LOE cards affected the games.
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Obligatory, "first try." Actually, I got all three bosses first try with your decks. Thanks!
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Crap. Forgot about that one. Replaced with a deathrattle.
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I was playing aggro shaman at rank 5, 4 stars today and got stomped by a rogue who seemed to be playing an anti-aggro deck. He had the pirate package himself, but played Ooze, Defender of Argus, Earthen Ring Farseer, Brann, and that new combo-bounce-a-friendly card, in addition to the usual rogue suite of removal. When I was facing a 3/3 taunt Argent Squire and another taunt, I conceded... Well played by him for punishing aggro players. :P
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I've often thought about a similar idea. If you have one deck of each class made, a "Queue Random Ranked" button appears, and it awards double-stars for incentive.
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I opened about 306 packs, opened a ton of stuff (golden druid legendary!), and used my dust stockpile to create everything that I did not open... I ended this process with exactly zero dust... But with a complete (non-golden, obviously) collection a couple of hours after waking up.
...
Then I got 102 compensatory packs, pulled two golden legendaries (pally guy and hero power refresher dude) and three normal legendaries. Now I have a dust stockpile for the next expansion. :P
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50 from pre-order, 50 from gold, and 80 from Amazon Coins. So... 180 total. If this does not get me a full set (after burning dust), I'll buy another 40-pack with Amazon Coins.
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I play the game on mute on my PC while I watch Twitch.tv or podcasts on my iPad (with headphones, to avoid annoying my wife).
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I saw a similar deck on Eloise's Twitter (and several streamers playing it), so definitely not claiming any sort of uniqueness. Just posting in case anyone hasn't come across a deck they like yet. I'm an old guy without a ton of time to play, but I enjoy getting to rank 5 for the golden epic.
There are lots of changes you could make. I do like Malkorok quite a bit. Luckily, I haven't been given a Cursed Blade yet, but have gotten a couple Doomhammers and a Gorehowl. You normally get something with 3 attack, but getting a Truesilver Champion is a nice bonus.
Click the deck for some more thoughts about the deck, mulligan, and matchups.
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I've been having a bit of fun with this Reno N'Zoth deck. Shifter Zerus can obviously be subbed out for almost anything, but I did enjoy the time he turned into Princess Huhuran. I would never take out Big Game Hunter, despite the nerfs. Too many good targets these days. I even targeted him with Shadowcaster recently against a C'Thun deck.
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Rogue has Sap. Paladin has Humility, Aldor Peacekeeper, and Keeper of Uldaman. Priest has Shadow Word: Death. Warrior has Execute. Shaman has Hex and mirror-match potential. Hunter has Hunter's Mark and (depending on board state) Freezing Trap.
Those cards were probably in your deck anyway, so you mulligan aggressively for them when facing Thrall.
Other classes will have to adapt and consider running things like Mulch and Polymorph. Overall, I don't disagree with your point and kind of wish the card was a 6/6, but it isn't broken enough to need a nerf. If anything, I wish they had nerfed Doomhammer.
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I bought the preorder + 80 packs with cash. I also bought 53 packs with gold and received the 13 free packs from Blizzard.
With the dust I had saved (a bit over 18,000), I was able to open or craft two of every common, rare, epic and one of each legendary -- EXCEPT The Boogeymonster; I'm down to 65 dust with no Boogeymonster in sight. The collector in me knows that I'll craft him some day if I don't pull him from a pack, but the player in me is glad that I never saw his ugly face while opening packs (although I did open three Soggoth the Slitherer).
I hope everyone else had a productive pack opening day, free of Boogeymonsters!
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Perhaps BattleRattle Reno Hunter!
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I'll have all the cards day one and might play something like this (obviously without the extreme number of tech cards - will swap those out depending on what the meta looks like). I want a screenshot with Ragnaros in both of his incarnations!
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I mostly play on NA, and with a full-time job and wife, sometimes forget about Europe and Asia. I drafted this deck several months ago on Asia (note the lack of TGT and LOE cards) but forgot about it...
I picked it up on January 29, 2016 and promptly went 12-1 without too much resistance. Granted, this is a damn good arena deck and the large number of freezes and excellent removal cleared the way in many games, but it's worth considering this in the context of the evolving arena game. Like many players, I've been favoring rogue recently and it's often a tossup as to a pick of mage or paladin if rogue is not available (depending on my mood, often enough).
Anyway, I was mostly happy to go 12 wins but thought that the (really really) old deck would be interesting to those that follow the arena game.
(And for those interested, my opponents were almost all paladins and mages with 1 rogue, 1 druid, 1 warrior, and 1 shaman.)
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I mostly play on NA, but drafted this deck on Asia some months ago. I forgot about the deck and just came back to it on January 29, 2016. I pretty easily went 12-1, but it's worth thinking about how the lack of TGT or LOE cards affected the games.