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I wish Blizzard would stop making zoo strategies so strong so the game would at least somewhat reward technical play. As long as I can remember, there's always been at least 2-3 zoo decks in the top 5. Ridiculous. Imo legend isn't even an accomplishment, any 12 year old can just netdeck a tier 1 zoo deck and get legend in a month playing 10 hours a day with a 51% winrate.

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After 2 years of playing it still rustles my jimmies when some little faggot high school (or god forbid, college) kid says "thank you" when they win without making any decent plays.

Wow congrats you got your nut draw with your netdecked T1 list while I was playing some fun pile of random shit and had a mediocre draw. You won a rank 20 game (I'm a rank 20 farmer for my quests sorry), fuck off with your BM, I play for less than an hour a week.

Doesn't help me knowing that the kid on the other end is some kissless virgin loser that is a combination of [greasy, pale, socially awkward, no friends], they deserve an ass kicking because obviously no one has ever shown them their place. Fucking trash.

 This post made my day. The offhand chance of offending some self-righteous loser is the sole reason why I always say "Thank you" after beating someone with luck while also making bad plays. If I play good and beat someone I usually don't emote because I know it wont piss them off as much. 

After 2 years of playing it still rustles my jimmies when some little faggot high school (or god forbid, college) kid says "thank you" when they win without making any decent plays.

Wow congrats you got your nut draw with your netdecked T1 list while I was playing some fun pile of random shit and had a mediocre draw. You won a rank 20 game (I'm a rank 20 farmer for my quests sorry), fuck off with your BM, I play for less than an hour a week.

Doesn't help me knowing that the kid on the other end is some kissless virgin loser that is a combination of [greasy, pale, socially awkward, no friends], they deserve an ass kicking because obviously no one has ever shown them their place. Fucking trash.

Step 4: All the high school netdecking idiots come and complain about their 0% winrate

When I read this week's brawl this is immediately what I thought too.

The first match was vs innervate + coldlight oracle druid which worked out hilariously well for me.

Blizzrad paying respect to the next MTG expansion eldritch moon 

I got really confused at first because as an MTG player I automatically think of creatures as "spells". That'd be fucking nuts.

Even so, it's still pretty crazy.

Last thing I gotta say is it's sad to see something like this in a game that has a "competitive" circuit. It's a shame when less skilled players get wins off extremely high-variance plays. Like when kolento quintuple top-decked Stanislav Cifka in one tournament. Lol. 

When I first saw this I thought it was a priest card and nearly lost it, imagining the t10 40 dmg combo with prophet velen and auchenai...

So disappointed when I looked closer and saw it was a paladin card. It's not mediocre, but it's a strong addition to the cancerous fatigue paladin decks that are more annoying to play against than face hunter/shaman (imo). Damn.

This deck is pure garbage compared to stock tempo mage lists. And I watched highlights of your stream - you played tempo mage not even 20% of the time, so it's kind of bullshit you claim this is a "get legend" deck when you barely used it compared to the real meta decks.

Anyway, effigy is garbage to maindeck. 3 mana: get a random 1 or 2 mana minion is awful. Having TWO of those is just a complete waste of deck space especially when counterspell is so good against 90% of decks you will play against. Plus rag is garbage in the zoo meta so that's another bad card.

This is certainly a fun spin on tempo mage (I.E. the dude that got malorne, boom, leviathan) but it isn't competitive. Effigy plays are highly RNG which means less consistency which means more losses. This post should get removed for misleading title, but I won't get my hopes up as I've never seen the admins take down a decklist for that before.

Rank 3 last season on tempo mage.. Stop playing competitively, just for quests.. Play a few extra games to win... Lose 3 in a row at rank 17 with the same deck and playstyle... Just goes to show this dumbass game is significantly more luck based than skill, compared to poker and mtg. Fucking disgusting that this shitty game has an actual "esport" following.

Pretty satisfying playing tempo mage against this and frostbolting their doomhammer 2 turns in a row so they can't use their "combo"

I mean, it's satisfying beating aggro in general, but especially this deck. Fuck it. 

It's a legend deck... The best decks to consistently and reliably climb ladder are secret paladin and zoolock. Anything that gets posted with the [legend] tag, or something with a pro player's name, is just a fun (but still good) brew deck to fuck around with in legend. It is not meant to be reliably used against the ranked metagame.

If you are looking to netdeck this and climb ladder, you are doing it very wrong. This is a fun casual deck that might fit into tier 3.

Again. This is true with all [pro player] and [legend] decks on hearthpwn. If you haven't figured that out by now, well, now you know. 

So I've had pretty terrible luck at rank 4 with tempo mage so I switch to control priest because I lost the last 4 against it plus there's been a stupid amount of aggro on ladder. First game is against tempo mage. I had to mull my full hand, get double circle and cabal... They proceed to stomp me with their nut draw. Switch back to tempo mage and lose to aggro some more. There is no god. This game is garbage and I pitty any loser that has gone through the full grind to legend that didn't have some kind of monetary incentive.

I give up, I'll take my dumbass gold epic at the end of the season and that's it. There's literally no point to throwing away a week of my life on a dumb ass no-skill luck game for fucking legend. Virgins and streamers can go nuts over that shit I've got better things to do.

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You're perfectly right.
However, it is justified. 

The win-streak thing is nice to get people with bad winrates to rank 5, which is a rewarding rank and I think that it is perfectly fine.
Legend rank is worthless and this is what I like with it. It's a challenge that you give to yourself (at least once) and it represents for some the achievement of their IG experience. Someone able to reach rank 2 or 1 without playing 24/7 is very likely to be able to reach legend… Someone going back and forth at ranks 5-4 isn't likely to. The problem may comes from the time you spend on the game (and that is a problem common to quite every games) or to your skills.

I made my first attempt at climbing ranked a few days ago. I made it to rank 5 and then found out you don't get the bonus stars anymore at that rank. I got to 4 on a 7 game winstreak or something, then had a 5 game losing streak dropping back to 5 and gave up. 

I thought it would be a straightforward climb but the fact you don't get bonus stars anymore after rank 5 is actually fucking ridiculous. You literally have to grind a hundred games with a 70% winrate to get legend from rank 5... More realistically if you deserve legend you'll have like a 55% winrate, which would take many more games than that.

That is absolutely fucking ridiculous. I was completely mind-blown when I found this out. I can't see how that's worth the effort. You get nothing out of it except a shitty legend cardback. Nothing else. What the fuck else do people do with their time? There's nothing enjoyable about this game, losing 50% of the time to shitty aggro decks, combo decks that got their nut draw, or control decks that get all the perfect answers. I see legend players in a different light now. There is no fucking way more than a small handful of legend players have lost their virginity yet.

Holy shit I am still just blown the fuck away by how much time it takes to get legend and how much luck it takes to get there in less than a few days. And I still stand by that it isn't an accomplishment, it's just a ridiculously long and tedious grind as long as you know how to play the game.