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I’ve only played a couple of games in casual so far but I’ve always liked priest decks and especially always wanted to incorporate the stealing aspect. Someone mentioned not having enough invoke cards. When I have played another galkarond deck I’ve copied the invoke cards they play for almost double value for me. I get their Shield of Galkarond plus whatever priest card the invoke gives me. 

However I have a question if anyone knows:

I was given the choice to get a rogues Galkarond card. Had I done that and played it what would have occurred?

If he’s in my deck normally I hold him until I need hand space or until I need a get out of jail free card because I’m getting my arse whipped. 

Compared to other games I have played in my life (since we the gaming community somehow lost control of the concept: “One time purchase for a full content game” and started paying subscription fees on the first few games out for online play like Ultima Online or World of Warcraft and the like I truly feel like hearthstone is one of the cheapest out there, especially in the mobile gaming arena. 

They do already give us quite a few free packs just with quests and tavern brawls alone. 

As to it being already produced digital content and thus free to recreate as a Christmas pack without any cost or the argument against that notion:

If I discovered the actual alchemist recipe to make gold and stored it as a digital document I don’t think it should be looked at as something requiring my investment or not when determining if I shared it at all. Also I think the idea that me hoarding that would be weak or stupid or wise or any of the arguments against sharing it shouldn’t be applied since it would be my asset and it’s impossible to know every thought in my mind about what to do with said content so to view Blizzard as anything different than any individual with an idea or invention etc that they could or could not share freely is not how a company should be viewed. We do not have the information available they have to make the decision for them and even if they just didn’t because they didn’t want to doesn’t allow us reason to assign some possibly false description of stupid or wise to said decision. If I figure out how to make gold I am not gonna come post that shit on here. Why doesn’t Microsoft give Windows 10 out freely on Christmas? It’s already developed and it’s digital and has zero costs.

The idea of hearthstone packs being cheaper than what they are which is basically 1 per day or one every couple days free seems wildly too low to think you will attract more business vs the model they use now. Even if everything were lower priced it would go back to your same falsity about the sell of digital goods. You can’t justly say if the prices were lower demand would increase for use of your own logic

Quote from Kraugr >>

Muncher is actually a good idea, i keep it in mind ;)

 Yea they work well with the embiggen. Also the Giants do well because for Mulchmuncher, the Defender 5 mana taunt, and either of the two neutral 10 & 12 mana giants they’re cost varies so embiggen doesn’t really do anything but buff them

I was the same about strength in numbers with battlecry minions? Also with embiggen and treants why not use Mulchmuncher since he would get the buffs and cost reduction so being rush he’d be good to draw with Strength in Numbers or cheap despite embiggen?

Quote from SgtSoulgrav >>

Quote from TheArcanist236 >>

Are there any non-aggro decks that have success in the current meta? I’m trying to play Highlander Mage or Highlander Hunter, but I’m getting SMOrced by some braidead face hunters that don’t even put anything on the board...

 As a matter of fact, there is. I just rushed to legend in two days using Shirvallah OTK and my tracker says I got 21-7 against hunters (two of those losses are due to missplays of mine, I remember). AND it destroys shamans galakrond. The weakness of the deck is Rogue deathrattle but one third of the time this deck explodes and all the warriors. In my 80+ games rush I saw one mage, no priest, no druid and one mirror.

The strategy is quite tricky against huntards but works almost everytime. You draw a lot, you save wild pyro+time's out to clear the toxic reinforcements and you play a lot of spells to reduce shirvallah for sathrovarr.

I used this list -Nozdormu/+1 elven archer : https://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1324642-holy-wrath-paladin

Have fun.

 Yea Holy Wrath does well using the strategy he stated for toxic reinforcements. Bloodsail Corsair helps remove their weapon as well if you tech it in

That 3/3 to minions in hand deathrattle rogue is gonna be overwhelming but priest will rise to counter and a deck will rise to counter that and the meta will balance (I am being optimistic because rogues with a 1 mana minion with charge and 7/7 is worse than shaman to me. I mean I can somewhat ready myself for when shaman is going to go Gal and Shudder but rogue is just no prep game over)

What’s the time honored saying: 🤔🤔🤔

If you can’t beat them, join them  😂

Quote from DarkSageD >>

I started with this in hand versus Deathrattle Rogue and lost🤦‍♂️😂😂:

 

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/lk5df7X

 

 Well I apparently don’t know how to use attachments or Imgur but I had Frizz, Nozdormu, Nozari, Dragonrider, and Cathedral Gargoyle as my opening 4 cards

I started with this in hand versus Deathrattle Rogue and lost🤦‍♂️😂😂:

https://m.imgur.com/gallery/lk5df7X

I didn’t look really hard but I’d probably be using something like this give or take some cards with maybe like Shuma or tree speaker and trying to get most of my treants for the card draw from the deathrattle 

### Custom Druid
# Class: Druid
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 2x (1) Hot Air Balloon
# 2x (1) Mecharoo
# 2x (2) Dreamway Guardians
# 2x (2) Power of the Wild
# 2x (3) Blessing of the Ancients
# 2x (3) Landscaping
# 2x (3) Savage Roar
# 1x (3) SN1P-SN4P
# 2x (4) Explodinator
# 2x (4) Replicating Menace
# 2x (4) Soul of the Forest
# 2x (5) Aeroponics
# 2x (5) Faceless Corruptor
# 1x (5) Force of Nature
# 1x (7) Shu'ma
# 1x (8) The Forest's Aid
# 2x (9) Mulchmuncher
#
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A whole lot of sticky to buff with blessing and savage roar 

Bwahaha I was very doubtful of this deck to be honest but it’s a freaking blast that actually just does the work it needs to do and wins. Gracias 

I’d cut Centarius probably and maybe even a couple other minions like a Dendrologist or a Garden Gnome or the 5 mana taunt that is free when you cast a higher spell. If you had less minions you might be able to fit the 2 mana spell in that puts treants in your hand or the spell that allows you to discover a Druid minion and if you have no minions keep all 3. Maybe take shubadier out for the two little lifesteal minion spell even cause that stuff could get you a wide whispering woods and the other 5 mana Druid taunt costs mana but it also gains health per card in hand. Then you can souls deathrattle on them and have more treants anyway. 

like he said above Vargoth. I think most of the new Treant buffing cards excited people but when the meta cleans up and the new wears off it’ll go back To being mostly just a mech based deck where treants mostly come from souls because the mechs like replicating menace and snip plus the magnetizing mechanic make them so much stickier  

Quote from tripzplash >>

there need to nerf 25 cost 25 dmg paladin... so stupid to get cleared each boead each round and when there get low there drop 3x 7/5 divine sheild with life steal + 1 i deck

 I don’t think Holy Wrath Paladin is quite anywhere near nerfing. It does exceedingly well in this meta but it’s W/R is still on par with others and I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to play one but compared to most other decks Holy Wrath is a pretty skill challenging deck to play. So when I rarely see one (Now they are frequent because they counter Shaman) I don’t mind getting smacked in the face by an end game play. Any OTK deck would require a nerf if that were the case

Quote from Yucca_Colbal >>

they would only really have to change it on the Invoke twice card.

maybe make it a death rattle instead, or bring back inspire.

Inspire: Invoke Gala twice. would be more fair i think

 The double plays are what do it like the card that invokes twice. I think nerfing it would help. I know rogues can get double battlecry from sharks but quest shaman can get 4 invokes off one card. Even the little 1 mana freeze spell being so cheap without overload is just too simple to cast twice with or zentimo it for maybe 3 casts etc.  

I gave into the dark side and made the first shaman I’ve played on ladder. I added [Card] Storm Bringer [/Storm Bringer] in and on the double invokes or from any of the big board swarms it’s insane because I don’t think the shaman deck has even gotten close to optimized and it’s still insane