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Playing Control Warrior, I've had moderate success but this is my pet deck and I love to play it when Warrior gets stronger. I can stomach losing to every matchup besides Tickatus decks. And I don't really mind too much about 1 Tickatus, but 2 of them is putting it over the top against practically any slow deck besides some aggro decks or Clown Druid. But I don't have the dust for Clown Druid, and I want to play a deck I want to play instead of trying to counter Tickatus. I'm not saying I don't like aggro, it's a necessary evil it's what keeps everything in balance so I respect their existence. HOWEVER auto losing to one deck all the while not being able to try out the new cards, But they just keep burning away My Rattlegore or just killing it with their insane amount of removal. I don't waste my deck slot on C'thun anymore cuz it's pointless most of the time. Funny thing my opponent today was a Tickaus Warlock with C'thun, the greedy bastard. They get to play C'thun but I don't? Jaraxxus is already salt in the wound, this guy's just rubbing it in. Fuck anyone who sais Tickatus isn't a problem, those are the people that probably never or rarely pick up a control deck and see how it feels.

Edt: Oh yeah currently at rank 9 Diamond and I actually like to play Face Hunter, though only at ranks below Diamond and Rank 5 where Tickatus players are more prevalent. Then I switch to Control, but I still face the odd Tickatus player (such as that C'thun Warlock) and Might as well be doing something else while I'm against them. I usually watch something on Youtube as I'm roping them every turn out of spite.

If people weren't concerned about Control Warlock before the Barrens expansion, they will now. With the most broken removal in the game (Cascading Disaster and Hysteria) and loads of healing Aggro and other aggressive strategies are null. And of course Fuckfacetus destroys the control matchups and combo to boot. Seriously the devs are blind as fuck to not see how broken Control Warlock is, it is the most powerful Control has ever gotten and probably will be until this mess is fixed. You know what's worse than a broken Aggro deck? a broken Control deck that beats practically every archetype besides some Midrange decks.

I was hoping after the nerfs Mages would cease to exist but NOPE like I said if Deck of Lunacy cost 6 mana the deck would still be viable due to Refreshing Spring Water and Incanter's Flow. And to add more salt to the wound and just as I feared people are starting to catch on and pick up Control Warlock due to the Pen Flinger nerf and now it is nigh unstoppable. Aggro decks lost alot of burst damage so Warlocks are able to comfortably stay healthy throughout the entire match all the while infinitely spawning 6/6's, and due to Tickatus you auto win vs control and combo. The deck effectively beats almost an entire archetype trifecta. Aggro? loads of healing and AoE for pretty much any board situation (May I remind you of Hysteria and Cascading Diaster, the most broken removal in the game) Control? Tickatus. Combo? Tickatus. Midrange? Only Clown Druid can beat it comfortably. I would wager this is the best Control has ever gotten and the most broken it will ever be.

"Hey Loser!" has now given me more PTSD than "Everyone, get in here!"

Mage is at 1 health but of course I can't get the damage I needed and wins off of perfect RNG. Now is a bad time to play HS if you are a Mage hater like me, I'm taking a break until Mage gets the nerf bat. Not sure if it'll matter anyways, Deck of Lunacy could be 6 mana and people would still play that cancerous deck.

I'm honestly surprised many people aren't on the Control Warlock bandwagon, because it's actually tier 1. How does any other slow deck beat this? I like that Jaraxxus got buffed but it exists at the same time as Tickatus in standard so it's only more salt to the wound, complete overkill. The deck has answers for everything

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Saw this happened to my opponent today, could you be them? lol I was control priest in standard

Changing it to targeting minions only seems like the most elegant way of nerfing it, that way aggro or Miracle decks can't abuse it for the face damage, it could still see play in Libram decks and Tempo Rogue

"Does anybody else hate Mage?"

Oh, you're not the only one that's for sure. I literally complain about Mage in the salt thread all the time because I tend to lose to them very often due to soul crushing RNG. Power of Creation was my most hated card and I'm glad it's gone, plus the RNG from mage has toned down at least a little bit and no more Sorcerer's Apprentice shenanigans. The only time I ever liked to play a deck by the class was a homebrew Control Mage deck to counter Ress Priest and Tip the Scales Paladin in the previous meta, but before that was when Frost Lich Jaina came out.

You can Queue into Duels and Arena ONLY if you already started a run before the expansion launch. Once you're done you can't get into a game. It's either got to do with the core cards or the server itself, could be both since it's acting strangely with core cards and it hasn't done anything like this before.

Yeah usually there is just a wait time (which I don't mind) but you can't even get into a game at all. Big bummer.

Day 1 of the expansion and can't even play the game, nice job team. It's like opening up Christmas presents and then not being able to play with your new toys.

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IIRC a lot of people slept on Pen Flinger and Animated Broomstick; I know I wasn't the only one who thought those cards were memes. If we're cherry picking here, I was literally the only person who was right about Ogremancer being good and people are finally starting to realize it.

 You're definitely not the only one who thought Ogremancer was good, it just was difficult to find a home for it even now. Not every control deck runs it and it's not slot-able in most other archetypes, that was apparent even at first glance. But I always believed Ogremancer would see play somewhere eventually.

 Kolkar Pack Runner 1 star? really? standalone it's a good card but combo with a cheap 1 or 2 cost spell and it gets better, MUCH better if it sticks.