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I'm pretty sure it's Every Villain is Lemons, because the dev even said it during the reveal stream. I think it was something like "and here's the new card, another addition to the notorious Every Villain Is Lemons gang". I may also be delusional and spend waaaay too much time on Reddit.

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9 wins. I bet my Girlfriend on it, so I've got literally nothing to lose. 

 Now, this is a smart man. Double or nothing?

Thanks guys (most of you) for the help. It's quite an interesting matchup using Mech Hunter or Paladin, but it just feels so bad to play against it with Tempo Rogue or and Warrior deck. I guess the best way to beat a deck is to play it yourself and find it's weaknesses :/

I'm not ranting, I've faced this deck a lot and lost almost every time. I just legitimately want to know what I can do to beat this deck. What decks are advantageous, and what can I do to put myself in a favourable position against the deck?

Why is it weird? And why is it worse? Have you actually tried it? This deck on it's own beats Control Shaman and Control Warrior decently well, but with these changes it becomes an auto-win. There's nothing wrong in changing a deck to suit the meta.

I found Never Surrender to be a pretty good one-of in this list. Like Rat Trap or Hidden Wisdom, nobody knows this card exists, and as such doesn't play around it. However, I do agree in that Desperate Measures is probably a better card in general.

That's one game. You could literally say that for anything. "I beat Token Druid with Murloc Warrior, but he didn't play any cards until turn 8". 

I feel like you could play any version of control Shaman and still wreck aggro, so long as you mulligan properly. As for control matchups, I would definitely go for the Dragon package (Crowd Roaster plus Firetree Witchdoctor) with Archivist Elysiana and Baleful Banker. Just play whatever works for you.

The meta right now is a tad too fast for Kalecgos in my opinion. Even if you do get a chance to play him, you're not going to get much value out of him, besides the discover. You're playing 3 spells in the deck, one of which costs 2 and the other costs 3. The reason you'd want to play Kalecgos is to try and highroll the discover is you lost your giants in the early game. I wouldn't craft him, but if you pull him from a pack or really, really want to, then go ahead and put him in your deck. 

It's interesting although I don't think it meets the criteria of "infection". I'm pretty sure it's an effect that's supposed to spread or multiply, and not just be static. Kinda like Hakkar, the Soulflayer where his Corrupted Bloods "multiply" by getting reshuffled several times.

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u act like Oblivitron making the archtype but the fact is he is just fair card in that deck 

the outstanding cards in that deck is Nine Lives and some boomsday cards that got overshadowed last year with better cards

 I made that point earlier. I mentioned that people thought cards like Voidlord and Skull of the Man'ari were trash tier, but combined they became the strongest deck in the game. Many people said Nine Lives was meh because of all the deathrattles rotating out, and almost everyone thought Oblivitron was garbage. In essence, both cards aren't that good, but when put together, they make something better than the sum of its parts. Isn't that one of the hallmarks of good game design?

How about the ones before KotFT was released?

I just lost 80 brain cells reading that and realising that someone spent their time to create an account and type this out. Go watch Digimon, loser.

He's already been penalised, what else do you want? Yeah, Blizzard was stupid for letting him play after the first time, but he is still getting punished. And here's the thing: he cheated once. He earned his championship spot at HCT and HCT 2019 fair and square, long before he cheated. What I don't understand is that Blizzard wasn't this lenient before. When one of the players was caught cheating previously, he got permanently banned. Why give Roger a second chance here? I understand if he was in HCT 2019 World Championship because he won without cheating, but it doesn't make sense to have him play this tournament. Blizzard has realised that in some Asian cultures, cheating is not seen as bad conduct, but rather exploiting a factor to gain an advantage. 

Now here's when people start being irrational. Just because he cheated once, and got caught and was under serious fire, doesn't mean he's going to cheat again. Again, he cheated once, I have faith in him to not stoop so low and in Blizzard to implement better security measures in the future. If he does cheat this time around, after all that happened the last time, then he can go to hell. 

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Twice in a row now, we as a community have severely underestimated the Hunter class and their archetypes. Remember when Spell Hunter was being announced? Everyone thought it was a joke. Even this site believed it, calling the card itself a meme in the reveal (Instead of "A new hunter card has been revealed", it said "A new Hunter meme has been revealed"). And then what happened? Spell Hunter became the biggest set sleeper since Prince Keleseth. Throughout Year of the Raven, Spell Hunter was super dominant (maybe not so much in RR, but still). Then Rise of Shadows began to roll around, and Oblivitron was revealed. People laughed at this card, a 6 mana 3/4. Toast even tweeted saying, and I quote "Hunter and bad legendaries. Name a better duo". It is now a metabreaking deck, able to consistently beat every deck in the meta (barring Token Druid, if you draw like garbage). My point is that we should put a little bit more faith into Hunter in the upcoming expansions.

Watch me eat my words when we hype up Hunter in the next expansion and it turns out to be tier 4.

 The thing is Oblivitron isnt that strong of a card by itself the card that pushes the archetype is that 3 mana discover a deathrattle shit. Oblivitron is a pretty fair card but is undeniably slow in a vacuum.

 That's the issue. Most people thought Skull of the Man'ari was trash. I even remember a clip of Kripp where he said "It could literally be 'At the start of your turn, Blizzard will mail you $1,000,000' and it would still be a trash tier card". BOOM, Cubelock rules the meta until Year of the Raven and was still a powerful deck in said Year. It's not because of Skull alone, it's because of supporting cards like Voidlord and Doomguard. In fact, without either of those, Kripp was probably right. I'm not saying people are underestimating the power level of the card itself, they're underestimating the power level of the synergy that it can bring to the table.