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Just got back to hearthstone for the battlegrounds.  Opened a random pack that was sitting in my inventory and got this.  Am I just lucky or did everyone get it too?

 You weren't lucky, the game purposefully bumps up the rates of legendaries dropped in packs if you haven't played/logged on for a long time to get you excited again. 

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Since I play control warrior it isn't harder than anything else. 

Control warrior is absolutely the best deck right now with good matchups across the board. People just don't play it because the games take way longer than normal and people wanna rank up fast. Hence why the ******** face decks are so popular. People have the patience and attention span of a refrigerator. 

 What version are you playing if you don't mind me asking? Standard mec version or highlander? I found it to be hard at times to compete with all the value rogue generates when I was playing different versions of controlwarrior, and since you are facing a lot of gala-rogues on the ladder right now I eventually stopped playing cw, but maybe I'll give it another shot. 

Playing control-galakrond warlock, if that happens to me I mumble a "duck you rngesus" to myself and keep playing the game. I found that if you have enough removal/answers to get to the point where they only play one large minion per turn you can overpower them eventually. I have a positive winrate against them, although with that starting-handing on their site I would certainly need a good starting hand myself. 

Quote from HarrySeaward >>

Being new to HS, I recently purchased the Dragon Master Bundle as a means of getting some good single player content and the 25 card packs.

I understand that the description of the bundle says that you must complete the "introductory missions" to gain access to the card packs, but what exactly are the introductory missions?

I have completed the first chapters of both the League of EVIL and the League of Exploreres, but alas no card packs.

Thanks for the help.

 Are you maybe confusing the single player content called "rise of galakrond" and the card pack bundle? The first gives you access to the single player adventure, where you unlock certain cards once you beat it and the second just gives you card packs from the year of the dragon. 

Quote from Weikor >>

and im sitting at 75% win with highlander galakrond shaman..

go ahead, ask for buffs. I dont mind

 Yeah that is what I am thinking, have you guys played shaman? It is fine, actually. I think everybody just assumes it is dead since it was nerfed twice, but it actually is still a strong class. Just because it isn't as popular does not mean it is weak. It's just not an autopilot-win-every-game-class anymore, which no class should be. 

I honestly think it the match up is quite easy as the rogue. You just have to put constant pressure on the board while also delaying their quest as much as possible. Count their removal and resurrect cards and only start hitting face when they run low on cards and you are sure you can beat them down in the next couple of turns.

Dq alextraza and galakrond are you friend here, gala helps keeping the board in check (they barely put any pressure on the board) while alex can provide you with the extra value to finally beat them down, especially if you shadow steep her.

It will always be a very long match where you have to keep your own cards and your opponents cards in mind, but I think it is very hard to lose this match up as the rogue... 

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Whats the point of Nozdormu?

 Maybe so you can give an old otk a new name by adding a new legendary? 

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I am kicking asses with my priest, seems nobody noticed one of the most OP card of expansion Grave Rune

 

 Sounds interesting, what is your combo /win con? I tried the card a bit and I didn't find it that helpful, especially against shaman who just always seems to have a way to answer almost any board. 

To contribute to this thread: shaman is pretty op alright, maybe not unbeatable but certainly very strong. "just saving aoe for galakrond" certainly is not enough to beat them unless they are so sad to see there 8/8s die they just concede. That doesn't seem to be the case very often though. 

 half deck i heal, half i smash. I play the quest without caring too much, just a plus in the late game and actually stop people going face the first 3 turns. Than heal (neferset, zillax, and the 5/5 that heal 5)  to survive until turn 9. Then play around zerek cloning and resurect. I have a colossus of moon too. Nobody try to kill the 1/1 from zerek cloning.  I play grave rune on it and next turn have 3 of them and 2 with active reborn. i see people play zephyr and concede ahahah. 

If you feel fucked you can play grave rune also on neferset ritualist. same... gotta heal something like 18 stopping 7 attacks.

other option cathrina, play grave rune on her also is auto concede. (she ressurect neferset very often)

than you have all the priest Aoe and of course the mass silence ... 

well quite complicate deck but lot of fun. actually at 6 on the ladder. but winrate is good. The key is healing.

 Interesting, especially including colossus, didn't cross my mind to include him. Unfortunately I don't have cathrina and don't really feel like playing/crafting her (big priest has scarred me for life), but she seems important for the deck. Maybe I'll just try it without her at first to see if I like the deck. Anyway thanks for the response and the ideas, now back to hating on shamans... 

Quote from mortoz >>

I am kicking asses with my priest, seems nobody noticed one of the most OP card of expansion Grave Rune

 

 Sounds interesting, what is your combo /win con? I tried the card a bit and I didn't find it that helpful, especially against shaman who just always seems to have a way to answer almost any board. 

To contribute to this thread: shaman is pretty op alright, maybe not unbeatable but certainly very strong. "just saving aoe for galakrond" certainly is not enough to beat them unless they are so sad to see there 8/8s die they just concede. That doesn't seem to be the case very often though. 

Our home, our tombs!

Everything unless they draw the nuts. 

I play n'zoth-control-shaman with hex, zentimo and plague of murlocs as well as elysiana to beat quest priest (and other zoth-decks).They usually concede when they start fatiguing, sitting at 30 health with an unfinished quest and no minions left. Hope you like long games though. 

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Quote from Marega >>

Step 1 play on a floored rank. Step 2 play odd warrior. Step 3 concede every game that isn't secret mage. Step 4 laugh and rope every turn against mindless secrer mage as u grind them out and win 100% of the time.

 My boooy.

I do exatcly that, they usually concede at 20 armor. I swear I could live on their salty tears till the end of my life. 

 

 Ahaha i thought I was the only one because i haven't had a single mirror match (you only play against secret mage and mech pally after all). Keep up the good work lads. 

It happened to me twice, too. I played a lot of games with and against elysiana though, still I felt super shitty when it happened, so I understand the op. But I also get why people say it is part of the game, sometimes you just lose to shit luck, that is part of hearthstone... 

You face pogo rogues a lot? All I see on ladder right now (7-9eu) is aggro decks like mech-hunter, midrange-hunter, mech-paladin and murloc-shaman as well as cc-mage, either dragon or cyclone-build. Meaning you either die turn 6 because a bunch of big as mechs hit your face or you die turn 8 because a bunch of big as giants hit your face. No room for infinite value anywhere to be found.