Let me first just say that building up towards your big finish with your combo deck, slowly putting the pieces together and then only to have your plans scuppered by Tickatus wrecking your day, definitely #FeelsBadMan. I've bene there. We've all been there. But that is really what the point of the card is. It is a situational "Mess with your opponent's plan" card.
To that effect, I think it's a great addition to the game myself. And I think it has a place in it. The flip-side to playing a deck like this is that in the same way, you might be trying to get to the late game to unlock your corrupted cards and getting upset because the mean Aggro players keep owning your face before turn 8.
Again, we've all been there - Tempo Rogue right now is the most oppressive deck I have seen since Pirate Warrior, in fact. But it is what it is - you end the game and hope the next opponent is more of an easier match up.
So, yes - I think Tickatus is frustrating to play against - but he is a pretty heavy hit-or-miss card and has some huge downsides that keep him in check.
If you get the warlock health down enough hm milling cards ain’t going to save his life lol
Frankly, it's often overstated how hard it is to climb ladder with janky homebrew decks. All you have to do is maintain a 50% winrate or higher and you'll eventually get to Legend. For the past two months I've been climbing with a C'Thun Combo Priest where you run C'Thun, Nazmani Bloodweaver, Gadgetzan Auctioneer and fill the rest with spells starting from the cheapest, objective being to set up a Nazmani Bloodweaver + Gift of Luminence + Gadgetzan and cycle through your whole deck in a turn to play out C'Thun. I'm at a 52% winrate over two months right now and I've not run into a single person playing this same deck. Admittedly this is a deck I copied the idea for from a YouTube video, but in recent seasons I've climbed pretty well with a completely homebrew version of Quest Paladin. You can climb ladder with janky homebrew decks, it just happens that the meta is, shockingly, better than any janky homebrew you're going to come up with at climbing the ladder as quickly and efficiently as possible. There's no way around the fact that hundreds of thousands of people gathering data is eventually going to lead to decks that are better than weird jank that one person comes up with for fun.
That said, and having done my obligatory devil's advocate bit, I do think there are problems with the direction that deckbuilding in this game has gone. I like buildaround cards because they encourage you to do weird things that you wouldn't otherwise do with your deck, be it Singleton or Quests or whatever, but I think they've sort of gotten out of control. It used to be that you could put together that Kobold Illusionist, Malygos, Necrium Blade and Backstabbing your own Illusionist added up to a lot of spell damage, and then you'd create the Malygos Combo Rogue that defined K&C for me, but now that sort of thing can't keep up anymore. It's all about single cards that are so incredibly powerful when you get them to work that there's no reason to combine non-buildaround cards to get unexpected power turns. There's not that much creativity in writing "Reborn" in the search bar and shoving everything into a Quest Paladin, as much as I love that deck, or searching "Invoke" and putting that into your Galakrond deck. There need to be less designer-mandated "packages" and more focus on creating unexpected emergent combos and interactions by players. One or two in the meta is fine, but it feels like half the meta is built around a hard-coded interaction. Libram Paladin, Highlander Hunter, Totem Shaman, the Galakrond decks an expansion or two ago...
This deck had no way 50% win rate I tried it u have to be super lucky to survive to get the combo off . Plus you got it off a YouTube channel and I be am sure he took forever to pull it off to
As the title reads, i'm preditcing that once the nostalgia factor fades out in one week or so, everyone will remember how super anti-fun was facing 2014 face hunter with 4 Mana Leeroy Jenkins, 2 mana Unleash the Hounds, 2 mana Starving Buzzard plus 0 mana Hunter's Mark and leave it.
We don’t know what we are actually getting as the cards. So saying it will fail you so far off.
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Just another thing broken in hearthstone lol
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Rope coach rolling in his grave lol
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Wtf
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It’s like a participant trophy lol .
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119 total slacker
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If the priest match takes longer than it should
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I conceed like normal person of see I can’t win I don’t c be sit there and rope then conceed.
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If you get the warlock health down enough hm milling cards ain’t going to save his life lol
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This deck had no way 50% win rate I tried it u have to be super lucky to survive to get the combo off . Plus you got it off a YouTube channel and I be am sure he took forever to pull it off to
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Your not going to get deck building diversity cause every one looks up the to decks on website like this. So keep dreaming.
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😂 this is the first thread about it and it’s been going on for how long. I saw ama they fix chadgar but who knows if that will fix it
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We don’t know what we are actually getting as the cards. So saying it will fail you so far off.
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So he clearly has set why bother buying it for dust if that is what he doing the go open the packs. Wasting 2000 gold getting dust seems bad .
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IMO yes spend the gold or the money .the mini set is mixed in with expansion there is no chance u will get what u need from packs.
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1: It is super fun and each game feels different: It feels like a fun gamemode This can’t be farther from the truth