Ironforge Rifleman with 3/3 body.
make basic cards viable, not necessarily sub-par
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Ironforge Rifleman with 3/3 body.
make basic cards viable, not necessarily sub-par
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Quest 3 Alll I did was:
Turn 1- binding heal > attack (30dmg)
Turn 2 - silnce > attak (30dmg) [let her kill dreamwalker]
Turn 3 - shadow vision into resurrect (0dmg)
Turn 4 - resurrect x 2
Turn 5 - Circle of healing > attack with both dreamwalkers (60dmg)
I did get lucky with the right cards on my second play through and that she didn't play any taunt minions.
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Yes, mi-light-lord?
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Time's up, let's do this. Deathwing observation time.
Backstory: When I started playing Hearthstone, I really liked that card. It was top 2 craft legendary for me(No, i didnt craft it, because i had very low dust amount. Thankfully...) This card seemed like badass Dragon Boss, and it does so even now.
About his stats: 12/12 for 10 mana used to be marvelous back in pre-WOG days. Only Deathwing itself could previllege on being so strong. Now it's not the case, ehh. Deathwing's Battlecry is devastating for both players, ou lose cards, enemy loses board. It use to be ultimate comeback card that won even few tournaments. Like, you opponent goes "ALL IN", you drop that Badass, he loses board, has very low cards, and often not much health. If he cant find answer for Deathwing or a way to kill you in 1-2 turns, this is "HABELLA"(Mr. Tomatoes reference) for him. His stats allow him to kill every minion and stay alive, except very few ones.
As for me, this card is insane. I still like, thus i know it has a lot of drawbacks, which will be discussed later here. This is your chance not to lose, if you're losing already, your last chance for a comeback from the abyss. It is like Astral Communion with no draw Twisting Nether + 12/12 on board. Whenever Deathwing is played, your opponent instantl ygoes into losing position, as he has no board and a giant threat on your side.
Another advantage is him being a dragon, so dragon synergy activation is applied, it won't be a completely useless card till turn 10 at least, if you play Drake Decks(which soon ill rotate out, sadly). He also was used in some control warriors, especially by Fibonacci. Deathwing, Dragonlord synergies well with usual Deathwing, as he pulls him on board after his death.(Note: If Deathwing, Dragonlord is in play, then classic Deathwing is played, you will discard your hand before the deathrattle, so ou won't drop your dragns on board. There were questions about it) He's like late game answer to losing control. lately was funfully used in discard warlock by Firebat. A lot of Astral Communion druids run him as a removal + instant fat drop after being overcloacked to 10 mana. he sometimes is played in Tavrn Brawls. In other control decks he may be used as "Into-fatigue-maneur", whn you dont have myuch cards left, or they are useless early game stuff.
He can be used as lategame Anti-C'Thun movement, to kill The God itself and his board he had.
Now, his disadvantages. He is usually off-meta. This card is really slow. Aggro or midrange decks re most likely to eat you before turn 10, or at the exact 12 turn, as always happens to me, at least. Even when you reach trun 10, you dont want to play him immediatley due to hand evaporation, unless you are horribly losing already. There will be a lot of times when you have very useful and cool cards in your hand that you dont anna discard them without sorrow. But countering that statement, i may say that this is better to have an option to lose your hand but not game, rather that missing that opportunity. If you have, let's say, 6 cool useful splls/legendaries, but you are gonna lose in 1-2 truns, they won't help you at all, if it's not helaing or protection. But Deathwing can at least try.
Another drawback is deathrattle carnival we see now. There are a lot of deathrattle minions that may not give your deathwing so many value, like Cairne Bloddhoof, Sylvanas Windrunner(Which counters the Drake badly, as she steals him if you play this card while she is on board) and so on, so enemy board won't be completely destroyed. Also mages carry Mirror Entity, so you may accidently give him yur precious Dragon. Other contrlol decks carry a lot of removals, like Hex, Polymorph, Execute, Shield Slam, Entomb, Shadow Word:Death, Siphon Soul,Big Game Hunter, etc. So your "last chance" may be countered. At least, you would have tried...
Sometimes you may drop him with powerful board of your if you cant trade all the dangerous opponent's minions to prevent lethal, so here you lose cards in hand and on board, what in total burns a lot of your deck, but buys you some time to interrupt your opponent in finishing you off.
Deathwing can be temporally counted by taunts or freeze effects, Sap. Your opponent will have little more time to get out of this sticky position, if wasn't countered right away. You may use this time to start building board with your draws.
Nowayads Deathwing is very rare, so people dont play around it. If yo uhave it, it may be a very huge "clown in a box" for our enemy. He can only theoretically expect it, or can joke about it(Ow, Deathing would screw me over here. Damn, I called it!).
Taking everything into account, i may say that this card is funky and evastating in some cases. It has won a lot of games for people, and lost for other who faced him. I would personally never dust it, but this is my preference. Other craft-guiders would say that you have to dust it as it is unplayable. Maybe they are right in some way, but i still love this card. About crafting it... Well, it may be the case if you want that card for your deck or Brawl, but it won't be used in popular top-meta decks for a long time, i suppose. Other Legendaries may be more demandful to craft, rather than this Big Boy. And he is in Expert set, never cycling out, but never being widely used, sadly.
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The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
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Greetings. It's time for another review, and today we observe the glorous Dragon Queen, Alexstrasza. To begin with, i would like to say that for me it's a top 1-2 legendary from Expert Set. Her battlecry is one of the most unique in the entire game. I prioritised Alextrasza over Ysera, because this card can just turn the entire game into your favour with coming into play. I use her in most of my control and midrange decks.
First of all, her battlecry used in tandem with some board presnse just leaves the game in winning position. Your opponent had 20+ hp, and then comes the Dragon Quieen, sets his health to 15 and you go full face with all your board. Such scenario usually ends up with 3-10 hp of enemy from 20+ in 1 turn. And there also appears a 8/8 body. This situation is really hard to deal if you have no mass destruction like Twisting Nether, Equality+Consecration, DOOM! and so on .
Another benefir from her is ability to set you own health to 50%. If you fight against midrange or aggro deck, and you are like around 5 health, and your opponent is running out of stream, here comes Alexstrasza
and gives you more time to establish the situation. SOmetimes it doesnt help, but sometimes it just wins you the game.
What is more, She is a dragon. so putting her in dragon decks is a great idea, i may state, Dragon decks usually the high tempo ones, so you will have board in most cases. She does also wee with Drakonid Crusher, because it's hard for your enemy to have 2 removals for 8/8 and 9/9. I use her in my Dragon Paladin deck with Brann Bronzebeard and Dragon Consort, so sometimes she comes into play on turn 7 or even 5(5% chance for Brann to live 1-2 turns to play Consort), and in Prophet Velen Dragonpriest deck. If you want, you can check out both of these decks in my profile, they are rather powerful.
Another thing to mention is that Alexstrasza counters Reno Jackson decks. They fully heal and drop 4/6. You bring them back to 15 life and drop 8/8, which trades perfectly into Reno Jackson. This occures pretty often if you face Reno decks.
Alexstrasza is a win codnition card. Being widely used in Freeze-Mage, some other mage decks, in some OTK(Like my Warrior OTk with Alexstrasza+Charge+weapon hit). Also she often has a role in Tavern Brawls
I would like to say that this card is better than Ysera in most cases, but there are situations that you would better have Ysera over her, like your opponent is around 8-10 hp, and you are at 26, so her battlecry gets your position worse in both targeting options. But it hapens like 10-20% of time.
To get things together, I proudly say that if you dont have Alexstrasza and want to craft a Legendary, but have no idea which one, choosing this card will be a wise solution. Even if you dont have top-tier decks, she can be used in any non-aggro ones to help you to win.
Note: This card can somehow substitute Lord Jaraxxus i nwarlock deck. It's a poor replacement, but optimal if you dont have The Eredar Lord.
UPDATE: Irrelevant now. 15 hp on your face is still too low, 15 on enemy wont do a thing, as it gets healed and Alex gets removed from board. By the time you can play her, both of you are at 15 hp. +-3.
P.S. Sorry, but i have to say that. I've a weird story about that card that is written in this cardpage:
Quote from DarkDenius >>Ehm, guys, here's the story of an insane man:
After i heard that WOG was coming, I decided to save gold for the new packs. I thought about legendaries that i should craft next and chose Ysera. Yesterday i got mad for no reason, I strongly stated that I would craft Alexstrasza instead of Ysera because i play Priest with Prophet Velen and dragons, also to counter Reno Jackson in Standart Format. What was more insane, i decided to spend all my gold for expert packs, because i felt that i lacked some top-tier cards. Like, i will be able to play with them even after WOG, and they won't cycle out. So, what's happened next? I bought 11 packs. 3rd pack: Ragnaros the Firelord. 7: Baron Geddon(I wanted that legendary because of neutral mass removal, like for Shaman, Paladin, Rogue). 10 pack: Golden Alexstrasza. I was shocked. Crazy idea turned into crazy result. Here are the screenshots(Ragnaros and Geddon weren't screenshotted in the pack opening stage, but the "Новые" filter means "New").
Fun fact: baron Geddon is actually a Ragnaros' servant.
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The Expert Set:
Neutral legendaries: Onyxia | Baron Geddon | Malygos | Deathwing | Bloodmage Thalnos | Cairne Bloodhoof | Leeroy Jenkins| Harrison Jones |Sylvanas | Ysera | Ragnaros | Alexstrasza | The Black Knight
Class ones: Al'Akir the Windlord | King Krush | Cenarius | Edwin VanCleef | Archmage Antonidas | Tirion Fordring | Jaraxxus | Prophet Velen[Remastered in 26.10.2016] |Grommash Hellscream
The Whispers of the Old Gods Set:
Neutral legendaries: N'Zoth | Soggoth
Other Sets:
| Kel'Thuzad | Arch-Thief Rafaam |
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Quote from Biohazard_Q8 >>Now we know why Ancient of Lore was nerfed...
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Fuck if the jade golem mechanic is true this card can deal 4 damage and summon a 7/7 jade golem.
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I think this is near Imp-losion levels of good.
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"Aggro decks take so much skill" said no one ever.
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Can we take a minute to talk about the Naga Sea Witch and giants? I've never felt so fucking angry against someone for using a deck. This shit is or at least will more cancerous than Aggro Shaman and Pirate Warrior togheter
Basically, your opponent floods the camp with shit tons of giants AT TURN 5 because of a weird mechanic, and if you don't have a board clear in hand, you're dead next turn (e.g. Lightbomb, Consagration + Equality, etc)
Most of the time you don't, because you think that your opponent has at least some dignity and isn't netdecking a deck that can make you dead literally at turn 6 without damaging you any turn before
I fucking hate Day9 now, dude
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I'm almost joining the Secret Hunter (Dark Side of the Force, but not too dark as Shaman/Tempo Mage)
Dude, or you play cancer or you're doomed to stay at rank 15 or less
I'm happy with these new cards, they aren't the best but are very cool. Control Dragon Priest will be good again
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I think the currently state of the game isn't only fault of the Blizz, but of the players too. Seriously, stop of netdeck these hyper-competitive decks... Netdeck some fun deck it's ine, but... dede, just stop
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Then you're wiining a game with 23 health, Dragon Priest vs something like a control Warrior with only 4 health and empty board
Fucking Yogg Saron
Fucking Flamestrike
Fucking Feral Spirit
Fucking armors, armors and armors
And Yogg still there, with divine shield
I lost because he was more skillful
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-2x Tracking
+2x Call of the Wild
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Why you like to play as a braindead andending the game at turn 7?
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Echo of Medivh
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WTF IS THIS, GARROSH TURNED INTO A FUCKING ALLY?
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Avenge it. Avenge all your cards.
This girl is a fucking bitch