Hearthpwn

Was waiting for ages for this tourney report lol. Really surprised by the diversity, every class but mage represented and with six classes in the top 8. ChronicRyno's Shaman looks pretty interesting.

^^Deep pocket$ lol.

I'm a F2P player, so having opened around 20-25 packs from grinding and quests, my only legendary is Cenarius. And I need a second Murloc Warleader. So I'm really wondering why is Cenarius T2 if he is a 9-mana class-specific card? I'm fairly sure that I'd need at least 5 more legendaries to make him useful, which I don't have. So unless someone explains to me how to make him useful in the short tern, he's getting turned into dust.

Using a homebrew of good cards that you didn't copy off any site won't get you past rank 10 UNLESS it's only 2 or 3 cards off of an existing meta deck. The card pool is small, no doubt about it, and choosing a single strategy (aggro, midrange or control) for any class will generally create the same deck in the same class (eg making a warlock aggro deck from scratch will look similar to zoo no matter how much of your own thought you put into it).

Once you have a solid homebrew and go online to find out how to make it better and compare strats, chance's are you'll find a similar deck that just won a tourney, and you're given the choice of either a)testing it out, realizing its better than yours and becoming a netdecker, or b)sticking to some odd philosophy about "originality" and continue hovering around rank 10 with your slightly weaker homebrew.

Obviously there are some people who get to legend with their own decks, but those people are either way above the average skill level or have the time to test and grind and finetune and perfect their deck to the point where it is the best possible version of a strategy for that class. And as the card pool grows we will obviously see more original decks, but netdecking should always exist because its silly to not use the experience of other players to benefit ourselves. Imagine if NASA had designed the Apollo rockets without looking at the Nazi successes and failures simply because the wanted to make it a "made in America" rocket.

Props to LightningDr for the uberbudget deck, but Chiv is a god for running Priest Burn and giving Mind Blast a purpose. Just wondering, what cards could you substitute in for Thalnos and Nat?

Damn fricking Mage is back and Druid is out... the murlocs are the only uplifting part of this tourney lol.

Going back to my MTG days, Acolyte of Pain seemed very strong when I first found it, and Wild Pyromancer seemed like the obvious interaction. But I could never get it to work, and abandoned the idea as a gimmick. AND NOW SOMEBODY MADE IT WORK GREAT, albeit with 8 legendaries. Sweet, novel deck, congrats to Kisstafer for ingenuity and recognizing a good idea.

Whoo! Haven't seen Beasts in a tourney report for a while. Look forward to putting that list together.

EU loves their druids. I've been running into them more and more in NA as well, and I'm wondering what some counter strategies are.

So what's the deal with the two Warrior decks? Is the first one the one used in the Finals? Because that's the one I can afford to put together, and I'm wondering how competitive it is. The other decks seem pretty similar, all fairly slow and reactive. Definitely a control-based meta right now.