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Helps with Pharroh, so 2x may not be the worst choice. I’m just a rank 5 scrub though, so what do I know?!

My list doesn't run King Phaoris, instead opting for Elise/Floop/Nomi trains in the endgame. So I'm only running one Nourish, but I'm even thinking about going down to 0 copies if I could find a suitable replacement. Nourish is just so awkward when you draw it later on and it either puts you into fatigue or wastes slots in your hand when you play Elise.

In my experience the Druid mirror usually comes down to the following:

1. The player who has drawn more is generally in control because they can play their Cenerius or juiced up King Phaoris chains first.
2. The exception is if one or both players are running Chef Nomi. The player who is behind on draw often has to save their initial copy of Zephrys to kill their opponents Nomi.
3. If both players are running Nomi then it becomes a dance of who can bait out Zephrys or the most removal pieces before playing Nomi.
4. Another option to deal with Nomi is to play Loti and leave it in stealth the turn before they play Nomi. If they play Nomi then you can play two spell damage boosted Starfalls to get the clear.
5. Generally speaking you want to duplicate threats with your Elise rather than removal. I like to duplicate Floop, Nomi, Zephrys and Hidden Oasis. This is ideal because you can stay alive while applying huge pressure while fending off fatigue by playing Hidden Oasis plus your 4 mana Nomi multiple turns in a row.

Hey fellow Quest Druid players. I've been having good success with my build of Quest Druid, which has very 6 duplicates (Expedition, Wrath, Crystal Merchant, Starfall, Oasis Surger and Hidden Oasis). The deck has a lot of card draw in general, but also some nice targeted draw (Sandbinder picks up Zephrys, Oasis Surger and Siamat, while Witchwood Piper can grab Zephrys or Crystal Merchant). Between the low number of duplicates and the targeted draws, I often have Zephrys or Elise active much earlier in the match, with my record being Zephrys active with 17 cards left.

My problem I've been having though is with Nourish. Often times it feels crazy powerful when you can play it early, but if I draw it later on it often feels too clunky when I'm under pressure or need to empty my hand first. And if you draw it very late, in the last 5 cards or so then it's dangerous to play, but is going to screw with my Elise and Nomi plays. Of course the King Phaoris variants like Nourish because even if you draw it late it still represents an extra threat with Phaoris. I'll post my list below, if anyone has found a suitable replacement for Nourish, I'd be happy to hear it. The card just feels like it's feast or famine in this version.

### Quest Infinite Nomi v.4
# Class: Druid
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
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# 1x (0) Innervate
# 1x (1) Untapped Potential
# 2x (1) Worthy Expedition
# 2x (2) Crystal Merchant
# 2x (2) Wrath
# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great
# 1x (3) BEEEES!!!
# 1x (3) Druid of the Scythe
# 1x (3) SN1P-SN4P
# 1x (3) Vulpera Scoundrel
# 1x (3) Wardruid Loti
# 1x (4) Flobbidinous Floop
# 1x (4) Sandbinder
# 1x (4) Swipe
# 1x (4) Witchwood Piper
# 1x (5) Elise the Enlightened
# 2x (5) Oasis Surger
# 2x (5) Starfall
# 1x (5) Zilliax
# 2x (6) Hidden Oasis
# 1x (6) Nourish
# 1x (7) Chef Nomi
# 1x (7) Siamat
# 1x (9) Cenarius
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

Thanks to anyone who tries the deck or makes a suggestion <3

As a side note, I miss the old Secretkeeper. She was so thick!

Yeah this one took me a while. Is it Secretkeeper?

 That's Stampeding Kodo for sure!

 I'm not familiar with WoW lore, but isn't The Beast just a specific Core Hound?

looks like a corehound to me

Damn, so much negativity in the comments. I appreciate all the new types of articles lately @RaptorWithWings and the other staff. Don't get discouraged :D For anyone looking for crazy games and decks like the ones mentioned in this article, check out Hysteria on Youtube. He makes lots of cool combo/hearthstone mechanics videos that many of you would find interesting.

I’ve played quite a bit of Jade Shaman in wild and can confirm that it is quite effective. It beats many Control decks and has the tech options to beat aggro and big Priest. It’s very fun too.

Well I’m inclined to agree, but at least it’s getting nerfed to 5 mana in a couple days!

Blizzard: "Here's a new toy for free. You don't have to play with it, but if you want to, we can enhance your experience if you pay us."

Community: "How dare they do this to us!? Hearthstone is ruined! Sham of a company! I only want a full and complete game for free!!"

Did I get that right? Just play it if you want to, and if you like it, spend money on it. If not, don't play/buy anything.

When BGs came out, I tried it a bit, didn't really find it that fun, so stopped playing it. Then when they released the cosmetics recently, I didn't take to the forums to complain about how Blizzard is so greedy for trying to make money off of it. Just let people who like it, enjoy it.

Also, I've played plenty of gacha games and never spent a penny on them. No matter how many times they give you that splash screen with all the cRaZy dEaLs!!! They usually give you plenty of free summons or whatever during your playthrough to enjoy the game. And if you really hit a brick wall and have to pay to continue playing... well, that game gets uninstalled and forgotten.

The thing here is that mercenaries has not replaced regular Hearthstone, it is simply an add-on mode. It's not a problem at all.

I love being judgemental, so I'm excited

For god's sake i just want to play games. Can we have 1 single fucking day without politics/virtue signalling being forced down our throat.

All I got to say is what happened to innocent until proven guilty if I accuse anyone on here of sexual harassment do you want to be deemed guilty before you have had your day in court? Calm yalls shit down and yes they should've revealed the cards because INNOCENT until proven guilty everyone is just ready to get on the I hate blizzard bandwagon and yall need to step back and wait 

I don't mind a 15-20 minute game but when it's all abt discover , tonnes of card generation, slow plays...it gets so tiring to just sit and watch them as opponents..priest is worst kind of control

I am no kid and I am playing since years and i still don’t like 20 min Games 

The post by Blizzard clearly states why the cards were nerfed. The meta is very balanced right now, but the playstyle of certain decks is not generally fun to play against. Sorry if you like playing 15-20 minute games back to back to back, but not everyone does. And that isn't a bad thing or a reason to insult someone. Clearly, Blizzard wanted to fix this in preparation for the upcoming expansion and also to stop the significant amount of Turn-1 concedes against priest. This was happening in winnable matchups, seemingly because players did not want to even participate against the class. If they can do something to stop people from not playing their game, that's a good thing.

Oh boy, Blizz hit right on the money with these nerfs, love them all. Renew for 2 kills Wandmaker in Priest (good riddance), and Apo nerf kills Samuro combo (also GOOD RIDDANCE). Getting 4-5 Renews every game and healing to full while cleaning a board was NOT fine by any measure.

Gibberling was pure degeneracy just waiting to break the game, dont see how they could have changed it w/o killing it, but token druid will still be great vs aggro so its fine. 

It is actually the complete opposite where the class completeley dominates top-level play. It has been the deck to beat both in Top1k legend as well as GrandMasters for months now. Most of the competitive players hate priest. Most (actual) low-rank palyers probably don`t even see it as a problem because of low playrate and a significantly lower win rate than at the top level.