Barnes is soon to rotate. But we have a similar effect forced it way right to the top of the meta lately with Spiteful Summoner. I have been playing Spiteful Priest for standard rank 5 this season, got there without too much effort, the deck is quite powerful. However, I can honestly say I disliked the experience. The deck lacks answers, with the exception of Duskbreaker, which you can indeed play four of sometimes (three is really quite common) to really crush the will to live of any zoo deck or similar.
With the lack of answers you are looking to curve out and get ahead, or atleast remain in touch, as you aren't going to be to flip the board, heading into turn six. You then play Spiteful and win from there...or not, if they actually have an answer. Zero decision making, zero anything. Winning is no fun with this kind of deck. Its the kind of deck the phrase "RNG clown-fiesta" was made for...mulligan is everything, draw is everything, but you run no draw, so not draw, but actaully topdecking, from turn 2.
I had one fun game on my climb to rank 5...one! It was against a cubelock and I drew my mindcontrols early. I went second so saved the coin in order to mindcontrol turns 9 and 10 - hoping to line up with voidlords - I got one voidlord and and cube that had eaten a doomguard. Even so the game was really tight...and long, with lots of back and forth and planning ahead (saving duskbreakers for post guldan, etc). The guy actually sent my a friend request after the game and said something similar too "gg, can't beleive we just had a fun game with you using that deck"...and that prompted me to make this post.
Yes hearthstone has had a rpoblem over the years, finding ways to make big minions viable - what's the point of cool 7 mana plus cards if you are dead straight after you play them, immediate board impact required and all that - but this cheating them out stuff is really toxic for the game. In the past we had cards like voidcaller which were cool - silenceable, also gave both players interesting decsions to make on the following turns, do I kill and gamble, how many cards does he have? how likely is the big demon....do I tap for the big demon, etc. Barnes and Spiteful Summoner do nothing of the sort, and add nothing to the game, only detract and simplify, and Spiteful Summonner is going no where for a while now :(
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Whizbang is not a hero?!? No portrait :(
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Ehm Avenge
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First Arcanologist isn't rotating out (Un'Goro set), second mage will receive more healing cards in the next expansion for sure, and for now it has already arcane artificier and deathknight Jaina.
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Pre Nerf Yogg Saron.
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Flavor text: "Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! It's an holy dove!"
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I'm using a taunt warrior in the ladder at the moment and i can assure you that my winrate is higher than some tier 2 decks, try it http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1008612-aggro-crusher-taunt-warrior-patches-nerf , against aggro is great (and i'm finding only that in ladder). Even if the general win rate of the class is bad it doesn't mean there are no viable decks, yeah maybe warrior it isn't at is best but i like to think that if a player is good he can still win without the most powerful decks. I like to have fun not too tryhard all the time.
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I’m using taunt warrior and i’m not having problems beating them, here is my list http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/1008612-taunt-warrior-is-back-kac
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You didn't count the dust you get from packs, with that they can craft some missing legendaries
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"... like finding Ragnaros and Sylvanas in arena". Well right now it's pretty hard since they are out from standard arena
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If the face plays taunt me still go face