It might be just me, but I've seen so much agressive emoting, BM and intentional roping the past few days, it's insane! I don't know if it's the people venting their frustration on the aggro/combo meta or what, but it's really eating up my holiday spirit :/ Anyone else seen this?
This way, when you play a Captain and pull Patches out (as a 2/2) you are basically playing a half charged King Mukla, which instead of giving your opponent bananas, thins out your deck (which is amazing in any limited deck card game)
So, Patches is not really just a 1/1 charger, as the original post suggests, but instead a half charged deck thinning 5/5 for three mana, fitting any deck imaginable. There's your problem.
"You can almost decide who wins on turn 3" Well that's Hearthstone for you sometimes. Many pros reckon that quite often the match is being decided by the mulligan alone, so try turn zero. Anyone can win anyone with the right hand. Heck, I once won Forsen on the ladder with my first proper deck (Mech Mage) when I had only played like a month or so. (Double fireball to the face on turn 8 sealed the deal)
That being said, I don't think the game is in a bad spot at all. The Meta is diverse and slower than ever, no face hunters or pirate warriors etc. running you down on turn 5. Even the most aggressive deck now a days tend to run Bonemares and some other heavy stuff, allowing you to actually have a fighting chance, unlike it used to be up until Ungoro.
If you think we're in a bad spot, you should have seen how things were back in GvG when all you saw past rank 15 was Mech Mages, and Face Hunters. Period. (And still, I enjoyed the game)
Blizzard has tried to force Hunter towards control for a long time now, with little to no success. And by the looks of this card, they're still not giving up. Though the card itself is good, I'm dubious about this forced direction Hunter has been taking these past few expansions.
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It might be just me, but I've seen so much agressive emoting, BM and intentional roping the past few days, it's insane! I don't know if it's the people venting their frustration on the aggro/combo meta or what, but it's really eating up my holiday spirit :/ Anyone else seen this?
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Everybody, I mean EVERYBODY, even friggin' Priests are Playing Patches at the moment, and here's why:
The standard "Patches pack" (in a non-weapon class) holds Patches the Pirate and 2xSouthsea Captain
This way, when you play a Captain and pull Patches out (as a 2/2) you are basically playing a half charged King Mukla, which instead of giving your opponent bananas, thins out your deck (which is amazing in any limited deck card game)
So, Patches is not really just a 1/1 charger, as the original post suggests, but instead a half charged deck thinning 5/5 for three mana, fitting any deck imaginable. There's your problem.
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"You can almost decide who wins on turn 3" Well that's Hearthstone for you sometimes. Many pros reckon that quite often the match is being decided by the mulligan alone, so try turn zero. Anyone can win anyone with the right hand. Heck, I once won Forsen on the ladder with my first proper deck (Mech Mage) when I had only played like a month or so. (Double fireball to the face on turn 8 sealed the deal)
That being said, I don't think the game is in a bad spot at all. The Meta is diverse and slower than ever, no face hunters or pirate warriors etc. running you down on turn 5. Even the most aggressive deck now a days tend to run Bonemares and some other heavy stuff, allowing you to actually have a fighting chance, unlike it used to be up until Ungoro.
If you think we're in a bad spot, you should have seen how things were back in GvG when all you saw past rank 15 was Mech Mages, and Face Hunters. Period. (And still, I enjoyed the game)
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Leeroy , Shadowstep, Leeroy, Shadowstep, Evasion
Leeroy, Youthful, Evasion
Leeroy, Youthful, Leeroy, WIN
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Fun Fact! This card actually reads: "Whenever this minion survives damage, summon Lorewalker Cho or Nat Pagle".
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8 mana "play 15 mana worth of stuff, and thin out your deck. Sounds decent.
It does however go against EVERY existing Secret Mage tool, since they all strive to DRAW the secrets, and as early as possible.
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"But I'm a Creeeeeep!"
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Looks like Assassin's Blade might return to meta. With this and Leeching Poison, it'starting to look like a fairly decent weapon to run.
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This really requires a board state where the opponent is unable to trade the target off. Otherwise it's just a 6 mana "force a trade".
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Remember when Ben Brode said, "There's a quality Priest deck out there, that hasn't been found yet."
Turns out it's the opponents deck.
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True dat :D
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Mixed feelings:
Against Control: "Value, value everywhere!"
Against Aggro: "Dilute your deck with Aggro crap"
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Blizzard has tried to force Hunter towards control for a long time now, with little to no success. And by the looks of this card, they're still not giving up. Though the card itself is good, I'm dubious about this forced direction Hunter has been taking these past few expansions.
We'll see if they finally get it right this time.