Hearthpwn

Honestly, not really unfair but just unlucky on my part.

Murloc plague boss.

I have him at 21 hp. Mine is 47. And a single taunt.

He plays card to summon 5 murlocks. Summons murloc oracle 3 old murk eyes and warleader, Adds murlock warleader and another murkeye minnion. OTKs past 47 hp and taunt. Considering I had full board of murlocks except 3/7 taunt, felt damn unfair.

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I love mage but often feel the love for Hunter by Blizzard makes it a better Mage than Mage.

The secrets are better and are more difficult to play around. It has spells that deal damage and discover spells. It can summon good stat minions in the midgame, all while constantly pressuring you with hero power. It has arguably better tempo spells and better draw. Beast Call and Hunters Pack are incredible plays. 

 

  Why would you dig this up. This is April's months post :/

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the thing makes this OP is actually the lackey that discover the spell. thart little bastard has to be nerfed to add a random class spell in your hand

  I kind of agree with it. Had scenarios where shaman just has no ways to win,plays double lackeys from rat, that he dropped same turn ,Drops discovers 2 silences for my 2 big taunts and still has mana for bloodlust also from discovery.

Making it random would be much more appropriate. In some games I see shaman discovering 6 to 10 cards, which are his choice as well, feels rather cheap.

But then again, if quest was harder to complete, he would need to use some of those lackeys for survival and trading. It would solve both problems not involving other classes in the nerf.

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Too many people are focused on if you win or loose. Yes, its important, but it hides the skill involved in playing the game.

You can loose and play like a pro, and you can loose while playing like a chump. These are not the same thing. The win or loss wil be the same, but how bad you were beat might not be.

Hearthstone is like a series of puzzles. Some are pretty easy to solve, some are pretty tricky to solve. Solving them well doesn't always mean you win becasue the random elements of the game can confound you. But what you do control is how well you react to what is happening at anygiven moment. That takes skill, it just doesn't always win you games.

So saying hearthstone takes no skill flies in the face of what we all do each time we play. What you really mean is that it is not a game where skill ensures victory, and that is true. But that is not at all the same as saying there is no skill in playing it. 

 Yeah those cancerous Murloc Shamans are really proving skill by vomiting their hand on each turn. Just like those Mages that sit back and play secret after secret. Yeah the skill...

 You seem to be rather salty about it, but that is another can of worms I guess.

Secret mage does take some skill, applying right secrets at right time etc, it is considerably less than say shaman or priest right now , but choosing a less skill intensive deck does not mean it is less valid. Btw secret mage in standard is just meh, and it takes some skill to win with it good amount of time as your early just does not cut it by itself. Wild secret mage is too easy yes, but cmon in wild there is 101 problem and secret mage is just 1 of them.

Mm I do play him in wild sometimes and his offers do not make much sense at times, yes.

Playing highlander priest. Dropped him turn 2, for a good 3 drop or a spell to clear enemy 3/4. Offers ware druid 3 mana card to improve my mana pool by 1, 0 mana silence to debuff 3/4 into 2/3 I guess and I don't remember 3rd chlhoixe but it was 3/4 minnion with little synergy to my deck.

Skill is necessary in hearthstone but not in a way that it is used in other games. 

In my opinion skill is assuming most likely scenario and playing around it. 

Say priest combo Vs priest combo deck. You drew just 1 drop and 4 drop early, enemy got coin. Do you play northshire and when, is enemy likely to benefit of it. Is he likely to coin his pyromancer, T1 into your northshire losing you your early game and letting enemy snowball during turn 2 and 3 or do you use 1 of you combo cards to fight for early board etc. 

Skill in hearthstone is judging RNG and playing around it. 

It is skill to include tech cards which win you more games than they lose you etc. 

Say dropping out 1 lightwarden for a crab to kill murlock decks or adding 1 stormwind knight for charge minnion, to combo out of hand with low board presence instead of adding 1 more minnion to fight for actual board itself early. 

Skill in hearthstone is not outplaying our opponent as it would in shooters, it is out planning our enemy.