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Yeah I don't really think that Even+Renathal+No Minions Demon Hunter is gonna be sweeping Wild haha. But it's interesting to think about how these mechanics interact and overlap with each other. I had forgotten that if Scythe takes Genn away you won't get his trigger either, which is pretty funny.
Seeing some moderate success at low ranks with No Minions Renathal, with Jace, Stheno and Renathal being my only minions for the Scythe.
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This may already be something that people know about, but if you have Souleater's Scythe and Prince Renathal, at the beginning of the game the Scythe will remove Renathal from your deck and his start of game trigger won't resolve. Because of this I think it's possible that you might be able to run an Even Deck in Wild with Renathal, because this makes me think that Class Start of Game effects trigger first. You'll start with 40 cards and 30 life with Renethal + Scythe.
Now in one way this is stupid because it makes Scythe "worse" - making a minion in your Bound Soul pool a dud at all times. But! I see this as a major improvement on Renathal, making it so instead of drawing a Spider Tank, you're drawing Jace or some Stheno or some other powerful minion.
Really this is just a piece of tech for Questline decks, more cards to draw makes the Quest reward better(?) in theory. Though I'm only recently getting into Demon Hunter so I'm not super tuned into the deck building theory for the class yet. Thoughts?
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Honestly impressive that they taught an ill-mannered toddler to type.
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Personally I disagree with OP. Runes is a sweet system that allows them to print more powerful cards without having to worry about them being put into decks together. It also lets people experiment more with deckbuilding. It's all upside.
I could see why you'd think there's a problem; not being able to support each Rune equally in each expansion. But I don't think that's an issue because I don't think they intend to do that. Some expansions will make more sense to focus on one or two of them. Odds are we'll get like, 2 of each Rune minimum per expansion, with 2 Runes maybe getting a 3rd and getting one or two Runeless cards.
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I agree that decks which pump ridiculous amounts of damage to the face are problematic. Mine Rogue, Curselock, Garrote Rogue, various Mages, etc. You're right that lifegain is the only way to mitigate those strategies. But I don't really consider decks like that "aggro". If a deck can deal 20+ damage to you in a single turn from hand, I would consider it a combo. Popping off with a million spells and hero powering with Quest Hunter is essentially a linear combo, Smite + Sunken Vessel is a two-card combo, Brann + 2 Curse Battlecries is a 3 card combo, etc.
Aggro, to me, plays on board and hits you with dudes until you die. Traditional Face Hunter, most Demon Hunters, Pirate Warrior, Aggro Shaman decks, etc. And when it takes 3 more turns or so to put your opponent to 30 Health, that presents an issue for those decks. Anecdotally, I finally started playing Demon Hunter now that I have a skin that isn't an angry guy. I've got a really fun Token Demon Hunter deck in Wild that I play casually because I like the strategy. The extra turns it takes to kill my opponent gives them enough time to put me on the back foot, wipe my board, and keep me from getting through fairly consistently. Now I know this isn't the best version of the deck, and I'm not the best pilot, but that's what I've experienced.
I guess Aggro can also be like Questline Shaman, since it'll play kinda like Mono Red Burn in MTG. Tossing burn spells face and attacking with dinky creatures is aggro. But 10 health is a lot to a burn/aggro player.
I think it's easy for Control Players to believe that 10 Health isn't that much because the style of game they play is different from Aggro. Every Control-Lock ever would happily trade 10 Health for 5 cards. But the gap is huge for Aggro to clear early. Turns 1 through 4 they just don't have access to that kind of over-the-top damage. And after that point, if your opponent isn't already on the back foot, it's so easy to lose all your tempo and the game.
TLDR: yeah decks that deal 20+ damage from hand are toxic and difficult to interact with. but i think a better solution is preventing those strategies from being dominant. Not making cards that enable those strategies to flourish. Giving all Control decks more starting health seems inelegant, and dances around the actual problem of designing cards that make toxic strategies work. Also, even if this is the best response, it's still an expensive one.
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I feel like online discussion of Hearthstone leans really heavily in favor of control -- of the entirety of Hearthstone's playerbase is likely very diverse in opinion on deck preference, but people who flock to YouTube comments or forums like this are usually Control players. I could throw out some guesses regarding demographic; people who have more time to play longer Hearthstone games also probably have that free time to spend watching Hearthstone on YouTube etc. I prefer playing aggro, but I see the value in a balanced meta as the best kind. Each archetype has an important role in keeping another in check. The classic rock>paper>scissors at a conceptual level.
I worry that Renethal may actually be the worst possible thing that could have happened to Hearthstone. I've been wrong before, and I am a dramatic bitch, but I have reasons.
It's been mentioned here before, but if (hypothetically) 50% of the Standard meta becomes Renethal decks, that means that people need to invest into 10 more cards. People aren't filling those slots with garbage, they're using the next best cards available to their deck. Higher quality cards in slower decks tend to be higher rarity, the epics and legends. Even the fun cards, the off-meta Renethal decks people will want to play, will involve like 5 Legends because those cards tend to be the most fun, impactful, and interesting to build around. Hearthstone becomes, as a result, more expensive to play. Somebody who wants to play Control is now highly disadvantaged unless they buy in; while Renethal may be free, the other cards in your deck most likely aren't. Aggro was popular for a large variety of reasons. Hearthstone is widely designed to be faster paced, to keep players attention between shorter and more exciting games that you can play on your break at work, or on the toilet. Devs leaning into aggro made it strong, and desirable to play. On top of this, aggro was cheap and accessible. Commons and Rares made up a bulk of aggro decks, and games could be completed quickly for people with busy schedules. Aggro, to the chagrin of Combo players everywhere, is the best thing for the largest demographic of Hearthstone players. TLDR; the game becomes more expensive for anybody who wants to compete *if Renethal decks are the strongest available option*.
The effect that Renethal could have on aggro in and of itself could be a net negative for the game as a whole. If aggro dies (and I do mean *if* it dies, Renethal has been out for all of 2 days so I won't conclude either way) I think that that's a terrible thing. Because once Aggro decks become a non-element, Control decks are now running mostly into Control mirrors. That might not be such a bad thing for people who like the grindy value matches, but competitive Hearthstone players are Spikes, and what I think will probably happen is that those 10 additional cards convert from Control additives to a Combo package. Combo is the most effective way to beat Control, after all, so it makes sense that in order to combat the mirrors, all Control decks pivot into Combo/Control in order to compete. The game then becomes two slow decks racing to see who hits their combo first. And, in my opinion, that sounds boring as hell. And if those changes make Aggro relevant again, the game will become a cycle of: Combo Control Mirrors > Control+ Mirrors to keep Aggro dead > Combo Control Mirrors > Next Set Release.
This is all purely speculative, and I'd own up to being wrong if I was proven wrong. But an additional 10 Health is a hurdle I'm uncertain Aggro decks will be able to overcome as decklists become more refined. For every draw card an Aggro deck includes so they don't run out of steam, that's a threat they have to drop. I don't see the math working out for Aggro at all tbh.
Some people will be thrilled about this, and in fairness I'm glad Control players can get their time in the sun! Aggro historically has been a dominant force in the game, I remember very VERY few metas where Control had the crown. Though recently a Control deck was so strong it got like, 4 or 5 nerfs? Let them eat cake imo. But I think there'll need to be very relevant changes after a while, because one-third of Hearthstone vanishing will do a lot of damage to people's willingness to play it. And why come back to Hearthstone when there're other, better TCG's and CCG's out there?
Just my thoughts. Wanted the chance to share them on here, so I'm grateful for the thread.
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I really hope so. Make it a 2 mana 2/1. I'd play it all the time even if it was terrible.
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This is an unbelievably cool card. Will make a very fun (but likely uncompetitive) Pirate Rogue in Wild, and perhaps something equally fun in Standard, if more viable in a more stable format. This kind of interaction is extremely underutilized in Hearthstone, and I'm excited to see more of it.
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I got whipped by this earlier in Casual. Seems pretty inoffensive, and I can't complain much since just minutes before I was doing Lady Anacondra + Celestial Alignment shenanigans in Druid just to get a feel for the deck.
Sure it feels a little bad, but it's either a fad that'll go away when they keep losing to Secret Mage and Darkglare, or it does wind up good enough to be tier 2 or tier 1.5, and Warlock just gets another good deck that hard loses to anything with face damage.
While I think minions that make your Hero Immune is silly because it's so limiting of design space in creating stuff like Stealer of Souls, clearly Blizzard doesn't really care about it at all. Personally I think it's not good design. The only card that isn't annoying that makes your Hero Immune is Time Out!, imo. Paly exploits Immune less well than Warlock and Mage can.
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I think it's because maybe they're the most tricksy classes? Like, you have a lot of flexibility in competitive and casual deckbuilding to be really experimental or Timmy-ish, or build a deck that's extremely competitive and good.
Like, Rogue can build some really Timmy stuff, and Mage has really high levels of RNG, I know two people who only play Mage because Casino Mage is fun for them, so they both appeal to the inner Timmy within all of us. I played Rogue for years because it was the class you can durdle around the most with in game, which is fun for me.
Could be a lot of reasons, stuff like this is subjective.
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Primal Dungeoneer is absolutely awesome! A potential Arcane Intellect on a 2/3 is nothing to scoff at, and if you build the deck with only Nature spells (most of Shaman's best spells) you're guaranteed a draw 2. What a cool card, this might actually help Shaman in some way.
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As the resident "guy who likes Hunter too much" I'd say best thing for ole King Krush is a cost change. He's an inferior version of that Illidari Inquisitor in DH that you can only have 1 of; and a change in cost won't remotely effect the way it's implemented in OTK decks that don't pay for him anyway.
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Solid ideas all around.
Just because a card was recently changed, that doesn't mean they shouldn't take another look at it, especially if it's not doing well.
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It is weird to me how everybody's just assuming that OP is an aggro player when they just think the games animations are slow.
Like, sure, I could see the argument that the mulligan is slow. The cards move really slowly. First draw of the game is slow. OP is impatient, sure, but we can't really make any assumptions about them other than that, can we?
Like, nobody's really said anything to disprove that the game is slow, either. Turning a page in the collection? Takes a second. Going between screens? Takes a few clicks and some time. Like, yeah, Hearthstone could stand to be a bit more hasty with its transitions and animations. I feel like that's a pretty unproblematic stance to take. Personally I find it incredibly frustrating that PC users can't use the keyboard at all to navigate screens. Escape brings up the options menu, and that's it.
People aren't made out of time, ya know? Some people just don't have enough time to squeeze in a game of Hearthstone, a game they like, while they're on break at work or something. They gotta get through all these slow animations and stuff just to get a game to start. That could be better.
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Ah, the classic Control player who thinks aggro is for dumb idiots. What a productive and completely unexplored avenue of discussion!