lol yeah, especially if you're playing this card when they have 30 armor its pretty gg already anyways

imo it'd be a pretty good in a hyper aggressive zoo lock 

i think the point is that miracle was nerf due to the insane amount of burst. but now patron has an even more insane burst than miracle. it's kind of like saying miracle isn't that imbalanced because you could end up not drawing your auctioneer. but warrior has an even more consistent draw engine than miracle. i don't think the main point was that patron is imbalanced, it's that miracle was nerfed to almost unplayable and now patron warrior which is even stronger exists.

i don't think rend is THAT bad of a card, it might not be top tier, but it can kill plenty of legendaries that would be hard to kill otherwise for certain classes. like ysera and malygos, or non BGHable class legendaries like archmage, gallywix, tirion, gahzrilla, foe reaper, sneeds, cenarius, loatheb... etc..

it's stats could def be better, but still i wouldn't say it's terrible, i feel like if he had better stats he'd be borderline auto include

i tried this a while back, and it did ok, except i lost a few games to rogues and i stopped playing. i picked it up again today to grind golden portrait and surprisingly i went 5-0 at rank 13-11

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Quote from Remhouse »

It's where countering the opponent plays interact. Teching your deck is a must. Learn to do it.

Against burst?
That would basically mean your deck is going to beat every other deck. If you figured out how to tech your deck against burst in this game, you'd  have basically made the deck that wins every time.

The top decks currently
- freeze mage = burst
- druid = burst
- face hunter = burst
- control warrior = semi-burst
- oil rogue = burst

Almost every deck's win condition is some large burst of damage. There's no teching against this, that's how winning is achieved right now in hearthstone. Because you can't block the other guy's minions, you always allow them to send everything to your face. 

This is fundamentally unfair. 
For instance, if I play a 3/2 first and we do nothing for the rest of the game than playing the same thing, I win. Why? I attack you with 3/2, you trade your 3/2 into my 3/2 etc. Each turn I am playing a "3/2, deal 3 to target player" while yours is just a vanilla 3/2.

That's just kind of broken and unfixable at this point.

wait. how does your example make any sense. that's why there are spells. and taunts. and weapons. and hero power... this game isn't just dropping vanilla minions. how to tech against burst? by having taunts. healbots. it's pretty damn hard to burst with any of the above with 2 ancient watchers taunted up. also, if you're pressuring them too hard, they can't burst you down. against freeze mage? loatheb and healbots wreck freeze mage. taunts can prevent burst from cw, rogue, and druid combo, thats why ramp druid is so good. but it doesn't win all the time because taunted minions have worse stats, so if you're playing against a control game against say... handlock, you'd have a tough time. control warrior practically has 80% win rate against oil rogue and freeze mage. 

a month ago, people were complaining about how gvg didn't change anything, and that they were expecting the meta to change a lot but instead hunter was still really common. and then UT nerf came and a bunch of mech decks came about, and now you're complaining about how gvg changed a lot, mech decks are so common... etc. 

it really doesn't matter what blizzard does, some players will always be dissatisfied. also, you don't need gvg packs to build a competitive deck, classic decks are still very strong, control warrior is still strong without the shield maidens, ramp druid is still strong... i really don't understand what the fuss about gvg being a necessity is all about

so i was watching sjow's and massan's stream and i saw that they had KT in his warrior deck, i know people have been occasionally running KT but is it really any good? i mean isn't it kind of hard to put KT down when you put down minions so slow, where as decks that can flood the board would get much more value from KT?

wow this deck works surprisingly well

and surprisingly, i don't have 2 si agents for some reason so i replaced one with a sabotage, which definitely helped me out especially against those buffed assassins blades

the burst is pretty amazing

4-1 currently

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I've just found myself being beaten by rush decks way too often.

if you know you're playing against a rush deck, mulligan for ancient watcher and either owl or sunfury

you'll need a hellfire too, mortal coil and dark bomb are ok too, you'll want to play defensive, once you can wipe out their board with aoe, it'll get much easier. moltens and heal bot will be your savior against face hunter

generally handlock is pretty weak against rush decks, you really need those key cards or you'll die pretty fast. if you're encountering a bunch of rush decks i wouldn't play handlock as it is definitely very inconsistent. handlock is usually really good against other control/midrange decks

personally i don't coin tap turn 1, i only use coin for ancient watcher when i know i'm being rushed, or if you have ancient watcher and owl you can do that too

if you're not being rushed you tap until turn 4, or if you're second i like to put my drakes out on turn 3, and then mountain giants. typically i like to put drakes out first if i have them so they can eat removals if the opponent has them. unless you're playing against paladin, i would put mountain giants and when they use humility or aldor you can silence your giant and hit for 8, but you can't silence your drakes. and whenever you have the opportunity you should life tap unless you think you're near lethal(dying)/playing against mill/have 9 cards... etc. also if you have drakes up i would prefer taunting up the drakes instead of your giants to protect them from tbk. when're you're near 10 health you can molten+argus/sunfury and jaraxxus the next turn

keep in mind that if you're planning to play molten and at 10+ health you should life tap before you play them, also you should keep your health as high as possible when playing against mages because they tend to save fireballs for when you're nearing 10 hp. if you have loatheb and the board is clear, don't just play loatheb by itself, personally i would use it to save your minions from being hexed/frozen or yourself from pyroblasted in the face

i think the best way to learn how to play is to just play the deck itself (i mean obviously). i'm by no means anywhere close to being the best player to give you advice around here, these are just what i observed from playing myself

also, some people like to run alex and sylvannas/rag in their handlocks as well. sylvannas can be used with void terror + power overwhelming to give you a big minion on board as well as steal a legendary on their board. personally i think rag is a little too clunky for my liking. if you ever put alex in, and you can choose to play alex and jaraxxus, i would put alex down first because it will give you an 8/8 board presence and you will still be able to play moltens if you draw them. last thing is, if you play jaraxxus, your moltens' cost reset, so they cost 20 when you're at 15 health and 10 at 5 health

good luck!

Hello everyone,
this is a gallery of cards created by me. Hope u enjoy them, iv had a lot of fun creating them. I like to create cards by finding a good art first and then think about what ability could that card represent. If u find a good art and want me to make a card with it, feel free to PM me ;-)

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Custom Classes:

Trickster (project abandoned)

Custom Cards:

Neutral:

Fresh Meat: (artist: JoelKool121)
- submited in Weekly Design Competition #22: One Thing Led To Another

This card is supposed to act as kind of finisher for Murloc decks. I made it WL card for obvious reasons (hero power). WL has best hero power for Murloc deck, so he can spamm them by 2 at a time, but u need to look out for how much r u tapping, so u wont end up killing yourself :)

I know its a loooot of text on the card and im not entirely sure if it is balanced at all, but let me know what u guys think :)

Grab: (artist: unknown)
- created for Weekly Design Competition #9: Mirrored Spells

This card is kinda small mix of Ancestor's Call/Mindgames and some healing, altered and glued together :)

I think it could be interesting card for warlock, to help him pull Giants or Mal'Ganis etc. from his deck earlier and also get some much needed healing. Can deny battlecries from opponents minions (well yours too, but that would have to be accounted for, if u decided to run this card). A lot of options with this card.

Soul Stealer: (artist: zhowee14)
- created for Weekly Design Competition #4: 1 Mana Class Minions

Counterpart to Blood Imp. Soul Stealer will slowly chip enemy minions souls away till they DIEEEEEEE ... muhehehe grglg :D Cant damage enemy hero, just minions.

Staff of Indecision: (artist: uknown)
- created for Weekly Design Competition #31: The Imitation Game

Warlock weapon. New option of early removal with some kick in the end :) Might even synergize with getting Molten Giants our earlier, since u will be taking face dmg.

The staff is called "Staff of Indecision", cause after you use all its charges, it will have to decide, which secret to play for u, but since its a very difficult decision for the lazy staff to make, it will just leave it to a random chance and be done with u :)

Changelog:

I play a lot of control warrior. It's probably the deck archetype that I play the most at present, and I think Varian will find a spot in my deck.

I understand your points, and most of them are fairly valid, but honestly, the ways that this card is punished in the current meta is very few. Say you play this, and it pulls a shieldmaiden and a Alexstraza onto the field. Are you a bit overextended onto the board? Sure, but how many classes in the current meta can punish you for that? Priest, definitely, but Priests are very few and far between, and your other big threats can coax out their wipes beforehand. If people start saving board wipes specifically for this card, they will lose to the other threats you put out. Paladins have a board wipe, but the only paladin I see basically at all on ladder right now is aggro, and if they spend an entire turn wiping your board (very unlikely they even have the two cards necessary), then you're probably okay with that. Not to mention, if you're at turn 10 against aggro pally, and you're okay with playing this card on that turn, then you're either very far ahead, or about to lose anyway. Warrior also has brawl, but again, Grim Patron warrior is by far the most popular warrior right now, and they don't run brawl.

Also, pulling a shieldmaiden and alex without their battlecries on turn 10, really isn't that bad. If they can't deal with your threats, then you have 15 damage just from Varian and Alex next turn to make up for the lost Alex battlecry. Ultimately, when you play Varian, even if you are overextending a bit, if your opponent cannot deal with the board that he creates, they probably lose, and these types of cards are very powerful; ones that require your opponent to have a specific answer, or the game is over. It's also worth noting, I think, that one of the reasons warrior doesn't overextend is that they really can't, as they're generally only playing 1-2 minions per turn due to the high cost of the cards. 

Basically, you say that Alex and Grom coming out of Varian would be win conditions lost, but Varian in and of himself is a win condition. Those cards come out of Varian, and the opponent has no answer? You win, and the battlecries don't even matter.  In the end, I think Varian is a great card,and one that can fit into current control warriors. I think he just requires a smart player, one who knows when it's okay to play him, and when it may not be the best idea. In other matchups though, there are some classes that simply cannot deal with this card. (Druids, Mages, Shamans, Warlocks unless they can play a big minion AND shadowflame, Hunters, and Rogues unless they can get a huge blade flurry.)

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Bane of Doom into Nerubian Egg = yummmmmmmm

yummm? Really? YUMMMMMMMM?

Man do you really like to eat spider eggs? Irrrhhh gros

Yay to improved demonlock! :)

Based on Aperon post ( all credits to http://www.wowwiki.com ) to anyone who want to see those old bosses art.
Click to enlarge.

Blackrock Depths - Molten Core

Blackrock Spire - Blackwing Lair

Blackwing Descent
Magmaw - Chimaeron - Atramedes - Maloriak

Nefarian

Infernals conist of Fel Energy, thats the greenish fire, while Abyssals consist of Magma. Nontheless are Abyssals still demons, therefore highlikely that it is going to be a Warlock class card.

About characters:

• Blackrock Depths: Emperor Dagran Thaurissian, he is there the final boss

• Molten Core: Hard to say, because there are so many and Garr and Ragnaros are cards already. Probably we see the Core Hound Magmadar, the Earth Elemental Garr, The Flamewaker Majordomo Excetus.

• Blackrock Spire: The Blackrockspire is divided in Lower and Upper Blackrock Spire, but in the adventure them "fuse" both together or focus only at the upper version. The lower Blackrock Spire has the final boss Overlord Wyrmthalak, a Dragonkin. The Beast is a boss from Upper Blackrock Spire. We know about Rend Blackhand, although he was not the final boss in Upper Blackrock Spire, instead it was General Drakkisath.
  
  
• Blackwing Lair: Awesome area with awesome bosses. I really hope to see the Red Dragon Vaelastrasz the Corrupt, who is controlled by the Blackdragon flight and forced to fight your group. B efore he attacks with his last power he gives the whole raid a buff to be able to defeat him. I expect to see him there. Broodlord Lashlayer was an interresting encounter as well, he is a humanoid Dragonkin. Then maybe a fight versus the 3 Black Dragons Firemaw, Ebonroc and Flamegor. Finally Chromaggus, a two headed Dragonkin, he looks so badass! (Here a picture of Chromaggus: http://heroistunado.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Chromaggus-by-Yaorenwo.jpg)
  
  
• I expect the Secret Lab to be the Blackwing Descent. Therefore i expect that we see Magmaw the Fireworm (which is actually a beast and therefore a fireworm as a hunter card? Let us be suprised!). Further there is Atramedes, a blind dragon, should be a really fun encounter. Then Maloriak, a Dragonkin (Dragonman) and finally Nefarian, the great Black Dragon boss of the expansion, the son of Blackwing.

I expect that we won't face Nefarian two times. Normally he is the final encounter in Blackwing Lair and as well in Blackwing Descents. that i doubt.

Hm... I don't know a lot, but I will try to share what I know. Blackrock Mountain was the last stand for the Orcs during their invasion to Azeroth. There could certainly be demons in there since it is the Shadow Council that is behind this whole invasion. The Shadow Council are members handpicked by Guldan the Warlock, a servant to Kil'Jaeden of the Burning Legion. So in short, yes.

The Blackrock Mountain is also home to an old nemesis, Ragnaros the Firelord, who is a servant to the Old gods, trapped in the mountain, but freed by the Dark Iron Dwarves. Also during the Second invasion by the orcs, the black dragonflight, led by Deathwing, joined with the orcs for their own purpose. And as such, you will see black dragonflights inside Blackrock Mountain.

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while not the strongest class it is defiantly still competitive,  primarily because most players are sheeps, they'll play the same deck 80% of the ladder are or the deck Trump, Amaz, Kirpp ect are playing this allows you to 'Tech' the standard warrior list (which is decent against most things) to give you at least a 50/50 match up;

example if 7/10 matches area against mech mage just tech in doomsayers to pop the mirror entity.

People are humans, not sheeps. Sheeps are sheeps. Humans can use the decklist from whoever they want. Sheeps eat grass.

It's very likely that this will be the case again. We'll definitely know all of the cards before the release date.

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Btw warrior does not have only fiery war axe, your early game can pretty much dominate any other decks early game.

2x armorsmith, 2x cruel, 2x acolite, 2x win axe, 1x whirlwind, 2x execute, 2x shield block + slam combo followed by Deathsbite belchers and silvanas/sheildmaidens

They should be crushed Warrior is still top dog, just give it a time and know your opponent, for EGZ, you must calculate to have solution for that chagga chagga dont let yourself get frozen and snowballed while you have no plan how to get out of a mess.

That damn chugga chugga....

Reynad vs. Xixo Grudge Match Summary

Thank you SlurpeeJones for making this :D

Today Reynad said some things that he couldn't back up. I thought Reynads stream was ok, it was funny to watch him get salty when he got top decked and he makes some cool decks but after today that all changed.

Here is a link to Strifecro's comentary of the best of 7 grudge match from Reynads point of view.

If you cant take it like a man your not a man. I lost all respect for Reynad, not because he lost but because he wasn't man enough to take back what he said and tell Xixo he underestimated him.

p.s. I'm not a Xixo fan boy I've never watched his stream until today.