Dog cheated. Deck list were leaked and he changed to mage to counter warrior meta.
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There were a group of people who leaked the percentages of all classes brought to vegas through Battlefys API. Battlefy is a third party tourney client used for this tournament . The problem with this is that there was still time to edit your decklists. If I can remember correctly, about 40% of people brought warrior. Several people switched their lists to counter warrior because of this. A lot of pros are saying that dog originally had OTK paladin, which is an almost unwinnable matchup against warrior. It’s almost sure hat he would not have won this tourney. However, he switched to non cyclone conjurer mage list as it’s much better than warrior. If nothing was leaked dog doesn’t win
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This is just Big Giants Mage with better cards cut to run more useless ones. Seriously, Snap Freeze is complete garbage, and Jepetto does almost nothing in this deck except ruin the bodies of your big drops after you make them 1 mana. Astromancer makes little sense in this build, your hand won't be big enough by turn 7 since you're playing so much early removal, and you don't even run Khadgar. You should also be running Malygos to take advantage of all the burn spells you're running. This list is not good.
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This bundle really has no target customer. A new player will not be able to compete in wild with 8 packs from each set. An old player already has all these cards. A strange bundle, but I do like the idea of selling discounted price wild packs. They probably could have baited a sale from me if there was some insane Hero portrait/card back included. I suppose this is also a cheap way to get dust, as well.
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The Goblin bomb version of this deck is just way better. You need trackings in this list. Explodinator makes no sense at all without running Necromechanics, Framebot is weak, double Bronze Gatekeeper is weak. The Galvanizer package is just not good enough. Faceless is needlessly greedy. Double Missile Launcher is just bad unless this is the Goblin bomb list. You're gonna dump your hand and have no draw, you don't run the bigger deathrattle cards or Oblivitron, so you'll have no value on board. Warrior would crush this deck. It looks like someone just added all the mech cards they had to a deck. I would not even try to play this list above rank 5. Take out Galvanizer and the other useless mechs and run the rest of the bomb cards like Whirliglider and Flark and put in Necromechanics.
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This is the worst hs tournament I've ever seen, they thought this was gonna be like mtg??
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Do you people own phones?
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This deck looks like hot trash lol scared to tank my rank trying it. Does it really work? Rank 3 atm
No Dr. Boom hero card is a huge red flag for me
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If anyone still didn't believe that Hearthstone is an ever sinking ship, this is the proof. Blame Blizzard. They have systematically killed all their games in recent years, and even the biggest fans aren't sticking around. This is almost as telling as when nearly all the original Team 5 members jumped ship.
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Necromechanic and Thunderhead are absolute units after this buff.
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A certain number of players have asked for buffs for years, there are tons of almost useless and underpowered old cards it's ridiculous (Illidan I'm looking at you) and I've always seen people get down-voted whenever a thread was made suggesting buffs. Every other digital card game I've played outside of Hearthstone has done buffs quite regularly, and the results are always great. As always, the HS team is slower than a turtle whenever they try to actually listen to fans. Most times it's way after the fact of mattering. Hearthstone is still declining big time, this could be Blizzard recognizing it just isn't working anymore with their past way of doing things. Even though these buffs aren't classic cards, If this is a sign of things to come maybe the game will improve for the better.
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Prep pretty much useless now outside of a Malygos OTK deck