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To summarise:
1) Quests without risking ranking
2) Learning a deck you've never played before / have minimal experience with without risking ranking
3) They enjoy winning, but don't enjoy laddering
4) They were trying something unusual that didn't show up in your game, and didn't want to risk ranking
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I wonder if they do it to adventure bosses too? Seeing as adventures have an unlimited clock there's probably one dickhead waiting for the rope and spamming emotes to the AI as I type.
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This brawl is hilarious. I managed to get my hands on Stalagg and Feugen. My opponent conceded after the third Thaddius.
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Friends, come witness a tale of the most delicious Lethal ever!
It's the start of the new season, so I'm just playing a bunch of fun "whatever" decks. I get the idea to build a Battlecry-based Shaman Reno deck which is basically a ton of battlecry minions (even the dinky ones like Elven Archer) to synergize with Brann and Rumbling Elemental.
First ladder match... Face Hunter. He starts with the typical Leper Gnome/Secrets opening while I just play clean-up and try to stave off heavy damage. We get to the final moments on turn 9, I haven't drawn Reno at all (and never would), and have to use my sizeable board to take him down asap.
He has Huffer, Abusive Sargent, and an Eaglehorn Bow equipped, ready to take me down next turn. He, however, is only at 9 health himself. I've got 4 minions on board, including Rumbling Elemental.
I draw none other than Sideshow Spelleater, trade a small minion into his abusive, drop the Spelleater, Rumbling Elemental kills Huffer with his ability, I go face with everything, and deliver the killing blow with HIS OWN HERO POWER. Hah!
If you're curious, this was at Rank 17 right after the season reset, so this player also likely reached at least rank 5 the prior season, along with myself. Huzzah!
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Next: a neutral minion with a huge downside (or is it?)
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1 turns into 2, turns into 4... next thing you know, you have to start killing off your own minions!
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My hero?
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I honestly have seen four different Hunters play Ram Wrangler and get King Krush out of it (once while spectating a friend, the other 3 against me) in the last week or so.
After the first three, I figured "you know what? I haven't played Hunter in a while. I'm gonna play my Midrange Hunter and I'm putting Ram Wrangler in. I want to know what it feels like to turn 5 King Krush."
First game, I'm facing another Hunter. I drop Webspinner turn 1 and trade it into the Webspinner he played his turn one. Hungry Crab
Turn 5 rolls around, and I drop Ram Wrangler. Young Dragonhawk.
His turn 5, he plays Ram Wrangler. King Krush.
After I finally manage to deal with King Krush and start the comeback, I get a Webspinner. It fit in my curve, so I threw it down. It dies to an Explosive Trap, and adds a Captain's Parrot to my hand.
I conceded, deleted the deck, and immediately logged out.
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Loatheb, no question.
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Had a really fun match the other night playing ramp Druid against Control Warrior, generally a fairly bad matchup for me.
I see the beginning animation for my opponent's Prince Malchezaar, and then a couple turns later as I'm setting up in the early game, he drops one of the legends he got from it: Lorewalker Cho.
Shit. I play as best I can without using any spells, drop out an Azure Drake. Opponent smelling a swing turn drops Prince Malchezaar himself, which I have no way of dealing with. Then he Shield Slams my Drake away.
Thanks! I drop a Druid of the Claw in charge form to take out the Cho, Feral Rage for 8 armor, and Shield Slam his Malchezaar away.
Game eventually ended in crazy fashion, with Yogg driving me into fatigue but giving me control of one of my opponent's minions on board and an Illidan Stormrage in hand, along with 2 Worthless Imps. I make one last board of Illidan and Imps and Flames of Azzinoth, and opponent has no answers left for it.
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For a while I played a version of the below with Chillmaw and 2xEquality, but it was just too defensive. Unlike the Anyfin decks, these have to basically grind the game out--they have really limited burst. So I found that if I emphasized the control / heal elements too much, I was still getting caught by aggro from time to time while also not presenting a real threat to control.
I also swung the other way for a bit and tried this with Argent Horserider instead of Dragon Consort, but the horseriders just didn't do enough to make it worthwhile.
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The one I don't get at this point is Molten Giant. Okay, right, you're nerfing Big Game Hunter and don't want to make Molten too OP...oh and by the way let's then go on to print a 4-mana 7/7 and a different giant that you don't even have to be nearly dead to cast for zero....
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I think it's fun because it makes deck construction more interesting. And since the competitive stakes are lower, you see more varied decks from your opponents.
Of course, I also play wacky slow decks there at very low rank. Could be that those who are serious about Wild (Is that an oxymoron at this point?) have different views.
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Oh goody! Another RNG clown fiesta in a week when I have the Brawl quest.
On the bright side, I won my first match when I was able to take out an Earth Elemental with Savagery. The value!
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