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Posting again just to point out I consistently get "well played" when I am winning.
It feels VERY good to win AND generate amazement in your opponent, despite their loss.
This deck is basically the opposite of some other broken toxic decks in the meta.
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Quote from SinAscendant >>Quote from iWatchUSleep >>So for everyone saying Barnes is the issue in Big Priest in Wild is wrong. I just played 5 different Big Priests in a row and 4 of them had Barnes on turn 4. Of those 4, I only lost to one of them and it was because they happened to have Eternal Servitude to follow up with it. A 1/1 minion won't win you the game, it's how you resurrect and the fact that being able to perfectly discover an answer from your minions makes that deck work.
But how will they resurrect that minion as soon as turn 4 without Barnes pulling it out?
One extra minion either way doesn't make or break the game.
Changing Barnes would make it a little slower but they've been playing Big Priest without him in standard for months.
It's not just "one extra minion" though.
It's effectively delaying their whole combo for 2 whole turns (1 with the coin) before they can cheat out something as a 5/5.
Against any decent aggro turn, one extra turn is deadly to this deck.
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I agree with badhank14, Bloodbloom allowing you to free-cast a 6 mana spell + Nerubian Unraveler making board clears impossible to play before Turn 7 or 8 are the biggest culprits that make this deck oppressive and frustrating to play against.
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Kingsbane laughs in the corner. This problematic card was, is, and will always be a pain in the ass. Instead of a slow deck, it could fit in a fast ,stable deck, even with the nerf of Leeching Poison won't make much of a deal. I don't think that support card make Kingsbane strong, even with few buff in aggro deck would make much of a thing in every meta.
Elysianna, yeah, it is the same as Kingsbane, discover 5 cards which could have you stall for 10 turns or so. Barnes also. Dropping it on 4 win you the game for like 90%. The problems with those cards are we lack of counter play, counter-tactic. What are the punishments by putting those cards in? Absolutely 0. Even I prefer a rock-paper-scissor meta, which I try to win counter play, rather than those dominant cards which dominate the meta.
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It's not super hard to code, but it would be inconsistent with the graveyard > board mechanics implemented so far in the game. Players disoriented, and developers with spaghetti code: a bad side-effect, to fix a card.
Which is why Barnes should be relegated to (6) mana, and Shadow Essence to (7).
When it's not about OTK, mana nerfs are often all you need to slow down a deck right enough for others to pop up in the meta.
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Summoning a minion itself as a 1/1 is not a bad idea, but i don't think resurrecting them as 1/1s is possible.
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it's impossible to code
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How much monitoring does Barnes need?
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Not really an Exodia deck (no infinite damage).
But man, is this a fun deck.
Infinitely more fun than Aluneth Mage, and possibly equally effective in the meta.
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None of those cards deserve nerfs.
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Yes but deathrattles have more synergy in priest so it's not always weaker.
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Thia card is bad, even for cubelock. If you can cheat it out early, sure, it's a 5/7 but most of the time it's an 8 drop sitting in your hand that you don't want to play. Warlock has better statted demons which haven't seen play in cubelock and you generally want to cheat out a better demon from your hand. Imagine if you had a voidlord and this in your hand and skull pulls this out. It's bad on its own and without consistent draw of minions which can benefit from this, it will continue to be bad. I rate it Dr. Morrigan bad.
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I don't see this working in any deck in standard. In wild it's too mediocre for cubelock.
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Here, I put all of Thijs' gameplay videos of the deck in the description so you can get a feel of the deck.
Basically you need to ramp fast with your mana generation cards and then draw as much as possible using Ultimate Infestation, Gadgetzan Auctioneer with a lot of cheap spells and sometimes even with Nourish. Your main win condition is drawing your deck fast and then shuffling a lot of Jade Idols while drawing them with auctioneer to overwhelm your opponent. Yogg-Saron, Hope's End is there to try to save you from a tricky situation or just for the random memes.
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Have you tried Spirit of the Dragonhawk or Ice Walker? Dragonhawk synergizes with your hero power and a good number of cards in this deck, can clear aggressive boards early and seems better to me than Arcane explosion as it requires less setup and has stealth. It also synergizes with Ice walker, which is also an elemental.
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I think this will only become good at the end of the year when they add enough support for it through the next three expansions.
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There we go again. Every expansion this same thread is opened with the same title, which should probably be enough of an answer.
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hall of fame cards are still available in wild...
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With the increasing number of cards being added to the game and the limited amount of dust in my possession, I find it hard to keep track of potential cards and decks I would like to craft in the future. If there is a possibility to add some kind of card wishlist to this site (and/or hearthstation) in the future, I would greatly appreciate it! What I'm thinking is a simple button on a card page (or in the collection manager) which adds that card to your personal wishlist if you don't have it in your collection via Innkeeper. You can then view your wishlist the same way you filter cards on this site.
I apologize if such an option already exists and I am unaware of it.
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