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Quote from dwl_ »

At least you made it to 5  ....

I don't know that I did, I guess it depends on how you count turns.  I only had 4 mana crystals when I died.

Well, I could have cast my Harvest Golem on turn 2, but, I reasoned that removing the Abusive Sergeant with my hero power and enabling a turn 4 Sludge Belcher was a better use of my cards. 

Maybe that was wrong.

But, what cards could I even have in my Druid deck to stop this onslaught?  I'm looking for suggestions here.

I don't know how common this is, but, I thought it deserved comment.  I went up against a deck today and was dead before I even got to 5 mana.  I have to wonder if battles ending so quickly greatly limits the strategy of the game.  Any card of cost 5+ is basically a dead card in this environment.

Ok, a quick summary of how I remember the match for those doubting me.

He went first and dropped a flame imp.

I went second and passed.

He then played a abusive seargeant and hit me for 5.

I used my Druid ability and killed the sergeant.

He played a knife juggler and I'm not quite sure.

I dropped a Harvest Golem which I thought would be a pretty good turn 3 play to slow down his deck.

He played Defender of Argus moving is guys out of threat from my Harvest Golem. 

I used my coin and dropped a Sludge Belcher.  Another card I thought would be a good answer to slow down his deck.

He dropped a ironbeak owl to get taunt off my belcher, then a 4 damage spell and I was finished.

So, I'm at a bit of a loss.  I understand that I didn't have a turn 1 drop, and maybe that's my problem, but, it seems like from there I had pretty decent plays and got smashed into a pulpy mess anyway.  It just seems to me that the game is tweaked to run too fast if you can lose before you even get to 5 mana and you weren't that spell screwed, I thought I actually had pretty decent answers with Harvest Golem and Sludge Belcher. 

Maybe I'm just a whiner.  Maybe he just got a godly hand.  Maybe I just suck as a player.  I'm curious to find out what you folks think.

Quote from Zilixiana »

Check this out, it really sounds like a mage secret deck:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/89278-sjow-new-naxx-secret-mage-deck

yeah, that looks very close.  THANKS!

Quote from geinin101 »

I'm pretty sure he was playing Trix, if anything it's not hard to make and has some flexible slots. I've played against similar decks various times so it's more how you want to build it. If you want, I can probably try and help you build your own version of it.

Maybe you could post a deck list?  Or a link?

I just played against a deck the other day that I thought was VERY good.  About the first deck I've ever wanted to copy, and I wanted to know if it's a standard deck type.

I can't tell you the deck list, but, it was just full of cards that I felt were threats.

The undertaker

The guy that grows if you own a secret

I think the hidden guy that grows every turn

the mad scientist (not a threat)

the 4/3 guy for 3 that lets you drop a free secret

and a bunch of secrets other stuff....

I can't remember what all else.  But, it was brutal.  Every turn he was dropping something that I felt needed killed right away OR ELSE.  I couldn't keep up with all the threats and was quickly dispatched.  I wish I could have played him a few more times to get a better feel on his deck list, anyone have any ideas on where to point me?

I got 2 quests today.  Win 5 with Druid and use 20 5+ cc creatures.  So, I threw this deck together with the cards I had and won 6 matches in a row.  Not sure if lucky or good.

What do you think?

I'm a fairly new player and don't have many cards beyond the basic ones.  And I've got 2 quests right now for priest.  But, damn.  It's so hard to win with him vs teh other heroes.  The basis priest cards just seem like crap compared to the other classes.

Is it just a case where you need to avoid priest until you have a decent card pool?  Or am I just a terrible deck builder?