I think its mediocre really. It can be traded too for free before the effect triggers which means that it will often end up being a slightly better Salty Dog, which obviously isn't a good card. If, however, the opponent has more than 3 damage available it is going to be a worse Salty Dog, which is awful.
While it is kinda cool that they are trying to help new players, the decks they made are pretty damn bad from both a resource- AND a playability-point-of-view. A new player actually is not going to have Lock and Load or Malygos; if he had he would still get beat by a good standard deck consisting of only basic cards and end up with fun but mostly horrendous cards.
The most damage dealt is infinite, there is Exodia Mage which uses Duplicate + Echo of Medivh to get multiple Sorcerers Apprentices , then gets them to 1 mana with Emperor and plays 4 of them with a discounted Antonidas + any low cost spell to create infinite Fireballs.
Most damage I've ever dealt in a single game (besides infinite with the Mage deck) probably was against a Reno Warrior which also played Healbot and bounced back his Reno. He lost because I was a Control Paladin and my Justicar Hero Power beat his one.
What really surprises me is that you are not aware of the close relationship between "gender equality in a childer's card game" and "women get raped... can't speak their mind"... If children grow up in a world that, from Disney's movies to TV ads and... well, Hearthstone, depicts males as strong, brave, powerful and smart, and women as... well... just unimportant... How are they going to think that women's opinions are important? Or that somebody should care if women are raped, enslaved or killed? A single game is not important: but we live literally immersed in a world of games, movies, books, series, ads... that fill our brain of this idea: men are important, women are not. Most users mocking feminists are good products of the system. Games and movies shape us, how we see the world.
I'm old enough to know that this thread is going to become a flamewar and be locked in no time, just as any other thread that involves ideology: religion, politics, feminism... even Mac vs PC threads can go this way! But just think about it (all of you, not only l4chsnacken).
The close relationship between women simply being less present in HS than men and rape? How did I possibly overlook this?! Oh, I know! There is no relationship.
First of all, the reason that there are more known heros than heroines is because of bygone milleniums of patriachary, there were hardly any women that were considered worthy of glory by the wider public. It was normal for the people to classify women as lower than men, they were used to it and actively taught future generations to do the same: 1 Timothy 2:12 "A woman must quietly receive instruction with entire submissiveness. But I do not allow a woman to teach or exercise authority over a man, but to remain quiet. For it was Adam who was first created, and then Eve." Those aren't some random internet warrior's words, but words found in the Bible, the book on which the "oh so liberal" Christianity is based on. There are many Christians in today's world that actively believe in God, but only a very small percentage of them would approve of what the quote states. Looking at how even the Bible treats women worse than men, I don't think I have to quote the Quran or other religious writs.
If you look at more modern times, you will realize that there in fact are women depicted as heroines: You mentioned Disney supporting the image of "strong, brave, powerful and smart" men, but they also have movies with women in the lead. Pocahontas or Mulan are such movies. There also are books with women shown as the protagonist, Pippi Longstocking or even The Hunger Games, in case you want examples of books that younger people would read.
The point is: there has been less and less misogny in the history of mankind and the fact that we haven't yet reached total equality doesn't mean that we aren't on the right path. The reason this thread is so ridiculous is that people are vigoriously trying to get offended by meaningless things such as Hearthstone's amount of females. Children or young adults playing the game won't suddenly start to treat women any worse or better than before, because their parents taught them how they should be treating others. If such education never happened, Hearthstone is most definitely not going to worsen the situation. After all, it's not games and the media who are supposed to raise the children, but the parents.
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Know what else is dumb? Crying because of gender equality in a children's card game. You guys calling the fact that there are more males in Hearthstone than there are females a problem isn't just completely laughable, but also disrespectful towards women suffering from actualmisogny. There are women that get beat up on a regular basis, women that get raped and can't even do anything about it, women that can't speak their mind and actually be listened to and you guys sit in front of your computer and complain because Ogres, Murlocs and Dragons are preventing gender equality? The reason I posted that copypasta is not because I actively want to oppress women, the reason I posted it is that its on the same ridicolous, sad and low level that your "problem" is.
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These threads are just as bad as the nerf threads. Basically you are telling people to nerf the nerf threads. See the problem?
Also, @the people protecting Secret Paladin: Saying it isn't as broken as Patron is a pretty bad argument. Miracle Rogue wasn't as broken as Patron was either, yet it got nerfed. Just like Buzzard or Undertaker. What people don't seem to understand is that "a little less good than Patron" isn't the same as "balanced". If Patron was murder and Secret Paladin was aggrevated battery, both should be punished. Aggrevated battery being less awful than murder doesn't make it okay.
Renolock/Handlock usually have a pretty good time, the only realistic way for them to kill you is Auchenai + Flash Heal wizardry, if they already burned those you just gotta get Jaraxxus. If you don't die to fatigue you should have won at that point.
PS: I'm aware of the fact that cards are going to be changed and that new cards are going to be released, but I still consider this to be a nice preparation, even if some decks might end up not working the way people intended them to work.
A LoL-Streamer I used to watch played it in open beta and got me interested, started playing as soon as it was publicly accessable. Never actually quit but if I compare the amount of games I've played to the amount of games other people played I appear to be a damn casual, lol. I usually only do the quests everyday, though if I feel especially motivated ( new expansions, ranked actually being fun, etc. ) I also play several hours a day. (I'm at ~3k wins in Play Mode and at ~700 in Arena).
Well, some people are put off by the new Standard format. Another big factor is that we don't have any information about it at all yet. Just wait 'til they show us some new cards / mechanics, the hype will come eventually.
Welp, the new Standard Mode is going to be released in the near future and lots of people have been trying out decks that are going to be playable without the sets being rotated out. While successfully playing those decks against decks consisting of cards that will soon be exclusively available in WIld Mode is possible, finding opponents who are trying to play Standard decks aswell - and therefore are a much greater help in order to find out what one's Standard deck is doing poorly or especially good against - can be kind of hard. Thus I decided to open a thread in which you can get into touch with people planning to play custom Standard games.
Just post your battletag and the server you are playing on; of course you can also add additional information like prefered languages or the times you usually are online at.
Battletag: l4chsnacken#2195
Server: EU
I don't have much of a schedule during which I'm online, feel free to add me and just send me a message ingame if ya feel like playing a few games!
PS: I'm aware of the fact that cards are going to be changed and that new cards are going to be released, but I still consider this to be a nice preparation, even if some decks might end up not working the way people intended them to work.
Also, please make sure to actually only use cards accessable in the Standard Mode. Thanks!
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Control Priest wins if done right, even more so any variant of Handlock with Jaraxxus (just gotta care for Grommash).
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I think its mediocre really. It can be traded too for free before the effect triggers which means that it will often end up being a slightly better Salty Dog, which obviously isn't a good card. If, however, the opponent has more than 3 damage available it is going to be a worse Salty Dog, which is awful.
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While it is kinda cool that they are trying to help new players, the decks they made are pretty damn bad from both a resource- AND a playability-point-of-view. A new player actually is not going to have Lock and Load or Malygos; if he had he would still get beat by a good standard deck consisting of only basic cards and end up with fun but mostly horrendous cards.
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The most damage dealt is infinite, there is Exodia Mage which uses Duplicate + Echo of Medivh to get multiple Sorcerers Apprentices , then gets them to 1 mana with Emperor and plays 4 of them with a discounted Antonidas + any low cost spell to create infinite Fireballs.
Most damage I've ever dealt in a single game (besides infinite with the Mage deck) probably was against a Reno Warrior which also played Healbot and bounced back his Reno. He lost because I was a Control Paladin and my Justicar Hero Power beat his one.
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These threads are just as bad as the nerf threads. Basically you are telling people to nerf the nerf threads. See the problem?
Also, @the people protecting Secret Paladin: Saying it isn't as broken as Patron is a pretty bad argument. Miracle Rogue wasn't as broken as Patron was either, yet it got nerfed. Just like Buzzard or Undertaker. What people don't seem to understand is that "a little less good than Patron" isn't the same as "balanced". If Patron was murder and Secret Paladin was aggrevated battery, both should be punished. Aggrevated battery being less awful than murder doesn't make it okay.
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Renolock/Handlock usually have a pretty good time, the only realistic way for them to kill you is Auchenai + Flash Heal wizardry, if they already burned those you just gotta get Jaraxxus. If you don't die to fatigue you should have won at that point.
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A LoL-Streamer I used to watch played it in open beta and got me interested, started playing as soon as it was publicly accessable. Never actually quit but if I compare the amount of games I've played to the amount of games other people played I appear to be a damn casual, lol. I usually only do the quests everyday, though if I feel especially motivated ( new expansions, ranked actually being fun, etc. ) I also play several hours a day. (I'm at ~3k wins in Play Mode and at ~700 in Arena).
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Yes. You get the chest of the highest rank you reached.
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Well, some people are put off by the new Standard format. Another big factor is that we don't have any information about it at all yet. Just wait 'til they show us some new cards / mechanics, the hype will come eventually.
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Before crafting anything at all, you might want to consider that Standard Mode is going to come up soon™.
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Welp, the new Standard Mode is going to be released in the near future and lots of people have been trying out decks that are going to be playable without the sets being rotated out. While successfully playing those decks against decks consisting of cards that will soon be exclusively available in WIld Mode is possible, finding opponents who are trying to play Standard decks aswell - and therefore are a much greater help in order to find out what one's Standard deck is doing poorly or especially good against - can be kind of hard. Thus I decided to open a thread in which you can get into touch with people planning to play custom Standard games.
Just post your battletag and the server you are playing on; of course you can also add additional information like prefered languages or the times you usually are online at.
Battletag: l4chsnacken#2195
Server: EU
I don't have much of a schedule during which I'm online, feel free to add me and just send me a message ingame if ya feel like playing a few games!
PS: I'm aware of the fact that cards are going to be changed and that new cards are going to be released, but I still consider this to be a nice preparation, even if some decks might end up not working the way people intended them to work.
Also, please make sure to actually only use cards accessable in the Standard Mode. Thanks!