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I think the joust mechanic is bad for arena. The element of surprise and preparing for the worst are some biggest aspects of arena. If the joust shows tech cards it could completely change the game. If you see mct or kezan you will surely play around them the whole game. 

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No mulch or wrath? Swipe probably isn't gonna do enough for you if you're behind, and with no spells dmg it'll probably be even harder to catch back up. Maybe the haunted creepers could be like 1 wrath/1 mulch, or maybe just throw in thalnos to combo with swipe.

Druid of the saber works as a pseudo removal. I wanted as many early beast as possible to play Knight of the Wild on turn 4/5. 

I made this beast druid deck and would love to hear your thoughts on this.

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nope but I noticed that handlock always got the 4/10 dragon on their hand for turn 3

That's actually a huge probability to have one. More than 70% I believe if they hard mulligan for it.

Well when I'm playing mage my opponent always have Kezan Mystic, so I can verify this is not true.

Depends a lot on the class you're playing against.

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I can only speak to Trump's review since I haven't watched Lifecoach's.

For the most part, I agree with Trump's reviews, I think Inspire is too slow and they're given poor stats for their cost so if you never get Inspire off, they're terrible cards.  My problem with his logic is that he always seems to assume the card is being played on an empty board.  Obviously that happens a good chunk of the time and that's just not the case as much as he brings up.  

He's also too obsessed with the concept of 'value'(obviously), and a ton of times he's right, but just as an example off the top of my head, saying you need to play at least four minons for the new Shaman Legendary to be "worth it", is crazy.  You can easily win the game based off one or two minions being that much more powerful.  What if you're playing a 3 cost minion and it's able to trade up?  That's value too and in the flow of a game can easily bring you victory.  And comparing it to Sword of Justice is just bad, the cards are nothing alike, the type of deck you'd play it in is nothing alike.  He also assumes everything is being played on curve, and I don't blame him because assuming you're playing off curve brings in way too many hypotheticals, but let's face it, cards aren't played on curve a lot of the time.  Also, when comparing cards, "this card is better than that", and he may be right, but in a lot of cases you may just run both because they're both good cards, even if one is better than the other.

So I dunno, Trump's a smart guy, he's usually right, and it's extremely hard to review in a vacuum with no experience playing said cards, and I agree with him for the most part on these cards, but you have to take it with a grain of salt.  He's extremely logical in a game that has a lot of RNG and random elements that you can't plan for. 

I agree on the Shaman Legendary being not so great. You need to play a very slow shaman deck for it to be worth it, that means you will lose early board. A 4/4 on turn 6 isn't threatening at all. The value comes at the cost of terrible tempo loss.

Don't get me wrong, it's a decent card, but it's not the ridiculously overpowered card most people thinking it is.

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Neither of them are greatest of deckbuilders. Trump will take his attempt on making crap decks after TGT release before netdecking. Lifecoach will just wait until good decks are out.

This is actually true, but they do not claim to be. And who is? I think deck building is so complex and metagame dependant that at some a certain skill level it comes down to pure luck. At least i do not know any person that has built >two< new archetypes that both become top tier.

Kolento, StrifeCro are good deckbuilders. They are always tinkering with new ideas. Those might not be top tier decks, but they are good enough to do well in legend rank. StrifeCro often plays his grinder mage, Kolento plays a lot of miracle priest in his stream nowadays. As far as I know Kolento built the notorious miracle rogue(I might be wrong).

Neither of them are greatest of deckbuilders. Trump will take his attempt on making crap decks after TGT release before netdecking. Lifecoach will just wait until good decks are out.

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I'm on rank 8 playing deathrattle shaman, velen-malygos priest and silence rogue, Its highly likely I'll be able to hit rank 5 by the end of the season. You can win with almost any deck as long as it is balanced and you can pilot it properly. While non-metagame decks are weaker, they have the surprise element and most people on lower ranks aren't adaptive enough.

I'm on rank 8 from 14 now with this deck, its amazing. I swapped one shiv for sprint and thalnos(don't have it) with a dancing sword

TGT meta: No one plays aggro, a bunch of anti aggro cards sitting useless. Rage threads like 'meta too slow', 'revive aggro or riot' incoming.

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The funny thing is, everyone is excited about the legendaries. For me the most exciting card is Bash so far. I do not plan to craft it as it is a common and I will open at least 150 packs on release, I would be surprised not to pull two of these.

Am I missing something? I think that card will not see any play because warrior already have Fiery War Axe and Death's Bite for early removal.

Any card costing 10 mana shouldn't be considered op without even trying it