Barnes is soon to rotate. But we have a similar effect forced it way right to the top of the meta lately with Spiteful Summoner. I have been playing Spiteful Priest for standard rank 5 this season, got there without too much effort, the deck is quite powerful. However, I can honestly say I disliked the experience. The deck lacks answers, with the exception of Duskbreaker, which you can indeed play four of sometimes (three is really quite common) to really crush the will to live of any zoo deck or similar.
With the lack of answers you are looking to curve out and get ahead, or atleast remain in touch, as you aren't going to be to flip the board, heading into turn six. You then play Spiteful and win from there...or not, if they actually have an answer. Zero decision making, zero anything. Winning is no fun with this kind of deck. Its the kind of deck the phrase "RNG clown-fiesta" was made for...mulligan is everything, draw is everything, but you run no draw, so not draw, but actaully topdecking, from turn 2.
I had one fun game on my climb to rank 5...one! It was against a cubelock and I drew my mindcontrols early. I went second so saved the coin in order to mindcontrol turns 9 and 10 - hoping to line up with voidlords - I got one voidlord and and cube that had eaten a doomguard. Even so the game was really tight...and long, with lots of back and forth and planning ahead (saving duskbreakers for post guldan, etc). The guy actually sent my a friend request after the game and said something similar too "gg, can't beleive we just had a fun game with you using that deck"...and that prompted me to make this post.
Yes hearthstone has had a rpoblem over the years, finding ways to make big minions viable - what's the point of cool 7 mana plus cards if you are dead straight after you play them, immediate board impact required and all that - but this cheating them out stuff is really toxic for the game. In the past we had cards like voidcaller which were cool - silenceable, also gave both players interesting decsions to make on the following turns, do I kill and gamble, how many cards does he have? how likely is the big demon....do I tap for the big demon, etc. Barnes and Spiteful Summoner do nothing of the sort, and add nothing to the game, only detract and simplify, and Spiteful Summonner is going no where for a while now :(
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who the fuck designed this card and who the hell accepted it?
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I love this deck but currently in EU from rank 3 more than 40% of the games are against druids and this deck is really crappy against them. Its possible to rank with this but its gonna be painful.
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idk, I used jade druid for all 3 bosses without any problems, the whole chapter felt way too easy... :D
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yeah well, they only need the money from the EU players :-p
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YES YES YES
DISENCHANT EVERYTHING! EVERYTHING!!!!!!!
DISENCHANT THEM ALL!!!!!!!!!
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before the fire festival I had exactly 3k gold. now I have 6.2k. also started to stockpile the packs, now I have 113 with the 50 packs preorder.
blizzard is totally robbing me, shame on them!
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and still, he was at 3-2 with that deck...
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yeah, few games in casual doesn't mean anything.
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feeling anger and hatred after that emote seems worse then the emote itself :)