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UltimaterializerX posted...

The game will eventually revolve around Smothering Starfish. That card is sooooo broken.

I have 2 in pirate warrior and its every bit as dumb as youd think.

To be fair, quest warrior generally is looking close to S-tier in standard right now, so it might not be smothering starfish that's carrying the deck; like...warrior has a 56.4% winrate in standard legend at the moment.

Which...as someone who plays wild as her primary format, I...kind of expected pirate warrior to get way stronger in standard with the new pirates. Wild pirate warrior was famously busted for months, while standard pirate warrior was famously a pretty weak deck, but basically the only substantial difference between standard pirate warrior and wild pirate warrior, is that wild has a lot of 1 drop pirates so can complete the quest really fast, whereas the average cost of pirates in standard was something like 2.8 mana before the new set. This new set added 3 new 2-drop pirates, and a premium 3 drop pirate, which...drops the average cost of standard pirates run in the deck to 2.3 mana, which is a really big deal, speeds up the quest by about a turn.

I can't take full credit for predicting everything about standard pirate warrior, granted--I didn't realize how good Pufferfist was going to be. (Drawn winrates on pufferfist are similar to Defias Cannoneer, and way higher than southsea captain and stormwind freebooter and cargo guard to compare it to the other 3-drops). I thought Pufferfist was going to be "just okay", not like "best 3-drop in the deck" so...whoops, predicted that one wrong.

But yeah, anyway, standard pirate warrior good deck right now.

(Meanwhile, wild is spending some time in combo hell, so I guess I'll be playing some standard till the first balance patch).