Board 8 > Hearthstone Discussion Topic 519 - The Rise of the Mech

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I actually quit because I think the game has become too rng heavy. I'm trying to get into auto chess and its spin offs.
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Bomb warrior can definitely feel rmg heavy depending on the matchup.
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Forceful_Dragon posted...

Bomb warrior can definitely feel rmg heavy depending on the matchup.

bomb warrior, cyclone mage, any deck that just uses lackeys, etc.

Like the lackeys by themselves is not that big a deal. its like getting a lackey that discovers a random something etc. Its like two levels of randomness in one card.
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I'm taking a break for now. I downloaded Duel Links and that has taken over my card game need for the time being.

Last time I skipped an entire expansion I came back and played more than ever, so I'll probably come back some time right before the next one ready to go.

I try to log on and complete dailies but sometimes it's tough to play this game for any amount of time.
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Oh, I got a random friend invite I can't identify. Did one of you guys send me an invite in the last few days, or was this someone I played against?
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azuarc posted...

know it's usually Ulti's shtick to complain about randomness, but I played like 6 games today, and every one of them was decided by the good fortune of one player or the other. Which is not to say the luck didn't all run one way, but I played brawl today. C'Thun deck vs C'Thun deck. I'm beating my opponent down until he draws his C'thun, clears my board, and has a giant taunt in my way. I'm going to lose in two turns...except I then pull my C'Thun and hit face enough to kill him. Then there was the next game, where I put C'Thun in play against a mage, except they randomly generated Freezing Potion and Shatter off the same Cabalist Tome. Either of those is a useless card by itself, but in tandem they kill my win condition, and I'd already played the Doomcaller for tempo.

Yeah...I've basically concluded that this brawl, as much as I want it to be good because I loved the previous brawl so much, is not very good.

Like...I really don't think C'Thun is the best deck, but most people you play against will be playing C'Thun, and if you don't kill them by turn 10, sometimes they will have drawn C'Thun already and are really scary, and sometimes they don't draw C'Thun at all and then they suck. It's such an important coinflip and it decides games.
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There's like no card draw in those sets, either.
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There's Ancient Harbinger, which in theory could tutor for C'Thun, but this involves putting a 6 mana 4/6 into your deck, playing it, and hoping that your opponent doesn't kill it before your next turn.

(I'm also not terribly interested in optimizing C'Thun decks in the first place. I'd rather optimize decks that counter C'Thun decks, and if I really wanted to make an optimal C'Thun deck I'm pretty sure it would involve like Twin Emperor Vek'lor, which I am not keen to craft. Hillariously I did actually craft some cards for this brawl; some dragons to try and make dragon priest with dragons, dragon synergy, dragonfire potion and mass hysteria work. It...lost like 5 games in a row and I regretted my life decisions. Turns out C'Thun and Jade decks are good against control decks cause they have inevitability).
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I didn't even think about building a C'thun deck, I picked Paladin because of a quest and handbuff was just staring me in the face.
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Finally beat shaw's portion of the witchwood, which was the last I needed for the final challenge.
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https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23014810?linkId=100000006816435

Classic set and HOF news: Mind Blast and Vanish are moving to the Hall of Fame set, new cards are being added to replace old HOF.

I know they want to the classic cards to be weak and generic, but damn what a boring fucking card for Priest.
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At least they're thorough
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I looked at the new cards. Brightwing looks not bad.

Also, "BEASTS" is not a strength, come on now. Every clan is going to be good or bad based on how strong the synergy is around them.
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High Inquisitor whitemane looks really good. It's like one turn worth of Kel'Thuzad but for one less Mana.

And arcane devourer looks like a fun greedy option for cyclone mage decks. Probably much too slow to be any good on average though. But devourer + images gives you a 6/6 with two taunts for protection that might keep it around long enough to go off.

Or just play questing and call it a day
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Revive some 1/1s with charge or rush is not a big deal. Especially in a class that rarely wants to make those kinds of value trades so it is a card that is often dead.

Put that card in warrior bringing some mid sized rushing mechs back to life and it's a bit more substantial or really any deck that wants to win out on value.

I'm curious how it plays in mech pally though. I imagine it would just bring back the base mech and not any of the stacked buffs.
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I'm imagining it could find a place in a rogue side deck alongside Togwaggles Scheme. Imagine shuffling 10 of them into your deck and your opponent is forced to place around constant trade/rez plays.
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My control Hunter has been absurdly successful this month. Very few losses between ranks 20 and 7 so far. I think this would be a terrible deck for an open format, but because people aren't expecting control they don't realize how they should be playing the match until it's too late.

And it's so delicious when warriors have to snap concede at the end of a 30 minute game when they see my archivist coming down seven turns after they played theirs.
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As much as people are shitting on the new priest heal card, I think it might be the most playable of the bunch.

Goes right into miracle Chef Nomi priest. Plays well with Archmage Vargoth which is one of the most played legendaries in priest decks in both standard and wild.

Brightwing is the other one that's probably ok, in that it goes into dragon decks. Not that there's any viable dragon decks right now at all.

Whitemane looks interesting, but...I'm pretty skeptical. Kel'Thuzad is fringe but does see some play in wild, but every deck in which it sees play you bypasss the battlecry completely and cheat it into play. It's played in like...Darkest Hour Warlock, and Dane Rogue. And once it's in play, it becomes a must-kill for the opponent instead of a vanilla body; that part's important too. The most reasonable use I can think of offhand is turn 6 mechanical whelp into turn 7 suicide the whelp and whitemane. You get a free whelp. But that's not even that impressive (and if you're doing this in Hunter you could just like...play Necromechanic instead).
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Oh wait duh, the anti-secret tech is probably the most overall playable card.
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No slow burn this time, expansion announcement is up:

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/blog/23037181?linkId=100000006913487

Saviors of Uldum, releases August 6.

Announcement Trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8cePfIa-Xw" data-time="

I'm all for a Holding Out For A Hero inspired theme song.

Edit: The Priest Plague spell is 90% of fan created Priest AOE cards dating back to pre-Naxx.

Also, tavern brawl is apparently open on Monday/Tuesday now.
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You literally aren't even dead on board in that image. What's the problem?
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Stan?
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I bet ulti would have more friends if we wasn't so caustic and negative all the time.
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I bet more often than not if someone goes out of their way to be nasty online, then they probably have a fair amount of nastiness inside no matter how capable they are of putting on a phone face.

Forceful_Dragon posted...

I bet ulti would have more friends if we wasn't so caustic and negative all the time.

And notice the bold. I said 'friends' and not 'real life friends'. Your online "persona" makes people not like you.
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Whats up with all these mouth breathing Mech hunters in casual

Dungeon Run speedrun seems fun, my first completed run was 21m8s.

Also, the game won't let me disenchant the golden rewards from it.
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Beeeees is a great card and made me look at the expansion a little

But man it feels like hype for this one is a lot lower than other expansions
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I thought Beeees was pretty meh until it was confirmed you can target your own overkill minions with it and it triggers.
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