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Again? Druid already is overpowered.
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Id say variance and that some new players are just good makes the split a little worse than 90:10.
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kateee posted...

i think i'm ready to watch 2018 stuff now. already some sequels i'm planning to watch but other than that, which one or two shows should i check out?

Like stuff from all of 2018?

Going to list every show I gave an 8 or more. In order of airing. This is roughly 23% of all shows Ive seen.

Winter
A place further than the universe
Yuru Camp
Slow Start
Card Captor Sakura Clear Card
Kokkoku (Amazon)
Skilled Teaser Takagi
The Ryous work is never done
Violet Evergarden
How to raise a mummy

Spring
Kakuriyo no Yadomeshi (on going)
Hinamatsuri
Megalo Box

A bunch of sequels

I consider winter to be a strong season. Spring kind of sucks without the sequels.
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Week 3 Rankings

Cells at Work
Revue Starlight
Banana Fish
Asobi Asobase
Chio's School Road
Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou
Music Girls
Grand Blue
Harukana Receive
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Hanebado!
Attack on Titan S3
Seven Senses of the Re'Union
Free S3
High Score Girl
How not to Summon a Demon Lord
Dropkick on my Devil
Island
Phantom in the Twilight
Planet With

New Drops
Angel of Death (3)

Big Winner of the Week: High Score Girl
-Although the lower ranking might not indicate. HSG was on drop watch after an episode one I considered less than good. I kept it out of "I think this will get better" mentality based on how well they really capture the setting and some of the game culture back then. Episode 2 was great and some more like it I think this show will start to rise up the ranks.

Fan Service
-Harukana Receive right now is getting by basically exclusively by being maybe the best looking show of the season AND having some great characters. But the last cute girls sports show was Keijo and while the overall cast in Harukana seems better Harukana is just not exciting right now. I think I said this after the first episode, the like overall goal of the show seems a little ehhh? Although I am impressed that they actually are explaining the rules of the game in the show (something that is like rarely done). Right now the show has some really good character interaction going for it.

AnoHana Gaiden
-Re'Union is basically like Sword art online mixed with Anohana but they've gone a good direction with this and seem to be making it a sort of mystery to be solved. They've already squashed a big issue I had with Anohana and that everyone knows the girl is still around and they've also been establishing that the characters have dealt with the tragedy in different ways a lot earlier than in Anohana too. Right now the show is on the watch list out of curiosity, but I would not be surprised if this turns out to be a good show.

Comedy
-Asobi Asobase still maintains the top for comedy but both Chio's and Grand Blue had really good episodes this week. None of them are as good as Skilled Teaser Takagi or Hinamatsuri though.

Kill them all
-Attack on Titan came back and like I mean it was okay?

Death
-Angel of Death's writing is just a little too dumb to keep watching.

Planet Without?
-Planet with is dangerously close to being dropped too. Right now it's the only show on real drop watch as I thought Phantom and Island had decent enough episodes to give them another one. Planet With is basically getting by simply by the cliffhanger.
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Updated: July 27th, 2016.

I copied a control warlock zalae was playing on stream. Played 10 games

Wins (spell hunter (x2), egg hunter, control mage, odd rogue (x2), zoo.)

Losses (shudderwock, odd rogue, midrange hunter)

One of the spell hunter games my opponent threw by turning into ds rexar and giving up the hero power. The control mage game I gnomeferatsued a card late or I would have hit jaina (and would have saved probably 15 minutes)

In the shuddeewock game both gnomes and guldan were bottom 4.
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Omg Kripps voice impression video is even more cringe than I expected
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UltimaterializerX posted...

https://twitter.com/ultimaterializr/status/1021952295909634049?s=21

Best Ive ever done. To get there I had to beat a rogue that went double blink fox into double molten reflection, which is so fucking dumb. Baku the minion was copied with one of those moltens, too.

Hey man good on you
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Hell fire is a bad card in zoo
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UltimaterializerX posted...

VeryInsane posted...

Just when I thought I've seen it all, I've seen a Zoolock run Hellfire

It's to beat Level Up.

Thats like completely unneeded. Zoo is already favored versus paladin and paladins play rate has also dropped off significantly. I hit gold paladin recently and since I stopped playing it my rank went from like 3500 to 475
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The main girl in music girls is great. I dont think a lot of the shows airing this season seem amazing but a lot of the new characters are.
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Oh I get friends requests not uncommonly and I always never accept them if its from a recent opponent.
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Thats just how arena is now
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a lot of times it had to do with sourcing.
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Do you really equate quality with how much money a company makes? Not even you can possibly believe that, and if you did even you cant believe that in all circumstances.

Also Im almost positive that keurig makes the most off of coffee
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I got golden paladin which means I can now play like decks i feel Im good at (mainly odd rogue).

The classes I dont have in gold are warrior, shaman, Druid, and hunter. Hunter is the closest but Id have to comit too much dust into it.
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I have to say Peter Whalen needs to up his showmanship if hes going to be one of the primary faces of the dev team
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I got malygos from an arena run on Eu. Eventually il be able to make maly Druid on it xfd
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I heard a Stat that when tiger was in his prime everyones average score rose by one stroke because of fear
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Seeing a lot of pluses on the score cards today seems like a lot of people are having rough times
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The shrine loli is island has great hair
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swordz9 posted...

Ive seen 2 episodes today so far. I dont have many episode 1s to check out before Im dunzo this season. I think its down to these now:

Harukana Receive
Island
Music Girls
Einherjar
Angels of Death

Are these the ones you havent watched? Einherjar is like if they took all the bad and cliche parts of modern isekai and put it in a show.
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Kingsbane imo is fine if Valeera doesnt exist
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playing shudderwock is fun

Doesnt mean its good for the game
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I want to say I fucking hate death knights. I think introducing them to the game is one of the single biggest mistakes from a gameplay standpoint ever.
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I plaYed some shadowverse after admirable told me to.

I havent played in a long time and now they have like formats and such but I have like no new cards but a few unlimited decks.

Its weird because the same decks i saw like a year ago are still played in the format.
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IfGodCouldDie posted...

I asked this in another topic but, does this make it a trilogy?

Technically yes.

Also so hyped for this.
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Like if they just kind of like furry characters thats fine. Some like furry Hentai can be hot too

Not sonic fans though. They can stay away
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Revue Starlight
This might be the big new show of the season. Leave it to netflix to get this and have it fall into obscurity because of that. There is literally a girl named Banana. The episode has a sort of slow first part, but overall package here is really strong. I'd check this out.

Yuuna an the Haunted Hot Springs
I thought this was pretty good. The cast seems fairly likable and even though the comedy we get is expected, it executes it well. It kind of reminds me more of is this a zombie more than anything. I like that the main dude exorcises spirits by punching them.

Lord of Vermilion
So I'm not immune to extremely low MAL scores. I don't quite think it's as bad as the initial score says... but. Like I'm completely assuming the intro was like something that's going to happen near the end of the show and if that's like what we have to look forward to it's like I don't want to watch this because it was just so dumb. It's like we're going to tease you with some of the best parts this show is going to have and it's bad. Like the rest of the episode was fine, just that intro.

High Score Girl
So like in terms of how this looks and the actual characters this is pretty bad. However, I have played these games and well this is like a huge nostalgia trip here. If you don't know Zangief's piledriver (and his kit in general) are often considered to be among the hardest to use in the game. Also, it's worth noting that Dhalsim is also viewed as like a pretty crappy character so the fact she beat the game with him on a broken machine is pretty significant. So at least they are doing some homework here. I don't know. Like this is bad but has an element to make me keep watching.

Grand Blue
Wow I don't think I've ever seen so many disclaimers before a show. In any case I though this was pretty funny but maybe not like amazingly funny? In any case this is still one of the better shows that have premiered this season.

Happy Sugar Life
Uhh. This is like not as edgy as say the start of like Magical Girl Site but it's still pretty cringy overall. I'm pretty sure this is bad.

Week 2 Ranking

Cells at Work
Revue Starlight
Asobi Asobase
Banana Fish
Ongaku Shoujo
Harukana Receive
Chio's School Road
Miss Caretaker of Sunohara-sou
Grand Blue
Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs
Free S3
Hanebado
Seven Senses of the Re'Union
How not to Summon a Demon Lord
Island
Sirius the Jaeger
Angel of Death
High Score Girl
Dropkick on my Devil
Planet With
Phantom in the Twilight

Drop Line (in airing order)

Senjuushi
Back Street Girls
Middle Management Blues
100 Princes
Master of Ragnarok
Kyoto Holmes
Angolmois
Bakabon
Lord of Vermilion
Happy Sugar Life
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Some ladder updates

Paladin has Suddenly become a decent deck again after some tech choices (mainly boisterous bard and void ripper) because rogue is everywhere. You still lose a lot of matchups but around half of my games are odd rogues
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I finally beat a shaman with control priest

He used hemet on curve (at this time he only had chain gang and life drinker in his pool). I screamed like 7 minions into his deck after and popped anduin soon after. Eventually he plays shudderwock (without grumble). Because like hes dead if he doesnt. And gets to one hp over my max damage so Im forced to scream 5 shudderwocks (and one of my minions) into his deck, basically giving him 5 shudderwocks as outs. Life drinker and hagatha give him a turn.

He bricked. Good riddance. If he didnt play hemet he actually would have won because hemet kills healing rain which is what actually wins the matchup for the shaman a lot of times.
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The only place I can think of where I will not actively buy from is papa johns.
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Big Druid runs like bright eyed scout and drakkai enchanter too. It also runs ysera so that was the bigger give away
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Thats big Druid right? I dont really see it much anymore since malygos started to become the go to Druid deck.
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Had a great game vs a maly Druid as control priest. Came down to a single point of hp.

My opening was really bad but like his was not much better on turn 9 he just dropped maly and I had cabal and acolyte ready for it and just took it. But he facelessed it etc and just started hitting me. So my next few turns were in paying Anduin after the ui and getting back board.

Finally after playing multiple hymns to keep me alive I almost threw the game by playing a cleric when I didnt need to because it stopped me from playing a final hymn (which would have sealed the game for me). But luckily a tech choice I made a couple of days ago to replace an acolyte or pain with a gluttonous ooze was the decider because the 1 armor it got me from killing twig let me live through his final burst of damage + my fatigue draw by 1.
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Just now I was like I wonder how many ranks I dropped in 18 hours so I log on NA and saw I only fell like 15 or so. So its like Ill play one game

I queue up odd rogue into a guy named Batman playing a Druid (most likely malygos since he used howl). But do you know what he didnt do? Use wild growth on 2. He did use nourish but it was too late by then. He got absolutely destroyed but because of his armor gain and some defensive options he actually made it to 9 mana and if he was say big Druid or taunt and dropped oakheart I actually still would have won because I held for it but its like if I had a less than optimal hand there was a good chance hed follow with UI the next turn and Id just lose.

In any case the win gave me like 80 ranks which Is a significant jump around my ranking. Its also problematic because it means a lot of players are hovering around my mmr.
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Wild growth into nourish for mana into pre nerf ancient of lore
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On one hand he might make consumer space travel a thing on the other hand I believe he said he had plans to make a tunnel from his house to his HQ to avoid traffic
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You have different ways to play against greedy sprite. Bio experiment is just a busted card.

The problem with Druid is different than say warlock or shaman because those decks run different early games (and also even if you muligan wrong you know which version of the deck you're facing by like turn 2 if not earlier due to odd/even indicators).
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They can print other ramp cards that ramp like darnasus aspirant or greedy sprite. But having wild growth in the game is going to cause most Druid decks to follow similar early game patterns which I think is bad for the game.
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I mean if you have Leroy I took heal zoo (with out prince 2 or void rippers) to rank 5 Eu. I think I lost 5 total games going from 25 to 15
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Also I want to talk about how annnoying Druid is.

Druid has consistently had multiple decks in tier 1 across different metas and its because of how busted their basic/classic set and the class cards they get are. Wild growth needs to be HoFed and nourish needs to stop giving full mana crystals.

But like now when I queue into Druid its like I dont know what Im paying against until turn 4 at the earliest or 5 or 6 at times.

Like say Im zoo. If I want to play against maly or token I want to know to play around plague and try to fish for something like void ripper for it. But if Im playing against taunt I dont care about that and just want to build a board that can win before oakheart. But until they use plague. Oaken, twig, etc I dont know what Im facing. Ive 100% lost games because the early core of all Druid decks now are basically the same and it makes it really hard for opposing decks to make suitable game plans beause of that.
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Right now Id say odd rogue, followed by zoo. I dont think paladin is a good pick right now.
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I am now rank 5 on Eu but the environment is very bad for zoo right now as the most common decks Im seeing are all favored against me.

As for NA. I still only play a handful of games and my win rate would is just slightly over 500 in legend.
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I hit rank 10 on eu. Im still using heal zoo. My win rate is still very high (its above 85%) but matches are getting harder.

The most common decks Im seeing are even warlock, odd rogue, and odd paladin. But as Im climbing up paladin is becoming less common And even warlock and odd rogue are getting more frequent.
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voltch posted...

Whatever happened to Halibel after she was captured?

Apparently she rules over arancar land or something
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So in Europe I made it to rank 17 (or 18) forget. I made like a budgetish version of heal zoo and just played that. I don't have prince 2 yet or voidripper (but I do have Leeroy which I crafted). I think I lost 4 games in total, all to actual meta decks (Odd Paladin, Taunt Druid, Heal Lock Mirror, and to something else I can't remember). There were very few of them pre rank 20 and even then sometimes I can tell there are some budget includes in them too.
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Undertaker was also helped by extremely OP 2 drop DRs like Mad Scientist and Haunted Creeper.
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UItimaterializer posted...

What was so wrong with it dude?

And anything unanswered loses the game. I dont get that argument.

Undertaker happened on turn 1
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