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Arena #9
I Was Offered: Rogue/Hunter/Warlock
I Picked: Rogue


This is the only class that currently fits one of my quests right now and I've been slacking so I do have all three of my quest slots filled at this point. I decided to just run with it and pick up some extra gold while I'm at it.The other one, by the way, is to play 50 Paladin cards. I've already played 9 just off of random stuff like grimestreet outfitter and haven't been offered Paladin a single time in the duration that I've had this quest.

The Draft: I was offered Deathwing Dragonlord/Patches/Prince Keleseth as my very first pick. HA HA HA. Game seems to think that Patches is the best of the three options. Honestly... I'm willing to bet on the fact that I might draw a pirate or two and maybe pull him out of the deck. Not honestly sure how much a 1 damage ping will really do but you never know. Dragonlord is not ever really more than a generic big lategame minion and I'm sure I'll be offered plenty of those later. I was then offered Thalnos/Moroes/Finja later on in the draft. This is my first two legendary deck and they're all pretty much awful. I was offered a lot of dragons and not many pirates, but I did manage to pick up a few late in the draft. Ended up with a fairly flat curve that I needed to fix in the late half of the draft. I was only offered three TERRIBLE options a single time, so my overall quality shouldn't be too low. Just a standard tempo rogue with two garbage legendaries.

1st Game: Vs Priest. I went Second. I just realized I have Bloodmage Thalnos and only one spell that deals damage in my deck. It's Jade Shuriken. I have no other Jade cards. Amazingly, this actually came into play on turn 3 of this very game, right after I typed that. Neato. I get screwed over pretty damn hard by Cabal Shadow Priest and then Potion of Madness. Card quality is so much more important than card rarity and there's no better way to show it than this exchange. He gets Charged Devilsaur off of Free From Amber, hides it behind a Stonehil Defender and Sunwalker on the following turn. Well alright then. Amazingly, despite all of this, I literally manage to get INSANE value off of Necrotic Geist and set up lethal on board. Doesn't matter. Had Shadowreaper Anduin and killed me with exact lethal. Loss.

Your 0-0 arena experience in the new insanely high deck variance meta.

2nd Game: Vs Warlock. I went Second. Drew all taunts in my opening hand. Not even sure if stalling the opponent out will help me all that much since my lategame isn't particularly heavy or anything either. I actually draw bloodsail raider and get Patches value on turn 2. Hahah. Amazing. This was a weird as hell game where I feel like both of us were making really sub optimal plays every turn and then eventually I just sort of won. Not really misplays or anything but just, we both clearly had bad draws and not really great quality decks. Win.

3rd Game: vs Druid. I went First. I'm really starting to realize after just three draws how completely awful Bloodmage Thalnos is. Literally a 1/1 draw a card. Does almost nothing for me. Often it's just a free thing for my enemy to kill or, more likely, ignore. Southsea Squidface on turn 4 to pull my other garbage 1/1 Legendary onto the board. God I hate my luck. Looking at them side by side like this just makes me think of all the times I faced players with like Medivh and a Death Knight card. And I get this shit. He had no early game so I just pushed tempo until he made a misplay and I sealed the game. Win.

4th Game: Vs Shaman. I went Second. Drew Patches. Enough said. Used Envenom Weapon to control the early game board. Killed Drakkari Defender right on curve, which was a key play. Then I held onto it for the entire game which really forced him to not play anything big. He definitely over committed to this strategy. This is definitely a game where I feel good about and I just completely outplayed my opponent from turns 1 to 10. Win.
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