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Arena #12
I was Offered: Warrior/Paladin/Shaman
I Picked: Paladin

Well, uh, that was an easy choice. I've been waiting like 6 drafts for them to offer me Paladin even a single time. And it's not like I was going to pick one of the bottom tier classes anyway. But, jeez, finally. I was starting to think my client might be bugged or something.

The Draft: Get mediocre synergy picks for the billionth time, and find myself contemplating just quitting this game until they fix the god damn synergy pool aka remove it entirely and never try to implement such a bad idea ever again. Had to pick between Flappy Bird and Spikeridged Steed. Feels so bad. Picked up Soggoth and Truesilver later on in the draft. Nice. Since my strategy last time of intentionally picking 2/3 drops did not work since the game did not even offer me any 3 drops anyway, I decided this time to just draft the highest quality cards and then try to smooth out my curve at the very end as best as possible. Was offered one set of really, really bad cards. This seems to just be standard for arena though, at least for me. I know some people can draft medivh, frost lich jaina, and tons of removal spells. But I almost always have 1-3 dead cards in my deck at minimum.

Game 1: Vs Mage. I went Second. Drew a solid opening curve, though. Like most mage decks I play against he has insane elemental synergy, tons of removal, and perfect plays on curve every step of the way. Bonemare on 7. Is literally everyone other than me drafting this in all of their decks right now. Firelands portal for lethal. Loss.

I'm really starting to get pissed off at how many times I've been thrown into completely unwinnable meat grinders at 0-0 lately. This is like the recent arena promotion where every run started at 1-0. Except, instead, every run I'm starting off at 0-1 or 0-2 even because some unlucky asshole is sitting at 0-1 with a 12 win deck because he was also matched up against Ben Brode Jr on game 1 of his draft. Fuck.

Game 2: Vs Warlock. I went First. Shaky opener, but not too bad. He wasted a corrupting mist on turn 2 just to kill a few silver hand recruits. Well alright then. At least there's always the chance to get a few free wins off of bad players. He manages to stall me out with some midgame taunts. This leaves him with a weak board presence however and I simply play out a few snowbally midgame minions and hope at least one sticks. Um, nope. He had Defile. Oh well. Bog Creeper created by Stonehill Defender. Now I'm remembering what actually happens when you play against bad players. Hint: It involves RNG. Loss.

Game 3: Vs Rogue. I went Second. Curve out terribly with no turn 3 or turn 4 play. Exactly what you want to happen while going against tempo rogue. I play as clever as possible but he has lots of high quality cards that are difficult to answer cleanly. Corpse Raiser on Giant Mastodon. Sprint to reload his hand immediately after. Medivh. This absolute moron drafted 2 counterfeit coins and somehow he was still able to get an insane deck. Was he just offered 3 good choices almost every single pick of the draft or something. I topdeck the only 1 drop remaining in my deck. Loss.

Final Result: 0-3

Apparently this is what a tier 1 class is capable of.

Remind me to never play arena during the late night hours ever again, because apparently it's fucking insane.

my average wins just went down an entire point from those two consecutive runs
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