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Just drafted a deck with four Infinite Wolves, two Stitched Trackers, two Trackings, and a Dire Frenzy. Pretty sure that last pick is super wrong but I don't care, it'll be fun.
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How does dire frenzy interact with infinite wolves?

If you frenzy an early wolf will there be 3 wolves in deck at X+3 but will continue to grow with the non frenzied copies? Or are they stuck at whichever power they are frenzied in at?
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Also im back from out of town and drafted my first event arena. Its a lackluster seeming warlock deck without any major event influence. 1-0 so far but im not expecting too much.
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I'll never really be able to confirm that, because they're constantly re-populating my deck. I will say that I've not drawn a Wolf that didn't match the heightened stat total yet. I've only Dire Frenzy'd once, and drawn two afterward and they both matched. That's about all I can really say.
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Pretty crazy to get 3 options with the 5-cost Discover a Spell guy, have To My Side in the options and realize that's still the best pick because it's still a 1-mana Animal Companion.
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Won at like 4 fatigue and two cards in hand- was pretty satisfying. How does the game handle double KOs though? It was almost a situation where I would've had to use Ultimate Infestation for lethal which would've also killed me (I DID have to use Starfire but I had a bit of health to tank the fatigue)
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Tom Bombadil posted...

Won at like 4 fatigue and two cards in hand- was pretty satisfying. How does the game handle double KOs though?

Double KOs are a draw. They happen from time to time. Both players' portraits explode, but you don't get any penalty for losing. You've never had it happen?
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Don't think I have, no. Arena record stays the same I guess?
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turbopuns2 posted...

My first arena with this event was a warlock that went 4-3. My 2nd run is currently 5-0 with mage. Wonder how far I can take it.

Thought I cursed it. I swear it knows when I start posting about it.

Dropped to 5-2, but am now at 8-2. This deck doesn't feel that amazing but it just keeps pulling wins out of nowhere.

Man they are just throwing gold and dust at us with this event, aren't they? Is this to apologize for the breaking changes? Lol.

I started this arena run at like 0 gold and I have over 400 now, having done nothing except play arena and stretch the run out over several days. In only 10 games with the same class/deck I've gotten that much in rewards.

I'm really enjoying this arena event. Not only are the quests really nice but it's a cool change of pace in arena too. Hope they do more stuff like this in the future, or at least play around with these mechanics a bit more.
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How are you getting Felfire potion in this arena? I dont know all the new cards yet.
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Oh, old anecdote then. My bad.
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8-3. All losses came at the hands of mages who played 2 Cavern Dreamers in the first three turns that I was never able to kill, so they just had a full hand all game.

Holy shit. I just noticed that I've been seeing the Archmage illustration wrong this entire time.

I always saw his right pauldron as a hood. I guess I never looked at it closely. Mind blown lol.

What do you all think about this interaction? If you already know the answer for sure, don't comment.

You have Sword of Justice equipped, and you play the maul that summons two 1/1s. Do the two 1/1s get the buff from Sword of Justice?

I would guess no buff.
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I would assume the weapon is replaced and then the battlecry triggers.

However, it wouldn't surprise me if, in the miracle that is Hearthstone, you put out the maul, it summons the 1/1's, but for effect purposes the game still thinks you have SoJ equipped and reduces the maul's durability to buff the recruits.
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In my mind the answer is no, but this is Hearthstone so...

Maul is played, triggering the battlecry to summon dudes.
Sword sees two dudes entering play, buffs them.
Battlecry ends, Maul officially comes into play.

This would be my 'why not it probably works this way' guess.
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Alright welp that's enough for me I guess.

Played this arena earlier and it definitely gave the dudes +1/+1. And no it didn't take durability from the maul.

Was irrelevant because I was just upgrading my weapon by 1 damage to gain lethal. But I was a bit surprised by the outcome.

Divine Favor is another one of those cards where ANYONE who defends it needs to be sterilized on sight.

Motherfucker you told me that card fits the paladin 'flavor', I guess that flavor is BULLSHIT HUH

I actually do fine against paladins with my greedier decks, since they're usually built to survive aggro. It's more annoying when I'm playing midrange/tempo keeping my hand as small as I can and they still rip like four cards from it

I got burned out and tried playing again

Togwaggle is life
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Seginustemple posted...

Divine Favor is another one of those cards where ANYONE who defends it needs to be sterilized on sight.

Motherfucker you told me that card fits the paladin 'flavor', I guess that flavor is BULLSHIT HUH

I actually do fine against paladins with my greedier decks, since they're usually built to survive aggro. It's more annoying when I'm playing midrange/tempo keeping my hand as small as I can and they still rip like four cards from it

Do you know why I have ulti blocked now? Because without an actual quote I knew exactly what toxic piece of shit you were quoting.

More evidence that ulti is bad, wow. I bet in the same game that Paladin drew 12 off a perfect DF he had both spiteful and UI in his bottom 3 cards, just like his last couple games.

playing a deck that just completely obliterates kingsbane rogue and then keep getting matched against kingsbane rogue over and over again

oh yes
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MariaTaylor posted...

playing a deck that just completely obliterates kingsbane rogue and then keep getting matched against kingsbane rogue over and over again

oh yes

Which deck is that?
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tempo rogue!
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MariaTaylor posted...

playing a deck that just completely obliterates kingsbane rogue and then keep getting matched against kingsbane rogue over and over again

oh yes

Doing the lord's work here.
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There is a good chance that you are not keeping it on mulligan in control mirrors like you are supposed to so i don't feel bad for you.

There is also a good chance you are lying about 6 / 100 to begin with.
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I keep Jaina in the mulligan even when I know it's objectively bad. The only instances that I throw her away are games where I know if I get to turn 9 I've probably already won.
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Man, the Wild meta is so hostile to Togwaggle Druid now. I know it's healthy for the game to have actual counterplay to combos, but I just wanna meme.

Back to larger man Druid control, I guess.
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ColZach posted...

Do you know why I have ulti blocked now? Because without an actual quote I knew exactly what toxic piece of shit you were quoting.

Yeah well I'm looking at your name and I still don't know who the fuck I'm quoting right now so remind me why I give a shit who you block

Sounds like you cant fucking read lol

Drafted four Temporal Anomaly, and so far I'm 0-3 when it comes to not starting with one in my hand. Kind of wish I had one less just so it wouldn't be so much of a tease.
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Also, a heads up for anyone thinking about making the same play as my opponent just did...

Ripple in Time and Emerald Hive Queen is not a great combo.
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Playing Warlock against Priest. We've both turned into our respective death knights, we're each a handful of cards into fatigue, there's nothing on either side of the board and we both have exactly one card in hand. Showdown time!

Or at least it would be if I didn't have Defile, may as well not have a card in this situation. But hey, he doesn't know that, right? I just need my hero power to carry me aaaaand...

He plays Guldan. Shit.

Now, I take six fatigue and after using my hero power I end my final turn at ten life. I'm taking seven next turn so all he has to do is hero power my face, pass and he wins. There's literally zero minions on the board, he has no other target available, even if you're not paying attention to the fatigue amount it's right at the top of the action bar on the left. There's no way to screw this up.

He concedes.
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protip: don't put swamp dragon egg in your deck if you don't have a plan to pop it

EDIT: protip #2: young dragonhawk might show up when you search "dragon" but it's a beast

that's what I get for trying to throw together a dragon deck for a quest before I've had my coffee I guess
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Man I just made the dumbest misplay. Probably cost me a game in arena.

Someone played the 10/10 rush dragon that's dormant for 2 turns. I had an ironbeak owl and thought to myself "there's a 1% chance they coded this to where I can just silence it before it does anything" so my intent was to just drop the owl and see whether it would let me target the thing, and pull the owl back into my hand if I couldn't.

I didn't take the second to consider there were no other minions on board, so it instantly committed the play due to having no valid battlecry targets. Threw away my silence and he ended up buffing the dragon to 10/20. gg.

Play Shadow of the Colossus
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