Board 8 > Hearthstone Discussion Topic: Truth is Found in Death

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Finally lost a couple unfortunately it de ranked me. Both were because anduin was a bottom 5 card. Won a game right after versus big priest though. Countered his Barnes with potion of madness and he drew poorly enough where I got to play a mass poly too stopping his value
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Every day a Big Priest player gets wrecked is a good day.
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Yeah it's not a fun deck to play against because you can do very little if it goes off and their real push starts at like turn 4 and 5 and not like turn 8 to 9 like mine.

But that leads me to something. I personally think there are very few if any high skill decks in this meta. Like Highlander priest is probably among the highest and im not even sure how hard it is to play. Like yeah I beat big priest because I knew the match up and what cards i needed to save and which ones to use so someone who didnt know the match up would have lost. But decks like Jade Druid, Big Priest, and to an extent even demon warlock almost play themselves.
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I cant win the mirror for my fucking life. Every time they have their important combo pieces way before I do even if they are running bad lists.
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Also I've faced 5 rogues so far today. All 5 of them have had Keleseth on 2. 3 of them have had shadow step with it.
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5-0 yesterday, 6-0 today with jade rogue. Granted, I'm still in the lower ranks and I'm running the wild ladder, but that's still a nice streak.
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Stabalized and got back to halfway through Rank 3.

Had a match versus Strifecro too. I want to say it was a good match but I pretty much had the nuts and was really only playing around not overdrawing for most of the game.
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I keep thinking there are few skillful decks in the meta, but then I watch Firebat videos and he's so damn good at this game.
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I'm like 0-5 against Firebat it's not fair D:

Then again I think there was only one game I misplayed and the rest he just had the nuts against me.

I did however beat Amnesiac once in an unfavorable matchup (I was Quest Rogue he was Pirate Warrior) and it was then that I realized that maybe Quest Rogue was too strong
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I don't think I've ever played any of the big names. Then again, I don't put in the time and energy to get to the top of the ladder, either, so I guess that's not really a surprise.
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I've played plenty of big names, but it's in the double digit ranks so I just assume it's someone else with the same name. If not, then I've played Trump about half a dozen times now.
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He was probably playing a one-star deck.
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Pretty sure like amaz is among the only real big names I havent come across. A lot of them were back in like gvg/tgt when I played more seriously though .
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Like my one game versus reynad was when we were both playing face hunter and I outfaced him
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1) He's playing Jade Rogue
2) Jade Druid isn't really a menace in Wild after nerfs iirc
3) Geist is only good if your gameplay is fatigue (otherwise you lose to Jade Druid)
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Just had an incredible match. I was versus a armor gain deadlans nozoth warrior and Im like okay hes getting a lot of armor. So Im saving resources for a huge burst when I get raza but he uses Geist and kills like 4 cards in my hand

I thought it was hopeless because he had like 100 health but glimmerrooted into deadmans and I eventually used it to shuffle back a. Velen and mind blast among other cards. Then after he used his removal up and dropped Lyra and had it stick around for a while

But Lyra died eventually but now before she got eternal servitude and resummoned velen and it lived so I played a second velen with a radiant and a mind blast for like 50 damage (could have done more but didnt need to )

It was a match where he used nozoth 3 times
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UltimaterializerX posted...

Does Geist even get run in Wild?

VeryInsane posted...

1) He's playing Jade Rogue

Funny thing is the answer is yes, and it doesn't bother me at all. Usually whoever plays it just ends up killing some of their own cards.
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Couldn't last forever, Devilsaur Hunter finally lost for me when I was one Highmane away from the worst possible draw the deck could have. My opening hand and first four draws were Alley Cat, Bonemare x2, Scalebane x2, Highmane and Hunter DK. That game was almost embarrassing.

Followed that up with three more losses. The losing streak had to happen on the day where I picked up a Hunter quest, couldn't have waited one more day...
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I have the Play a Friend quest for 80G

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just message me in the battle.net app and I'll send you a challenge
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sucessfully just made an opponent on ladder ragequit the game with my fatigue warlock when he had 0 cards left in his deck and I still had 10
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UltimaterializerX posted...

I meant "are you having success because Geist isn't being run in wild?". I don't know the wild meta at all. I just banged pirates for a little while in the grind for Warrior 500.

And, although I sort of covered this, just to be more explicit, jade rogue has no 1-cost spells. I don't run Hallucination, or Cold Blood, or any of the things you might see if some sort of Keleseth or miracle rogue. I have a shadowstep and a couple backstabs, then eviscerate and jade shuriken, fan, 1 sap, and 1 vanish. Without checking, that might be my whole spell suite.

As for having success in wild, the deck that annoys me most is Sea Witch druid/hunter. It's basically impossible to deal with because my gameplan isn't to kill my opponent by turn 5, and my hard removal is either single target or bounce. Having six 8/8s vomited onto the board maybe as early as turn 6 or 7, which can be immediately replayed if I vanish, is completely ridiculous. I'm also not fond of big priest. I have a reasonable chance against mostly anything else except maybe quest mage.
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Again, whenever I add more card draw because I can't find combo pieces my actual draw luck gets worse. The only matches where I've had both is when I've had them in my opening hand.
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Five games as rogue

Games where I've had Prince 2 in my opening hand: 0
Games where I've had patches in my opening hand: 3
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I just won a game in Wild from teching Bloodbloom into my Wild Handlock deck for Naga Sea Witch Giant opponents. Every other deck I play gets absolutely destroyed by them to the point that the moment I see the King's Elekk result, I just concede. But not this time! A few turns later, his bright-eyed scout hit Call of the Wild, and was able to Turn 9 Doomsayer/Doomsayer into my Lich King, and then Turn 10 Call of the Wild/Loatheb/Well Played me. I thanked him and cast my 10-mana Doom Pact with Atiesh, since I had the foresight to play Medivh into it for a bonus Ultrasaur.

One of my most gratifying wins ever, and it kept my winning streak intact so I could hit Rank 10 the game after. Tonight was a good night.
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What did the Bloodbloom accomplish there, if you were playing Doom on 10? (Yes, I understand it lets you play Doom much sooner if needed.)

MrSmartGuy posted...

Every other deck I play gets absolutely destroyed by them to the point that the moment I see the King's Elekk result, I just concede.

Pretty much. I'm not someone who concedes games, even when they seem like a foregone conclusion, but I don't even bother against sea witch giants.
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azuarc posted...

What did the Bloodbloom accomplish there, if you were playing Doom on 10? (Yes, I understand it lets you play Doom much sooner if needed.)

MrSmartGuy posted...

Loatheb

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I tried some Jade Druid for the first time since KFT came out cause I crafted Kun and wanted to test him out with UI

Feel like the deck is still pretty strong. Got tired of highroll decks highrolling me so I tech'd in a Spellbreaker. Got Geisted once but it didn't matter since I had a board full of monsters and he used a bunch of Board clears already. Plague nerf doesn't matter at all? I even ran Mark of the Lotus so those 1/5s are now 2/6 Stegodons
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He flooded the board on Turn 5 with the Giants. I had Bloodbloom and Twisting Nether to answer.
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over/under how many additional times does my Mage opponent need to get Earth Elemental from Firelands Portal before I stop playing Hearthstone completely
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I'll go with 6.
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Games today

1. Priest vs Jade Druid
-Raza and Anduin are the bottom 10 cards in my deck (Raza was bottom 3, I didn't draw it). I actually could have won if I drew Raza first.

2. Priest vs Priest
-Both Raza and Anduin are bottom 10 cards (drew neither of them).

3. Preist versus priest
-The other priest gets his combo out 7 turns before I did. Yes, that means I lived for 7 turns when he had a 0 mana hero power.

4. Rogue versus Rogue (NOT A KELESETH)
-Was like WTF when he played Corpse Flower. But eventually won.

5. Rogue versus Druid (jade)
-Patches in the opening hand.

6. Rogue versus Druid (jade)
-Just drew poorly. Loss

7. Rogue versus Preist
-Manage to win before he can pull combo. Worth to note that he conceded on his 8 mana turn with Raza already played, if he played shadowreaper I would have lost.

8. Rogue versus Priest
-Played prince on 2. Won on turn 7.

9. Rogue versus Mage (control)
-Played prince on 2. Drew two shadowsteps. Eventually drew a pirate that was not patches.

10. Rogue versus Druid (aggro)
-Drew patches on turn 1. Actually split the difference and kept a backstab in case it was aggro (it's like 60% jade 40% aggro right now). However drawing patches is awful. However, I mean the druid played the cute penguin and conceded after he played it... so maybe it was beast druid? I don't know.

11. Rogue versus Priest
-Again, drew a turn 1 patches. The priest basically had perfect answers the entire game.

12. Versus the same Priest
-I didn't draw patches on turn 1. I draw him on turn 2 >.>

13. Versus Druid (aggro)
-Druid has double mana and double mark of the lotus in his first 10 cards.

14. Versus Priest (big)
-Lol big priest trying to beat rogue. It didn't even matter that I drew patches on turn 2.
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mage arena

actually I don't know why I started an arena run. I havn't drafted a death knight in like maybe 30 runs and see one like every three games. If I get to like 6 wins I see one basically every game after that. If it's not that then I see decks with multiple bonemares (another card that despite being a common never get offered)

However matches included an 0-2 where the Paladin played the following cards: Righteous Protector (2), Tar Creeper, True Silver, TARIM, Sprikerdige, Bonemare, Consecration. This is a fucking deck that should get 7 wins on a bad day and i'm facing him at 0-2.
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bog creeper top tier card art so whatevs
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I have literally zero interest in driving in to Portland or wherever the nearest one of those things will be hosted at for me, so I won't be playing as that hero.
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Camden posted...

I have literally zero interest in driving in to Portland or wherever the nearest one of those things will be hosted at for me, so I won't be playing as that hero.

Oregon or Maine? Either way, I certainly hope it's not the closest one for me since I live in neither of those states.
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There's actually one pretty close to me

If I go what decks should I bring

(No ban suggests just bring Tempo Rogue/Razakus/Jade Druid and get the prize but hm)
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666 wins as Warlock

As fitting as it is to leave it like that...
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Oregon. According to the Fireside Gatherings page, there are three 'near' me. Not sure what they mean by near seeing as one of them is 65 miles away. It's probably more than that since the closest one is listed at 28 miles and I've been to the area before a few times, and from my house there's no way it's not at least 35.

The third one isn't in English.
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The establishment needs to register as a fireside gathering. So you're typically looking at like, gamer meetups at bars and stuff.
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if you show up do you get the hero right away? like you can use her at the event?

there's basically a 0% chance I would go but I think it'd be cool to at least show up with a sick warlock deck
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btw did anyone else like having to click on a reddit link to access a twitter link to access the actual link with details
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There is no greater feeling than BMing against a mage and slow rolling Eater of Secrets for lethal at the last part of the rope.

Fuck all mages.

My current opponent must think I'm nuts, I started the game with Coin, Angry Chicken x2.
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I just now noticed that secrets randomly generated don't say "produced by whatever", so you can't actually play around 5 counterspells. Blizzard legitimately is incapable of proper game design.

Not a skill game. Never will be a skill game.