Board 8 > Hearthstone Discussion Topic: No Take Candle!

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Hell yeah, just beat Warlock, Warrior, and Paladin 3 in a row after stalling out for a while.

Lock was with a ton of molten giants
Warrior was with a lot of weapons and double HP
Paladin was just flooding and buffing with silver hand recruits
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This is the quality hearthstone content we all wanted from disguised toast.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cW70eD5QjI
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damn toast this is not looking good for my creep defense
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that was pretty funny
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I'm learning to love the cube
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I recently opened zola and now I am just missing the quest to make quest rogue.

Then again, I could also craft 4 epics and have all the pieces I need for cube warlock too (I'd have to craft both cubes and both voidlords) so i'd probably do that in like a couple of weeks when I have dust.
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Toast is wonderful.

Also, I FINALLY DID IT. I finally beat Dungeon Run with Mage. Got Justicar Ring off the bat and went all in on hero power with Coldarra Drake. Plus I got the deck-eater dude as the last boss, who is EZ PZ compared to all the others.
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I beat VI in the race to lose 3 times with the same deck. In game 5, my jobber deck lost to his jobber deck.
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So I'm very casually playing dungeon run, just won with my second hero.

I'm playing warlock now and trying to decide, is justicar's ring worth it as first treasure? other options are potion of vitality and battle totem... I'm thinking between those two it totally is.
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I always take it when offered. Granted never been offered it against like the +1/1 bonus

I feel like Enchanted Raven is a crazy awesome card.

That's all.
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I'm in the process of moving, and my computer didn't survive. It was old, not worth fixing, and thankfully I have a backup. I inherited this all in one touchscreen with on board graphics abomination from my Grandma that I don't much care for, but I'm cheap and a computer is a computer. There's just one problem, and that is the touchscreen seems to get phantom touches along the middle area of the screen every so often. How does this relate to Hearthstone?

Twice today I've taken the middle card in a discover because when the cards pop up the phantom touch in the middle of the screen instantly decides for me, including a loss to the Darkness in my Hunter run because of a bad adapt decision. Oh, the salt...
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So like I stopped playing meme decks and just went back to normal raza priest without the dragon package.

I lost one game in my past 10 and that one game I misplayed horribly and shame conceded.
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Raza priest is 100% better without the dragon package. Honestly i knew it would be better before I tried it out but it was just something newer.

The issue with the dragon package (no matter if you run the basic one, keleseth, or curator list) is that they all run as more like midrange decks versus combo. Too many decks have massive amounts amounts of heal or stabilization so being able to consistently burst for like 20+ is a must right now for a deck like raza priest.

The other issue is cycle. The dragon package has less of it because it has to make room for dragons. Some of which are not that great. On top of that because of the way card generation and the draw in some dragon lists work a lot of times u just hold cards because you cant activate them and because of that you cant use your draw because youll mill yourself
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Is exploring Ungoro with Togwaggle any good/fun? I have ~6,000 dust and nothing I want to craft.

Maybe this is when I finally craft Saraad...
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you have to make sure to include Skulking Geist. that way if they ransom the Explore Ungoro deck back to themselves you can delete their entire deck instantly.
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so basically

they don't swap: they're stuck with a bunch of crappy warrior cards and no win condition, while you can explore ungoro for powerful cards to help you win

they do swap: you delete all the explore ungoro cards in their deck with the skulking geist and then they have like 5 or 6 cards in their hand to win the game or die to fatigue
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Does it actually work? As in can it theoretically win games against competent opponents? I'd need to craft Togwaggle, Geist and 1x Explore at least, and probably a few Warrior staples like a second Shield Slam. I never play Warrior, not sure what all I actually have. That's too much of a commitment if the deck wins 10% of the time in the teen ranks.

Honestly, nothing else in this expansion is really enticing me, but that's a lot of dust to just roll over to April.
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probably more than 10% of the time, but probably less than 50% if I had to speculate. honestly I don't know though. I haven't seen the stats.
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I crafted Kathrena and King Krush.

Don't craft Kathrena and King Krush.
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People complain Shaman is joke-tier, Shaman dominates for an entire year. People complain Priest is now trash, nerf Shaman and now Priest is best class. Considering what people say is underpowered now, please look forward to 2018, Year of the Hunter.
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I doubt that. Hunter is too exclusively an aggro-centric class. Unless they print an unbelievable suite of mid-range/control cards for hunter, that's just not going to happen.
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So I've been looking at Hearthpwn and Tempostorm's Meta Snapshot and it seems like, as expected, Control Priest (Highlander & Big), and Control Warlock (Normal & Cube) are going to be the top decks of the expansion.

Because I barely played during KFT, I haven't actually opened many packs and I'm missing a whole bunch of stuff. Priest is essentially not an option (9000 dust away from either build), but I could go all-in with either Warlock build and use all my dust (around 4500). Warlock is something I'm interested in, but I'm not sure if I should wait another few weeks before committing.

Maybe I'll get lucky with the 3 KFT packs from the Brawl tomorrow. I'll probably pick up another 15 Kobolds packs after Christmas as well so that should make my direction more clear.
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Guys. Deck of Wonders.

Mage gets it from glyph and plays it on three.

Skip forward a few turns He had just played Mediv and like i did stuff and passed to him. The following things happened

1. Hits me in the face with hammer.
2. Forbidden Ritual which gives him a board of 1/1s and uses all his mana.
3. Bladeflurry which kills his weapon

Also just hit legend. I just noticed my priest deck doesn't have dragonfire in it. But it's been doing well so i don't want to put it in.
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Anyway here is the deck list. It's basically the same thing as before except instead of dragonfire there is psychic scream. I know I could probably cut like something else for dragonfire but dragon decks are semi-prevalent still and it's just dead versus them.

### Highlander
# Class: Priest
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Mammoth
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# 1x (0) Circle of Healing
# 1x (0) Silence
# 1x (1) Binding Heal
# 1x (1) Holy Smite
# 1x (1) Northshire Cleric
# 1x (1) Pint-Size Potion
# 1x (1) Potion of Madness
# 1x (1) Power Word: Shield
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 1x (2) Golakka Crawler
# 1x (2) Mind Blast
# 1x (2) Novice Engineer
# 1x (2) Radiant Elemental
# 1x (2) Shadow Visions
# 1x (2) Shadow Word: Pain
# 1x (2) Spirit Lash
# 1x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 1x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 1x (3) Curious Glimmerroot
# 1x (3) Shadow Word: Death
# 1x (4) Auchenai Soulpriest
# 1x (4) Gnomish Inventor
# 1x (4) Kazakus
# 1x (4) Priest of the Feast
# 1x (4) Shadow Word: Horror
# 1x (5) Lyra the Sunshard
# 1x (5) Raza the Chained
# 1x (7) Prophet Velen
# 1x (7) Psychic Scream
# 1x (8) Shadowreaper Anduin
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Like I said the old version of the deck is still the best version.
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I actually think the deck is better now because i think it's very strong versus the other big deck of the format (cubelock and control warlock) and now I think it has an even matchup versus Big Priest (due to psychic scream) and is favored versus basically all aggro/tempo variants besides Mage. It is weak to Jade and big druid still but those are not being played much atm.
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There is no such thing as overplaying into eater of secrets. It's not a card that is run enough to be considered.
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KokoroAkechi posted...

There is no such thing as overplaying into eater of secrets. It's not a card that is run enough to be considered.

Try saying that after playing some secret mage. It's like playing jade druid and fretting over geist. No, they aren't in every deck, but when they are, they can really ruin your day.
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The secrets arent what make Secret Mage strong at all. Its the value centric minions and burn
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If you don't like this Brawl and just want the three packs, play Shaman and run Evolve. Turn 1 concede.
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Camden posted...

If you don't like this Brawl and just want the three packs, play Shaman and run Evolve. Turn 1 concede.

Noted.
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I just got benedictous from one of my packs. AKA 400 dust.
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I wonder how long it will take before I get all of my quests the first time I start Hearthstone each day... Oh, and also how long it will take for cards to randomly be assigned new status in my collection even if I've had them for a long time. That's been around for quite a while now.

Edit: I just crafted Deathwing, so there went a quarter of my dust. Not sure I'm going to use him but I can always just throw him in to anything.
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KokoroAkechi posted...

I just got benedictous from one of my packs. AKA 400 dust.

no way, I crafted that guy myself. He's the best!
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Current brawl: Turn 5 bloodlust, GG

Thanks for the 120 dust, Blizz.
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Camden posted...

If you don't like this Brawl and just want the three packs, play Shaman and run Evolve. Turn 1 concede.

Thank you for the three packs.

Between that, flametongue, and bloodlust, this Brawl is just silly for token shaman.
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Camden posted...

If you don't like this Brawl and just want the three packs, play Shaman and run Evolve. Turn 1 concede.

The Rogue I went up against stuck around to turn 4 or 5, but it was pretty much a foregone conclusion.
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