Portal is actually a really good spell. Apprentice + portal is a useful turn 3 play. (Particularly if you put out mechwarper on turn 2 and they used a removal on it for their entire turn). If you do that, even if you get a mana wyrm, well, you spent one mana and got a 1 drop. The potential upside can be pretty huge.
I got Tirion from mine once, which was fun.
I think it's best on turn 2 so you can draw some amazing 6 cost minion and play it on turn 3 (like a sunwalker)
The thing about portal is that most of the minions in the game cost more than 2 mana, and very few minions are bad when their cost is reduced by two. Like the game I had against a warrior. Turn 1, coin portal. Turn 3, Fel Reaver. He milled 12 cards, I milled his life.
Of all the things it's impossible to prevent, Shrinkmeister Cabal is probably the most rage inducing. An 8 mana two card mind control that also puts a 3/2 and a 4/5 on the board is the metaphorical (hell, maybe the literal) definition of bananas.
Priest is so badonkadonk. Vol'jin's entrance animation is the tits, too. 5 mana 6/X that neuters your opponent's strongest card? Suuuuuuuure.
Of all the things it's impossible to prevent, Shrinkmeister Cabal is probably the most rage inducing. An 8 mana two card mind control that also puts a 3/2 and a 4/5 on the board is the metaphorical (hell, maybe the literal) definition of bananas.
Priest is so badonkadonk. Vol'jin's entrance animation is the tits, too. 5 mana 6/X that neuters your opponent's strongest card? Suuuuuuuure.
You could make a Priest deck by just flipping through your collection, looking at a card, asking "does this fuck with my opponent and steal his shit", and clicking that card twice if it does.
the meta has been slowly shifting away from aggro to a more midrange-y control for a little bit over the past month
Which makes me so happy. Don't get me wrong, there's room for all playstyles, but the least fun thing in the game is when your opponent gets a very lucky undertaker start and you effectively just lose the game by turn 3 or 4. Making it more midrangey so there's time to actually play and counterplay makes it more fun overall.
I like Hobgoblin as a card that makes like 15 other cards more valuable. It's a really nice addition to the set; like having all those extra cards in the set as options.
also i am salty about digital ccgs right now because just a few months ago i was with the magic launch where i could just buy all the important cheap uncommons that glue a deck together, but with hearthstone i have to slam packs together and make dust and grrrrr i salty
I like Hobgoblin as a card that makes like 15 other cards more valuable. It's a really nice addition to the set; like having all those extra cards in the set as options.
Two hobgoblins on the field make annoyotron very annoying.
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I would just like to remind people that Shrinkmeister->Cabal is a two-card eight-mana combo. I'm usually left high and dry with two cabals in my hand and no sign of shrinkmeisters, and of course it doesn't help at all against a turn 4 yeti/twilight drake (shrink->pain does, but then that's a pain that can't be used on a sludge belcher).
hobgoblin is the only way to ever make me play that 1/4 windfury mech
He's good for surprise inner rage/rampage shenanigans in enrage warrior. 6/6 windfury? Yes please.
Edit: Also possibly in hunter mech with the metaltooth leaper thing? Coin flying machine, leaper. You have a 3/4 windfury ready to swing on turn 3. Or coin mechwarper->flying machine->leaper.
Turn 1: Coin+Mech Warper
Turn 2: Mech Warper, Micro Machine, Annoy-o-tron, Harvest Golem
Turn 3 and on got progressively more out of hand for the poor bastard. I really felt sorry for him. Mech Warper needs to be nerfed hard. I think cards on either side will end up with a nerf just for being in the blast radius.
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Can we please just boot all shamanigans players to the moon or something? Not having a silence on hand for Sylvanas meaning you lose your entire board the next turn to rivendare->reincarnate is not fun. Added insult because he stole my Kel'thuzad on two tries from a board of six, giving him another sylvanas. And the worst part is there's no way to tell it's shamanigans until they drop Sylvanas! It's like the handlock/zoo mulligan issue except you don't find out until turn 6.
I realize it's a gimmicky deck that doesn't work out that often, but goddammit it works out every single time I play against them. And since I mainly play control priest and a tempo warlock, I instantly lose when that happens. [/salt]
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wow, so uh
mechwarper/molten giant turn echoes of medivh on SUPER hard
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I'm inclined to keep ysera in my priest deck but idk. maybe the 'win condition' now is that they can't keep a fresh minion on their side of the board past turn 8.
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The thing about portal is that most of the minions in the game cost more than 2 mana, and very few minions are bad when their cost is reduced by two. Like the game I had against a warrior. Turn 1, coin portal. Turn 3, Fel Reaver. He milled 12 cards, I milled his life.
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Priest is so badonkadonk. Vol'jin's entrance animation is the tits, too. 5 mana 6/X that neuters your opponent's strongest card? Suuuuuuuure.
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Priest is ladder viable! It's glorious!
It's pretty hilarious actually
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he is just way to good at his mana cost
the meta has been slowly shifting away from aggro to a more midrange-y control for a little bit over the past month
i actually laughed at a hs flavor text...
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Which makes me so happy. Don't get me wrong, there's room for all playstyles, but the least fun thing in the game is when your opponent gets a very lucky undertaker start and you effectively just lose the game by turn 3 or 4. Making it more midrangey so there's time to actually play and counterplay makes it more fun overall.
And yeah priest and warlock will most likely be my ladder decks. I love Priests "Eat a Dick" playstyle, they god some damn good cards this xpac.
I'm dead serious."
yeah I don't think malorne belongs in that deck. def into sneed's for it but I don't ahve the card yet
it's really gross. wisps and goldshire footman suddenly valuable. there are a lot of 1 drops that are quite good after +2/+2. who would have thought!
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Before GvG you had to make some choices that didn't fuck with your opponent, per se. Now there's like eight more cards that do, it's great
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Two hobgoblins on the field make annoyotron very annoying.
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He's good for surprise inner rage/rampage shenanigans in enrage warrior. 6/6 windfury? Yes please.
Edit: Also possibly in hunter mech with the metaltooth leaper thing? Coin flying machine, leaper. You have a 3/4 windfury ready to swing on turn 3. Or coin mechwarper->flying machine->leaper.
Turn 1: Coin+Mech Warper
Turn 2: Mech Warper, Micro Machine, Annoy-o-tron, Harvest Golem
Turn 3 and on got progressively more out of hand for the poor bastard. I really felt sorry for him. Mech Warper needs to be nerfed hard. I think cards on either side will end up with a nerf just for being in the blast radius.
"Strictly worse" has a real meaning! :P
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In constructed, it's strictly worse because you build around it.
what a rush
add to that a very dramatic comeback in constructed that featured a lategame swing via kel thuzad and I am really loving druid today
edit - the taunt from dark whispers won both arena games
I realize it's a gimmicky deck that doesn't work out that often, but goddammit it works out every single time I play against them. And since I mainly play control priest and a tempo warlock, I instantly lose when that happens. [/salt]
mechwarper/molten giant turn echoes of medivh on SUPER hard
Yeah, that's my new nightmare
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no knows how to kill the excitement of the glow like hearthstone
I poo'd a little.
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didn't play it enough today to decide