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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    edited December 2015
    Kolosus wrote: »
    Kolosus wrote: »
    So playing Dragon Control Shaman feels a lot more right than the Control Shaman I was playing before. The shell is the same but the Dragons really smooth out the consistency. I want to get rid of the Volcanic Drake though but I don't think Twilight Drake fits. I could put in Nef for one of them but not sure what to do for the other.

    What's wrong with the volcanic drake? It's a dragon trigger and it's a perfect post-elemental destruction drop (frequently free if you have totems down).

    I find it sitting in my hand a lot lately. I don't see as much all out Aggro anymore so I'm not really killing tons of minions with my Elemental Destruction any more. I tried Nef + Chromie. Chromie without a way to trigger a draw basically just eats removal but I wonder if that's ok.

    Isn't chromie the reason why ancestral knowledge was made? I mean, it's inferior to Arcane Intellect in every way...except the fact that you can 10-mana drop it with chromaggus and get 4 cards right away.

    P.S: Well, chromaggus AND Ancestral Knowledge into Lava burst for lethal. Who cares if you have no mana next turn if they're dead?

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  • CantidoCantido Registered User regular
    I want Sir Mrrggleton to be voiced by Sir Penwood.

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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    Server is bullshit today. I keep getting disconnected, and it's NOT a problem on my end.

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  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    After seeing ram wrangler in action for a bit, I realized that there are a lot of really bad beasts.

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  • pirateluigipirateluigi Arr, it be me. Registered User regular
    Damn it guys. I saw Chromie and got excited that maybe they announced a new card.

    BTW, Chromie really needs to be a card.

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  • FiendishrabbitFiendishrabbit Registered User regular
    LOE was kind of a nerf to Ram wrangler. Webspinner, not so much. But hey, smetimes you get a turtle, sometimes you get king krush. Not getting value for your mana though? Almost never.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    Think I can safely conclude that Brann is REALLY GREAT in a Dragon Priest deck. Actually had one opponent concede when I dropped him behind a couple of taunts.

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    edited December 2015

    There's a set of crazy new bugs every week!

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  • NeurotikaNeurotika Registered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »

    There's a set of crazy new bugs every week!

    If it means they are pushing the tech for cool things, like with the coop Brawl, I'm fine with that.

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  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Ram Wrangler needs to pull at least 2/2 in stats to break even. Typically this is going to happen or at least break even.
    Bad:
    Ironbeak Owl
    Pit Snake
    Stonetusk Boar
    Timber Wolf
    Jeweled Scarab
    Young Dragonhawk
    Angry Chicken
    Captain's Parrot
    Hungry Crab
    Webspinner

    Even:
    Emperor Cobra
    Bloodfen Raptor
    Huge Toad
    King's Elekk
    Starving Buzzard
    Dire Wolf Alpha
    Scavenging Hyena
    River Crockolisk
    Silverback Patriarch
    Desert Camel

    Good:
    Haunted Creeper
    Mounted Raptor
    Jungle Panther
    Acid Maw
    Dreadscale
    Core Rager
    Lost Tallstrider
    Stampeding Kodo
    Tundra Rhino
    King of Beasts
    The Beast
    Oasis Snapjaw
    Armored Warhorse
    Ironfur Grizzly

    Great:
    King Krush
    Savannah Highmane
    Core Hound
    Savage Combatant
    Jungle Moonkin
    Fierce Monkey
    Stranglethorn Tiger
    King Mukla
    Malorne
    Maexxna
    Gahz'rilla
    Mukla's Champion

    So 10 bad results, 10 ok results, and 26 good to amazing results. Those are pretty good odds in my book.

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  • VariableVariable Mouth Congress Stroke Me Lady FameRegistered User regular
    apparently I'm doomed to always play around the wrong things now

    it sucks

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  • CoinageCoinage Heaviside LayerRegistered User regular
    After using Ram Wrangler in a bunch of games, the problem is that "breaking even" on stats, across two minions, is not at all what you want in a 5 drop. It's okay as a one of to roll the dice and maybe automatically win the game, but I think it's not actually a good card, just a dumb one.

  • KolosusKolosus Registered User regular
    I hate playing Midrange Paladin but it's so good right now. I don't have Tirion or Quartermasters but I still feel like it's a great deck.

  • MNC DoverMNC Dover Full-time Voice Actor Kirkland, WARegistered User regular
    Coinage wrote: »
    After using Ram Wrangler in a bunch of games, the problem is that "breaking even" on stats, across two minions, is not at all what you want in a 5 drop. It's okay as a one of to roll the dice and maybe automatically win the game, but I think it's not actually a good card, just a dumb one.

    True, but compare it to other good replacement 5-drops for Hunters:

    Mukla's Champion, Stranglehold Tiger, Azure Drake, Bomb Lobber, Sludge Belcher, Stampeding Kodo, Harrison Jones, Loatheb

    Of those, Mukla is really a 7-drop for full value and Harrison could be a dead draw depending on the class. Tiger, Lobber, and Kodo are ok or underwhelming. Drake and Belcher are almost always good. Loatheb is great.

    If we look at it this way, Ram Wrangler is sort of a weaker version of Unstable Portal. It's got the potential to outright win games when played. It also has the chance to hose you, but that doesn't happen as much. Loatheb is probably a safer all-around choice, but in a Beast synergy deck, Ram Wrangler definitely deserves a look.

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  • cloudeaglecloudeagle Registered User regular
    Though don't forget you already need a beast on the board. So unless your hunter deck is already beast-heavy, it'll be tough to roll the ram dice to begin with.

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  • Jam WarriorJam Warrior Registered User regular
    Looking for an EU player to watch for the pack quest.

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  • webberwebber Registered User regular
    @belligerent @imdointhis

    I am using the Kibler Reno deck with dragons subbed in for the 4 drops he is using.

    I dropped ET for Coldara and go back and forth with Chromaggus.

    I also eliminated all 7 attack drops and haven't really missed them.

    This lucky penny is bullshit.
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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    So immediately after the random pack change to Arena I played two games (arena being my primary gold dump) and got two vanilla packs and decided arena was no longer worth it. Last night and today I figured it was time to give arena another shot and played two more runs... for two more vanilla packs. Yeah screw arena.

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  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    This week's Brawl is weird.

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  • GoodKingJayIIIGoodKingJayIII They wanna get my gold on the ceilingRegistered User regular
    Just played a long game with grinder Mage vs. an oil rogue. It felt so good to have an answer to every single one of his threats until he's in fatigue and I have 7 cards left.

    Hurray constructed is fun again!

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  • azith28azith28 Registered User regular
    It's working? I got a message at lunch saying it was delayed.

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  • TheStigTheStig Registered User regular
    azith28 wrote: »
    It's working? I got a message at lunch saying it was delayed.

    No that's the brawl. It's pretty meta.

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  • hippofanthippofant ティンク Registered User regular
    hippofant wrote: »
    This week's Brawl is weird.

    Ahahaha, I've got 3 Confessor Paletresses. Thank you Fel Reaver.

    (Does this make no sense to you? Cuz this Brawl is weird.)

  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    This Brawl is sweet.

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  • pirateluigipirateluigi Arr, it be me. Registered User regular
    admanb wrote: »
    This Brawl is sweet.

    I had no idea what was happening, but in a good way. I loved it.

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  • webberwebber Registered User regular
    admanb wrote: »
    This Brawl is sweet.

    It really is. Got a Saraad and my opponent must have raged after I got spells that seemed to counter every smart move they made.

    This lucky penny is bullshit.
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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    It's absolutely based on deckbuilder mechanics.

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  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"

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  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2015
    Wow, with all these 1 mana cards and zero mana coins Questing Adventurer kinda ridiculous.

    My pack was super disappointing though. For someone with as few cards as I have, it really stings when 4 cards are duplicate dust and the only new card is a Mass Dispel.

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  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    The coin gets shuffled into your deck when its played. At one point I had two coins in my hand...

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  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    edited December 2015
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"
    ObiFett wrote: »
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

    I think you both misread a rule. Cards return to your deck when you play them or when you discard them at the end of your turn, so playing/holding them is functionally equivalent.

    The only way to burn cards out of your deck is with discard or "put into play" mechanics.

    admanb on
  • MenasorMenasor Registered User regular
    I want to play Warlock so I can hope to get a couple discard cards like Soulfire, to act as "deck thinners", in the parlance of that genre.

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  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    edited December 2015
    admanb wrote: »
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"
    ObiFett wrote: »
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

    I think you both misread a rule. Cards return to your deck when you play them or when you discard them at the end of your turn, so playing/holding them is functionally equivalent.

    The only way to burn cards out of your deck is with discard or "put into play" mechanics.

    I thought for sure a tool-tip popped up that said "When you play a card, it gets shuffled into your deck."

    edit: explain the two coins I had in my hand at one point.

    ObiFett on
  • admanbadmanb unionize your workplace Seattle, WARegistered User regular
    ObiFett wrote: »
    admanb wrote: »
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"
    ObiFett wrote: »
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

    I think you both misread a rule. Cards return to your deck when you play them or when you discard them at the end of your turn, so playing/holding them is functionally equivalent.

    The only way to burn cards out of your deck is with discard or "put into play" mechanics.

    I thought for sure a tool-tip popped up that said "When you play a card, it gets shuffled into your deck."

    It does... but cards in your hand at the end of the turn also get shuffled into your deck.

  • TheCanManTheCanMan GT: Gasman122009 JerseyRegistered User regular
    ObiFett wrote: »
    admanb wrote: »
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"
    ObiFett wrote: »
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

    I think you both misread a rule. Cards return to your deck when you play them or when you discard them at the end of your turn, so playing/holding them is functionally equivalent.

    The only way to burn cards out of your deck is with discard or "put into play" mechanics.

    I thought for sure a tool-tip popped up that said "When you play a card, it gets shuffled into your deck."

    You did. But you missed the one at the end of your turn that said "Now shuffle your hand into your deck and redraw." Or something like that.

  • ObiFettObiFett Use the Force As You WishRegistered User regular
    edited December 2015
    admanb wrote: »
    ObiFett wrote: »
    admanb wrote: »
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"
    ObiFett wrote: »
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

    I think you both misread a rule. Cards return to your deck when you play them or when you discard them at the end of your turn, so playing/holding them is functionally equivalent.

    The only way to burn cards out of your deck is with discard or "put into play" mechanics.

    I thought for sure a tool-tip popped up that said "When you play a card, it gets shuffled into your deck."

    It does... but cards in your hand at the end of the turn also get shuffled into your deck.

    ah, right

    edit: although that still doesn't explain the two coins in my hand at one point

    ObiFett on
  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    for some reason i got so far into the "i'm playing a deckbuilder" headspace that i thought stuff on the board would be returned to my deck at some point once it's in my discard

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    ObiFett wrote: »
    admanb wrote: »
    ObiFett wrote: »
    admanb wrote: »
    i'm trying to figure out how much you want to play your starting cards

    like at a certain point you're just flooding your deck with trash if you keep going "well i've got an extra 1 mana, let's play this chicken"
    ObiFett wrote: »
    it reminds me of a weird deckbuilding game

    I came here to post exactly this.

    Playing those 1/1 chickens is a really really bad play

    I think you both misread a rule. Cards return to your deck when you play them or when you discard them at the end of your turn, so playing/holding them is functionally equivalent.

    The only way to burn cards out of your deck is with discard or "put into play" mechanics.

    I thought for sure a tool-tip popped up that said "When you play a card, it gets shuffled into your deck."

    It does... but cards in your hand at the end of the turn also get shuffled into your deck.

    ah, right

    edit: although that still doesn't explain the two coins in my hand at one point

    your deck starts with two coins

    liEt3nH.png
    jakobagger
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