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Pretty much exactly this, it gives you something that you could drop down on turn 1 against zoo or aggro. I took it out because more often than not it conflicted with Fiery Win Axe, or ended up being a dead draw later in the game. I'll have to post the deck list I've been running with, but I definitely have two slams and a single inner rage.
I've personally have 1 First Mate in my tempo warrior and I like it a lot. The ping is incredibly useful along with B2I or Inner Rage to kill off weenies, it helps out trading (much like how the light's justice from muster was really useful). It's basically a mini Arathi Weaponsmith, which is also in my deck, and is also really really good. It's not as good as Arathi, but still pretty good.
Malkorok might be the way to go if you feel your need more threats, but I'm not really sure what Dragon Warrior is looking like these days or how it wants to play (last time I played Dragon Warrior, which I did a lot of, it was a variant on CWar).
All I know is when I hit rank 9 I learned the truth of how Dragon Warrior beats Tempo Warrior basically always. Alextraza's Champion was a mistake!
Also Blood 2 Ichor is probably my favorite OG card now that I've gotten a chance to play around with it in a real deck.
1x inner rage
2x blood to ichor
2x execute
1x sir finley mrrgglton
2x alexstrasza's champion
2x faerie dragon
2x fiery war axe
2x slam
2x frothing berserker
2x ravaging ghoul
2x kor'kron elite
2x twilight guardian
2x azure drake
2x blackwing corruptor
2x drakonoid crusher
1x grommash hellscream
1x ragnaros the firelord
I was doubtful of the ravaging ghouls at first, but they really are helpful as your only AOE and to help stabilize the early board or pump up a frothing. I've had them get me from behind behind 1-3 on the board to zoo to 1-0 ahead.
I've also thought about swapping out Ragnaros, but he just does so much work against other mid range and control decks since your goal is already to control the board. At times he can even act as a hail mary to try and get that last bit of damage through a taunt. He is pretty much a dead draw against zoo and aggro though, at least grom can 2 for 1 against those decks if needed.
If you're going to put in first mate I'd probably swap it out with inner rage, although I don't recommend it unless you are really seeing a lot of zoo. It does better for pinging things away, but doesn't give you a turn 8 enabler for grom and can conflict with a war axe early on.
That's how Face Hunter played because all of the cards were low quality. Midrange has much higher card quality and emphasizes curve because you aren't going to end up topdecking on turn 5 like Face did.
Turns out Cho'gall in Rogue is really good. Naturally he Reno'd the following turn, but I grinded him out with superior board control before finishing him off with Rag into follow up, Shadowcaster 1/1 Rag. 16 to the face!
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@Gdiguy I use Innkeeper which syncs with Hearthpwn
it's okay if you can keep your board alive for more than a turn
druid could really use something to generate small charge minions to take advantage of it. they don't even have to do a lot of damage because the idea would be to use it as a combo with roar.
Yeah. Like Unleash The Hounds, except trees instead of boars! (because duh, Druid) That would be rad.
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Oh my God I just got hit with double innervate Brann C'Thun, what is happening tonight
mage is the only one I don't have that I like the look of but obviously now I wanna complete the remaining 3. hunter400 ish/mage and pally both under 150. (total, not remaining)
Huh, who knew Blizzard developers posted here?
Bravo to the Hearthstone team on that one, and I hope that event doesn't end up being too rare.
Edit: @Grobian is the best set of pliers.
hippofant took the 80g off me on both EU and Asia, routing me twice with Secret Paladin. Playing with a "friend" ....
I'm almost done with Warrior (~40 to go), and Mage is just behind (~70). I have practically no desire to play Rogue/Priest/Paladin though. Maybe I can just play Wild...
Friends don't let friends forget the glory that is secretsssss paladin.
Though I'm pretty sure we both get the gold, don't we?
Yes, both get the same gold, I was just doing a bit.
I WAS SCARED. I thought I misunderstood how the quest worked and not only beat you up with Secrets Paladin but also stole your gold! :bigfrown:
1) Both my brawls left his most powerful minion at 1/6 and 1/7 odds. I played both those brawls despite having my own minions specifically because of those minions
2) monkey was one of my 2 bottom cards
3) he burned 1 of my cards during the game (with an admittedly clever strategy). It was Justicar
Such fucking bullshit.
This deck won mainly by getting on board through bullshit mech synergy (shadowboxer is still really good) and then staying on board through bullshit buffs and healing. PW:Tentacles is actually quite solid, because as far as win-more cards go, it's good.
Harold was mostly a 6 mana 7/7 on three bodies but sometimes he came with a little benefit like copying a cleric or cultist. One game I got Sylvanas off Curator and copied her. My opponent still cleared them without giving me a minion but it took him so many resources he couldn't get back in the game.
Entomb and MC were super important to seal the deal in the late game. In the final game I topdecked the entomb to answer the turn 6 Highmane and he conceded two turns later.
Rewards:
Amaz was playing the resurrect priest yesterday on his stream (since I ran into it myself while playing), so I'm not surprised. It's amazing how often that happens. I wonder who started the crusher shaman trend again, I ran into 2 or 3 between last night and this morning.
It's amazing how powerful 1/1 minions are when they've all got Divine Shields and are functionally unlimited in number.
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I also ran into a bunch of crusher shamans on ladder today. Only one of them beat me but he did so in style:
Him: Earth Elemental
Me: Deadly shot wich hits his only other minion, 1/1 totem.
Him: Ancestral spirit x2 into Faceless...
1. Opponent's totemic drops mana tide
2. Then their 2nd totemic drops another mana tide
That's almost a guaranteed win unless you're playing the mega heal paladin or something.
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Haha, this match was stupidly fun. For me, I mean, maybe not my opponent. So this was N'Zoth Control Warrior (me) vs C'Thun Warrior.
Very early on he got seemingly impatient and played double Acolyte, ending turn with 6 cards in hand. I look at my hand and I have Revenge and Ravaging Ghoul. I look at my fingers and count all the piggies going to market and I play both cards, then Axe one of em. I burned a Brawl and his C'Thun. GAME SET MATCH MOTHERFUCKER.
He proceeds to play it out anyway, like he thinks he can win. He drops a Doomcaller, then next turn Brann+Twin Emps. Yes thank you for the perfect Brawl board.
I also force him to use two Executes on Grommash, because I got Spellbender from Nexus Champion Saraad. Thanks bud! I'm being very patient with N'Zoth because I know he still has a Brawl.
He drops both Shieldbearers, he gets up to like 80 health. But it doesn't matter, I have the more efficient suite of removal cards, because he's wasted all his shit on my crappy minions. Eventually he jams down Golden Monkey, and plays... two Millhouses and a Lorewalker Cho. Yes excellent. I jam down N'Zoth here, summoning Chillmaw and Sylvanas. I don't play any spells because I am patient, unlike him. At this point, he is well into Fatigue.
He jams Monkey into Chillmaw, which triggers from the Ysera in my hand. He manages to trade everything else in and my Sylvanas takes a 0/1 Cho. Okay well. Not great, I guess. Then he jams down... a 12/12 C'Thun! Curse you Monkey! But I have Shield Slam so he eats it hard. He's got two cards left. He plays out Rend Blackhand on an empty board. I jam down Ysera.
He concedes.
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Although, in my last game, I did have 3 N'Zoths in hand at one time ...
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Isn't this Brawl super fun??????????
He did that all on ONE turn. One single turn. Well he dropped Highmane on Turn 2, but otherwise, yeah.
FUCK
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Is this as dumb as it sounds?
I have the worst quest--win 5 brawl games.
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