I think she has a shot of seeing play, but if she doesn't it's basically because she just isn't very focused. We're not really in an era anymore where priest decks are just filled with a bunch of generic value cards that replace themselves. Like sure she's basically above curve but...
She's like a more reliable Curious Glimmerroot for -1 health. With Glimmer, sometimes the card you knew was in their deck was terrible for you if not outright unplayable like Deadly Poison. With Lazul you'll actually be able to pick the most useful of the 3 cards. Glimmer saw a fair amount of play before crazier and crazier Priest decks invalidated it. In the presumably weaker meta of Year of the Dragon, it seems like a pretty playable Priest card.
I think what's more in question is whether or not Priest will be any good without all the crazy Mammoth shit they're losing. Mass Hysteria will be Priest's number one survival tool now, but it remains to be seen if they'll get enough other support.
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She's like a more reliable Curious Glimmerroot for -1 health. With Glimmer, sometimes the card you knew was in their deck was terrible for you if not outright unplayable like Deadly Poison. With Lazul you'll actually be able to pick the most useful of the 3 cards. Glimmer saw a fair amount of play before crazier and crazier Priest decks invalidated it. In the presumably weaker meta of Year of the Dragon, it seems like a pretty playable Priest card.
I think what's more in question is whether or not Priest will be any good without all the crazy Mammoth shit they're losing. Mass Hysteria will be Priest's number one survival tool now, but it remains to be seen if they'll get enough other support.
Yea card's good. Like the knowledge is 10-15% of the benefit, just get a good card (and if they're all bad you get to laugh)
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I think it's not great, but post rotation will be a lower power meta and it'll have a place there. As we get more expacs it'll get forced out by stronger things.
She's like a more reliable Curious Glimmerroot for -1 health. With Glimmer, sometimes the card you knew was in their deck was terrible for you if not outright unplayable like Deadly Poison. With Lazul you'll actually be able to pick the most useful of the 3 cards. Glimmer saw a fair amount of play before crazier and crazier Priest decks invalidated it. In the presumably weaker meta of Year of the Dragon, it seems like a pretty playable Priest card.
I think what's more in question is whether or not Priest will be any good without all the crazy Mammoth shit they're losing. Mass Hysteria will be Priest's number one survival tool now, but it remains to be seen if they'll get enough other support.
Yea card's good. Like the knowledge is 10-15% of the benefit, just get a good card (and if they're all bad you get to laugh)
It's good but it should be an epic and is a great example of dust inflation.
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I can agree with that, given the obvious comparison. The only possible argument I could see for legendary status is balance reasons. Where Glimmerroot had a much greater number of cards to discover from if you played two of these back to back you could much more easily get the same thing which in some scenarios would be backbreaking.
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I'd like to talk a moment about schemes. When I saw them revealed my reaction was basically this, "That's fine. Not particularly exciting, but serviceable as a mechanic. I'm not sure how it's on theme, but that's a minor nitpick."
Thinking about it a bit more, one of the areas that's lacking this game is sense of inter-connectivity between mechanics, theme, and overall design. Where is the sense of wonder? When I look at the schemes they have serious issues with card draw order (though that is probably one of the fairest areas for RNG to manifest), but no way to interact with them. Where are the cards that reward you for playing schemes? Are there cards that augment schemes, maybe cards that can help us filter our card draw so we can draw them sooner or later? Without anyway to control your draw order - schemes are just more draw dependent spells in a game where draw dependency is already a big part of it.
That said Schemes do reward you for long-term strategic planning, forcing you to weigh the benefit of playing it on curve or early at the cost of future rewards. While that's a neat little optimization, I'd like to see more interactions with these cards. It'd be nice if there was a broader plans where schemes fit in, beyond just in-game power. There's some really interesting design space here, because keeping track of the order you draw cards is very difficult for physical games to track.
I think it's not great, but post rotation will be a lower power meta and it'll have a place there. As we get more expacs it'll get forced out by stronger things.
Yeah, she's not amazing or a game changer or a build around, of course. She's just generically decent and unexciting. She's kind of like Bloodmage Thalnos. He's not a mandatory card in the decks that run him, but he's a cheap crappy body that replaces himself and sometimes has an upside, and he makes the deck slightly better than a budget substitute would.
I feel like some Priest decks will include her just to get something on board in the early game without having to give up a card, and occasionally she'll have a pretty nice upside because you'll get something crazy like a Floop, Shirvallah, or Zul'jin.
It's kind of funny because 2 years ago, a good priest card was a 5 mana 5/6 that gave you a (usually decent to amazing) card of your oppponent's, and you got to play 2 or more of them. Now you have to spend 1600 dust for a single 3 mana 3/2 with a similar outcome.
And yes, I know Lazul doesn't require building a deck with tribal synergy. The thought still amuses me.
I'd like to talk a moment about schemes. When I saw them revealed my reaction was basically this, "That's fine. Not particularly exciting, but serviceable as a mechanic. I'm not sure how it's on theme, but that's a minor nitpick."
Thinking about it a bit more, one of the areas that's lacking this game is sense of inter-connectivity between mechanics, theme, and overall design. Where is the sense of wonder? When I look at the schemes they have serious issues with card draw order (though that is probably one of the fairest areas for RNG to manifest), but no way to interact with them. Where are the cards that reward you for playing schemes? Are there cards that augment schemes, maybe cards that can help us filter our card draw so we can draw them sooner or later? Without anyway to control your draw order - schemes are just more draw dependent spells in a game where draw dependency is already a big part of it.
That said Schemes do reward you for long-term strategic planning, forcing you to weigh the benefit of playing it on curve or early at the cost of future rewards. While that's a neat little optimization, I'd like to see more interactions with these cards. It'd be nice if there was a broader plans where schemes fit in, beyond just in-game power. There's some really interesting design space here, because keeping track of the order you draw cards is very difficult for physical games to track.
Maybe one of the Hero classes this expansion (Mage, Hunter, Paladin, Druid) will get a "Spy" minion that steals a random Scheme.
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It's kind of funny because 2 years ago, a good priest card was a 5 mana 5/6 that gave you a (usually decent to amazing) card of your oppponent's, and you got to play 2 or more of them. Now you have to spend 1600 dust for a single 3 mana 3/2 with a similar outcome.
And yes, I know Lazul doesn't require building a deck with tribal synergy. The thought still amuses me.
"Good priest card..."
A card so bonkers power creeped that it brought priest from seeing zero play and made dragon priest a thing regardless of the other cards
Still climbing with Rush Warrior. Hit rank 9 last night. 66-36 record. Only insta-loss match-up is wall priest. Can I hit rank 5 before the season ends?
went with disco lock (soulfire, darkshire librarian, zavas, silverware golem). opponent was running some janky slow jade shaman (jade lightning/murmuring elemental/jade spirit/murkspark eel) so i banned eel because the other cards were too slow for him to do anything. he banned out zavas so that meant shotgunning free 3/3's onto the board smile
Man, Thijs absolutely tore up a climb to Legend in Wild using a ridiculously greedy (and expensive) Astral Communion Druid deck. It was actually pretty amazing to watch in action.
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Man, Thijs absolutely tore up a climb to Legend in Wild using a ridiculously greedy (and expensive) Astral Communion Druid deck. It was actually pretty amazing to watch in action.
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my astral druid list needs updates badly, and google shows me his 2016 list...
I can't find it. It might have been something he just put together.
went with disco lock (soulfire, darkshire librarian, zavas, silverware golem). opponent was running some janky slow jade shaman (jade lightning/murmuring elemental/jade spirit/murkspark eel) so i banned eel because the other cards were too slow for him to do anything. he banned out zavas so that meant shotgunning free 3/3's onto the board smile
also, today's achievement:
:-)
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I've been rather enjoying this week's brawl. As much as people fear that brawls will degenerate in to 1-2 abusive decks, I don't generally see it. There's almost always a decent number of experimenters around. And particularly in a 3-card deck brawl, you can probably figure out who's going to win pretty fast and just resign if you don't have a chance and jump into the next game.
Anyway, current fun brawl deck:
Jade Swarmer
Jade Shuriken
Undercity Huckster
Unearthed Raptor
I'm not even sure what the right ban is. Most people ban Shuriken, which certainly reduces me to just bashing minions together, but Swarmer + Raptor produce a lot of jades. Banning Swarmer eliminates more jades, but the value from Huckster + Raptor will keep your hand full -- sometimes even with useful cards.
At a minimum, this brawl has been great for questing this week.
I have been doing Arena recently and there are so many control late game warrior/warlock decks. They got taunt, warpath/spell board clears, or lots of big drops.
Looking forward to the change back to wild arena.
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I've been rather enjoying this week's brawl. As much as people fear that brawls will degenerate in to 1-2 abusive decks, I don't generally see it. There's almost always a decent number of experimenters around. And particularly in a 3-card deck brawl, you can probably figure out who's going to win pretty fast and just resign if you don't have a chance and jump into the next game.
Well yes, you do enter into the experimenter's region pretty fast when you sink your MMR by resigning against every serious deck.
Its an area where I tend to hang out and its obvious whenever I push past it into the "real" matches.
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I think what's more in question is whether or not Priest will be any good without all the crazy Mammoth shit they're losing. Mass Hysteria will be Priest's number one survival tool now, but it remains to be seen if they'll get enough other support.
Yea card's good. Like the knowledge is 10-15% of the benefit, just get a good card (and if they're all bad you get to laugh)
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This made me lol.
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Thinking about it a bit more, one of the areas that's lacking this game is sense of inter-connectivity between mechanics, theme, and overall design. Where is the sense of wonder? When I look at the schemes they have serious issues with card draw order (though that is probably one of the fairest areas for RNG to manifest), but no way to interact with them. Where are the cards that reward you for playing schemes? Are there cards that augment schemes, maybe cards that can help us filter our card draw so we can draw them sooner or later? Without anyway to control your draw order - schemes are just more draw dependent spells in a game where draw dependency is already a big part of it.
That said Schemes do reward you for long-term strategic planning, forcing you to weigh the benefit of playing it on curve or early at the cost of future rewards. While that's a neat little optimization, I'd like to see more interactions with these cards. It'd be nice if there was a broader plans where schemes fit in, beyond just in-game power. There's some really interesting design space here, because keeping track of the order you draw cards is very difficult for physical games to track.
I feel like some Priest decks will include her just to get something on board in the early game without having to give up a card, and occasionally she'll have a pretty nice upside because you'll get something crazy like a Floop, Shirvallah, or Zul'jin.
And yes, I know Lazul doesn't require building a deck with tribal synergy. The thought still amuses me.
Maybe one of the Hero classes this expansion (Mage, Hunter, Paladin, Druid) will get a "Spy" minion that steals a random Scheme.
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"Good priest card..."
A card so bonkers power creeped that it brought priest from seeing zero play and made dragon priest a thing regardless of the other cards
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It does silly!
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also looks like there are still big priest vs. renolock fights to be had at wild rank 23...
We'll find out I guess!
brawl pack. noice.
went with disco lock (soulfire, darkshire librarian, zavas, silverware golem). opponent was running some janky slow jade shaman (jade lightning/murmuring elemental/jade spirit/murkspark eel) so i banned eel because the other cards were too slow for him to do anything. he banned out zavas so that meant shotgunning free 3/3's onto the board smile
also, today's achievement:
:-)
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Skip to 53:20 if the timestamp doesn't work. I don't know if there's a deck code but you can see it in the deck creator.
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Bnet is same as here #1175
Dover is fast
Anyway, current fun brawl deck:
Jade Swarmer
Jade Shuriken
Undercity Huckster
Unearthed Raptor
I'm not even sure what the right ban is. Most people ban Shuriken, which certainly reduces me to just bashing minions together, but Swarmer + Raptor produce a lot of jades. Banning Swarmer eliminates more jades, but the value from Huckster + Raptor will keep your hand full -- sometimes even with useful cards.
At a minimum, this brawl has been great for questing this week.
Looking forward to the change back to wild arena.
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Well yes, you do enter into the experimenter's region pretty fast when you sink your MMR by resigning against every serious deck.
Its an area where I tend to hang out and its obvious whenever I push past it into the "real" matches.
But then streaked to 9.
Quest Druid is alive and strong!!
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Yea both tavern brawl and casual still have an mmr ranking so you get matched against equally skilled players.
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"grotesque" is right, that was downright fucking disgusting
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And "Arbitrary" too, since Yogg was involved.
Also, since "Gull" can mean to trick or cheat someone, that seems appropriate too.
"Pupper" is the only word that seems out of place.