I think there may be code in the game that decides my account, specifically, is never allowed to win a game against Highlander Hunter decks, specifically.
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Running in to so many weird decks as I climb, but I'm up to gold 2 finally. Will hopefully make another push for something tonight, just not sure what. I don't really like the decks I've been trying to climb with. Been swapping between some form of aggro warrior (probably a bad list) and tempo demon hunter.
It's just a never ending amount of bullshit when it comes to demon hunters isn't it? I've got a board with 3 minions on 4-5 health, on 18 health myself, he's got about 6 mana, and 2 cards.
Oh, now he's put down that legendary that damages everything when a card is played, oh look he's drawn 2 cards, oh look, he's casting cards that cost nothing, now I've lost my board and I'm on 13 health, and he's got a board of things. I clear, put something down, but that gets cleared and I'm hit for 6 health by a demon. Kill that, but lets be honest, as soon as you go below 10 health, you're just waiting for some nonsense to kill you in 1 turn despite nothing being on the board.
Repeat and repeat.
This isn't fun. Agro decks got punished if you over extended, and they certainly didn't hit you for a 10+ health from an open board.
Like, all the lessons that have been learnt in previous years, not introducing minions that can charge (but here's one that avoids taunts!), cheap mana cycling, minions that if not answered straight away mean you lose the game....this is all.../throws arms in air.
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I kept telling myself that I didn’t care about Legend. I’ve gotten Legend three times before, with three different classes. I’ve done it with a home brew deck. Sure, the changes to the ranking system made it easier to get Legend than ever before, and sure everyone on my friends lost was getting that orange gem, but I didn’t have anything to prove to anyone, I told myself.
Yeah, I’m a liar. I wanted it bad.
After bouncing between 5 and 2 all month, and refusing to play DH due to it being incredibly boring and linear and what everyone else was playing, I didn’t have high hopes entering today. But then I saw a reddit thread and my hopes came back. Shadowy hopes maybe, but that’s on brand. I gave it a whirl in casual, and immediately lost to a Priest. But then I beat a pair of Demon Hunters, so I figured why not? I took it to ladder. In fairness, I started off with Zoo at rank 3, having gotten to three via a Rogue deck. But from 3 and one star to Legend, I lost one game, to a Priest. Priests seem to be pretty good against this deck.
Brawl this week is make a deck from your collection, limited to only cards from every Adventure and Descent of Dragons cards (for whatever reason). Seems like Galakrond decks will prevail in this format. I ended up making Highlander Galakrond Dragon Priest with OG Reno. I kept Reno in my mulligan vs. a Mage, then beat him without even needing to play Reno. Oh well.
Aggro DH remains at the top of T1 with virtually no poor matchups. In fact the nerf to Sac Pact has tilted the previously even Warlock matchup significantly in DH's favor in spite of the other DH nerfs. The DH matchup chart is a little less green and a little more gray than last time, but still pretty lopsided.
The other major players are Galakrond Rogue, any pile of Hunter cards, and the continually refined Enrage Warrior.
I think there may be code in the game that decides my account, specifically, is never allowed to win a game against Highlander Hunter decks, specifically.
I don't know what it is about that deck, but every opponent I face playing it always has an awesome curve, draws the nuts, always has Zephrys, etc. and/or my deck gets sabotaged with a terrible opening hand that I never recover from as they tempo out perfectly.
There are interactions that go beyond coincidence. One example is if you have Vargoth out and your opponent has three minions on the board and you cast Penance, the second Penance will always hit your Vargoth.
Brawl this week is make a deck from your collection, limited to only cards from every Adventure and Descent of Dragons cards (for whatever reason). Seems like Galakrond decks will prevail in this format. I ended up making Highlander Galakrond Dragon Priest with OG Reno. I kept Reno in my mulligan vs. a Mage, then beat him without even needing to play Reno. Oh well.
Got Antonidas in my Brawl pack!
I played Pure Pally. Did okay in a couple matches, but loses hard to Gal Warlock.
I don't know if Apexis Smuggler is good in Wild Secret Mage or not, but I'm pretty sure I made some Res Priests and Jade Druids heads explode, so I like it.
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I had a mirror with someone playing it earlier. They got 3-4 spells out of them but I had Aluneth and that kind of laughs at the concept of card advantage.
I don't know if Apexis Smuggler is good in Wild Secret Mage or not, but I'm pretty sure I made some Res Priests and Jade Druids heads explode, so I like it.
It probably doesn't make the cut since Secret Mage's game plan is all about ridiculous, aggressive tempo. Smuggler is a good value card, but Secret Mage can't really make sacrifices for value cards in the long haul. And "random spell" in Wild is so all over the place it's not going to be very consistent.
If you have fun playing it in your deck, though, that's no reason not to enjoy it.
So, ranked monthly rewards change sucks for whales. I got 1 new card, a bad epic I never bothered crafting. Where are my blingy golden card rewards?!
Rant aside, really happy with ending on 900 legend EU.
With the new dupe protection, you don't even have to be a whale for the 7 rares to quickly become 140 dust. 4 packs ain't too bad, though, and I did get my first Preparation as the 1 epic.
Also, in this particular case I did get a little lucky, as one of my rares was an Albatross, which still disenchants for full dust.
Been having a fair bit of success with the Enrage Warrior from VS. Had a few losses here and there just getting high-rolled out but I'm having a lot of fun piloting it with all the decisions it involves.
Up to Gold 5 now.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
ranking up is harder this month
trying the standard broken aggro demon hunter list and running headfirst into a wall of warriors and priests
big druid might actually be the deck?? or box mage
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Love love love the new ranked system and think I'll have the time to finally break into Legend this summer.
On a side note, does anyone know anything about the Ashes of Outland Single Player stuff? I've saved 2100 gold for the adventure,but it's getting hard not just splurge on packs.
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BeastehTHAT WOULD NOTKILL DRACULARegistered Userregular
up to diamond 8 already
tempo warrior is snacking on all these demon hunters and rogues (hard mulling for battle rage vs anything remotely non-aggro is v important otherwise you just run out of cards and lose)
Playing Kael'thas Jade Druid for a change of pace. Games are actually pretty fast because a lot of decks concede when they realize they can't win, whether it's aggro staring down taunt walls or slow decks just not wanting to play it out.
Is there some kind of Wild combo OTK burn deck with Stargazer Luna, Incanter's Flow, and stuff like that yet? I can kind of conceptualize one but I haven't seen anyone playing anything like that yet. Closest I've seen is Time Walk mage.
Is there some kind of Wild combo OTK burn deck with Stargazer Luna, Incanter's Flow, and stuff like that yet? I can kind of conceptualize one but I haven't seen anyone playing anything like that yet. Closest I've seen is Time Walk mage.
Time warp is your OTK deck. Often the quest isn't even required, but it makes the win conditions much easier to pull off. You might still run incanter's flow in it though. You often want to throw out an early apprentice to generate spells, but doing a kill without at least one apprentice is tricky
The only other combo deck I can think of is Malygos Druid. They're using Imprisoned Satyr to discount Aviana, play Aviana + Kun + Yriel + Malygos and then double Swipe + UI + Living Roots the face.
I'm having reasonable success on standard ladder with a highlander hunter deck j4ckiechan featured on his stream a couple of days ago. It's really flexible and can burn down most opponents surprisingly efficiently. It's pretty dust heavy (I used up all mine to craft some of the dragons I didn't have) but I'm really enjoying it. I'm doing pretty well with it against DH unless they get an absolute nut draw
### Highlander
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Standard
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# 1x (1) Dwarven Sharpshooter
# 1x (1) Tracking
# 1x (2) Corrosive Breath
# 1x (2) Faerie Dragon
# 1x (2) Hench-Clan Hogsteed
# 1x (2) Imprisoned Felmaw
# 1x (2) Scavenger's Ingenuity
# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great
# 1x (3) Animal Companion
# 1x (3) Augmented Porcupine
# 1x (3) Desert Spear
# 1x (3) Diving Gryphon
# 1x (3) Kill Command
# 1x (3) Primordial Explorer
# 1x (3) Scalerider
# 1x (3) Stormhammer
# 1x (3) Unleash the Hounds
# 1x (3) Zixor, Apex Predator
# 1x (4) Dragonbane
# 1x (4) Evasive Feywing
# 1x (4) Houndmaster
# 1x (4) Mok'Nathal Lion
# 1x (5) Big Ol' Whelp
# 1x (5) Rotnest Drake
# 1x (6) Dragonmaw Sky Stalker
# 1x (6) Savannah Highmane
# 1x (6) Veranus
# 1x (7) Dinotamer Brann
# 1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
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Math is hard............
But then yes CORRECTION it's worth 4 gold a turn, which is still a pretty incredible value.
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Oh, now he's put down that legendary that damages everything when a card is played, oh look he's drawn 2 cards, oh look, he's casting cards that cost nothing, now I've lost my board and I'm on 13 health, and he's got a board of things. I clear, put something down, but that gets cleared and I'm hit for 6 health by a demon. Kill that, but lets be honest, as soon as you go below 10 health, you're just waiting for some nonsense to kill you in 1 turn despite nothing being on the board.
Repeat and repeat.
This isn't fun. Agro decks got punished if you over extended, and they certainly didn't hit you for a 10+ health from an open board.
Like, all the lessons that have been learnt in previous years, not introducing minions that can charge (but here's one that avoids taunts!), cheap mana cycling, minions that if not answered straight away mean you lose the game....this is all.../throws arms in air.
I got the DH to no hand hooray! Top decks Skull. Gets Skull from Skull. GG.
Yeah, I’m a liar. I wanted it bad.
After bouncing between 5 and 2 all month, and refusing to play DH due to it being incredibly boring and linear and what everyone else was playing, I didn’t have high hopes entering today. But then I saw a reddit thread and my hopes came back. Shadowy hopes maybe, but that’s on brand. I gave it a whirl in casual, and immediately lost to a Priest. But then I beat a pair of Demon Hunters, so I figured why not? I took it to ladder. In fairness, I started off with Zoo at rank 3, having gotten to three via a Rogue deck. But from 3 and one star to Legend, I lost one game, to a Priest. Priests seem to be pretty good against this deck.
Final boss was a DK. He was dead on T6.
2x (1) Abusive Sergeant
2x (1) Beaming Sidekick
2x (1) Blazing Battlemage
2x (1) Fiendish Servant
2x (1) Flame Imp
2x (1) Soulfire
2x (1) Stonetusk Boar
2x (1) Voidwalker
2x (2) Bluegill Warrior
2x (2) Expired Merchant
2x (2) Imprisoned Scrap Imp
1x (2) Kanrethad Ebonlocke
2x (3) Magic Carpet
1x (3) Wolfrider
2x (4) Nightshade Matron
2x (6) Hand of Gul'dan
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Got Antonidas in my Brawl pack!
Aggro DH remains at the top of T1 with virtually no poor matchups. In fact the nerf to Sac Pact has tilted the previously even Warlock matchup significantly in DH's favor in spite of the other DH nerfs. The DH matchup chart is a little less green and a little more gray than last time, but still pretty lopsided.
The other major players are Galakrond Rogue, any pile of Hunter cards, and the continually refined Enrage Warrior.
I played Pure Pally. Did okay in a couple matches, but loses hard to Gal Warlock.
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I don't know if Apexis Smuggler is good in Wild Secret Mage or not, but I'm pretty sure I made some Res Priests and Jade Druids heads explode, so I like it.
If you have fun playing it in your deck, though, that's no reason not to enjoy it.
Rant aside, really happy with ending on 900 legend EU.
Also, in this particular case I did get a little lucky, as one of my rares was an Albatross, which still disenchants for full dust.
Up to Gold 5 now.
trying the standard broken aggro demon hunter list and running headfirst into a wall of warriors and priests
big druid might actually be the deck?? or box mage
On a side note, does anyone know anything about the Ashes of Outland Single Player stuff? I've saved 2100 gold for the adventure,but it's getting hard not just splurge on packs.
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Way off of being refined but actually fun. It wins game because ppl waste stuff thinking you're aggro and then boom. midrange/value game.
Got a whole bunch of cards and 5 packs
Including Mogu Fleshshaper, which I had previously disenchanted for the dust refund (which is apparently seeing play again in Shaman decks, soooo???)
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no sense in playing this over highlander hunter/mage
tempo warrior is snacking on all these demon hunters and rogues (hard mulling for battle rage vs anything remotely non-aggro is v important otherwise you just run out of cards and lose)
Time warp is your OTK deck. Often the quest isn't even required, but it makes the win conditions much easier to pull off. You might still run incanter's flow in it though. You often want to throw out an early apprentice to generate spells, but doing a kill without at least one apprentice is tricky
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### Highlander
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Phoenix
#
# 1x (1) Blazing Battlemage
# 1x (1) Dwarven Sharpshooter
# 1x (1) Tracking
# 1x (2) Corrosive Breath
# 1x (2) Faerie Dragon
# 1x (2) Hench-Clan Hogsteed
# 1x (2) Imprisoned Felmaw
# 1x (2) Scavenger's Ingenuity
# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great
# 1x (3) Animal Companion
# 1x (3) Augmented Porcupine
# 1x (3) Desert Spear
# 1x (3) Diving Gryphon
# 1x (3) Kill Command
# 1x (3) Primordial Explorer
# 1x (3) Scalerider
# 1x (3) Stormhammer
# 1x (3) Unleash the Hounds
# 1x (3) Zixor, Apex Predator
# 1x (4) Dragonbane
# 1x (4) Evasive Feywing
# 1x (4) Houndmaster
# 1x (4) Mok'Nathal Lion
# 1x (5) Big Ol' Whelp
# 1x (5) Rotnest Drake
# 1x (6) Dragonmaw Sky Stalker
# 1x (6) Savannah Highmane
# 1x (6) Veranus
# 1x (7) Dinotamer Brann
# 1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
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