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Both are 3 drops. Warlock card has more attack so it can kill 3/2s and spawn a 1/1 from the exchange - and live. It also doesn't self destruct at 1 HP like imp master.

I'm mostly saying the Warlock card is amazing in Arena, and potentially usable in some weird Buff Demons deck.

 

Whoops yes you are right. Still, right now I think it's a subpar and unnecessary card with Imp Master around.

But tie will tell.

 

Taking a break from my work and writing to play a little Hearthstone. Got my face-face-face-face Warrior pirate deck to 16 on a pretty decent win streak right out of the gate. Happy with that considering I thought it'd just be a little fun throwaway deck to mess around with. I almost feel as though I've discovered a really strong combo in that deck since it has already won me a number of games outright. Still some testing to do on that.

Also trying my hand at Arena as constructed sometimes bores me (flavor of the month bullshit is just too much).

Here's what I drew in Arena as a Mage. Note, I don't really play Arena so I don't know what's good or what's bad, and I only play mage for quests and shit.

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Molten Giant, Priestess of Elune, Cone of Cold, Vaporize, Leper Gnome, and Mirror Image are pretty shit in Arena. Of course that's without knowing the other choices although hard to imagine they were worse. The rest is fine. Overall your curve could stand to be lower (more 2 and 3 mana minions).

 

Molten Giant is ok. A little below average in classes that aren't rogue/warrior/warlock. The others metro listed are p. bad though. Kobold Geomancer is also a card you typically want to avoid if possible.

 

I like these new cards, as an arena player both Flame Walker and Imp Gang Boss look like nice value cards. I doubt people will be very pleased with that hunter card though, but the odd thing is it seems to fit a zoo deck more than anything else, I'm not so sure it quite fits current face hunter, it might simply be too slow for it.

I do note none of them are dragons. I expected the focus is more on putting out more dragons considering the synergy, if they don't add a bunch of good dragons (don't think the dragon wizard guy counts), I don't see how dragon deck becomes a thing, the legendaries are way too slow for the most part (except 'strasza).

 

Seems like a theme of BRM will be activated abilities from taking damage. I expect to see an increased usage of stuff like Wild Pyromancer and Unstable Ghoul

 

So you can kill the minions you just summoned?

 

So I spent my dust and crafted Tirion and Sylvanas for Trump's Paladin Deck

The only variation is that instead of Black Knight I used Dr. Boom and also used an argent commander cause I was missing a quartermaster.

I had a 15-0 winning streak from rank 13 to 7 until I lost from a druid and stopped for today. This deck is very powerful against anything.

Another funny thing is that the argent commander really saved me in some matches. Turns out I am a meta genius after all

 

3-1 on the Arena run thus far. The first game was a loss before I rattled off three straight. So far I haven't really had any trouble outside that first game. Cone of Cold and Vaporize have both played a huge role thus far. Also top decked a Leper Gnome for a win, and then in the next game Echo'd a Leper and played it again, then ran my minions into an Abomination to punch 6-dmg into my opponent for the kill. Pretty amusing stuff. So far, really, the primary dead card has been Ice Lance. It just has zero use except for an emergency cheap-o freeze.

 

They still suck.

 

The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was fooling the world into thinking Vaporize was so shit nobody in Arena would dare use it.

My opponents certainly never seem to expect it

 

Probably not. Like Manjuice Nutella said you're just going to kill the x/1s you summon. If you were referring to, say, Grim Patron, you're filling your deck with pretty bad cards to try to make a bad card (patron) become something decent.

If you meant running them as a counter to the x/1s, again, these x/1 creation cards aren't good enough for constructed.

 

If your opponents didn't play around a potential vaporize, they are bad. Unless they're throwing in some random 2 drop, in which case they came out ahead in terms of mana.

 

Phage, you consider Hearthstone as a kiddie game made for tablets. But at the same time, you see yourself as the resident expert about it, don't you think that it is weird?
At the same time, your advice is pretty good in general, I'm not trying to bring you down. But couldn't you cut just a little down the crap? Thanks. It makes you look like a moron, even though I'm sure that you're one of the greatest Hearthstone player on this board.

 

Argent commander is awesome. Bloodknight is also very powerful in Paladin decks with many Divine Shield minions.

 

Explorerbc and Kattze this is an example of properly subbing out stuff you can't afford/don't have. Argent Commander is at least decent in almost every situation. (Reminds me of how Boulderfist Ogre used to be the de facto replacement for legendaries during open beta / early release) Take note men!

 

Not going to lie men, as it stands, im not going to bother buying Blackrock. Of course we've only seen like a third of the cards, so, we'll see how things go.

 

If Blizz is psychic-level smart then they will just predict the new meta, and make it only consistently counterable by BRM cards.


You don't like the heroic fights though Phage? I loved deconstructing and figuring out those fights in Naxx.

 

I don't actually like the heroic ones that much since they're essentially deck building puzzles + luck. I enjoy the class challenges a lot though. The fight with Kel Thuzad was fun too. I wouldn't pay money for just the single player content itself though.

 

I'll wait about a month before I buy it to determine how many of the cards are actually used.

 

Yup. That shit is my crack. I also just kind of say "fuck it" in these situations. I'm pretty okay giving Blizz $25 once a year. Sure it's Blizzard, and they don't need the money, and they're almost certainly going to spend it on stupid bullshit design that I rage against, but they hooked me fair and square, and I've got a lot of enjoyment out of their game.

Edit: I also sometimes think about how much money I spent on WoW (base game at launch + 3 expansions at launch + 7 years of subs off and on...maybe 50 months total?) and think "OH WOW HS GREAT VALUE THANK YOU FOR LEARNING AND SHOWING YOU REALLY LOVE ME BLIZZ LET ME SLURP YOUR POPSICLE!"

 

477/500 wins

 

Assuming this launches on April 19 we should expect a couple of card reveals every weekend till then. So more reveals next week end now.

Can't wait to