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[DiamondSentinel]

I hate that control warrior (and really any deck that stalls out until they throw out C'thun) is the meta now. My combo rogue always has a tough time with it...

[Sudo_Nym]

It's been my experience that the meta is mostly Dragon Warrior and Aggro Shaman now. Although between Dragon Warrior, Control Warrior, and Cthun Warrior, Warrior does have the most meta decks right now. I think that's why Hunter has seen a resurgence, since it matches up well against Warrior.

[kdowns]

Yeah, I went through and DE'd all of Naxx and GvG.

[The Bulge]

I dusted mostly everything that's been rotated out but kept staples like dr 7 and belchers and some gimmick cards (KT for example) for brawls

[The Bulge]

You can disenchant GvG, too. And in 6 months, you can disenchant Blackrock.

Well I mean you can dust shitty BRM stuff now too

[Sudo_Nym]

Sure, but I hate dusting stuff that's in Standard cause I might use it someday, you know? But I don't imagine I'm going to play Wild, so once it rotates, fuck it.

[PJ.]

Can you recreate naxx cards if you dust them?

[Sudo_Nym]

Yeah. Rotated adventure cards can be crafted and dusted like normal cards.

[PJ.]

But you had to have bought them originally, yeah?

[Sudo_Nym]

Nope. Once they rotate out of standard, the adventure gets taken out of the store, the cards stop being soul-bound, and anybody can craft them. Otherwise, new players could never get their Sludge Belchers.

[Shadoweh]

So how about that night in Karazhan eh? As a Shaman is literally anything in this thing relevant?

[Sudo_Nym]

Maelstrom portal looks alright, probably not better than existing two drops. Spirit Claws could be good if control shaman becomes a real deck.

[xRECKONERx]

kara cards feel really lame

except hunter. hunter got some bonkers shit

[Sudo_Nym]

Beast Druid got some good stuff too. Mage and Paladin got a card apiece, though how good the Paladin one will actually be is questionable. Some of the yet-to-be-released Legendaries could be impactful (Barnes, Medivh). Everything else is pretty meh, though.

[BROseidon]

Beast Druid is going to be a top-tier deck now.

[Sudo_Nym]

I feel like "Beast Druid is going to be top-tier" is something that was said after the last two releases, too, and nothing happened. Menagerie Warden has the potential to be legit insane, though, so maybe that'll finally push it over the top. I think the real question is going to be whether Beast Druid is going to be better than Yogg/Token Druid, though.

[PJ.]

Menagerie Warden

I think copying a savage combatant is very good, yes

[Sudo_Nym]

Menagerie Warden

I think copying a savage combatant is very good, yes

Yeah, but that makes it draw dependent. You have to get a beast, drop it, and then have it come back to your turn still alive to get value off it. It's the same problem that Houndmaster, Ram Wrangler, and Mark of Yshaarj have: if you can't stick a beast, it's a terrible card. Menagarie Warden should be able to synergize with Stranglethorn Tiger thanks to the stealth, but I imagine there's going to be some amount of times you get stuck dropping an Enchanted Raven to copy or even getting no value off it at all. It has the potential to be really insane, but we'll find out in the coming month or so.

[BROseidon]

Guys resurrect priest is probably good

[BROseidon]

[Sudo_Nym]

Barnes does seem to be a lot better than anticipated. I don't know if Resurrect Priest will still be good when the meta settles down, but Barnes has pretty good synergy with a lot of stuff (Ragnaros, Malygos, basically anything with deathrattle). I think the best thing I've seen so far was Miracle Rogue with Barnes, where it's ridiculously good for Barnes to fetch any of Tomb Pillager, Auctioneer, Malygos, or Thaurissan.

[Sudo_Nym]

So I decide to go back and try the heroics for this adventure. Take an hour to beat Chess and Big Bad Wolf, beat everything else in 5 minutes. Is it always like that, or am I just really bad at Hearthstone Chess?

[BROseidon]

Chess took me like 20 minutes to figure out.

It requires a little luck on the starting draw, though.

[Sudo_Nym]

Chess was a combination of bad draws and not understanding the strategy for me. I tried playing too much board control in the first games, like I did in the normal Chess, only to run out of reach too fast, so I had to try again and push face more. Then I had to deal with my queen being on the bottom of the deck. Took a bit, but I manage to get a good draw and figure out what was going on eventually. That part was time consuming, but not too bad.

Then Big Bad Wolf was frustrating as hell, because it was something like 4 games in a row he played double stranglethorn on t1, then double creatures on t2, into savage roar t3 for the kill. Took me a bit of trying to fiddle with Druid before I switched to Hunter and managed to counter his Savage Roar with Explosive Trap, and then coast to victory off that.

Meanwhile, I beat the Crone on t5 by playing Divine Spirit-Inner Fire-Faceless Shambler in a row. The balance is all over the place.

[BROseidon]

PURIFY PRIEST TIME