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Aren't they moving japan to the asia server or something? If they're officially expanding to japan i assume they'd implement japanese language, right

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Out of curiousity, how would you describe his stream? Im looking to discover some streamers that i havent seen before

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Isn't there a new client that does your draft for you now?
That kind of seems odd... I feel like drafting should be a skill-based part of the game as well as something that isn't optimized, but with different strategies and drafting styles.
Maybe I'm being too close-minded, but it seems rather mechanical to me

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I signed up for a tournament, just for fun, and i need to bring three decks.
I consider my best decks to be freeze mage and midrange druid. Any advice on the third deck based on the matchups of those two?

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conquest bo5

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Thanks. What if i wanted to go eith tempo mage and midrange druid?

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Out of curiousity, how would you describe his stream? Im looking to discover some streamers that i havent seen before

He's super chill and tries to interact with his viewers as much as possible, even if there are thousands of them. Chat is a little silly but not trolly -- it's well moderated. He also streams other games like dark souls etc.

Just watched him and hes up there with my favorite streamers now.

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The only match up that seems that lopsided enough to justidy an insta-concede to me would be freeze mage against control warrior.
Ive been killed by aggro as control warrior enough times before i could establish a late game base to think that aggro has a fighting chance.

Sudo_Nym, obviously its not as good but if you had Malygos...

But yeah, I pretty much exclusively play freeze mage and control warrior and I'm excited to try Reno (at about 600 gold as of currently)

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Playing summoning stone mage is really fun.
Sure, I'm something like 4-6 in ranked, but fun nonetheless.

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ive been playing a lot less as of recently

Circle of Healing x1
Power Word: Shield x1
Northshire Cleric x1
Zombie Chow x1
Shadow Word: Pain x1
Ironbeak Owl x1
Shrinkmeister x1
Wild Pyromancer x1
Shadow Word: Death x1
Thoughtsteal x1
Velen's Chosen x1
Big Game Hunter x1
Dark Cultist x1
Deathlord x1
Shadow Madness x1
Auchenai Soulpriest x1
Holy Champion x1
Piloted Shredder x1
Holy Nova x1
Azure Drake x1
Loatheb x1
Sludge Belcher x1
Lightbomb x1
Cabal Shadow Priest x1
Justicar Trueheart x1
Reno Jackson x1
Sylvanas Windrunner x1
The Black Knight x1
Dr. Boom x1
Mind Control x1

this was just me throwing a bunch of cards together
tbk is for tirion and to a lesser extent belcher i'll probably take it out for entomb when I get the third wing
it's working pretty well, i'm hovering at about a little below 50% right now
any suggestions? i do not have voljin.
is circle worth it with one auchenai? is justicar worth it with reno?

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Okay, I'm back with a (hopefully) better decklist. (I'm not a very good deckbuilder)
This time it's Reno Hunter.
It's been doing really well. Like, 70-90% winrate well. I've only played like 10 games, though, so more extensive testing is needed.
IDK if Jeweled Scarab/Tomb Spider/Knife Juggler have a place in this deck.
I like juggler even though it has little to no synergy because it's a 2 drop I can play on curve that draws out removal
Thoughts?

Hunter's Mark
Webspinner
Bear Trap
Explosive Trap
Flare
Freezing Trap
Quick Shot
Haunted Creeper
Ironbeak Owl
Jeweled Scarab
Knife Juggler
Mad Scientist x2
Eaglehorn Bow
Animal Companion
Deadly Shot
Kill Command
Powershot
Unleash the Hounds
BGH
Houndmaster
Piloted Shredder
Tomb Spider
Explosive Shot
Loatheb
Belcher
Reno
Highmane
Sylvanas
Dr. Boom

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I don't like deathlord in this deck since you're not doing anything to abuse it.

you're right. i thought it worked well with velen's but it seems like in most of my games it's more of a hindrance.

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I think that reno is an awful card design and is deeply unhealthy for hearthstone. That being said, I also think the meta seems to have moved away from it a little bit. I don't think I got renod even once today in about 30 games.

i don't know if anyone's mentioned this, but reno is only going to get better as the card pool gets wider and there are more choices for slots in a decklist.
so yeah, I think it's a bad design as well.

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It's frustrating when mages stealth spare part their antonidas.
Why do they always get the damn stealth spare part

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At first I ask myself "why am I dropping ranks so quickly"
Then I remember I'm playing dragon druid

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So what are you folks filling your deckslots with
Currently I got: my 3 tourney decks, ctrl warrior, summoning stone mage, wailing soul druid, reno hunter, reno shaman, and reno/dragon priest

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Good idea. I'll join that petition. Less deck slots!

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Pretty excited for the new deck slots honestly.
I think that people should be able to buy the adventure still. A lot of the fun in it is playing all the different bosses and getting to experience that.

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They said something about them not being able to make new decks for druid because the cards they already had were so powerful, or something like that.
That makes me hopeful that combo will get nerf.

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did the first one ever end

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there are so many legendaries that see play and although i'm glad that decks are changing, i'm sad that i don't have the dust to craft the decks that i want to play.
nzoth, yogg, xaril, huhuran, rag, fandral, and i'd totally experiment with the shaman healer and malkorok
i guess i'm happy that i opened twin emperor because it's one of the best legends but cthun doesn't really appeal to me

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sorry about that, panzer. my guess is that you would have taken the third game without that explosive trap topdeck.

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somehow i got sucked back in.
no idea about the meta so i just threw together some chill Reno decks, making waves in wild.
good stuff

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got back into this recently. mainly just shitting around in wild with resurrect priest, evolve shaman, burgle rogue.
what's the standard meta like? wild seems to be a lot of mrglglgl paladins, secrets, and nzoth.

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I did some reading, and yeah, looks like Shaman is the new "class that got really hot after high school"
They really like beefing up the worst classes so that they become the best huh?
First paladin, then shaman. Things are looking up for priest

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Looked at all the new cards. Lets see how wrong I am in a few months.

Spoiler: Impressions of someone who knows nothing about anything. Spoilers.

Druid: Power of the Wild for 1 mana seems good in token. Do not think this will be the best Jade Golem class. Celestial Dreamer seems awful. Unsure what things beast buffing 5 drop will curve from-- Savage Combatant? Token ramp seems not good enough-- if you want to ramp hard, generally you're not flooding the board at the same time. Lunar Visions, good in Astral maybe. Druid Legend will come too late to make a lot of impact, but still an include in greedy ramp decks that want a bunch of fatties.

Hunter: It seems like most of the stuff that has a beast tag is good, and most of the stuff that doesn't is not good. Makes sense because beast tag is very relevant already in midrange and possibly more relevant with the new beast hand buffing cards. Rat Pack seems REALLY good-- but is a big ball of stats more versatile than Hounds/Companion/Bow, which can all do work and push immediately? I don't know if this will fit in a list that already runs those cards. My prediction is that Knuckles the Hunter Legend is going to be fantastic. It's a fat body that can also pressure. Hard removal is fine-- one less removal for Savannah "Balanced" Highmane.

Mage: I like the tempo freeze cards. It seems playable but not better than current tempo mage. Polymorph secret and demonfire are playable in control lists that aren't freeze (see: Reno). Mage Legend will work well in that list with Kazakus. Secret Thing from Below and free Secret 1-drop are both not good enough I think. Manic Soulcaster will go the way of Shadowcaster, which it seems to be a worse version of. Fun, Wild shenanigans, but not going to do much. Greater Arcane Missiles is awful.

Paladin: Paladin secret seems great in a vacuum but has anti-synergy with Noble Sac (excuse my Wild-oriented thinking that still faces Secret Paladin all the time). Divine Shield lists seem more aggro-oriented, so Grimestreet Protector would not fit there, and it doesn't seem good enough for current iterations of Control Paladin. I don't care about the hand buff mechanic enough to evaluate them. Legendary seems fantastic in most Paladin lists.

Priest: Jesus Christ, almost every Priest card seems playable.

Rogue: Coin is going to be good in a potential Miracle-based list, but not good enough to bring it back I think. A list built around stealth seems good but not good enough-- maybe give it a few more expansions? Most cards do not seem very good, and Jade is not going to be good in Rogue.

Shaman: White Eyes is a good fit in a Control Shaman list, same with the 3/6 heal 6. Devolve seems fantastic. Re: Lotus Illusionist, 4 mana 3/5 has never been a poor play if the effect is good enough, but I don't think the effect is good enough. I think Jade lists will see the most success in Shaman because of current ability to take the board strongly-- weapon on 2 that summons a Golem is a good followup to Trogg, and Jade Lightning has immediate impact.

Warlock: Hellfire on a body is fantastic. Unlicensed Apothecary is not good enough in a zoo list that wants to take the board every turn. Kabal Trafficker is great. Krul the Unshackled isn't a good Reno effect, but Renolock got great tools this expansion anyway, so that's cool.

Warrior: Eventually there has to come a tipping point when they keep pushing a mechanic enough where it becomes good... maybe this is it, but Warrior has a ton of stuff already that might still make other lists more desirable. There's another bolster in the hand buff card, and something that benefits from buffing (Alley Armorsmith). Something that I would totally experiment with. Brass Knuckles sucks. Warrior Legend is good in an aggro Pirate list (are those still a thing? If they are, it'll be good after this expansion hits).

Neutral/Tri-class: Kazakus is the best and coolest Tri-class legend. Hozen Healer good. Bomb Squad (cool Sylvanas interaction, too). Dopplegangster is a possible include in any dedicated hand-buffing list. Dirty Rat seems really good, Deathlord style. Burgly Bully good. Fight Promoter good maybe. Patches the Pirate is going to be really good in aggro. Auctionmaster Beardo has potential in Control Warrior or a Control (Reno) Priest. Sergeant Sally in Control Warlock, maybe some other buffing list too. Finja is good. Goya seems fun, hard to evaluate. Don't think its better than Barnes.

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nice golden legend reck :'(

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i was looking at the top posts on the hearthstone reddit and i saw vonflare commenting

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currently playing the best game of hearthstone ever
tavern brawl. jade druid vs kazakus priest
druid is pumping 30/30s constantly, i'm lightbombing them every time.
when will this madness end?

EDIT I WON

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yeah. i tried leaving auctioneer alive as often as possible and the druid's hand kept getting clogged with more draw cards. so occasionally i had free turns where i drop brann and pump out kazakus potions. and 10 mana is essentially a lightbomb + something good if you manage to get the polymorph entire board, so eventually i got enough advantage to win.

30+ minutes of this cycle, me waiting for druid to give me enough free turns to chip away at health, druid waiting for me to run out of board wipe. finally i win. free pack. 40 dust.

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I unintentionally managed to get dragon synergy, demon synergy, elemental synergy, and beast synergy in one game.
just priest mirror things

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if i recall--
dragons because i was playing dragons.
demons from kazakus potion.
the first ungoro pack i thoughtstole gave me stampede and the 3/6 warrior beast that shuffles a 6/9, and i got one or two more beasts.
the second ungoro pack i stole with drakonid operative, and it gave me the shaman elemental legendary, which i believe i managed to proc with tar creeper

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Okay, I take everything I said about the priest mirror back.
I just played a game where my opponent played 10 Drakonid Operatives in total.
The priest mirror is the worst thing on earth.

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congrats peg/glork-- picked up my own 12 this week on hunter, first in a long time. Pretty sure the event makes it easier.

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Opened 31 packs with gold, 3 packs from arena, 3 packs from adventure, if i recall.
Opened moorabi and rotface, got paladin DK from adventure.

I've been playing moorabi in evolve. (for the record I'm a wild-only player.) It seems generally pretty bad, but it's not super awful bad. Once you get your freezes out you can evolve a 4/4 into a 7 drop. Brrloc gets pulled from Curator (which I think is pretty good in evolve shaman as it tutors Jeweled Scarab or Pantry Spider into your hand, and Azure Drake is a good card to evolve as well). And freeze is generally okay as an effect, I'd say lategame wise not actually that much worse than hard removal as far as tempo goes. Freezing a tirion is fun.

I've been playing the DK in murloc paladin. I have exactly 0 other paladin legends but I took anyfin to rank 5 a few seasons ago with relative ease, it's a strong deck even without sunkeeper, and DK is actually great, it's a heal for 10 + justicar trueheart that spawns tokens with super soft taunt.

Tried rotface in patron warrior, including the draw 2 weapons card + the new 2/2 double whirlwind weapon. Seems pretty good.

Aside from that, I tried mill warlock. Basically what happens is either you lose or you manage to give them a howlfiend then defile the entire board, they discard their whole hand, and they concede.

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Geist is a bad card, and it doesn't counter shit.

I don't know the standard meta, but my impression is if your control deck doesn't have the reach to beat Jade Druid after nuking their idols, then your control deck isn't that good anyway. And if your aggro deck isn't killing Jade Druid fast enough-- well, aggro shouldn't be running geist, what am I saying.

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this is just my dumb opinion, but Wild Control v. Control is fundamentally different from what it used to be

When the mainstays of Control were Reno, N'Zoth, Kazakus, you built up to giant swing turns. Other staples like Deathlord and Dirty Rat become incredible when they took out one of those turns. Entomb and Duplicate were important, because thats how you gained the power advantage before the fatigue.

Now, (keeping in mind the meta hasn't really solidified), control decks have heroes, where once they play a card or two, they get a large bonus for the rest of the game. I haven't encountered careful fatigue play at all, because unlike Jaraxxus, you don't think about when you play them because they give you sustain AND long term power. There's no back and forth, just decks losing the value game and slowly getting rolled over.

An example in extremis: if you're not already ahead as a control deck by the time Taunt Warrior completes the quest, you just lose. It just doesn't feel like there's anything you can do if you fall behind in a control game now. Maybe I just haven't adapted to the new meta, but I'm not having fun.

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Normally I'd agree with Shea. Ever since Naxx & GvG I've ranged from playing pretty seriously to long stretches of not at all, but I've never had any trouble being able to play at least several decks. I hit rank 5 multiple times in Ungoro despite not having Patches, Aya, Tarim, Lyra, Finja, Tirion, Caverns Below, Waygate, White Eyes, so on. But now it genuinely feels like every possible KFT deck I'm missing multiple key legendaries/epics

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They're nerfing cards.
Innervate -> 1 mana gain
War Axe -> 3 mana cost
Hex -> 4 mana cost
Murloc Warleader -> only +2 attack, not +2/+1
Spreading Plague -> 6 mana cost

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what are you running shea?

I think there's an interesting thing to watch out for in the priest mirror in this meta-- Playing turn 4 Barnes has potential to lose you the game. I've won several mirrors from potion of madness their turn 4 lich king/statue/whatever.

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had 3200 dust, crafted patches and have been having a lot of fun with oil rogue.
with remaining 1600 would like advice.

Current thoughts, in order of preference:
1) Every Epic/Rare I still need for Big Priest (I don't have Yshaarj or Ysera)
2) Tarim
3) Lyra
4) Tirion
5) Anduin DK
6) Jaina DK
7) Aya

edit: more context for these--

I'm playing some jank form of Big Priest that sucks. With all of the Epics and Rares I would only need to replace Yshaarj and Ysera.
Tarim would mean I can play some form of Recruit/Fast Paladin.
Lyra would mean I can play Combo Priest.
Tirion is a legendary that has singlehandedly prevented me from playing Paladin for 2 years.
Anduin DK I can toss in Big Priest or something, but I don't have Raza.
Jaina DK can make Reno Mage better (I don't have Pyros) and I can try some Ele Mage maybe.
Aya, for Jades.

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Back into this for the arena. Did my draft without tier list (too lazy when on phone). Warlock + rogue hero power. Currently 4-0. Everyone i faced was warlock hero power.

All 4 of my games were won after a huge stabilize from being crazy behind on board and hand (i think warlock power just outvalues after a while sometimes). 1st game with Doom. 2nd game with Spreading Plague from Swashbucker. 3rd game, turns out Defile is nuts against hunterlock board flood. 4th game, Dreadlord + Plague Doctor combo guy is hilarious and awesome.

I dont think the person in the 4th game realised what happened, because they proceeded to dump a huge board even with poisonous dreadlord on my side. So yeah ive been gettin pretty lucky

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yeah im too incompetent

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The second last legendary I opened was Golden Nat Pagle.
The last legendary I opened was Nat Pagle.
Maybe I should just keep this one?

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day 1 got 3 legends total.

1) i really like Kingsbane
2) hunter wep: Yogg 'n' Load is still my favorite deck ever and I have a sense that blizzard's gonna push this archetype more in the future.
3) don't care about paly wep

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also crafting tarim or w/e

I've been meaning to do this forever. It's always been just outside my top priority crafts.

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Also pray you don't get Togwaggle. I've only gotten him once and he wrecked me.

I definitely don't disagree-- but interestingly, all three of my wins have been against Togwaggle. Broken Paladin deck, Shaman, and just now, Warlock: letting him flood his board with Party Portal and Ice Wall, outlasting with DK, winning 8 turns into fatigue.

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just got a golden sindragosa! disenchant for legendary?
What's good these days? I havent played in a while. Warlock DK? Is Aya still good?

edit: a quick look suggests warlock is basically top tier here, but I'm missing key cards from any warlock deck still (giants package, cube, voidlord, keleseth) that idk if I even want to commit there.

edit2: turns out i already have two voidlords. nifty.

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I don't mind rotation, but maybe Aya can wait. I crafted Tarim yesterday, so maybe I'll craft Warlock DK and run a less effective Renolock until I pick up whatever the youngsters are running these days in their Renolocks.

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What’s standard like? Is it also Paladins abusing Call to Arms and Warlocks abusing Cubes?

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Gold saving time!

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Thoughts on the new expansion so far? Seems underwhelming honestly.
I've saved up 4000 dust and 1000 gold so far though.

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And speaking of Hunter, Dire Frenzy and Wing Blast seem extremely exciting - Hunter's got almost enough tools to have a legitimate control deck on its hands.

I try to make Control Hunter work a lot.
I wonder if the Rush legendary is good enough to try with Patron.

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Face Collector was my freebie, I got Countess Ashmore as well.

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Shudderwock has actually scared me off from playing wild, until I have more witchwood cards to build a legit solid deck.
I don't even know how good it is in wild but with Loatheb + N'Zoth access I'd imagine it being pretty frustrating to deal with unless you have whatever is the top tier aggro flavor of the month

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I'll post a list as well, cause I just opened Shaw. Patron Hunter.

### Patron
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Wild
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# 1x (1) Hunter's Mark
# 2x (1) Jeweled Macaw
# 2x (1) On the Hunt
# 1x (1) Sir Finley Mrrgglton
# 2x (2) Freezing Trap
# 2x (2) Mad Scientist
# 1x (2) Venomstrike Trap
# 2x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 1x (3) Acolyte of Pain
# 2x (3) Animal Companion
# 2x (3) Eaglehorn Bow
# 2x (3) Kill Command
# 1x (3) Unleash the Hounds
# 2x (4) Flanking Strike
# 1x (4) Houndmaster Shaw
# 2x (5) Grim Patron
# 2x (6) Necrotic Geist
# 2x (6) Savannah Highmane
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

I haven't played many games but it definitely wins some, at least. Will not win most. Will refine more.