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Hearthstone |OT1| New Era, Same Meta

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Magnus

Magnus

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Oct 25, 2017
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I just played the OTK Shaman BS to win a game and feel disgusting. It wasn't fun. Awful card. Super boring, too. Glad it'll get nerfed at some point. It's about as non-interactive and broken as it gets. They've nerfed weaker cards.

I'm having an Awful time on ladder, though. Literally can't get out of rank 20. Lol. People are having insane luck against me with great draw and polished decks. Mostly elemental mags (I should try it) and Shudderwock shaman. Haven't seen a single paladin, Druid, or warrior. All three classes basically vanished. Have also only seen one hunter, warlock and rogue each out of like 30+ games.
 

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Blizzard said:
I only play standard, so I should make sure we're on the same page there.

If talking about standard, what 1 drops do you think would have value in odd hunter?
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Anything that can deal damage without worrying about having board control. Leper gnome, southsea deck hand, the stealth one.

Skipping a hero power in this deck should be avoided.
 

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Yaboosh said:
Anything that can deal damage without worrying about having board control. Leper gnome, southsea deck hand, the stealth one.

Skipping a hero power in this deck should be avoided.
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Southsea deck hand can't do anything without a weapon, so I guess that means the invincible weapon is mandatory (I already put it in). I didn't think about leper gnome.

I mean there's the 1-drop (elven archer?) that pings when you play it but that seems way too weak. Worth a shot?
 
Cvie

Cvie

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Oct 25, 2017
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like 7-0 so far with mid range spellstone hunter, almost rank 4.

its just the barnes ysharj hunter with no arcane shot or rotated cards and then add secret keepers, jugglers and highmanes.
 
Karsticles

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I played 4 games of Shudderwock at the meta-defining rank of 25.

Are the battlecries in order, or random? It felt like they were in order, but the card is so confusing in how its effects trigger that I felt like I was watching a Yogg. After a while I just let the colors happen and played the next one to win.

In Standard, I feel like this card might have been almost ok if not for Lifedrinker.
 

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Karsticles said:
I played 4 games of Shudderwock at the meta-defining rank of 25.

Are the battlecries in order, or random? It felt like they were in order, but the card is so confusing in how its effects trigger that I felt like I was watching a Yogg. After a while I just let the colors happen and played the next one to win.

In Standard, I feel like this card might have been almost ok if not for Lifedrinker.
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Random.
 
The Mango Sentinel

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Blizzard said:
Southsea deck hand can't do anything without a weapon, so I guess that means the invincible weapon is mandatory (I already put it in). I didn't think about leper gnome.

I mean there's the 1-drop (elven archer?) that pings when you play it but that seems way too weak. Worth a shot?
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Dire Mole and Fire Fly are good drops. And Deckhand is a good drop since it has charge. You aren't looking to play it on turn 1. And you should be hero powering every turn if possible. Mage and Rogue have been especially easy matchups.
 
Mobius and Pet Octopus

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Blizzard said:
What 1 drops do you think are good in the standard deck situation? The context is rank 10+.
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I asked on comphs discord and they gave me this list with a few mods

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take out fledgling and add UTH
add 1 hunters mark
-1 wolfrider

Check out what they're running and see if it's what you like, or just run it.
 

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The Mango Sentinel said:
Dire Mole and Fire Fly are good drops. And Deckhand is a good drop since it has charge. You aren't looking to play it on turn 1. And you should be hero powering every turn if possible. Mage and Rogue have been especially easy matchups.
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I haven't seen a single mage or rogue in rank 8-10 in maybe 10 or 20 games, but I could believe that.

Has anyone played it in the current ranked 10 meta besides you, Yaboosh, and Mobius and Pet Octopus?

Mobius and Pet Octopus said:
I asked on comphs discord and they gave me this list with a few mods

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take out fledgling and add UTH
add 1 hunters mark
-1 wolfrider

Check out what they're running and see if it's what you like, or just run it.
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Like I mentioned earlier, this is one of the rare times when I'm insane and am actually experimenting with building my own deck, so I'm trying to avoid looking at any deck lists. :(

I'm trying to learn some general principles instead and apply them with experimentation to what I'm facing.
 
Cvie

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lost my first game with the deck to a shudder shaman, he had double healing rain in his top 15 cards, i must have done at least 55 damage to him. i had 1 or 2 turns where i could have top decked second kill command for lethal.
 
Flaurehn

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I am loving cauldron in my dead man hand rush warrior deck! I want to cut the bears but I don't know what could be a nice sub

1 Firefly x 2
1 Town Crier × 2
1 Battle Rage × 2
2 Commanding Shout × 1
2 Dead Man's Hand × 2
2 Execute × 2
2 Vicious Scalehide × 2
2 Woodcutter's Axe × 2
3 Rabid Worgen × 2
3 Witch's Cauldron × 2
4 Cult Master × 2
4 Militia Commander × 2
4 Darius Crowley × 1
5 Elise the Trailblazer × 1
5 Witchwood Grizzly × 2
5 Countess Ashmore × 1
7 Grommash Hellscream × 1
8 Woecleaver × 1
 
scarlet

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Oct 25, 2017
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I used a voodoo doll to replace siphon soul in my control warlock and it works great.

Also Godfrey is a godsend <3
 
DSP

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cauldron is very good card. Shaman spells are fine and they can give you every utility you might need.
 
squidyj

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I like how firebat wins with Shudderwock shaman, fucks up the decklist, starts to lose, and then calls it a bad deck.
gj bro.
 
Luminish

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Oct 25, 2017
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I'm not really liking Ratcatcher so far. I'm not finding many situations where I need that one extra midrange value trade and have the mana to do it.

Godfrey seems good though. should have been a Demon so at least it wouldn't be such a good upgrade to the Cubelock that was so obviously going to be good.
 
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QFNS

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Oct 26, 2017
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I got both Genn and Baku. Can't complain about that. No Shudderwock though so gonna wait on that deck and see how it shakes out. It seems like a meme deck despite being obnoxious as fuck, I can't tell if its good vs the field yet.

Played a bit of Elemental Mage, deck is really fun with Book of Specters. That card is amazing. Also Bonfire Elemental pretty good.
 

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also is it ironic to anyone else that Genn requires an even deck, and makes your hero power cost 1, whilst baku requires an odd deck, but keeps your hero power at 2?

that's irony
 
coolasj19

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What new deck dumpsters CubeLock the best? There's a new expansion out and people are playing the same damn thing and I don't want those people to have any fun either.
 
Bunga

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Oct 29, 2017
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Guys any indication of what are safe crafts in terms of legendary/epics? In my packs I got two paladin legendaries, the priest inner fire one, rogue random legendary generator, shaman armour board clear. All seem pretty terrible...

I do however have 13k dust but reluctant to blow it on cards that won't see play past this month.
 
Feral

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holy shit is playing standard with barely upgraded decks against meta decks a terrible experience, even at the very low ranks. Like, there isn't anything you can do about the pala deck at all without picking up a meta deck yourself, never mind crafting all the required cards. This is much more miserabe than warlock zoo and giants back then. I just wanna do the freaking quest to unlock the hero or whatever that reward is
 

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warlock got alotta good good tools. Ratcatcher to trigger cube/lackey and not lose their stats, Dark Possession to empower Skull of Man'ari, Godfrey for some powerful removal...I haven't even engorged myself in the new cards they can use.
 
BananasWithGuns

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Mmkay, apparently Voodoo Doll's effect persists through returning something to your hand.

Mage Voodoo'd my Hench-Clan Thug. I Shadow Stepped it then played it again and it attack and then it died.

Doesn't seem right but good to know i guess.
 

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Any tips for my experimental even hunter deck?
### Garbage Is Still Garbage
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Raven
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# 2x (2) Explosive Trap
# 1x (2) Flare
# 2x (2) Freezing Trap
# 1x (2) Grievous Bite
# 2x (2) Hunting Mastiff
# 1x (2) Rat Trap
# 2x (2) Scavenging Hyena
# 2x (2) Vicious Scalehide
# 2x (2) Wandering Monster
# 1x (2) Wild Pyromancer
# 1x (4) Arfus
# 2x (4) Dire Frenzy
# 1x (4) Exploding Bloatbat
# 1x (4) Flanking Strike
# 1x (4) Houndmaster
# 1x (4) Lifedrinker
# 1x (4) Professor Putricide
# 1x (4) Wing Blast
# 1x (4) Witchwood Piper
# 1x (6) Deathstalker Rexxar
# 1x (6) Genn Greymane
# 2x (6) To My Side!
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone
 
PS9

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Oct 28, 2017
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It's surely not the best deck in the day one meta (lol Shaman) but I'm really enjoying playing Hand Druid. I'm playing the deck Blizzard recommends in Hearthstone for Druid, it's called Victory at Hand.

Raven Caller, Wispering Woods, Witchwood Apple, Bewitched Guardian and Tanglefur Mystic are new interesting cards that combo really well with Power of the Wild and Branching Paths.

One big plus of the deck is it doesn't even have any legendaries so cheap to try out, new Druid hero is nice too.
 
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