The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!

On my final boss game to legend, I queue into secret mage and draw and play Kezan Mystic turn 3 with coin to steal a secret and then Eater of Secrets turn 4 to destroy 2 more secrets.  After that they conceded.

So after the new announcement regarding the classic rotation, I´ve finally decided to open my 38 classic packs I´ve been hoarding months from Brawls, hoping to open at last one legendary from the last 4 missing. To my surprise my packs contained 3 legendaries! High Inquisitor Whitemane, Natalie Seline and Cenarius, along with my last missing epics from the classic set, except one (looking at you Shadow Word: Ruin).

So now all I´m left to do is to hit that sweet Legend rank to get my very last classic legendary, Mr. Nat Pagle :D

OKay, extremely minimal, but I had the win 2 games in any mode quest, so I decided to try it on PvE content. I had a Dalaran Heist run going on the first Bartender Bob encounter. I thought, let's do this and win the next game to see if it works. Not only does it work, it worked on Bob himself.

Had the most satisfying win in awhile and pulled off my first C'Thun finisher!

I was memeing in the Platinum ranks with an Old God Highlander Hunter and ran into a Pure Paladin who was BMing like crazy (rope Turn 1, emote spam every turn, touching cards and tapping my hero power constantly, etc.).  Things quieted down when I had him on the ropes in the midgame as he tried to kill my windfury Siamat with a High Exarch Yrel but played into Freezing Trap.  I played a Darkmoon Tonk on Turn 9 and he was at 10 health after clearing both via a discounted Libram of Justice + Consecration.  I had lethal in hand from Brann + Hero Power, but he was running Air Raid for some reason (Alura activator?) and was able to get that out on T9 due to the discount on Justice.

From there he stabilized via 2x Libram of Hope + Yrel and the BM came back in full force.  I managed to clear a number of big boards thanks to Zeph, Professor Slate, and C'Thun cards, but couldn't get ahead on board to drop Dragonqueen Alexstrasza or N'Zoth, God of the Deep without opening myself up to a Lady Liadrin lethal. 

I finished C'Thun but hadn't drawn it and my health was slowly depleting thanks to Hammer of the Naaru (can't remember if he ran that or got it off Lightforged Crusader).  When that weapon was done I was at 4 HP and he buffed a small minion a bunch and then copied him with Argent Braggart.  The BM was at an all-time high but with 11 cards left I top decked Yogg-Saron, Master of Fate who heard my cries and instantly gobbled up both minions to become a 28-attack monstrosity.  Unfortunately, another Libram of Justice + Consecration negated poor Yogg and left me at 1 HP while he played a 0-cost Devout Pupil and added 2 Libram buffs.  He roped in satisfaction and once again I thought I'd have to rely on a lucky dragon from Alex.  However, who should I top deck with a 10% chance, none other than C'Thun, the Shattered who killed off the Pupil and his remaining 18 HP!!  And with that I began my first emotes of the match ;D

This expansion is actually brilliant.

Had a hilarious stroke of luck while playing Lunacy Mage. I was facing a Hero Power Mage, and my opponent had gotten me down to 8 health. I had a wide board threatening lethal, but I knew he was gonna drop Mordresh Fire Eye the next turn and I had no way of stopping it. Resigning myself to a defeat, I just played the Trick Totem I got from Font of Power and hoped for the best. 

Lo and behold, the Trick Totem healed me with Flash Heal, taking my health out of reach of Mordresh's damage. 

Saved by a Trick Totem, who would've guessed lol

Currently feeling good with this Control Priest deck list I got from Dekkster (he got it from another streamer, I think), I'm 8-1 with it so far. He said it's a real Mage-killer, and so far it is. It's currently 3-1 against Mages, with the lone loss due to the Mage having the nuts with all his burn spells in hand. Other than that, I can just heal myself back up anytime I want, and the deck's got multiple removal tools that allow me to outlast any opponent, even the most bonkers Mage turn. I beat two who played Deck of Lunacy on turn 1 or 2, and boy does it feel good. 

I'm playing Spell Mage vs Priest who's at 2 health vs my full board, I have 2 secrets up.  He plays Raise Dead to play around Counterspell.

Spoiler: It wasn't Counterspell lol

With the nerf announcements today, I decided to buy 5 Barrens packs hoping to get more copies of the nerfed cards for more dust. I didn't get any of them, but instead I got these two from those 5 random packs:

I mean, they're only legendaries from my two favorite classes, both of which I was already thinking of crafting after the nerfs, so yeah. I think I'm happy :)

Roflstomped my way to legend from rank 4 to legend with Clown Druid today, 24-4. Smashing multiple paladins and mages. That felt so good. 

I bought the new bundle, and lo and behold my luck with packs has been really good lately. This is my second golden legendary in two days, amazing. 

When you're achievement hunting versus a deck you don't really get and it turns out the opponent is also achievement hunting.

Finally hit Legend for the first time. I feel super happy. 6 freakin years. Lol. 

My last Battlegrounds game, playing as Toki, began in a fun way!

T1: Buying Sellemental.

T2: Upgrade tavern

T3: Buying Sellemental + Party Elemental.

T4: Bob offers me one Sellementaland THREE Molten Rocks.

From there I was cruising to 1st place, also ended up with a golden Garr with +200 health. :)

Congrats Kaladin! You´ve made it :) Isn´t it cool to post in this other thread? I´m sure you won´t be downvoted in here. Hope you find more stuff to be finally happy about. GG WP!

I just managed to get three Battleground achievements at once, the last of which I NEVER even hoped for achieving:

1) Wrath of the Windlord (Win with Al'Akir)

2) Little Fish in a Big Tavern (Win Tier 4 or lower)

3) Spicy Pretzel Mustard (Win while winning every round)

PS: Poisonous Murlocs with Divine Shield and Windfury are your friend :)

Yeah buddy, you brought your Secret Aggro Paladin to casual like a douchebag and I stomped you with my little homebrew shaman deck. Feelsgoodman!

I'm feeling good today. I finally managed to crawl past the 1,000-win barrier for that Demonic Illidan portrait, and then an hour later I get a G'huun the Blood God from my tavern brawl pack. 

Won against Odd Warrior today with Even Mage. It felt like an impossible feat with a deck that mostly relies on HP to burn, but I didn't want to give up.

After all standard armor and aoe bullshit (and a lot of button pressing from both of us), he pretty much exhausted most of removal, except for Reckless Flurry and his equipped 1/2 Supercollider. I fatigued, and then played my Maiev Shadowsong + Coldarra Drake combo, along with 0-mana Frost Giant. Giant got 1 hit, he couldn't clear with Collider because of Dormant minion, so he was forced to flurry next turn, losing 17 armor. Then he armored up as best as he could, but ended up on 29 effective life, when my dragon woke up :)

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Won against Odd Warrior today with Even Mage. It felt like an impossible feat with a deck that mostly relies on HP to burn, but I didn't want to give up.

After all standard armor and aoe bullshit (and a lot of button pressing from both of us), he pretty much exhausted most of removal, except for Reckless Flurry and his equipped 1/2 Supercollider. I fatigued, and then played my Maiev Shadowsong + Coldarra Drake combo, along with 0-mana Frost Giant. Giant got 1 hit, he couldn't clear with Collider because of Dormant minion, so he was forced to flurry next turn, losing 17 armor. Then he armored up as best as he could, but ended up on 29 effective life, when my dragon woke up :)

Does your even mage have Potion of Illusion? In terms of combo potential it is a lot better than Maiev since you can use it on Coldarra Drake to kill your opponent and only have to wait 1 turn instead of 2. It also works well with Astromancer Solarian, Reckless Apprentice, and if your lucky even Mordresh Fire Eye.

Hey Kansas, thanks for the idea. I don't have it in deck, since I'm running minion-heavy version, mainly to be able to use Book of Specters as a draw engine and Starscryer to tutor Wildfire or Book early. Don't even run Fireball for that reason. I could try Potion later in a different version, sounds fun! :)

Edit: also, thanks for the reminder that Solarian exists, I forgot about him since the nerf. He should be good since the draw power is high

Going for the caravan achievement against a Big Priest and the game got... weird.

Keep in mind: the only minions in my deck are the two original copies of Soothsayer's Caravan.

It feels so good when your off meta deck with obscure cards like Light's Sorrow and Bolvar, Fireblood executes its gameplan perfectly. No regrets crafting either of them!

Wow, this has been the most enjoyable Hearthstone day for me in the entire Barrens expansion. I have been trying to make a fun Shudderwock shaman deck for months and have been failing, but finally today was a breakthrough. Made a deck that destroys the opponent’s entire hand and deck as early as turn 9 and got it to work multiple times. Something about seeing the opponent with no hand deck or board on their turn so early in the game is hilarious to me. This is why I love wild, so many cards to play with and eventually some combination of old and new cards can lead to a lot of fun.

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Wow, this has been the most enjoyable Hearthstone day for me in the entire Barrens expansion. I have been trying to make a fun Shudderwock shaman deck for months and have been failing, but finally today was a breakthrough. Made a deck that destroys the opponent’s entire hand and deck as early as turn 9 and got it to work multiple times. Something about seeing the opponent with no hand deck or board on their turn so early in the game is hilarious to me. This is why I love wild, so many cards to play with and eventually some combination of old and new cards can lead to a lot of fun.

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Would you mind sharing your deck? I have also been trying to make shudderwock shaman work for a while and found a decent build with a 57% winrate in the middle ranks of wild. 

Hi KANSAS, sure, here it is. I tried to put in some insights about playing it in the guide. 

57% winrate is pretty good, I think your deck is a lot better than this one competitively. This deck is more for fun trying to get the feeling of destroying the opponent's hand and deck early in the game, I think Lifedrinker is probably the most competitive option for Shudderwock decks right now. The name is Vacuum Shaman since it feels like you're sucking all the cards out of their hand and deck.

It's still pretty new so if you have any ideas on how to improve it I would appreciate them!

Winning against Face Hunter with exactly 1 HP to finish your climb to D5. 

There's no better feeling than clapping an uninteractive deck like Weapon Rogue.

Fuck Swinetusk Shank and fuck Self-Sharpening Sword

Arena with Shaman. Turn 4: Coin + Shadow Hunter Vol'jin, target Hog Rancher to swap it with my Scrapyard Colossus in hand. It was silenced right away but I still won a few turns later.

My other targets in hand were 2X Smug Senior and a Pen Flinger. So it was 25% chance of complete misplay but I was lucky this time. :)

Played Unseen Saboteur vs a Mechathun Warlock, hit Cataclysm, Instant concede.

I love Mutanus the Devourer already. A turn later, my opponent burned his Lord Jaraxxus with Altar of Fire. No more win conditions for you lol

Looks like this murloc's gonna be a meta staple, particularly for control decks. So many archetypes are just dependent on single cards that eating them with Mutanus is game-changing. Cards like N'Zoth, God of the Deep, Inara Stormcrash, Lady Anacondra, Alexstrasza the Life-Binder, Tenwu of the Red Smoke...

I love Mutanus too just tried him in decks today but he’s already one of my favorite cards of all time.

Update Jun 26 nice board clear

Played rush warrior, went unfavorable against nzoth priest

My opponent played 5x Wave of Apathy, 2x Soul Mirror, soul mirrored my Tresh despite me playing around it all day he happened to discover one at that exact moment, healed up to full from 10 health once, ate my Nzoth via his Mutanus, and my Alex was at the bottom 8 of my cards (had I drawn it I would have won twice over)

This, my friends, is why everyone hates priest.

And this is also why it feels so good when you still managed the win despite all the bs.

The only thing better than when you get Legend with an off meta list you built is when someone else does it, and today someone from my ingame hs friend list managed to get it starting from below Diamond a few days ago using solely that list. Feels so good.

And another person also got legend, so now 3 ppl have done it. Most successful deck I've made in the past year, very happy.

I hit legend with a Control Warrior deck, with the Silas Darkmoon + Soulbound Ashtongue OTK. It feels so satisfying to tank up to 50 armor then kill some hapless Priest or Warlock with this combo. 

It also feels satisfying to hit legend today, after I was one win away from reaching it yesterday only to lose the next 5 games. I guess the game wanted me to wait for another day to hit trash legend. 

Really working on refining still but I made a new Ignite Exodia Mage on day 1.  Only played a few games so far and have mad a few changes here and there, but I pulled it off once already!

I you aren’t aware, the combo goes 1Sanctum Chandler, 2 Sorcerer's Apprentice, and then Ignite into an infinite loop of damage!

BEWARE animation times!  Hemet, Jungle Hunter can be used to set up the combo turn once you have the needed cards.  Doesn’t empty your deck, just removes all spells, which should cost 3 or less!  This guarantees the Chandler draws the shuffled Ignite.

If you’re interested I hope to have a list up soon!

Been trying to complete the Rogue Masquerade achievement, and finally got it after many many attempts using a Masquerage Questline Rogue.  Garrosh couldn't avoid me forever!

Anyway, that isn't important!  What is important is that the final game was against a Questline Spell Mage, and my Wandmaker just happened to give me a Savory Deviate Delight right after this Mage completed their quest!  So of course I played it, and of course Arcanist Dawngrasp was the only minion in their hand so it became a Prize Plunderer!

On the flip side, my Prize Plunderer transformed into a Southsea Scoundrel, which I used to gain a copy of Ignite from their deck, and add to the other copy I got off Wand Thief...  It was a bit of an RNG Fiesta, but it sure was fun!

I'm feeling extremely lucky today: I bought the Stormwind bundle, and I managed to get a number of legendaries:

Defend the Dwarven District (free)

Seek Guidance (free)

Archspore Msshi'fn

Sphere of Sapience (golden!)

Lost in the Park

Wasn't expecting this haul from the bundle at all! And I'm grateful for those new questlines, I'm definitely gonna try those out. Thanks, RNGesus!

Got the XP quest to play 12 dragons.  With no real dragon archetype in the Standard meta (or Wild really) I decided my only option was to MEME!  Took me only six tries to live the dream as a Demon Hunter with infinite Hero Powers!  And the best part is that it was against a Questline mage who played Arcanist Dawngrasp TWICE!  Yes, they used Potion of Illusion generated off a Runed Orb to get a second (1) 1/1 copy.  I didn't even pay attention to if the effect stacked, I thought me and my 18 HP were done for.  But somehow the Mage had ran out of steam and didn't have any draw or generation spells in the 4 they were holding.  So I survived and played Felfire Deadeye, Coldarra Drake and a few other dragons to not only win but finish my "play dragons" quest!

haha thats briliant. GG!

Got a surprise Overlord Saurfang from the golden standard pack (Book of Heroes reward), great! I don't know if there are any playable decks that uses him, I might check that up.

Just one of those days where everything went right for me. 

I played Raza Hunter in Wild and went 20-5 with it all the way from Platinum 5 to Diamond 4. It just razed everything in its path (yes, even Darkglare Warlocks) and most importantly, it's so fun to play! It's absolutely satisfying to mow down your opponent with non-stop 3-damage from your hero power. I even had a game where a Shaman healed up with Reno Jackson from 13 to full health, only for me to gatling-gun him down for 25 damage in a single turn for lethal a couple of turns later. Not fun for him, but very fun for me. 

I had a good time playing Standard as well with Quest Handlock, lost only a single game all the way to Diamond 1. I know everyone hates this deck, but it's just a very fun deck to play.

To top it all off, I got a golden Ringmaster Whatley from the standard pack reward in the battle pass. This is as good as it gets. 

I effing did it, boys and girls. I turn 1 oh-my-yogged a Quest Mage. With a 1k wins portrait, in diamond rank.

I completed the Yogg Champ achievement yesterday! Quite unexpectedly too. I've had this Quest Mage down to 3 health but I've stalled out, unable to deliver the finishing blow because my stuff keeps getting removed. As a last resort, I play Oh My Yogg!, hoping to prevent the opponent from dealing lethal damage with at least 1 spell. 

The Mage then plays a 0-mana Ignite that turns into a Raise Dead. Fantastic. Of course, I have to BM after that, because screw Mages. 

Ah , im so happy right now because i finaly Got the "Broadside!" Achievement where you have to kill your Opponent with the Juggernaut. Have been trying for days to do that. Had it set up like 10 times but most of the time the opponent concedes - but not this time.

My opponent even emoted Well Played and let me finish him off with the Juggernaut - i was so happy and also made a new Online Friend because i added him to say thank you and he was realy nice :)

Also i just wanted to say i realy do not share all the Meta Hate right now - i'm having so much fun playing all different kinds of decks (mostly Quest Warrior because of the Achievement) and i have began the climb with Rat King Hunter and played it to Gold 10 - switched to Quest Warrior and played it to Platinum 8 so far. 

Right now i realy enjoy playing :) 

I just got a message that someone reached legend for the first time ever with a deck I posted, makes me really happy.

So I've been playing a Lady Prestor Deck with a Silence Priest Shell = overstatted minions with drawbacks like "can't attack" etc.

Works out as expected, all the Questline Decks in Wild Casual slaughter me. But this one game against a Pirate Warrior, where I manage to stick a Far Watch Post, slow the opponent down, get to play Prestor on curve and play a 2 Mana Ysera, Unleashed plus a Lorekeeper Polkelt on Turn 7, resulting in a full board of big dragons on the following turn - that was worth it.

Dear Blizzard....

THANK YOU!!!

For giving us back Wild.

Had a funny win in Duels yesterday...my opponent was at 15 health, and dropped a Robes of Protection to protect the 4 minions on their board. I only had an Optimistic Ogre on my board, summoned when I cast a Firelands Portal. So figuring all was lost, I just cast Pure Cold to hit my opponent for 8 in the face (with my passive Fireshaper hitting for 1 extra face damage), then decided to trade away my Ogre to their Blood of G'huun. Lo and behold, my Optimistic Ogre went face for the win!

Again, never concede. An Optimistic Ogre lethal! It turns out that 50% of the time, it works every time. 

Playing Questline Priest on ladder, encountering two Druids in a row who f-cks up the quest good with Celestial Alignment. Won both games anyway. :)

I was playing Deathrattle Ress shadow priest in standard against a questline warrior. (The things this game makes me do in order to play a control deck...) I barely managed to hold on for the majority of the game, and managed to turn the game around into my favor despite The Juggernaut giving them lots of value. But then it happened, the questline warrior got Bulwark of Azzinoth from The Juggernaut 3 times IN A ROW, which helped them stabalize the board back into their favor. So right now you might think that this comment would better fit into the salt thread, but luckely not. Because i BARELY managed to win the game with only 1 health remaining! (And no armor) That was the closest game i've had in months!

Played my first game of the expansion, and i was playing Secret BIG Hunter against a spell mage. (One without questline, but still spell-only because they ran Apexis Blast. They also didn't run any new cards.) I was afraid i lost the game when i noticed them playing turn 2 Coin into Incanter's Flow but decided not to concede and play the game regardless, and i'm so happy i did! I kept bouncing spells such as the 2nd Incanter's Flow and all their Apexis Blasts back to their hand with Ice Trap, and i kept discovering more from Rinling's Rifle and Improved Ice Trap from Beaststalker Tavish. This managed to stall long enough for me to play Beastmaster Leoroxx for a huge stat bomb and win the game. Ice Trap has instantly become one of my favorite cards from this expansion!

I had a pretty great game yesterday. I was playing Aggro Druid against non Quest Warlock (most likely OwlTK). I played Nature Studies into Partner Assignment (which I chose so I could fill the board) and the random 3 drop I got was Mukla. I hoped that the Warlock would draw enough cards so I could mill something and they had 8 when their turn was over. I played Mukla and then this happened.

This was a game winning turn. So satisfying.

my first time seeing double

I think I just played the greatest game of Hearthstone ever. 

I'm playing C'Thun Druid (with Wildheart Guff) against a Burgle Rogue. I got behind early as my opponent played a wide board, but I was able to Solar Eclipse into Overflow on turn 3 so I have a lot of mana to defend myself with. By turn 11 I've managed to hold on at 12 health, and I manage to clear his board with a Yogg-Saron, Master of Fate that cast a Puzzlebox. 

Now this is where it gets fun. My opponent manages to get a Yogg of his own via Vanessa VanCleef, which will come into play later. At this point I'm at 12 health and 29 armor, with 19 mana in my tray thanks to Wildheart Guff. A Contraband Stash fills my opponent's board with large threats again, but I still manage to clear some of his minions again and even complete C'Thun, the Shattered on the same turn. However, he steals my C'Thun with Parrrley! He couldn't play it that turn, though.

I play the Parrrley as well and steal his Contraband Stash, which helps wipe his board again (thanks to a stray Fire Sale that I forget where I got from). But with the board free of minions now, he plays C'Thun, which I managed to survive thanks to 26 armor. With just 8 health left, I play two Cenarion Wards to tank up again, getting a Turalyon, the Tenured to kill the C'Thun so he couldn't Shadowstep it. 

Next turn, my opponent plays the Yogg he got from Vanessa VanCleef, and it plays another  puzzlebox that kills my two 8-drops and fills his board with some buffed up imps. I'm out of answers at that point and staring death in the face, so I played Resizing Pouch for a Hail Mary play. 

Well, I got another Yogg-Saron, Master of Fate out of it, and it cast Rod of Roasting!!! And it killed my opponent!!!! 

A perfect ending to an amazing game. This is why I play Hearthstone. 

I just hit legend with Freeze Shaman! THE MEME IS DEAD!!!

On a serious note, it's a real fun deck to play, and pretty powerful too. One of my favorite decks ever, for sure. After years of being frustrated with my board getting frozen and locked out by Mages, I have to say it feels great to be on the other side this time. 

How satisfying is it to beat a Mozaki Mage with a bunch of extremely buff sheep? Very satisfying. 

How satisfying is this?

Yes.

Thanks to my opponent for giving me the unkillable minion I needed to execute this Kurtrus, Demon-Render OTK. 

This is actually some amusing synergy - well played!

thanks to the HEARTHSTONE VOYAGE TO THE SUNKEN CITY PRESS KIT, i want to share what i made for a wallpaper due to the new pics. looks cool. what do you think? 

Man that was good. Finally beat an armour/mechatun druid with my razakus priest. He did armour up (to +170 armor, not an amazing number) but I dirty ratted his mechatun... Than he had nothing to play and I had tons of value from kazakus and zephyr .. after going down to 80 armor+30 hp he gave up. Felt good to finally beat one at his own game

After almost 4 years and 237 defeated bosses I finally beat Monster Hunt as Toki. Now I can beat Hagatha at last and then I'll be sporting this cool cardback with bullets for the next few months.

I had Double Time and Open the Waygate, and I also managed to steal Time Warp from future Toki with Madame Lazul I got from Unstable Portal. So I had 5 turns in a row to deal with this pesky gnome.

Oh yeah, finishing the Monster Hunt with Toki was really tricky...the prevailing advice at the time was to double down on an RNG strategy and let the chips fall where they may, which was really tough as expected. Congrats, dude!

Got 9 normal legendaries and 3 golden ones from opening 140 Sulken packs :D

One of the most epic and fun games I ever had.

Despite playing HS for a long time, i just reached legend for the first time! I did it using Control Dragon/Naga Warrior!

Finally got that Legend card back, and i got Raj Naz'jan as my free legendary.

(Would have liked posting an image, but i dont know how to do it... And dont want to go through the hassle of creating an account on some site tbh.)

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Despite playing HS for a long time, i just reached legend for the first time! I did it using Control Dragon/Naga Warrior!

Finally got that Legend card back, and i got Raj Naz'jan as my free legendary.

(Would have liked posting an image, but i dont know how to do it... And dont want to go through the hassle of creating an account on some site tbh.)

GG MAN!

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Despite playing HS for a long time, i just reached legend for the first time! I did it using Control Dragon/Naga Warrior!

Finally got that Legend card back, and i got Raj Naz'jan as my free legendary.

(Would have liked posting an image, but i dont know how to do it... And dont want to go through the hassle of creating an account on some site tbh.)

Congrats! I reached Legend for the first time 6 years after starting with the game, it's never too late!  I hope you enjoyed the climb (it can be stressful sometimes).

been a few years since I got a double legendary pack

A Hearthstone moment that never fails to warm my heart: when my opponent has a brand new hero and is looking for any excuse to try all their new emotes. 

Just happened yesterday with Paladin Finley. 

I don't have time to describe how it happened. The last fight against George was like finding out who is the king of Divine Shields.

P.S. Good luck, have fun!

Thanks Blizzard for a great pack opening!

Got the 2 Warrior legendaries I wanted so happy camper! :-)

Had one of those wacky games again. I won a game where everything seemed to go wrong at the start: I missed two turns because of disconnection, my Deepwater Evokers drew two Flurry (Rank 1) (what are the odds of that happening??), my Magister Dawngrasp was stolen via  Theotar, the Mad Duke, and my Quest Priest opponent finished his quest on time, around turn 10.

However, I still won because I managed to steal the Purified Shard (which my opponent had apparently been keeping in his hand for the past 4-5 turns) using Theotar, the Mad Duke. This game can be funny sometimes. 

I'm mostly F2P (I get the battle pass to make XP farming easier) so only had 9 Lich King packs to open at my private fireside gathering. Beat my past luck and got 2 legendaries (Vexallus and Bonelord Frostwhisper), and also got 2 epics. I don't expect my luck to hold, but I've got almost 9k gold ready to go on the 6th. 

Nice!

So, after exactly 9 years of playing this game, I´ve finally hit the Legend rank! YAY :D Not much to brag about after so long, but I´m sooo happy right now! I´ve hit D1 3 stars multiple times before, but the anxiety and/or few loses always stopped me from going further. I really thought I won´t try to go for it anymore. But now I´m so glad I did! More so, it happened right before the new expansion, so I´m keeping the free Legendary reward for the launch. Heh, it´s really Festival of Legends for me indeed :)

EDIT: ....aaand the Legendary was Cage Head!