You are probably theorycrafting a lot these last days of the Hearthstone year, or at least you are excited about testing some of the most promising revealed cards. What decks are you planning to play?
I'm going for Libram Paladin, maybe both Pure and "impure", and of course Demon Hunter, probably a midrangeish version. And I'd like to play Priest but I don't know yet what kind of deck, I'll probably wait for others to publish decks. What about you?
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You are probably theorycrafting a lot these last days of the Hearthstone year, or at least you are excited about testing some of the most promising revealed cards. What decks are you planning to play?
I'm going for Libram Paladin, maybe both Pure and "impure", and of course Demon Hunter, probably a midrangeish version. And I'd like to play Priest but I don't know yet what kind of deck, I'll probably wait for others to publish decks. What about you?
I'm looking forward to: highlander mage with Magtheridon, some typ of controll warlock (probably Plottwist),secret/stealth rogue, Galakrond Priest, racist/ book paladin and ofcourse any Deamonhunter deck.
I am really excited for Demon Hunter, as for decks that already exist, definite Highlander mage and Pure paladin. Might give spell mage a try aswell
Standard: Pure Libram Paladin, No-Minion Mage, Demon Hunter (something slower, preferably, like Big Demons).
Wild: Highlander The Last Kaleidosaur with Lady Liadrin and Libram of Wisdom. Quest Taunt Warrior like I always do.
I am going to play a token demon hunter, since I love feast of souls and knife juggler 2.0. If I get bored of that, I will try a pure Libram paladin.
Whatever decks end up looking fun and being decent to strong laddering options. Demon hunter will most likely be one of them.
I don't have the time or patience to theorycraft.
Demon Hunter, add some secrets n' stealth to my Gala rogue deck. Possibly a Libram Pali including my good boy Replic-o-tron.
For DH, I'm going to try my Magic Carpet version first, then see what else could be interesting.
Other than that, I'll play a Plot Twist/Demon Control Warlock as a counter to DH, maybe some Stealth Rogue if I feel an itch for ultra aggro and also a Big Taunt Warrior that I think could be promising:
I have your Carpet Demon Hunter deck on my list, as well as Xarkkal's Quest Hunter. I also descided to make a Highlander Demon Hunter deck because that looks like the best option to test as many new cards as possible in one go. I just threw in everything that looked interesting and somewhat synergystic to me:
Before each expansion, I like to try and theorycraft a deck (that I'm at least a little bit excited for) for each class and share them on the forums. So I'll make this a really long post and just join in this thread instead of making my own.
First up, Demon Hunter!
I decided to fully embrace the Outcast mechanic, and make my deck so cheap that I could almost always get Outcast cards to activate their secondary text. I think DH may just have the aggressive oomph to bring back ye olde style "turn 4" decks.
The latest version of this deck even includes a Wisp. And I'm considering dropping Acidic Swamp Ooze for a second Wisp! But Ooze seems like an ok counter to the Demon Hunter/Rogue meta we'll surely be seeing.
Druid
I focused in on Fungal Fortunes and Imprisoned Satyr, wanting to build a deck with minimal minions and make the minions that I do hit with Imprisoned Satyr really impactful. So, that meant bringing back the Malygos Miracle archetype.
Crystalsong Portal, Dreamway Guardians, and Rising Winds are all decent ways to get early game board presence without having minion cards in the deck. A number of the other cards—Secure the Deck x2, Ironbark, Bogbeam x2—are kinda subpar on their own, but make excellent Gadgetzan Auctioneer fuel.
Hunter
I see a lot of deathrattle potential in this expansion. Pack Tactics, Mok'Nathal Lion, Teron Gorefiend. So I started putting in ok deathrattle minions, and soon realized that I had an aggro Beast build without even trying. So I added a few classic aggro/beast cards, like Kill Commands and one Unleash the Hounds/Timber Wolf pair.
How good is Fresh Scent? I haven't played with it at all since it came out, so this is a non-rhetorical question.
Guardian Augmerchant just seems ridiculous to me, so you'll probably be seeing it in a number of my decks. Any deck where I expect to do a fair amount of trading and the decklist wasn't super crowded.
Mage
Mage is certainly tough to work with this expansion. But the new cards might finally push Secrets Mage into viability in Standard. Probably not, but I'll present my deck here anyway. At least it's budget-friendly, with no legendaries and few epics.
Paladin
I'm a believer in the popular notion of Libram Pure Paladin. That's 14 cards of the deck chosen in two neat packages.
Pure Paladin has a scarcity of 1-drop options and an abundance of 2-drop options. Here's my attempt to limit the number of 2-mana cards anyway.
Priest
I have two ideas for Priest, neither that original. Both kind of boring because they aren't that dependent on AoO cards. One just embraces the new identity of Priest as the midrange minion-trading champion class, and suffers for a lack of win conditions. Here's the other: Galakrond Dragon Priest.
Rogue
Rogue, on the other hand, is probably the class I'm most excited about. And my favorite Rogue deck I've come up with is one that makes the very painful choice to skip the Galakrond and Secrets packages and just focus on killing the enemy very quickly with Stealth synergy. I've tried building Stealth themed decks in the past, but this is the first time they've gotten real support!
Decklist seems pretty self-explanatory to me.
Shaman
For Shaman (my traditional favorite class), this expansion definitely isn't going to be the highlight of its career. But I will try to continue my love of Dragon Quest Shaman.
With my old deck's win condition rotated out, I think I'm going to have to put a Galakrond package in as a win condition. But I didn't have room for a full Galakrond package ... do you think that's ok? It only takes one doubled Corrupt Elementalist to fully upgrade 'Krond.
Wish I could fit more than six dragons, too, for the sakes of Lightning Breath and Frizz Kindleroost.
Warlock
I still want to make Dragon Handlock a thing, even without Mountain Giant. This decklist really came together, after a number of attempts, when I decided to embrace cutting Plague of Flames.
Dropping something for Valdris Felgorge would obviously be more optimal, but I don't want to spend dust on Valdris, so I'm leaving him out for now ...
Going with Trump's theory that Shadow Council isn't a meme card, but rather a way to turn tech cards (primarily Sacrificial Pact) into useful fuel.
Warrior
Confession: I actually kind of like Galakrond Warrior. So I just went with that for my deck here, with only a few new cards that aren't that revolutionary. Warrior's getting decent cards, but I don't think they'll spawn any exciting new archetypes; just enhance archetypes that warrior is already playing.
maybe i wiill have one or two hours of non-streamers decks. If so, i will try this one:
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I think this one have some potencial... maybe with some refinements... feel free to give your opinions everyone
Running Magtheridon with Pit Commander and/or Fel Summoner is pretty risky: if you pull him from somewhere and place him on the battlefield without playing the card, he will remain dormant forever (because you didn't trigger the Battlecry).
I don't know if I'll try it right away, but I want to try and refine a Combo DH in WIld using Metamorphosis and some other cards to increase damage and use the upgraded hero power twice in a turn for a 40 damage combo. TTK, possibly OTK if I get enough cost reduction on the right things through Emperor Thaurissan and Skull of Gul'dan.
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Edited my post above. It now has all 10 classes represented, with improvements to some of the decks I posted yesterday.
Will experiment with demon hunter decks. Then probably spell mage (with no minion or just a few minion).
owwwww thanks! didn't knew that :
Oddly Inspired Demon Hunter and Disquestlock (yes, that's a word) with the only discards being Expired Merchant, Silverware Golem, Fist of Jaraxxus, Hand of Gul'dan and Deathwing. Might call it Brunchlock.
I have a few Hunter decks Theorycrafted. Being a Hunter main, I'm super excited with the new cards Hunter got this expansion! I'm going to try Quest, Highlander and Beast.
Other classes, so far I have theorycrafted a Pure Paladin build, and a new Highlander Rogue which is a clusterfuck of so many packages.
Shaman is typically my 2nd favorite class, but I can't even get myself to complete a single theorycraft for the class right now. Shaman just feels like it is missing too much to have anything viable. I'm predicting Shaman to be trash tier again.
Spell mage for sure as well as libram paladin. Some kind of steal priest and rogue decks with secrets also look fun.
Demon hunter looks like another brain-dead, one dimensional face deck to me. Maybe if a control type can be made out of DH I will try that but I hate decks that require zero thought or strategy (looking at you Mech paladin, Face / Dragon hunter).
Here's the deck I wanna try the most in Wild:
Nothing really new, but the two extra legendaries should make quite some difference. As well as The Dark Portal.
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Ill play a deck with an albatross just to tease a few Highlander and libram decks. Seriously though I'm curious about learoxx big beast decks.
Every deck-, with every card-combination I can think of.
And every deck I play against that looks interesting to me.
The deck I am most excited to play is Firebats Highlander Demon Hunter. (a little bit tweaked)
I want it all!