Okay people, thanks to all of you I´ve just reached a milestone of 700 thrown snowballs and as the competition is over soon, I ain´t gonna throw anymore, so feel free to hit anyone else instead of me. Let´s see if Pezman can over-throw me :D
Special thanks to madcat and FenrirWulf for bombarding me with hundreds of snowballs, and to Fluxflashor and the crew for making this awesome and fun event. Special mention Grumpy000 for being so friendly and fair competitor along with Pezman.
Rally! helps with summoning more Horrendous Growths, and can synergize pretty well with Fairground Fool, but Rally! is still a slow setup. What kinds of decks are you having trouble with?
I wonder why no official statement yet. Not like they didnt see ppl talk about it online. And its not something they should feel the need to "keep quiet".
Yeah I’m not sure how to explain it other than low sample size or we get different matchups, especially bc you said you did well with the Reborn Quest Paladin deck a week or so ago but I didn’t do as well with it as I did with this deck and thought it’s mostly a meme level deck. Either way, I definitely appreciate all of your suggestions even though I don’t end up implementing all of them bc it’s fun to test out different things and some things like Greybough in Reno Druid worked really well and Dragonrider Talritha is an awesome idea for Midrange Dragon Pally.
Oh yeah, I cut Illucia too. I think she's a really neat card, but she backfired heavily twice. Loatheb is a champ.
I faced a couple rez priests, a Time Warp mage, face hunter, and several warlocks of various builds, can't remember what else. I think it was a highlander-lock that I beat.
Your track record is better evidence than mine, since you've played more games with it, and you probably played better since you designed the deck.
Mass Dispel is interesting, I personally didn’t face decks with a lot of taunts other than big priest but it could definitely be a good idea depending on what decks you face.
Maybe I can watch some of your games to see how you mulligan and stuff? I usually had 3 big minions on the board by turn 6 and then they just went face, with the help of Loatheb and Mindrender Illucia. There’s also some things like when to use the 1/1 minion creators and saving silences for more than one minion at a time vs using them aggressively early on. Of course it’s possible I was lucky some games or you were unlucky some games with draws and that sort of thing, sample sizes below 100 are hard to trust for any deck in my opinion. My sample size is about 45 games starting at silver mmr and building up to diamond and my winrate started off at 75 percent for the low mmr ranks and dropped to about 50 percent at high ranks. What decks were you facing in your meta when you tried this deck, it definitely had more and less favored matchups in my experience so I’m curious what your pocket meta was. Odd paladins and kingsbane rogues destroy this deck so I definitely would not be surprised at a 10 percent winrate if you face a lot of those.
The best thing about the deck is that it does not rely entirely on the priestess. Murlocs are finally solid and generate value, and Nozdormu, often drawn by your 2 drop murloc, ramps the game up to 10 mana. Sure, that loses you the game usually against combo decks, but there are many decks that simply cannot handle the Paladin lategame value.
It's honesly them just playing the game more. Don't feel intimidated by this, as your mindset should be simple: I can win any game against anyone. I used to feel a bit intimidated by the legend cardback when I started, and games were rough. But it just means they played more games than you. Playing a lot of games does not equate learning from them, as a lot of people are terrible at self reflection. And all golden decks, well that just means they have nothing better to do with their money than spend it on hearthstone cosmetics.
I love freeze mage and it may be one of my top played decks of all time. Wild is a rough place for freeze mage, as decks either kill you very early or dirty rat you at some point. Probably the Mozaki OTK deck is the most consistent, as it can give you an otk as early as turn 5.
Are you going face enough? I also ran out of gas if I tried to control the board too much but I did beat a bunch of meta decks including big priest, reno priest, even shaman and secret mage by being very aggressive. Even against something like odd demon hunter and face hunter I won by rushing them down with face damage vs trading, before I tried the aggressive playstyle I was losing more too as this deck runs out of gas by turn 10. This is not a meta deck of course, it’s more of a fun level deck, so against tier 1 decks it won’t have a great winrate but I didn’t do nearly as bad as that in testing. I am trying out your idea for card draw but so far what I see is you get cards like Inner Fire and Divine Spirit by themselves and they don’t help a lot, the combo seems inconsistent although it does work well when you get both pieces. I agree that the meta isn’t good for it as a top tier competitive deck because darkglare warlock is more powerful as it can get 8/8 giants out faster than you.
I just went 1-10, lost to aggro and control. As expected, not enough draw. I often managed a solid early board, but when my opponent was able to answer it, I was out of gas. I don't know if there will be a meta for silence priest again. There are too many ways to counter it, and too many more powerful synergies.
Snowpocalypse
Last Day of the Snowpocalypse!
Hit me baby one more time!
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
I got all three quests, so my lunar new year not only seems to be super early, but also super lucky :D
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
Same, never got 8 wins before lol
Snowpocalypse
Okay people, thanks to all of you I´ve just reached a milestone of 700 thrown snowballs and as the competition is over soon, I ain´t gonna throw anymore, so feel free to hit anyone else instead of me. Let´s see if Pezman can over-throw me :D
Special thanks to madcat and FenrirWulf for bombarding me with hundreds of snowballs, and to Fluxflashor and the crew for making this awesome and fun event. Special mention Grumpy000 for being so friendly and fair competitor along with Pezman.
Love you all OOCians ♡
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
That would explain why I never got the third quest
Okay, Tiny Dude's Big Now
Rally! helps with summoning more Horrendous Growths, and can synergize pretty well with Fairground Fool, but Rally! is still a slow setup. What kinds of decks are you having trouble with?
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
Whipped thought them all Friday. Got nothing from packs, but played duels to an 8 win run, and found out that's worth a lot of xp. Neat!
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
Fastest legendary quests completed yet, insta conceded everywhere and went back to play my Yoggurt Druid.
Chinese New Year Bundles Are Coming to Hearthstone With 4 New Collectible Heroes Featuring the Three Kingdoms Period
Rogue is the only class left that doesn't have heroes of both sexes, so I think we can expect a new (male) rogue some time soon.
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
I wonder why no official statement yet. Not like they didnt see ppl talk about it online. And its not something they should feel the need to "keep quiet".
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
Same here. Easy peasy, lemon squeezy
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
Did all three on Friday. 9 packs total.
Missing Legendary Quests? You Are Not Alone! The Lunar New Year Questline Went Live Early
Too soon! You have awakened me too soon, Executus!!!
Tempo Silence Priest
Yeah I’m not sure how to explain it other than low sample size or we get different matchups, especially bc you said you did well with the Reborn Quest Paladin deck a week or so ago but I didn’t do as well with it as I did with this deck and thought it’s mostly a meme level deck. Either way, I definitely appreciate all of your suggestions even though I don’t end up implementing all of them bc it’s fun to test out different things and some things like Greybough in Reno Druid worked really well and Dragonrider Talritha is an awesome idea for Midrange Dragon Pally.
Tempo Silence Priest
Oh yeah, I cut Illucia too. I think she's a really neat card, but she backfired heavily twice. Loatheb is a champ.
I faced a couple rez priests, a Time Warp mage, face hunter, and several warlocks of various builds, can't remember what else. I think it was a highlander-lock that I beat.
Your track record is better evidence than mine, since you've played more games with it, and you probably played better since you designed the deck.
first pack
first pack
Tempo Silence Priest
Mass Dispel is interesting, I personally didn’t face decks with a lot of taunts other than big priest but it could definitely be a good idea depending on what decks you face.
Tempo Silence Priest
Maybe I can watch some of your games to see how you mulligan and stuff? I usually had 3 big minions on the board by turn 6 and then they just went face, with the help of Loatheb and Mindrender Illucia. There’s also some things like when to use the 1/1 minion creators and saving silences for more than one minion at a time vs using them aggressively early on. Of course it’s possible I was lucky some games or you were unlucky some games with draws and that sort of thing, sample sizes below 100 are hard to trust for any deck in my opinion. My sample size is about 45 games starting at silver mmr and building up to diamond and my winrate started off at 75 percent for the low mmr ranks and dropped to about 50 percent at high ranks. What decks were you facing in your meta when you tried this deck, it definitely had more and less favored matchups in my experience so I’m curious what your pocket meta was. Odd paladins and kingsbane rogues destroy this deck so I definitely would not be surprised at a 10 percent winrate if you face a lot of those.
Ramp Paladin?
The best thing about the deck is that it does not rely entirely on the priestess. Murlocs are finally solid and generate value, and Nozdormu, often drawn by your 2 drop murloc, ramps the game up to 10 mana. Sure, that loses you the game usually against combo decks, but there are many decks that simply cannot handle the Paladin lategame value.
Ever feel intimidated?
It's honesly them just playing the game more. Don't feel intimidated by this, as your mindset should be simple: I can win any game against anyone. I used to feel a bit intimidated by the legend cardback when I started, and games were rough. But it just means they played more games than you. Playing a lot of games does not equate learning from them, as a lot of people are terrible at self reflection. And all golden decks, well that just means they have nothing better to do with their money than spend it on hearthstone cosmetics.
Tempo Silence Priest
I feel like I played pretty aggressively, but of course, you have to trade when there's a taunt. I added in a Mass Dispel too, for that.
The Divine Spirit/Inner Fire combo was how I won that one game.
The return of Freeze Mage?
I love freeze mage and it may be one of my top played decks of all time. Wild is a rough place for freeze mage, as decks either kill you very early or dirty rat you at some point. Probably the Mozaki OTK deck is the most consistent, as it can give you an otk as early as turn 5.
Tempo Silence Priest
Are you going face enough? I also ran out of gas if I tried to control the board too much but I did beat a bunch of meta decks including big priest, reno priest, even shaman and secret mage by being very aggressive. Even against something like odd demon hunter and face hunter I won by rushing them down with face damage vs trading, before I tried the aggressive playstyle I was losing more too as this deck runs out of gas by turn 10. This is not a meta deck of course, it’s more of a fun level deck, so against tier 1 decks it won’t have a great winrate but I didn’t do nearly as bad as that in testing. I am trying out your idea for card draw but so far what I see is you get cards like Inner Fire and Divine Spirit by themselves and they don’t help a lot, the combo seems inconsistent although it does work well when you get both pieces. I agree that the meta isn’t good for it as a top tier competitive deck because darkglare warlock is more powerful as it can get 8/8 giants out faster than you.
Tempo Silence Priest
I just went 1-10, lost to aggro and control. As expected, not enough draw. I often managed a solid early board, but when my opponent was able to answer it, I was out of gas. I don't know if there will be a meta for silence priest again. There are too many ways to counter it, and too many more powerful synergies.
Ramp Paladin?
Just got legend from D5 in one afternoon, pretty smooth climb.