do i just craft the mushroom cloud deck? that seems to always win. is that any good? i dont think it's my play style but i am running out of patience. I will play anything that can actually win and not require lucky topdecks.
No.. Keep it in standard but as a reward, don't want to open him in packs.. Just give him for free to everyone (and give 1600/3200 dust to people who own the card).
Well, I didn't say a high ranked play, just competitive enough, that you don't have to craft any cards, because it's already include most of Standard Cards.
i got out of iron and bronze by simply playing aggro spiders when they were t1. any mistrawith deck should do the trick. elise and hecarim are great champs. try decks of runeterra website and also swimstrim or navioot streams. mobalytics is also great website other than Out of Cards.
simstrim actually has a website where he states the tier meta decks. only rng that can fuck u now is elnuks. the balance is great overall
what do you mean that rng can't screw you over except for in the case of elnuks? i find that I get pretty boned by rng most of the time. edit: just got my ass handed to me by 8 perfect turns, the last 5 turns were all nut topdecks. i failed to draw a single good card in 8 turns.
Being a pessimistic player, I don't see that this will happen.
Firstly, In my terribly honest opinion, Blizzard is not really a pure F2P game. When you want to play a competitive deck, you surely have to work your way to that deck, either by buying it, or work your way slowly, grinding gold from quest etc.
Secondly, Whizbang the Wonderful can be considered a competitive deck. It's random deck consists of all the Standard Year Cards. It's like when you have that one card, you don't really have to buy any more pack to get more cards, because that one card is all you need. Blizzard wouldn't want that. They want you to buy packs.
Thirdly, we have other cards like Zayle, Shadow Cloak which doing almost the same thing. I can think Blizzard will print out more card like that in the future, instead of having Whizbang the Wonderful moved to Classic.
Just sharing opinions
Your arguments against Whizbang the Wonderful moving to classic has some holes in it. My opinion on your opinion;
- Whizbang decks are randomly selected, and therefore not meta dependent. Even if there exist a deck that can beat anything, you're still on a 1/18 chance to get it every time you queue up. Therefore, using Whizbang to climb ladder competitively is not viable.
- If ranking up ladder is the real goal to playing hearthstone, there's always a reasonably cheap deck in tier 1-2 that cost less than 1600 dust (commons and rares aside). There's no reason to rely solely on Whizbang to do this
- As have been pointed out by others, Whizbang decks are not refined, and doesn't react to what is meta. Therefore, it usually doesn't come with tech cards, and doesn't allow for creativity, or in fact, any fun in the deck building aspect of the game.
- I think its safe to say that people who play hearthstone, from the FTP to the barnacle-infested whales, will still open up packs and generally like collecting cards. Having a one-card collection will hardly appeal to anyone seriously taking up hearthstone as a regular in their schedule of games.
- And last point, Blizzard doesn't tend to change their recipes even after major nerfs. The only exception that I can remember is when Call to Arms was nerfed out of the even slot, which was promptly replaced with Saronite Chain Gang, which was later 'nerfed' as well. So, you can easily end up with a chance for a massively nerfed version of a deck.
I'm all for Whizbang the Wonderful to be classic. But again, how much impact will this make to hearthstone in general? Probably none at all.
Firstly, In my terribly honest opinion, Blizzard is not really a pure F2P game. When you want to play a competitive deck, you surely have to work your way to that deck, either by buying it, or work your way slowly, grinding gold from quest etc.
I completely agree. If you want a top tier deck, you should be expected to shell out some cash for it. The game has to turn a profit somehow, it's how the world works. But here's the thing.
Whizbang decks are frequently missing key cards and usually substitute poor versions of what pulls the archetype together. And some Whizbang decks are straight up -not even good-. It's the trade off for going a Whizbang deck. You'll have a playable deck with recent cards but it's going to be VERY unrefined. And if you want a better version of that deck? Then you pay for it.
Was doing very well with highlander warrior, what with all the embiggens on a downward spiral in terms of play rate. It should be mentioned that dragon hunter going down remarkably consistently when they either don't draw their weapon, or when you destroy it.
Hmmm...doing well, me? Time to tank my rank by going warlock until the month ends.
I think its more about the fact that you're playing a 7 mana card that does nothing to reduce tempo on board.
If Countess Ashmore draws a playable taunt, or playable and decent rush-lifesteal minion, then perhaps there's some hope for the poor dragoness. At around turn 6-above are turns where playing cards that doesn't affect board tempo is generally considered to be bad.
Thanks for this as ever. I felt that Mech Paladin problem running into Galakrond Warrior at rank 3 this week and am going to have to figure out the next experiment if I'm going to get any higher.
Going "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" with Galakrond Warrior is tempting. My only needed crafts would be Bloodsworn Mercenary.
i got out of iron and bronze by simply playing aggro spiders when they were t1. any mistrawith deck should do the trick. elise and hecarim are great champs. try decks of runeterra website and also swimstrim or navioot streams. mobalytics is also great website other than Out of Cards.
simstrim actually has a website where he states the tier meta decks. only rng that can fuck u now is elnuks. the balance is great overall
Being a pessimistic player, I don't see that this will happen.
Firstly, In my terribly honest opinion, Blizzard is not really a pure F2P game. When you want to play a competitive deck, you surely have to work your way to that deck, either by buying it, or work your way slowly, grinding gold from quest etc.
Secondly, Whizbang the Wonderful can be considered a competitive deck. It's random deck consists of all the Standard Year Cards. It's like when you have that one card, you don't really have to buy any more pack to get more cards, because that one card is all you need. Blizzard wouldn't want that. They want you to buy packs.
Thirdly, we have other cards like Zayle, Shadow Cloak which doing almost the same thing. I can think Blizzard will print out more card like that in the future, instead of having Whizbang the Wonderful moved to Classic.
Mummy Momma - 3 stars - The art is pretty nice! The effect is balanced. But... when you use the Classic watermark on a card that has not 1, but 2 keywords not available in Classic, it's off-putting (to me at least, I know some people don't care about this as much). In addition to Reborn being mainly an Uldum mechanic, the art screams Uldum to me. Also, the name could be better but that's not as bad as the other criticism.
Thanks for the review! I actually feel pretty differently about this. I use the default classic watermark for most cards. Using the Uldum watermark doesn't make sense to me, since this is a custom card and will never be a part of that set. Still, I see your point. Maybe I'll start going with no watermarks.
Ah. Okay, I can actually see that as a reason not to bother with the watermarks. I can see how some may view this as not a huge issue, but all the little details just help make (or break) the card in my opinion. As far as the watermarks go, when they use an existing set, I've always viewed them as meaning along the lines of "if this were a real card, this is the set it would logically make the most sense in". Something to that effect at least.
I had a theory a while back that maybe, just MAYBE, the reason we got [Hearthstone Card (Snip-snap) Not Found] added to BDP was because they planned on eventually moving Whizbang into the Classic set. I mean, if you think about it... at the time each set was only supposed to have 135 different cards, 23 of which were legendary. Now you introduce a 24th legendary (that everyone got for logging on) and it's in the same set as Whizbang. So why do that? Well... maybe if you were planning on moving him into the Classic (or even the Basic set, perhaps...) to then reduce BDP back to the standard 23 legendary minions again.
But since that theory they had DoD with 28 legendaries, granted we all got 6 of them for free. Plus a few more from the solo adventure for DoD. So does this mean they aren't concerned with having only 23 legendary cards per expansion?! Apparently, they are not.
Ultimately, there is the potential for some big changes coming soon anyway, which I'm wondering will finally be the end of the Basic/Classic sets' evergreen status in Standard, and perhaps moving to a more "Core Set" model that has been suggested over and over again by guys like Kibler.
What I'm actually expecting to happen though: All this hype of big changes coming soon will amount to nothing more than an Artifact level of payoff...
Mummy Momma - 3 stars - The art is pretty nice! The effect is balanced. But... when you use the Classic watermark on a card that has not 1, but 2 keywords not available in Classic, it's off-putting (to me at least, I know some people don't care about this as much). In addition to Reborn being mainly an Uldum mechanic, the art screams Uldum to me. Also, the name could be better but that's not as bad as the other criticism.
Thanks for the review! I actually feel pretty differently about this. I use the default classic watermark for most cards. Using the Uldum watermark doesn't make sense to me, since this is a custom card and will never be a part of that set. Still, I see your point. Maybe I'll start going with no watermarks.
I personally have been having fun with a Galakrond Warrior that is a slight variation of brimful's list from Arlington. It made quick work of Ranks 10-5 a few days ago, which is great for me as I have been a bit busy the past three months and finding little time to play.
My list below. Only difference from brimful's is I took out the [Hearthstone Card (Sky Raider{/card]s and put in two Warpath in their place. Haven't bothered experimenting with the other new cards that weren't released yet when the Arlington stop occurred. My recent success with the list makes me feel like I don't need to make additions like Risky Skipper. It's a fun new card to include, but the Warpaths are often filling the same need for me without throwing minions away to trigger her effect.
this game doesnt seem too different than hearthstone or mtg. its not like im starting from scratch with zero card game experience.
Friend, the spell mana pool mechanic is what makes this game VERY interesting and different from every other card game i played over the last 22 years.
I consider Hearthstone to be THE WORST card game atm. If you can't see the clear difference between LOR and HS then you have A LOT to learn on how to play Runeterra.
Group Therapy! Need to blow off some steam? Mega salty? Here's the place!
Wasnt this supposed to be the hearthstone salt thread? And not the runeterra one?
Good deck for low level climbing?
do i just craft the mushroom cloud deck? that seems to always win. is that any good? i dont think it's my play style but i am running out of patience. I will play anything that can actually win and not require lucky topdecks.
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
No.. Keep it in standard but as a reward, don't want to open him in packs.. Just give him for free to everyone (and give 1600/3200 dust to people who own the card).
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
Well, I didn't say a high ranked play, just competitive enough, that you don't have to craft any cards, because it's already include most of Standard Cards.
There you go.
Good deck for low level climbing?
what do you mean that rng can't screw you over except for in the case of elnuks? i find that I get pretty boned by rng most of the time. edit: just got my ass handed to me by 8 perfect turns, the last 5 turns were all nut topdecks. i failed to draw a single good card in 8 turns.
Standard Meta Report #24 - Top Hearthstone Decks February 16, 2020 - February 23, 2020
Only 2 more of these and we'll have reached 26 Meta Reports. At that point, you'd have already done half a year worth of weekly meta reports.
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
Your arguments against Whizbang the Wonderful moving to classic has some holes in it. My opinion on your opinion;
- Whizbang decks are randomly selected, and therefore not meta dependent. Even if there exist a deck that can beat anything, you're still on a 1/18 chance to get it every time you queue up. Therefore, using Whizbang to climb ladder competitively is not viable.
- If ranking up ladder is the real goal to playing hearthstone, there's always a reasonably cheap deck in tier 1-2 that cost less than 1600 dust (commons and rares aside). There's no reason to rely solely on Whizbang to do this
- As have been pointed out by others, Whizbang decks are not refined, and doesn't react to what is meta. Therefore, it usually doesn't come with tech cards, and doesn't allow for creativity, or in fact, any fun in the deck building aspect of the game.
- I think its safe to say that people who play hearthstone, from the FTP to the barnacle-infested whales, will still open up packs and generally like collecting cards. Having a one-card collection will hardly appeal to anyone seriously taking up hearthstone as a regular in their schedule of games.
- And last point, Blizzard doesn't tend to change their recipes even after major nerfs. The only exception that I can remember is when Call to Arms was nerfed out of the even slot, which was promptly replaced with Saronite Chain Gang, which was later 'nerfed' as well. So, you can easily end up with a chance for a massively nerfed version of a deck.
I'm all for Whizbang the Wonderful to be classic. But again, how much impact will this make to hearthstone in general? Probably none at all.
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
I completely agree. If you want a top tier deck, you should be expected to shell out some cash for it. The game has to turn a profit somehow, it's how the world works. But here's the thing.
Whizbang decks are frequently missing key cards and usually substitute poor versions of what pulls the archetype together. And some Whizbang decks are straight up -not even good-. It's the trade off for going a Whizbang deck. You'll have a playable deck with recent cards but it's going to be VERY unrefined. And if you want a better version of that deck? Then you pay for it.
Standard Meta Report #24 - Top Hearthstone Decks February 16, 2020 - February 23, 2020
I replaced one Psychopomp with Spirit of the Dead in my Control Fatigue Priest and got Legend with him. I did this for not-losing mirrors.
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
Hey guys, how about Whizbang just replaces Leeroy?
Standard Meta Report #24 - Top Hearthstone Decks February 16, 2020 - February 23, 2020
Was doing very well with highlander warrior, what with all the embiggens on a downward spiral in terms of play rate. It should be mentioned that dragon hunter going down remarkably consistently when they either don't draw their weapon, or when you destroy it.
Hmmm...doing well, me? Time to tank my rank by going warlock until the month ends.
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I think its more about the fact that you're playing a 7 mana card that does nothing to reduce tempo on board.
If Countess Ashmore draws a playable taunt, or playable and decent rush-lifesteal minion, then perhaps there's some hope for the poor dragoness. At around turn 6-above are turns where playing cards that doesn't affect board tempo is generally considered to be bad.
Standard Meta Report #24 - Top Hearthstone Decks February 16, 2020 - February 23, 2020
Thanks for this as ever. I felt that Mech Paladin problem running into Galakrond Warrior at rank 3 this week and am going to have to figure out the next experiment if I'm going to get any higher.
Going "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em" with Galakrond Warrior is tempting. My only needed crafts would be Bloodsworn Mercenary.
Good deck for low level climbing?
i got out of iron and bronze by simply playing aggro spiders when they were t1. any mistrawith deck should do the trick. elise and hecarim are great champs. try decks of runeterra website and also swimstrim or navioot streams. mobalytics is also great website other than Out of Cards.
simstrim actually has a website where he states the tier meta decks. only rng that can fuck u now is elnuks. the balance is great overall
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
Being a pessimistic player, I don't see that this will happen.
Firstly, In my terribly honest opinion, Blizzard is not really a pure F2P game. When you want to play a competitive deck, you surely have to work your way to that deck, either by buying it, or work your way slowly, grinding gold from quest etc.
Secondly, Whizbang the Wonderful can be considered a competitive deck. It's random deck consists of all the Standard Year Cards. It's like when you have that one card, you don't really have to buy any more pack to get more cards, because that one card is all you need. Blizzard wouldn't want that. They want you to buy packs.
Thirdly, we have other cards like Zayle, Shadow Cloak which doing almost the same thing. I can think Blizzard will print out more card like that in the future, instead of having Whizbang the Wonderful moved to Classic.
Just sharing opinions
The Hearthstone Cards We're Going to Miss When Year of the Dragons Ends - The Witchwood Edition
Old Favourite? SN1P-SN4P & Zilliax
New Favourite? Zephrys the Great for sure. And many more, but I still don't have a preferences.
Standard Meta Report #24 - Top Hearthstone Decks February 16, 2020 - February 23, 2020
I don't see why people don't use shaman anymore.
Still great even with all the nerfs. Plus the new weapon is absolute winner.
Win consecutive 5 times in Ranked 4 (Not Kidding. Going to Ranked 3-2). Good board control, and a lot of removal.
One is very lucky summon by The Fist of Ra-den summoning Nozdormu the Timeless
How To Train Year Dragon - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Ah. Okay, I can actually see that as a reason not to bother with the watermarks. I can see how some may view this as not a huge issue, but all the little details just help make (or break) the card in my opinion. As far as the watermarks go, when they use an existing set, I've always viewed them as meaning along the lines of "if this were a real card, this is the set it would logically make the most sense in". Something to that effect at least.
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
Let's be honest... the replacement for Ragnaros the Firelord was Brightwing. LOL
Obligatory petition to move Whizbang to the Classic set.
I had a theory a while back that maybe, just MAYBE, the reason we got [Hearthstone Card (Snip-snap) Not Found] added to BDP was because they planned on eventually moving Whizbang into the Classic set. I mean, if you think about it... at the time each set was only supposed to have 135 different cards, 23 of which were legendary. Now you introduce a 24th legendary (that everyone got for logging on) and it's in the same set as Whizbang. So why do that? Well... maybe if you were planning on moving him into the Classic (or even the Basic set, perhaps...) to then reduce BDP back to the standard 23 legendary minions again.
But since that theory they had DoD with 28 legendaries, granted we all got 6 of them for free. Plus a few more from the solo adventure for DoD. So does this mean they aren't concerned with having only 23 legendary cards per expansion?! Apparently, they are not.
Ultimately, there is the potential for some big changes coming soon anyway, which I'm wondering will finally be the end of the Basic/Classic sets' evergreen status in Standard, and perhaps moving to a more "Core Set" model that has been suggested over and over again by guys like Kibler.
What I'm actually expecting to happen though: All this hype of big changes coming soon will amount to nothing more than an Artifact level of payoff...
How To Train Year Dragon - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread
Thanks for the review! I actually feel pretty differently about this. I use the default classic watermark for most cards. Using the Uldum watermark doesn't make sense to me, since this is a custom card and will never be a part of that set. Still, I see your point. Maybe I'll start going with no watermarks.
Standard Meta Report #24 - Top Hearthstone Decks February 16, 2020 - February 23, 2020
I personally have been having fun with a Galakrond Warrior that is a slight variation of brimful's list from Arlington. It made quick work of Ranks 10-5 a few days ago, which is great for me as I have been a bit busy the past three months and finding little time to play.
My list below. Only difference from brimful's is I took out the [Hearthstone Card (Sky Raider{/card]s and put in two Warpath in their place. Haven't bothered experimenting with the other new cards that weren't released yet when the Arlington stop occurred. My recent success with the list makes me feel like I don't need to make additions like Risky Skipper. It's a fun new card to include, but the Warpaths are often filling the same need for me without throwing minions away to trigger her effect.
Wild · Galakrond Warrior · by Thonson · 6 years, 7 months ago
Good deck for low level climbing?
Cmon man.
I didn't say they are literally the exact same game.
This is a strategy card game. General concepts like mana efficiency, planning ahead, when to attack and when not to.....that doesn't change.
Don't attack me or put words in my mouth.
Good deck for low level climbing?
Friend, the spell mana pool mechanic is what makes this game VERY interesting and different from every other card game i played over the last 22 years.
I consider Hearthstone to be THE WORST card game atm. If you can't see the clear difference between LOR and HS then you have A LOT to learn on how to play Runeterra.