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thank god they fixed arena. everybody was asking for a nerf there. or was it for standard? sure lets balance Battlegrounds and Arena but we need more "DATA" to see if shaman is really overppowered.

jokes aside i think they will fix it within 10 days so we can play ladder like it was supposed to be

5 mana 5/6 is just bad in general, what I think they should do is make it 4 mana summon 1 5/6 if they are going to change this card, that way its still not bad but its not bonkers.

As easy and quick as it is for Shaman to invoke, Dragon's Pack is extremely broken. Two 5/6 taunt minions on turn five is extremely difficult for most classes to remove. Even worse when they drop a second one on turn 6. I honestly believe the card would have been better as a single 2/3 with a +3/+3 after invoking twice. Maybe after invoking once as a vanilla 2/3 taunt for 5 is pretty anemic. Waiting to see how Blizz responds though.

 

Looks like team5 did not expect shaman to take center stage. I think the problem is that both quest and Galakrond are being placed into the same deck.

Galakrond quest shaman invokes twice as fast, tempo swings so ridiculously with double battlecry invokes, and if you manage that 9 mana Galakrond with double battlecry it places 4 8/8 with rush on board.

Judging from experience the mana cost for a few cards would likely go up. Contenders: Dragon's Pack & Corrupt Elementalist

Oh, and increasing mana cost or decreasing buff to Dragonmaw Poacher would be most helpful. I saw no dragons in the first 10 matches and the first one was malygos.

Listen to what it's telling you. ;)

Hey man, 

 

Just wanted to say that this is a great deck! Very fun to play! Getting Scion off Galakrond is just insane! Even more value than Shaman! I'm trying to experiment with hippogriff (rush AND taunt could be good with this deck) and faceless corruptor (that card used on a flunky or town crier is bonkers). I subbed out a dyn-o-matic for a faceless because I that most times I have a lot of taunts already and the card is kinda dead. The only decks I'm really struggling against are Mage decks, but thats to be expected I guess, just don't know how to counter them. Thanks for the idea though! Let me know if you reach any new breakthroughs.

 

Cheers!

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In what I believe is the fastest response to a meta since the beginning of Hearthstone (mods?), Chris has now confirmed that balance changes are coming "within the next week"!

https://www.reddit.com/r/hearthstone/comments/e9xt5z/info_on_upcoming_descent_of_dragons_balance/

edit: now confirmed by the PlayHearthstone account on twitter: https://twitter.com/PlayHearthstone/status/1205318038444077058

The bg change seems well warranted. Murlocs have been riding high since their last adjustment. Hopefully this is a nice middle ground.

Chris also confirmed on reddit that this is not the last patch before Blizzard's staff go on Christmas break.

They should have made Shaman no longer draftable in Standard.

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I get it, the site doesn't get enough support from the community and we need ads or else the site will go under, but there are just too many ads. Ads at the top of the screen are fine, ads in between the threads/tavern brawl/deck discussion are fine, ads at the bottom of news posts are fine, but when there are ads in between, next to, and even inside of comments and thread replies it is just too much. The site feels cramped and cluttered. Please move these ads somewhere else or just get rid of them, it is hard to read the threads now and it makes the site less usable. Please. I hate this.

For some reason this list has two (2) copies of Raid the Sky Temple listed (an amusing error, to be sure). I have replaced one copy with Questing Explorer, giving us the deck code:

### Reno Dragonquest
# Class: Mage
# Format: Standard
# Year of the Dragon
#
# 1x (0) Elemental Evocation
# 1x (1) Arcane Breath
# 1x (1) Elemental Allies
# 1x (1) Magic Trick
# 1x (1) Raid the Sky Temple
# 1x (1) Ray of Frost
# 1x (1) Violet Spellwing
# 1x (2) Ancient Mysteries
# 1x (2) Mana Cyclone
# 1x (2) Questing Explorer
# 1x (2) Sorcerer's Apprentice
# 1x (2) Zephrys the Great
# 1x (3) Arcane Intellect
# 1x (3) Counterspell
# 1x (3) Flame Ward
# 1x (3) Vulpera Scoundrel
# 1x (4) Azure Explorer
# 1x (4) Polymorph
# 1x (4) Sandbinder
# 1x (5) Blast Wave
# 1x (5) Cobalt Spellkin
# 1x (5) Malygos, Aspect of Magic
# 1x (6) Reno the Relicologist
# 1x (7) Flamestrike
# 1x (7) Siamat
# 1x (8) Mana Giant
# 1x (9) Alexstrasza
# 1x (9) Dragonqueen Alexstrasza
# 1x (10) Kalecgos
# 1x (10) Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron
#
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Ladies and gentlemen,
welcome to my underground lair.
I have gathered here before me...
the world's deadliest assassins...
and yet each of you has failed to kill the nine Hearthstone heroes.
That makes me angry,
and when Kel'thuzad gets angry...
Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset.
And when Mr. Bigglesworth gets upset...
people die!

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Very Nice! I would totally add Tentacled Menace to this :P

As rewarding as it is to draw a card and reduce it to 1 mana, I think it's more valuable to starve your opponent from as many draws as possible.  You are entirely reliant on them getting as many dead draws as they can--otherwise you're just playing a bunch of mid-range minions with no other synergies, and most other decks will beat that if they have sufficient access to their original cards.

This card has not been performing as well as people thought it would. I really think the streamers hyped this one up way too much. Maybe if shaman gets nerfed this card will see play, but even then card draw isn't very accessible and the dragon package hasn't proven to be worth making room for.

The deck I'm having most succes with is Highlander Dragon Mage. Skyfin is actually good to contest board against Shaman, and Dragon Breeder can give so much value combined with Dragonqueen Alexstrasza (or Malygos, Aspect of Magic if you're in a hurry).

Quote From Suchti0352

Trumps version could be a Tier 2 deck

Here is the list for anyone curious:

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It struggles a bit against shaman, the main problem being the invoke twice card and the fleshshaper. Other than that though, the deck performs pretty good, with its second weakest matchup being highlander mage and the best match up rogue.

I have yet to lose the "mirror" match when I have the quest. It seems like the quest is better for the mirror matchup since you can get more value from your cards.