I'm not much of a ladder player since I prefer fun memes over finely-tuned metadecks (out of curiosity I checked and in total only 19% of my wins have been on the ladder), and the golden hero portraits were never enough of a carrot to make me try. These new portraits though...maybe I'll start making some effort...
Very nice to see more "in between expansions" events and Quality of Life/Goal improvements!
Beat Death Lord first try with Finley & a deck full of Murlocs and some excellent timing on Eternal Tomb shenanigans:
1. Got Rin, the First Disciple from my Eternal Tomb during Phase 1 and slow-played the demons, hoping that if I could make it to Phase 3 just as I got Azari, the Devourer well that would be an insta-win since DL would have no deck.
2. Tomb was queued up to give me Tirion Fordring right as the boss moved to Phase 2, so the boss's passive power kept resurrecting him - I think all in I had 4 or 5 Tirions before boss finally played Plague of Death and a different minion was Reborn. But by that point I was almost to Phase 3.
3. Phase 3 starts and my play for Azari worked perfectly - nuked his deck. BUT THEN the icing on the cake? Death Lord's Eternal Tomb gave him Hakkar, the Soulflayer, so I killed it and between Fatigue and Corrupted Blood he was a goner - and none too soon as by that point I only had 5 cards left in my deck.
The whole match, I kept waiting for the hammer to drop and things to go sideways, but they just never did - whoo boy, what a feeling!
God I hope this is false...otherwise have fun with Shamans dropping double Fleshshaper on turn 4-5, wiping your board and then evolving them both into 8-drops....on top of the Mutate shenanigans we already have.
Not to mention machine gun mage. Oh and Quest Druid now gets a 0-mana 7/7 +10 armor if they get to turn 10.
and of course Warlock would get shafted again with the memes. And Rogue just gets even more thief stuff because I guess Quest Rogue needs to work somehow. Would have preferred deathrattle support over that.
Either way, the event's not gonna last more than a month, so even if the meta gets fucked upsidedown we won't have to endure it for too long
Glad they added strong and fun legendaries rather than some broken ones like Kazakus and Reno Jackson, if this list turns out to be correct of course. Good stuff, Blizzard!
"Who am I?" The guy giving me PTSD!!! That's who. LOL
Also, I want to put Call of the Wild into my standard Highlander Hunter deck. Question is which card do you swap it with...? Siamat? Not likely. Dinotamer Brann? HELL NO! Zul'jin? Nope! Likely going to have to pull out a lower cost card and potentially mess up the deck's curve to make it work. Almost a third of the cards in my list are 3 drops, could remove Masked Contender as he doesn't seem to do much for me very often. I seem to pull him pretty late, often after playing Subject 9 which makes Contender a vanilla 3 mana 2/4.
We know that Ragnaros the Firelord and N'Zoth, the Corruptor are going to be included in the group of 23 cards that will be in standard for the upcoming event. Let's start some speculation on what the other 21 cards will be.
We know that it will have to be cards that are currently in Wild or the Hall of Fame. I suspect that it won't be just legendary cards that get added in. The announcement said it would be "some of the most popular and game-changing cards from across Hearthstone history".
I'm going to say that Sylvanas Windrunner and Dr. Boom will be cards that they bring back. I also think that Grim Patron has a chance to make an appearance.
Anyone else have thought as to what might show up? Do you think they will include Death Knights?
I suppose we'll see a lot more viable control decks
At this point N'zoth can fit into a multitude of decks.
A few noteworth instances are:
Deathrattle Control Paladin (you can always run a 3-card Shirvallah combo as a 25-damage finisher when grinding isn't enough)
Deathrattle Rogue (which, outside of card draw issues could absolutely beat every other control deck just via bouncing and then shuffling N'zoth)
Control Warlock (plot twist with Dorian and Betrug means getting out Deathrattles quickly and in the case of betrug also preventing them from being polymorphed, which could solve both the lack of healing and lack of win condition that Warlock suffers from)
multiple Highlander variants (since Kartut defender counts as two spawns for N'zoth, and Applebaum can be the fird, which is enough lategame value and can be stacked up with more solid Deathrattles)
Mechrattle Hunter (the Oblivitron build) might come back, since you can build it in a way that maximizes both Zul'jin and N'zoth value for ultra lategame power
Speculation on The 23
I want a way to make an exodia mage again. Or something to beat Priest.
Event: 23 Cards Moving from Wild to Standard (Ragnaros & N'Zoth Included), 1000 Win Portraits, More Events
I'm not much of a ladder player since I prefer fun memes over finely-tuned metadecks (out of curiosity I checked and in total only 19% of my wins have been on the ladder), and the golden hero portraits were never enough of a carrot to make me try. These new portraits though...maybe I'll start making some effort...
Very nice to see more "in between expansions" events and Quality of Life/Goal improvements!
Event: 23 Cards Moving from Wild to Standard (Ragnaros & N'Zoth Included), 1000 Win Portraits, More Events
Man, I am soooo excited for these new Hero portraits. I get 2 automatically on launch day, and the rest give me a reason to play ladder again.
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
Really hope that I can use my golden Renounce Darkness in Standard.
Speculation on The 23
Well.. I agree haahahah
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
Secret paladin monkaS
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
Disappointed that Kazakus won't be coming. A good highlander deck for as many classes as possible would be nice.
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
Beat Death Lord first try with Finley & a deck full of Murlocs and some excellent timing on Eternal Tomb shenanigans:
1. Got Rin, the First Disciple from my Eternal Tomb during Phase 1 and slow-played the demons, hoping that if I could make it to Phase 3 just as I got Azari, the Devourer well that would be an insta-win since DL would have no deck.
2. Tomb was queued up to give me Tirion Fordring right as the boss moved to Phase 2, so the boss's passive power kept resurrecting him - I think all in I had 4 or 5 Tirions before boss finally played Plague of Death and a different minion was Reborn. But by that point I was almost to Phase 3.
3. Phase 3 starts and my play for Azari worked perfectly - nuked his deck. BUT THEN the icing on the cake? Death Lord's Eternal Tomb gave him Hakkar, the Soulflayer, so I killed it and between Fatigue and Corrupted Blood he was a goner - and none too soon as by that point I only had 5 cards left in my deck.
The whole match, I kept waiting for the hammer to drop and things to go sideways, but they just never did - whoo boy, what a feeling!
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
Call of the wild with Zul"jin
Speculation on The 23
if genn and baku come back they will ruin the entire even
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
God I hope this is false...otherwise have fun with Shamans dropping double Fleshshaper on turn 4-5, wiping your board and then evolving them both into 8-drops....on top of the Mutate shenanigans we already have.
Not to mention machine gun mage. Oh and Quest Druid now gets a 0-mana 7/7 +10 armor if they get to turn 10.
and of course Warlock would get shafted again with the memes. And Rogue just gets even more thief stuff because I guess Quest Rogue needs to work somehow. Would have preferred deathrattle support over that.
Either way, the event's not gonna last more than a month, so even if the meta gets fucked upsidedown we won't have to endure it for too long
Speculation on The 23
I want see cards like Brann Bronzebeard, Loatheb and Dirty Rat back. They can be a nice add to stardand highlander's deck.
Maybe Genn and Baku will back as well.
Get Those Ranked Wins - End of Season Standard Laddering Awesomeness
I've been playing Tempo Rogue and Lackey Zoo Warlock the past week and it seems to be decent at laddering
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
Glad they added strong and fun legendaries rather than some broken ones like Kazakus and Reno Jackson, if this list turns out to be correct of course. Good stuff, Blizzard!
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
"Who am I?" The guy giving me PTSD!!! That's who. LOL
Also, I want to put Call of the Wild into my standard Highlander Hunter deck. Question is which card do you swap it with...? Siamat? Not likely. Dinotamer Brann? HELL NO! Zul'jin? Nope! Likely going to have to pull out a lower cost card and potentially mess up the deck's curve to make it work. Almost a third of the cards in my list are 3 drops, could remove Masked Contender as he doesn't seem to do much for me very often. I seem to pull him pretty late, often after playing Subject 9 which makes Contender a vanilla 3 mana 2/4.
Speculation on The 23
Well, this was going to be a fun discussion thread until the leaked cards news appeared while I was creating this post. Blah.
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
RENOUNCE DARKNESS!!!!!
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
Makes sense, especially since you see some of those also in the current solo adventures.
Speculation on The 23
We know that Ragnaros the Firelord and N'Zoth, the Corruptor are going to be included in the group of 23 cards that will be in standard for the upcoming event. Let's start some speculation on what the other 21 cards will be.
We know that it will have to be cards that are currently in Wild or the Hall of Fame. I suspect that it won't be just legendary cards that get added in. The announcement said it would be "some of the most popular and game-changing cards from across Hearthstone history".
I'm going to say that Sylvanas Windrunner and Dr. Boom will be cards that they bring back. I also think that Grim Patron has a chance to make an appearance.
Anyone else have thought as to what might show up? Do you think they will include Death Knights?
Edits: Card linking
Were the 23 Wild Cards Coming to Standard for an Event Leaked?
This is going to be amazing.
N'zoth in standard
I suppose we'll see a lot more viable control decks
At this point N'zoth can fit into a multitude of decks.
A few noteworth instances are:
Deathrattle Control Paladin (you can always run a 3-card Shirvallah combo as a 25-damage finisher when grinding isn't enough)
Deathrattle Rogue (which, outside of card draw issues could absolutely beat every other control deck just via bouncing and then shuffling N'zoth)
Control Warlock (plot twist with Dorian and Betrug means getting out Deathrattles quickly and in the case of betrug also preventing them from being polymorphed, which could solve both the lack of healing and lack of win condition that Warlock suffers from)
multiple Highlander variants (since Kartut defender counts as two spawns for N'zoth, and Applebaum can be the fird, which is enough lategame value and can be stacked up with more solid Deathrattles)
Mechrattle Hunter (the Oblivitron build) might come back, since you can build it in a way that maximizes both Zul'jin and N'zoth value for ultra lategame power
Get Those Ranked Wins - End of Season Standard Laddering Awesomeness
Oh, so YOU'RE the reason I just played 4 Murloc Shamans in a row?! :)
Get Those Ranked Wins - End of Season Standard Laddering Awesomeness
well, with the new event mage might get some seriously relevant cards.
Just N'zoth is already a pretty decent buildaround for Highlander Mage and if Standard doesn't work you can always tear it up in Wild with Secret mage
Get Those Ranked Wins - End of Season Standard Laddering Awesomeness
Gonna get me that sweet new Jania skin.
*looks at mage stats*
Hmm, 16/500 - only need 984 ranked wins yay! :P
Get Those Ranked Wins - End of Season Standard Laddering Awesomeness
Haha, Just thought the same! I still can't get to change my "get all heroes to 500 wins" game plan...