This looks like it could have some potential. My only issue with it at the moment is the lack of card draw. Yes, there's Nourish, but it's a bit too slow, especially since you want to save it for use with King Phaoris.
Just my observation from looking at a decklist. When we get a chance to play with it, it might turn out that I'm completely wrong. I hope I am, this looks like fun
Well, you're not completely wrong: during the deck building process I was worried about that too.
In order to deal with this problem, I added some value minions (EVIL Cable Rat and Golden Scarab for example) so that you won't end up in top deck mode too soon.
Two cards I considered to add are Ferocious Howl and Overflow, having the first one bad synergy with your win condition and the second one looking a bit too much of an overkill given that you also have 2 Nourishes.
Consider also that you don't have to save up all your big spells for King Phaoris: obviously the more the better, but even keeping 3 of them is more than decent value.
However, you convinced me: I'll swap a Hidden Oasis (the least useful 6 mana spell) with an overflow in order to get some cycle.
With the coming of Zephrys the Great, I was thinking of playing some variant of Reno Priest in wild. This would involve crafting some key legendaries including Raza the Chained and Kazakus. I understand Razakus Priest isn't what it once was, but could it still be a tier 2/3 deck?
Currently back on trying to tinker around the deck. Decided to cut Ancestral Knowledge entirely and replace it x2 Mana Tide Totem. And so far, it seems to work. Of course, haven't played against real decks just yet as of this season, but it seems to work.
Also got so freaking excited to get Swampqueen Hagatha from a pack. Because this deck is not as heavy in Overload, I might consider replacing one Lava Shock in favor of her. Maybe cut both and also include Walking Fountain as of the recent suggestion.
I think adding more lifegain cards would disrupt your zoo strategy and slow down your deck too much. Now when I revisit the deck I made and with what I said above in mind I would cut some cards that are not proactive enough.
That leaves me with 3 slots that should be filled probably with some cards that were already included in zoolock like knife jugler and dire wolf alpha. Reasoning behind these changes is:
Blood witch is just too slow for a zoo type of deck. While the effect synergies with the selfdamaging strategy, playing 4 mana 3/6 is not proactive and valuable enough for a zoo deck. Crystallizer does this job so much better and faster. Same goes with Nethersoul Buster. It can go big but if you don't get your self damaging minion you're having 1/5 in your hand that does nothing and he just depends too much on your damaging minions. For Dark Pharaoh Tekahn I think it does bring a lot of value but for a really short time. You can get 8 lackeys as a warlock and often enough you want to play them as soon as you can or save it for Evil Recruiter. You don't want to save your lackeys until you draw Dark Pharaoh Tekahn since you're playing a fast deck and Tekahn feels sometimes greedy. Lifedrinker is the perfect lifegain card in this deck and while you're getting 3/3 for 4 you are dealing and healing for 3 which is worth about 2 mana.
To also have a reasonable 2-drop I added Archmage Arugal and this can lead to some interesting stuff. What happened:
The hunter was happily pounding my face,but I had played the Luna's Pocket Galaxy.
And all of a sudden my Arcane Intellect powered by Archmage Arugal (which he let live for a turn, he was going for lethal) gave me:
2x 1-mana Alexstrasza, 2x 1-mana Archmage Antonidas and then the next turn 2x 0-mana Mountain Giant. I froze his big dude, went up to 15 health, he went down to 15, got myself some fire balls. He was at 7 mana so his 8-mana combo was not yet up...time to concede.
Asked Flux about it yesterday and he hadn't drawn the winners yet. Haven't seen anything after that which would suggest otherwise. Don't worry, I will keep reminding(/complaining to) him about it.
And sorry about the lack of communication on the matter, I believe he's been super busy trying to get some fancy stuff ready for expansion release.
Hi Frosty.
Could someone at least state this bellow the article so people do not rage there? I was myself also refreshing the page several times a day because i was hoping for some news.
Hopefully Flux will draw the winners soon, i am waiting with the preorder until this giveaway is solved. Many others might be doing the same.
Thank you!
Posted the same thing there. I promise I will use my best Flux-harassment skills to make sure the winners are drawn and notified today, as the expansion release and the pre-order deadline is fast approaching.
As of yesterday Flux had not yet drawn the winners and I haven't seen anything that would suggest otherwise. I will keep reminding him to do that so he wouldn't forget.
Sorry about the lack of updates on the matter, I believe Flux has been super busy trying to get some stuff ready for the expansion release.
I do believe that OOC deserves the benefit of the doubt. Also, one shouldn't spam their comments... feels like a toddler throwing a fit. There will be 5 winners and then the rest of us. That is fine because that's not really what this website is about. At least, I hope it isn't becoming about freehand outs. Furthermore, if they had a closed giveaway for the Mods, I would be okay with that because they work really hard. OOC would not need to go to such desperate and misleading measures to celebrate the good work of those who help this community.
To those who doubt OOC, I say look at their track record.
Asked Flux about it yesterday and he hadn't drawn the winners yet. Haven't seen anything after that which would suggest otherwise. Don't worry, I will keep reminding(/complaining to) him about it.
And sorry about the lack of communication on the matter, I believe he's been super busy trying to get some fancy stuff ready for expansion release.
Hi Frosty.
Could someone at least state this bellow the article so people do not rage there? I was myself also refreshing the page several times a day because i was hoping for some news.
Hopefully Flux will draw the winners soon, i am waiting with the preorder until this giveaway is solved. Many others might be doing the same.
1. Bazaar Mugger: I feel someone has tested their original version of the card that has "Whenever it attacks, add a random card from another class", then suddenly, the card designer said, "WTF, THAT'S BROKEN!", so they nerfed this card... I have a really honest feeling about this since there is no way the card is implemented that way. Intentionally nerf, I'm calling it.
2. Khartut Defender: Seriously? If the card was 3/5, it would be the LEAST PLAYABLE card out there. 3/4 means the card designer were worry to much about this card.
4. Dinotamer Brann: I don't know... I just don't like this card. (By the way, can we stop these things that does "Summon a same legendary minion that we have already known before", thanks.)
5. Desert Obelisk: I love some memes, but this one is not a thing for me. So don't you think about playing it with Shadow of Death... if you do that, you would miss so many good things in your life.
I must disagree with your worst list (Except the last one which is my first worst, and you put actually good cards above it)
Bazaar Mugger is not the best card in the game but how you are calling it bad? I mean a 3/5 rush minion could cost 4 and then you pay one extra mana for the burgle effect, it's not OMG OP but the card is decent, and could fit into quest rogue.
Khartut defender is actually a huge speed bump for aggro it's a mix between two very powerful cards but the stats are reduced to compensate I am talking about Sludge Belcher and Antique Healbot it's slightly worse than both of them but it's 6 healing, and double taunt minion it's a 3/4 because they were wary of this card being too good at 3/5 it's still decent. again it's not the best card of the expansion but it's decent.
Brann - Hunter got so many good cards now you don't HAVE to play control to play a singelton deck, could see this card being played.. if not now then next expansion the power level is there and you could really make it work.. besides you ranked zephrys first if you believe in singelton decks hunter is probably much better than mage and druid.
I like how I can't tell if the people downvoting Sherman's OP are seriously triggered or doing it ironically like me because he said he likes downvotes. Don't know whether to up or downvotes those -1s either (nor if those -1s are serious). Well done; you've made the system completely meaningless, at least in this thread :D
It's mostly for the irony, BTW I downvoted every post of Sherman in this thread for the same reason.
IMO, the "Big" support of the set isn't colossus, but Blatant Decoy. It's like a neutral Shadow Essence, which is something the archetype needs more than the big minions themselves
Blatant Decoy sounds cool.
Adding more ammo to pull out more big minions, and taking away your opponent's plans with their good cheap minions, I think that will work great even if it's gonna be slow.
Can be a great additional card for sure, I think of the classes that have a lack of pulling big minions like Paladin and Mage, these will take this card to their home, I guess. Also, I like decoy that acts like a trojan horse!
Hearthstone Deck Tracker - Archive automatically?
Yeah, there is.
You just have to right click on the recipe in your deck manager that you want to hide and choose "archive"
Big Spell Druid [Theorycraft]
Well, you're not completely wrong: during the deck building process I was worried about that too.
In order to deal with this problem, I added some value minions (EVIL Cable Rat and Golden Scarab for example) so that you won't end up in top deck mode too soon.
Two cards I considered to add are Ferocious Howl and Overflow, having the first one bad synergy with your win condition and the second one looking a bit too much of an overkill given that you also have 2 Nourishes.
Consider also that you don't have to save up all your big spells for King Phaoris: obviously the more the better, but even keeping 3 of them is more than decent value.
However, you convinced me: I'll swap a Hidden Oasis (the least useful 6 mana spell) with an overflow in order to get some cycle.
Thanks for the advice!
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Wild Reno Priest
Heya,
With the coming of Zephrys the Great, I was thinking of playing some variant of Reno Priest in wild. This would involve crafting some key legendaries including Raza the Chained and Kazakus. I understand Razakus Priest isn't what it once was, but could it still be a tier 2/3 deck?
Thanks y'all.
Jade Shudderwock Shaman, but it's a deck on an account I haven't played on since Karazham
Currently back on trying to tinker around the deck. Decided to cut Ancestral Knowledge entirely and replace it x2 Mana Tide Totem. And so far, it seems to work. Of course, haven't played against real decks just yet as of this season, but it seems to work.
Also got so freaking excited to get Swampqueen Hagatha from a pack. Because this deck is not as heavy in Overload, I might consider replacing one Lava Shock in favor of her. Maybe cut both and also include Walking Fountain as of the recent suggestion.
Self Damage Lackey Zoolock
Thanks for your suggestion :)
I think adding more lifegain cards would disrupt your zoo strategy and slow down your deck too much. Now when I revisit the deck I made and with what I said above in mind I would cut some cards that are not proactive enough.
-2x Nethersoul Buster
-2x Blood Witch
-1x Dark Pharaoh Tekahn
+2x Lifedrinker
That leaves me with 3 slots that should be filled probably with some cards that were already included in zoolock like knife jugler and dire wolf alpha. Reasoning behind these changes is:
Blood witch is just too slow for a zoo type of deck. While the effect synergies with the selfdamaging strategy, playing 4 mana 3/6 is not proactive and valuable enough for a zoo deck. Crystallizer does this job so much better and faster. Same goes with Nethersoul Buster. It can go big but if you don't get your self damaging minion you're having 1/5 in your hand that does nothing and he just depends too much on your damaging minions. For Dark Pharaoh Tekahn I think it does bring a lot of value but for a really short time. You can get 8 lackeys as a warlock and often enough you want to play them as soon as you can or save it for Evil Recruiter. You don't want to save your lackeys until you draw Dark Pharaoh Tekahn since you're playing a fast deck and Tekahn feels sometimes greedy. Lifedrinker is the perfect lifegain card in this deck and while you're getting 3/3 for 4 you are dealing and healing for 3 which is worth about 2 mana.
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The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
I just played and barely won a game vs a golden rouge player called DurinsBane.
He had the most creative rouge deck I have ever seen and it was a true pleasure to see his deck at work.
The only reason I won was a well timed draw to revive all of my Lucentbarks, if that hadn't happened who knows what would have happened.
GG bro accept my request and I will throw some 80g quests your way.
Corrupt the Reno (Quest + Singleton)
maybe good
League of Explorers
most probably not.
but will there be a hero portrait? card backs kinda suck.
Raid the Big Spells (Big Spell + Quest)
add smaller stuffs
Activate the Deathrattle (Deathrattle + Quest)
I have to agree, im not sure that the quest and amet are needed, they could be replaced with some bigger deathrattles maybe
The Pepper Thread - Share Some Good Vibes!
Well. Latest game was really hilarious. I was facing another mech Hunter with my mage, and I have been tinkering around with a deck that combines cards like Mountain Giant, Conjurer's Calling, Mana Cyclone, Luna's Pocket Galaxy, and the OTK trio with Jepetto Joybuzz.
To also have a reasonable 2-drop I added Archmage Arugal and this can lead to some interesting stuff. What happened:
The hunter was happily pounding my face,but I had played the Luna's Pocket Galaxy.
And all of a sudden my Arcane Intellect powered by Archmage Arugal (which he let live for a turn, he was going for lethal) gave me:
2x 1-mana Alexstrasza, 2x 1-mana Archmage Antonidas and then the next turn 2x 0-mana Mountain Giant. I froze his big dude, went up to 15 health, he went down to 15, got myself some fire balls. He was at 7 mana so his 8-mana combo was not yet up...time to concede.
Check it out: https://hsreplay.net/replay/tkMVH44PVpZNAVPMUSytdA
Here is another fun match against a warrior featuring two Luna's + galaxy = brutal card draw and win.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/NezNdcCBomNEYwvuWGqTUR
Have the winners of the giveaway been announced yet?
Posted the same thing there. I promise I will use my best Flux-harassment skills to make sure the winners are drawn and notified today, as the expansion release and the pre-order deadline is fast approaching.
Saviors of Uldum - 5 Pack Bundles Giveaway
As of yesterday Flux had not yet drawn the winners and I haven't seen anything that would suggest otherwise. I will keep reminding him to do that so he wouldn't forget.
Sorry about the lack of updates on the matter, I believe Flux has been super busy trying to get some stuff ready for the expansion release.
Saviors of Uldum - 5 Pack Bundles Giveaway
Well, sorry to hear about that. I guess you won't be back to read this but...
To whoever is still interested, I did find this nugget of information on a thread:
https://outof.cards/forums/hearthstone/hearthstone-general/1239-have-the-winners-of-the-giveaway-been-announced-yet
I do believe that OOC deserves the benefit of the doubt. Also, one shouldn't spam their comments... feels like a toddler throwing a fit. There will be 5 winners and then the rest of us. That is fine because that's not really what this website is about. At least, I hope it isn't becoming about freehand outs. Furthermore, if they had a closed giveaway for the Mods, I would be okay with that because they work really hard. OOC would not need to go to such desperate and misleading measures to celebrate the good work of those who help this community.
To those who doubt OOC, I say look at their track record.
Have the winners of the giveaway been announced yet?
Hi Frosty.
Could someone at least state this bellow the article so people do not rage there? I was myself also refreshing the page several times a day because i was hoping for some news.
Hopefully Flux will draw the winners soon, i am waiting with the preorder until this giveaway is solved. Many others might be doing the same.
Thank you!
How'd Your Pack Opening Haul Go?
I managed 6 Legendaries in 80, including
Untapped Potential
Bazaar Burglary
Corrupt The Waters
Vessina
Armagedillo (meh)
And King Phaoris
Now I'm waiting for the golden legendary and free quest on login :3
Your top 5 best and worst SOU cards
I must disagree with your worst list (Except the last one which is my first worst, and you put actually good cards above it)
Bazaar Mugger is not the best card in the game but how you are calling it bad? I mean a 3/5 rush minion could cost 4 and then you pay one extra mana for the burgle effect, it's not OMG OP but the card is decent, and could fit into quest rogue.
Khartut defender is actually a huge speed bump for aggro it's a mix between two very powerful cards but the stats are reduced to compensate I am talking about Sludge Belcher and Antique Healbot it's slightly worse than both of them but it's 6 healing, and double taunt minion it's a 3/4 because they were wary of this card being too good at 3/5 it's still decent. again it's not the best card of the expansion but it's decent.
Brann - Hunter got so many good cards now you don't HAVE to play control to play a singelton deck, could see this card being played.. if not now then next expansion the power level is there and you could really make it work.. besides you ranked zephrys first if you believe in singelton decks hunter is probably much better than mage and druid.
The "Downvote Effect"
It's mostly for the irony, BTW I downvoted every post of Sherman in this thread for the same reason.
BTW nice quad post 0 shame in doing it.
Hearthstone Deck Tracker - Archive automatically?
Is there a way in HS deck tracker, to archive unused decks automatically?
i want only decks to show up, which i have in my hearthstone list, not all, i ever played.
thanks.
GrovesK's Reno Warrior
Hope it will work for you. I was recently trying adding Dead Man's Hand and it well quite well!
And in few days we will be receiving new cards and seems a lot will change. So stay tuned and hopefully it will just push our Reno Warrior higher:)
Looking for a BIG decks across the classes, with Colossus of the Moon.
Forgot this thing as well, will check how it goes with colossus.
By the way, can't I quote two things in the same comment? I was able to do that in Hearthpwn if I remember correctly...
Looking for a BIG decks across the classes, with Colossus of the Moon.
Blatant Decoy sounds cool.
Adding more ammo to pull out more big minions, and taking away your opponent's plans with their good cheap minions, I think that will work great even if it's gonna be slow.
Can be a great additional card for sure, I think of the classes that have a lack of pulling big minions like Paladin and Mage, these will take this card to their home, I guess. Also, I like decoy that acts like a trojan horse!
Have the winners of the giveaway been announced yet?
Ok, no problem. Was just wondering.
Thanks!