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I was planing on writing a more in depth discussion on the subject but due to busy scheduled I am gonna have to be brief and go straight to the point.

I think that mana cheat cards are becoming more and more problematic. Right now They are still at reasonable level but they are getting better with each expansion. 

Cards like Wiggly Burblefish and Bandle City Mayor always you to play more cards than your opponent and still have a bigger hand. Fount of Power enable some infinite shenanigans were we either wait 20 minutes for opponent to finish their turn or just surrender. 

I think that any card that offer mana discount should be caped at 1.

So do guys also think that this will become a major issue or am I just overreacting?

So last time we went over the top dogs of the new meta, which exist with much debate. So how about the under dogs the decks people don't see coming and can win just as much?

Here we go!

Not listed number 1 because it's the best it's simple the fastest and easiest to play. Only really looses to hard bandlewood control, minimorph, stress test, even like pokey stick into that 3 mana P and Z 3 dmg removal

But I guarantee you will pretty much win queuing into everything else and that's a good thing as Martha Stewart would say.

Auto leveled champ decks are a blast to play and the sheer amount of card advantage tools here means you won't even pay the usual price associated with that. This deck is basically designed to eat Bandlewood. We don't care about pokey or getting getting our swings minid or stressed because we just have so muuuiuch stuff.

Oh you want to win with big swings well here ya go, all in on overwhelm, and elusive and a burn finisher. Not even the easiest thing to control out because our initial dmg is all burst and can't be chumped.

An oldy that is well positioned to clean house again, you have midrange plays, and you have shromes, with an alt wincon of permanent freeze.

I got all you Lux fans out there, usually remembence into like two 6/6's and a leveled lux is all you need to win games. Tf and the generated lock away card stops your opponent from running you over with anything too spooky. You even have a better version of dragons two mana challenger and we know how good he is.

There we go 5 midrange lists nobody will expect and will do very well right now, and has been play tested extensively...don't like the decks thats cool they arent bad you're bad and I have tons more you might like better.

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We've got a special competition to celebrate Oozefest 2. You can choose any (or multiple) of these three prompts for your card to follow.

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My guess is 3 mana 2/2 "gain +2/+2 for every card you traded this turn". Seems the most logical. What's your guess?

A new Common Warlock Spell, Wicked Shipment, has been revealed!

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https://mobalytics.gg/blog/lor-top-dogs-post-bandlewood-balance-patch-meta/

Just gonna go over this article pretty quickly, and present my.own thoughts.

Dragons, plunder, Lurk, Sivir, and Sion are solid midrange decks and for that reason they are good right now, are they exceptional, hard to say but solid 9/10 decks for sure.

Lee Sin Zoe...no just no this deck has never been worse right now. Enjoy getting minimorphed, getting your eye of the dragons removed etc.

I would add quite a few more to the list, I belive landmark aggro with Renekton post buff and Ziggs can do some scary stuff, kind of a low ramp midrange list honestly.

Top end wise, turbo ramp into like a auto leveled Asol is scary as hell. Probably a lot worse with counters, but as something you run into once in a blue moon you'll get run over.

The buff to nightfall is actually relavent where playing multiple Champs still gives you his play effect, turns out thats huge. You can run better decks but you can climb with this.

A high rolled Ekko can be absolutely disgusting, I've seen some r and g nightmares where they pull crystal and duplicate it and play ekko leveled on curve into a automatic time wind, like really unbeatable situations.

Swain, Viktor, these niche Champs are also seeing some really strong winrates again due to their midrange identities, Lux can do work, and yes even in very small instances Braum.

So yeah play midrange or aggro-midrange and win games...that's the real lesson from the post patch meta.

I had to do this one after i saw the Miniset's epic reveal xD

Title pretty much says it all.

If you're still a mobalytics slave you might think that bandle tree is the best deck in the game post nerfs.

But honestly I haven't seen a single person play it, people were running bandle aggro for a while post nerfs but it seems people have learned it doesn't work. Zed poppy who cares.

We get lots of dragons, and for good reason it s a strong deck, lots of Veigar Senna, it's a strong control list

But the real surprise here is that midrange is just freaking good again. Any sort of deck that is flexible, can deal with early threats, play scary midrange stuff, and yes maybe even go over the top with an Asol or other crazy win con.

Those decks are the best to climb with right now...it's not sexy, it's not gonna show up all over mobalytics, but honestly I would feel more confident playing a dumb Braun deck right now, then anything in the tier 1 recommendations.

Thats just where we are at, like Mogwai was playing pursuit of perfection for christ sake, literally dumbest win con there is, and that's because midrange lists with late game payoffs are that strong.

Grappler was playing a discard deck with Viktor, because...midrange. honestly, I love it, it's fantastic, everyone can play they want and win how they want.

"I Hate Questline Warlock" Warrior

Wild · Control Warrior · by Neoguli · 4 years, 10 months ago

• 1 Athletic Studies x 2
• 1 Iron Hide x 2
• 1 Whirlwind x 2
• 2 Battle Rage x 2
• 2 Bladestorm x 2
• 2 Corsair Cache x 2
• 2 Dead Man's Hand x 2
• 2 Harbor Scamp x 2
• 2 Shield Block x 2
• 3 Bulwark of Azzinoth x 1
• 3 Heavy Plate x 2
• 3 Lord Barov x 1
• 3 Reckless Flurry x 2
• 3 Venomous Scorpid x 2
• 4 Hoard Pillager x 2
• 5 Brawl x 2

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After my OoC success of finding a Hunter deck to deal with Darkglare, the news of The Demon Seed making it look like child's play had me going for an attempt to make a deck that can do alright into it without being a full-on Aggro or fast OTK, just as a present for Control players. :D

So, Mysterious Stranger on Air Elemental was gutted. While it is sad, and while you can argue about the priorities Blizzard have (let's face it, we all know what they are, Bobby "Goblinlord" Kotick needs a new 150M$ bonus check), it doesn't change the fact the Random Event Tile (RET for short) is still very shallow in terms of gameplay. Getting one of 4 options (Potato, Portal, Sabotage and Stranger) is boring and feels cheap. So what can we do about it? Here's my suggestions:

1. Remove Stranger altogether (I have a different approach for task collecting);
2. Add a lot of events (both good and bad), allowing for more variety of gameplay throughout the map and, more importantly, allowing for more than one RET on the map.

So, what are the events I'm suggesting?

1. Keep the Hot Potato. It's a genuinely interesting gimmick, it only falls into sore eyes because we want the Stranger;
2. Keep the Portal, but add the option to walk into it or not;
3. Keep the Sabotage, even if it's boring and has almost no gameplay impact [it remains mostly as a placeholder for more interesting detrimental effects, with a smaller chance than other events];
4. Boons become RETs. You won't know where they are on the map anymore;
5. Spirit Healer can be found on RETs;
6. AMBUSH!!! -> You face a team of 6 Mercs all at once who were payed to stop you on your tracks. But it turns out, those mercs were payed partly in advance, and they were payed with up to 25 coins for a random epic/legendary merc (rarity and number of coins depending on the bounty you're in);
7. Bananas! -> King Mukla passed by here and forgot some bananas. Your team picks them up and eats them, granting a +X/+X buff (again, depending on the bounty);
8. Sidequest! -> Send one of your mercs alone on a sidequest, removing him temporarily from your team. He promises he'll come back to you before the final boss and he returns with a special treasure (like the ones you gain when you face elite battles), or he finds a new task for him (if you didn't finish all his tasks. If you did, he returns with a couple of merc coins, with a higher chance of those coins being for him) [both the task and the amount of coins he finds also depend on the bounty and you find less coins than the AMBUSH!!! event];
9. Mud Pit! -> Oh great, now you're all muddy. And look at the dirt on our treasures! We have to clean them up. You won't be able to use your treasures next battle;
10. Bob! -> "Hey there, friend, glad to see you. Here's a treasure to make sure your travels are safe". You gain a random treasure for a random merc (you don't even choose 1 of 3);
11. Wrong turn! -> You can only find this in the middle of the map. It changes your pathing, nothing too special [it's also mostly a placeholder, low chance to get it on the event pool].

These are just some ideas, there could easily be more of them, both beneficial and detrimental. These ideas also represent pathings with more than just 1 RET (for example, I could easily see bounties from Heroic Blackrock Mountain with 5 RETs, especially when you consider that Boons would stop showing up as Boons themselves [some tiles would still be Spirit Healers, you just also have a chance of finding them in a RET]).

Now, regarding the Mysterious Stranger, my answer is actually simple. You ALWAYS find one after completing a bounty. However, to avoid abusing early level bounties, the level of your task depends on your bounty.

• Barrens -> Up to Task 2 (the first 3 bounties), Task 3 (the next 3 bounties), Task 4 (the last 3 bounties);
• Barrens Heroic -> Up to Task 3 (the first 3 bounties), Task 4 (the next 3 bounties), Task 5 (the last 3 bounties);
• Felwood -> Up to Task 8 (the first 3 bounties), Task 9 (the last 3 bounties);
• Felwood Heroic -> Up to Task 9 (the first 3 bounties), Task 10 (the last 3 bounties);
• Winterspring -> Up to Task 14 (the first 3 bounties), Task 15 (the last 3 bounties);
• Winterspring Heroic -> Up to Task 15 (the first 3 bounties), Task 16 (the last 3 bounties);
• Blackrock Mountain -> Up to Task 17 (the first 3 bounties), Task 18 (the last 3 bounties);
• Blackrock Mountain Heroic -> Up to Task 18 (all bounties).

These are my suggestions for events to spice up bounty runs. What do you guys think of them? Guaranteeing Mysterious Stranger as an extra reward severely diminishes frustration with grinding and the increased amount of events makes each bounty more unique and engaging. EDIT: Also, throw in more ideas if you have them, maybe we could actually see some of them in-game.

PS: Turns out it's hard to think of detrimental effects without simply gutting your team. I feel only Mud Pit! really worked as a one and done detrimental effect (Sabotage and Wrong Turn! feel very meh), with the more extreme ones (AMBUSH!!! putting you in a 6vs3 fight and Sidequest! temporarily disabling a merc [maybe you can choose which one, maybe not]) compensating the detrimental effect with a reward. I feel that is a way detrimental effects can be more engaging.

Its no secret I found the vanilla release of bandlewood to be basically unplayable once the meta settled.

Gangppank burn, scion Draven, Nami, and shadow creating this really poor play space where it was impossible to tech against everything.

But fortunately this balance patch did two major things.

It hit all the major decks and nerfed them, but secondly it made a lot of my favorite decks and play styles viable again.

Yes Ekko is great now, like actually great if you build him right, same with Lux. TF is playable again, just by merit of bringing down the overall power curve.

Asol absolutely Targon is playable again, while we are still seeing a lot of just add vandlewood decks, the truth is it feels way easier to beat deal with.

Same thing with Poppy Zed etc. Because now you only need to tech against aggro, instead of like 5 different things.

I love it I'm actually enjoying the game again for the first time since Bandlewood released great patch, fixed a lot of the games problems.

Keep it up

Here is an idea I had that can be fun to do if you like a lot of decks but many of them aren't viable in ranked. Take a group of decks according to some theme, a number divisible by 2, so something like 8, 16, 32, or even 64 would work well. Try to not have any deck with overly high power compared to the rest of them, so the result is unpredictable. Then make a tournament bracket (good site I found to do it easily is https://challonge.com/tournament/bracket_generator but can just do it on paper too).

Finally, you can do it with ingame hs friends where for each deck matchup you would do a friend challenge (they can borrow your decks if only one person has them) and play 3 games. You can switch the person playing each deck once too. The deck that wins best out of 3 (or you can set it up to be best out of 1, out of 5, whatever you prefer) moves on to the next round.

You can keep doing this until you get the final winner. For me this type of thing is very enjoyable (the suspense of which deck will move on to the next round and being able to play a huge variety of decks against others of a similar power level and not worry so much about the meta) but I only had the idea to do it yesterday, so I wanted to share the general idea in case anyone wants to try.

Here is an example bracket for the first tournament I'm doing (theme is off meta ones, specifically ones on the weaker side of things and/or very rarely seen).

After that I'm planning to do a tournament of 32 reno decks from all different classes for some kind of ultimate reno deck showdown.

Overall, lots of options and you can set it up however you want. Maybe do a tournament of decks from just one class or using only cards from certain expansions, many possibilities.

Because this is somewhat important.

Apparently when the patch is up you'll get your run refunded on heroics. So you know the drill, just play heroics until two losses then wait for the patch to go live. Get your reward and your free ticket for being such a sport.

Source:

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