Master's Call, it gave a huge boost to midrange hunter and made for a really fun deck with synergies with cards like Dire Frenzy and Zul'jin. While it leaves the class in a good spot with like six good archetypes, it allowed Midrange Hunter to be a viable archetype during a time when Hunter did not have any others.

It's that time of year again, in only approximately two months there will be a new year rotation, which will probably bring with it another round of Hall of Fame. What cards do you think will be HoF'd? What cards do you hope will be HoF'd?

Freeze Mage. Stall with your freeze spells, make sure you have Ice Block up, on turn 9 play Alexstrasza, then on turn 10 kill him with some combination of Frostbolt, Ice Lance, Fireball.

I think it's fair to say that this shows once again how important a healthy local comptetitive esports scene is. There are tons of French LAN tournaments, which also manage to get pretty high viewership. The only other country with a comparable Hearthstone esports scene is China, which showed during the Global Finals, where the Chinese players wiped the floor with most other competitors.

The thriving local scene also helps cultivate a huge French fanbase, which allows for more sponsorship money for the players, relieving them of the need for another job on the side, giving them more time to practice. If nothing will change from Blizzard's side in how they facilitate local competitive Hearthstone leagues and events, expect the French dominance to continue.

I've been doing pretty well against Druids. Embiggen druid's big weakness is their early game and going either very wide or very tall. This deck can do all those things, provided you draw well. You can consider subbing in Deadly Shot to be better able to deal with their huge taunts. Another thing to not forget is that Embiggen druid usually only runs one healing card, Zilliax. Because of this, once Zilliax is out of the way, your hero power puts them on a clock.

Thank you for the kind words!

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It's literally the 7th most-played list on HSReplay, your anecdotal evidence is worthless.

Ok ok, I was going to ignore all the stuff I don't agree with in this thread because people can have opinions different than mine, but this is too much lol

1) If more than half of the meta is split between Rogue (Highlander, Galakrond) and Hunter (Highlander, Face) it doesn't take much playrate to be the 7th list, even more if it contains one of the few new viable cards released literally 3 days ago. Everyone wants to play with the new toys.

2) A deck's playrate doesn't indicate its strength: remember how many people played Galakrond Priest in December despite it being an absolute pile of garbage? Everyone knew but still insisted to make it work. That deck was at best tier 3 but it was so popular on ladder.

3) Imagine quoting HS Replay as a valid meta report source. In Vicious Syndicate and only in Vicious Syndicate we trust.

 

That dude said the deck isn't popular, I referred to data that shows it is popular and you're saying I'm wrong because... you don't think it's strong? Nobody said anything about strength. In your first two points you're literally saying that the deck is popular, and you're last point is just wrong since HSReplay has a lot more data than VS, being able to show popularity more accurately.

I've been having tons of fun with this card, it really breathes some new life into the old Master's Call hunter before it and Zul'jin leave standard. I have included my decklist and a guide to it in this comment. I feel it would also fit in a wild Beast hunter, where it can buff Dire Mole and Alleycat.

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nice deck

Thank you! I have added a guide, please let me know how the deck works for you.

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Wait I am confused, this isn't a druid deck, right?

...and this is why we don't upload decks when we're tired haha. Thanks, fixed it!

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What fucking Ramp Druid are you talking about?

Even Rez Priest is like less than 10% of the ladder.

Everyone's playing Rogue now because it beats all of those decks (and most others)

There's a new druid deck revolving around witching hour and the new druid taunt.

I maybe ran into that one twice within the last two days, so it can't be popular enough to complain about.

It's literally the 7th most-played list on HSReplay, your anecdotal evidence is worthless.

My favourite Hearthstone moment of 2019 was definitely VKLiooon winning the Hearthstone Global Finals. What I'm looking forward to the most in 2020 is more cool cards based on WoW lore characters.

Power Word: Barrier and Meeting of Minds are way too complicated for the Basic Set.

I think it would be smart to look at the Zoo lists from Classic, since that is basically what you're trying to build here. Priestess of Elune is a terrible card that should never be ran in any deck, I suggest changing it to Young Priestess instead.

Nice deck, but I have a few questions about it. What exactly do you want to hit with Expired Merchant? Valdris Felgorge, Kronx Dragonhoof? Also Flame Imp seems weird in this list, seeing as how it's not an aggressive list besides it. Maybe replace it with Elven Archer, Dragon Egg or [Hearthstone Card (Cheeky Anklebiter) Not Found]? Also is there any reason why you chose to use Evasive Feywing over other dragon cards, and why you include Abyssal Summoner but not Mountain Giant or Twilight Drake? I would be very interested in reading a guide on this deck.

What would you replace Vessina with? Bloodlust? Also, is Sludge Slurper still worth it after the nerf?

This mainly hits the Spirit of the Frog/Zentimo build of Galakrond Shaman, which depended on this card for huge cheap swings. While this nerf pretty much renders that version of the deck unplayable, I think it's for the better. Going off with Spirit of the Frog to get a huge Mutate/Invocation of Frost/Earthen Might swing, or a cheap 4-mana freeze 3 minions get 3 2/1 rush minions and upgrade Galakrond at least once with Zentimo simply felt too unfair to play against.

Veiled Worshipper is not the powerhouse of the deck, in fact when looking at the drawn winrate of the most popular Galakrond Zoo deck on HSReplay Fiendish Rites is at #1, while Veiled Worshipper is among the bottom cards. So, it makes sense to nerf Fiendish Rites when wanting to keep the deck in control. While I agree that it's not the most oppressive deck at the moment, it might become so after the nerfs to the other decks hit by this patch. So it feels more like a pre-emptive nerf to me, that won't destroy the deck.

It's a good change, that won't even kill its main combos. You can still play it with Dragon Breeder and Barista Lynchen, the only thing you can't do anymore is play the buffed-up version after playing a fully invoked Galakrond, which I think is a great change because getting an Arcanite Reaper and three 7/6's with rush in one turn was way too busted.

Good change, it's still viable. Also don't think it will knock Rogue down from having a top-tier deck, since Galakrond is still insane.