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It's popular to rip Hearthstone right now (and understandably so), but this was an incredible tournament. Great players throughout the Top 8. GM spots on the line. Hakkar in multiple decks. A completely deserving winner.

Just awesome.

The meta is still young. Shaman is far from unchecked. We just need to get there.

Highlander Secret Paladin reminds me a lot of Even Paladin after the Call to Arms nerf. It's a bad deck. It doesn't do anything impressive. It should be relatively easy to beat...but it is surprisingly good at top decking into …

Ah makes much more sense. But yeah - that deck dumpsters lategame decks that don't play maly.

I wonder if it can ever find a good enough balance to have more reasonable game against aggro. It'd be a terrifying …

Quote From Bersak

N‘Zoth - backstab - Toggwaggls scheme and off you go. This counters every lategame that is not otk

what do you need the backstab for?

What are you playing? Is it a deck that can pressure Priest well enough for the extra Zihi turns to matter?

The best way to beat priest is to play one of the decks that don't care about attacking …

So you're playing Warrior?

apropos of nothing, I have a suspicion that, once things settle down a bit, Control Warrior should find itself in a prety good spot in this metagame. It has the tools to beat Aggro Shaman …

Quote From Zwane

I am also done with certain matchups. So basically Priest and Paladin I auto conceide. My deck targets shaman so that one I am happy to try. Those other two "not so much".

Rule #1 of Resurrect Priest - it doesn't matter how many other minions have died this game, Mass Resurrection will always play the maximum available number of Psychopomps.

I would rather play against a degenerate evolve shaman than a degenerate resurrect priest every day of the week.

The version of highlander hunter I meant was the version that cuts the secret package. That version has been the worse of the two for about 2 weeks now.

Some thoughts from Day 3/4 of our new meta:

- Evolve Shaman and Combo Priest are the aggro decks of choice IMO. Not sure which is better. Spirit of the Frog turned Evolve Shaman into a more consistent deck.

I am SHOCKED that Blizzard's plan of "keep pretending this hasn't happened" isn't working for them....

Personally, I would find it enlightening. But I understand that some people don't want to read as many paragraphs about HS as I do.

Am I blind? Or is Boar not playing N'Zoth in his DR Rogue but is playing Emperor+ Scheme...

Great insights. Especially for people like me who only play arena once every few months

I really like your articles. It's good to show people how to actually build decks and why things are in a deck as opposed to others.

Quote From Zwane

I do not think it is straight trash but more a first attempt. The coming weeks will lead to more consistent variants is my expectation. I tried one variant with secret package and one without; …

TBH I think that Flamewaker deck is straight trash. But, kind of like Murloc Paladin, sometimes you high roll pretty easy wins.

Quote From ArngrimUndying

Perhaps I'm seriously misremebering, but for someone who joined HS well after Renounce Warlock was in Standard, I could have sworn seeing people talk from time to time about how good/strong/fun it was. Was that …