Totem Shaman definitely would have made it In, but this report was written before it exploded in popularity. Next week will be a different story. Hard to keep up with the meta right now!
Shu’ma should work out fine, both as a quest activator and mid-game threat after quest completion. Most people seem to prefer Flark, but i don’t think you’ll experience much of a decrease in winrate. Shu’ma’s also a better draw before quest completion, because you can use the tokens it generates. Prior to quest completion, Flark fills your board with unusable bombs (outside of a Magnetic play with Sn1p or Zilliax). As other commenters have said, Leeroy / Unleash is the key to this deck.
I can only agree with Demon’s sentiments. I write the Hearthstone Standard Meta Report every week and it’s been a wonderful experience so far.
GO FOR IT
Writing about the game you love is exciting, fulfilling and fun, but most important, it deepens your knowledge of the game to an almost extreme degree. I now feel like a true, contributing member of the Hearthstone / card game community, which is a real blessing for a loner like myself. Plus, everyone at outof.cards is a joy to work with.
My point was that, at Legend, in the aggregate, Face Hunter is actually negative against both Galakrond Rogue (48.7% winrate over 3,700 games) and Highlander Galakrond Rogue (47.9% winrate over 1,700 games).
Thus, "both Galakrond Rogue and Highlander Galakrond Rogue have displayed sufficient strength to consistently beat Face Hunter."
Obviously, different variations on the archetype will have different success rates against Rogue (our featured build, for example, is 66% over 100 Legend matches against Highlander Galakrond Rogue), but that doesn't change the fact that Face Hunter, as it's currently played at Legend (ie sub-optimally), has struggled against Valeera.
I certainly did mean Highlander Priest! Good catch.
Mind posting a list?
I always screw at least one thing up. Thanks for catching that! Should’ve been Leper Gnome.
Whoops. Thanks for catching that!
The report was written before Nohandsgamers’ Egg Warrior took off. It’ll certainly appear next week. Thanks for reading
Totem Shaman definitely would have made it In, but this report was written before it exploded in popularity. Next week will be a different story. Hard to keep up with the meta right now!
No problem, Horus, my pleasure.
Whoops!
Thanks, Thirler! Will do.
I know! It’s gone by so quickly.
I think it's great fun.
Shu’ma should work out fine, both as a quest activator and mid-game threat after quest completion. Most people seem to prefer Flark, but i don’t think you’ll experience much of a decrease in winrate. Shu’ma’s also a better draw before quest completion, because you can use the tokens it generates. Prior to quest completion, Flark fills your board with unusable bombs (outside of a Magnetic play with Sn1p or Zilliax). As other commenters have said, Leeroy / Unleash is the key to this deck.
I can only agree with Demon’s sentiments. I write the Hearthstone Standard Meta Report every week and it’s been a wonderful experience so far.
GO FOR IT
Writing about the game you love is exciting, fulfilling and fun, but most important, it deepens your knowledge of the game to an almost extreme degree. I now feel like a true, contributing member of the Hearthstone / card game community, which is a real blessing for a loner like myself. Plus, everyone at outof.cards is a joy to work with.
Thanks so much!
Yep. Thanks for the catch.
No, we're talking about the same Face Hunter.
My point was that, at Legend, in the aggregate, Face Hunter is actually negative against both Galakrond Rogue (48.7% winrate over 3,700 games) and Highlander Galakrond Rogue (47.9% winrate over 1,700 games).
Thus, "both Galakrond Rogue and Highlander Galakrond Rogue have displayed sufficient strength to consistently beat Face Hunter."
Obviously, different variations on the archetype will have different success rates against Rogue (our featured build, for example, is 66% over 100 Legend matches against Highlander Galakrond Rogue), but that doesn't change the fact that Face Hunter, as it's currently played at Legend (ie sub-optimally), has struggled against Valeera.
No problem, Fantasy! Thanks for reading!
This opens insane design space.
Thanks, guys! That means a lot to me.
Just a note. It doesn’t seem like anything specifically Hearthstone-related is happening on the Mythic Stage, so no free access to those panels.