The Popular and the Powerful - Iksar Gives an Update on the Hearthstone Standard Meta

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  Chester 100 13 Posts Joined 05/31/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Is there any card to replace halazzi in quest hunter? Only missing that one and dont feel like crafting it.

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  Meenz 335 150 Posts Joined 06/17/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Quote From Chester

  Is there any card to replace halazzi in quest hunter? Only missing that one and dont feel like crafting it.

  I felt exactly the same. Replaced it with a scavenging hyena. I also played shuma instead of flark. Got to legend for the first time with it, but that was just before embiggen druid hit the scene 

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  dapperdog Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  I played without it, its not really necessary to have him. Surprised that there's no Shu'ma in that list.

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  Xarkkal Servant of Illidan 910 1321 Posts Joined 03/29/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Agreed Shu'ma is ridiculous in quest hunter. I love dropping that bad boy on 7. Which is funny, because I was so disappointed when I unpacked that card, yet now I'm so happy when I draw it! 

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  KANSAS Old God Fanatic 1745 2912 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  I am very confused about those two copies of Injured Tol'vir in the embiggen druid list. What are they for? According to HSreplay.net (and I am fairly sure I am reading the data right) the decks win rate goes down when you play them. They don't have synergy with anything in the list. Almost any 2-drop would be better. I took them out of my deck and replaced them with Rising Winds

  Also, I have all of the cards for the Highlander Hunter except for Dragonbane, and Subject 9 for the secret deck, and [Hearthstone Card (storm hammer) Not Found] for the dragon one. Are these cards replaceable?

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  mada 75 4 Posts Joined 12/26/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  You can play highlander Hunter without those. You may hav to try a different approach for the secret package cutting all the secrets except for rat and snakes, cutting also secretist and leaving only stalker. The mech is replazable by any card you like.

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  dapperdog Dragon Scholar 1890 5610 Posts Joined 07/29/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Injured Tol'vir is a vanilla 2 drop with taunt when played (the 'taunt' is not to be underestimated) but an overstated 2 drop when drawn with Strength in Numbers. Embiggen decks are curve decks at heart, so its not always possible to skip turn 2 without problems, especially against aggro decks. That's where having a 2 drop with taunt comes in handy.

  As for highlander hunter, from my own experience, Subject 9's win rate is high enough that its not easy to play the deck without that card and expect the same results. I play without that card myself, but there are many times where drawing the secrets directly seems really bad, especially since highlander hunter doesn't draw well. One way to mitigate that is to play less secrets, but it really comes down to what strat you are going for in deckbuilding.

  Stormhammer is not replaceable in dragon hunter. In fact when you play dragon hunter and don't draw it the deck is basically a mid range deck with lots of dragons that cannot grab tempo back once you lose it. It also pressures the opponent's face (against rogue its almost impossible to win without this). Its just my opinion, but you just can't play dragon hunter without this card.

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  YourPrivateNightmare Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Rising Winds is probably a good choice, however, the main reason for including them is that they are an early minion that's still decent to pull from Strength in Numbers even without an Embiggen buff.

  After the Embiggen buff they still become decent taunts to play.

  Keep in mind that these lists were played before Rising Winds was out so Tol'vir was basically the best possible option until now.

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  MurlocAggroB COMMENT_COUNT_900_HS 1170 933 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Rising Winds screws up Witching Hour. It's no good.

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  YourPrivateNightmare Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  witching hour isn't even played in Embiggen Lists because it's unnecessary.

  Only Wall Druid cares about it and that deck sucks in comparison

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  MurlocAggroB COMMENT_COUNT_900_HS 1170 933 Posts Joined 06/12/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Witching Hour is literally in the list on the article...

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  YourPrivateNightmare Skeleton 2010 4741 Posts Joined 03/25/2019
  Posted 4 years, 9 months ago

  Quote From MurlocAggroB

  Witching Hour is literally in the list on the article...

  and it's a 1-of for a reason. It's basically the flex spot and a terrible topdeck if you haven't played your Guardian yet, at which point there's  a good reason to just replace it with Winds

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