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rocketkiwi wrote: I'm Dom#1815 if anyone needs a pack for spectating and catches me early in an arena run (past two wins I make no promises).

Ha. No worries. Since GvG, Arena has been so volatile that it's easy to crash and burn after 2 wins. I've done it a few times with what I thought were solid decks. The weird thing about Arena right now is that there are still cards that are more valued than others (many of them also in Constructed) but I've seen so many people make solid, successive turns with "bad" cards that I'm starting to really rethink the current tiers. Trump had/has the same problem. People tended to follow his assessment of Arena cards through Naxx, but when the randomness of GvG came down, it took him a while to recover and he had to do serious reassessments of several cards. (Of course, like many players, Trump is also prone to caution over exuberance; he didn't think either Dr. Boom or Imp Gang Boss (to give two recent examples from GvG and BRM, respectively) were going to be that good, either.)

stormseeker#1533 if you want to add me. I've sent a bunch of friend requests to you jabronies.

Jackwraith wrote:

rocketkiwi wrote: I'm Dom#1815 if anyone needs a pack for spectating and catches me early in an arena run (past two wins I make no promises).

Ha. No worries. Since GvG, Arena has been so volatile that it's easy to crash and burn after 2 wins. I've done it a few times with what I thought were solid decks. The weird thing about Arena right now is that there are still cards that are more valued than others (many of them also in Constructed) but I've seen so many people make solid, successive turns with "bad" cards that I'm starting to really rethink the current tiers. Trump had/has the same problem. People tended to follow his assessment of Arena cards through Naxx, but when the randomness of GvG came down, it took him a while to recover and he had to do serious reassessments of several cards. (Of course, like many players, Trump is also prone to caution over exuberance; he didn't think either Dr. Boom or Imp Gang Boss (to give two recent examples from GvG and BRM, respectively) were going to be that good, either.)

I can forgive Trump the Dr. Boom assessment, because he evaluated it based on limited information--at the time all we had was the text, "Battlecry: Summon two 1/1 Boombots. CAUTION: Boombots may explode." It turns out that means, "Battlecry: Summon two 1/1 Boombot Mechs with Deathrattle: Deal 1-4 damage to a random enemy." The first card could be shit. The second card is the best card in the game. Imp Gang Boss is a gaffe, though, that card is sick and Warlock's 3-drops were woeful heretofore. Warlock getting more demons and pings is a rough go for everyone else.

I again drafted a Mage deck with no Flamestrikes. Or Fireballs. Or Frostbolts this time, because, really who needs direct dama--I went 2-3. Got shredded by two Warlocks this morning. I got the game back in hand against the last one, but he Shadowflamed (for 5) my 4/5 Darkscale Healer, 8/5 Taunted Stalking Tiger, 3/4 Water Elemental, and 4/3 Houndmaster and proceeded to mess up my face area with his 8/5 Floating Watcher. I dodged Hellfire, though! Woo!

I expect to see you with cupcake cardbacks this month.

jeb wrote: I can forgive Trump the Dr. Boom assessment, because he evaluated it based on limited information--at the time all we had was the text, "Battlecry: Summon two 1/1 Boombots. CAUTION: Boombots may explode." It turns out that means, "Battlecry: Summon two 1/1 Boombot Mechs with Deathrattle: Deal 1-4 damage to a random enemy." The first card could be shit. The second card is the best card in the game.

Yeah. That's a good point. You're right. I forgot that the Boom Bots weren't detailed.

jeb wrote: Imp Gang Boss is a gaffe, though, that card is sick and Warlock's 3-drops were woeful heretofore. Warlock getting more demons and pings is a rough go for everyone else.

Definitely. I couldn't understand that one. IGB is the perfect three drop for Warlocks (and even survives Hellfire!) I have to say, though, that I've been having ridiculous fun the last couple days (including at 3 AM this morning; thanks, insomnia!) with a Mage Waker deck. My opponent got the low roll on Imp-losion this morning and only got 2 Imps (which was still enough to kill my Apprentice, of course), both of which were promptly shot by my Waker when I tossed an Arcane Intellect on the next turn...

jeb wrote: I expect to see you with cupcake cardbacks this month.

Denied. I'm rockin' the pirate flag until next month when the ninjas take over. Goblins? Gnomes? Pfft. Pirates vs Ninjas!

Also, in today's version of Hearthstone Luck to the Nth Degree: I have some gold built up, since I haven't been buying packs recently since I have most of the cards I want. But I've been thinking about some Rogue control decks and a key card is Trade Prince Gallywix, since he slows down the likelihood of things like Flamestrike and Hellfire and direct damage ("Fireball? Thanks! It's coming right back next turn along with my comboed Eviscerate! Let's race!") Plus he's immune to BGH and still has the fat ass of KT (and now Chromaggus.) So, I bought three packs of GvG. 1st had a Quartermaster (dust; already have 2). 2nd was the standard 1 Rare pack. The 2nd card of the 3rd exploded with the legendary ring of fire... Woo hoo!... Trade Prince Gallywix. Sometimes you actually do get what you "pay" for.

Imp Gang Boss, would you fucking kindly fuck right the fuck off? At least until I have two, then come back and let's make friends.

I'm totally cupcaked up, I love it. I love cupcakes, I have some cupcake paintings in my kitchen. I'm sure the hardcore nerd-ass "axes and fire" set don't go in for it, but I thought they were cute.

How in the world was I even able to play this game before crafting two Ironbeak Owls? Those little bastards have been- no shit- gamewinners since I put them in my Priest deck.

Yep. Rarely will you find any kind of deck these days without at least one Owl (Shaman, once again, being the exception because they have Earth Shock; Priest has Silence and Mass Silence, but neither are played very often for a variety of reason (mostly because they don't get you a minion with your silence.)) They're just too useful to be ignored. If that Warlock had had one this morning, my Waker would have been either long dead or reduced to a plain, old 2/4.

jeb wrote: . I got the game back in hand against the last one, but he Shadowflamed (for 5) my 4/5 Darkscale Healer, 8/5 Taunted Stalking Tiger, 3/4 Water Elemental, and 4/3 Houndmaster and proceeded to mess up my face area with his 8/5 Floating Watcher.

I had something similar happen, except I played Deathwing and smashed his face in.

Did my second arena run and went 3-3 so I felt better. I lost 3 in a row the first one. I'm getting better.

This is a really interesting game. you're playing chicken quite a bit as you try to pull cards out of your opponents hands. It's not as simple as it looks. I'm starting to really like it.

New personal arena best: www.heartharena.com/arena-run/ho1d65

Getting used to having three mage losses being a thing, but at least this time I was a mage too.

Highlight was the rogue adding me. I accepted because I thought it was one of you guys. He was very angry because I played an unstable portaled Piloted Sky Golem on Turn 3 and then my actual Piloted Sky Golem on Turn 6.

Was bummed about not getting 11 because I misplayed the last game, leaving a guy on the board who could be enraged with a ping to go face with Deathwing when I was at 9 hp, so he pinged it and then hit me in the face with that and a Cult Master. Still, 355 gold makes up for a lot. That's two and a third more Arena runs!

Jackwraith wrote: Yep. Rarely will you find any kind of deck these days without at least one Owl (Shaman, once again, being the exception because they have Earth Shock; Priest has Silence and Mass Silence, but neither are played very often for a variety of reason (mostly because they don't get you a minion with your silence.)) They're just too useful to be ignored. If that Warlock had had one this morning, my Waker would have been either long dead or reduced to a plain, old 2/4.

Rocking the Hex over here. Earth Shock is not good against high-powered fatties.

Laddering with some jaaaaank so far. Trying to make Resurrect work. It... it is not so good. The card is great, but the deck you have to make to get the most from it is kind of shitty. I need some more early-to-mid control cards for Priest that don't involve shitty minions dying on my side of the board (cf. Shadow Madness, Piloted Shredder). I have Holy Smite, I have SW: Pain. ...Then a gap to Holy Nova, Senjin, Nullifier. The creature curve starts with Dark Cultist, but he gets handled. Deathord maybe? Doesn't that backfire spectacularly? Injured Blademaster would be good, but those cost dust and I am saving.