June 18th, 2014, 08:06
(This post was last modified: June 18th, 2014, 10:15 by Yell0w.)
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Uhh, I just thought about opening a hearthstone thread asking if someone else plays it and to fill my friends list. And see here 116 pages Oo
EDIT: well I'd like to add you to my fl but I don't really know how to find you my name is Yell0w there as well
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Yuck, I just blew a wonderful hunter arena. Had 2 each of Unleash, Buzzard, Scavenging Hyena, and Scar, and a whole lot of cheap utility to go with it. Went 8-0 before losing 3 straight.
Wish I would have captured the deck list. I won two games just by coining Fairy Dragon turn 1, Snake Trap turn 2, and then Hyena turn 3 along with sacking the snakes into his 3rd turn creature. But yeah, after losing the first I just went stupid and starting making bad plays. 
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Got an interesting warlock draft, I was worried about the bad 2 and 3 drops as the mana curve looks really ugly, but synergy was really strong here. Having board control via 1 drops allowed really good setups for the Questing Adventurer, Frostwolf Warlord and Stormwind Champion in the midgame
0 - soulfire
1 - abusive sergeant, argent squire, flame imp (3), voidwalker, worgen infiltrator
2 - bloodfen raptor, bloodsail raider, river croc
3 - acolyte of pain, coldlight seer, questing adventurer, razorfen hunter
4 - dark iron dwarf (2), defender of argus, ogre magi, senjin, spellbreaker
5 - doomguard, fen creeper, frostwolf warlord, stampeding kodo
7 - ravenholdt assassin, stormwind champion
20 - molten giant
Surprisingly, this actually went 12-1 despite lots of mages and druids, and often having to lifetap on turn 2 or 3. I even beat the dreaded t1 Yeti. Molten giant never did anything, but the ogre magi - soulfire mini combo did some nice work on 5 hp creatures. And having an actual high end to a zoo style deck turned out to make it a lot more resilient to AOEs in arena. Flamestrike on turn 7 comes too late and I could always force them to fire it then reload.
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I only get 28 cards there uberish.
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Probably 1 mortal coil and another worgen infiltrator missing. Flame imp is crazy, you can lifetap + flame imp on turn 3 if necessary and it'll still trade like a 3 drop...
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I think Flame Imp is nice but only so-so after the first 2-3 turns since it ends up being 3 damage to yourself AOE bait.
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Yeah flame imp is pretty bad if it gets to a late game even board topdeck war. If you draft a lot of 1's though, it's generally over if you lose control in the lategame.
Also, picked up the opposite style of play to the warlock deck. I know people say druid depends on how many swipes you get but I didn't have any Swipes, Wraths or Druids of the Claw offered and went 12-1 with this list:
1 - claw, elven archer, worgen infiltrator
2 - power of the wild, wild growth, bloodfen raptor x2, bloodsail raider, novice engineer
3 - flesheating ghoul, harvest golem x2, ironforge rifleman, ironfur grizzly, shattered sun cleric
4 - bite, chillwind yeti, cult master, keeper of the grove, spellbreaker
5 - nourish, silver hand knight x2
6 - force of nature, ogre, argent commander
7 - ancient of war
8 - ironbark protector x2
10 - sea giant
the three 1-drops did lots of good work smoothing out draws and being played with the 1 leftover mana you sometimes have. Hero power + 1-drop turn 3 is useful to have available, or 3-drop + 1-drop turn 4 when you don't have solid 4's. I think they are slightly underrated in draft lists.
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(June 28th, 2014, 18:55)uberfish Wrote: the three 1-drops did lots of good work smoothing out draws and being played with the 1 leftover mana you sometimes have. Hero power + 1-drop turn 3 is useful to have available, or 3-drop + 1-drop turn 4 when you don't have solid 4's. I think they are slightly underrated in draft lists.
I agree with this. I'm by no means a great arena player but from my experience you waste a ton of mana in arena typically and 1-drops are really key in helping balance this. Plus, since tempo swings are so frequent in arena, having more stuff to play the turn after a skillstrike or similar can really decide the game. I think its easy to get caught up in "value" but you really have to think about a good deck over simply the raw power of the cards.
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The problems with 1s is while they are good at filling out a curve/sapping a 2 mana ability, you lose too much card advantage. Also your late game kinda suffers.
Uberfish's deck reminds me of the one I got 12-2 on. Nothing fancy, just a lack of terrible cards with strong midgame and decent end game (1 golem in my case was enough since RNG didn't seem to be giving anyone I ran into any good late game drops. I honestly, I think the key to arena is to have enough high HP minions that are immune to board clear that can muscle their way to card advantage and there for victory.
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Card advantage is overrated because it doesn't do you any good to have 3 more cards if you keep having to play minions into enemy board control, you'll lose those cards back since all trades favour them. With that druid I had 2 1-drops and a claw, often went 1 for 2 with them and still never ran out of cards. I also think 1-of naturalize is very underrated - it's the most powerful tempo card in the game, can completely flip board control and fills a large hole in Druid capabilities.
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