Hearthstone #7 - Knights of the Frozen Throne

[PK Cronin]

Warrior is a tricky one, but two strats that worked really well for me are Dragon Warrior + Summoning Scepter and Enrage Warrior + Stealth. The first one outvalues most decks and the second one rushes opponents down quickly.

I finally did it! 248 bosses later, I did it! Then I played Warlock 1 time and won.

Dungeon runs man...

 

[Wild11MN]

Does anyone else think Spreading Plague is the most BS card ever? Even after the bump to 6 mana. I'm all for anti-aggro cards, but this card is straight up ridiculous.

Yes, there's a massive downside in control match-ups, but while playing arena, the text on this card basically says "Battlecry: Your opponent concedes shortly". It can easily be 20-30 health via taunt, and you can't even silence it because there's a whole bunch of them.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Dunno about arena, but Spreading Plague is the only thing keeping Druid afloat at the moment. Without that card, any aggressive/Mid-range deck will demolish Druid.

Especially with Aggro/Dude Paladin being extremely popular in the meta at the moment.

 

[LightningStrikes]

Re thread title: Isn't it Kobolds already?

 

[WarriorOfGandhi]

I had a Yogg priest get cataclysm with a full hand and a board full of minions

felt pretty good, man

 

[Seb]

Next expansion has been teased along with 6 cards but no dates yet.

2 new keywords and the solo adventure is going to be another dungeon run but with 4 new unique classes.

I've been having a lot of success and fun lately with my DK hunter deck in wild. If you don't have this DK yet I highly recommend you to craft it, it's the one I have the most fun with. Even tho I hate playing against cancer Cubelock, I've beaten a great many of them. Here's the list :

### DK
# Class: Hunter
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Alleycat
# 2x (1) Jeweled Macaw
# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze
# 2x (2) Crackling Razormaw
# 2x (2) King's Elekk
# 2x (3) Animal Companion
# 2x (3) Bearshark
# 2x (3) Deadly Shot
# 2x (3) Ironbeak Owl
# 2x (3) Kill Command
# 2x (4) Flanking Strike
# 2x (4) Houndmaster
# 1x (5) Knuckles
# 2x (5) Tundra Rhino
# 1x (6) Deathstalker Rexxar
# 2x (6) Savannah Highmane
# 1x (10) Deathwing
#
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#

 

[LightningStrikes]

The expansion is expected to launch mid April: The Witchwood is Hearthstone's Next Expansion

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Togwaggle + Double Tracking.

Mill Hunter. Fear it.

 

[Frankie Spankie]

I got so sick of running into pretty much nothing but cubelocks that I made this deck:

### f*** Cubelocks
# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Ice Lance
# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 2x (2) Dirty Rat
# 2x (2) Frostbolt
# 2x (2) Primordial Glyph
# 2x (3) Ice Block
# 2x (3) Polymorph: Boar
# 2x (3) Potion of Polymorph
# 1x (3) Tinkmaster Overspark
# 2x (4) Fireball
# 2x (4) Polymorph
# 2x (4) Water Elemental
# 2x (6) Blizzard
# 1x (6) Skulking Geist
# 1x (7) Baron Geddon
# 1x (8) Anomalus
# 1x (8) Sindragosa
# 1x (9) Frost Lich Jaina
#
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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

I'm rank 10 and have 0 stars so figured I don't have anything to lose at this point. I just concede every game I don't play a warlock right away. Every demon my opponent plays, I just polymorph it and run potion of polymorphs later in the game. It's hilarious playing a counter to one particular deck that you keep seeing. They all make the same obvious play that you can counter it so easily. You don't even need a win condition because they all just concede once they realize their Guldan isn't going to summon anything.

 

[LightningStrikes]

I got so sick of running into pretty much nothing but cubelocks that I made this deck:

### **** Cubelocks
# Class: Mage
# Format: Wild
#
# 2x (1) Ice Lance
# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze
# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos
# 2x (2) Dirty Rat
# 2x (2) Frostbolt
# 2x (2) Primordial Glyph
# 2x (3) Ice Block
# 2x (3) Polymorph: Boar
# 2x (3) Potion of Polymorph
# 1x (3) Tinkmaster Overspark
# 2x (4) Fireball
# 2x (4) Polymorph
# 2x (4) Water Elemental
# 2x (6) Blizzard
# 1x (6) Skulking Geist
# 1x (7) Baron Geddon
# 1x (8) Anomalus
# 1x (8) Sindragosa
# 1x (9) Frost Lich Jaina
#
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#
# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

I'm rank 10 and have 0 stars so figured I don't have anything to lose at this point. I just concede every game I don't play a warlock right away. Every demon my opponent plays, I just polymorph it and run potion of polymorphs later in the game. It's hilarious playing a counter to one particular deck that you keep seeing. They all make the same obvious play that you can counter it so easily. You don't even need a win condition because they all just concede once they realize their Guldan isn't going to summon anything.

This deck wrecks Cubelock and Controllock, you should give it a try. Basically you steal steal their Lords and Cubes and beat them with their own weapons.

 

[Hammettf2b]

Been having to a lot of fun with my version of Secret Mage.

1x Kabal Lackey
2x Mana Wyrm
2x Arcanologist
2x Frostbolt
2x Medivh's Valet
2x Primordial Glyph
1x Sorcerer's Apprentice
1x Arcane Intellect
2x Counter Spell
2x Explosive Runes
1x Ice Block
2x Kirin Tor Mage
1x Potion of Polymorph
2x Volcanic Potion
2x Fireball
1x Aluneth
2x Kabal Crystal Runner
1x King Togwaggle
1x Medivh, the Gaurdian


Its a little better against Aggro than the normal secret mage and Togwaggle + Medivh gives you an out when you hit fatigue. Its really nice when you have a counter spell up as well.

 

[LightningStrikes]

A couple of new cards for the next expansion have been released by Blizz:

 

[LightningStrikes]

Been having to a lot of fun with my version of Secret Mage.

1x Kabal Lackey
2x Mana Wyrm
2x Arcanologist
2x Frostbolt
2x Medivh's Valet
2x Primordial Glyph
1x Sorcerer's Apprentice
1x Arcane Intellect
2x Counter Spell
2x Explosive Runes
1x Ice Block
2x Kirin Tor Mage
1x Potion of Polymorph
2x Volcanic Potion
2x Fireball
1x Aluneth
2x Kabal Crystal Runner
1x King Togwaggle
1x Medivh, the Gaurdian


Its a little better against Aggro than the normal secret mage and Togwaggle + Medivh gives you an out when you hit fatigue. Its really nice when you have a counter spell up as well.

Secret Mage is such a bummer to play against. I love the more control oriented deck types and nothing is worse than getting Counterspelled without the Coin on turns 4+. It's always such a devastating tempo loss you could and should concede right away. Honestly Counterspell is such a powerful card, right now more than ever (with Lackey and Kirin Tor letting the Mage play it without losing tempo), I mean you see a lot of critique for Ice Block but CS is much worse for the game right now IMO.

 

[firewagonHOCKEY]

That new paladin spell.. It is pretty OP if used intelligently.

 

[The Noot]

That new paladin spell.. It is pretty OP if used intelligently.

Loatheb without the 5/5. Seems good to me.

Lord Godfrey, on the other hand, seems REALLY busted. Defile on steroids with a 4/4 attached to it.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Eh, Lotheb was good because it gave a 5/5 body along with the effect. The effect is OK, but not nearly as strong without the body.

 

[firewagonHOCKEY]

EEy, you never played loatheb unless you wanted to counter something the next turn like fostnova ,doomsayer. This is super cheap for 2 mana for the same effect. Aggro pally will love this. No hellfire or defile allowed. No swipe , spell hunter is just no, you don't get to play. And you get 2 of them. Talk about tempo!

 

[The Noot]

Eh, Lotheb was good because it gave a 5/5 body along with the effect. The effect is OK, but not nearly as strong without the body.

Aggro decks still love this. As soon as they run out of steam, they can lock out most Control decks for another turn with Rebuke, which very likely could be just enough time for them to finish off their opponent.

Turn 6 Call to Arms into Rebuke might be an absolute pain to handle for any control deck that does not have Defile ready in its hand.

It's nowhere close to being as good as Loatheb in Midrange decks, though.

 

[firewagonHOCKEY]

I think turn 10 dropping lich king and rebuke will be pretty sweet .

 

[LightningStrikes]

That new paladin spell.. It is pretty OP if used intelligently.

I like cards like these. They force you to think about when to play them. Unlike all the brainless tempo and aggro decks. Play on curve, succeed, repeat. Boring.

Unfortunately it's terribly hard to rank up with "makes you think" control-ish decks right now. I have switched to Murloc Paladin at rank 12, now I'm at rank 6 with a stupidly lopsided win rate of 80%+.

 

[firewagonHOCKEY]

It is always a hard decision to decide when to drop cold light seer , to be greedy and get more murlocs or to boost the 1 or 2 on that are in play

 

[LightningStrikes]

It is always a hard decision to decide when to drop cold light seer , to be greedy and get more murlocs or to boost the 1 or 2 on that are in play

Well it's true that you have to decide on when to go "all in" and pressure for lethal or when to play safe and avoid a big board clear or other tempo swings in your opponent's favor like Spreading Plague. Same for when to trade and when to go face ("if I go face right now I might have lethal in two turns because of cards x and y in my hand and opponent already played counter card z once so he has a 1/20 chance to draw it again...").

Still that's not too hard compared to let's say OTK Quest Cube Combo Druid or Big Spell Kazakus Mage or even DMH Warrior or Kingsbane Rogue.

 

[Blueline Bomber]

Cheaper neutral Velen. Because why not?

Although it does lead to some broken stuff. Ever want a 6 damage Hunter Hero Power? How about 16 from Quest Warrior? Or Guldan dealing 6 and healing 12?

 

[LightningStrikes]

Inspire is gone but yet they decide to push hero powers again? Wild is going to be interesting.

Warrior got an insane card IMO:

And look at that card art :

 

[firewagonHOCKEY]

That warrior card is meh. Like a Boogey Monster. Coffin Carsher is good in Big priest and I hate it. Obsidian statues after Obsidian statues.