It’s a well established way to play in MTG, Pauper formats.
The problem, though, is that it’s likely to be varying shades of midrange and aggro. I don’t know if I want the new player experience to be boringsville minion bashing. And it’s not like experienced players won’t win anyway, experienced players can take midrange hunter to Legend. So all these new players will just lose in another ladder, in the most boring way possible.
I mean, as a new player, sure you don’t get to play the cool cards, but back when I started, there were few things as awesome as watching Rag get played on the board. WHAM, that was cool to watch. And when I crafted my own Rag? That was real satisfying.
Unpacked a golden Baron Geddon last night. Any competitive decks use him anymore? Or any other reason to keep him? Otherwise I think I’m gonna turn him into a Prince Kelseth for that warlock deck.
I’m a little hesitant about dusting classic legendaries that will always stay in rotation for ones that will rotate out.
Yeah, I have him in my elemental Frost Lich Jaina deck. Not a great great deck, but reasonably competitive. Definitely not a card you should dust either way.
Of course, I would never dust a legendary that wasn’t a duplicate. You just never know. Even Millhouse, often thought of as one of the, if not the worst legendary, has been played in competitive decks lately.
I don’t usually dust legendaries (although I do dust the really bad ones), but he’s golden which means it’s basically a wildcard - I can recraft him into any legendary I want without losing anything (except the golden cosmetic)
I would absolutely dust a golden Baron, he’s not THAT good. He’s been in what, wallet warrior back in classic, and fringe in DK Jaina, and that’s it. I don’t believe he’ll ever be good.
That said, I would hold on the dust button until you actually have a legendary you want. If you like tempo decks, consider Keleseth.
Personally, I would just hold it until next expansion. I’m holding on to my extra cards and gold until the next expansion myself. Crafted Lich King and Keleseth this exp, and between the two I’m getting a lot more out of Keleseth. Oh, and DK Valeera. I lucked out by unpacking DK Guldan, but other than those I personally don’t want any more KFT cards.
Ok, so I had a DK Garrosh lying around, and some extra cards to dust, so I decided to craft up the dead man’s hand fatigue warrior.
MY God this deck is hard to pilot. You have to craft your deck essentially on the fly - envision what cards you will need at the end of the game to “make your deck” before you DMH, if you spend what you need before you DMH you won’t have it when the time comes, and thats a loss. Which cards to burn so that you don’t end up with 6 Razors cluttering up your hand (did that a few times), how to navigate through aggro decks, when to Dirty Rat and when to Bring it on…
So earlier this month I got sick of WWR (Walking War Robots aka War Robots) and their blatant disregard for player satisfaction, so I re-installed Hearthstone (I uninstalled in April, with the Un’Goro release.) I quickly remembered one of the reasons why I left: fun, interactive decks like Freeze Mage (now replaced with Exodia Mage and Razakus Lyra Priest) and stupidly OP cards dominating the meta. Bonemare and Scalebane wrecked me several times in Arena and in constructed along with the completely retarded Ultimate Infestation, and I wasn’t able to create too many of the new meta decks (I dusted enough stuff to do Big Priest, DK Demon Warlock, and what I hoped would be a fun meme deck in Treachery Warlock but mostly ended up being me getting my ass kicked and rarely pulling off the combo.
I watched the card reveal threads on Reddit and just saw the biggest WTF ever: To My Side! for Hunter. It’s bad card that becomes mediocre IF YOU DON’T RUN ANY MINIONS IN YOUR DECK. For Hunter. Sure, Yogg hunter was a thing for a while, but part of that was just stalling until you got a game-altering effect. 2 Animal Companions for 6 mana is not game altering. Hell, I wouldn’t run that condition to get all three animal companions for 6 mana in Hunter…
Anyhow, I uninstalled it before even looking at my season rewards (I made it to rank 12, yay me.)
I think the best contrast to To My Side is Psychic Scream. Priest, the most dominant class in the game, gets an incredibly potent epic that’s entirely on-point with what the class wants to do. Hunter, a dumpster tier class, gets a pathetically weak spell that isn’t even good in an archetype that doesn’t exist yet.
On the insanely good luck side of things I opened 15 packs today and got 3 legendaries one of which was a Golden. Hopefully at least one of them is worth building a deck around but at first glance, it doesn’t look like it.
By the way, has anyone seen a good write up of what the new terms mean?
I bought the pre-order, and had enough gold for about 40+ packs.
Pulled the following Legendaries:
(Druid) Twig of the World Tree;
(Hunter) Rhok’delar;
(Rogue) Kingsbane, Sonya;
(Warrior) Woecleaver;
(Neutral) The Darkness.
Not too bad, I was only really looking for Kingsbane and Sonya anyway. I might not even craft the remaining legendaries, we’ll see.
The deck I’m actually excited to run now is Jade Rogue (AGAIN!) before it rotates out next expansion, sadly… Carnivorous Cube is pretty good, and the deathrattle density is getting high enough that Roll the Bones is real card draw. More survivability with Plated Beetle too. For some reason, I didn’t draw a single copy of the Rogue secret Evasion. >.>
So I ended up with four legendary weapons - twig (druid), aluneth (mage), dragon soul (priest) - and then the shaman one. My two legendary dudes were both meme/troll guys - the priest legendary time walk guy and the trade your deck guy. I’m trying to talk myself out of spending 4,000 dust to make one-turn-kill exodia elemental shaman.
Is anyone having a problem getting new quests? I hadn’t logged in for 2-3 days before the expansion and had zero quests in my queue until I got the expansion quest the next day. Now another midnight has gone by and still no new quest - just the expansion one.
I’m getting wrecked by no minion hunters. Granted my deck isn’t top tier and it’s not because of To My Side, but that deck is legit. They get plenty of minions from spells and secrets. And they do it with incredible value. I think I’m pulling an 0-5 since hte expansion against them.
Logging out and relogging fixes this.
I’m actually liking the dungeon runs more than I thought I would. The deck building/deck bonus aspect with the randomized bosses keeps it interesting.
Is this expansion a big nerf to weapons-based classes? If all classes will be running those legendary weapons, then all sorts of weapon destroying minions will be in play. They even created a new swamp ooze minion. So it seems like the classes that rely on weapons as part of their normal gameplay will be disproportionately hurt.
Is it worth crafting Harrison Jones now because of the increased weapons play?
