It’s just not that powerful of a card compared with the rest of the meta. 5/5 for 0 sounds great, but when people are using Barnes to summon Y’Shaarj which pulls the real Y’Shaarj, then it doesn’t look so good. As an example, I just played a game where a Warlock had a Void Lord on the board, and then played Spirit Singer Umbra and a Carniverous Cube. That got him an additional two Voidlords and the Cube had a summon two Voidlords death rattle. On my side, I used Mind Control to steal that Cube (which lead to 2 Voidlords), had my own Voidlord from a Faceless Manipulator, and had my my Spiteful Summoner highroll into Deathwing, Dragonlord. Oh yeah, and my Bone Drake highrolled into Deathwing. After he used a twisting nether to clear the board, it pulled Deathwing from my hand and a couple other dragons, and I won on the next turn. In a game like that, dropping a 5/5 for 0 hardly makes a difference.
In the tier 1 list, only one deck uses Corridor Creeper.
It’s just not that powerful of a card compared with the rest of the meta. 5/5 for 0 sounds great, but when people are using Barnes to summon Y’Shaarj which pulls the real Y’Shaarj, then it doesn’t look so good. As an example, I just played a game where a Warlock had a Void Lord on the board, and then played Spirit Singer Umbra and a Carniverous Cube. That got him an additional two Voidlords and the Cube had a summon two Voidlords death rattle. On my side, I used Mind Control to steal that Cube (which lead to 2 Voidlords), had my own Voidlord from a Faceless Manipulator, and had my my Spiteful Summoner highroll into Deathwing, Dragonlord. Oh yeah, and my Bone Drake highrolled into Deathwing. After he used a twisting nether to clear the board, it pulled Deathwing from my hand and a couple other dragons, and I won on the next turn. In a game like that, dropping a 5/5 for 0 hardly makes a difference.
In the tier 1 list, only one deck uses Corridor Creeper.
I mean, it’s easy to talk about end game high mana combos like that, but creeper on turn 3 wins just as many, if not more games than carnivorous cube shenanigans on turn 9. The best tempo lists will surely have it, and then it’ll just depend on whether the meta is conducive enough to have a tempo/aggro deck be good in the meta, or if we’re headed for a control/combo meta.
So I have a bunch of Warlock quests, so I decided, “Okay, let’s check out that Cubelock deck”. Then I looked at what I needed. Now, I have a pretty sizeable collection. But I was missing 10 cards, all of them legendary or epic. The deck runs four legendaries, of which exactly one is good for basically any other deck (the death knight).
Looking at the top decks on Tempostorm, the lists have insane prices. 12k dust for Razakus priest. 10k dust for Cubelock. 7.7k dust for aggro paladin (remember when you could make a decent face hunter deck for under a thousand?)… Tempor rogue is nearly 10k, and Murloc Paladin is relatively cheap at just under 7k dust. The first deck on the list is Spiteful Dragon Priest, which costs 3.2k dust. Still pricy, just not completely insane. This is getting crazy.
Wallet Warrior would feel pretty average if not a bit cheap these days.
Surprised to see the meta cube lock deck doesn’t use N’zoth. Just not enough deathrattles to be worth it? But if you’re resummoning the voidwhatever a bunch, couldn’t you get like 4+ of them with an n’zoth? Seems like it’d be worth a slot.
I finally won dungeon runs for all 9 classes. It’s pretty fun to steamroller over the PvE bosses using cheesy builds they have no counter for, until you run into a boss who steamrollers you using a cheesy build you have no counter for.
Yeah my most recent dungeon run, i was rolling through everyone right up until I hit the boss that has the HP to do +1/+1 to all his cheap minions and the board was snowballed on me before i could could even play a card from my hand
Prince Keleseth, shadowstep, backstab, backstab, Sonya Shadowdancer
Played shadowdancer. Next turn played Keleseth, shadowstep, Keleseth again, then I backstabbed him, which gave me a 1 mana 1/1 Keleseth, played that, then backstabbed him again, played him again. Oh if only I had another shadowstep. Instant concede.
So after a few dozen games of tempo rogue, I have mathematically determined the chance of being able to play Keleseth before turn 8 or so, you know, when it matters, is roughly 4%.
They’re changing the ranked system away from complete monthly resets - still will be some but significantly less re-grind - scattered info here.. Instead of being reset, I guess you drop 4 ranks, but each rank has 5 stars now. Sounds like less monthly re-grind.
I’m likely a bit late to the discussion, but is it just me or is that Bloodreaver Gul’dan card a killer. I haven’t played a single Warlock deck that doesn’t have it (of the ones I’ve seen). It not only has N’Zoth’s power, but it also creates a new hero power that more than overcomes any deficit that it’s original power created, so there is no penalty at all to drawing cards. And the new hero power can be an amazing +/- 6 swing in health on every turn. I’ve played against Mage decks without Jaina, I’ve played against Hunter decks without Rexxar, Priests without Anduin. But Gul’dan is something else.
