Hearthstone
Bomb warrior mirror match
Alright so today I felt like playing some bomb warrior games. Immediately I got punished because in about 90 minutes I only managed to play three games as two of them were mirror matchups. Oh well, that's what I get for playing a slow deck.
Anyway, long story short, I lost both those mirrors. My question is: what game plan should one approach in the bomb warrior mirror match?
My initial thought was to try and win the fatigue game. Bomb warrior isn't an aggressive deck and has a ton of removal so trying to outrush each other seems like a waste. My gameplan was to hard mulligan for Dr. Boom, Mad Genius and to not play a single draw card. My opponents, on the other hand, hastily played all their Acolyte of Pain and Shield Block. In the end both times their Elysiana was better than mine and despite me being 4-5 cards ahead in fatigue I lost.
So, how should one approach the bomb warrior mirror? Try to rush them down and stuff their deck with bombs ASAP, or take it slow and wait for fatigue?
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Alright so today I felt like playing some bomb warrior games. Immediately I got punished because in about 90 minutes I only managed to play three games as two of them were mirror matchups. Oh well, that's what I get for playing a slow deck.
Anyway, long story short, I lost both those mirrors. My question is: what game plan should one approach in the bomb warrior mirror match?
My initial thought was to try and win the fatigue game. Bomb warrior isn't an aggressive deck and has a ton of removal so trying to outrush each other seems like a waste. My gameplan was to hard mulligan for Dr. Boom, Mad Genius and to not play a single draw card. My opponents, on the other hand, hastily played all their Acolyte of Pain and Shield Block. In the end both times their Elysiana was better than mine and despite me being 4-5 cards ahead in fatigue I lost.
So, how should one approach the bomb warrior mirror? Try to rush them down and stuff their deck with bombs ASAP, or take it slow and wait for fatigue?
Dog thinks it's all about tempo and value from each turn. Guess his opinion should be taken into account? :P
Interesting. So he tries to play as aggressive as possible and get as many bombs shuffled in with Augmented Elekk I'm guessing?
From my experience, Warrior mirror matches (bomb or control) often come down to when each player gets Dr.Boom on board, RNG of his Hero Power, and best use of Drone Delivery.
I have tried using different techniques of when to load my opponent up on bombs, but, to be honest, I'm not 100% sure it matters. Playing that way just gives them more time to build armor, and even if I stick them with every possible bomb, they just eat them.
I have also seen a lot more bomb warriors running Elysiana with the rise of control warrior, and the outcome again seems to fall on Dr. Boom. (and Ely's cards).
Yeah that was the one conclusion I was hoping I wouldn't have to draw from this. Bomb warrior seems like a fun deck to me but to have 14% of my games be decided on nothing more but the amount of times I get delivery drone and how good my Elysiana cards are versus my opponent's doesn't tickle my fancy.