I had some good vibes with a home brew mage reno deck. One game against a quest priest I managed to get Luna's Pocket Galaxy in early and boy is that card good in that deck. Suddenly I could flood his board. He was able to remove 3 of them with his 2 plague cards, some luck he drew them both (awesome animation btw) but by that time my hand was filled with nice 1 mana cards and I could just spam them out to lethal.
O cmon, Paladin? I count 4 guaranteed board clears with Shrink Ray and Equality. And they are supposed to be bad at AOE according to Blizzard's comments on class identities. I mean 4 is a lot more than 0 for a class that should suck at AOE.
Flame Ward only kills stuff <3 health, so no guaranteed board clear. But maybe with some spell power you can turn it into a more reliable board clear, so this one has potential. I am not talking about general AOE, I am talking about "heey, my opponent has this huge board and I need to get rid of all of them right now, otherwise I am dead".
We used to have Dragon's Fury which was a pretty reliable board clear at turn 5. But that one has rotated.
I know mage excels in AOE, but sometimes you need a real board clear. Now the question is, why does mage has no board clear while other classes do. I can create some 2/3 card combo which should clear the board, say a 6 damage to all minions. But his does not clear a board of mountain giants for instance, or one 24/24 mech.
I have been stuck at 299 wins on my Shammy for 4 fucking days!! Can someone please just DC on me so I can hit 300... it's driving me insane being stuck at 299!!
LOL I can help you out no problem. I play on Europe, the name is Zwanezang. Drop me a friend request and I will happily lose with some meme deck against you
Almost every class has a guaranteed board clear, except mage. Why? According to Blizzard, the mage should excel in AOE. Is AOE something different from a guaranteed board clear? I do not understand. Any1 has ideas about this?
I do not understand...why would you craft a golden legendary to ensure your free one is the one you want? Why not then create the one you want directly? If you have the dust for it anyway...I must be missing something here.
Well, any big minion with useful stats can be put to use in a mage deck with the galaxy spell around to make it cost 1-mana. And then, after you used it a bit, a Conjure's call on it will give you 2 fresh 10 mana minions to play around with, AND the reborn one to boot. That's one of the reasons I have been trying to use big minions with useful deathrattles instead of the mountain giant/sea giant. A conjure's calling on a big thing with a deathrattle can give you 3 big minions instead of 2. Value wise that is almost always better. But if you really need that taunt, than the mountain giant is your best bet.
Maybe King Phaoris or Tortollan Pilgrim, althought the number of spells in the deck is rather low. Maybe you should add some more big spells first. And I am sure he would like to put in the Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron in every mage deck :)
Well I also organized my own gathering to open packs and I got some serious number of golden legendaries!! OMG can't wait until tuesday. Only one day away! Almost.
To also have a reasonable 2-drop I added Archmage Arugal and this can lead to some interesting stuff. What happened:
The hunter was happily pounding my face,but I had played the Luna's Pocket Galaxy.
And all of a sudden my Arcane Intellect powered by Archmage Arugal (which he let live for a turn, he was going for lethal) gave me:
2x 1-mana Alexstrasza, 2x 1-mana Archmage Antonidas and then the next turn 2x 0-mana Mountain Giant. I froze his big dude, went up to 15 health, he went down to 15, got myself some fire balls. He was at 7 mana so his 8-mana combo was not yet up...time to concede.
Yes I had that too. The new lackey can already be created. I thought wtf a card I never seen before how can this be. But the new lackeys are already in the pool.
I am also very excited and ready to try out a lot of new cards and decks. I will probably start with mage (since I am a big mage fan) but Priest legendary and the Druid quest also look very interesting. On ladder half of your games will probably still be against Bomb Warrior since that ruines all reno decks and there will always be ppl who try to spoil other ones fun instead of trying to have fun for themselves.
I think you want to combo Naga Sand Witch with King Phaoris, so you make use of your low cost spells as well. Or call it first so your pyroblasts become juicy 10 mana minions.
I think it is impossible to predict the precise impact of this expansion on each class. There are so many options available to every class that I expect it will take a long time before we have a stable meta and all that time warlock can be as good as any other class in my opinion. It still has the best hero power in the game.
And you can combine it with cyclone to get fresh minions AND spells :) Say a turn 5 with SA on bord, you play this, all your zero cost one mana spells and cyclone and get a full hand of random aweseomeness.
Well first off I am a mage fan so I will not say anything bad about conjurer's calling, but lets summarize:
1. Your first 4 turns are weak since you have to keep your hand-size big meaning you can only play stuff that draws or discovers, which have lower stats on average. If Opponent curves out standard 1, 2, 3, 4 drops he will have 8 dmg on bord as minions easily. So you expect the opponent to be able to kill that first giant.
2. You have to draw/mulligan a giant, chances are about 50%.
3. Then you have to draw a conjurer's calling, chances are 60%.
4. The holy grail combo with Khadgar: 30% chance to draw the Khadgar in time.
So basically, opponent faces a giant on 4 half of the time. If it is not killed, say opponent can also kill it half of the time based on his luck with draw, then you have 60% chances to face 2 giants and .6 * .3 = 12% chance to face 4 giants+khadgar. In all other cases, you just got 4 turns to do whatever you want. I say these are not bad odds, and that 's why mages are not overpowered. If any aggro deck hits the nut draw (which I did not calculate the chances for) you can also pack your bags and conceide.
Let me summarize:
50% chance = you start with 4 turns to do what you want so you will be ahead 10 mana worth of bord.
50% chance = you have to kill 1 giant
30% chance = you have to kill 2 giants or face another conjurer;s calling next turn
12% chance = you have to kill 4 giants and khadgar on turn 5 and boy you will be in a lot of pain.
I do not see a reason to nerf conjurer's calling for this. Silence priest can have a 4-5 and a 5-5 minion ready to rumble on turn 3, which is way stronger. But they do not have conjurer's calling to keep going I admit.
Its Aluneth on steroids. Could be something in an aggro deck. To be able to draw 8 when you run out of steam is kind a...nice. Imagine a mage saves this for late game, then attack with it, then conjures calling it gives you 8 damage, 2 8 cost cards and 8 card draw. The total nuts. Even more nuts when it costs less, say 1 mana after galaxy spell. And it goes in the 8-pool of possible summons of conjure's calling. I now already believe that the 8 mana pool is one of the best.
I had some good vibes with a home brew mage reno deck. One game against a quest priest I managed to get Luna's Pocket Galaxy in early and boy is that card good in that deck. Suddenly I could flood his board. He was able to remove 3 of them with his 2 plague cards, some luck he drew them both (awesome animation btw) but by that time my hand was filled with nice 1 mana cards and I could just spam them out to lethal.
O cmon, Paladin? I count 4 guaranteed board clears with Shrink Ray and Equality. And they are supposed to be bad at AOE according to Blizzard's comments on class identities. I mean 4 is a lot more than 0 for a class that should suck at AOE.
Flame Ward only kills stuff <3 health, so no guaranteed board clear. But maybe with some spell power you can turn it into a more reliable board clear, so this one has potential. I am not talking about general AOE, I am talking about "heey, my opponent has this huge board and I need to get rid of all of them right now, otherwise I am dead".
We used to have Dragon's Fury which was a pretty reliable board clear at turn 5. But that one has rotated.
I know mage excels in AOE, but sometimes you need a real board clear. Now the question is, why does mage has no board clear while other classes do. I can create some 2/3 card combo which should clear the board, say a 6 damage to all minions. But his does not clear a board of mountain giants for instance, or one 24/24 mech.
LOL I can help you out no problem. I play on Europe, the name is Zwanezang. Drop me a friend request and I will happily lose with some meme deck against you
Almost every class has a guaranteed board clear, except mage. Why? According to Blizzard, the mage should excel in AOE. Is AOE something different from a guaranteed board clear? I do not understand. Any1 has ideas about this?
I do not understand...why would you craft a golden legendary to ensure your free one is the one you want? Why not then create the one you want directly? If you have the dust for it anyway...I must be missing something here.
I like the idea of having Blatant Decoy summoning this big dude (since you only have big dudes). Will definitely try this out.
Well, any big minion with useful stats can be put to use in a mage deck with the galaxy spell around to make it cost 1-mana. And then, after you used it a bit, a Conjure's call on it will give you 2 fresh 10 mana minions to play around with, AND the reborn one to boot. That's one of the reasons I have been trying to use big minions with useful deathrattles instead of the mountain giant/sea giant. A conjure's calling on a big thing with a deathrattle can give you 3 big minions instead of 2. Value wise that is almost always better. But if you really need that taunt, than the mountain giant is your best bet.
The big minions should preferrably played after you cast the galaxy spell :) then they cost slightly less.
Maybe King Phaoris or Tortollan Pilgrim, althought the number of spells in the deck is rather low. Maybe you should add some more big spells first. And I am sure he would like to put in the Puzzle Box of Yogg-Saron in every mage deck :)
Well I also organized my own gathering to open packs and I got some serious number of golden legendaries!! OMG can't wait until tuesday. Only one day away! Almost.
Well. Latest game was really hilarious. I was facing another mech Hunter with my mage, and I have been tinkering around with a deck that combines cards like Mountain Giant, Conjurer's Calling, Mana Cyclone, Luna's Pocket Galaxy, and the OTK trio with Jepetto Joybuzz.
To also have a reasonable 2-drop I added Archmage Arugal and this can lead to some interesting stuff. What happened:
The hunter was happily pounding my face,but I had played the Luna's Pocket Galaxy.
And all of a sudden my Arcane Intellect powered by Archmage Arugal (which he let live for a turn, he was going for lethal) gave me:
2x 1-mana Alexstrasza, 2x 1-mana Archmage Antonidas and then the next turn 2x 0-mana Mountain Giant. I froze his big dude, went up to 15 health, he went down to 15, got myself some fire balls. He was at 7 mana so his 8-mana combo was not yet up...time to concede.
Check it out: https://hsreplay.net/replay/tkMVH44PVpZNAVPMUSytdA
Here is another fun match against a warrior featuring two Luna's + galaxy = brutal card draw and win.
https://hsreplay.net/replay/NezNdcCBomNEYwvuWGqTUR
Yes I had that too. The new lackey can already be created. I thought wtf a card I never seen before how can this be. But the new lackeys are already in the pool.
I am also very excited and ready to try out a lot of new cards and decks. I will probably start with mage (since I am a big mage fan) but Priest legendary and the Druid quest also look very interesting. On ladder half of your games will probably still be against Bomb Warrior since that ruines all reno decks and there will always be ppl who try to spoil other ones fun instead of trying to have fun for themselves.
I think you want to combo Naga Sand Witch with King Phaoris, so you make use of your low cost spells as well. Or call it first so your pyroblasts become juicy 10 mana minions.
I think it is impossible to predict the precise impact of this expansion on each class. There are so many options available to every class that I expect it will take a long time before we have a stable meta and all that time warlock can be as good as any other class in my opinion. It still has the best hero power in the game.
And you can combine it with cyclone to get fresh minions AND spells :) Say a turn 5 with SA on bord, you play this, all your zero cost one mana spells and cyclone and get a full hand of random aweseomeness.
Well first off I am a mage fan so I will not say anything bad about conjurer's calling, but lets summarize:
1. Your first 4 turns are weak since you have to keep your hand-size big meaning you can only play stuff that draws or discovers, which have lower stats on average. If Opponent curves out standard 1, 2, 3, 4 drops he will have 8 dmg on bord as minions easily. So you expect the opponent to be able to kill that first giant.
2. You have to draw/mulligan a giant, chances are about 50%.
3. Then you have to draw a conjurer's calling, chances are 60%.
4. The holy grail combo with Khadgar: 30% chance to draw the Khadgar in time.
So basically, opponent faces a giant on 4 half of the time. If it is not killed, say opponent can also kill it half of the time based on his luck with draw, then you have 60% chances to face 2 giants and .6 * .3 = 12% chance to face 4 giants+khadgar. In all other cases, you just got 4 turns to do whatever you want. I say these are not bad odds, and that 's why mages are not overpowered. If any aggro deck hits the nut draw (which I did not calculate the chances for) you can also pack your bags and conceide.
Let me summarize:
50% chance = you start with 4 turns to do what you want so you will be ahead 10 mana worth of bord.
50% chance = you have to kill 1 giant
30% chance = you have to kill 2 giants or face another conjurer;s calling next turn
12% chance = you have to kill 4 giants and khadgar on turn 5 and boy you will be in a lot of pain.
I do not see a reason to nerf conjurer's calling for this. Silence priest can have a 4-5 and a 5-5 minion ready to rumble on turn 3, which is way stronger. But they do not have conjurer's calling to keep going I admit.
Its Aluneth on steroids. Could be something in an aggro deck. To be able to draw 8 when you run out of steam is kind a...nice. Imagine a mage saves this for late game, then attack with it, then conjures calling it gives you 8 damage, 2 8 cost cards and 8 card draw. The total nuts. Even more nuts when it costs less, say 1 mana after galaxy spell. And it goes in the 8-pool of possible summons of conjure's calling. I now already believe that the 8 mana pool is one of the best.
And also counters a lot of Mechathun combo's.