Have you made your way through the second Chapter of the latest Hearthstone adventure? There are eight cards available from this wing, and there's been some great experimentation with them already - including some high performance decks from the Pros!
Check out the lists below to get some ideas for how you could be using your new acquisitions to climb the ladder.
Gyong managed to reach #1 Legend with this Rogue list featuring the new Skyvateer. It's a deceptively aggressive list, and as we all know card draw is pretty good in Rogue.
Pizza piloted this list featuring the new Fiendish Servant into high Legend. While not too dissimilar to Zoo lists of old, small improvements can go a long way, and it's great to see a resurgence of classic Zoolock after Galakrond Zoo took to the stage earlier this expansion.
Oyatsu vouches for this Highlander Galakrond Shaman list, which not only has Explosive Evolution and The Fist of Ra-den from the latest Chapter, but Eye of the Storm from last week too!
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Be careful because the Shaman deck is not full Highlander.
Make sure you cast Invocation of Frost and play Spirit of the Frog before triggering Highlander cards ;)
In case you didn't know, highlander cards will glow yellow if their effect can be activated, that way you do not have to keep track of your deck. You also do not need to play them once you have drawn the cards, because highlander cards only check to see if your deck only has unique cards and not what it looks like in the deck builder.
You are totally right. You don't actually need to play the duplicate, just have it in your hand.
Cheers!
There used to be a time, before yellow highlights, even before decktrackers were a thing ... pen and paper were all there was
Elemental Mage is still basically unplayable which gives me the big sad.
In theory you have a midrange deck that can draw most of its burn spells for 1-mana, but in practice it's just way too slow.
Kinda wish there was a deck to use the new Hero Power Elemental Daring Fireeater and Jan'alai in a deck that isn't complete garbage, but I guess that's out of the question.
Did you manage to try that elemental mage list with Book of Specters and Elemental Allies? I havent tried it yet, but now we got two new elementals in Arcane Amplifier and Hailbringer maybe there's some mid range elemental deck that isn't garbage.
Certainly going to try something like this before the month ends.
oh I did exactly that (already tried it before the adventure), but it's just incredibly slow.
Basically you need to snowball ahead and then burn them down or you need to Elemental Evocation an Animated Avalanche early.
If you don't manage that you're basically just playing a subpar aggro deck with mostly vanillas
It also hurts that there'S no efficient board clear to pair with (unless you wanna put in Shooting Star with Cosmic Anomaly)
Yeah played a lot of elemental mage myself today (when the game isn't crashing - repeatedly - )
Have to agree that its a little off the game when you don't draw well, and that's unfortunately most of the time. If you get Elemental Allies early along with a nice curve you feel really powerful, but if you don't you get destroyed, with your opponent's cards shoved deep down your hole.
Not so keen on Animated Avalanche with so many rogues around. And they know exactly when to ruin your day with Flik Skyshiv.
About the Elemental Mage topic, I was really excited to play Animated Avalanche because I thought (and still think) it's a very cool minion.
However, as you said, it is too slow and you lack a clear win-condition for playing Elementals with Jaina.
To be honest I'm kinda bummed that Avalanche doesn't have Rush: flavor wise, it would have been really on point (an avalanche that keeps sliding even after you summon it on the board). Of course, the Rush mechanic would have changed the card that we have now (stats reduction in order to avoid a Scion of Ruin type of problem), but it would have been a great idea.
I'm quite sure they tested it at some point, but then decided it was too powerful and so they came up with what we have now.