Hearthstone
Let's talk about Year of the Dragon/Raven cards!
Hey guys, i've really enjoyed the year of the dragon overall and want to know what you think.
- What have been your favorite decks to climb or just play from each expansion meta?
- What rotating cards from YotR are you going to miss most?
- Favorite YotD cards not necessarily for power?
All of the year of the dragon cards will still be around in standard for the next year, but between raven cards rotating/nerfs/power level of future expansions a lot of them won't see the kind of play they have. So year of the dragon has had it's own unique meta.
My personal experience:
Witchwood/Year of the Raven was where I began hearthstone, so this year felt unique to me because it was the first one where every card being played was one I knew from it's release.
In Rise of Shadows my favorite deck for the ladder was bomb warrior. Both booms were nutty, and having a "control" deck that also could play as a sloppy midrange beat em up was really fun. I'm definitely in the minority but I even miss the warrior mirrors. Playing bomb vs control and bomb mirror was so ridiculous and its not something you really saw after the end of the RoS meta. My favorite card from that expansion was Muckmorpher. I really liked those two minutes where big shaman was a thing.
In Saviors of Uldum, and for the entire year of the dragon, my favorite deck was quest shaman. Now bludgeoned to death by nerfs (unjustly so imo), it used to be a super fun deck to play. Ridiculous value engine, interesting tempo lines, lots of rng effects like discovers and mutates to try to hedge, deck was nutty. Unfortunately the Wild cards event put an early end on my enjoyment of the deck because evolve made the deck broken and the center of the meta. About a week into the event I took the longest break i've ever taken from HS until it was over because the game was unplayable to me.
I also loved quest druid, and my favorite card from Uldum is Oasis Surger. I love elementals, the art, and the nutty power level. This deck is still very good nowadays and a go to climbing deck.
Descent of Dragons was a pretty huge spike in power, Pushing and rebuilding a lot of the other decks from the meta while adding Galakrond and another reason to play highlander. I loved Galakrond Shaman for the brief amount of time it was almost balanced between the two waves of nerfs but it was short lived because now the deck is fairly weak. I was really bummed how they handled Shaman this expansion, but it's still been quite enjoyable and a pretty decent meta with a lot of variety and not as much polarization. I've enjoyed highlander hunter, aggro hunter, highlander rogue, and quest druid. DoD added my favorite card from the expansion to quest druid, Ysera, Unleashed. Card is nuts. Mad flavor and closes out games in style.
Cards i'm going to miss from year of the raven
Shudderwock (favorite card of all time, opened it in my first WW pack),
I won't type too much more in case the thread flops but I really want to know other peoples experiences and feelings with the expansions.
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Hey guys, i've really enjoyed the year of the dragon overall and want to know what you think.
All of the year of the dragon cards will still be around in standard for the next year, but between raven cards rotating/nerfs/power level of future expansions a lot of them won't see the kind of play they have. So year of the dragon has had it's own unique meta.
My personal experience:
Witchwood/Year of the Raven was where I began hearthstone, so this year felt unique to me because it was the first one where every card being played was one I knew from it's release.
In Rise of Shadows my favorite deck for the ladder was bomb warrior. Both booms were nutty, and having a "control" deck that also could play as a sloppy midrange beat em up was really fun. I'm definitely in the minority but I even miss the warrior mirrors. Playing bomb vs control and bomb mirror was so ridiculous and its not something you really saw after the end of the RoS meta. My favorite card from that expansion was Muckmorpher. I really liked those two minutes where big shaman was a thing.
In Saviors of Uldum, and for the entire year of the dragon, my favorite deck was quest shaman. Now bludgeoned to death by nerfs (unjustly so imo), it used to be a super fun deck to play. Ridiculous value engine, interesting tempo lines, lots of rng effects like discovers and mutates to try to hedge, deck was nutty. Unfortunately the Wild cards event put an early end on my enjoyment of the deck because evolve made the deck broken and the center of the meta. About a week into the event I took the longest break i've ever taken from HS until it was over because the game was unplayable to me.
I also loved quest druid, and my favorite card from Uldum is Oasis Surger. I love elementals, the art, and the nutty power level. This deck is still very good nowadays and a go to climbing deck.
Descent of Dragons was a pretty huge spike in power, Pushing and rebuilding a lot of the other decks from the meta while adding Galakrond and another reason to play highlander. I loved Galakrond Shaman for the brief amount of time it was almost balanced between the two waves of nerfs but it was short lived because now the deck is fairly weak. I was really bummed how they handled Shaman this expansion, but it's still been quite enjoyable and a pretty decent meta with a lot of variety and not as much polarization. I've enjoyed highlander hunter, aggro hunter, highlander rogue, and quest druid. DoD added my favorite card from the expansion to quest druid, Ysera, Unleashed. Card is nuts. Mad flavor and closes out games in style.
Cards i'm going to miss from year of the raven
Shudderwock (favorite card of all time, opened it in my first WW pack),
Hagatha the Witch
Flobbidinous Floop
Electra Stormsurge
Wardruid Loti
I won't type too much more in case the thread flops but I really want to know other peoples experiences and feelings with the expansions.
I play a lot of Wild so the rotation isn't a devastating process for me like it can be for some, but that doesn't mean I won't miss some cards in Standard.
...there weren't as many as I remembered *shrugs* Most of the other cards I like are being used in Wild - like Shudderwock in my Jade Shaman - so it doesn't matter.