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02-04-2014 , 05:13 PM
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Originally Posted by phillydilly
anyone want to do a draft with me?

Arena Draft:
Hunter:
Flare v Demolisher v Sunwalker
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Demo - close between sun and demo

Sunwalker over Demo (but not by a lot)


snipe v boulderfist v murloc tidehunter
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murloc - generally dont like secrets, close ogre and tide

Boulderfist by far, it is really good


nightblade v venture co merc v muloc raider
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night - rest awful

Venture Co. by far, is really good



thrallmar farseer v bloodfen rapt v earthen farseer
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didn't like any all that much, decided raptor

Earthern Ring Farseer over Raptor


snipe v bluegill warrior v goldshire footman
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footman, dont like others at all

Bluegill Warrior over the others. Think of it as a removal spell. Footman isn't worth drafting almost always.


deadly shot v spiteful smith v animal companion
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between deadly and an comp, no beasts yet so went deadly

Animal Companion over Deadly Shot, but it's close. You don't need beasts for AC to be good.


harvest gol v booty bay v deadly shot
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very close all three, went deadly

Harvest over Deadly Shot, but it's close. Booty bay has too little health for his cost.


freezing trap v gnomish inventor v flesheating ghoul
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gnomish for draw

Agreed.


hunters mark v ogre magi v kobald geomancer
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light on spells so hunters mark

Hunter's mark generally isn't worth it. I'm taking Ogre Magi over Kobold.


abomination v lightwarden v pint sized summoner
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pint, not really close

Abomination is a slam dunk over pint-sized in most cases. You could argue against it in a super aggro deck, but I'm probably still taking Abom.


stonetusk boar, aco of pain, bluegill
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bluegill > stone, aco useless

Acolyte isn't useless, but I'm okay with Bluegill in an aggro class like Hunter. Acolyte is better in classes like mage, paladin, druid that can either buff it or ping it.


windfury harpy, bloodfen rapt, worgren infil
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lots of small cards so far, went harpy, not too confident in this one

Worgen Infiltrator. If we had more beast stuff, then Raptor.


kill command, ogre magi, spellbreaker
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kill v spellbreaker, took spell due to lack of beasts

Kill Command or Spellbreaker both seem ok here.


harvest gol, ogre magi, silverback patriarch
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harvest ainec

Agreed.


venture co merc, worgren infil, shatter sun cleric
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cleric ainec

Seems ok. I'd take Venture Co. sometimes depending on the deck so far.


tracking, aco of pain, multishot
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multi ainec

Agreed.


scavenge hyena, deadly shot, wolfrider
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deadly, could have made an argument for each

Agreed.


explo trap, bluegill war, kill command
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bluegill, considered kill command

I'd take Kill Command.


bloodfen rapt, scav hyena, dire wolf alpha
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dire ainec

Dire Wolf or Raptor, it is somewhat of a toss-up. Don't underrate plain 3/2 for 2's.


argent commander, ancient mage, eaglehorn bow
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argent, eaglehorn loses value w/o secrets

Argent Commander and cry a bit about the bow. It's fine without secrets, just still not quite as good as Commander.


nightblade, multishot, grimscale oracle
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this was close, i have 4 murlocs, so tempted, went multishot

Multishot for sure. It's one of your best commons.


raid leader, kill comm, arcane
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all close, minion heavy so went raid leader

Arcane Shot over Kill Command.


elf arch, explo trap, thrallmar farseer
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dont really like any, went thrall

Explosive Trap over the others.


hunter mark, track, snipe
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meh again, went mark

Tracking over the others. Tracking is good, don't underrate it.


arcane shot, houndmaster, silvermoon guard
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arcane shot, low on beasts, need direct damage

I'm okay with arcane shot... Might have ended up with Houndmaster with some of the earlier Raptors.


frostwolf grunt, mad bomber, ironbeak
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all ok, mad bomber for deck?

Mad Bomber for sure. Frostwolf grunt doesn't do enough and ironbeak dies too easily. Disclaimer: Ironbeak is a little better if you're strong on beast cards.


spite smith, mogu warden, starv buzz
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mogu

Spiteful Smith is good. Others are OK if you've got the beast cards.


expo trap, buzz, stormwind knight
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storm

Agreed.


dalaran mage, cult master, murloc raider
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cult

Agreed.


ancient mage, stampede kodo, coldlight oracle
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kodo or coldlight, think coldlight works with deck

Kodo is really good. Kodo all day.
Good post. Now we need is an app to capture drafts automatically and format them for the forum.
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02-04-2014 , 05:19 PM
Mobile app can't really decipher everything that you posted, but the ones that I did see, they were pretty -ev/bad.


I'm sure before I get home, someone will pick the right ones for you, but if they don't, I'll go through it and give you my terrible advice
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02-04-2014 , 05:21 PM
lol i wouldn't have made any of the same picks as you except demolisher and gnomish inventor in the first 10
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02-04-2014 , 05:55 PM
Here's a game that didn't work out well.

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02-04-2014 , 06:14 PM
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Originally Posted by Aceium
Here's a game that didn't work out well.

Lololololol
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02-04-2014 , 06:20 PM
I'm not going to go through and critique all your picks because reasons, but here's the deck I ended up with:



I would expect this would be a 7+ wins deck at least.
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02-04-2014 , 06:48 PM
thanks for the feedback from everyone, great info.
i think next time i do a draft i'm going to do it with that arena value site open while i draft.
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02-04-2014 , 06:56 PM
i end up with the same deck beside

second bluegil over acolyte and second venture co over shattered sun.
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02-04-2014 , 06:58 PM
is there a good site like that for building constructed decks?
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02-04-2014 , 07:54 PM
best neutral legendary to craft??
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02-04-2014 , 08:02 PM
Ragnaros.
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02-04-2014 , 08:03 PM
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Originally Posted by phillydilly
thanks for the feedback from everyone, great info.
i think next time i do a draft i'm going to do it with that arena value site open while i draft.
They have a client that will autoscan the hearthstone window as you draft, just click F2 or refresh in the client, pick your card, then repeat. It's pretty awesome.

I use it because I like having decklists on my stream and the output they give you at the end looks nice and streamlined.
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02-04-2014 , 09:24 PM
02-04-2014 , 09:34 PM
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Originally Posted by TheRempel
Pick 18: Mind Control Tech, Injured Blademaster, Pint-Sized Summoner

I probably would have picked Blademaster. Between removing my opponents guys and them not over-extending into Flamestrike, it seems to never be relevant for me in Mage. I'm not confident about it, though.

The rest I would have picked the same. There were a couple of close calls where you had to pick weaker cards because you had so many 4-drops, but I think I would have gone the same way on them.
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02-04-2014 , 09:49 PM
I value blademaster highly with classes that have a shot at healing him and less so with others, but yeah that is a really close pick.
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02-04-2014 , 09:55 PM
Is probably go pick 3 Loot Hoarder over Cult Master. With Mage I find it pretty rare to have multiple minions on board to trade and without being too results oriented the four drop spot usually gets pretty crowded.
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02-04-2014 , 09:58 PM
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Originally Posted by TheRempel
I value blademaster highly with classes that have a shot at healing him and less so with others, but yeah that is a really close pick.
I agree with this. I'm not a big fan of three drops with three or less health unless they can take a hit and add value (Harvest Golem) or have an battle cry/death rattle effect that's valuable on its own (like Big Game Hunter or SI:7 Agent). You really don't want to drop a guy on turn 3 and have it trade with their turn 2 play.
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02-04-2014 , 10:04 PM
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Originally Posted by TheRempel
I value blademaster highly with classes that have a shot at healing him and less so with others, but yeah that is a really close pick.
To me, a vanilla 4/3 is still better than almost all other 3-drops. Of course, dying to 3/2's keeps its value in check...
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02-04-2014 , 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by starvingwriter82
I agree with this. I'm not a big fan of three drops with three or less health unless they can take a hit and add value (Harvest Golem) or have an battle cry/death rattle effect that's valuable on its own (like Big Game Hunter or SI:7 Agent). You really don't want to drop a guy on turn 3 and have it trade with their turn 2 play.
That is definitely true. Of course, Mind Control Tech has the same weakness. The choice comes down to an extra point of attack and some extra max health (that you will rarely be able to heal) versus the MCT's battlecry. I feel like the battlecry and healing both happen so rarely with Mage that it's basically 4/3 vs 3/3.
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02-04-2014 , 10:55 PM


Current Hunter deck 5-1 atm, only loss to DC
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02-04-2014 , 11:14 PM
solid arena mage draft
1 fireball 0 flamestrike,1 deal 2 damage to all
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02-04-2014 , 11:36 PM
It tilts me to win a game (against the AI), and to have my XP bar give me a new level and then fill up 100%, but not give me the next level. So annoying.
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02-04-2014 , 11:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Benholio
That is definitely true. Of course, Mind Control Tech has the same weakness. The choice comes down to an extra point of attack and some extra max health (that you will rarely be able to heal) versus the MCT's battlecry. I feel like the battlecry and healing both happen so rarely with Mage that it's basically 4/3 vs 3/3.
Kind of a side topic, but I tend to not really count MCT as a three drop, as you don't really want to play him on turn three if you can help it.

Also on the subject of MCT, I think he's really class dependent. Basically the more sweepers you have the worse he gets, so I tend to get a lot of mileage out of him playing a rogue/warrior, but playing as a mage he's junk.
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02-04-2014 , 11:45 PM
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Originally Posted by weeeez
solid arena mage draft
1 fireball 0 flamestrike,1 deal 2 damage to all
So, a warrior?

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Originally Posted by Jackitos
Current Hunter deck 5-1 atm, only loss to DC
Surprised that deck is doing so well. Not a reflection on you, some Arena drafts just go that way, but my 9+ win hunters have all been of the "Wow UTH sure is busted at two mana" variety with multiple copies of buzzard and UTH. Any time I'm not loaded up on combo pieces with hunter I end up with 3-5 wins tops.
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02-04-2014 , 11:46 PM
Does anyone else constantly screw up thinking Lightning Storm is actually Feral Spirit and cast the wrong one?

I must have made this mistake at least 5 times. Both cards being a 3 drop and having a blue background when in your hand.
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