I know it's no fun, but the more patient player in that mirror match usually pulls it out. That and whoever gets the most cards off their Acolytes.

not to mention 2 shield blocks. should be enough card draw - i personally alternate harrison in or out, so those cards in a nutshell should be enough draw.

slam is the kind of card which is generally useful but never great. if decks were 40 cards it would absolutely be in there to thin a deck, but with 30 cards and so many good choices i cant realistically make it fit.

agree 100% with alex over healbot. warrior is not a class that needs a healbot, their hero ability can take over in life gain.

kezan is meta dependent, of course.

Here are last months Top 100 ranks: http://us.battle.net/hearthstone/en/blog/19035567

I got matched up against Fibonacci, justsaiyan, tomflr and hotform last month, beating justsaiyan and hotform; and that's just guys who finished Top 20. I think I was just playing out of my mind, way above my own MMR last month, ended up facing too strong competition and getting frustrated. I think if I played marginally worse and avoided this top tier competition with a slightly worse MMR, I may not have collapsed in such a spectacular fashion and actually made legend.

I've been cruising along at a much slower pace this month playing Priest. Probably Rank 5 within the next ~5 days and then the typical, slow, deliberate grind. Feels doable. I'm not sure what's a better method though. Racing hard to Rank 5 in the first few days or a more laid back push.

Just played a game on EU with my non-perfect combo druid deck. It uses spectral knights. Against a rogue, I turn 3 innervate spectral knight... He tanks, ropes, "well plays", and gives up. lol

i really dislike kezan in control warrior

Control warrior is a beast right now. The most played deck is the grim patron and standard ctrl warrior is fantastic vs it. Add in a Harrison as well.

I just took out Kezan for Stampeding Kodo in Control Warrior. Wish me luck.

I have enough dust to craft a legendary. I've started playing more and more ladder the last couple of months, but I definitely don't have all the ones I need to play whatever I want. The ones I have are:

Jaraxxus
Mal'Ganis
Leeroy
Sylvannas
TBK
Boom
Ragnaros
Malygos
Ysera


What should I craft? I'm thinking definitely something from the classic packs since I can still open anything else from the arena. I've mainly been playing various forms of warlock and hunter with some grim patron warrior, druid, oil rogue, and dragon priest mixed in. I've also done some poor versions of mech mage/tempo mage, but without having Archmage it kind of falls flat.

Archmage, Al'akir, and Tirion are all class legendaries that really help me start playing those classes more seriously. Grommash and Cenarius can really bolster some classes I dabble in already. Alex gives me some things like freeze mage and would also be nice in handlock and Bloodmage is used in a lot of different decks but idk how required it really ever is. Harrison seems really good sometimes also. Edwin doesn't really seem required in rogue anymore so that's not a big deal and I think I'm so far off of control warrior that Geddon doesn't matter yet.

Not really sure which to make.

As always, pick the class legendary of the class you wish to play more =)

You have the super important legendaries. The ones you don't have that can feature in multiple decks are Thalnos, Harrison, Alex.

I'd probably go Harrison, Alex, Thalnos, actually

Class legendaries, Tirion is a staple in every single paladin deck, so I think he's a bit ahead of Antonidas. Cenarius isn't really required in combo, but since CW takes a lot of legendaries, Grom may be behind in the pecking order. I woudln't bother with Al Akir right now since Shaman is just too weak to seriously play.

I just heard the best comparison of Dr. Boom to any other card(s). He's like an Avenging Wrath and a War Golem for 7 mana. So you're essentially playing 13 mana worth of value from 2 cards for 7 mana in 1 card. If your opponent gets lucky with Boom Bot RNG then your 7 mana nets you 9/9 worth of minion plus 2 random damage. If your opponent is unlucky, your 7 mana nets your 9/9 worth of minion plus 2 directable damage plus 8 random damage.

If their vanilla 7 drop is War Golem, then I don't think there's any way that the Legendary tag is worth two 1/1 bodies, 2 directable damage, and up to 8 random damge.

Dr. Boom is simply too powerful for 7 mana. It's not because of his stats, it's because of the impact that the Boom Bots have on the game. I don't think having Boom Bot RNG decide games is good for the competitive spirit of Hearthstone.

I've noticed that newer cards seem to be introducing even more RNG into the game.

Imp-Losion was the big one obviously, as the difference between 2/4 damage and 2/4 imps can be huge. Also, the new Shaman Card that gains 1-4 attack so it can be anywhere from a 4/6 to a 7/6 is just unnecessary.

i dont get it. why did you put in a kodo?
what are you hoping to achieve by running a kodo?
whatr are you targetting?
are you running a kodo over sylvanas now?
because if so i would highly recommend not doing that.

I disenchanted Leeroy as soon as I got him since I'll never play face hunter. I think he was the first legendary I opened.

I crafted Grommash so I could play control warrior and I kind of regret it. I'd rather have Thalnos or Sylvanas.

I crafted Alexstrasza and I'm happy with that. She owns.

Antonidas is probably my favorite card in the game.

If you're missing something from your favorite deck(s), craft that. I don't think it's worth it to craft legendaries for something you dabble in.

You don't need anything for warlock or hunter, and druid doesn't really need Cenarius so Harrison seems like a good choice.

If you're not into mage, you'd probably regret making Antonidas. Mech mage is pretty boring ime anyway.

Freeze is the **** though and when I get 800 more dust I'm planning to craft Thalnos to make my freeze mage complete.

Thanks bobbo/sun!

I think I'll go Harrison that can get teched in a bunch of decks instead of just crafting a legendary for a class I dabble in.

Just gave it to Ðart on ladder.

Goose T1 - Cogmaster
Ðart T1 - Pass
Goose T2 - 3 to face, WHIRLING ZAPOMATIC
Ðart T2 - Loot Hoarder
Goose T3 - 9 more to the face, plus Annoyotron, plus Earthshock the Loot Hoarder
Ðart T3 - "I choose Death!"

Mech Shaman feels like the grossest deck to play probably since I was playing Facelock in November. I honestly feel bad playing it. Yeah I feel bad playing Combo Druid sometimes (oh sorry I'm killing you from full health because you left two 5/5s on board.) But blegh. Mech Shaman is gross.

Easy cruise to Rank 5 just now. Haven't been pushing it or grinding hard at all this month (nor have I tracked stats) but I certainly haven't been grinding 4h+/day like I had been the past two months. Currently 201 Shaman wins, 317 Priest and 104 Mage. Not sure what I'll play from here. Mech Shaman does seem to be doing the trick well, though I think I'm better off playing a deck that I actually know how to pilot well or better than my opponents, rather than an autopilot face smORCer.

2x brawl or 1x brawl 1x harrison in CW? I'm tired of losing to zoo but I'm not even sure 2x brawl will make much of a difference.

was like rank 70 with 40 mins to go or so after playing a lot yesterday and going 36-18. proceeded to drop the final 6 games to fall out of top 100

incredibly frustrating

NOOOOOOOO! why did you keep playing?

Finished the season 75 wins / 77 losses (I might have played a few games on my other computer that doesn't have HS Deck Tracker, but sometime early in the month, I tried to only play on a single computer). Good enough for level 15, which is apparently in the top 30% of HS players. Was actually above .500 for every class except Warrior, where I was 12 and 27, so that's a 55.7% win rate for non-Patron Warrior decks. I just don't get Patron Warrior, I guess.

If my average game is 8 minutes, I spent over 20 hours playing HS . . . and this doesn't include Arena or just putzing around in Casual mode with new decks. Never would have thought I spent that much time playing it.

What difference does it make if you aren't top 50? And if you aren't trying to qualify into worlds? Does it matter what rank you are?

you get some sort of points for finishing top 100.

Oh, I thought it was top 50.
My bad then