The Old Gods have descended upon us, and their special brand of armageddon has surely left us battered and beaten after tremendous amounts of battle yesterday. I'm curious what the community thinks about the set so far, the Standard format change, and whether you see yourself playing more or less Hearthstone because of any of it. I'm also stoked to hear about everyone's rips. Did you get nutso pulls, or did you get shafted?
First thing that I did when I logged on was dust my playsets of Force of Nature and Ancient of Lore, because that was 1600 free dust (any cards that were changed are dusting for their create value, not the typical D/E value). Afterwards, I opened my 54 packs (50 from the pre-order, 3 from log-in, and 1 from the 100g I had). Out of those 54 packs, I pulled:
- 1 double Legendary pack (Xaril & Malorok)
- Y'Shaarj
- Huhuran
- Five double Epic packs
- Golden Disciple of C'Thun, Fiery Bat, and other ones that didn't matter
After I picked up my other 10 packs from Standard wins, I pulled Anomalus and another double epic pack.
Once I finished my pulls, I watched a buddy win a match for a classic pack and ripped Harrison Jones out of that.
Right now, I'm playing a couple of decks: C'Thun shadow priest (my own build, it's hilarious and terrible all at the same time), Aggro Paladin (which is surprisingly strong), and Dragon Priest (as I ended up with enough dust to craft Ysera and the new Deathwing, seems like a solid deck).
The Standard format is weird, though. It's seldom that I get to be a part of a rotation as random as this afterwards. Typically, in the world of something like MTG, there is some kind of SCG Open or some type of tournament or some type of heavy theorycrafting that will help dictate what you can expect the meta to look like. Right now, though, it basically just seems like "shove a bunch of good cards together and C'Thun things." C'Thun, for all the shit I've talked about him up to this point...is still a shit card. The strategy of C'Thun as a card is essentially "build control shell and hope C'Thun hits and kills." I had a match this morning with my C'Thun priest deck (where my C'Thun only ever gets up to maybe a 15/15) and a C'Thun Warrior deck that had his up to 25/25. My deck is a Reno deck, as well as his. He dropped C'Thun while I had a huge board, only dealt a total of about 5 damage to me overall. I dropped a Bilefin after wiping his C'Thun down to about 12 health, and the warrior was out of cards and going into fatigue. I dropped my C'Thun, killed his C'Thun, and that was the game. So yeah, I'm not sold on C'Thun as a viable strategy beyond the first few weeks of figuring shit out.
However, there are a ton of cards that I thought were merely "meh" which turned out to be INCREDIBLE! For instance:
- Infested Tauren - surprisingly strong alternative to Sludge Belcher for minion replacement, despite the 2/2 slime not having taunt
- Bilefin - great value for any aggro deck, as that 1/1 taunt is a real asshole
- Psych-O-Tron - even though he's 3 more mana than his GvG counterpart, he's still annoying as hell and quite the hinderance
- Infest (hunter card) - seriously, you need to do this with Ball of Spiders. That shit is FUUUUUUUUUUNNY!
- Deathwing - wasn't expecting him to be a genuinely solid choice for Dragon Priest the way that he is, to the point that I can't believe we've had Dragon Priest decks WITHOUT this guy in them
- Xaril - HOLY SHIT HE'S INCREDIBLE...solid value across the board
- Warped Worgen - didn't know how valuable a 2 drop 3/1 version of a 1 drop 2/1 would be, but he's far more worthwhile than his counterpart.
So what about all of you? How are you enjoying/not enjoying the changes and new set?
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