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Played handbuff paladin from bottom of d5 to 8k legend going roughly 19-3. Deck abuses the slightly slower decks and can outheal most aggro.
Have been trying to make post-nerf Snek Warlock work at around 3k Legend EU, and have cut some of the extra removal (mortal + zili) for extra bounces and fracking to try and find Mo'Arg faster and complete the combo quicker. Have had about a 50/50 WR overall across around 20 games.
The deck has enough removal with table flip and defile without running loads extra. I like keychain in this deck as you find a lot of extra bounces and occasionally a kobold miner to help you get over the line. Against warrior you just want to put as much pressure on as possible while going towards the Snek, but you still lose most of the time to Brann into either Rat or Boomboss.
Had a really enjoyable game against Rainbow DK which went to fatigue which felt like proper old-school hearthstone, the deck is really fun and tricky to pilot.
Any thoughts on what to swap reverberations out for? It doesn't ever seem to get enough value apart from forcing deathrattles from Mo'Arg.
Snek Warlock
Class: Warlock
Format: Standard
Year of the Pegasus
2x (1) Demonic Studies
2x (1) Fracking
2x (1) Frequency Oscillator
2x (1) Scarab Keychain
2x (1) Smokestack
2x (2) Defile
2x (2) Endgame
2x (2) Kobold Miner
2x (2) Saloon Brewmaster
2x (2) Youthful Brewmaster
1x (3) Reverberations
1x (3) Zola the Gorgon
2x (4) Mo'arg Drillfist
1x (4) Pop'gar the Putrid
2x (5) Burrow Buster
1x (9) Sargeras, the Destroyer
2x (10) Table Flip
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Trying out Combo Reno Priest rn in low legend, which is a whole lot of fun. I referenced Chump and Dane's decklists and kind of combined the two. The combo win con is to do the infinite mana Reno Heropower combo or the Hedanis overheal combo. Injured Hauler board clears are also very important so I put in as much heal as possible.
The card choices seem very flexible. Cards that could be good but didn't find the room for are Idol's Adoration, Love Everlasting with some other spells and Yogg-Saron Unleashed. The cards I added were False Disciple (to find old Raza), Gnomelia, and ETC with Hauler and Rat in it.
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Format: Standard (Year of the Pegasus)
Class: Priest (Torchbearer Tyrande)
Total Dust: 12120
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Anyone else literally want to uninstall after facing Reno Warrior? I haven't yet, but it definitely makes me wonder why I'm still playing this game.
Warrior plays AOE
Warrior plays AOE
Warrior plays AOE
Warrior plays AOE
--> rebuild board --> Reno, poof your board is gone!--> rebuild board --> threatening lethal still somehow --> Warrior uses Zilliax and heals to full --> clear it --> painstakingly rebuild my board --> threatening lethal again --> warrior plays Dr Boom, wipes my board, heals to full, and has a gigantic board now --> ok cool bro... guess I'll go play a different game today instead because this just ain't it dawg
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One time I managed to actually grind them out for resources and then they just dropped boomboss when we both had like <8 cards left in deck and I was like fuck this bro :-(
What's funny to me is how they nerfed wheel and other top tier decks incredibly fast , but warrior gets to be at the top for literally half a year lol
Duos has been a lifesaver for me. I've racked up about 60-80 hours since release because the Standard meta has been so bad.
You can't even go to casual mode and escape it. I'd say 35-40% of my matchups in there are Reno Warrior.
Yea lol. I'm playing excavate rogue this month and I just won after he Reno:
-corpse farm into the 8/8 dh demon into step into leeroy...
Ultra scammed to win....
Had a win streak from D4 to legend today using the insanity warlock deck, switched out one of the furnace fuel and the Skitch artist to one sludge on wheels and Genomelia safe pilot. Feels better when matched up with hunter and paladin, even mirror matchups. The only match ups I felt difficult was flood paladin, or a zarimi priest with a really good starting hand.
built this deck but having a hard time understanding the working principle behind it. what's the winning condition and some tips on it maybe?
https://www.reddit.com/r/CompetitiveHS/s/hKIciVQaKk Here’s a really nice guide written by someone else, but yeah, it’s important to be aggressive, build up fatigue, and otk.
Against warriors sometime you can hard press them to 20ish health by turn 6 or 7, even with full health and some armor, double insanity fatigue + popgar+ two crescendo+ Trogg can one turn OTK them. For flood paladin I try to mulligan for crescendo, imp, popgar, even use trogg for survival, I think there are some decks that are even running double defiles at the moment. Mirror matchups I find holding on to either a void or a felstring and double insanities to be surprisingly helpful. The opponent will often over fatigue themselves and this gives you an opportunity. I’ve had a lot of mirror matches that ended in draws though.
aggro, fight for tempo with conductor and the imp, thornveil. Clear their big board and heal to full with popgar and crescendo
Mid range out tempo, finish with crescendo
control, copy crescendo with fizzle and do a big turn building fatigue, hit crescendo 2-3 times in a row (can popgar to make them free) for 20-30 dmg. can follow up with sludge for 8 dmg 2 mana after their board has been cleared by crescendo.
Hardest part aside from super fast hunter etc. is if you get a bad draw against control warrior and they are able to bran and boom, you will probably lose your wincon since your deck is almost empty
Aggro Paladin, VS list. Was down at the bottom of legend. Still there, but have moved up about 1500 places and have a 75% winrate.
I might switch. Using handbuff pally for the D4 to legend climb.
I've found hand buff way more comfortable than flood with the warrior prevalence. The warrior always has the perfect card when I'm playing flood. Ability to get big health minions improves the warrior matchup so much. Also in the D4-legend climb, btw.
Yeah I feel you. Actually I usually seem to crush warrior. If you draw well, you’re usually good. Sometimes you run out of gas and there’s nothing you can do. Or your opponent plays the Yogg location and you get screwed. Just variance.
I've had moderate success with this, pushing it into Diamond. Mostly I just wanted to play Skarr, but after some trial and error tweaks I found it pretty fun and competitive. Objective is simple; play an Elemental every single turn, playing Elementals on curve you can control the board and chip away until you can play a 9-12 damage Skarr.
Never play Trusty Companion without also playing an Elemental because this ruins the end game strategy. Also you can play an Elemental same turn as Skarr for 1 extra damage.
Elemental Minion Shaman:
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As someone who really enjoys elemental shaman , thank you for this list. Any thoughts on cards that could slot in for either one or both of the snowflurries or any advice on playing them? I always feel like i struggle to get full value off them and am wondering if brass elemental would help, or maybe turn the tides.
I'm playing this card in rogue and almost never play the first frost spells. The real deal is the mini I think, this card should be good in this deck.
They give you some late game value as you can find some helpful cards. Usually I'll save the first one if I can, if not I'll play it on 3 to keep the chain going. Second one you can always save for either use in a pinch to keep the elemental chain going, or to find a potentially helpful frost card.
If you really hate the Snowflurries I'd plug in either Brass Elemental (this looks good but I rarely am happy to see it), Iridescent Gyreworm, or Static Waveform
Format: Standard (Year of the Pegasus)
Class: Shaman (Thrall)
Total Dust: 3440
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what about fitting a Shuddeblock in for triple Kalimos battlecries? What would you take out?
Shudderblock battlecries can't damage the enemy hero unfortunately so I don't think it's worth it. You CAN hit an elemental from the "past" off of Eroded Sediment that makes your next battlecry trigger twice, this is a massive high roll with Skarr.
Kalimos works with Shudder! I’ve done it multiple times. It’s because the battle cry is “pick an invocation” not “deal damage”
I've been trying a bunch of different DK decks to see if I can get anything working in the current meta. Been bouncing around D2/D3 with a BBU reno control deck at just over 50% WR, with a small handbuff package aimed at dropping a 20ish damage turn with Darkthorn Quilter. It's okay, but not great.
Edit: decklist now below.
Custom Death Knight
Class: Death Knight
Format: Standard
Year of the Pegasus
1x (1) Lesser Spinel Spellstone
1x (1) Miracle Salesman
1x (1) Noxious Cadaver
1x (1) Runes of Darkness
1x (2) Blood Tap
1x (2) Down with the Ship
1x (2) Hematurge
1x (2) Mining Casualties
1x (2) Necrotic Mortician
1x (2) Threads of Despair
1x (3) Acolyte of Death
1x (3) Asphyxiate
1x (3) Chillfallen Baron
1x (3) Crop Rotation
1x (3) Rainbow Seamstress
1x (4) Darkthorn Quilter
1x (4) Death Strike
1x (4) E.T.C., Band Manager
1x (2) Threads of Despair
1x (3) Rustrot Viper
1x (4) Darkthorn Quilter
1x (4) Helya
1x (4) Sickly Grimewalker
1x (4) Sinister Soulcage
1x (5) Amateur Puppeteer
1x (5) Army of the Dead
1x (5) Corpse Explosion
1x (6) Gnome Muncher
1x (6) Hollow Hound
1x (6) The Headless Horseman
1x (8) Soulstealer
1x (8) The Primus
1x (9) Reno, Lone Ranger
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I think OSHA Warrior has legs, and is one safety hazard violation away from reaching tier 2 status. List isn't perfect, but it's different, and is still better than Mage lmao.
OSHA
Class: Warrior
Format: Standard
Year of the Pegasus
2x (0) Through Fel and Flames
2x (1) Frequency Oscillator
2x (1) Miracle Salesman
2x (1) Slam
2x (2) Bash
2x (2) Frightened Flunky
2x (2) Greedy Partner
1x (2) Instrument Tech
1x (2) Quality Assurance
2x (3) Observer of Mysteries
2x (4) Boom Wrench
1x (4) Pozzik, Audio Engineer
2x (4) Speaker Stomper
1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
1x (2) Haywire Module
1x (2) Power Module
1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
1x (6) Khaz'goroth
1x (6) Sunspot Dragon
2x (6) Testing Dummy
1x (8) Inventor Boom
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I’ve been playing Reno Druid cause it’s fun and half decent. Really been struggling on finding the best list and tuning it. I use gloomstone guardian and watcher of sun as my ignis procs. I run two dirty rats (one in my etc) to counter Reno although I’ve seen Les warrior recently. Let me know what y’all would change
Highlander Dragons
Class: Druid
Format: Standard
Year of the Pegasus
1x (0) Innervate
1x (1) Cactus Construct
1x (1) Giftwrapped Whelp
1x (1) Malfurion's Gift
1x (1) Scarab Keychain
1x (2) Dirty Rat
1x (2) Splish-Splash Whelp
1x (2) Watcher of the Sun
1x (3) Frost Lotus Seedling
1x (3) Starlight Whelp
1x (3) Swipe
1x (3) Take to the Skies
1x (4) Chia Drake
1x (4) Desert Nestmatron
1x (4) E.T.C., Band Manager
1x (0) Forbidden Fruit
1x (2) Dirty Rat
1x (3) Swipe
1x (4) Gloomstone Guardian
1x (4) Ignis, the Eternal Flame
1x (4) Spinetail Drake
1x (4) Time-Lost Protodrake
1x (5) Sky Mother Aviana
1x (5) Summer Flowerchild
1x (6) Crystal Cluster
1x (6) Gnomelia, S.A.F.E. Pilot
1x (7) Prison of Yogg-Saron
1x (8) Rheastrasza
1x (9) Fye, the Setting Sun
1x (9) Reno, Lone Ranger
1x (9) Yogg-Saron, Unleashed
1x (10) Eonar, the Life-Binder
1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
1x (0) Zilliax Deluxe 3000
1x (5) Perfect Module
1x (5) Ticking Module
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I took out prison of yogg and added Dragon Tales (I really hate prison of yogg, just personal preference). But honestly, there's a lot of flexibility and your Reno Druid list is as good as anything else.
I think your tech of 2 renos is good, but as you've said I'm seeing less Reno Warrior and more straight up Aggro right now.
TBH I am finding building more aggressive Druid decks is the best way to fight the current meta, so I play Dragon Druid, but just very aggressively. Not as effecient as the real aggro decks right now, but more enjoyable for me as I just really like Dragon/Reno druid atm.
Thanks, prison feels weak so that may be a good cut. I’ve played hybrid and straight dragon Druid and they may be better but honestly I just want enjoyable games and so far those have been alright for fun. Appreciate the comment