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My first Golden Deck

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http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/617572-nards-yogg-tempo-mage

Nard's Yogg-Tempo Mage

2 x Sorcerer's Apprentice

2 x Mirror Image

2 x Frostbolt

2 x Mana Wyrm

2 x Arcane Intellect

2 x Arcane Missiles

2 x Polymorph

2 x Flamewaker

2 x Spellslinger

2 x Arcane Blast

2 x Forgotten Torch

2 x Ethereal Conjurer

2 x Cabalist's Tome

1 x Yogg-Saron, Hope's End

2 x Cult Sorcerer

1 x Arcane Giant

I put this one together and then looked at some other lists, I've modified my list, gone back to my list, modified and modified.

I've gotten in 150-200 games in the last few days with versions of this. I'm only averaging 60% win with it. Gone from rank 10-7. I've never hit... Read All

Disguised Toast Explains How Moat Lurker Works

This week Blizzard released The Opera wing for the latest Hearthstone expansion One Night In Karazhan. One interesting card I've been waiting to play was also released this week called Moat Lurker. Moat Lurker is a very unique card in that its Battlecry is that it destroys a minion and it's deathrattle is that it re-summons it. On first blush this might seem like a very silly mechanic because why would you want to destroy a minion if it would just come back later? As it turns out this enables some very interesting game-play as you can use this to remove an enemy minion and then silence Moat Lurker OR you can destroy your own minion such as Sylvanas Windrunner to... Read All

jaelte wrote on 08/22/2016 at 04:18am

What they didn't show is if Moat Lurker's Deathrattle would re-summon a minion after an Unearthed Raptor that copied the Deathrattle dies and does so. Would there be multiple copies of the originally-destroyed minion?

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/24/2016 at 03:17pm

Huh. I think there would be as it seems Unearthed Raptor is the only card that seems to copy it fully.

JaBo wrote on 08/26/2016 at 05:53am

Ya, when I saw this card, I immediately thought of using it so preserve one of my near death guys. Like banking a Ysera, then board wiping and getting it back fresh.

Or if your opp is playing warrior and you know they want to brawl you soon. Just gotta be careful it doesn't get silenced.

Rogue seems legit tho. Destroy, shadowstep, destroy, shadowstep

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 08/27/2016 at 11:12pm

Totally. I haven't seen Moatlurker in play much which is surprising. I am going to put it in a deck soon though, I just love the mechanics so much I want to try it out.

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Hearthstone Deck Tracker (and Replays)

https://scontent.cdninstagram.com/t51.2885-15/s640x640/sh0.08/e35/12960157_1735875326671015_1706600812_n.jpg?ig_cache_key=MTIzNzkwNTA4MDgwMDc1NjA4OA%3D%3D.2.l

So, not sure if you use the Tracker or not, but it's great for a UI and tracking your deck list. Tracking wins/losses with decks, and many little features (yogg or Cthun counters).

But now, look at this: https://hsreplay.net/replay/sBmYNgueZftsZHvazfTmjR

It can keep your matches AND it's not the normal game you'd view, it's a digital recreation. BUT IT LETS YOU SEE YOUR OPP!!!!

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/18/2016 at 03:59am

Also, just noticed, you can rewatch games that you spectated.

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/18/2016 at 04:18am

Wow, this is really cool and the rewatching matches is incredible. I found that match a bit hard to follow at times but I figured it out as it went along.

When people bring out Lord Jaraxxus that's usually pretty hard to come back from but you tempo'd well.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/18/2016 at 04:45am

Yeah, I need to look at my capabilities a little more, I could have saved that polymorph boar for my guy for an extra 4 damage... but then, I wanted that 6 butt to turn into 2 so it would absorb less from the flamewalker, so I think maybe I was still right. That equated to 4 dmg.

Also, if you go here: https://hsreplay.net/

You can then search for people. So like, Search Nardraug#1711

Shows all the matches that are recorded and how long they took and what turn they went to... pretty sweet stuff!

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 02:26am

Today was a good day for packs!

http://imgur.com/a/0BdLe

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 02:27am

I had a regular Rag and Alex prior to opening 50 packs...

So yeah, I opened 6 leggies out of 54 packs, Rag, golden Rag, Alex, golden Alex, Lord Jarax, and Prophet Velen... just wow

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/19/2016 at 03:14am

DAMN, that's quite the haul. Are you going to keep the goldens or dust them for whatever two Legendaries you want?

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/19/2016 at 03:15am

I was pretty happy when I finally opened my second shield slam and pyromancer in my latest brawl open I recently crafted my first Rag, which is awesome I Rag so much. But i've been on a Legendary drought recently.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:03am

I dusted the normals, those are 2 I'm REALLY happy to have in gold. I need Sylvannas gold next. I had about 6k dust after and could have got her... but crafting golds is ugggg. I've done Ysera and Confessor... so spendy.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:14am

I've got just about enough to do either golden N'Zoth or 2 golden Cabilist's Tomes. Hard decision... or use to make a golden leggie that you can't open (like the new one that summons a 1/1 of a guy from your deck)

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:18am

Barnes? I really like that card but since I just got it today haven't played much with it.

It seems really cool in a Deathrattle deck. Pretty sure NZoth Pally will run it standard now.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:34am

Ya, exactly, any deathrattle deck loves Barnes (and yeah him). Recasting with Rogue tricks is fun, too. (either shadowcaster or pulling him back).

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:35am

Trying the new Arcane Giant in my tempo mage deck and it's working pretty well so far

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:36am

PS, I just survived 3 Yogg's being used against me. I dropped to 1 health and he had a couple mage secrets up, but one wasn't ice block.... insane game

https://hsreplay.net/replay/J7x4Tp7DQYmFeqkF4XEfiJ

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:37am

Oh, and I HAD ice block, but he Flared off the Yogg LOL, so wow

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:40am

I've been really enjoying a new Paladin deck that features the new Ivory Night and finally uses Anyfin(to date i've never found it working in a deck).

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/19/2016 at 04:42am

Oh, I used Anyfin pretty successfully a while back, was brutal One hit kill type thing. (just using the haste and buff murlocs) But now that "standard" is a thing, it banned out some of the needed ones.

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/19/2016 at 05:09pm

Yeah, it has but one or two Anyfin's are really powerful. I had a crazy match with simply playing 2 blugills and 2 warleaders. Still refining the deck though but it's either won or only lost by a handful of HP on the opponents side.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/20/2016 at 06:32pm

https://hsreplay.net/replay/D37JSrrHvxsauzPzhTJrzA

Yogg-Saron!!! holy cow that RNG

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/21/2016 at 05:33pm

Yeah Yogg is a heavy RNG card. One of the reasons I want to and don't want to craft it. Focusing more on the other legendary staples before I get Yogg. Not sure what to do next. Tyrion or maybe Cairne? I am leaning heavily to Tyrion as I like Paladin and Tyrion is OP as hell.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/21/2016 at 07:12pm

Tyrion is so good and not leaving standard as far as I know (assuming that core basis set always stays).

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/21/2016 at 07:38pm

That's what they've said. Which is why I am now crafting all the neutral legendaries. I have nearly all the WoTG one's I really wanted and I am now crafting neutral ones because i'll be able to use them longer.

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/21/2016 at 08:27pm

Ya I finally crafted Cairne myself. Frustrating tho, because I made a new account so I could get the shaman hero and I happened to get a Cairne on that account =\

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/21/2016 at 08:44pm

I just went through and decrafted a ton of Wild cards. I kept ones I'd use if I ever played Wild, but I decrafted a bunch of legends, epics and gold epics, gold rares. There's a golden iron juggernaut I'm debating on, but I liked that card... 1600 dust tho gives me 2 gold rares or a gold epic, so tempting... My mage deck is almost all gold, just need 6 more golden epics =o

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/21/2016 at 08:56pm

I am keeping all the wild cards. I think it's going to be a more compelling format as the game advances and might be really interesting someday. At least I think so. That said, pretty sure Maxxena won't ever be something I put in a deck but since it was one of the first legendaries I had and used a lot because of that, I have a hard time letting it go

JaBo Post Author wrote on 08/27/2016 at 01:34am

So battle.net added streaming... guess I'll try that. my laptop has it built in, but for some reason it stopped connecting with nvidia.

jdodson Admin wrote on 08/27/2016 at 11:13pm

Yeah I just saw that. It's Windows only right now AND it seems to stream direct to Facebook but it's interesting and something I want to try at least.

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My Review of The First Wing of "One Night in Karazhan" The Latest Hearthstone Adventure

The Purify Effect

Blizzard released the latest adventure for Hearthstone this week on the heels of a pretty large community mishap. There are nine playable classes in Hearthstone and the Priest class has been suffering for quite some time in terms of it being competitive. There are no high ranking Priest decks being played and the general community feeling is the class is very underpowered compared to the others. As blizzard was releasing the information on the new adventure cards the community reacted very strongly to a new Priest card many felt was the worst card in Hearthstone, Purify. I'll link to the card below with a video Kripparian made that discusses the card.... Read All

One Night in Karazhan And The World's Your Oyster - New Heartstone Adventure Coming August 11th

It seems the rumors of the new Hearthstone Adventure being in Karazhan were true as Blizzard announced the upcoming adventure "One Night in Karazhan" to the audience at ChinaJoy. One Night in Karazhan will feature 4 new wings you can unlock for 700 gold or buy the whole adventure for $20. As you can see from the trailer above, One Night in Karazhan has a very cool disco party vibe that looks like it pulls many influences from Disneys Beauty and the Beast as well as the John Travolta's disco classic Saturday Night Fever. After the darker tone of Whispers of the Old Gods us getting a more silly party styled adventure seems like a nice change.

As with all Hearthstone... Read All

Blizzard Will Announce A New Hearthstone Adventure On July 28th

There have been rumblings in the Hearthstone community of a new adventure for the last couple weeks. In the video linked above Disguised Toast makes a pretty good case for the new adventure being themed after the World of Warcraft area Karazhan and might also be focused on the Mage class. I've been saving up my gold and have enough for 4 adventure wings and a almost have enough to open another 20 packs. Not sure if I want to open Classic or Whispers of the Old Gods packs but i'm sure either choice would be a good one. With that, today Blizzard has sent out an announcement of an event on July 28th @ 11pm that will unveil the new adventure streaming on Twitch. The... Read All

Morgl the Oracle Hero Comes To Hearthstone If You Can Get a Friend To Play

Today Blizzard dropped a new Hearthstone update that added a cool new Shaman hero, Morgl The Oracle. Morgl is available to earn in game if you refer a friend to Hearthsone and they make it to level 20. After you earn Morgl and have more friends sign up you can get a free pack for four more friends.

It's a cool new system and the new hero looks really fun so if you have been thinking about trying Hearthstone hit the link below and you will get an extra free pack when you sign up!

https://battle.net/recruit/7LRFP7JLGW?blzcmp=raf-hs&s=HS&m=web

You can read the full set of patch notes below:

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Try These Two Cheap Hearthstone Warrior Decks

If you're like me you play Hearthstone but are free to play or don't spend much therefore you don't have every card. This means you need to work within a constrained gold(what you earn from dailies) and dust budget. This isn't too bad, but at times can seem like you don't have options to play with fun decks but recently I've found two decks that are really good and can be created fairly easily. The first decknis called "Disneyland Warrior" and is featured in the Kripparian video above. It's essentially a Zoo deck that only contains Warrior commons. Like many Zoo decks, this decks works becase you can keep pumping out cheap minions on curve to win. It's one of the only... Read All

Building a Warlock Burst Zoo Deck on a Budget

Recently my partner and I had a kid so I haven't had as much time to game as I usually do. That said, Hearthstone is a good game to play if you only have one hand free when the other one is consoling your crying baby. Sometimes I have to put the phone down for a second to readjust my hold with him but if I am sitting on the couch it works out really well. I'm also a Hearthstone free to play player so like many, I don't have every card available to me but enjoy playing constructed and like trying out the new meta decks. One such deck to emerge post Whispers of the Old Gods is Warlock Burst Zoo. Warlock has always been great with Zoo but it's stepped up a bit after WoTG... Read All Recently my partner and I had a kid so I haven't had as much time to game as I usually do. That said, Hearthstone is a good game to play if you only have one hand free when the other one is consoling your crying baby. Sometimes I have to put the phone down for a second to readjust my hold with him but if I am sitting on the couch it works out really well. I'm also a Hearthstone free to play player so like many, I don't have every card available to me but enjoy playing constructed and like trying out the new meta decks. One such deck to emerge post Whispers of the Old Gods is Warlock Burst Zoo. Warlock has always been great with Zoo but it's stepped up a bit after WoTG due to a couple new cards like Darkshire Councilman and Possessed Villager.

I recently built a Warlock Zoo deck from a recipe but since I don't have all the cards for it I had to make some substitutions. Sometimes you really can't sub out certain cards for others but in this case I think they worked out well. Here is the deck I based my alteration on for you to check out:

http://www.hearthpwn.com/decks/472913-legend-zoo-lock-standard

As you can see, the deck is mostly commons and rares with a few legendaries and one epic and I subbed out all the Legendaries and epics for other cards. Substitutions I made include:

Reckless Rocketeer for Leery Jenkins. With Arcane Golem nerfed into the dirt, Leeroy is a very viable card now. That said, I don't have it as it's a Legendary so for now I think substituting Reckless Rocketeer is a good choice. Reckless costs one more mana but it's the same stats and I think the tradeoff is pretty solid. Reckless/Leeroy allow you to cast Power Overwhelming to burst your opponent to death as a possible deck win condition. Reckless Rocketeer (http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/560-reckless-rocketeer) Leeroy Jenkins(http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/674-leeroy-jenkins)

Argent Squire for Gormok the Impaler. Yeah ok, this isn't a fair substitution but there really isn't a cheap replacement for Gormok. Since I don't have Gormok and I also dropped Crazed Alchemist as I didn't find it that useful most of the time I added two Argent Squires to make the deck more quick and added a pinch more Aggro. Argent works well with the buffs this deck can produce and is a very solid turn one. Argent Squire(http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/473-argent-squire) - Gormok The Impaler(http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22323-gormok-the-impaler)

Northsea Kraken for Sea Giant. Again, this isn't a perfect sub but one that works pretty well for this deck. At turn 9 Kraken is both removal and a huge minion making your opponent have to deal with it or lose. Sea Giant is incredible in this deck because it costs less per each minion in play but if you don't have it, like me, Northsea Kraken is a solid replacement. Northsea Kraken(http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/22289-north-sea-kraken) - Sea Giant(http://www.hearthpwn.com/cards/614-sea-giant)

What decks are you running right now and have you made any interesting changes to popular meta decks?

Reflecting On One Year of Hearthstone

A little more than a year ago Blizzard released Hearthstone on smartphones and that hooked me. Up till that point Hearthstone didn't really interest me but something about playing it on my phone made the experience magical. Naxxramas, Blackrock Mountain and Goblins VS Gnomes were the only released adventures and expansions then and I spent most of my time collecting gold and learning how to play. I had no idea what to do with the gold I had but I figured i'd save it until I knew what best to spend it on. I didn't even create any decks when I started because I had no idea what was good. So I just played causal matches with no deck and I lost a lot. During that time I... Read All

Azurephile Super Member wrote on 06/08/2016 at 06:19am

That's awesome! So, I told you that you can unlock Adventures with in-game gold? I don't really remember that.

Anyway, I appreciate your perspective on the game. It seems you did something rightly smart. I am really glad that you shared one of the tools you've found to be very helpful, the YouTuber. I may have to check that out. Watching YouTube on my TV at night is part of my nightly routine. :)

I've used the deck builder tool to help suggest cards I should put in my deck. I'm not opposed to finding a good recipe (as they have now) and copying it. It would be a cool way to learn how to play more effectively and even with different strategies.

I like the freebies they recently gave us, well they're free if you complete those challenges, which I managed to do some how. I've seen C'Thun used in matches I've played, but I don't think I've ever used it myself.

Back to Adventure Mode, that is what I liked most about the game. I wish this part of the game was so much bigger and wasn't so expensive. I've unlocked some with in-game gold, but I think it'd probably take me a week to get enough to unlock another.

jdodson Admin Post Author wrote on 06/08/2016 at 11:06pm

> That's awesome! So, I told you that you can unlock Adventures with in-game gold? I don't really remember that.

Oh you might be right, it was JaBo. But you said something right afterward and I always attributed it to you in my mind. I'll update my post to reflect this, thanks Greg!

http://cheerfulghost.com/jdodson/posts/2495/dropping-cards-battling-heroes-my-recent-game-addiction#comment11290

> Anyway, I appreciate your perspective on the game. It seems you did something rightly smart. I am really glad that you shared one of the tools you've found to be very helpful, the YouTuber. I may have to check that out. Watching YouTube on my TV at night is part of my nightly routine. :)

Watching the Kripp show on TV at night is awesome, it's one of my new favorite times of the day. Besides lunch.

> I've used the deck builder tool to help suggest cards I should put in my deck. I'm not opposed to finding a good recipe (as they have now) and copying it. It would be a cool way to learn how to play more effectively and even with different strategies.

Yeah, the Blizz decks are pretty fun too. I've been impressed with how well they actually do.

> Back to Adventure Mode, that is what I liked most about the game. I wish this part of the game was so much bigger and wasn't so expensive. I've unlocked some with in-game gold, but I think it'd probably take me a week to get enough to unlock another.

There is another one coming out next according to the path Blizzard has layed out. It will, most likely, be another $20 so to date they've released 3 adventures with this other one on the way. And I wish they'd do more per year too but right now, that seems unlikely.

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