It’s funny how there is almost nothing but hunters in the <6 ranks and then after that you slam into the p2w control warrior wall. They’re the true heroic bosses of naxx 
Im wondering what decks exactly can compete , dropped all the way down to rank 9 from rank 7 by playing zoo , backspace rogue , miracle ,etc. Everything seems so random after 4th wing of naxx dropped.
Unless you have a bounty of legendaries, you have to go with the following:
Kolento Hunter (midrange)
Aggro Warlock (need Leroy, though)
These are all cheap, legendary caliber decks.
I think Hunter is my top choice because …
- You can remove anything in a variety of ways
- You will almost never truly run out of cards–thanks to Buzzard and value cards like the new spider. You can chain multiple one drop beasts with a buzzard, kill off your spider, get another beast in your hand, play it, draw a card. Its value on top of value on top of value!
- “Secret” decks are actually a viable thing right now. I’ve seen heavy Mage and Hunter secret decks lately and cant even count the number of times I’ve kept a Flare in my opening hand, received board control, blew up their secret, and then continued to beat face. Flare ends games immediately (looking at you people who still try to play rogue :P). And Hunters are great against everything else. The deck took me some time to get used to, especially since I’ve never been a big Hunter fan, but I do enjoy playing it right now.
Aggro lock is the equivalent to “Affinity” in Magic the Gathering (deck that I play). This deck will never go away. Its an amazingly powerful deck, but its not the MOST powerful, so you don’t have to worry about any major nerfs coming its way. You’ll be able to play this deck every season without having to worry about learning the newest net.deck, and that is worth its weight in gold-- if you can stomach playing the same deck all the time, that is. If you were to sit down and only play Aggro Lock, know the matchups inside and out (when players want to play certain creatures/spells at certain times), you can beat anybody. You have to be willing to play a lot of hands and loose some matches, but ultimately rise to the top.
The only changes you will have to make are minimal. For instance: Currently, Death Coil is back in season (buzzards, wolfs, etc). As is two copies of power overwhelming (no late game for opponents!!) and Young Priestess. Priestess went away last season, but its back (don’t know why, really) for, what I assume, is to trade up while buffing?
Having a 6-7 turn clock is ALWAYS a good thing.
Is there a reason to run mortal coil over elven archer? Same effect on the board, same cost, but puts a body on the board. You don’t draw a card, but the card draw is conditional anyway, and is card draw really a problem with that deck anyway?
The card being conditional is moot because you aren’t ever going to use it on a minion with more than 1 HP. I figure Mortal Coil is used because any time you don’t have to spend life to draw a card is a good thing.
The Dream?
Spoiler
Still lost. Fuck KT
One less minion for hunters to use Unleash the hounds on?
You’ve gotta do the Deathlord dream instead of the Lightspawn dream.
Frost shock frost shock frost blast blizzard oops I’m dead
Hard to fit either of the two if you’re planning to have the undertaker, maybe you could post the list and we could have a more elaborate discussion.
Idk, I don’t enjoy playing Backspace Rogue since you’re only as good as your next topdeck.
Did you guys see Kolentos combo Druid? Looked pretty good. I’ve been playing something similar albeit with weblord and Tiger.
LOL I can’t fucking beat the Kel Thuzad Paladin challenge
EDIT - I just beat it. FUCK YOU KEL THUZAD
I heard the paladin one is supposed to be hard, I got lucky and beat it like 3rd try. It really came down to luck though lol
The deck doesnt synergize
Also I finally beat heroic KT! Woot! Deathlord + inner fire + luck of not getting frozen all the time = win!
To deal with all these hunters and zoo, I replaced some 6 drops in my control paladin with Earthring. It makes me really, really vulnerable to control warrior, but I felt it was necessary to simply survive past turn 8.
God damn. Apparently hearth stones servers and path of exiles servers are getting DDoS’d. Don’t do ranked or especially arena for now.
Yup, just got DCed out of the same Arena match like 5 times. Pretty lame.
time to go back to magic online?
The connection has been killing me the past few days. Lost a couple of arena matches due to DC. Its been pretty bad. Which sucks becacuse I was on a roll in a lot of my ranked/arena runs.
Big time sad face.
In other news! My garage is almost done! I’m about to get my setup in there and couldn’t be more excited. I can’t wait to stream all sorts of HearthStone shenanigans.
Can we update the front page and add twitch streamers next to names and IDs? mine is twitch.com/etep1
The DDoS attacks are still hitting the servers. Just DC’d from a game and put into a queue just now. This is very annoying lol. Probably can’t do arena until those guys stop being assholes.
LOL Blizzard servers still crappy? I’m on a queue
No some group of assholes are fucking up the servers with these
The same guys are doing it to PSN servers
and Kripp was specifically targeted by this as well.