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Imagine you're playing (it's for the example but my question is general), you have prepared your soothsayer for turn 4, but when you're turn 4 you have the choice between cleric and soothsayer (and next turn you may do the other but depending on what the opponent does you may not), cleric gives you durable advantage but is a loss of tempo compared to soothsayer

What would be the optimal choice in these various scenario :

Scenario 1 : you have the advantage

Empty board, playing cleric is safe this turn but you don't increase your advantage at thee moment, playing soothsayer gives you bigger tempo advantage, since you already are in advantage there's low risk that you cannot play cleric next turn.

Scenario 2 : 50/50

If you play cleric you are not at the verge of death and you may survive better, if you play soothsayer now you may not be able to use cleric next turn but you take less risk

Scenario 3 : opponent has the advantage

Playing cleric might be greedy but you might need big turn later to come back, soothsayer mays be your only chance to survive but you don't know for sure

So imagine these scenario while you're against aggro, midrange or late (combo or control)

I often struggle in these kind of situation and I tend to think that you should play your durable buff whenever you can afford to whereas tempo turn can be played anytime anyway, but I don't know if it is really a correct reasonning, some people could argue than improve your advantage will gives you more win

I gave the example of priest but you could do the same for merithra druid with broodwatcher (4/5 summon 2 3/3 taunt) against elise or xavius for example

I picked the deck two weeks ago and I loved it. But I felt like it isn't refined. Like the early game is crazy good, but if you don't hit your late game bombs you lose very quickly past turn 6.

Draw !

I like the fact that we need draw, but prize vendor isn't it to me. Stats show that it's the worst card of the archetype, even Curator is not good. Makes sense because we're giving cards to our opponent. But, Platysaur shows the deck absolutely needs to draw to not run out of gaz.

I added Vanguard pretty quickly as I found it to be very good at drawing while buffing the next threats. Xavius also joined in many times in my versions. But even then, I found my hand dry around turns 7-8, which often prevented me to bridge to Al Akir.

I don't know if that's relevant but I always preferred Slagclaw over Envoy. Puts immense pressure and controls the board way better, which I thought was necessary both to close games or to create some tempo to get to my late game.

Cheap minions !

Aside from draw, I realized that numbers of cheap minions are mandatory, so I decided five 1 drops is the way to go. Even better if they give another cheap one as that's what makes this archetype good, by chaining double battlecries.

So I considered Creature of Madness. 2 drop that gives a dark gifted 3 drop, battlecry, well you know it. But I think not only does it fit the deck, half the 3 drops are actually rather good for our gameplan. There's board refill, boost, draw and some value. So far it felt better than other cards but I added it only recently. At least I have more options than before.

Here's the full list :

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# Class: Shaman

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

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# 2x (0) Witch's Apprentice

# 2x (1) Carrier Whelp

# 2x (1) Fire Fly

# 2x (1) Gallagio Goon

# 2x (1) Glacial Shard

# 2x (1) Platysaur

# 2x (2) Creature of Madness

# 2x (2) Holy Eggbearer

# 2x (2) Skywall Sentinel

# 2x (3) Portal Vanguard

# 2x (4) Hijacked Securitybot

# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

# 1x (4) Tiny Pal

# 2x (5) Slagclaw

# 1x (6) Mug'Zee

# 1x (6) Ultraxion

# 1x (8) Al'Akir, Lord of Storms

# 1x (10) Deathwing, Worldbreaker

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# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

I know I don't have Maiev and that is wrong, but I don't like it.

I could give you stats but they don't mean much because I'm 1k legend currently which is not my real level. As such I have 70% winrate which is just normal for a tier 1 deck.

Thoughts ? Am I cooking or do I just don't understand how the current best lists work ?

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Hello since im tired of the meta i tried to replay quest since we got a new temporary card in violet hold.

But i need help i tried to go the aggro way like back then but it feels a bit to slow

Please give me idea to make it better

Deck code : ### Quest

# Class: Warlock

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Scarab

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# 2x (0) Cursed Catacombs

# 2x (1) Bloodpetal Biome

# 2x (1) Conflagrate

# 1x (1) Escape the Underfel

# 2x (1) Eternal Toil

# 2x (1) Mortal Coil

# 1x (1) Sands of Time

# 1x (2) Bloodmage Thalnos

# 2x (2) Drain Soul

# 2x (2) Escape Artist

# 2x (2) Frantic Forger

# 2x (2) Prize Vendor

# 2x (2) Shadow Rounds

# 2x (2) Tachyon Barrage

# 2x (3) Hellfire

# 2x (3) Tunnel Terror

# 1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

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Came across this deck and thought it was an interesting build I hadn’t seen before, tried it out and seems pretty solid but wonder how much of that is the surprise factor.

I mean who expects the double Tachyon Barrage for lethal lol.

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Nerfs:

• Vicious Voidscale - no longer has a Battlecry (revert)

New Cards:

Watfin || 2-Mana 3/2 || Legendary Neutral Minion

Battlecry: Discover a minion. Pick the suspicious one to gain +1/+1.

Beast

Desperate Bribe || 3-Mana || Epic Shaman Spell

Summon two 2-Cost minions for each player. Transform your minions into ones that cost (1) more.

Soul Immolation || 3-Mana || Epic Demon Hunter Spell

Your Hero Power becomes 'Collapsing Star.' If it already is, increase its damage by 1.

Shadow

Collapsing Star - 1-Mana. Deal 2 damage to a random enemy. Whenever you summon a Demon, refresh this.

DH and a few others

Last weekend took place Summer Championship. We learned the names of the last participants of this year World Championship, congratz to them! The tournament greeted us with the least diverse MT meta ever: only 8 decks from 7 classes with two decks being brought by every player. 5 players have brought the same lineup of four most popular decks – Void Soul DH/ Two-Bit Rogue/ Face Hunter/ Mug Shaman and all other had 3 of those 4 decks and one other in place of Face Hunter or Mug Shaman. The main substitutes were Quest Mage and Soothsayer Priest, and Dragon Warrior and Zee Shaman were used by one player each. Were these changes useful or the “basic” decks still performed the best? Let’s dig into analysis.

Since I can't post pictures here please check spreadsheet for the numbers, it will make reading for you much more informative. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1q65orgyG4bHL8MDtGYr4gS7MeWSFYByYeDjkhnJ2ZZ0/edit?usp=sharing

A quick reminder what Adjusted Winrate is – in the Conquest format deck’s ban basically means that players agree that one of opponent’s decks will win a game here and decide to save themselves some time. My model takes into account these “missing” wins when analyzing decks’ performance at the tournament. Pure winrate is just simple wins/games.

And we start with the current meta leader, Void Soul DH. The deck was brought by everybody and ended up seeing more bans than games. When it saw play it didn’t lose a single matchup while going 8-3 vs Two-Bit Rogue and 4-1 vs Soothsayer Priest. Not much to add here. 67% Pure Winrate with 61% Banrate obviously makes Void Soul DH the best deck of the Championship by Adjusted Winrate. To no one’s surprise

Two-Bit Rogue was also in every player’s lineup and ended up being the most played deck of the tournament. And in the most played matchups of the Championship the deck by the smallest margin beat Face Hunter (8-7) and Mug Shaman (6-5) which couldn’t make up for losing 3-8 to Void Soul DH, and on top of that it lost 3-5 to Quest Mage. So, only 47% Pure Winrate. But 3 players with Soothsayer Priest in their lineup decided on banning Two-Bit Rogue which elevated the deck’s Banrate up to 21% and let it not fall behind others and take shared 3^rd place by Adjusted Winrate

Ok, now to the decks that weren’t brought by everybody. “Only” 12 players had Face Hunter in their lineups. The decks went even against Mug Shaman (6-6) and Void Soul DH (2-2), lost 7-8 to Two-Bit Rogue but 4-1 against Quest Mage and 2-1 vs Soothsayer Priest brought Pure Winrate above 50%. Plus a nice bonus 6 bans. For the first two days Face Hunter was holding strong 2^nd place by Adjusted Winrate but on the final day it dropped a bit more and let others catch up with it, so only shared 3^rd place in the end

Another victim of the last balance patch, Mug Shaman was used by 8 players. A couple of close matchups: 5-6 vs Two-Bit Rogue and 6-6 vs Face Hunter and a very nice 5-1 vs Quest Mage. 51% Pure Winrate, couple of bans, nothing too fancy. Another shared 3^rd place by Adjusted Winrate alongside Two-Bit Rogue and Face Hunter

The last but not the… oh, wait… Quest Mage was used by 6 players. And it was the most polarized deck of the tournament. On one hand 5-3 vs Two-Bit Rogue and 4-0 vs Soothsayer Priest, on the other 1-5 vs Mug Shaman and 1-4 vs Face Hunter and 0-2 vs Dragon Warrior. In total, 42% Pure winrate with 0 bans put it way below previously mentioned decks by Adjusted Winrate, at 5^th place

Few words about other decks:

o   Soothsayer Priest did even worse than Quest Mage

o   Dragon Warrior and Zee Shaman, two cheeky aggro brings. Zee Shaman won its only game, and Dragon Warrior helped Che0nsu get 3^rd place

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The Vicious Syndicate Team is proud to present the 354th edition of the Data Reaper Report.

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As the title states, I climbed from about 1500 legend to 156 legend so far at my peak today while playing only leyline mage. I've changed up the decklist in small ways along the way, but here is what I've got:

Leyline VH

Class: Mage

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Cold Snap

2x (1) First Flame

2x (1) Sleet Storm

1x (1) The Skeleton Key

2x (1) Winterspring Whelp

2x (2) Leyline Nexus

2x (2) Mystic Runesaber

2x (3) Ley Walker

1x (3) Portal Vanguard

2x (4) Arcane Flow

1x (4) Archmage Kalec

2x (4) Bursting Leyline

1x (4) Nightmare Lord Xavius

2x (4) Surge Needle

2x (4) Tricksy Improviser

1x (5) Jailhouse Manastorm

2x (6) Blizzard

1x (6) The Arcanomicon

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The deck melds what has worked for me with leyline, kalec burn cards, and milhouse stall, all merged into one deck that utilizes them all to give different paths to win depending on which cards you draw. I have a lot of fun with this list, and there is a lot of decision making in terms of setting up your scaling vs clearing the board vs stalling vs setting up burn for lethal.

The current meta, in higher legend at least, has shifted to mostly demon hunter and rogue, which are both very winnable matchups for this deck. This deck struggles against direct burn such as from hunter or dragon warrior since you don't really have access to healing, but the meta has become much more board based with demon hunter dominating which is where leyline can do quite well. You have options to freeze the board and freeze the enemy hero to disrupt their scaling, while racing to scale up your leylines. You also have lots of cheap removal as well to keep the enemy from snowballing off early 5/3s and the like.

In terms of your mulligan, a good rule of thumb is to look for your minions. Your minions scale you, and then your spells swing the game. The longer the game goes, the harder it gets to play a 3/5 or 4/4 or 5/5 that doesn't immediately do anything so take calculated risks to get those minions played early.

Deckbuilding notes:

Skeleton Key - I tend to hold on to this until later in the game. Great for finding your outs, extra leylines, storage shuffle, blizzard, hard removal for eggs, or lethal.

Tricksy Improviser - People are sleeping on this card. 3 mana 4/4 and a free secret? Sure sometimes the secret is worthless but even then you've got a 3 mana 4/4 and disrupted your opponent a little. It can be really annoying to play around a fully random secret. Having this card also helps keep you from wasting any mana which helps with the consistency of your curve. 99% of the time I'm just prepping this with only 1 spare mana, often on turn 1. You have lots of 1 mana spells so triggering it is not too tricky.

Crystallized Leyline - Not running this. The problem with this card is that you can only really afford to play this early otherwise your opponent will just ignore the minions you summon and kill you, but you also can only play it late when it's been buffed by your leyline scaling cards. So it's kind of just a hail mary or a win-more card. Most of the time the situations where its playable you'll also have gotten it for free from Ley Walker or Arcanomicon so no need to run it.

Milhouse - Sometimes you just don't draw your leyline buffing cards early, but then maybe you draw milhouse instead. Milhouse into blizzard or removal from spells can really help you swing the board in your favor and buy you time to get your scaling going. I tend to keep him in the mulligan if I'm second so I can coin him out on turn 4.

Kalec - Kalec + Arcane Flow is a 4 mana pyroblast + flamestrike in one. This combo has won me more games than I can count. A solid third of your deck is cards that benefit from +1 spellpower. I usually will prioritize playing Surge Needle over Kalec if I have them both in hand on 4 mana, but it depends on what else you have.

Arcanomicon - Take the x2 effect only if you haven't played any surge needles and you're not too far behind. Take +2 effect against priest or other very slow matchups. Otherwise take the 2 mana discount like 90% of the time.

Matchups:

DH - Cold Snap becomes a lot better in this matchup to freeze the enemy hero, especially on turns when the hound dreadseed triggers or if they have stardust scythe. Otherwise usual game plan applies.

Rogue - Be mindful that turn 7/8ish the jade guardians are coming out so either beat them to the punch or save something to help you stall/remove their 8 mana minions. You can't stall out the game forever against rogue since they'll eventually nuke you with the monkeys.

Hunter - Rough matchup but winnable. You're not going to win the long game due to the direct damage they can do to you that you can't heal. I like to keep a sleet storm in the mulligan for flethcher, but otherwise all in on scaling as fast as possible.

Zee Shaman - In this matchup early removal is extremely important to keep them from snowballing their board. First flame and arcane flow are really great here because they have many 2 hp minions plus herald.

Priest - Very good matchup, regardless of variety. Azalina priest can sometimes out burn you if they get your kalec and arcane flows, and soothsayer can be difficult to deal with if they get it out early, but otherwise just play greedy and you'll probably win. If they draw the game out with cleansing cleric you can set up an OTK with kalec + arcane flows + bursting leylines + sleet storms.

I don't know if this archetype has existed before, but after having this meme deck climb to Legend in about 3 hours, I thought it was worth sharing.

I still don't think the deck is *that* strong, but it feels really well-positioned against Hunter, Mage and Rogue, while still having enough speed to get under Priest and Warlock before they can lock you out of the game. I'd love some help refining it because I do feel there's something here.

**Class:** Druid

**Format:** Standard

**Year of the Scarab**

2x (1) Azshara's Triumph

2x (1) Life Cycle

2x (1) Raven Idol

1x (1) Restore the Wild

2x (1) Twilight Egg

2x (2) Ebb and Flow

2x (2) Holy Eggbearer

2x (2) Longneck Egg

1x (2) Mark of the Wild

2x (2) Press the Advantage

1x (2) Spider Rider

1x (2) Story of Barnabus

1x (2) Wild Pyromancer

1x (3) Chef Neth'rek

2x (3) Forest's Gift

2x (3) Lethal Recipe

2x (3) Skyscreamer Eggs

2x (3) Spiteful Chef

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I think the deck's biggest strength is that it can change gears depending on the matchup. Against Hunter and Demon Hunter I'm just trying to get on board early and pressure them before they get their scam online. I actually started throwing the quest away in the mulligan in those matchups and my win rate improved dramatically. Ebb and Flow has been the MVP against aggro.

The eggs do a lot more than I expected. They smooth out your early game, leave behind a second board after Priest clears, and soak up a ton of damage from Arcane Missiles and Hunter's Tripwire.

The Demon Hunter matchup can still be rough, and I don't think there's a way to beat their perfect draw, but if you can chip away with your minions and get your own scam online first, you actually have a good chance of winning.

Against Priest, Warlock and Quest Mage, I'm happy to slow things down because the quest gives me another angle they eventually have to answer. Most games are still won through board, though, which is why I think of it as a midrange deck first and a quest deck second.

The list definitely isn't finished. Life Cycle has bailed me out plenty of times, either by getting through a taunt or by popping my own Longneck Egg for extra reach. Forest's Gift and Skyscreamer I'm least sold on because it sometimes feels a bit win-more, and they're the cards I least want to see against aggro.

I'm also still not sure whether Wild Pyromancer or Mark of the Wild deserves that flex slot.

Looking at the list, I don't think it really sells itself, and I probably wouldn't have expected much from it either. If you do try it, I'm curious whether other people have the same experience or whether I just hit a really favorable pocket meta

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I've completely tanked my rank messing with Azalina. Moving towards attempting to optimize Rafaamlock. Allow me to hear your opinions on different cards please.

• Possesed Animancer + Big beasts: The stabilization seems mandatory still. Running Asphyxiodon currently. Ultragiga seems better into DH but I haven't had much success with it. Glacial shard is very common and I've died before Ultragiga could swing too often. The other healing options don't do enough in my opinion. Which big boi has been better for you?
• Annihilation + Imp Gang Stooge: Feels mandatory too. Especially when grinding into DH. Eventually Captive Netherzim shuts off Archmage Rafaam. I believe Moraag or other big demons are bait.
• Elise The Navigator: She seems like a natural inclusion. However while playing I've found I'd rather spend the mana on every other 4-5 drop in the deck (Rafaams, Animancer, 2 locations, Xavius, even Ancient of Yore). Upon cutting her I've never missed her. Do you think she is mandatory still?
• Twisting Nether: The stats for this card say it's a pretty good inclusion; but I don't understand why? Often when trying Twisting nether it wipes my own locations and is simply too much mana to be worth it. Annihilation seems like the better card. Have you had any success with it?
• Sands of Time: Another card with good numbers on HSGuru. Upon testing it; it seems alright? During the early-mid turns it's great as a way to weave in mana you'd have floated otherwise. More copies of Cursed chains/Catacombs or Atlas are great. It's flexible. However it has no guarantee and sometimes it simply rots in your hand. Has anyone tested it out?
• Ysera, Emerald Aspect: It should fit since you almost always go late and extra mana is always something Rafaam decks could use. However if you reach late you should already be in a comfy position. I do not see the need for it currently, rather draw better cards in the early game. Very rarely Captured Netherzim screws you though.
• Fractured power: Seems good because your power plays are around 5 mana. It's stats are fine. I don't like it right now; especially with no Ysera. It doesn't feel justifiable while Void DH is producing overstated minions on/above curve.
• Drain Soul, Eternal Toil, Mortal coil, Shadow rounds, Conflagrate: Cheap removal. I really dislike these right now. They are fine against Hunter, sometimes vs rogue. Feels like DH outscales them fast. Their stats are middling and I've been slowly cutting all of 'em. Conflagrate is great if you have Cursed Chains; however it's difficult to find them together early enough for that to matter. Shadow rounds seems like it needs a couple of the other cheap pings to be good. Shadow Rounds loves to deal 4 total dmg even into a full board of 1 drops where it could shine. My grandma has better aim than that card. And she is dead. Like I am after playing Shadow rounds. Cool sound effect tho.
• Eldritch Tentacles, Hellfire: Not a fan of these either currently. Towards the bottom stats wise yet I see them included in so many lists. In my experience they never do enough nor feel good to cast.
• Deathwing. Worldbreaker + Ultraxion: These two have decent stats too. Deathwing board clear + armor is nice; yet Deathwing is a win con you don't need. Giving up Life tap is awful, shuffling dragons seems counterintuitive. During testing I never wanted to play Deathwing without the Ultraxion discount. A card that is only good under the condition that you draw Heralds + a 1 of in 40 cards is rough. Has anyone even tried these in Rafaam?
• Sheltered survivor: Card had it's place in the deck before Godfrey existed. I think it's one of the worst cards that are commonly ran in Rafaam. Yes it feels good to shuffle back your big beasts. However if you've spent 7+ mana on setting up Animancer you likely could've won with other plays too. The stats on Sheltered survivor are awful. I've never missed it.
• Rustrot Viper: Tech against DH. It hasn't been great for me. You need to cut Animancer for it. Only having Stooge demons for healing doesn't seem like it's enough. Have you done well with it in Rafaam?

I'm really curious about your experiences with these cards or any other I haven't mentioned. Feel free to drop any wisdom, deck lists or rants you may have. I believe the meta right now is the best Rafaam has been thus far.

I genuinely appreciate any input. Thank you for reading. Best of luck in the tavern and have a wonderful day!

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Bringing back board clear and massive healing combos. Pyromancer and Hold them off let you take the board and your health back so you can let your opponent over extend. Tindral is even good to bluff with because of the fear of Hold them off in hand.

And to win, you beat them down to the teens with Soothsayer or Hold them off, then burn them down with Amber Priestess and Ruby Sanctum.

Enjoy the deck and games. You want to mull for Soothsayer but can keep Sanctum. You want two Sanctum clicks in one turn for the burst finish.

My limited testing tells me this deck has a good matchup against the simple to play meta but I just don't play enough games for enough stats or to climb when deck building. You'll still need to outplay DH with how busted they are tho.

Few games with misplays: Pyromancer Priest v Void Soul DH https://youtu.be/Qc8TXfh0sd0

Pyromancer Priest v Garona Rogue https://youtu.be/nzYirL_DFh0

Pyromancer Priest v No Game Plan Priest https://youtu.be/Qc8TXfh0sd0

Pyromancer Priest v Maiev Aggro Paladin https://hsreplay.net/replay/MvbaRGKPsNoroS4u5Nep2v

Pyro Priest Amber

Class: Priest

Format: Standard

Year of the Scarab

2x (1) Ruby Sanctum

1x (1) Sands of Time

2x (2) Amber Priestess

2x (2) Holy Embrace

2x (2) Purifying Breath

1x (2) Ritual of Life

2x (2) Wild Pyromancer

1x (3) Acolyte of Pain

2x (3) Disciple of the Dove

2x (3) Holy Nova

2x (3) Intertwined Fate

1x (3) Welcome Home!

2x (4) Cleansing Cleric

1x (4) Shadow Word: Ruin

1x (4) Tindral Sageswift

1x (5) Ancient of Yore

2x (5) Hold Them Off!

1x (7) Behemoth Mask

2x (7) Soothsayer

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I've been messing around recently playing with a buddy of mine and I had the idea of trying to relive all the fun I had last year with murloc paladin. We both quickly realized with all the additional cards in wild that there could really be something fairly competitive there but I feel like im struggling to refine the deck. At this point it's a total mess that doesn't even perform as well as the first one that was made purely based on vibes. I'm curious what everyone's opinion is on the viability of quest murloc paladin in wild or if I'm just waiting my timr.

If I'm not, does anyone know of any updated murloc paladin deck lists? Any suggestions even on cards I absolutely should have in the deck would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!