Zerotio’s Weird Reno Mage Deck Battle - Episode 86

News Chat

• Lots of talk about the meta, balance, and a TON of feedback from Ben Brode and the Hearthstone Design Team

 

• Biggest complaints are: Aggro and Shaman
  • Aggro: Feels bad to lose game after game without really having a chance if your opponent draws correctly and you don’t
  • Shaman: This class has been powerful and diversified (multiple strong ways to play it) for quite a while now.
• Big Brode Bullet Points
  • Worst diversification in HS was Undertaker Hunter, being played 35% of all games
  • 17% of all games have Shaman in it (30% at legend)
  • Highest winrate of any deck was Undertaker Hunter at 60%
  • Current winrate of Aggro Shaman is 53%
• What do you do with all this?
  • Let data inform your feelings
  • If you’re sick of Aggro Shaman, play Control Warrior/Shaman
  • Use a tracker! (So far this month, I’ve played 47 games. 4 of those were Aggro Shaman (9%), 10 were Pirate Warrior (21%))

 

Topic

Deck battle!

 

What are Deck Battles?

• We do these Deck battle episodes once a month.
• Guest hosts bring on their favorite deck onto the show, and break it down for you.
  • What cards, how it works, and why they like playing it.
• Best of 3 battle against me, live on the show.
• Twist: I always use the current Reigning Champion Deck of the show
  • The last deck a guest host brought onto this show and won with.

 

The Happy Hearthstone Hall of Fame!

• Decks that have beaten 3 challengers in a row!
• Dan Patriss' Beastmaster Hunter Deck (Mar 2014)
• My Very Own Warlock Demon Zoo Deck (Mar 2016)
• Craig's Dragon Priest (Sep 2016)

 

Defending Champion Deck

• Jarret: Future-Proof Tempo Mage
• December 2016
• Episode 83 

The Challenger's Deck

The Theme

• Reno Mage, with an unexpected win condition

 

How It Wins

• Stall the game and setup Reno/Ice Block Combo and be ready for your “swing turn”

 

The Key Cards

• Reno Jackson & Ice Block + “Secret Weapon”

 

The Duel

 

• Reminder of the defending deck

• Trash talk

 

• Best of 3 series
• We'll be right back.

 

The Aftermath

• Who won
• How close was it?
• What were important moments?
• What went wrong/right for the challenger deck?
• Was this a good representation of the challenger deck's strengths?
• Congratulate the winner

Community

Question

Jarret (from ep 83): Now that Mean Streets is out, what card where you "meh" about that you now love? For me it's Jade Swarmer. I didn't think about it's potential in N'Zoth Rogue; it's basically a more efficient and on-curve Twilight Summoner.

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