This druid dragon deck is erm… suspiciously hard to beat.
Be prepared to face hordes 1 mana Onyxias. Just here to place my bet on the next problem deck.
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Havent tryed the deck yet but i already faced it several times, looked far from hard to beat in fact i won more times than lost against it.
Druid were just starved for a new viable deck so they are all playing it.
The first time I saw this dragon deck I didn’t really think I could lose.
And I lost indeed to the dragon that deals 4 damage per spell. Pulled out 3 of those. I mean listen, Druid is all about mana cheating but its the RNG that continues to boil my blood.
Not at all unbeatable, just some solid solid tempo with some blessed RNG most likely than not.
as with all druid decks ramp and guff are the problem
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I don’t know what to think about it. Its seems that once they have guff + onyxia on board, they can generate board after board of cheap dragon minions .
If they get face dmg with alexstrasza or if they get several copies of haleh, you may very well lose without not being able to do anything.
If they don’t, its just a matter of clearing their board over and over till they run out of card (5/6 turn usually) and pray that they don’t get a good Kazakusan.
Yeah guff needs a nerf.
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All these greed decks still lose to tempo or combo. Just that druid can only be king thanks to guff.
The new free card is just allowing greed decks to exist for a while since there are so many of them being tried right now. When people circle back to win rate the greed decks will thin out.
I see about as many priests as I do druids, the greed priest is still like the alien trying to burst out of its human host’s body.
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You really can’t let Lady Preston druid keep anything on board or you risk being walloped by a horde of silenced dragons. Still obnoxious to play against, as most anything druid-related that also runs Guff and Kaza heh.
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the deck seems weird to play against. Bunch of low stats dragons. The variance is quite high, they can have low impact dragons as well as high impact, like an Ysera or Alex.
But frankly the only power play of the deck is Kazakusan. It’s literally how they win. Play Guff, play prestor, randomly generate a kazakusan, win with treasure.
It’s done by design. You get fooled into thinking you have nothing to worry about with a bunch of piddling little dragons on board, then they silence them and do upwards of 30 damage to you with a full board. Kaza is just the icing on the cake for them.
It is a good deck and the ladder is saturated with them. Aside from the people here flex posting about how good they are against the deck. Base your opinions on your experience not from the egotistical posts of forum elitists.
They could make Guff a 8 mana. It wouldn’t still matter if they ramp up mana in the first couple of turns. But it would probably limit gaining extra mana with their hero power.
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Guff should cost 6 and give an empty hero power. A nerf was already warranted before Renathal, now more than ever.
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Tier 0 best deck ever but only if you have the payed rigging benefit. Without rigging it’s too random and relies too much on 1 of’s in a 40 card deck to even get started on the random train.
This pretty much is key. The deck is very RNG heavy, if they roll very good dragons (think like several onyxias, a kaz, any of the 9/10 mana mage dragons, or priests copy dragon) they can be game winning, especially if coupled with a well timed silence.
If you can clear each round you should be fine, unfortunately, its very hard to predict what you might be up against as your opponents hand could be full of any number of dragons with random/powerful abilities, so you just have to play out the RNG cheese.
Coupled with Big Spell Mages abuse of archmage’s rune in this meta, this is probably one of the heaviest RNG metas hearthstone has seen in a loong time. It’s very reminiscent of an arena meta where half (or in some cases more than the entirety) of your deck or value comes from randomly generated effects. Some people hate this in standard (myself included, no thanks if I want RNG fest I go to arena) but apparently some people love it lol.
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You are all overrating Kazakuzan.
I have been playing it and that’s the last card you want (in your deck).
What the deck wants is Guff for cards (not ramp) so you can keep playing 2-3 dragons every turn that hopefully overwhelm the opponent.
The silence is great (particularly against Paladin), but it’s not a mulligan priority so it’s not going to happen too often with a 40 card deck.
When Kazakuzan gets ridiculous is when you get multiple copies (and you have Guff). Then you don’t worry about running out of gas with 10 cards (it happens). But again, it’s terrible if those are the dragons off the top of Prestor, and game losing if you run out of cards (which also happens).
It’s not that I love this level of RNG. It’s that I despise Curse Warlock. And this works well enough against them even with 40 health.
The point is as usual they made an idiotic card and now we are stuck playing garbage like this Druid crap deck and this Renethal Priest trash every pther match. Im glad all of you elite holier than though forum rats are enjoying it.
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The deck is tier two and has a playrate of about 10%. Its popularity will (probably) only decrease from here. Further, the deck will become worse as players learn how to deal with it. I don’t think we really need to worry, guys.
Edit: At top legend, and legend, its playrate is a little high at above 15%. Some might say that’s a problem.
What’s funny is that, yet again, druid is the only class that can really abuse Lady Prestor this way because of Guff shenanigans. For any other class, playing a Lady Prestor dragon deck comes off as a pretty mediocre RNG mess. Druid can abuse their rampant draw cards to essentially fish for the good dragons like the mage legendary and overwhelm you because they have so much more mana than other classes. Yeah, it may not be a Tier 1 deck and may be the flavor of the week but it’s still obnoxious and the breaking of the mana cap still leaves a bad flavor in the mouths of many non-druid players.