Did the bucket system kill Duels? No synergy in choices

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I love Duels, but since they added DK and moved to a bucket style options per expansion and not per strategy/deck, it’s been sad :frowning:

Before you could easily build a Frost Mage deck, or a Murloc Shaman deck, or BigSpells, etc. Now you just have to wait for crappy buckets sorted out of the expansions you chose to play, to be left out of synergy in your deck by duel 5 or 6 (unless you’re a DK which only has 2 expansions)
You need to chose 16 cards with synergy to start and plan a strategy, only with hopes of getting some decent buckets before your deck runs out of gas or is filled with neutral minions slowing you down.

Why you would want mechs for a lightshow deck? Make one Festivals bucket for Arcane spells and another one for mechs mage and give some sense to the options. :face_with_diagonal_mouth:
Because guess what? If you choose treasures that interact with arcane spells, but you’re given just neutral minions and mechs in the options, it just feels bad the treasure you chose will interact with only 2-3 cards of your deck. :sweat:

If you’re playing arcane spells and lightshows, get a lightshow bucket, if you playing skeletons, get a KT skeletons bucket as an option, if you’re playing silverhand recruits, get love for them, murlocs shaman? give it murlocs for that deck and not just random cards that will kill the fun as most are just random cards out of expansions you used in your deck building with no strategy, no synergy, just lameness.
Good/Useful buckets exist, but they are uncommon.

Why offering Orion or Contract Conjurer if you’re not running secrets? Why do you want support to secrets in Murderous buckets if you’re going full Skeletons with Cold Case and KT? Make it a Murderous Bucket for secrets and another bucket one for skeletons so you can choose something that actually works (from that expansion).

We’re OK with the randomness of the treasures you get, the styles they promote and how it can help or spice your run, but the random buckets are just lame and won’t help. I’ve tried to build decks using only certain expansions, and is just crap after duel 4-5.

I wish we could go back to the buckets being created per deck/style and not per expansion and feeling the eternal BETA mode is getting some love.

Please allow people to maximize the playstyle of fun decks during their runs instead of filling the decks with random cards from X expansion without any sense. Put the fun back into fuels please!

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You can make it to 4 or 5 matches in your duels run? Kudos. Im impressed.

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You could too if you wanted to.

I got you 3 wins with warrior even with you missing the key cards but you didn’t like they way you were winning and quit.

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what? what do you mean i didnt like the way i was winning and quit? I got 3 wins with bomb rattlegore yes, but i didnt quit, i lost my 3 in that run. do you mean i didnt like the way someone else was winning against me? yeah when they have like 5 9/9s on turn 4, or whatever crazy unreal thing like that, i know I have nothing to counter it or block it or can out armor it, imma quit lol. when I know I have only 1 removal spell and only 1 taunter the entire deck, and im faced with unimagineable huge wall of minions, hell yeah i wont waste my time with that match lol.

Edit: Im currently at 3 wins with paladin, approaching my all time high of 5 with this class. so far the trick has been to try and make Scourge Rager my first minion played so i can spam him out subsequent turns.

Supplemental Edit: Ended run at 5. How in the HFIL does someone get to play 4 FrostWyrm’s Fury in a single turn? Like wut ?!

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we used to have that players hated it and complained about how easy it was to build the same decks nonstop so they changed it

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I didn’t get that before the change, I still got the middle finger of offers all the time. built an all spell mage deck, here’s 3 passives based on deathrattle, taunt minions, and rush minions. Built an all divine shield mechs deck, here’s a bucket of murlocs, here’s a bucket of pirates, here’s a bucket of some strange spells that require friendly demons. Thanks… over and over… usually safest pick was the meme of worst pick, core something. went all discard themed deck? here’s passives and buckets that dont benefit that at all! synergy doesnt exist because reasons.

at least now with targeted choices yielding targeted sets to offer up buckets, I can double up on the super legendary or epics I picked to begin with. It is nice to finally be offered c’thun buckets when you’ve built a c’thun deck instead of NEVER being offered another c’thun card ever in the last way it worked. Tried it about 8 times in the old way, only once was offered a c’thun bucket, it was 3 c’thuns lol. next match i lost my run so it didnt matter. Now when I try it i get em offered each time match after match. tho i havent gotten a 2nd c’thun offered yet tho lol

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I’ve managed to do it using Portal gateway to pull sharks, use reverberations and then kill a replicating menace. That usually does it for a hybrid deck.

I’ve also done it with Skeletons, Cold Case, KT, Rewinds, Sivara, everything to keep copying cold case and spamming skeletons. Ned a lot of luck from treasures tho

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I wish i knew what you were saying lol. I dont know anything by name hardly and thats a long list there. I think i know what KT is, naxx legendary kelthuzad? the guy that revives all friendlies that died that turn at end of turn? Love him, wish there wasnt so many sniping removals in all my opponents decks. seems the moment a single minion gets put out on my side they always have something in hand that can solve it and its not there my following turn. I can barely keep from having almost no hand at all and just need to avoid having to draw a card to have a hand at all