Lifesteal/Taunt Decks

They’re annoying, stop making them. We get that you can’t make a deck that has a strategy more complex than “spam taunt minions and repeatedly use lifesteal spells”.

It’s just an easy bullcrap deck that counters most other decks. They sit there for 5 turns doing nothing because all their cards are 5+, then they spam lifesteal and you run out of ways to damage them because they just keep healing over and over and over and over.

People are lame for making these cheapo decks.

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What deck are you even talking about? There isn’t a single deck in standard that does this. There’s not even enough taunts and lifesteal cards to do this in standard. And if there was, the deck sounds horribly bad.

And if you’re talking about wild, it’s probably the worst wild deck of all time.

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There are plenty of random lifesteal cards and minions to nearly fill an entire deck with nothing but lifesteal spells and minions. Obviously it’s a concept if I just played someone with it.

I actually met such a deck weeks ago. It was a Priest and the entire deck was build around lifesteal and taunts.

I won the game because all my opponent did was to heal himself and protect himself with minions.

Lifesteal is overused in this game, imo.
Particularly where Warlock is concerned.
The Lock HP is supposed to give draw at a price.
That isn’t really the case anymore.

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Not a single class in standard has more than 3 lifesteal spells. The rest filled with junk taunt minions because the classes that have lifesteal don’t have many taunts either.

You’re describing the worst deck one could possibly make yet you claim it has almost no counters.

You didn’t even tell us wild or standard or class.

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I’m guessing this is a wild deck they are describing. Nothing like that exists in Standard.

Standard. Also you would be wrong. I never said exclusively spells doing lifesteal. I said minions and spells. You could get close to 20 cards that all have lifesteal. As I said before, you can almost make an entire deck comprised of lifesteal. There a handful of cards that grant certain card types lifesteal. There is also the ability to copy cards and keep repeating them. Sure don’t know a lot for someone who claims to.

Handbuff pally and handbuff DK come to mind

They do be like that

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Lol which class? This is hilarious.

“There are a handful of cards that grant other cards lifesteal”

Lol no there isn’t. There’s like maybe 3-5 and all in different classes so you can’t combine them.

Please tell me you’re talking about Demon Hunter. Or better yet, dancing Paladin. Lol

“Beats most decks.”

Hilarious.

He said “The Entire Deck”. The entire DK and Pally decks are not Taunt+ Lifesteal. That’s hyperbole.

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And don’t forget all their cards cost 5+ and it’s got copy effects.

It’s getting funnier and funnier.

Hyperbole is a perfectly normal figure to use on the forums when people are emotional

I don’t understand why you took the time to write this comment, it’s entirely pointless

They probably had like 3 taunts played on them and 2 lifesteal cards.

Then it becomes the entire deck and counters most other decks in standard

Good stuff.

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It’s understandable, even I use hyperbole from time to time, lol

Helps to get the point across

So you enjoy debating while standing in quicksand??

Which card did DK play that gave a minion lifesteal?

So you are confirming this was a DK deck? Full of taunts and 2 lifesteal spells?

Rainbow taunt DK?

So you played against a DK that played barely anything early on and then mid game took control of the match and used Lifesteal to restore the health they lost early in the game? That’s called a DK control deck and it’s how the deck operates. You either have to beat them quickly with aggro or play a better long game then their deck. If you are playing anything else like tempo/mid you are going to probably lose because their deck is designed to dominate those types of decks.

It’s not that their entire deck was Lifesteal but they saved key cards for key moments in order to maximize their healing potential and take advantage of your deck. Also, Lifesteal is one of DK’s class strengths so going into a match against a DK you need to realize this is going to happen. If anything it’s been tamed down since DK’s release. They used to buff their life pool up much higher than they do in the game now.

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Oh so this was just blood dk control?

So literally 1 lifesteal spell.

Lol

There are 3, + Primus

The 3/3 reborn/rush/lifesteal one, the neutral 2-cost rush with finale lifesteal and the rush one which damages adjacent minions as well

So that’s 6 + Primus

More than enough to tilt you, as it sometimes means full heal in one turn

I 100% understand the OP and I believe there have been many threads much more stupid than this one xD

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