🎁 Tavern Brawl: The Naughty List

[Vyraneer]

The following message is being posted on behalf of our Live Player Experience Team.

Hi there!

The Naughty List Tavern Brawl kicks off today, December 17th, and it will run until December 24th. And…it is going to be a fun one!

We’re fully embracing the holiday spirit here, and…let’s be honest, your opponents haven’t exactly been nice this year. For this reason, instead of coal, you will get the chance to hand them something that we hope is equivalent: a truly dreadful deck.

Here is how this Tavern Brawl works:

• Build the worst possible deck from a special curated pool.
• At the start of the game, swap decks with your opponent.
• Both players start with 10 mana and draw 2 cards per turn.

But…do not forget that everyone’s someone else’s opponent, so you’ll also need to turn traps into triumphs, and make victory out of the terrible deck you were given.

We know our community is full of creative minds, so here’s the challenge: can you homebrew the perfect evil deck for this event? What’s the worst you can build (we won’t judge…) and the best you can do with what you’re given?

We can’t wait to see the mischievous masterpieces you’ll come up with!

We also want to say a huge thank you for all the feedback and excitement around the recent Dual-Class Brawliseum. Our goal is to keep things fresh with new takes, unusual mechanics, and even chances to try pro-level decks, like we did with the Tavern Brawl - World Championship.

P.S.: A friendly reminder - The Rafaams of Winter Veil event will end on December 31st, so make sure you grab your rewards before it is over:

• Runi, Temporal Guardian card (normal and Golden)
• Timethief Rafaam Hero Skin
• 2 Across the Timeways Epic Cards
• 4 Across the Timeways packs)

We wish you an amazing holiday season. See you in the New Year!

Live Player Experience Team

[Aokighara-1654]

Build the worst possible deck like one that is so bad that you would want to craft the worst cards in the game to add to it kinda deal? lol

[Xorinz-2243]

Why would you make such a Brawl and only allow a very limited cards? I can only use like 10 cards, LOL.

[Derkan-2593]

The currated card pool is the worst thing you could have done to the interesting idea of this brawl
If the point is to make a bad deck then why are there good cards in the pool ?
Like in a mode where you draw 2 cards per turn, why would I give naturalize, Dew Process and Jade Idol to my opponent ? Of the very few cards available to put in my deck, I can give my opponent a mill+anti-fatigue wincondition
Why can’t we just experiment with all the cards available ?
Might as well give us premade decks at this point…

[Zee-1630]

Ya, the curated pool makes this one of the worst designed brawls.

I looked through the pools for several classes and determined that I would rather skip this brawl.

I was hoping this week brawl would be 2nd holiday brawl called Gift Exchange, since I look forward to it every year. Well, this is going to free up some time for posts about how bad the current devs are.

[SparkyElf-2852]

@Vyraneer

We also want to say a huge thank you for all the feedback and excitement around the recent Dual-Class Brawliseum.

Yeah… Anything dual-class, as long as it’s Roguestone. So exciting!

@Vyraneer

let’s be honest, your opponents haven’t exactly been nice this year.

Thanks to you, team (or your predecessors, or bosses… and Bobby K., of course… if you’re just some artist, coder, other worker or whatever, it’s not about you in particular, of course — I’m speaking generally here), for that, because that’s exactly the player base you’ve been fostering and catering to (target audience, if you will) for years.

For example, check out this bit — and I’ve been nice there:

@SparkyElf-2852

Oh, about that: isn’t that swaggering bozo essentially the epitome of the typical HS players, target audience even, judging, for example, by these forums? Check it out for yourself: narcissistic, infantile, pathologically hyperactive, dim-witted, yet very vocal about his particular ‘OPINION’ (as if someone cared…), to the point of throwing a tantrum if anyone doesn’t adore it and bow down in awe when he SPAKE; always eager to jump on a table in any saloon in his dung-ridden boots and start moving those hips like… like it were actually classy, all the while somehow considering, in his delusion, himself the ‘good guy’ and the ‘hero’.

Or perhaps it was all supposed to be just a generic, run-of-the-mill Yankee type, I dunno.

Anyway, in this light, I wouldn’t expect them to hit the supposed player avatar of sorts, at least when it comes to personality, story and such, like that. If anything, it’d probably be more Reno — ‘cranked up t-t-to eleven’.

Oh, actually, found the ‘naughty’ (more like harsh, but just… oh, and also more relevant to the point raised) take, too:

@SparkyElf-2852

The problem wasn’t the mode, though, rather, it was the players… which, I suppose, they had earlier cultivated with their particular course of action and design direction, driving away those who liked to use their brain at least a bit and attracting those ADHD (adjective) connoisseurs and aficionados of all that ‘exciting’ stuff. That’s what you’d call a metagame failure! Literally, and not what some erroneously mean by ‘meta’.

[Xoxin-1445]

@Zee-1630

Ya, the curated pool makes this one of the worst designed brawls.

A curated pool is absolutely necessary else it’d be a bunch of specific-use cards nonsense. Everyone would just play rogue and stuff their deck with weapon-related cards.

But this particular pool is just too small. It’s pretty ridiculous. There are 59 neutrals in the pool. Doesn’t sound too bad until you realise 36 of those are legendaries. And that’s ignoring any cards actually being too good to use…

[Zee-1630]

@Xoxin-1445

A curated pool is absolutely necessary else it’d be a bunch of specific-use cards nonsense. Everyone would just play rogue and stuff their deck with weapon-related cards.

I get that, and that’s why I said “the curated pool,” instead of “a curated pool.”

So I agree.

[Raiden-1139]

Kind of hard to make a “terrible” deck when the curated pool is mostly useable with a handful of class cards.

I had a warlock mirror match and a few turns in I draw the 9 cost, 9/7 “change your hero to Ragnaros the Firelord” deathrattle minion, and I was holding the 1 cost destroy your minions to destroy enemy minions card. Either my opponent forgot you start with 10 mana, or they thought randomly throwing something together would work out

[Cramer-1728]

I got my win on the first attempt. I just put everything in the warlock’s options that dealt damage to the hero or cost health to play, etc. my opponent was down to 7hp by the 5th round. they conceded. lol

[Derkan-2593]

they could currate the pool to remove cards explicitely tied to class hero powers like weapons in rogue, totem in shaman, silver hand recruit in paladin…
But the current pool is a joke
Missplaced pyromancer, Elise the Enlightened… nothing interesting in just having vanilla 4/3 and 5/5 that do nothing

[Xorinz-2243]

Thats what 99% of the players are doing.

Its a stupid event.

[Cramer-1728]

@Derkan-2593

But the current pool is a joke

I kinda see it more of a small stakes challenge to design the better/worse (pov) trap of a deck than whoever you get paired up against. Rake-stepping is kinda the whole point in my opinion. so make the most rake-stepping deck you possibly can for your opponent. if you are seeing a lot of

@Derkan-2593

nothing interesting in just having vanilla 4/3 and 5/5 that do nothing

then i think your opponent isnt getting the point of the brawl.

[Derkan-2593]

@Cramer-1728

I kinda see it more of a small stakes challenge to design the better/worse (pov) trap of a deck than whoever you get paired up against.

There’s no design when there’s no choice
If in the end there’s just a couple cards useable per class, that’s not deckbuilding, that’s puzzle solving
It’s even less interesting if in the end you end up with 90% the same deck as your opponent

@Cramer-1728

then i think your opponent isnt getting the point of the brawl.

these shouldn’t be options to begin with
What’s the point of putting them in the currated pool ?

There are interesting cards in the pool just as there are a lot that are just either useless or not interesting to have in the collection
Remember on top of that that a lot of the “currated cards” are extermely expensive
There are 59 neutral cards, about 30 of them are epics or legendaries that are not given for free
Druid has 25 cards, that’s 13 of them