I’m sorry who even are you and when did you become a part of this conversation? I disregarded his comment once I read his lightshow suggestion because no one in their right mind who plays the deck would suggest that to help beat a blood DK. His other advice was decent (vast wisdom, finley, nerubians) but because the lightshow suggestion was so terrible I just didn’t even read the rest of his post. Get outta here lmao
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Have you considered just watching good players play this MU? I mean theres content about this everywhere.
For example, here are two back-to-back games won by nohandsgamer as Spooky mage vs BDK: https://youtu.be/WDDIsKhBh6Q?t=6993
No he doesn’t win through any cheap mechanics, he just plays smart and makes sure to apply constant pressure and have enough value generation. That’s all there is to it, its honestly probably one of the easier matchups because it is so slow.
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I’ve seen that. His deck is slightly different then mine. He also dodged getting his kel and rommaths distrupted, but yeah I mean I could just copy this deck. It’s ab unfavorable matchup but i don’t think i should be 1-6 vs BDK with it
There’s a reason for this, he is constantly pressuring, the BDK can’t afford to play disruption. That’s the key to the MU, if you aren’t pressuring you will be disrupted to bits.
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Obviously it comes down to volume. He top decked a death borne and essentially won because of it. I’ll admit, his deck is better than mine. I know what the deck is, i just tried to spice mine up and it worked better for everything aside from DK which means it’s bad because there’s a lot of DK on ladder. He didn’t run into a blood boil/explosion or an extra discover of anything. I do agree with your theory, and I think in my case it’s a numbers game, and conceding my variation isn’t as good as his
Pay attention to what he does, like in the second game, he isn’t greedy, and doesn’t wait on using his Sivara for 3 so-so burn spells. This MU its generally better to play a minion sub-optimally than lose it to disruption and he knows it.
This also has the side effect of generating tempo/pressure, which is what I mean.
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So two players brighter than you agree, but you’re the expert. I restate my previous post, maybe your dumpster legend brain needs to give their idea a shot and see what happens. Hard mulligan for ETC and try to win with Rommath combo.
This is such a salient point that people miss.
It doesn’t matter how fast or slow your deck is generally, it matters if you should play the aggressor or the counter in your present match up. Against BDK, even slow controlly mage needs to be the aggressor or it loses.
Just like when control priests were crying about warlocks a couple years ago. No, your deck isn’t build for speed, but you have to find a way to push the damage out or just concede.
Exactly this. Knowing which role to play in the fight is critical to success. When your slow deck faces a slower, greedier deck, you have have to play like you’re the aggro deck as much as you can.
Just because someone says they theory crafted for 4 hours on the internet doesn’t mean it’s true. Also, who theory crafts for 4 hours on whether or not to put a single card in a deck that already has an optimal variant widely available for use. Dummy neon shame on you for taking everyone’s word at face value in a video game forum.
Other then that, yeah i agree with the rest
Popular and optimal are not the same things. Just because a list is widely used does not mean it’s maximally optimized. Better players know this and don’t put much stock in what HS replay says is the most common build.
People that are top 1k legend… because things like that small change are how they got there.
Did it ever occur to you that I don’t need to take their word for it know they’re correct? I mean, you aren’t the only person who has cards and plays this game, lol.
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That doesn’t mean we sat there for 4 hours thinking about putting one card in a deck.
It means over the course of 4 hours we both tried different things over and over, then eventually we settled on which one had the highest success at beating Blood DK because we both had the same problem of it being a bad matchup and specifically looked for something to beat it.
You can also copy it with Ring of Tides from Azshara, and you can discover more copies of it from Infinitize the Maxitude and Vast Wisdom. You only need 3 played in one match to make Rommath do 30 damage and 4 played is 52.
Against non Blood DK opponents you just pick something else from ETC and copy the skeletons, solid alibi’s, blizzards and horn of the ancients with rewind.
Edit: I made it to rank 1375, I’m calling it there cuz I comfortably get the 11 star bonus now guaranteed.
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