I played against one yesterday at 2k legend EU and it caught me by surprise. It can get 0 mana Seaside Giants down pretty early. Definitely a deck to look out for.
I forgotten those giants that are discounted with the locations… my terran paladin revolves around the starports so i will try them, im not very convinced with my 40 cards mech version … im also adding Runi time explorer for more location synergy…
The deck is surprisingly good (seriously who saw this one coming?)
I’ve seen it a few times. I destroyed it with Dungar both times I fought it thinking the deck sucked but then I was spectating about 20+ games of friends last night who were playing protoss and zerg decks and this deck was nasty.
VS is historically bad at predicting how good/bad cards are going to be. They’ve always been that way aside from which cards are obviously good. Even I have a better track record than they do with card predictions and I got the Warlock cards wrong. They did look like trash. The location with 3 durability seemed extremely weak. I just never made the connection with the double deathrattle.
Most people are bad at predictions. All the streamers got it wrong too and they are generally the experts at the top levels of play.
The only cards I am mostly consistent about on prediction are classes I play the most. Usually, Priest cards are easy to predict for me. VS doesn’t have main classes they play really, so they get a lot of stuff wrong. There’s a history of me on these forums saying a Priest card is good or bad and the community or someone else thinks it’s the opposite, I make note of it and come back later and show the prediction as right from me.
VS doesn’t really have a person like me for each class like they use to. They are now just bad overall with predictions because they don’t play the classes. No experts in the field of each class so to speak. They use to, but those were suspect.
People often say it’s normal for their homebrews to be bad. I don’t believe it’s normal for a homebrew of a good homebrewer to be that bad. If they don’t know how to make homebrews they shouldn’t be making them at all but that wouldn’t look good for their business model which is the cause of all that.
And there have been many different metas where everyone thought a meta was settled and then a deck from nowhere pops up (meta breaker deck) that someone had to homebrew that changes everything.
It happens, and homebrew decks do not get enough credit.
I would rather face a meta deck than a homebrew anyway. Homebrew decks are dangerous because you don’t know what to expect. It’s why I have so much success with Cover Artist. No one expects it and it’s devastating when the opponent gets greedy. I think it’s one of the most underrated cards right now.
That card was good when I was doing its achievement together with the Deadline achievement. Sketch Artist would pull Deadline and Deadline would poof their big minions. In some games I did it like 8 times (I was using Zola and projectionists etc).
But like no one is using it. In a starship meta it’s a massive win. Titans are out also as is zilliax. There are so many crazy targets you can hit for a measly 4 mana.
Think about it.
Everyone complained about Puppet Theatre. 4 mana. then 1 mana for a 1/1. Good for battlecries, sure. But people often used it on Titans as well
4 mana neutral gives access to a bit of that power.
I don’t think VS is bad at all at what they do (tho not really good at predictions, no one really is). But I will say I dunno what spell everyone was under before the launch of this miniset.
Not just VS, most of the discourse online and from streamers was that this miniset sucked in terms of power and that it would not impact the meta barely at all because the new cards were significantly weaker than the current stuff. Which I was appalled by because a lot of these cards looked significantly stronger than anything recently printed. I’ll admit I wasn’t expecting zergs to be as strong as to warrant quick nerfs as we will probably see, but this impression everyone was under that the cards were weak (VS also) has been really weird to me.
For the record, I’m not saying VS is bad. I think they are good at predicting what will happen to a meta after nerfs/buffs because they have data that shows them this. They are good at telling you what will happen if deck X goes away or if people play more of deck Y.
What I think they absolutely suck on is card reveal predictions. This is because they have zero data and all predictions have to be 100% pure guesses based on what you think a card will do. They suck at that hardcore.
My prediction was that Zerg would be strong and aggro would be nuts, Protoss Druid would be next busted deck and Terran would suck because starships are hard to launch.
I was right about Zerg, but wrong about Druid Protoss and Terran because I didn’t know the launching would actually be easier and that those discounts really do matter on the launch. Druid doesn’t need Protoss at the moment because Dungar is still insanely good.
I let myself be influenced by Zeddy’s and forum members review/prediction because I had not bought the minikit until today so I did not plan to have so much fun, it was satisfying to use the Terrans and the Ghosts and find out they are not dogsh1t, the only thing that disappoints me was the paladin ultracapacitor …
Very much doubt it. We already know what the other decks are and this miniset only synergizes with itself. We already know this is by no means garbage.
I’ve played against this deck several times with Protoss Mage and crushed it with little effort each time. I just freeze out the boards and kill them with OTK. It is an incredibly slow deck compared to what we are currently playing.
Well hsguru in top10k has Locationlock at 60%WR and the best Protoss Mage list at 42%.
I do believe protoss mage is a counter but protoss mage just isn’t very competitive as of now. Might see better performance against Dungar Druid and decks like this one, but weapon rogue and zergs probably eat it alive.
Weapon Rogue si a free win. I can keep them locked down and tempo them to a win. Zerg if a bigger issue because removing them once the aura starts is hard. need MCT in deck in order to try and grab them off their board early.
