Now it’s obvious why you would enjoy playing Painlock xD
You’re absolutely masochistic!
EDIT: Note to mods - this is friendly banter, absolutely no offense intended here.
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You did not just equate taking a principled stand with mental disorder? Dude, you need actual help.
I’m more of the “do unto others” here… I would hate to face it, so playing it makes me just as bad.
No way I’m playing that trash.
This is the way. They’re trying to sell over priced cosmetics here, people. Breaking standard is the price of doing business.
And people where starting to get bored with standard anyway.
So break it give people something to do.
Probably not but you never know.
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90 (45 each) but technically 89 because the last person doesn’t get their turn.
I’ve done it probably a solid 20 times lol
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This is the second time in 2 days that I see people overcomplicating the definition of hypocrisy. It’s just not practicing what you preach; doing something you accuse others of doing; doing something while you say you wouldn’t do it.
Both of your definitions say that in other words too.
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People comparing XL Mage to XL Warrior 
, Warrior actually has to play cost and can’t repeat a 9/10 cost card 4 turns in a row before turn 9.
Mage mains trying so hard to cope.
Ah, I was hoping your brainstorming some shenanigans with the new 3/3. The best I got so far was doing getting the shaffar spell burst on overflow surger, which was mainly just cause I was already running an elemental mage deck.
I’m thinking there has to be something ridiculous you can do with the new amalgam that save enchantments.
I did at first. But it doesn’t fit into my DK deck because I’m mainly minions. The spell transfer is a bit awkward to do.
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Okay I’ve now played enough games as 30 card BSM vs 40 card BSM and I believe the 30 card BSM is better from what I can see.
First of all, if you don’t run mixologists X2 in your 30 card BSM your leaving like 5 to ten percent winrate on the table vs aggro. The cards alone win most aggro matchups. I have no idea why all BSM decks don’t run X2 of them always. Afaict the recent number one legend BSM runs the 30 card version with 2 mixologists. Mixologists and weapon, along with typical mana cheat are much more effective at staving of aggro than the extra ten health, in my humble opinion.
Second, the mirror with the 40 card version seems to be decided by who can get tsunamis out first. The extra ten health doesn’t matter as much as how the elementals trade. If the elementals trade in your favor and you are first you will certainly win. These games are decided by trades and tsunamis way before the extra gas of the 40 deck is relevant.
Third and last, there’s a very large number of games I win due to Norgannon dropping early or on curve then being copied X2 when it survives for lethal. This has got to be one of the most undervalued and overpowered interactions in the game right now. If you drop the titan, then have 2x reverb (or conman to a lesser extent) to follow up it’s GG. And this combo is that much harder to find in the 40 card list.
I’m not sure the 40 card version is any better, and I think it’s worse. FWIW the most recent BSM to hit no one legend was the 30 card.
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It’s easy for any 40 card deck to be worse. It’s always a question “is the extra 10 health worth the WORSE cards I’m having?” because always some cards are better than others so 10 extra cards are WORSE[1].
The mage was an extremely fast deck for its combo nature so I’m not surprised if it ends up worse; the stats showing it high might be a mirage; that’s because some great players may like to play FotM.
[1] and I’m not including Renathal’s body which is an extra handicap
I kinda know what is happening with renathal in theory.
When you don’t know the ins and puts the extra 10 health is better.
I suspect the number of people who don’t know what they’re doing is so high that It inflates the XL version status.
Also the fact that many people aren’t punishing those decks with faster strategies because renathal existence is being enough to drive aggro popularity down by itself is dumb but is a thing.
Giving a better time for all orb mage decks.
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It’s not a bad theory, in the sense that the REST of the meta is also bad piloting because people may be experimenting on decks.
But I think sometimes great players play FotM decks too and when the rest start playing them they play them worsely.
If you get the copy secret off the initial activation it’s basically GG for the opponent.
It’s funny how it took this specific deck to make Norgannon Playable after a year of sitting around collecting dust. I guess a titan on 4 is worth playing. LOL
Yeah, being able to use him on 4 is kind of a huge deal compared to 6 with how mandatory he is to remove immediately and how much more back breaking that kind of disruption is on the earlier turns.
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It makes sense that adding more big spells to BSM makes it better. Definitely makes the most skill intensive deck in hearthstone history even more skillful when you have multiple choices on what big spell to cast on turn 5.
This is 100% the correct answer and why it was omnipresent at lower ranks despite not being particularly good while it was previously in standard, but that’s the frustration of it. Everyone runs it.
It’s not that straightforward. All cards in the game individually rank better or worse than all other cards; therefore with Renathal you add 10 worse cards on an individual level; what you bring on high cost cards is not a bad idea but it has to account the handicap that some of the high cost cards you add are worse than the high cost cards you already use.
You may also make the deck worse on another basic level; you may mulligan high cost cards accidentally; play a brutally sensitive to mulligans aggro deck like pirate DH and see how easily you can lose if the first cards you pick are unplayable.
Yep, that didn’t take long to figure out
Absolutely, this. Granted, there are some cheese plays you can make, such as Norgannon on 4, which is literally an auto-win, but it doesn’t happen all that often.
Your arguments are convincing.
However, the question still remains - is a 40-card version as worse than a 30-card one as it is more entertaining?
I’ll always gladly leave 2-3% on the table to have 50-100% more fun. Standard 30-deck version became so boring to me that I got bored of the deck after less than 100 games on it.
40-card version has at least twice as many combos possible as standard BSM. Sure, they’re less consistent, but there’s also more of them, so I wouldn’t be surprised if the data somehow show the difference isn’t that big - or if it’s in the other direction entirely.
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so many liars on this forum, you definetly do not destroy big spell mage as a blood dk