Are people just jamming him in every deck now?
i played like 3 non - highlander decks in a row that had him in it.
Kinda yes they are. Hes that good.
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Non Highlander decks means he’s not always usable, esp if last 2 cards are the same.
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Looking at HSReplay his win rates in non Highlander meta decks are pretty bad.
I saw that in GM where they often had to tempo him out without the activation, usually being pretty ugly.
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This card allows people to play stupid and still win.
I was facing an aggressive Warlock deck that over extended himself when I then played Mass Hysteria and also silenced his minion generator.
At this point the game was 28 health me to 9 the Warlock.
I then drop a 5/10 to which his answer was Zephyrs grab destroy a minion 5 or more attack.
Okay try a 7/8 taunt now. Removed.
Well now the board is clear and is filling his board up with minions again with Zilliax to boot all once again before turn 9.
After that it was on to lackey generation and easy demon conversion to 5/5s and then boost them up to 7/7s. I had to make a last ditch effort and make a 18/18 which he could now easily take out and have plenty of minion power to finish me off.
The final score was 17 Warlock and 0 me.
Zephyrs is TOO cheap of cost and shows up too early in games. Turn 5 was always a swing moment in a game but this card is ridiculous. Another card that takes away form strategy and goes down the road of bail out RNG and Discover a win vs tactics over time.
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On HSreplay in cards used he is catching up to Zilliax in record speed.
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From what you said, zephrys didn’t do much but removing a 5/10. He is strong but you didn’t lose that game because of zephrys, apparently your opponent was able to remove a 18/18 without it and even heal up to 17 from 9 without zephrys’s card
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In hearthstone, it is my opinion that a single misplay can cost. you the game. 1 bad turn.
So when I had my 5/10 Linecracker out there to his 4/4 silenced Vulture. Next turn I could pop that and be a 10/6.
But instead the Warlock now has his Vulture, Zephyrs, Zilliax, Mechroo kills it and buffs them.
I could have had better board balance or minions to trade in the next few turns vs - ooops - Zephyrs save me!
Now had I drawn another Mass Hysteria or had a minion on the board I could of healed with my Northshire cleric I could drop and get a card?
It made difference. Certain HS card win you more games. Get the cards, win more games.
Zephyrs. Yes its a good example of CCG design for marketing purposes. But it takes away from the overall skill of the game imho.
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yeah, which is why I think they should change the rule so that you need to start game with no duplicates as well.
it ruins his entire concept if even non-highlander decks can use him
3/2 bloodfen raptor ain’t gonna cut it right now since most decks atm have really good synergies and good removal
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Any archetype that intends to draw most of it’s deck is free to run him, yeah. So Druid especially does, it was already running Nomi.
There’s really no disadvantage to it. Even in the worst case scenario where 2 duplicates are at the very bottom of your deck, it’s not that dead of a draw, as 3/2 for 2 isn’t that bad. If Bloodfen Raptor was “if you’re lucky with how you drew your cards, get a game-changing card” it would be a decently popular minion.
fight already ower before druid able to use nomi i never see it played any mastertour or self game
Not the most powerful of zeph plays but it did allow him to maintain tempo after a punishing board clear.
Why whine here? If he’s that good you should just go craft him too. It beats losing to crazy rng. Your opponent selected a good card that Zephrys gave and won. Live with that.
Not sure how much credibility I should give to someone who puts importance on the health as a “score”.
Health is a resource. If you have to go down to 1 health to win, that’s far better than losing at 9 health.
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How Zephrys doesn’t give Secret destroyers when opponent have 4 in play? Or Mass Dispel when there’s 14 health Acolyte, taunt and High Priest Amet?