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Playing Dragon Priest and loving it. Probably gonna settle in there for a little while.

Since I'm missing a couple legendaries, I tech'd in a Confessor Paletress. Not as powerful as some others I know, but oh my god it's so much fun. I just won a game against a Patron Warrior, and she lived 4 turns. I drew Ice Howl, Gruul, Flame Leviathan and Chromaggus. And got a Mal'Gannis in the game before.

I know the card is unpredictable, but my unofficial count with her in my decks has been 7 or 8 great spawns, and just once I got a Millhouse Manastorm. So the odds have been pretty great to me so far.
 
Playing Dragon Priest and loving it. Probably gonna settle in there for a little while.

Since I'm missing a couple legendaries, I tech'd in a Confessor Paletress. Not as powerful as some others I know, but oh my god it's so much fun. I just won a game against a Patron Warrior, and she lived 4 turns. I drew Ice Howl, Gruul, Flame Leviathan and Chromaggus. And got a Mal'Gannis in the game before.

I know the card is unpredictable, but my unofficial count with her in my decks has been 7 or 8 great spawns, and just once I got a Millhouse Manastorm. So the odds have been pretty great to me so far.

Dragon Priest has been a complete pain in the ass to play against but haven't had much luck playing it myself.
 
Dragon Priest has been a complete pain in the ass to play against but haven't had much luck playing it myself.
It's pretty tempo oriented, so if you lose that or can't maintain some semblance of board control, you're kinda screwed.

But in my limited sample size, I'm just shy of a 70% win rate.

Edit... aaand as I say that, I just got toasted by a mid range hunter. But still.
 
I am currently flying through the ranks playing Handlock without any TGT cards. Most classes are playing a very board dependent style right now and the Warlock AOE spells create huge tempo swings in your favor.
 
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Never played handlock myself. Don't have any giants.
 
I am currently flying through the ranks playing Handlock without any TGT cards. Most classes are playing a very board dependent style right now and the Warlock AOE spells create huge tempo swings in your favor.

I've been wanting to try this after playing a million gindy games with druids, shamans, paladins, and priests.

I think shaman is here to stay, and I feel the same about priest. Shaman is favored over handlock, but priest definitely isn't.

Handlock will never fall out of the meta, IMO, unless it's just power creeped out a year from now.
 
What are you guys thinking of TGT so far? I'm completely loving Dragon Priest. Played 55 games with it, and so far I'm at a 64% win rate with it.

I played around with Secret Pally today and it's interesting. Something about it feels boring about it but... I only played 5 games with it and 4 were wins from people rage quitting after all the secrets fired. So that's kinda funny.

Oh, and the Dreadsteed thing is crazy fun. It's not really viable as anything right now, but it's super fun to play around with.

Last month was my second full season playing Hearthstone and topped out at Rank 9. Had a lot of freelance work last month so I'm hoping to play a little more this month and try and push for 7 or 6. Plus my collections a lot more well rounded after a ton of TGT packs and dust and stuff.
 
Finally hit legend for the first time today. This weekend I grinder out a lot of druid wins to get my golden portrait, which left me at the rank 5-4 bubble. After getting stomped by secret paladin during that grind, I decided to try my hand at crafting and playing it today.

I was successful. I went from the 5-4 bubble to legend, and then climbed as high as legend rank 4 before a couple losses dropped me to 13, and I decided I needed to be productive. I can post some screenshots later when I'm on my pc again as long as I don't forget.

@theSTEREO. was spectating a game while I was at legend rank 4 though, so he can confirm.
 
Finally hit legend for the first time today. This weekend I grinder out a lot of druid wins to get my golden portrait, which left me at the rank 5-4 bubble. After getting stomped by secret paladin during that grind, I decided to try my hand at crafting and playing it today.

I was successful. I went from the 5-4 bubble to legend, and then climbed as high as legend rank 4 before a couple losses dropped me to 13, and I decided I needed to be productive. I can post some screenshots later when I'm on my pc again as long as I don't forget.

@theSTEREO. was spectating a game while I was at legend rank 4 though, so he can confirm.

Congrats. I can imagine getting it during the first week of a season must be tough. Were you specifically playing a deck to counter secret paladin?
 
Congrats. I can imagine getting it during the first week of a season must be tough. Were you specifically playing a deck to counter secret paladin?

No - I built and tweaked my own midrange secret paladin. The list performed extremely well, and I'm pretty proud of learning how to optimally pilot it without a guide or anything. The only deck I had a lot of trouble with was Patron.
 
No - I built and tweaked my own midrange secret paladin. The list performed extremely well, and I'm pretty proud of learning how to optimally pilot it without a guide or anything. The only deck I had a lot of trouble with was Patron.

I have yet to play this season and can't imagine myself spending much time with the game until other decks become more refined to fight against secret paladin. The card that plays the secrets instantly is utterly broken.
 
I have yet to play this season and can't imagine myself spending much time with the game until other decks become more refined to fight against secret paladin. The card that plays the secrets instantly is utterly broken.

Meh Patron crushes the deck. Hunter does extremely well too - especially with flare.

The secrets that get played are all poor on their own, and by going for the massive play, you're extremely prone to loading your hand up with bad cards.

The deck is strong, very strong, but it's not what Patron was before TGT. It just happens to feast on the dragon priests, druids, and mech/tempo mages that are everywhere right now for whatever reason.

It won't take much longer for everyone to realize that patron is still far and away the best deck, and then it'll define the meta again. Handlocks will come back, hunters will be seen more, and secret paladin will fall toward the bottom of tier 1.
 
First of all, congrats to @Cassity14 . Completely awesome. I can totally vouch for it. Spectated to earn a pack, and saw the 4 next to his name. Just thought he was rank 4. Then on closer look, it was rank 4 Legend.

As for Secret Paladin... I know I'm still a rookie, but I've basically immersed myself in this game for about 2.5 months now, so take my analysis for what it is...

Been playing a lot of Dragon Priest. The deck is super fun to play, and I'm getting pretty dam good at it. But (at least at the 16-9 rank level), I've won almost every game I've played against Secret Pally with it. I've been playing my own version of Gnimsh's deck, which runs a Defender of Argus, plus I threw in double Lightbomb and some other stuff of my own. Between that, Holy Nova, and a crapload of taunts, I know for me at least, I've survived Secret Pally so far. Requires curving out basically perfectly, but it can be done.

That said, I've played 14 games with the more aggressive Secret Pally. I'm literally laughing out loud playing. As of me typing this, I'm 11-3 with it, and I got so many rage quits from it I started tallying them. 6 rage quits.

So to me, it's really fun and I jumped 3 ranks in an hour with it. But I think I had a few games where my opponent could've maybe beaten me, but they conceded out of anger when my secrets fired. So yeah, ultra powerful deck, but if it pisses people off this much, I wonder how good for the game it is. But I like Blizzards stance on it. That they don't like to nerf cards, but rather leave it up to the community to find the answers. I think the answers will come. There's already ways to play around, or at least test out, a couple of the secrets.

So I dunno. For now, it's pretty fun. We'll see where it goes.
 
Also, screw games that require an internet connection all the way through. I played on vacation this weekend in a place where the internet was unstable. No joke, I had 6+ games where I lost my connection on my lethal turn or turn right before it, or during mulligan. Infuriating. I dropped 3 ranks over the weekend cause of the losing streak, but because this games sucks me in like an idiot, I just kept queuing up thinking "oh, it'll hold through this game." Never did.
 
I really like dragon priest as well. It's one of the three decks I usually run in my lineup for the team league I play in.

As for my paladin climb, I fared pretty well against priest as long as I found my threats on curve. The more aggressive lists that push out a ton of aggro and aim to win by turn 7 get ruined by priest, but playing Boom, Tirion, and Loatheb at the top of my curve helped give me more threats that they sometimes couldn't answer.

If you're running double Lightbomb though, that makes it incredibly difficult. A lot of priests aim to be greedier and run zero or sometimes one. That cards crushes my gameplan.
 

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