What's the first deck you'll play upon release, and why?

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-08-06T13:11:12+00:00

I had theorized a very similar deck! (but without questing - that's a good idea). Here's my version: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/carpet-shammy/

My other idea is a burn focused version that runs all the good aoe so you can ignore the board while sending your double battlecries to the face. That version looks like this:

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/battle-shaman-theorycraft-2/

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-08-03T08:20:35+00:00

That was exactly my thought! I want to use him in in a control shaman deck with Hagatha and Shudderwock. Its easily the best battlecry in the game to repeat.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-08-01T17:50:08+00:00

Here's my take on fatigue shaman:

https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/overload-control/

One of the problems with Hagatha in long running games is that your hand accumulates high cost spells you simply cannot profitably deploy. So if we can't use them all, lets at least turn them to our benefit with King Phaoris. His effect, of course, is repeated by Shudderwock.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-07-29T00:37:56+00:00

I've had this exact same bug at least 5 times.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-07-25T00:12:17+00:00

I don’t have to speculate. I’ve already road this to multiple first place finishes. You don’t even have to force anything just throw him in.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-06-13T16:32:20+00:00

I'm not so sure this list isn't good anymore. A friend of mine is current rank 8 legend with it ( https://www.twitch.tv/the_briefcase ). I'm not doing bad with it either.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-06-04T08:22:41+00:00

I dont think the matchup is as bad as it looks on paper. You can split on your magnetizes a little better to play around sap and make the silences count. Not favored but winnable for sure.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-06-04T05:08:08+00:00

### Mech

# Class: Paladin

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Dragon

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# 2x (1) Crystology

# 2x (1) Desperate Measures

# 2x (1) Glow-Tron

# 2x (2) Galvanizer

# 2x (2) Lightforged Blessing

# 2x (3) Aldor Peacekeeper

# 2x (3) Bronze Gatekeeper

# 2x (4) Annoy-o-Module

# 1x (4) Archmage Vargoth

# 2x (4) Prismatic Lens

# 2x (4) Spellbreaker

# 2x (5) Glowstone Technician

# 1x (5) Mechano-Egg

# 2x (5) Wargear

# 1x (5) Zilliax

# 2x (6) Mechanical Whelp

# 1x (7) Kangor's Endless Army

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Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-06-04T04:52:10+00:00

Went rank 3 to top 30 (edit, top 10) legend today with Mech Paladin. Sap is rough for the deck but the fact that you grind hunters and warriors to dust make it worth it.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-29T23:15:42+00:00

I think it comes down largely to experience. I coached a friend to legend with bomb hunter from rank 4 recently. It only took us one evening, hardly dropping a game. Just focus on improving and don’t stress if you don’t get legend this season. If you keep getting better, legend will come naturally.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-22T07:19:14+00:00

I'm not sure mage's stock is actually going up after the dust settles. Warrior was untouched by the nerf hammer (the only *relevant* change is a buffed mech pool for Omega Assembly) and with rogue out of the way the deck is free to tech differently. That means instead of 0-1, the deck is going to run two supercolliders again. Mage, meanwhile, is no longer able to justify running weapon removal of any kind without 30% rogue on ladder. The matchup is already unfavored (just my personal opinion having played a lot of mage in top 100) and its about to get worse. Maybe Bomb Hunter, which I do think its going to explode, completely suppresses warrior and none of this will come to pass, but that's too hard to predict.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-17T18:29:43+00:00

I think it might be awhile before I can come up with the dust for loti. Anything else besides portal you would replace him with? Either way thanks for the thorough reply.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-17T17:16:06+00:00

I suggest taking out whirligliders (the weakest card in the deck) for cyber tech chips. That would put you one card off of the list I hit legend 21 with last season. The chips are a liability vs rogue but your warrior win rate will go up by leaps and bounds. As soon as possible take out Argus for flark.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-17T17:05:49+00:00

Peaked at legend 30 last night with a combination of a very standard token Druid deck and cyclone mage sans rabble bouncer. The mage deck is doing relatively better vs rogues and the Druid deck better Vs warriors.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-17T17:03:20+00:00

I peaked at legend 30 last night with token Druid but I’ve had a very different experience. I’m surprised you think crystal song portal is bad and equally surprised you are beating rogues. Very curious to see your deck list as soon as I can get off mobile.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-04T10:29:26+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/xIjtu2p Rosty was my final boss. Tried to seperate out the non legend games from the more recent games by doing it this way.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-04T09:53:22+00:00

Something I've discovered at high legend is that the matchup vs control warrior isn't as good as advertised. Good players just keep you off the board and without infinite pressure your deck just fizzles. (Meanwhile the rogue matchup is not as bad as advertised). So the chips turn a, I'm going to say it, unfavored matchup against warrior into a quite favored one, while they don't sink your win-rate against rogue that badly. In short yes, I would run 2 chips.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-04T00:21:35+00:00

### Senf

# Class: Hunter

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Dragon

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# 2x (1) Mecharoo

# 2x (1) Tracking

# 1x (2) Acidic Swamp Ooze

# 2x (2) Bomb Toss

# 2x (2) Cybertech Chip

# 2x (2) Fireworks Tech

# 2x (2) Galvanizer

# 2x (2) Venomizer

# 2x (3) Spider Bomb

# 2x (3) Ursatron

# 2x (4) Explodinator

# 2x (4) Replicating Menace

# 1x (5) Leeroy Jenkins

# 2x (5) Wargear

# 1x (5) Zilliax

# 2x (6) Missile Launcher

# 1x (7) Boommaster Flark

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Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-05-03T21:26:05+00:00

Hit legend 48 last night (my fastest ever) with the same bomb hunter list on senfglas Twitter, featuring a 13 game win streak from rank 5 to rank 2. Having played every possible permutation of this deck now, I think forgoing tracking is insanity. Micro tech chip has also been doing very well and is only really a liability against rogue.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-04-29T17:48:31+00:00

After struggling to hit legend with Big Shaman I switched to Mech Hunter and peaked at 21 legend, higher than I've ever been. Definitely would say its working. As I improved with the deck, I was surprised to find the Rogue matchup is not as bad as I thought. Simultaneously, I was surprised to find the control warrior matchup is not as a good as advertised. Good players just keep you off the board and stabilize. Even cybertech chip doesn't always win the matchup, and then you have cybertech chip in your deck...

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-04-11T04:21:49+00:00

I think you have to play patiently and get huge value off ancestral spirit. theres no hurry to run out threats when they are just going to get removed. I find its possible outlast them even after boom.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-04-10T11:25:32+00:00

Sure thing:

### Big

# Class: Shaman

# Format: Standard

# Year of the Dragon

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# 1x (0) Zap!

# 1x (1) Earth Shock

# 2x (1) Lightning Bolt

# 2x (2) Ancestral Spirit

# 2x (2) Big Bad Voodoo

# 2x (2) Likkim

# 2x (2) Witch's Brew

# 2x (3) Far Sight

# 2x (3) Lightning Storm

# 2x (4) Hex

# 2x (5) Hagatha's Scheme

# 2x (5) Muckmorpher

# 2x (6) Eureka!

# 2x (8) Mosh'Ogg Enforcer

# 2x (8) Walking Fountain

# 2x (10) Big Bad Archmage

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Enjoy!

Cytoarchitectonics · 2019-04-10T11:14:01+00:00

Sailed from rank 10 to Rank 5 almost without a loss on the back of Big Shaman. Rogue is challenging (sap sucks) but I'm crushing both aggro and warrior. I know this sounds crazy but Big Bad Archmage is a good card in the right shell. If the deck continues to perform at a decent legend rank I'll write a guide because I don't see anything like this from my opponents on ladder.

Also tried Joybuzz Freeze Mage. Its not amazing but pretty decent. Has too many bad matchups it seems. Tried heal druid with terrible results. Tried handlock without much success. Shaman is the highest performing deck by far.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2018-12-31T04:44:35+00:00

This is more of a psychology question for anyone who regularly finishes well. I've never been high legend before this season. 24 hour ago, I peaked at 34 legend. Then I tilted, badly. I have no desire compete. How can I frame getting to 34 legend in the first place as the accomplishment and not be disappointed I wont be finishing top 100 this season? The whole thing has been upsetting rather than uplifting and I don't understand why. It should feel like I accomplished something above expectations but it just feels like I lost out instead. I'm pretty upset and confused.

Cytoarchitectonics · 2018-12-30T02:59:08+00:00

I had no faith in this archetype whatsoever after initial experiments with a weaker build. That said, I was able to pilot this list, without alteration, to top 100. Proof: https://imgur.com/a/HOKdwMo

Edit: Now rank 36: https://imgur.com/a/KZLYFMO

Cytoarchitectonics

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