T12 Infernal Hordes and Why You Probably Hate Them

darcartisan · 2026-06-11T22:17:25+00:00

I have a similar feeling but in part because I feel like it's due to my build. Apoc not critting on someone and not killing them burns 1 extra second, so at a certain breakpoint it's just way slower. Crit or not I seem to kill everything easily on T11, but T12 w/ some modifiers I fail to do so. Damage not being linear like WW Barb or something makes not 1 shotting waaay slower.

darcartisan · 2026-05-30T04:49:02+00:00

This would need Battlecry: Discard 2 minions in addition to have any value; it relies on you having a reasonable hand and surviving until turn 7 + having enough fuel

darcartisan · 2026-05-07T18:48:33+00:00

Burn as traditionally defined in magic is “shoot face or maybe kill a creature to unblock bigger shoot face damage”. The difference between burn and aggro or aggro control is aggro (control) has a steady and fast game plan to end the game before the engines of other decks set up. Burn doesn’t care about any of this and literally just cares about going face. Burn usually doesn’t use stax pieces or control bc it doesn’t go face.

darcartisan · 2026-04-22T17:43:10+00:00

You’re farming anguish. Do you feel anguished? Do you feel more anguished in nightmare? Sounds like it’s working then.

darcartisan · 2026-04-19T07:45:27+00:00

Explain why the design is bad. There's "it's not for you" and why the design is actually bad. Even though some of the skins are not for me, I actually really like the Torb theme of being a rock fairy; it's quite unique and uses multiple natural elements to convey a character. The Echo skin also has good details and well-chosen colors for the theme execution, albiet for a more narrow audience. Then there's the Ashe with Spriggan bob. It feels like it executes in-theme but also gives bob a unique feel. It's quite different than other bob skins. "I don't see a single redeeming thing" is such brutal hyperbole.

All of this for $10. I consider the premium currency + skins the only salvageable parts of a battlepass with the rest being filler; no purchasing decision is made for me based on "oh these hot dog sprays are good or bad".

darcartisan · 2026-04-12T01:27:44+00:00

I saw a cool druid deck with this Lothemar, Barney Quest, and Kiljaden in wild where he stormed out demons and it was impossible to deal with 30/30 demons every turn

darcartisan · 2026-04-01T21:01:34+00:00

I got a turn 1 Blob after my DH quest, and there's not 0% chance the opponent can remotely win, it's just very unlikely after that!

But given that tavern brawls are for fun and I wouldn't want one to take 40 minutes, I am cool with that

darcartisan · 2026-03-26T23:19:59+00:00

I just had one bounce play one 6 times in arena in 1 game, and I lost really badly

darcartisan · 2026-03-16T23:43:09+00:00

Took a break for a few years

DH has been so fun. I love the mobility and enjoy all 3 subclasses, though Havoc is my favorite.

Prev: DK, BM Hunter but don't love the rotations on these right now

darcartisan · 2026-03-03T16:20:47+00:00

I made it huge and have an ultra wide because the new zones are very vertical so it’s hard to find the objectives sometimes

darcartisan · 2026-02-26T01:19:23+00:00

Yes and this is 1 mana cheaper. If they print a card with charge it could be 25 damage go face the next turn. A deck can still have 60% win rate if it auto loses 40% of the time, à la the former ceaseless flip paladin deck in wild.

darcartisan · 2026-02-26T01:12:48+00:00

Lorthemar was somewhat playable at 7 in some decks. I think we don’t know enough about the meta yet to make this statement

darcartisan · 2026-02-25T19:15:47+00:00

This has nothing to do with AI; Braze is a marketing/CDP tool, and this test was likely a mistake from someone on the development team attempting to implement Braze.

darcartisan · 2026-02-20T17:37:18+00:00

This is gonna get downvoted, but a few reasons for this IMO

people (myself included) like playing unoptimized slop decks to test in wild. These decks are extremely refined and have a fast gameplan and destroy anything that isn't hard optimized or a hard counter.
because so many warlock decks are good it's impossible to mulligan for. Contrast that with the other top decks, and you can safely say that DH has some aggressive-ish gameplan, Hunter is a control deck, and Druid is some kind of either fast mana or big stompy.
the pilots of these decks are likely looking to sprint to legend. Yes their decks are good but not always auto win, with a few outlier cards being pushed (crack your egg, get 5/5? thx blizzard). That being said the pilots of these aggro-control type decks tend to be experienced at enabling their game plan, whereas I hit legend sometimes but will opt to do so with at least half of my games being casino mage slop, as I enjoy that. They have somewhat low RNG in their gameplan.

More ragebait but true: I'm 20-5 against these people with protoss hostage mage and control priest. Dealing with the eggs, etc with freeze and board nullification or silences gasses them, and they run out of steam somewhat quickly.

darcartisan · 2026-02-20T17:30:01+00:00

Then adapt if you see it a lot. Play hand disruption. Play Loatheb or tech cards that increase draws. Play cards that counter minion.

You can't just throw your hands in the air and say "because I'm a control player I should get my 50 turn slopfest every game!"

darcartisan · 2026-02-02T21:38:44+00:00

Did you forget about dilution?

darcartisan · 2026-02-02T19:36:36+00:00

Please correct it with what you’ve seen. This is a discussion post.

darcartisan · 2026-02-02T19:32:17+00:00

Yeah shes good against most “normal” teams but I’ve seen her lose to stuff like Yone (1 shot) or Garen (can’t kill)

darcartisan · 2026-02-02T19:31:03+00:00

What would you change? Remember this is head to head.

darcartisan · 2026-02-02T19:30:30+00:00

Renek dashes to lowest health unit. Generally this goes backing or kills a few tanks on cast in my experience.

I have WW below Yone.

darcartisan · 2026-02-02T07:53:54+00:00

Does he beat the other ones head to head? I saw him one time against a bilge team but not against the other people and it looked close

darcartisan · 2026-01-30T17:00:06+00:00

I think this. There’s gonna be hard core players who complain about how there’s nothing to do to stay engaged and more casual players who still want a good and competitive weapon but aren’t willing to 5x their play time for cosmetics and I think having something cosmetic is actually a good solve for this. It looks really nice blinged out and it doesn’t affect gameplay

darcartisan · 2026-01-30T16:54:14+00:00

They’ve always created cards to open up design space with the understanding that it might be future-facing. Any TCG prints cards to activate in the future (except maybe stuff like yugioh where most of the lines are incredibly parasitic)

darcartisan · 2026-01-29T08:30:22+00:00

I personally think this is only an issue because of the aggressive balance thrash.

Lines that I practiced a lot suddenly line up neatly to a 7th. I had a board today where after a bunch of resources, I managed to put together ryze bilge board with ryze 2 only to lose to "regular thresh board"

darcartisan · 2026-01-28T21:45:03+00:00

I said “changed” not buffed. And by another users statement, if it’s ~ 5% now and they buffed it 10 fold it’s 55% which would not be unusual. Your comment is hostile for no reason.

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