Some guy just cast Naturalize on my Harvest Golem on turn three.

The weirdest part was that he didn't hesitate to Shapeshift and finish the 2/1 that spawned. Like it was all planned... I'm so confused right now.

Greendotz

United Kingdom2053 Posts

March 07 2014 23:36 GMT

#1502

Yeah, I'm definitely going to hell for this draft, not two, not three, not even four, but FIVE swipes were offered to me in this draft (along with two Azure Drakes). I'm actually a little embarased I went 12-2 and not 12-0. This is also perhaps the only time where my entire draft has fit on one page too. Five Swipes, such skill!

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drinking

Philippines281 Posts

March 09 2014 04:49 GMT

#1503

got my first 12 wins in arena today
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Steelavocado

United States2123 Posts

March 09 2014 06:11 GMT

#1504

lol 12 wins wtf

SkelA

Macedonia13032 Posts

March 09 2014 11:54 GMT

#1505

Did arena somehow became much easier lately? Havent played arena in one week and now went 12-2 and 10-3 in my last 2 arenas, before that my biggest score was 7 wins.

Prizes were 450 gold and 20 dust for 12 wins and 280 gold and 90 dust for 10 wins. Got duplicate for every common cards from the packs but at least I got Lightning Storm for my shaman which I've missed and gold Patient Assassin from the 2nd pack

Ylrahc

France496 Posts

March 11 2014 19:23 GMT

#1506

Maybe you improved as well ?

I only saw a big gap the weeks after game went to open beta, and it's now settling down.

Latest arenas 6 3 twice with not so remarkable mage & shaman decks, and 12 2 with a mage deck with no fireball and no sheep (but 3 flamestrikes, 3 loot hoarders, 3 dark iron dwarves, 3 water elementals, 1 yeti, and Teh BEAST) It was so unexpected that I didn't save the list, I would have bet on 6 - 8 wins beforehand. I had no direct damage spell besides a frostbolt. Game did have good tempo early / mid though (2 sorcerer's apprentices, 1 injured blademaster, 1 faerie dragon, 1 kirin tor mage) , so most of the time I was able to land early pressure and trade favorably until skillstrike to clear the way into lethal.

Tritanis

Poland344 Posts

March 11 2014 21:42 GMT

#1507

What I thought was pretty mediocre deck earned me my first 12 wins! I honestly don't know what was so amazing in this deck to justify such high score--I'll chalk it up to sheer luck and not meeting any rushdown aggro decks on my way to glory (my Blizzard didn't get much use anyway, I drew it only a couple of times in the entire run).

Incidentally, this has been my 23rd arena run--and I'm 23 years old--it has to mean something!

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The rewards in the packs were underwhelming, sadly; six of them were duplicates, even though I don't have all that many cards unlocked.

At least I got my brother to finally cease his bragging after his 12-2 run ;d

NoSoldier

Germany84 Posts

March 11 2014 22:07 GMT

#1508

Well my latest arena run had an AWESOME paladin deck involved that wouldve for sure gone 10+. Then i get killed by secrets, twice. Meaning that HS crashes.
3rd loss is a loss where i had a horrible draw, even with mulligan and this mage has all the luck and all the combinations he needs,while i can only play fucking 1/1s the first 2 turns ....
Fuck this shit. That game is now finally version 1.w/e and still plays like a fucking alpha. Its ridiculous how much gold i lost to these retarded bugs,

Greendotz

United Kingdom2053 Posts

March 12 2014 15:46 GMT

#1509

I have to say it's SOOOOO satisfying to Counterspell a Pyroblast when you're just at 10hp.

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trollbone

France1905 Posts

March 12 2014 16:46 GMT

#1510

My best arena drafts :

nojok

France15845 Posts

March 12 2014 17:18 GMT

#1511

4 0 into 5 mages in a row.

TheRealArtemis

687 Posts

March 12 2014 20:13 GMT

#1512

Got 8 Wins with this crappy deck =/

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The prizes.
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QzYSc2

Netherlands281 Posts

March 12 2014 20:33 GMT

#1513

it's really weird how shitty decks like these without any fire elementals can go 12 wins extremely 1 sided, while my druid deck with great curve and 5 swipes, starfall and 2 starfires, ancient of war and 3 druid of the claws went only 11 wins while struggling hard.

i guess the worgen early game carried me because most of my opponents didnt play any 2 drop, ogres are good, but most of the time i didnt draw them or didnt do much to win.

Greendotz

United Kingdom2053 Posts

March 12 2014 21:48 GMT

#1514

On March 13 2014 05:33 QzYSc2 wrote:
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I've found there's really no predicting how well a draft is going to do. I once drafted 3 legendary's (good ones too) and only got 5 wins, I also once had a Mage draft where my only spell was a single Polymorph, 12 wins. I think we just tend to remember the "God drafts" that get stopmed into the ground for whatever reason rather than the shitty drafts that somehow go 10+.

*Edit* Also, in what reality would you really call 11 wins 'bad'?

sure the internet wannabes who think they know everything will probably be saying stuff like "OMFG that draft and you couldn't even 12-0? Uninstall and kill yourself!" but still consider that the average run is still somewhere around 3.5 wins. I think a lot of people watch Hafu/Trump and set themselves ridiculously high standards.

sjschmidt93

United States2518 Posts

March 12 2014 23:24 GMT

#1515

Just disconnected at 10-2 while ahead quite a bit. I'm really sad now, that's the most wins I would have ever gotten, and I think I would have had a good chance at getting twelve. Never got a screenshot of the deck either, which is also disappointing because I almost ALWAYS screenshot my decks.

Anyway, it had a weird curve with (I think) 11 4-drops including two sen'jins, two water elementals, one dark iron dwarf, one defender of argus, and one fireball. Only two 2-drop minions and only two 3-drop minions. It had really strong 5-7 drops with kodo, spiteful smith, sunwalker, stormwind champion, and antonidas. Plus a blizzard and 3 flamestrikes didn't hurt! Sadly, I was only able to get antonidas behind a taunt once but it was quite fun to just throw fireballs at everything he put out there.

Lost to a really aggressive warrior deck that made a lot of silly mistakes, and I honestly don't remember the other loss.

QzYSc2

Netherlands281 Posts

March 13 2014 23:23 GMT

#1516

some rogue just gave my priestess cold blood lol. prep into assassinate a 2/2 abusive sergeant on turn 3.
i love late night arena.

Spect8rCraft

649 Posts

March 14 2014 01:35 GMT

#1517

I recently drafted a priest in hopes of getting Thoughtsteal (because those games are hilarious). Needless to say, it didn't run very far (I think, 4 wins or 5, I forgot already), but there was an interesting moment.

Against my final opponent, a shaman, I managed to Thoughtsteal a Fire Elemental and an Earth Elemental. Things got funnier (for me) when I Cabal Shadow Priest a Flametongue Totem, though he managed to get rid of most of my threats one way or another.

At one point, I had an Auchenai Soulpriest complementing my new friend the Earth Elemental. He manages to Mind Control Tech the Auchenai Soulpriest, to which I casually dismissed. Probably not the best idea; it turns out Ancestral Healing works wonders as an offensive tool when you have an Auchenai Soulpriest, which he used to obliterate my Earth Elemental. He went on to Windfury it, trading for two more minions, and giving himself the momentum to win the game.

Not even mad; thoroughly impressed, actually, and had a great laugh along the way.

Keldion

0 Posts

March 14 2014 07:22 GMT

#1518

I've been busy with work, but over the course of 2 days I found time to finish out my arena matches. This 12-2 Mage deck features no Fireballs or Polymorphs, but instead boasts several warm bodies to fill the gap between Frostbolt and Flamestrike.

After this run, I have a vastly renewed respect for Knife Juggler and Mind Control Tech's potential. In the situations where MCT was in my first 10 cards drawn, only 1 of my 3 opponents have played around him - the other 2 were severely punished. With the assistance of Dragonling Mechanic and Razorfen Hunter, Knife Juggler threw 4 daggers into a lone Azure Drake - the chance of that happening was 1/16!

You can find the picks at http://arenamastery.com/30cy. The picks I spent the most time on were numbers 7, 12, 15, 16, and 28.

Worgen Infiltrator
Acidic Swamp Ooze (2)
Frostbolt (2)
Knife Juggler
Loot Hoarder
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Harvest Golem
Mind Control Tech
Razorfen Hunter
Scarlet Crusader
Defender of Argus
Dragonling Mechanic
Gnomish Inventor
Water Elemental
Darkscale Healer
Gadgetzan Auctioneer
Gurubashi Berserker
Silver Hand Knight
Stampeding Kodo
Stranglethorn Tiger
Argent Commander
Boulderfist Ogre
Sunwalker
Flamestrike (3)
Stormwind Champion
Pyroblast

shannn

Netherlands2891 Posts

March 14 2014 07:26 GMT

#1519

Past 8 arena's of which 7 were 7+ wins.
I finally broke the 2k gold barrier for my personal record

On to 3k I guess xD

Kanaz

Denmark658 Posts

March 14 2014 09:29 GMT

#1520

I feel bad for my 12 win last night.
Decided to play mage as i really disliked the 2 others classes offered (Priest and Hunter).
I got offered a total of 4 fireballs and 4 frostbolts, 1 blizzard and 2 flamestrikes. And 2 polymorphs.
I had problems sleeping after that, because of the disgusting amount of nuke lol.
The 12 win awarded me 1 pack and 400 gold lol.