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Requizen
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
On June 13 2014 14:38 Requizen wrote: Just finished Skin Game. Goddamn Jim Butcher man, that book was sooooooooooo gooooooooooood. I always feel amazing after finishing a new Dresden book. I've been meaning to get around to reading these. All of them are sitting in PDF form on my laptop so I should probably do that. | ||
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ketchup
14521 Posts
On June 13 2014 14:46 Cixah wrote: I've been meaning to get around to reading these. All of them are sitting in PDF form on my laptop so I should probably do that. I recommend it. I believe they are really easy to read, and enjoyable. I've been meaning to read Skin Game, but will most likely read Cold Days once more so I remember smaller details better. I forgot a lot waiting for this new book. Great series of books so far | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
Now just make lightwarden a priest-only card and bump it up to a 1/4 2 mana drop. plsssss | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On June 13 2014 15:32 Cixah wrote: The new priest card is a direct counter to Harvest Golem. Kills both sides and if it dies you get the bonus. Sounds like the Thragtusk of HS. | ||
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caelym
United States6430 Posts
On June 13 2014 15:28 Lord Tolkien wrote: Just saw the new priest card: zomg, a good priest 3 drop? SAY IT AINT SO :O Now just make lightwarden a priest-only card and bump it up to a 1/4 2 mana drop. plsssss it's straight up broken. it's 10 points of stats for 3 mana. it's better than both water elemental and yeti. | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On June 13 2014 15:34 caelym wrote: it's straight up broken. it's 10 points of stats for 3 mana. it's better than both water elemental and yeti. if it was a battlecry i'd agree. but its the easiest to work around effect. deathrattle means nothing if you kill it last or silence. Also i posted my recipe for the flatbread in a previous post did you see it? :D | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On June 13 2014 15:34 caelym wrote: it's straight up broken. it's 10 points of stats for 3 mana. it's better than both water elemental and yeti. For Arena it may be good, but that just requires a high rarity to offset it. In constructed, its...good but not must-take by far. I'm actually thinking it won't be taken at all, actually. It's competing for a slot with injured blademasters, so eh. 3/4 and +3 HP to a minion on death, or a potential 4/7 that can trade with stuff like Azure Drakes/Druids of the Claw and win easily (plus an additional circle of healing combo, along with auchenai/board clear and pyro/NSC/insane card draw)? Also requires a 1-2 mana minion to be played first and not die for optimum effect, so that generally leaves...NSC or Pyros. Which you can kill first anyways and deny him anything, and alternately priests aren't going to play pyros unless they can get combos off for early board clears (at best, 2 mana pyro-coin-PW:shield), or use it as a thalnos-substitute for board clears (or have 2 in hand). As a result, the deathrattle is pretty difficult to make use of overall in current priest decks, for a card that will die to the perennial 4-attack creatures that Priests hate. And its a deathrattle so you can board clear, kill it last, etc, and you can't get value out of it. I'm not convinced that it's broken when we're talking constructed, absolutely not. It's a push towards minion-heavy priest decks, but...it doesn't actually do that much for them without an early game. Perhaps an zoo-priest? lolololol, yeah no. I may try to put together a minion-heavy priest deck now with this card, but it doesn't drastically alter the metagame for priests overmuch besides (and aforementioned priest decks are gaining steam anyways). And TBH, priests do need a leg up in Arena, so it's fine. On June 13 2014 15:32 Cixah wrote: The new priest card is a direct counter to Harvest Golem. Kills both sides and if it dies you get the bonus. Currently, only token druids play Harvest Golems with any regularity in constructed, so it's fine. One variant deck for one class (Druids now have like 4 different variants, so ye). Maybe tempo rogue, I think. Druids can be a bit of a bothersome matchup for priests anyways, what with all the 4 drops and tempo. | ||
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Gahlo
United States35174 Posts
On June 13 2014 16:14 Lord Tolkien wrote: It's competing for a slot with injured blademasters, so eh. 3/4 and +3 HP to a minion on death, or a potential 4/7 that can trade with stuff like Azure Drakes/Druids of the Claw and win easily (plus an additional circle of healing combo, along with auchenai/board clear and pyro/NSC/insane card draw)? Also requires a 1-2 mana minion to be played first and not die for optimum effect, so that generally leaves...NSC or Pyros. Which you can kill first anyways and deny him anything, and alternately priests aren't going to play pyros unless they can get combos off for early board clears (at best, 2 mana pyro-coin-PW:shield), or use it as a thalnos-substitute for board clears (or have 2 in hand). As a result, the deathrattle is pretty difficult to make use of overall in current priest decks, for a card that will die to the perennial 4-attack creatures that Priests hate. That makes the assumption that the Priest has the time to heal it up to 7 health. I don't think it's unfair to question the new cards deathrattle while assuming that blademaster gets the benefit of the doubt of an unlikely scenario. | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On June 13 2014 16:26 Gahlo wrote: That makes the assumption that the Priest has the time to heal it up to 7 health. I don't think it's unfair to question the new cards deathrattle while assuming that blademaster gets the benefit of the doubt of an unlikely scenario. Blademaster-Circle of Healing. It's a standard combo you fish for in constructed, and is critical in druid matchups (all of them, except token sorta). 2 cards for a 4/7 on turn 3. Depending on the opponent, you want pyro-PW:Shield (coin), Circle-Auchenai (for zoo and agro), or Circle-Blademaster (minion-heavy classes like Druid) as an ideal opener for constructed priest. Alternately, you can just wait till turn 5 for a yeti, or turn 6 for a yeti+NSC+Card Draw. Blademasters are just too good for priest in constructed. 4/3+potential card draw+Circle combos. Dark Cultist doesn't offer nearly the same kind of utility or versatility in constructed priest decks. Even minion-heavy ones. It's like why otherwise value Arena cards like Temple Enforcer/Cabal Shadow Priests are not played on constructed/are no longer in favor for Priest constructed. And even without the possibility for value, as a 3 drop Blademasters trade with far more creatures than does the Cultist. killing an azure drake is important, when most control decks now run it, or killing a Gagetzan, etc. And if you attack the next turn, you can heal it up anyways and get essentially a yeti with charge. It really just feels like an Arena card tbh, which isnt bad, but doesn't boost priest in constructed. It trades reliably well with 1-3 drops. I could try and dust off my old divine spirit/inner fire combo deck with this. | ||
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Cixah
United States11285 Posts
Oh. Oh god. | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On June 13 2014 16:49 Lord Tolkien wrote: zomg its bo burnham. in the background :O Bo Burnham? is that the actor who plays ramsay snow in game of thrones? | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On June 13 2014 16:57 PrinceXizor wrote: Bo Burnham? is that the actor who plays ramsay snow in game of thrones? he's bo yo here's a full comedy show. He's got some older stuff on his channel. Mostly raps. + Show Spoiler + | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On June 13 2014 17:10 PrinceXizor wrote: Yeah i know bo... i've been holding that in my pocket since the first episode that ramsay was in, and no one brought up bo burnham so i never had the time. they look kinda similar a little bit. eh it was better a long time ago. You think he looks like Iwan Rheon? Ehhhh... <_<; | ||
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PrinceXizor
United States17713 Posts
On June 13 2014 17:12 Lord Tolkien wrote: You think he looks like Iwan Rheon? Ehhhh... <_<; Give me 20 good minutes and a guy who's really good with photo shop and i'll prove it. I guess he just kinda looks like bo burnham does in black and white pictures. I mean look at This low angle black and white photo of bo, and then look at This picture of a snake peeking its head out of the water, and then look at this gif of Iwan playing with a sausage that kinda looks the snake, but don't look very long, and tell me they don't kinda both look like fairly attractive white men. | ||
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Alaric
France45622 Posts
More my stuff. | ||
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Lord Tolkien
United States12084 Posts
On June 13 2014 17:16 PrinceXizor wrote: Give me 20 good minutes and a guy who's really good with photo shop and i'll prove it. I guess he just kinda looks like bo burnham does in black and white pictures. I mean look at This low angle black and white photo of bo, and then look at This picture of a snake peeking its head out of the water, and then look at this gif of Iwan playing with a sausage that kinda looks the snake, but don't look very long, and tell me they don't kinda both look like fairly attractive white men. That is a rather unflattering picture of Iwan, tbh. he almost developed a double chin there. :p dat bo picture doe, uff~ | ||
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