We have one of these for Dota so why not start one for HS?
Anyway, I'm brand new to HS (three days or so?) but just had one hell of a moment that made me jump up and down.
[22:50:54] Firebolt145: mage against priest [22:50:55] Kadaver: EXPLAIN [22:50:57] Firebolt145: he's at like [22:50:59] Firebolt145: 3-4 hp [22:51:01] Firebolt145: i'm like 15 [22:51:08] Firebolt145: when he mind controls my ogre [22:51:12] Firebolt145: neither of us have any cards in hand [22:51:15] Firebolt145: and are just playing our draws [22:51:46] Firebolt145: i draw a bunch of useless 2 drops which he taunts and heals through [22:52:07] Firebolt145: he heals up to like 8 hp and starts dropping me quickly [22:52:17] Firebolt145: i stall with cone of cold and something else i don't remember when suddenly [22:52:27] Firebolt145: i draw raging worgen [22:52:36] Firebolt145: but he's got a taunt creature + 2 others, he reduces me to 3 hp while healing his minions now [22:52:41] Firebolt145: my next draw is sheep [22:52:46] Firebolt145: i sheep his taunt [22:52:55] Firebolt145: ping my worgen for +1 damage and windfury [22:52:57] Firebolt145: and destroy his 8 hp [22:53:03] Firebolt145: while i'm at 3 hp [22:53:17] Firebolt145: he was emoting taunts at me too during each heal
Arena. Picked paladin with 1 molten giant and 1 holy wrath.
Game goes on, and the warrior gets me to 4. I have 1 card in hand. Holy Wrath. He has no minions so I throw it at his face, Draw the card and its Molten Giant. He's at 19. I one shot him for 5 mana.
Arena, warlock vs rogue. I've spent the last 3 turns throwing down every kind of taunt and charge I can to prevent him from rushing me down. After he clears my board I have 1 life left to his 16.
Draw Jaraxxus. Spent a while praising my unbelievable luck. Game turns around. Always pick Jaraxxus.
I was playing as a pally against a priest I believe it was. He has about 8 health left to my 20+, no cards in hand to my 2 (can't remember what they were, but neither were a minion) and I have 4-5 minions on the board. He topdecks deathwing. I get some bad draws while he gets some better draws, now I'm down to about 4 health while he is at 3, he has clear board advantage, 2 big minions against my 1/1 token, I'm clearly dead next turn. I topdeck a dwarf, awwwwwww...yeah.
As a long time WoW player winning with Leeroy is really really satisfying. Drafted him twice today and i think he finished off about half a dozen games for me. The best one was along side that ghoul which gets +1 whenever a mob dies. So Leeroy + Consecrate + that guy swinging for over a dozen when i was likely dead next turn was pretty sweet.
I had my arena deck (preist) against a Warrior. It was a reaaaly long game, we were both at 5-10 health for probably 8 turns in a row. Shortly after I finally played my acid ooze against no weapon, he put out gorehowl, and had the chance to use it to bring me to 1 or 2 a couple turns, but tried to win the board position. As a priest with two mind controls in my hand, I knew that wasn't possible, and tried to save it for something more important than a 2/2 or 2/3.
Finally he played the charge/enrage guy, and blasted my last minion. I mind controlled it and turned the game into a win.
I don't feel good about it because he played really well, but it was very fun
I was playing my hunter aggro deck against a rogue.
Turn 1: Rogue ends I end (exciting)
Turn 2: Rogue daggers up and hits me for 1 Play Dire Wolf Alpha
Turn 3: Rogue plays Alarm-o-bot, hits me for 1 Play Jungle Panther, hit with Dire Wolf Alpha for 2
Turn 4 (Me 28, R 28): Alarm-o-bot pulls in The Beast, plays Alarm-o-bot again (worry), Sinister Strike for 3 I play Timber wolf, hit The Beast for 6 with panther (Acquire Finkle), Hit R with Dire Wolf Alpha and hero power for 5
Turn 5 (Me 25, R 23): Alarm-o-bot pulls out Deathwing, plays alarm-o-bot again, daggers and hits for 1 Use Dire Wolf Alpha to clear Alarm-O-Bot (Stop that plz), play Ironfur Grizzly to save myself some damage and Hero Power for 2, hit with Timber Wolf and Finkle for 5 (Dire on other side of timber from finkle)
Turn 6 (Me 24, R 16): He plays Faceless Manipulator to duplicate Deathwing, PANIC. Clears Grizzly with Deathwing 1, hits for 1. I realise that I'm not surviving the next turn unless I pull out something majestic, queue a tasty draw.
Raid Leader, River Crocolisk otherside of Dire Wolf Alpha, Unleash The Hounds.
Finkle hits for 4, Timber Wolf hits for 4, Dire Wolf Alpha hits for 5, Crocolisk hits for 5.
And that is why I now intend to run DXTory for every game, in case that happens again. (I may have misremembered a step or two, but I think that's right.)
In my first 7+win arena, I was playing a mage as a priest. It was going poorly, I was at 3 hp. mage was at 21. I had an 8/6 mountain giant and a 6/6. He had like 4 big creatures including a taunt.
I had 2 divine spirits in hand... and top deck the inner fire for the 32/32 giant for the win!
The game was so epic I don't remember most of the details. We were both low health, each top decking. He gets a molten giant. My palms get sweaty, knees weaken, arms are heavy.
Then it becomes ok.
For I was a priest and I stalled long enough to deserve to get my second mind control.
What happened next left me in total disbelief. This fellow must have been so angry he left without a well played.
On November 01 2013 21:45 Irave wrote: The game was so epic I don't remember most of the details. We were both low health, each top decking. He gets a molten giant. My palms get sweaty, knees weaken, arms are heavy.
Then it becomes ok.
For I was a priest and I stalled long enough to deserve to get my second mind control.
What happened next left me in total disbelief. This fellow must have been so angry he left without a well played.