Hearthstone Arena Drafting!

[Jormengand]

Sunfurry. We need it.

[Draz74]

Three activators isn't enough for consistency. Sunfury Protector.

Agreed. Ugh, this draft is frustrating!

[Mando Knight]

Shields up! Sunfury #2 takes the 19th slot.

Pick #20
Windfury/Harvest Golem #2/Fire Elemental

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 1 (Harvest Golem)

So, Harvest Golem gives more synergy with Tinker Tech, is still a decent card on its own, and fits the theme of our deck ("Too much early-game"). But then on the other hand there's Fire Elemental.

I guess we all vote for Windfury, just to vent our frustration at the draft?

[GAAD]

Well, at this point we take no more early game unless we absolutely have to. Fire Elemental for the win.

[Zevox]

Even without our curve issues, Fire Elemental would be an auto-pick here. I don't know if there's any single common card a Shaman can pick that you should take over Fire Elemental unless your curve forces you to.

[Infernally Clay]

Considering Fire Elemental is the Shaman's class card that, like Truesilver or Swipe, should always be picked every time it shows up simply because of how strong it is, I think you should grab the Fire Elemental.

[CantigThimble]

Fire Elemental! One of the best cards in arena vs stuff we don't even want.

[Mando Knight]

Fire Elemental burns the competition for the 20th card in the deck.

Pick #21
Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 1 (Harvest Golem)

After an interlude of "maybe we can squeeze some mid-to-late cards in here" we get the choice between two Murlocs and a 3-drop. Note that this is Grimscale Oracle (1/1 for 1, ALL other Murlocs have +1 attack), not Coldlight Oracle.

[GAAD]

Puddlestomper. Basically a 3/2 for 2, PLUS we have the opportunity to buff it.

[CantigThimble]

Oh boy, a puddlestomper.

[Zevox]

Yeah, Puddlestomper. We're not happy about it, but even in a vacuum it's the pick here, and our deck only makes it more so.

[Mando Knight]

Pick 21 gets us Puddlestomper: because if we have to draft even more early-game cards, we might as well get one that synergizes with the deck.

Pick #22
Gilblin Stalker #2/Thrallmar Farseer/Tinkertown Technician #2

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
22: Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 1 (Harvest Golem)

I think Arena's just trolling us now.

[Divayth Fyr]

I think I'd go with Tinkertown.

Anyone want to bet that more than 2/3 of the deck will be in the 2 and 3 mana slots? ;P

[CantigThimble]

I can't even, this deck, tinkertown it is.

[Mando Knight]

This deck needs tinkering...

Pick #23
Silvermoon Guardian/Forked Lightning/Frostwolf Warlord

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
22: Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords
23: Gilblin Stalker/Thrallmar Farseer/Tinkertown Technician
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 1 (Harvest Golem)

[GAAD]

The Frostwolves Stand Ready alongside so many cheap minions

[CantigThimble]

Frostwolf Warlord easy, synergy with hero power and our absurdity of early game (I'm using absurdity as a unit here, a murder a crows, a gam of whales, an absurdity of early game) plus it's kinda lategame, which we need.

[Mando Knight]

Frostwolves Stand Ready to maybe pull the deck past the early-game.

Pick #24
Novice Engineer/Amani Berserker/Undertaker

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
22: Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords
23: Gilblin Stalker/Thrallmar Farseer/Tinkertown Technician
24: Silvermoon Guardian/Forked Lightning/Frostwolf Warlord
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 2 (Harvest Golem, Piloted Shredder)

Oh, look: draw. It's the weaker Novice Engineer rather than the better Loot Hoarder, but at least there's finally something that cycles itself... unless it's time for a leetle blood?

[CantigThimble]

Novice engineer, we can expect to have better things to do on turn 2 but it might draw us into our lategame.

[Zevox]

Yeah, I think the Engineer is the pick here. With so many cheap cards, card draw will be important, because we'll have a hard time trading well against mid-to-high cost minions.

[Mando Knight]

The inventive gnome's bribe of another card is successful, beating out the bloodthirsty troll and the undead for spot 24.

Pick #25
Razorfen Hunter/Frost Elemental #2/Youthful Brewmaster

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
22: Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords
23: Gilblin Stalker/Thrallmar Farseer/Tinkertown Technician
24: Silvermoon Guardian/Forked Lightning/Frostwolf Warlord
25: Novice Engineer/Amani Berserker/Undertaker
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 2 (Harvest Golem, Piloted Shredder)
Draw: 1 (Novice Engineer)

[CantigThimble]

Frost elly, we just have to autopick mid/lategame now.

[Divayth Fyr]

Frost ele? It's not great late game (in that it can't trade with the tougher minions), but it still is better for that than 90% of the deck ;)

[Mando Knight]

A second Frost Elemental tries to help push us toward midgame.

Pick #26
Bloodsail Corsair/Dragon Egg/Powermace

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
22: Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords
23: Gilblin Stalker/Thrallmar Farseer/Tinkertown Technician
24: Silvermoon Guardian/Forked Lightning/Frostwolf Warlord
25: Novice Engineer/Amani Berserker/Undertaker
26: Razorfen Hunter/Frost Elemental/Youthful Brewmaster
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 1 (Stormforged Axe)
Deathrattles: 2 (Harvest Golem, Piloted Shredder)
Draw: 1 (Novice Engineer)

Whereas this choice forces us back towards early game again.

[The Glyphstone]

Frosty Lemental, is a decent 6-drop card
With a 5/5 body and a battlecry
I'm bad at writing songs...


I Say Dragon egg this time. Powermace is good, but it's another 3-drop, and now we have 4 activators for the Egg.

[Divayth Fyr]

Corsair can be a mini Acidic ooze (since a lot of weapons have only 2 durability and the opponent is likely to use 1 right away), while if you can trigger the mace on a Shredder it becomes a decent late-game minion. I'm not sure which is better, though the Corsair is probably more reliable...

[Zevox]

Powermace, no question. We have some Mechs, which makes it quite strong, and it's up against garbage. Dragon Egg isn't particularly good even if you activate it, and the Corsair is just junk unless it hits a weapon, which is only guaranteed against Rogue since sometimes you just aren't offered many/any weapons even in weapon-using classes in arena.

[CantigThimble]

Easy mace. No two ways about it.

[Mando Knight]

Powermace takes spot 27, and I just realized I had mis-numbered the picks after the Gilblin Stalker (#11).

Pick #28
Jungle Panther/Murloc Raider/Dust Devil

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1: Wailing Soul/Sunfury Protector/Alarm-o-Bot
2: Gnomeregan Infantry/Hex/Razorfen Hunter
3: Frost Elemental/Dalaran Mage/Darkscale Healer
4: Angry Chicken/Mana Wraith/Coldlight Seer
5: Stonetusk Boar/Rockbiter Weapon/Silverback Patriarch
6: Stormforged Axe/Ogre Brute/Young Dragonhawk
7: Shattered Sun Cleric/Mad Bomber/Explosive Sheep
8: Elven Archer/Wolfrider/Crackle
9: Spectral Knight/Puddlestomper/Harvest Golem
10: Doomsayer/Echoing Ooze/Southsea Captain
11: Gilblin Stalker/Nerub'ar Warlord/War Golem
12: Gurubashi Berserker/Unbound Elemental/Fen Creeper
13: Blackwing Technician/Dalaran Mage/Tinkertown Technician
14: Wolfrider/Reincarnate/Crackle
15: Elven Archer/Frost Shock/Frostwolf Grunt
16: Frostwolf Grunt/Earth Shock/Antique Healbot
17: Undertaker/Earth Shock/Blackwing Technician
18: Explosive Sheep/War Golem/Ogre Brute
19: Scarlet Crusader/Windspeaker/Piloted Shredder
20: Sunfury Protector/Nerubian Egg/Illuminator
21: Windfury/Harvest Golem/Fire Elemental
22: Grimscale Oracle/Puddlestomper/Dancing Swords
23: Gilblin Stalker/Thrallmar Farseer/Tinkertown Technician
24: Silvermoon Guardian/Forked Lightning/Frostwolf Warlord
25: Novice Engineer/Amani Berserker/Undertaker
26: Razorfen Hunter/Frost Elemental/Youthful Brewmaster
27: Bloodsail Corsair/Dragon Egg/Powermace
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Overload: 3 (Stormforged Axe, Crackle x2)
Murlocs: 1 (Coldlight Seer)
Mechs: 3 (Harvest Golem, Antique Healbot, Piloted Shredder)
Spells: 5 (Hex, Rockbiter Weapon, Crackle x2, Frost Shock)
Weapons: 2 (Stormforged Axe, Powermace)
Deathrattles: 3 (Harvest Golem, Piloted Shredder, Powermace)
Draw: 1 (Novice Engineer)

Wow... just, wow...

[The Glyphstone]

Jungle Panther, and all hail 3Drop.dec 2.0.