Hearthstone Arena II: Pay Attention Class

[Destro_Yersul]

yeah, Salty dog is ok. It's actually pretty good on the rare ocassion your opponent can't answer it.

For Priest: Upgraded Repair bot, unless the curve really needs help.

[Jormengand]

GARROSH HELLSCREAM/REXXAR/VALEERA SANGUINAR
Bomb lobber/Sludge Belcher/Stampeding Kodo
Tinker's Sharpsword Oil/Ironfur Grizzly/Abusive Sergeant
Dread corsair/Worgen Infiltrator/Betrayal
Nightblade/Bloodfen Raptor/Stormwind Knight
Betrayal/Gang Up/Frostwolf Warlord
Unstable Ghoul/Gurubashi Berserker/Grimscale Oracle
Young Dragonhawk/Defias Ringleader/Explosive Sheep
Betrayal/Sinister Strike/Bloodfen Raptor
Eviscerate/Ancient Brewmaster/Faerie Dragon
Hobgoblin/Doomsayer/Recombobulator
Worgen Infiltrator/Sinister Strike/Voodoo Doctor
Magma Rager/Silverback Patriarch/Salty Dog
Faerie Dragon/Booty Bay Bodyguard/Amani Berserker

Our curve right now is 112222224555. Which means that curve-wise, we want none of these.

[Gandariel]

Still, take the Faerie

[Jormengand]

GARROSH HELLSCREAM/REXXAR/VALEERA SANGUINAR
Bomb lobber/Sludge Belcher/Stampeding Kodo
Tinker's Sharpsword Oil/Ironfur Grizzly/Abusive Sergeant
Dread corsair/Worgen Infiltrator/Betrayal
Nightblade/Bloodfen Raptor/Stormwind Knight
Betrayal/Gang Up/Frostwolf Warlord
Unstable Ghoul/Gurubashi Berserker/Grimscale Oracle
Young Dragonhawk/Defias Ringleader/Explosive Sheep
Betrayal/Sinister Strike/Bloodfen Raptor
Eviscerate/Ancient Brewmaster/Faerie Dragon
Hobgoblin/Doomsayer/Recombobulator
Worgen Infiltrator/Sinister Strike/Voodoo Doctor
Magma Rager/Silverback Patriarch/Salty Dog
Faerie Dragon/Booty Bay Bodyguard/Amani Berserker
Ship's Cannon/Haunted Creeper/Shiv

This is basically gonna be 2-drop: the deck, isn't it?

(1122222224555)

[Destro_Yersul]

Seems so. We do have a pirate, but creeper is still better.

[Fleeing Coward]

Pick 19: I'll take Mando Knight's post to mean that he voted for the Gnome so Experimenter wins the vote 1-0.

Pick 20: Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
Another set of bad to mediocre rares.

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
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[thirsting]

Mass Dispell, at least it has card draw, and well. I like silence.

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Haunted Creeper for hard-to-get-rid-of-ness.

[Destro_Yersul]

I voted for Salty Dog, but ok.

On this one I pick Goblin Sapper.

[Jormengand]

See, I was thinking I should go shiv just to draw more of my 2-drops faster.

GARROSH HELLSCREAM/REXXAR/VALEERA SANGUINAR
Bomb lobber/Sludge Belcher/Stampeding Kodo
Tinker's Sharpsword Oil/Ironfur Grizzly/Abusive Sergeant
Dread corsair/Worgen Infiltrator/Betrayal
Nightblade/Bloodfen Raptor/Stormwind Knight
Betrayal/Gang Up/Frostwolf Warlord
Unstable Ghoul/Gurubashi Berserker/Grimscale Oracle
Young Dragonhawk/Defias Ringleader/Explosive Sheep
Betrayal/Sinister Strike/Bloodfen Raptor
Eviscerate/Ancient Brewmaster/Faerie Dragon
Hobgoblin/Doomsayer/Recombobulator
Worgen Infiltrator/Sinister Strike/Voodoo Doctor
Magma Rager/Silverback Patriarch/Salty Dog
Faerie Dragon/Booty Bay Bodyguard/Amani Berserker
Ship's Cannon/Haunted Creeper/Shiv
Ogre Brute/Core Hound/Antique Healbot

(11222222224555)

[The Glyphstone]

Take the Brute. It's not a 2-drop, and 4/4 for 3 isn't bad even if it does misfire half the time.

[Jormengand]

"Take the Brute. It's not a 2-drop"
-Glyphstone 2015

GARROSH HELLSCREAM/REXXAR/VALEERA SANGUINAR
Bomb lobber/Sludge Belcher/Stampeding Kodo
Tinker's Sharpsword Oil/Ironfur Grizzly/Abusive Sergeant
Dread corsair/Worgen Infiltrator/Betrayal
Nightblade/Bloodfen Raptor/Stormwind Knight
Betrayal/Gang Up/Frostwolf Warlord
Unstable Ghoul/Gurubashi Berserker/Grimscale Oracle
Young Dragonhawk/Defias Ringleader/Explosive Sheep
Betrayal/Sinister Strike/Bloodfen Raptor
Eviscerate/Ancient Brewmaster/Faerie Dragon
Hobgoblin/Doomsayer/Recombobulator
Worgen Infiltrator/Sinister Strike/Voodoo Doctor
Magma Rager/Silverback Patriarch/Salty Dog
Faerie Dragon/Booty Bay Bodyguard/Amani Berserker
Ship's Cannon/Haunted Creeper/Shiv
Ogre Brute/Core Hound/Antique Healbot
Spellbreaker/Anub'ar Ambusher/Nerub'ar Weblord

(1122222222344555)

[Destro_Yersul]

I think I'd pick Spellbreaker, but it's pretty close.

[Gandariel]

I'd go Ambusher here. But Spellbreaker is fine too

[Fleeing Coward]

Pick 20: Tie between Mass Dispel and Goblin Sapper. Breaking the tie by voting Sapper to move this draft forward.

Pick 21: Inner Fire/Dark Iron Dwarf/Blackwing Corruptor
My inside sources tell me that we're totally going to get 5 playable dragons in the next 9 picks.

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
#20:Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
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[GAAD]

Take Urist McYoucallthataweaponhuh.

[Fleeing Coward]

Pick 21: Urist McYoucallthataweaponhuh taken.

Pick 22: Northshire Cleric/Mind Blast/Young Dragonhawk
Remember that Mind Blast is a cheaper Lava Burst that doesn't overload (If said Lava Burst also went face)

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
#20:Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
#21:Inner Fire/Dark Iron Dwarf/Blackwing Corruptor
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[The_Jackal]

Pick 21: Urist McYoucallthataweaponhuh taken.

Pick 22: Northshire Cleric/Mind Blast/Young Dragonhawk
Remember that Mind Blast is a cheaper Lava Burst that doesn't overload (If said Lava Burst also went face)

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
#20:Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
#21:Inner Fire/Dark Iron Dwarf/Blackwing Corruptor
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Sure, but Northshire Cleric is a solid card draw machine. The only time 5 to the face matters is when it's the LAST 5.

[Fleeing Coward]

Pick 22: Card draw it is.

Pick 23: Cogmaster/Dalaran Mage/Silverback Patriarch
Which bad card do we want?

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
#20:Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
#21:Inner Fire/Dark Iron Dwarf/Blackwing Corruptor
#22:Northshire Cleric/Mind Blast/Young Dragonhawk
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[The_Jackal]

Cogmaster is bad but at least cheap.

[GAAD]

Take the card that ISN'T a 3 mana 1/4.

[Jormengand]

It's a tie. I'm taking the big one.

GARROSH HELLSCREAM/REXXAR/VALEERA SANGUINAR
Bomb lobber/Sludge Belcher/Stampeding Kodo
Tinker's Sharpsword Oil/Ironfur Grizzly/Abusive Sergeant
Dread corsair/Worgen Infiltrator/Betrayal
Nightblade/Bloodfen Raptor/Stormwind Knight
Betrayal/Gang Up/Frostwolf Warlord
Unstable Ghoul/Gurubashi Berserker/Grimscale Oracle
Young Dragonhawk/Defias Ringleader/Explosive Sheep
Betrayal/Sinister Strike/Bloodfen Raptor
Eviscerate/Ancient Brewmaster/Faerie Dragon
Hobgoblin/Doomsayer/Recombobulator
Worgen Infiltrator/Sinister Strike/Voodoo Doctor
Magma Rager/Silverback Patriarch/Salty Dog
Faerie Dragon/Booty Bay Bodyguard/Amani Berserker
Ship's Cannon/Haunted Creeper/Shiv
Ogre Brute/Core Hound/Antique Healbot
Spellbreaker/Anub'ar Ambusher/Nerub'ar Weblord
Spectral Knight/Fan of Knives/Raid Leader

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[The_Jackal]

Spectral knight, no brainer.

[Fleeing Coward]

Pick 23: Playground chooses the Cogmaster.
I'd normally have gone with the Mage since we have 2 Smites and a Nova in deck already while Cogmaster doesn't have the mechs needed to make it 3/2 when we want it.

Pick 24: Bomb Lobber/Ancient Watcher/Nerubian Egg

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
#20:Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
#21:Inner Fire/Dark Iron Dwarf/Blackwing Corruptor
#22:Northshire Cleric/Mind Blast/Young Dragonhawk
#23:Cogmaster/Dalaran Mage/Silverback Patriarch
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[Jormengand]

"Given the choice of things which can't attack or bombs, which do you prefe..."
"Bombs."
"You didn't even let me fini..."
"Bombs."

[Fleeing Coward]

Pick 24: Special Delivery!

Pick 25: Twilight Whelp/Puddlestomper/Faerie Dragon
See, there's dragon number 1 for our Corruptor if we had picked him.

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Priest/Druid/Hunter
#1:Argent Commander/Mass Dispel/Injured Blademaster
#2:Dread Corsair/Explosive Sheep/Young Dragonhawk
#3:Lord of the Arena/Holy Smite/Dread Corsair
#4:Clockwork Gnome/Youthful Brewmaster/Shieldbearer
#5:Ogre Magi/Gilblin Stalker/Power Word: Shield
#6:Blackwing Corruptor/Stoneskin Gargoyle/Power Word: Shield
#7:Silvermoon Guardian/Holy Nova/Northshire Cleric
#8:Goldshire Footman/Explosive Sheep/Dark Cultist
#9:Stonesplinter Trogg/Shrinkmeister/Mind Blast
#10:Kezan Mystic/Illuminator/Crazed Alchemist
#11:Gnomish Inventor/Holy Nova/Dark Cultist
#12:Inner Fire/Razorfen Hunter/Darkscale Healer
#13:Holy Smite/Priestess of Elune/Ironbeak Owl
#14:Shadow Word: Death/Earthen Ring Farseer/Ship's Cannon
#15:War Golem/Lost Tallstrider/Holy Smite
#16:Priestess of Elune/Micro Machine/Dark Iron Dwarf
#17:Recombobulator/Enhance-o-Mechano/Piloted Sky Golem
#18:War Golem/Northshire Cleric/Young Dragonhawk
#19:Angry Chicken/Upgraded Repair Bot/Gnomish Experimenter
#20:Jeeves/Mass Dispel/Goblin Sapper
#21:Inner Fire/Dark Iron Dwarf/Blackwing Corruptor
#22:Northshire Cleric/Mind Blast/Young Dragonhawk
#23:Cogmaster/Dalaran Mage/Silverback Patriarch
#24:Bomb Lobber/Ancient Watcher/Nerubian Egg
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[The Glyphstone]

But we didn't. So take the Faerie Dragon, it is objectively superior to the vanilla counterpart right next to it.

[Zevox]

But we didn't. So take the Faerie Dragon, it is objectively superior to the vanilla counterpart right next to it.

The funny thing is, that's actually not true in Priest specifically. Faerie Dragon's effect means no hero power healing, no Power Word: Shield, and no Velen's Chosen (though we don't have that last at this point).

[The Glyphstone]

The funny thing is, that's actually not true in Priest specifically. Faerie Dragon's effect means no hero power healing, no Power Word: Shield, and no Velen's Chosen (though we don't have that last at this point).

Huh. You got a point there. I now vote for Puddlestomper instead.

[Fleeing Coward]

But Puddlestomper dies to early removal while the faeire dragon doesn't

[Destro_Yersul]

Faerie dragon is probably still better than puddlestomper.