Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Some Highlights


This was the most unfair fight I've ever come up against. I know this is the most brilliant screenshot ever due to the Twisting Nether I had in my hand, but it just duplicated a Molten Giant and sealed my doom again. Echo of Medivh is super unfair if you can play two Molten Giants, copy them, and then play them all in one turn.


This was a glorious victory, and a very lucky one at that. A Golden Warlock faced me, and threw all kinds of golden junk at me—a golden Alextrasza, a golden Mekgineer Thermaplugg, and even a Golden Jaraxxus. I couldn't believe how much this sap had spent on Hearthstone. Somehow I stayed ahead, and even stole his Golden Jaraxxus.


Amazingly, the game finished with both of us facing each other as Jaraxxus. I attacked with Loatheb and my Sky Golem, as well as my own weapon, getting him down to 1. Knowing that he would kill me the next turn, I shrunk his Black Knight, which allowed me to Shadow Madness it and ram it into him for an insanely glorious Golden finish!

Monday, January 19, 2015

The Mill Frost Mage


Deck: Siege Onager

Whoof. What a match. I started fighting what appeared to be a Frost Mage. He froze my army constantly, and when I had an amazing lineup—Kel'thuzad, an Ironbark Protector, and a bunch of other high-mana minions... this is Siege Onager, let's remember—he froze them all and played a Doomsayer. Since I didn't have anything to silence it, not only did everything get burned up, he did Echo of Medivh to put another Doomsayer and an Antique Healbot into his hand again.

I managed to steal his Ice Block secret with my Kezan Mystic, which was reassuring. But then something weird started to happen. As if by magic, the mage suddenly turned into a Mill Mage. He pinged my acolyte of pain with defiance, and then played two Coldlight Oracles, and Echo of Medivhed one of them! I started to get worried, but even with all of my extra cards, I couldn't put them out fast enough to do damage. Besides, even when I got 16 damage off on him, he just played two more heal bots and froze my minions again. He even used Deathlords to absorb damage, which were perfect solutions since I didn't have any cards left. No matter what I did, he turned my attacks against him—Duplicating his healbots and doomsayers, healing over and over.

Finally, despite my Ice Block and healing of my own, he got my fatigue up to 6 and 7 damage per turn. He played his last Coldlight Oracle, and left himself open to die with confidence, because as soon as he ended my turn, 8 fatigue damage to the face killed me.

By far, the most skilled Ice Mage I have ever played against.

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

The Shadow Mage and Other Capers


Deck: Golden Jester

I've said it before, but this deck can make for some of the most insane matches you can possibly imagine. The game started off normal enough. A typical mech mage against me. But everything went utterly CRAZY when Lorewalker Cho popped out of a Piloted Shredder. Rather than kill him, the mage let him live. I decided, like I usually do when Cho appears, to just throw caution to the wind and let the cards fly. I casted Mind Vision three times—twice in my hand, and another time because I stole one in his hand. I ended up getting a repair bot and a polymorph, and something else I can't remember.
The next turn, the mage used 3 or 4 mind visions again... and I realized I had made an enormous mistake. In my hand was a Mind Control, a Shadow Word: Death, and a Shadowform, and he was taking all of them that he wanted. And then the madness began: He used Shadowform! I have never seen a shadowformed mage before, and it's pretty scary. Especially since he basically got a perfect upgrade for his fireblast. Luckily, that left me with two.
Eventually, I copied Lorewalker Cho just to cheese him off and start making him waste cards because his hand was full of Mind Visions. He killed both of them, and then we could properly begin our duel. I used Shadowform twice, finally getting to see what happened when the hero power was upgraded to 3 damage instead of 2. It gets a new icon and name! It's called Mind Shatter, and you can see in the screenshot what it looks like.
He realized what using it twice did, so he used it himself, and then everything went crazy. Neither of us could keep minions on the board. 3 damage is so much for only 2 mana.
Anyway, the battle went forward, and he slowly inched ahead. We both ended up using our mind controls (him on my Light Well, which was pretty stinking funny), and unfortunately, he had stolen 3 Shadow Word: Deaths just like I did. I hadn't been planning on him having so many, so I lost some good minions.
It was a heck of a long match. We finally ran out of cards. My last one was Sneed's Shredder, and when it died, out popped none other than Elite Tauren Chieftain! I had never seen him before, much less in normal, not-gold colors. He was pretty much worthless, unfortunately. Just a 5/5 on the board. But it was funny anyway.
The mage eventually pulled ahead and stayed ahead. All I had to defend myself was a Mind Control and two Shadow Word: Deaths, and none of his minions had higher than 4 health. In the end, I just wasted my Mind Control on the Nerubian that he popped out of his egg, and I only had 4 life left. He finished me by playing a mech and a Blastmage. Oh well! It gave me a ton of experience, so I can't complain. And boy, did that game keep me on my toes!