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!

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.

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!

Stolen Armor

Deck: Golden Jester

WHAT. A. MATCH, folks. What a match! This deck has some of the funnest battles imaginable!
The game started off perfectly: A Lightwell, a Deathlord, and a Mind Vision are a great hand to begin with. The warrior across from me, Valen, didn't play cards for a while. He just armored up. When I Thoughtstole some cards from him, I found a Shield Block, which indicated that he was a control warrior, heavily based on staying alive and building up tons of armor. I played two Lightwells as a barrier against him, and then played a Deathlord, hoping that it would be able to keep his minions at bay. At first he just equipped a weapon and played an Acolyte of Pain. I silenced it, hoping to make his card drawing as sparse as possible. Unfortunately, he had 8 armor... enough to Shield Slam the Deathlord into oblivion. Luckily, nothing too powerful came out, but it was an Armorsmith. I realized that I would need a lot of firepower to break through all that armor, so I took a gamble and went into Shadowform, trusting on my Lightwells to keep me healed.

Unfortunately, the acolyte (1), the armorsmith (+1=2) and his Fiery War Axe (+3=5) were enough to kill a Lightwell, but I hit the other one with a Mind Spike and Rampaged it, covering it with an Annoy-o-Bot. I then used a heavy axe and the well to kill the Armorsmith.

We kept sparring like this for some time, all the while the warrior gaining exorbitant amounts of armor. He played an Auctioneer, but it died after I Mind Spiked it and his Death's Bite exploded after killing my Lightwell. I was surprised how neck-and-neck we were.

Next, I played a Piloted Shredder and used a stolen Taskmaster to buff it. The Warrior executed the wounded mech, and out popped a Shielded Minibot. I felt like I was in good shape, but he had a horrible combo up his sleeve.

Out came a Raging Worgen. As I planned to kill it with my minibot and a Mind Spike, my jaw dropped as the buffs began to fall: A Charge, then an Inner Rage, then two Rampages! A terrifying 14/8 with Windfury smashed into me twice! Thank the gods for 2 armor I had left over from a Shield Block I had stolen, because I only had 28 life left! I was nearly dead, but luckily he ended his turn. In one fell swoop, I Mind Controlled his worgen! Since it had a Charge buff, I was able to slam it into him twice, shattering his armor and bringing him down to an injured 8 hit points (6 after my minibot hit him as well).

I held my breath as he played his final turn. I... actually can't remember what happened after that. I think he may have killed the Worgen with another Execute and then armored up and put down a taunt or something. I ended by casting both of my Holy Novas in order to cover myself in case he had a Mortal Strike, but that's when he yelled "I choose death!" and plunged his axe blade through his own heart.

The Impenetrable Barricade of Doom

Deck: Golden Jester

I was up against a heck of a paladin. I can't remember what he had in his early deck, but after a certain point (around mana level 7), he started layering on the powerful minions like crazy. I had two Lightwells out that did a great job healing me throughout the game, protected by Annoy-O-Bots and Deathlords. When the paladin sent out Ragnaros, I remained calm and waited for turn 10, when I could use Mind Control on it. Luckily, Rag didn't kill either of my Lightwells, so when he hit me with his fireballs, I was almost immediately healed.

He also played Stalagg, who I killed, and I stole Feugen from his deck with a Golden Thoughtsteal and kept it in my hand until Stalagg died. I Mind Controlled Ragnaros and copied it, but the paladin had plenty of healing spells of his own. A Lay On Hands brought him up to full, and a Guardian of Kings healed him as well. In an unexpected move, he used a Recombobulator to turn his Guardian of Kings into... Troggzor the Earthinator! Luckily, I didn't have any spells, but I did have plenty of powerful minions to take him down.

The paladin played Feugen, which was a good idea because my Ragnaros killed him and spawned Thaddeus. The paladin then doubled his health with Blessed Champion, so there was a 22/11 monstrosity barraging down on me. Luckily, a simple Annoy-o-Bot kept him at bay, and I ran my own Golden Feugen into Thaddeus to make my own: A glorious GOLDEN THADDEUS!

After that, my two Rags, 11/11 Thaddeus, two Lightwells to heal everyone, and a Deathlord to block made short work of the unfortunate Paladin. It must have been a veritable nightmare of a battle for him to get past that barricade.

This mage did NOT understand how Kel'thuzad's ability works.

Manipulating the Forces of Good and Evil

Deck: Jester

I have a hilarious new Naxx- and GvG-specced crazy deck, and it done killed me a Handlock! My first move was a Mind Vision that revealed a Twilight Drake, so I knew what I was up against. I put down two Annoy-O-Bots, and did a Mind Games that gave me a Molten Giant! He countered with a Mountain Giant, but it took him a long time to bash through two annoy-o-bots! In the meantime, I put down a Lightwell and did a Thoughtsteal, which got me a Golden Mal'ganis! I kept stalling, using my Black Knight to break through a Twilight Drake taunt barricade, and generally sparring with him. I also activated Shadow Form, because he still hadn't killed my Lightwell, which kept healing my units (I don't think he had gotten a hit out of me to this point).

Eventually, he pulled out Alextrasza and got me down to 15, but I didn't really care. I played Mal'Ganis! Unfortunately, he was immediately Soul Siphoned, but that didn't matter, because my second Mind Vision got another Mal'ganis! That meant that he was in the warlock's hand. I kept battling giants while he kept having to deal with my powerful reality-altering spells and minions.

I played another Mal'ganis, and he was forced to kill off all of his minions just to clear it. Then he played his own! Then I Mind Controlled his Mal'ganis! (Which wasn't gold, I might add, so looked lackluster in comparison to the ones I had played). The poor, poor fool drew a couple more cards, then conceded ignominiously. My cardful of tricks had bested him.