There are two kinds of “worst” – TGT is “worst” as in the “weakest” or “least impactful”. MSOG is “worst” as in the “least enjoyable one”. At least according to polls.

Calling MSOG “worst”, as in “weakest”, would be a pretty bold statement 🙂

Giant in Big Spells Mage makes some sense, but dropping a huge minion is not really the deck’s win condition. It’s too slow against Aggro, and Control decks will just remove it – one of the strengths of Big Spell Mage is that Control decks removals are dead cards against it until the late game. Plus, the only new synergy is the one with Frost Lich Jaina, and if you play your Jaina, you win majority of the games anyway, you don’t really need to make it slightly stronger.

About Piper in Even Warlock – it’s also not the deck’s game plan. The deck wants to put as much pressure as it can. It wants to play Drake or Giant, not a 3/3 minion. Card draw is also not important in the deck – you have full hand thanks to your Hero Power nearly all the time, and drawing a 2-drop is not particularly interesting anyway. Even Sandbinder (which would now draw the Giant, since it will be an Elemental) would be better, but still way too slow.

I believe that Piper might be played in some Warlock deck in the future, but she doesn’t really line up with the current Warlock’s game plan.

Definitely not, Mountain Giant doesn’t really synergize with Even Shaman. The deck rarely gets to big hand sizes. Sea Giant also works very well with the board flood of the deck.

Yeah, one of the biggest changes in the history of Hearthstone.

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“would be my guess”

They didn’t announce that, it’s just my guess based on the previous announcement times, expansion releases and the time Battle for Azeroth releases. Normally I’d say that the expansion would come out on August 16th, but it’s 2 days after Battle For Azeroth’s release, and they most likely don’t want to get them out so close to each other, that would be bad for business. Alternatively they can also decide to push it back by one week, to August 23rd, but I honestly hope that it gets out sooner than later.

Announcement in ~2 weeks, August 9th release date would be my guess.

“In the slow meta we currently have, it actually has some really good matchups, such as different variants of Priests and Warriors.”

Key words are “such as”. Those are only examples of good matchups, I didn’t say that those are the only good matchups.

So I’m really not sure what you disagree with.

You’re right, for some reason I remembered dealing more damage with that combo, but I’ve checked it and it’s not the case. Fixed it.

I think you’re mistaking off-meta decks streamers are playing to cater for their audience (or just for fun) with the actual meta. No one plays those cards in the meta.

For example, yes, Kibler does play Quest Paladin, but the deck is NOT good. He said it himself hundreds of times, he does it for fun, not because it is a viable, competitive choice.

Of course, if you’re a guy playing off-meta decks, then you should not disenchant anything. But I think that you, and many other commenting, are missing the point of this post. People ARE disenchanting off-meta Legendaries. It’s something that is happening and you won’t do anything about it. Believe it or not, but majority of players play to win. They don’t even have enough Dust to build actual meta decks, let alone off-meta things. We are NOT encouraging anyone to do it, just giving some guide-lines, for which players are asking all the time.

Players who are struggling for Dust and desperately trying to build something good are not the ones that have a big collection and want to keep fun, off-meta or tech Legendaries that they might use in the future. They don’t even know if they will be playing this game in the future, so what’s the point:?

The Mukla & Overspark are the only cards I kind of agree with – but as you’ve probably noticed, there are two categories. They’re in the second. So while yes, they might pop out from time to time, they are not a vital part of the deck.

The Odd Rogue deck from vS you mention only runs Mukla, not Overspark. And you can by all means play Odd Rogue without it, it’s just a tech card. Not even good tech cards for majority of players, actually. Most of the techs you see in those lists are tailored for the high Legend meta, played by high Legend players. This pocket meta is often very different, you face the same 2-3 decks all the time and you can more easily tech against them. In this case, both Mukla and Overspark are solid techs against the flood of Even and Cube Warlocks in high Legend, but they might not be as successful in lower ranks. Heck, “might be” is an understatement – stats at hand (HSReplay.net) suggest that out of the 20 strongest Odd Rogue builds (last 7 days, rank 10 – Legend), only one of them runs Mukla – build #5. And zero of them run Overspark.

While Kripp’s chat is full of trolls (even more so than most of the other Twitch chats), this is a good example. After something bad happens, people are quick to shout that certain choice was a misplay, even though it might not have been.

Generally, most of big streamers are explaining their decisions quite well, that’s why they’re a good learning material if you’re willing to listen to them and think about it instead of meme-ing with the chat. Even if you don’t necessarily agree with a decision, knowing exactly why they did it can shed some light on the mindset of a pro player.

Thank you a lot!

In this abstract example (because a card like that will – hopefully – never exist), I’ve meant playing the card on Turn 1 (or that it automatically plays itself on Turn 1), and I thought that it was obvious. But I guess that if we stretch if further then yes, it might be broken if you could keep it.

Did you skip the entire introduction and go straight for the list? Because it certainly seems so.

It’s explained that no card is ever 100% safe to disenchant. It’s cool that you can spend a lot of money on the game and have a nearly full collection, but the majority of players don’t. Most of the players are starving for Dust and they would prefer to have a FUN, playable Legendary they can enjoy right now than something they might or might not need in the future. Heck, most of them don’t even know if they will be playing the game a year from now.

Believe it or not, but the game is NOT only about collecting cards. On the contrary, the most enjoyable aspect for majority of the players is well, PLAYING it. And if you don’t have a playable collection, that Gruul or Runespear is not going to give you much fun.

You most likely should not.

Last time Jaraxxus has seen play was in Reno Warlock, so back in Gadgetzan. Once Reno has rotated out (2 expansions before Gul’dan was introduced), Jaraxxus has seen exactly zero serious play, because it was just too risky. Of course, I’m not saying that he won’t see any play ever again, that’s why he’s in the second category, not the first one. For the longest time, King Krush was in that category too – and now we see it as a part of the strong meta deck. Everything can change. But in case of Jaraxxus, he won’t be played AT LEAST for as long as Bloodreaver Gul’dan is in the meta, and probably even longer.

And that’s exactly the point of this list. It’s for people who need extra Dust now, not for those who are aiming at the long-term full collection. For player on a tight budget, especially one who doesn’t even play Warlock, 400 Dust is MUCH better than a card that might or might not see play a year or two from now.

The guide was updated a few days ago!

Hagatha definitely does not break the combo, I’ve played the deck with her and she wasn’t a problem.

Are you sure that Saronite Chain Gang’s Battlecry triggered first? Because if Grumble and/or Zola triggers first, they don’t work, since those Battlecries can’t target the original minion (if it was the case, Grumble would just bounce himself immediately once you’ve played him). That’s why the deck runs Chain Gangs – Shudderwocks copied by Chain Gang can be bounced.

Like I mention in the guide, the combo has a chance to fail, but the chance is pretty low. Even lower if you managed to play more than 2 Chain Gangs (e.g. you copied one with Zola or bounced with Grumble).

Don’t worry, the Arena’s balance is not that bad right now. Even the worst 3 classes can get an insane draft, they just lag behind a bit in terms of averages 🙂

“but it could have been changed to a 3/3 weapon”

That would be almost as broken as the 2 mana 3/2. Seriously. Just see how good is Eaglehorn Bow after gaining +1 Charge. As a Pirate Warrior, you don’t always want to equip Arcanite Reaper on T5, and 9 damage for 3 mana is nuts.

There were some ways to nerf it better. For example, they could make it 2 mana 2/2 weapon with “Has +1 Attack when targeting minions” or something like that. But since it’s a part of the Basic set, they didn’t want to make it too complicated.

Yes, right now it’s a worse version of Eaglehorn Bow (which is sometimes played even without Secrets in the deck, by the way), Rallying Blade etc. But is that really a problem? A lot of the Basic cards are basically worse versions of other cards. They aren’t all meant to be playable, they are meant to give new players some base and teach them how to play the game.