Thanks a lot for pointing it out – must have missed it. Updated it! 🙂

If there is no minion with +1 mana cost, nothing happens. E.g. if you try to evolve Mountain Giant, it just stays exactly the same (it doesn’t even “refresh”).

https://playhearthstone.com/en-us/esports/tournament/masters-tour-las-vegas/

And if you want to watch the games, https://www.twitch.tv/playhearthstone/videos

Sorry, it was ~3 am when I was posting the decks last night and I was too tired to check them thoroughly. As it turns out, SN1P-SN4P part of the code was broken and it didn’t display. Decks are fixed now.

It’s still the lowest win rate class according to stats, but no longer by such a huge margin. Instead of ~39% win rate it now has ~43% win rate.

Warrior is always a problematic class in Arena, because they need some seriously powerful cards to compensate the fact that their Hero Power could as well not exist.

Epic Crafting Guide was just updated for the Rise of Shadows Post-Buff Meta. Comments below this one might be outdated.

Let me know if you spot any mistakes!

Yes, we still have ongoing issues with deck strings containing Madame Lazul. They don’t import properly and if we add her manually, the resulting deck code does not work in game.

We’re still trying to figure out how to fix that 🙁

No problem! There’s some more info about Bucharest qualifiers here: https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/announcing-masters-tour-bucharest/ 🙂

Right now, we still have qualifiers for the 2nd tour stop (Seoul) going.

Starting in July, there will be A LOT of small, open, tournament qualifiers (like over a hundred) you can participate in to qualify for the 3rd tour stop – Bucharest. Getting either 1st or 2nd spot (as far as I remember) in qualifier will qualify you to the main Masters event.

Here’s no limit in how many of them you can participate, but mind you that a) there are often a few of them happening during a single day and b) if you don’t fall out quickly, they tend to take a while (often whole day), because there are many, many rounds (and CW mirrors can be pretty long as you probably know).

That said, I’m not an expert on esports (sadly I don’t have enough time for that), but you can find the qualifier events here: https://playhearthstone.com/en-gb/esports/programs/masters-qualifiers

That’s weird, I don’t know how to answer that. Here’s what I see in settings:

https://i.imgur.com/pBUmQhO.png

You should probably ask Twitch support, because I probably won’t be able to help here.

Warrior also got buffed (as stated in the full blue post), I missed him in the buffed section, sorry!

That’s weird – I don’t meet a lot of players still running Brewmaster or Banker after the nerf. But yeah, I understand that it could be pretty frustrating.

And yes, next expansion should come out early-mid August. We’ll get more details about it mid-July.

Harrison is still a good craft (and if someone got him before, he definitely should not regret it), but it’s not as good anymore when Rogues with Waggle Picks aren’t 20% of the ladder 🙂

When it comes to other “major” changes, I’ve added Khadgar to Best from RoS and SN1P-SN4P to Boomsday (once he’s no longer free, that is).

But most of the changes were to the “Good” crafts. Neither the nerf, nor the buff patch changed the most played Legendaries THAT much.

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Let me know if you spot any mistakes!

It really depends. The version of Mech Hunter I’ve featured here might not be enough to call it a different archetype – it’s close enough to just consider these changes tech choices etc. BUT, this is the first time I’m seeing such an aggressive version of Mech build. That’s why I’ve still decided to wait and see whether it will become THE version of the deck to play.

Because you see, the most popular versions of Mech Hunter ever since Rise of Shadows’ launch were fundamentally different than Bomb Hunter. Bomb Hunter is an Aggro deck, the Mech Hunter was Midrange or maybe even somewhat of a Combo deck. It wasn’t just a few cards – the only thing they’ve shared in common was the fact that they both played Mechs.

For example, look at this popular pre-buff version of Bomb Hunter (https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/bomb-hunter-shadows-post-nerf-8-legend-meati/) and Mech Hunter (https://www.hearthstonetopdecks.com/decks/mech-hunter-shadows-post-nerf-1-legend-qige/).

The two most important differences are the fact that Mech Hunter runs Nine Lives (so bases a big part of its game plan on that card), as well as Zul’jin. Since it runs Zul’jin, unlike Bomb Hunter which is a minion-focused deck, Mech build runs a bunch of spells too – most notably Unleash the Beast, Unleash the Hounds and Deadly Shot, all of which are reactive cards. Mech Hunter builds sometimes also include other removals (like Marked Shot here, or Secrets), which are not present in Bomb version. Also, since Magnetic is not as important to the deck’s game plan, it can run a lower density of Mech cards, which means that it can play cards like Springpaw or Animal Companion without hurting its game plan that much. In fact, Mech Hunter would not want to play too many Deathrattle Mechs, because it wants to always be able to hit either Oblivitron or Mechanical Whelp with Nine Lives. It already has Spider Bomb (which is also useful from Nine Lives sometimes) and Ursatron – adding more things like Mecharoo or Replicating Menace (or even SN1P-SN4P for that matter) could possibly mess up with this game plan.

On the other hand, since Bomb version has a much more aggressive plan and relies on board tempo to win the game (it has basically NO reactive game plan), you need to play a) more “sticky” minions that you can Magnetize into (e.g. Mecharoo, Upgradeable Framebot, Explodinator). It also runs more Magnetic cards, since it’s your main game plan – for example, you never really see Replicating Menaces or Missile Launchers in Mech build. As a finisher Bomb version usually played Leeroy, Flark, or both, again something that you have never seen in Mech version.

I was always surprised that others were calling both builds Mech Hunter, even though they were fundamentally different. Honestly, it would be like calling both Control Warrior and Bomb Warrior just “Control Warrior”. After all, they share like 2/3 of the deck.

IF the new, more aggressive builds take over I will definitely merge them into one archetype and start calling both Mech Hunter. But this is literally the first time I’m seeing a build like that being successful, because before it looked way different. If the “old” Mech Hunter build sticks, however, they are two completely different archetypes and I will keep separating them.

Because it’s not meant to run Brawls, it’s not a pure Control build. You play a more Midrange strategy in this deck. Since you’re the one with board most of the time, Brawls are often dead.

We’ve just updated our Standard Meta Tier List for the Post-Buff Rise of Shadows meta. Since the buffs are only out for 2 days, the best decks can still change. We’ll revise the tier list it once the meta settles.

Health buffs (or just a high health minion) + Divine Spirit + Inner Fire. The most classic Priest combo 🙂

Yes, it’s him. And he started playing HS just before the event, so he is a total newbie, which made watching him in pair with Kripp more fun 🙂

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