a clever application of the tavern brawl rules this week is Blindeye Sharpshooter.
(it’s not my own idea, i first saw it played against me and it looked like a fun deck to pilot)

you just fill the deck with 0-cost minions (all count as naga!) and 0-cost spells and chain infinitely.
cards that reduce their cost down to zero as the combo chain goes on are Moentum, Frenzied Felwing and Frostwolf Warmaster.
You will run out of board space, so I added Tentacle of N’Zoth, which gets rush from Through Fel and Flames and kills of all your Desk Imps, Penguins, Wisps and Oscillators, allowing you to keep the chain going provided you have an enemy minion to run into.
The Oscillator can reduce the cost of the Sharpshooter, so you go into the combo turn already one mana ahead.
Finally I added Ship’s Cannon because it triggers from all the 0-cost creatures, but maybe it is wrong here. I only played 3 games with the deck (3-0), always running out of time in the combo turn but still earning a concession from all opponents because they were dead on board and Sigil of Silence nerfed their taunts.

I had keen reflexes in the deck as a tentacle backup, but it was too expensive to be played in the combo turn.

Have Fun!

### Brawl Deck
# Class: Demon Hunter
# Format: Wild
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# 2x (0) Blur
# 2x (0) Desk Imp
# 2x (0) Dispose of Evidence
# 2x (0) Murloc Tinyfin
# 2x (0) Sigil of Silence
# 2x (0) Snowflipper Penguin
# 2x (0) Through Fel and Flames
# 2x (0) Wisp
# 2x (1) Frequency Oscillator
# 2x (1) Tentacle of N’Zoth
# 2x (2) Ship’s Cannon
# 2x (3) Blindeye Sharpshooter
# 2x (4) Frenzied Felwing
# 2x (4) Frostwolf Warmaster
# 2x (5) Momentum
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I think raising Tavern Brawl to a competitive/ranked format is the way to go for Twist.

Given how much work is needed to create an interesting Tavern Brawl , it is sad that most players only play until the first win to get the pack, then quit until next week.

That being said I admit that not all Tavern Brawls are equally suited to be transferred into a competitive format, but may of them are good candidates

If I remember correctly, classic was turned off because there were so many bots in it, so the step was part of the fight against the botting problem.

As for Twist, I think it was designed as an attempt to lure newer players into older card sets, making them spend money every month on the editions that were newly unlocked for the Twist mode.
The biggest mistake they made with Twist was probably that they allowed a small number of decks dominate the meta for too long, making people face the same opposing decks over and over.

this might explain some of those odd card choices

I like those cooperative brawls.
I got a competent partner and solved it at the first attempt.

I also remember mechazod. It was more challenging, but also quite some fun

some thoughts after playing evolve shaman with about 75% win rate:
(the deck is fun, but you lose against control decks (priest, warrrior) and druid with global buffs is too fast for you)

shaman:
T1 evolve is by far your best play.
mulligan hard for it

priest:
topsy turvy, inner fire, bless, cathedral of atonement, serenity

paladin:
showdown – prismatic beam, deputization aura

druid:
global buffs from token druid.
probably the best deck in this tavern brawl

general:
scorp-o-matic, crazed alchemist, pelican diver, recombobulator, sea giant

i don’t demand fine-tuned meta decks for random tavern brawls, but why do they keep putting those “draw a weapon” cards in a deck with zero weapons? it’s just stupid and no fun.

same goes for “draw a mech” effects in decks with zero mechs, N’Zoth with zero deathrattle minions, Frozen Mammoth with zero Fire spells.
Preparation is also a bad joke in a deck without expensive spells, in a format where your spells are cheap anyway, but the number of cards that you can play each turn are limited.
echo cards? Auctioneer? Unstable Element? The Rogue decks are a menagerie of cards that are exceptionally bad in this format

That being said, except for the Rogue deck all decks had some appeal to them.
The Hunter deck seemed to be the strong (double King Krush, Darkmoon Rabbit), but each class has more than one deck, so it’s not easy to say which class is the strongest

I aimed at Frequency Oscillator – Mistake – Parachute Brigand – Parachute Brigand – Patches.

That did not work, because i drew Patches turn 1.
Still won because i got Ysera from a portal, which is a good card at 6 mana

too random for my taste, but I never had so many hits with Murloc Holmes (third card is always the legend), and also third turn double Thaddius (first with coin, second with discount by the first) felt nice

probably a coincidence, but I got only commons and rares (zero epics, zero legends) from my 10 catch up packs in the Badlands Catch-Up Packs Mini Bundle, so I cannot really recommend buying it.

storm giant.
Honestly, the card is neutral and definitely belongs into your deck.
It has taunt and saved me in so many games in which i was behind, only to fill the board with 8/8 taunts, giving my opponent no way to punch through that wall.
It even combos with Animate Dead and Celestial Projectionist, but not with Zilliax and Irini, because it is not a mech.
Storm Giant can also be seen as backup if you fail to draw an Automaton

I tried your deck, going 10-1.
The loss came in the mirror, because he drew the mirror braker and i did not: Shard of the Naaru. That card neutralizes all opposing Automatons and also opposing magnetized mechs – mech decks were the only opposing decks that could make games close in any way. And if this was not enough, it can even be traded. What’s not to like?
(In turn, Storm Giants suffer less from opposing Shards of the Naaru, but I only had 2 mirror matches and I am not sure if the Giants would have saved me against Automatons backed with Shards.)

Bottom Line: Your deck is very good, but can be improved by cutting Ra-Den and Aman’Thul (just as you suggested), adding Storm Giant, and replacing The Light! It Burns! (which was never useful in 11 games) with Shard of the Naaru.

Yes, I think that’s the point:
I may have paid more money, but I had many months to play with those cards, while those who now benefit from the catchup packs per definition have not played serious hearthstone for a long time.

Now if they only discounted the old editions (or at least wild packs) so I can advance my collection (many cards from darkmoon and before are missing). Given the constant power creep, older editions are barely playable in wild, and in standard they are banned anyway, so it is not really justified that the old editions still cost the same as the new ones.

which 8/8 card did they copy?

thumbs up for finding that automaton strategy 🙂

honestly, without radiant elemental and sorcerer’s apprentice there is no point in this tavern brawl.

all the great options are in wild

how would this improve the deck?

i also played enrage warrior, but with zero shadow reflections.
i had location/anima/acolyte in my opening hand and was happy that none of them was a shadow reflection.

People like me, who regularly spend real money for the game could feel a little bit stupid now that others who did not spend anything get so much for free/cheap.
To buy 1000 cards, usually you have to spend like 150-200€, but those who get full benefit from catchup packs will only pay like 15% of that amount (depending on the price of catchup packs)

At least collectors get 5 cards (from different expansions they have probably almost completed) per pack, at first I thought it was a single card per pack.

in the section “villain effects” you wrote:

Work for Hagatha – “At the [XXX] of your turn, transform a random friendly minion into one that costs (1) more.”

I think there is a word missing where the [XXX] is.

you wrote:
“Update: Sword Eater was removed from Twist Wonders in a recent hotfix, because it was not supposed to be there in the first place (Mean Streets of Gadgetzan is not a part of the format).”

Apparently Gadgetzan IS part of the format, but Sword Eater is from Darkmoon, and THAT set is not part of Twist Wonders

I checked both sets, and apparently I do have 1 Blackpaw from Gadgetzan and 1 Blackpaw from Caverns.

Then I checked Thaurissan and I have 3 Thaurissan from Blackrock and 0 Thaurissan from Caverns.

This makes me believe that I could as well get a fourth Thaurissan when I buy Caverns packs, because the game thinks I do not own the card yet. How stupid is this?

The whole “Cavern version is a different card than the original version” is just a way how Blizzard deactivates the duplicate protection and should be corrected immediately.

I was careless enough to buy the “Battle Ready Deck Bundle 2” with the preconstructed Jade Shaman, C’Thun Warrior and Jade Druid decks, just because it had some legends and epics in it that I was missing.

However, I only got 1 Aya Blackpaw although it is included in 2 decks.
I still got 2 Brann and 2 Thaurissan (also included in 2 decks), so the missing Aya Blackpaw does not make sense to me.

Is the missing Aya Blackpaw a known bug?