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Five Fun Casual Hearthstone Combos
There's no shortage of cool and interesting combo plays to be made in Hearthstone. From the straightforward and competitive to the most obtuse RNG fueled combinations that you can think of, there's plenty to go around. This week's video highlights five that we think are particularly fun to pull of in a more casual setting. They're primarily looked upon as bad or just are too unlikely to ever be relied upon, but are a ton a fun to pull off.
My personal favorite? All of the combos made possible due to and like in .
After you've checked out the video in the full article, head to the comments section and share your own favorite combos. We'll be taking a look at them later in the week!
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The Return of the Freeze Mage: The Emperor Strikes Back
Once upon a time the Hearthstone meta was dominated by Mages. Every archetype of Mage was top tier and that was because of the pre-nerf mana cost of some powerful spells as well as the lack of healing in Hearthstone. It seems crazy these days to think that not only did Mages have access to 8-mana but that all of the spells cost one mana less. This meant that Freeze Mage could start freezing your board on turn 2 and never let a single minion attack go through. Needless to say this was incredibly frustrating to play against and Blizzard decided to nerf all of the freeze spells by one mana in the name of fun. Freeze Mage was still viable but definitely became a much more balanced deck.
Enter the Black Rock Mountain adventure and a single Dark Iron Dwarf by the name of . His ability is one that was looked at as potentially game breaking before anyone had a chance to play with the card as he can essentially un-nerf certain cards. However, in practice, the card has not proven to be overpowered but does in certain decks provide a large amount of value. In my opinions Freeze Mage is the best equipped deck in the game to take advantage of the mana reduction that Thaurissan provides for a few reasons. Freeze Mage often has a very large hand since it features a high amount of drawing cards and also, the power of the Freeze Mage is in the ability to do large amounts of burst damage using a sequence of burn spells. Those spells costing less mana means that more of them can be fit into the same turn allowing for larger amounts of sudden damage.
Let's take a look at the deck and break down each card's place in the deck and then we'll discuss some important combos and possible replacements as well as general game strategy.
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New Cards, Same Ol' Savagery - A Guide to the New GvG Druid
Druid has consistently been at or near the top of the meta for longer than any other class since the beginning of the Hearthstone Beta. The addition of the Goblins vs. Gnomes card set did nothing to slow down the versatile class and, in fact, has increased its power. While other classes, such as Mage and Paladin, have benefitted a little more, saving them from the depths of the rankings, Druid didn't need much help to begin with. In fact, no Druid class cards have been added to the standard aggressive Druid deck but the neutral cards that were added to the game fit very nicely into the existing deck and have really upped the power level.
Let's take a look at the deck and break down each card. Then we'll discuss some important combos and possible replacements as well as general game strategy.
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Strike It Rich and Discover Oil Rogue
Ever since the nerf to , the Rogue class has been struggling to find a viable deck utilizing the new GvG cards. Popular pro players and streamers tested and tinkered with ideas that had worked in the past but the Miracle Rogue seemed to have been finally crushed under the weight of nerfs, s and tiny trains that say "chugga chugga". Luckily, the player base of Hearthstone does not give up easily and a viable Rogue deck sprung up in several forms and from several different prominent players. In this article I will discuss the Rogue deck that I have landed on after playing it a bunch during the end of last season
and now into the February season.
Let's take a look at the deck and break down each card. Then we'll discuss some important combos and possible replacements as well as general game strategy.
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