Welcome to this weeks look at TavernBrawl for Hearthstone.
This week it is titled Underdog rules, the rules this week being if you are losing by 3 or more health a random minion comes to help you!
A few thoughts on this, is it better to start slow and hope to gain this magical advantage and go for a big turn late on or is it a burst the opponent down so quick they cannot gain too much of an advantage from the rules? How will board control fit into this if there will be free minions bouncing around?
I figured I shall go for a bit of Warlockery fisrt up, the tapping for cards would work well to see how this new ruleset would benefit the underdog.
So I threw together a handlock-ish style deck and dived in...
So that was a lot of fun! Getting the balance right between keeping the enemies health low enough that they could not gain too much advantage vs keeping mine low enough to gain the advantage but not be killed off was very good. Using flame imps early I got the board advantage (battle cry deals 3 damage to me) and jsut kept hitting them enough that I could keep good board comtrol with spells and token minion, defend with the likes of sludge belcher but still build enough of a threat to win.
I will admit to a bit of luck, it was my 6 health vs their 7 and one of the random minions I got had spell damage +1, they had played Loetheb the previous turn but I had enough mana to play a 6 mana drain life for 3 damage and go face with sludge belcher and a random 3/2 I had for the win.
I think tweaking away from the likes of the giants I had in and maybe look for a bit more board control, I did find the minions a little bit delicate and I could have been in trouble if my opponent got a big card.
All in all the RNG felt pretty good on this play through, both sides seemed to get ok minions, usually along the lines of 2/2, 2/3, 3/2, 3/3 minons which felt good for free and not give either player a massive advantage.
Unfortunately my free pack all went to dust!
Fingers crossed my next post will be something of an arena experiment!
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