Just went 12-1 with this Arena deck. I didn't even think it was particularly good. I was pleasantly surprised though.

[Edit: Thinking about it again, this was probably better than my previous 3 arena decks. It just didn't feel like 12-win quality. The Wailing Soul and Brawl were mostly dead cards or not very useful for instance.]

 

That's false.

Decklists:

Spoiler

Alleria Windrunner (Hunter):

Hunter cards (21)

Hunter's Mark x2
Arcane Shot x2
Tracking x2
Bear Trap x1
Freezing Trap x1
King's Elekk x2
Lock and Load x2
Snipe x1
Animal Companion x2
Unleash the Hounds x2
Cobra Shot x1
Ram Wrangler x1
Tundra Rhino x1
Acidmaw x1

Neutral cards (9)

Armored Warhorse x2
Refreshment Vendor x1
Master Jouster x2
The Skeleton Knight x1
Captured Jormungar x2
North Sea Kraken x1

Medivh (Mage):

Mage cards (12)

Fallen Hero x2
Polymorph: Boar x2
Spellslinger x2
Flame Lance x2
Blizzard x1
Coldarra Drake x2
Rhonin x1

Neutral cards (18)

Lowly Squire x2
Tournament Attendee x1
Boneguard Lieutenant x2
Garrison Commander x2
Argent Horserider x1
Dragonhawk Rider x1
Evil Heckler x2
Maiden of the Lake x2
Kvaldir Raider x1
Nexus-Champion Saraad x1
Kodorider x1
Frost Giant x2

Hunter has a like...64% chance of winning joust? Remember that it's only minion mana cost that matters, not spells.

 

Huh, so far I've gone 2 for 2 with the hunter deck.

Overall, I prefer inspire over jousting.

What I'm finding interesting is that with inspire, I'm changing my play style to play fewer minions but I'm getting more out of them.

However, once TGT allows for customizable decks, I'm sure there will be counters to this style.

 

Felt like it - variance is variance, of course. Alleria has one more 5+ mana minion, and a smaller pool from which to draw them. The main problem is that mage has enough early drops to dump some of them, making the joust comparatively harder if you don't draw into the King's Elekk.

 

Warrior used to be an above average arena class before GvG. Consistent access to weapons (especially incredible weapons like Win Axe and Death's Bite) was enough to carry you.

Unfortunately, the dilution of the card pool so that you had less access to weapons, in addition to the increase in the speed of the arena so that weapon use became slightly more dangerous, relegated Warriors to the basement of arena.

But anyways, I'm not surprised you got 12 wins with that. Having 2 Death's Bite and War Axe smooths out your games so well. You even have a bunch of above average spell options (inner rage, cleave, slam) to accentuate your weapon usage. Your minion quality is also pretty damn high.

 

I don't think Warrior was ever considered a good class let alone above average in arena. Don't get me wrong you can get 12 wins with, it might even work for you in general, but on average it sucked before and it sucks even more now.

 

Cause you need weapons to make up for it.

 

Warrior was especially bad in arena due to the fact that its hero power has zero board impact, plus most of its unique creatures have been fairly bad in arena.

 

Warrior lives and dies by the weapons it gets. Get three or four weapons with decent minions? You're probably in for a good time. War Axe, Death's Bite, and Gorehowl can give you huge tempo swings, and if you supplement that with a solid curve, they can shit all over the opponents.

It's a good deck - though I'm not a fan of the Questing and the Wailing Soul. Knowing Arena, though, the alternatives probably were Secretkeeper, a Murloc or two, and Revenge.

 

I'm not that down on Questing actually. Alternatives were Armorsmith and Crazed Alchemist.

The alternatives to Wailing Soul were Demolisher and Grim Patron. I did not have many activators at that point. (Patron isn't that great in Arena in my opinion. Especially without Warsong Commander. You get one or two extra patrons out of it if you're lucky and then you get flamestriked.)

The picks I thought about most in that deck, were Cruel vs Tiger, Molten vs Fel Reaver, Recomb vs. Blood Knight and Slam vs. Battle Rage.

 

I just did a run with a questing. It got killed first turn every single time I played it, even through bubble. I think it won me a couple of games with people wasting removal on it.

 

Tricky. I think I'd've preferred the Alchemist there, but it's fairly close.

Knowing how the deck came out, Patron is probably the better choice, but you need the activators, and you need to be able to protect the Demolisher. Definite arguments for Wailing Soul, agreed.

The only one I might disagree with you on is Cruel/Tiger - but without knowing the amount of 1/2-drops and 5+ drops at that point, it's hard to theorise. Warrior can make use of Molten, Recomb is just a 2 mana 3/2 with potential bonus - you need those. Slam, if nothing else, can be used as removal if your initial draw is shit.

 

After Naxx, they got perhaps the best common in the game (Death's Bite). That increased the rate that they got weapons to a consistently high level, and I believe they were in the upper half of classes at that point.

At that point, Fiery Win Axe was also more absurd than it was now, because most 3 drops still had 3 health instead of 4. It was a more potent early game tool, and you could pretty much swing fearlessly because the game was slower and there was less threat to getting rushed down.

 

Yeah, it's top-tier removal bait that you play before the thing you want to keep around. How good it is depends entirely on the rest of your deck, but not on how well your deck synergizes with its ability.

 

I will have 3,500 gold and 5,300 dust going into the Monday release of TGT.

It isn't the 5,500 gold that I would have like to have saved up before the release, but it is enough to get me started with 20 packs and 10 Arena runs.

I will more than likely buy $23 worth of Amazon coins; and get a bonus of 200 coins; to purchase 15 more packs plus get another bonus of 200 coins. I will then use the bonus 400 Amazon coins to buy another 2 Arena runs.

 

I made some questionable crafting decisions in GvG, (I'm looking at you Troggzor and that mine legendary) so I'm going to take it a bit slow this time around. No impulse Varian crafting, or at least I hope writing this will prevent me from doing it. Otherwise I got 5k gold ready for packs and 215 dust. Then I can start saving for the next adventure.

 

So I just drafted an arena deck and even though I was unhappy with some of the choices (Having to choose wailing soul etc), I have had alot of value with turn 3 deathlord and turn 4 wailing. Il post an update when I am finished with the run.

 

I've done like 12 mage arena drafts now, and still haven't gotten a single flamestrike.

How do some of these lucky fucks get 3-4 in one run? Ugh.

 

Well, Kripp got seven once.

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My current arena. I have had no resistance sofar, I even got the chanse to do some BM.

http://i.imgur.com/RQFfgIK.png
http://i.imgur.com/Eo7lscC.png

 

I was like 'holy shit that's a low curve' and then I saw the second link.