In its final form, it's a cheaper Wand of Disintegration! Beastly Beauty is a decent treasure in its own right, but at best its a (5) 8/8 that deals 2 damage to a minion. Creator Notes: Pirates are usable, but not as abusable since it lacks a Secondary Passive to maximize value on. Stacking cheap spells can build up. Humble Blessings can use Bring on Recruits or Modest Aspirations. As a legendary minion, you can even get an extra copy of the buffed crab with Disks of Legend. Khadgar's Scrying Orb serves as an extremely efficient discount towards your spells, which is almost always usable. Totems got just enough support now to function fairly well in Duels, especially with The Stonewright and Totemic Power being able to summon Totem Giant. Its great at what it does and would probably be too strong if it were any cheaper. You'll get to buff your swarm of small minions, and you might even get to repeat the effect a few more times. Warden's Insight is a popular Starting Treasure because of its flexibility between two good effects. Even if you did, itd likely just get in one attack then die on your opponents turn. Occasionally Embercaster can be a game changer, but it needs to be combod with just the right card. Explore the Hearthstone meta game and find out how the archetypes match up. While the potential is still there, its just hard to make the most of it when theres not a lot of decks that just happens to be able to use it to its fullest extent. One treasure with a superior counterpart is Robes of Shrinking; the better one being Rhonin's Scrying Orb. Stargazing can be amazing, and your Hero Power determines exactly how useful this treasure is. While Unlocked Potential has the possibility of decreasing you minions Attack, youll most likely be offered it as an option if most or all of your minions would gain Attack. Signature Treasure: Mo'arg Outcast. Ironweave Bloodletter is just healing, which is underwhelming in most scenarios but can keep you alive long enough against aggro to get your combos if youre spending a ton of corpses. [Hearthstone] Added the "Mech" tag to The Purator. Its stats are enormous for sure, but its very vulnerable to removal. I'm thinking about moving Mending Pools up too. Tier 2: Avenging Armaments is good for the same reason only Paladin specific. With even more, it can become a cheap unavoidable source of 14 damage! Arcane spells specifically have better treasures associated with them than others, so its worth the investment. Even if you dont high roll getting the good Secrets, it still throws off your opponents first few turns as it forces them to either risk triggering one of them or make suboptimal moves trying to play around every possible Secret. Duels is a game mode where players face off against other players, attempting to claim 12 victories before they suffer 3 losses, similar to Arena. With 2 minions on the board, it can be a Blessing of Kings. Crimson and Contagion Concoction are fairly situational. Share. Both Wildfire and Reckless Apprentice are banned in duels mode :-/. The Blood and Frost deck examples will resemble the builds a lot of players have been seen using. This makes it hard for this passive to reliably help you. You will learn not just how to pass this or that boss, but how to do it with various decks, including budget decks. As mentioned before, Seabreaker Goliath is simply a vanilla minion, granted one of the biggest there is. Ghoul Blitz is an amazing Hero Power in general, but more so for Death Knights because of how efficiently you can rack up corpses. A new Hearthstone game mode - Duels - was released in Darkmoon Faire expansion. Summoning a decent minion on Hero Power is viable on its own, but it also gives Death Knights an extra corpse to work with. Shamans have so many AOE Spells to take advantage of, so those combined with good Spell Damage minions can keep the opponents board under control while you set up yours. You can also pile up on you decks strongest minions like Jace Darkweaver, Captain Galvangar, or Alexandros Mograine. Druidic Teaching is a very potent draw engine. Even though Lichborne Might effectively functions as +3 Attack to one of your minions and kills it, it has actually found success in Deathrattle heavy Death Knight decks, largely thanks to Mummy Magic. At its worst, its a well-statted minion that deals respectable damage. Corrupt the Waters, Amalgam of the Deep,Battle Vicar,Manafeeder Panthara,Seafloor Savior,Sleetbreaker,Alliance Bannerman,Brilliant Macaw,Instructor Fireheart,Venomous Scorpid,Blademaster Okani,Crud Caretaker,Theotar, the Mad Duke,Hammer of the Naaru,Mutanus the Devourer. Since starting decks in Duels are 15 cards, there arent a ton of options for the class yet, and almost all of their cards are free for everyone. The first season of Hearthstone begins now and it brings along 2 Hero Powers and 3 Signature Treasures. Especially for zoo strategies, this will be a great weapon. There's also the possibility Blizzard is rotating treasures without telling us as it is in early release still. You should already have ways to keep up card advantage by this point. At face value, Bag of Stuffings potential for a complete hand reload is amazing. Warlocks have access to Dark Arts, a massive cycling engine commonly used to search out C'Thun, the Shattered pieces. It may not have as much Nature abuse, it does take advantage of cards Druids would love to use but cant like Palm Reading and Priestess Valishj. In fact, the only reason this passive is ranked in the middle is because not all Hero Powers can use it as well as others. The third version of these cards are the only ones really worth being called treasures. Sometimes it can work in ways youd never expect. Priests already had good ways to play with Deathrattles, and Castle Nathria gave Druids ways to push that strategy even further! Soulcial Studies gives your Soul Fragment generators additional tempo. Its effectively turning all of your minions into one big target, which is easier to get rid of than a wide board. 1: Posting the card images uses names. Try cannibalism as a . March of the Lich King Mini Set Cards List & Guide. Ring of Phaseshifting will oftentimes just generate stuff your deck can barely benefit from. ; Fractured in Alterac Valley cards are available in buckets now.. An early way to play with the new expansion's cards! To sum up, you now have a deck option for every class. Flame Waves gives all of your Fire spells the added value of two free Arcane Explosion, which is an amazing passive board clear. . Rogues and Mages have always had an affinity for good cheap spells, and this combo of classes definitely embodies it. There is another successful archetype though that uses Spread Shot; that being Questline Hunter. Its just not enough to have it take up most of your turn. When you have legendary minions with effects that benefit exponentially by being duplicated like Aegwynn, the Guardian or Rattlegore, then Disks of Legend can be a huge game-changer; even though it does nothing else when you're not playing legendary minions. Harvest Time! Mega salty? Keep an eye out for targets, as its kind of hard to plan a combo and save both pieces for it. Just like before, the unmentioned Treasures have simple effects whose impact is barely any better than an ordinary Hearthstone card. But when you're in that position, it's hard to establish a big enough board to take advantage of the Lifesteal. Tier 3: Out of all the three-stage treasures, Surly Mob is probably the best. Death Games is the ultimate Deathrattle Hero Power and can capitalize on quite a few minions. This is especially true in a game mode that has a lot more removal on average. Most legendary minions only work within a certain kind of deck, especially class ones. Illucia has a Hero Power for both aggro and control decks, and both are quite good. Creator Notes: Now that Witchwood cards are available for starting decks, Warpath is a fantastic way to both progress the Questline and refresh the Hero Power. There are two different types of Treasures that we offer: Passives: Treasures that offer a benefit for you all game. In this section, we will cover aspects of passing various bosses and tests in Hearthstone. Most generic Secondary Passive are better at this point. Latest News. Staff of Pain was okay on its own and is prone to backfiring. Chaos Theory can also backfire, but a perfectly timed one is actually capable of bailing you out of a situation. There are many like it, but this one is mine. A lot of Death Knights better cards either need those corpses, or dont make more of them, so its challenging to make this Hero Power super impactful. Demon Blood is occasionally seen with decks that run a ton of Demons to surprise their opponent with a sudden big, cheap minion. [Hearthstone] Added the "Mech" tag to The Purator. While some minions become less efficient to play, the swings you get by working around the cost increase makes a huge difference. Firekeepers Idol is a relatively low-impact passive (as 1/2 minions with no effects dont do much), but it provides an extra resource in your hand as well. Cards that give all of your minions a buff encourages token strategies. Discard 2 cards. Login; GAMERS DECIDE. Unholy makes very few appearances, but we have a [RaptorWithWings] original deck that is the only Death Knight deck to reach 12 wins in testing. This is a really powerful card, but its a bit slow in Duels where there are frequent powerful swing turns as opposed to accumulative payoff. *Heavy Armor doesnt do anything to push you towards winning by itself. Unstable Magic can totally shut down some decks, like ones centered around Deathrattles. Tier 4: While some of the passives that interact with certain spell types have amazing effects,many of them are severely underwhelming. Recycling wont create tempo, but can build defenses that allow you to survive heavy aggro when you need a little extra time to catch up when youre behind. Sure it has all of the drawbacks of attacking with your hero, but your opponent is forced to play around it every single turn. So if youre behind, not even its best combo does much to help. Gaining cheap copies of your minions with Shadowcasting 101 is definitely useful. Tier 2: Vampiric Fangs can provide big Heal to classes the otherwise lack it and struggle against decks based around Magnetic Mines and Mind Tether, while functioning as targeted removal. We've got a fresh look at the Stormwind Duels Meta today with Report #6 - Best 12-Win Hearthstone Duels Decks For November Week 3. . Bug Fixes and Game Improvements [Hearthstone] Updated Hawkstrider Rancher's text to say "Whenever" instead of "After." This is a text-only change to make the text match how the card currently functions. Scepter of Summoning is a good discount treasure so long as you have enough expensive minions to use it with but still have cards that keep you in the game until you reach the turn you can start playing them. Loyal Henchman and Clockwork Assistant are no more than slowly scaling cheap beatsticks, but they can get pretty big late game/run. There's enough Big Demon support to allow this archetype to hold its own in Duels. Blizzard 25 comments Dec 21, 2022 at 12:21 by Staff. Ring of Haste and Sunstrider's Crown are probably the most swingy passive amongst the other Tier 3 ones. Crusty the Crustacean is both a single target kill AND a big beatstick afterwards. Since you cant have more that one weapon out at a time, its not a very optimal deck building strategy. It also has limited ability to snowball due to Demon Hunters lack of minions that directly scale with being handbuffed. However, Reno has the special attribute of being part Mage that allows him to play this minion and follow it up with something insane like Drakefire Amulet or Rune of the Archmage as early as turn 4! Book of the Dead is usually a much cheaper option and even deals sizable damage to face. Robe of the Magi gives a massive boost to all damaging spells, making even the weakest of them extremely efficient. As a matter of fact, these Hearthstone Duels Decks have all achieved 12 wins. Duels decks are filled with removal, and Brittle Bones turns that into even more advantage! Survival Training can actually use the rewards of Defend the Dwarven District and is even more effective than the base Hunter Hero Power. However, they share a couple problems in common that may make them hard to use. This gives any Freeze Mage builds an actual win condition instead of more board control it doesnt really need. Questline Warrior was a menace on the ladder for a large past of the past year and continues to do so with the release of Voyage to the Sunken City. The effect of Freeze Solid now involves a damage buff as opposed to instant destruction of minions. The only way to maximize its effect is to run Holy spells in mass, which cuts out minions that youd want to buff in the first place. Not only is this super mana efficient, its lets you play huge minions so much earlier than theyre supposed to. Most decks this late in the game usually end their turn with multiple minions or destroyed all of yours. Well here, we have a very in depth analysis of everything in the game. Milling your opponent is also a niche way to use it if the opportunity arises.Dreamgrove Ring gives you the chance to load up your board with big and scary threats, but it robs you of the ability to do much else. Overpowered can duplicate anything, even other Treasures! A deck centered around Deathrattles that summon a lot of extra minions is both accessible and supported with buckets. Tier 5 - Treasures that can easily backfire unless you have nothing to lose. Theyre just generically useful, which is not a bad thing as it doesnt require you to build your deck around it while still being extremely strong. The fact that Illidari Strike summons Rush minions usually doesnt matter unless the first kills the target and you still have your second one to attack something else. However, instead of drafting a deck, players are offered a choice between 5 (4 prior to Patch 23.0.0.135540) of Duels-exclusive heroes, then one of 3 of that class's Hero Powers, followed by one of 6 of that class's Signature Treasures. Tier 4: Mask of Mimicry and Golden Kobold replace most or all of the cards in your hand, which you dont always want since youll typically be holding onto other Treasures for later. I used to love duels, but the change in buckets killed it for me :(. Tier 4 - Lackluster effects that wont be super game-changing very often. Several will be grouped up as the reason for their level of usefulness maybe be similar, and some are effectively negligible and dont really need its own separate explanation as to why its as good/bad as it is. You do have a point about them not deserving to be in T4 though. Its almost always used alongside Gift of the Legion as a repeatable way to gain Attack; usually working as a substitute for the other 2 Hero Powers. The final reward will let you chip away at enemy health even when youre using the Hero Power as minion removal. With Wyrm Bolt and Bring on Recruits being so prevalent, people often use it as a card-free way to handle them. But a lot of Freezing cards hit several things at once, so youll at least get a bunch of stuff to play if you happen to be low on cards. Starting Treasure: Scrapmetal Demolitionist. Currently, the top Paladin Duels decks revolve around Humble Blessings. . War Commands can work in any of kind of deck that can make great use of the cheap neutral minions drawn. Kazakusan has completely changed Hearthstone meta with its treasures, and today we are going to make a Tier List. Passively obtaining discounted copies of enemy minions sounds amazing, but Eerie Stone isn't perfect. The first reward from Raid the Docks pulls a weapon out of your deck, which can give you guaranteed access to Ol' Faithful if you have no other weapons!