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[Awaclus]

Yeah, this brawl sucks, but it's very nice for completing quests with classes you don't have the cards for, since there's more or less a 50% chance you win, a 50% chance you lose, and you know which one it is within the first two turns so you can resign if it's the latter.

[ashersky]

Yeah, I had a Turn 2 Chromaggus, then dropped three minions whose random prices went down to 1 from 5+.  Auto-resign, open pack.

In the pack was a Cenarius, which I wanted for ages when I was running Token Druid.

[Grujah]

I actually like this brawl. 

[Jorbles]

I couldn't really understand what the point of the brawl was, but I do like getting a free pack?

[popsofctown]

I couldn't really understand what the point of the brawl was, but I do like getting a free pack?

You clearly didn't get a 40 dust pack for enduring turn 2 Tirions

[qmech]

I thought I would like this given I seem to play games with a reasonable RNG component, but it's dialled a bit too high for my tastes.  Playing Shrink/Cabal T2 on a Houndmaster was great, but it's less fun when it's happening to you.

[Jorbles]

I couldn't really understand what the point of the brawl was, but I do like getting a free pack?

You clearly didn't get a 40 dust pack for enduring turn 2 Tirions

No, but I did Black Knight two of my opponent's Earth Elementals (I just straight up killed the third one he had). He resigned.

[popsofctown]

Warlock is probably the best class for this thing right? The more stuff you tap into your hand, the higher the chance it gets randomly undercosted?

On the other hand a format where cards are undercosted should involve fewer hero power activations, in theory, so maybe you want a class with good cards and a bad hero power rather than the reverse.

[Awaclus]

Warlock is probably the best class for this thing right? The more stuff you tap into your hand, the higher the chance it gets randomly undercosted?

On the other hand a format where cards are undercosted should involve fewer hero power activations, in theory, so maybe you want a class with good cards and a bad hero power rather than the reverse.

I had pretty good success with Druid since I needed to complete the 50 gold quest, I lost only one game out of 4. But I think the hero you choose will have only negligible impact on your chances of winning, and getting good RNG is by far the most important factor.

[popsofctown]

Warlock is probably the best class for this thing right? The more stuff you tap into your hand, the higher the chance it gets randomly undercosted?

On the other hand a format where cards are undercosted should involve fewer hero power activations, in theory, so maybe you want a class with good cards and a bad hero power rather than the reverse.

I had pretty good success with Druid since I needed to complete the 50 gold quest, I lost only one game out of 4. But I think the hero you choose will have only negligible impact on your chances of winning, and getting good RNG is by far the most important factor.

Oh yeah, it's definitely a 51% 49% thing, I'm just amused by the thought exercise.

[Jorbles]

I think it's probably best to just pick a class that has the most expensive but still good class cards. So probably Druid as Druid has a lot of expensive class cards that don't have downsides, aside from the cost which is irrelevant in this mode.

Warlock can fill their hand, but a lot of their minions have negative effects when you play to make up for their usual low casting cost. Like a Pit Lord, Doom Guard or Anima Golem being 1 mana isn't nearly as good as some of the other big class cards out there.

[popsofctown]

I think it's probably best to just pick a class that has the most expensive but still good class cards. So probably Druid as Druid has a lot of expensive class cards that don't have downsides, aside from the cost which is irrelevant in this mode.

Warlock can fill their hand, but a lot of their minions have negative effects when you play to make up for their usual low casting cost. Like a Pit Lord, Doom Guard or Anima Golem being 1 mana isn't nearly as good as some of the other big class cards out there.

This is true.  I got my pack with Druid.  Dark Wispers ftw

[pingpongsam]

I've noticed the cards can be randomly assigned a cost that does not exceed the original cost, that is, they can only be randomly undercosted.
Has anyone seen a card get reassigned a higher than original cost?

[popsofctown]

Yeah, they can only be undercosted.

Which makes me curious why Hearthpwn has little pictures of 10 mana War Golems and stuff in their blurb about the brawl.  I wonder if Blizz leaks early info to the site, then leaks it wrong, then they don't fix it.  Why wouldn't you play the brawl at least once before doing the writeup yknow.

[blueblimp]

I enjoyed this brawl more than the other random-cards brawls (webspinners, portals, random everything, ...). The issue I had with the others is often you just have overcosted crap in your hand and can't do anything. By making the cards cheap, it works around that problem. So yeah it's pretty coin-flippy, but you can at least do _something_ even if you lose, and there can be swings back and forth.

[Awaclus]

This brawl is awesome. I'm currently running this Druid deck:

2 Innervate
2 Zombie Chow
2 Wild Growth
2 Swipe
2 Defender of Argus
2 Keeper of the Grove
2 Maiden of the Lake
2 Nourish
1 Starfall
2 Druid of the Claw
2 Kvaldir Raider
2 Sludge Belcher
1 Emperor Thaurissan
2 Kodorider
2 Volcanic Lumberer
2 Frost Giant

I'm 3-0 so far and all of the games have been ridiculously easy (I made adjustments after the first game, though). I would run the $2 2/3 Wild Growth dude if I had them, but I don't.

EDIT: 6-0. I've played against one Paladin who had basically the same idea as I did now, but even that game wasn't too difficult since Druid is still much better than Paladin for this.

EDIT: And then I lost against a deck that was just a constructed midrange Hunter. 

[chairs]

I need to build a paladin deck for this.

[qmech]

EDIT: And then I lost against a deck that was just a constructed midrange Hunter. 

Hey, it works almost every time.

[ycz6]

You should throw in an Astral Communion or two if you've got them. Innervating into it is even more busted than it normally is.

[Awaclus]

You should throw in an Astral Communion or two if you've got them. Innervating into it is even more busted than it normally is.

Oh yeah, that's a brilliant idea. Too bad I don't have them.

[chairs]

I saw a guy play kvaldir raiders and maiden of the lake, and it was just dirty.

[qmech]

I saw a guy play kvaldir raiders and maiden of the lake, and it was just dirty.

Isn't that Pit Fighter?

[popsofctown]

I saw a guy play kvaldir raiders and maiden of the lake, and it was just dirty.

Isn't that Pit Fighter?

It has 1 more attack than pit fighter.

[Awaclus]

I saw a guy play kvaldir raiders and maiden of the lake, and it was just dirty.

Isn't that Pit Fighter?

It has 1 more attack than pit fighter.

More like 15 more attack than Pit Fighter.

Also, it's not dirty, it's just a good strategy. Maybe it'll become more popular as more people manage to wrap their heads around this brawl, and then someone might be able to come up with a counter, but for the time being, playing anything else but a Maiden of the Lake based ramp druid is just asking to lose every game against everyone who plays it.

[qmech]

I saw a guy play kvaldir raiders and maiden of the lake, and it was just dirty.

Isn't that Pit Fighter?

It has 1 more attack than pit fighter.

It appears I accidentally made a comment that could be read as containing play relevant information.