Just played one of the coolest games of Hearthstone I've ever played I think.

Reno Mage mirror. Both in fatigue, both have Ice Block up.

He plays Deathwing killing the whole board and his hand. I'm at 14, he's at 19. I have 12 burn in hand. I just took 2 fatigue damage, he takes 3 next turn.

I have nothing to deal with Deathwing except my burn which I lose if I use. If I do nothing, I get domed with Deathwing for 12 (down to 2) and lose to fatigue next turn. I have Arcane Intellect in hand, so I play it and take 3+4 = 7 damage, bringing me down to 7, preventing him from bringing my health down enough to die to fatigue. Now if he pings and hits my face, he can only pop me at 6 health at best, and I take only 5 damage to fatigue the next turn leaving me at 1 health and giving me an extra turn.

He now has 16 health from the 3 fatigue he just took, I throw my 12 burn to face, bringing him to 4, and he dies to 4 fatigue damage.

I guess maybe not that crazy of a play, probably common for people who play a lot of Freeze Mage, but I've seen commentators go crazy in tournaments for less lol. I love those Ice Block situations where you have to deliberately take damage to avoid dying. Reno Mage mirror seems super skill intensive.

This post was edited by Voyaging on Jan 17 2017 06:36pm

Again, I would say it uses pirates, but is far from a "Glorified pirate deck."

I'd argue they are all glorified pirate decks.. that's my point. The meta is filled with these meme packages...
I don't even hate the pirate cards - I just don't like that there aren't more options for each class.. my issue isn't with pirate rogue or dragon anything in particular, but how its the same package in so many classes.
Reno gives the same type of feel.. -- with reno you often run the doomsayer//kazzakus//etc neutral minions almost as staple cards.

and since the control archetype is pretty well dead - outside of the often combo/burst reno decks.. true agro decks are gone with them. - might not really be a bad thing though.. since its kind of the extreme on both ends.

idk :/

Ping face in freeze mage mirrors is always a crowd pleaser at blizzcon.

Makes me misss echo giant mirror, where you alex'd yourself to 15 and pinged jrself to play ur giants, while healing the opponent to win haha

so when u say next adventure coming out?

Wow reno is super cheap in the brawl. I feel so dirty... also really glad the person I played didn't also have him or else that could have been a very annoying long game

This post was edited by Takoyaki on Jan 18 2017 07:19pm

not announced

so it actually works?
that is stupid
if you draw a card you get teh same card every time that says "discover a card in your deck"
that should count as duplicates

Ya it works because your deck is technically only those 10 cards and you are discovering a copy of them. I does feel really dirty