ElephantBanjoGnome wrote:
Hearthly wrote:
1) Patron Warrior isn't seen around so much now.
Do you even card bro?
Tempo's meta snapshot:
https://tempostorm.com/hearthstone/meta ... -the-blockPatron still #1 after a brief dalliance with secret pally when TGT came out. Try getting down to the lower ranks and you'll see very little else.
Trump spent a long time at Ranks 3-5 at the end of last season (I watched every single F2P video, of his entire climb and then the last few days when he hovered around 3-5). Patron was certainly represented but not to any overwhelming degree, and he did manage to beat it a few times with his F2P Priest deck.
If anything there was a lot of Handlock around, which I guess is because it's such a good counter to Patron.
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There are plenty of viable decks, and anything can lose. Patrol was too strong because you only needed to survive long enough to draw the major combo pieces, get one tick of Thaurisan, and then you won. Most of the early 'threats' are things are are card draw mechanics so by focussing on them you just speed the Warrior to their OTK. It's very hard to rush it down. Not impossible, but Blizzard have said before that OTK from the hand is definitely not what they want.
Certainly Patron was OP and it needed attention, but I'm not convinced the answer was destroying the entire deck and the concept of it.
Why not just limit charge minions' potential attack, or Frothings only gain attack from allied minions' damage, or something like that?
I dunno, I just feel like there must have been a different option.
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If you're playing a proper patron warrior, they don't drop those cards in isolation unless they're desperate, or they're just not playing the deck right.
I didn't say the cards were being dropped in isolation, I said that they're the damage-dealers in the deck which are at least known quantities and you know what you have to deal with.
It's a tough deck to play against for sure, and it needed some attention, but I think it's a shame they decided to destroy it.