

Indeed, the archetype is so good it led to the removal of Lunar Band from the format and it is the second big contender alongside Warlocks for the top spot. It’s just as well Professor Slate took some time off of the mushroom experiments to dabble with necromancy instead: Death Games enables any starter deck to fully lean into Deathrattle synergies, and even such unassuming cards as Nerubian Egg and Bloated Python can steamroll the opponents by default. Similarly, Hunters are also doing the same as before, except with greatly increased consistency. Warlocks can now discard to their hearts’ content throughout the entire game, gaining early tempo edges followed by synergistic plays with two big payoffs in the form of Killmox and C’Thun. The class’ survivability has also shot up thanks to the Demon shell of Midway Maniac, Man'ari Mosher and Fire Breather. Unsurprisingly, a deck which constantly discards cards requires a bit of extra oomph in the long game, which C'thun, the Shattered easily takes care of by itself. A change to Discard buckets and the addition of Killmox, the Banished One greatly improved the shell of Warlock decks to begin with, but it was the new set which put the archetype over the top. Warlocks can now successfully pull off a Discard deck and don’t have to rely on the Unlocked Potential highroll build (affectionately nicknamed “Inner Fire or retire).

You’ll immediately notice playing Duels that there are two new top dogs in the game mode with very distinct strategies. Best Duels Starter Decks For All Classes!.List of All Availalable Heroes, Hero Powers & Signature Treasures.Some classes fell from grace and new ones rose to prominence thanks to a combination of powerful new hero powers and small gameplay adjustments, leading to a meta dominated by the two Ds: Discard and Deathrattle.

Now that the Madness of the Darkmoon Faire expansion has launched and Team 5 swung the nerf bat a few more times, the Duels environment is looking very different from what we’ve seen during the early access period.
