The Doc is In #3: 27 January Thoughts

We almost got back up to Rank 5 last night.  Almost...

I finally was able to turn my improving Arena game into a Leeroy Jenkins for this All-in Hunter deck (my Arena day consisted of a mediocre 3-3 Warrior deck that resulted in a Gold Deathwing then a 12-0 Mage deck that got me a regular Deathwing before finishing with a 5-2 Rogue deck that I need to finish tonight), and I started to climb again in the Arena Ranked ladder.

With 5 stars in Rank six (and a four game win streak), I ran into a druid then a priest who drew all four of their "taunt rares" (Defender of Argus, Sunfury Protector).  I decided to give it a night at that point, pleased that I got Rank 6 back while disappointed I could push through to 5.

I will say this; if you're playing Leeroy and you're against a druid, hold ol' Leeroy until it's lethal.  Even if you're worried they'll play a taunt minion.  The problem is that they're starting to play Savage Roar, and they get as big of a swing out of your card as you did, and based on how Hunter vs. Druid plays out, you're probably just going to be dead on the spot.

Take my advice; hold your Leeroy until the game is over.  I died from over 20 with my druid opponent at 1.  This was my loss right before getting back into rank 5 and it was frustrating on multiple levels, not least of which was the fact that if I'd just waited to play Leeroy until the following turn, choosing to activate my Hunter power instead (and waiting), I wouldn't have lost that turn and very likely would have won the game.

Some random thoughts.

- I don't know if Bloodmage Thalanos is worth the slot in the deck.  I'm never happy to have it, and the number of times where the additional spellpower was relevant are incredibly few and very far between.  There's a decent chance I may remove it.

- I know that the deck is all-charge, all-the-time, but is there an argument to be made for Harvest Golem as a sort of resilient source of damage?  We have cards that want us to have minions in play in Abusive Sergeant, and when we have that and no minions (or, due to mana constraints, playing a charge minion and Abusive Sergeant isn't a timely enough plan of action), it ends up being a Murloc Raider in the late game; not what you want to be doing.  Also, anything that deals one damage kills anything in the deck, meaning Swipe targeting our face is such a backbreaking play.  I may try this route, but I'm not sure how that would look.

- I need to get the cards for any other deck.  I'm sick of losing to druids.

Shoc