A Powerpoint About Miniset Legendaries

[@aldroydf35]

Damn, this video is as long as 2019 control warrior mirror match

[@aldroydf35]

Also, love seeing your pure and unadulterated anger towards Dorian, Yogg Unleashed and Braan Deepminer

[@nathanyu7030]

average descent of dragons priest vs priest matchup

[@aldroydf35]

@@nathanyu7030 at least that was fun

[@ImBigLou]

I love the longer videos because you progressively lose your mind even more than you normally do. Peak content

[@RedFoxLevel101]

You got the Azerite Murlock effect all wrong, but it doesn’t matter because the card is turbo ass.

[@antusThul]

About Varia and Mida: Varia was good in standard shadow priest (the version of the deck that genuinely ran undeads) and mida was good for control matchups

[@antusThul]

Undead shadow priest was still playable in titans (tho I agree it's weird that they waited till that expansion to print Varia like what the heck)

[@mpm9333]

Kazakusan started out as "if all minions in your deck are dragons" or some equivalent of that

[@goldenson4566]

Quite notably it was most prominently played in Druid even before then, but in a list that simply ran no minions. The nerf to Kazakusan did actually force that deck to run dragons, slowing down the old deck.

[@antusThul]

​@@goldenson4566 it was a very welcome change

[@antyseba5319]

I remember running cho'gall in arena once and in none of 7 games the anomaly proced

[@vibrantoucan8890]

Sorry, but you never saw Mi'da? That card was basically in every single Priest Deck during March of the Lich King. It was amazing, especially in control Mirrors.

[@juuuuuuug01]

Varia WAS really good in standard for one expansion, shadow undead priest was one of the best decks to climb to legend and the one I used for a couple seasons.

[@slaiminus]

I like using colosal Sindragosa, she gives good tempo for exavate Death Knight. Also good to give reborn with location (or use dead air) because wings spawns after reborn and they have freeze so harder for opponent to remove

[@Zakading]

Still baffled that Sindragosa wasn't just made significantly stronger and turned into a 2 or 3 frost card to make up for it. Frost DK could've used a more board-centric wincon rather than just shitty freeze interactions and unreliable burn combos. Product 9 on paper looked like a neat inclusion for Reno Hunter with just repeating the improved secrets from Tavish. But turns out that's just unnecessary value when it works and a dead card when it doesn't. Mi'da feels like it shows up in every "No-Wincon-Control" Priest deck I ever run into. It still sucks ass though. Fanottem, I just fucking love playing in a Dinomancer Disco Warlock meme deck. Real fun to just summon like 15 of the bastard (unless you play against Control Priest and they just wipe your board every single turn).

[@FlareIsGone]

that would be a cool idea therefore impossible

[@AJEsspee]

There was ONE deck Naralex was kinda crazy in. Demon Hunter in sunken city would run this if they ran Drek'thar. If you get Nighmare, you play it on Lady S'theno and it was the worst thing I've felt since facing pre-nerf Celestial Allignment

[@FlareIsGone]

never in my life have I seen that thats nuts though

[@zyury1578]

I loved playing 15 mana yogg with unstable evolution.thanks blizz for the amazing interaction😂

[@filipvadas7602]

1. Seriously, did NOBODY test Skyla when they made her a Rogue Tourist? How did NOBODY catch that coins were going to make Mage *absolutely cracked?* 2. You got Azerite Murloc's effect wrong, but it hardly matters since the card is ARSE either way. It *genuinely* needs a total rework from the ground up. Like maybe just reverse the effect, where it turns minions in your *opponent's hand and deck into random minions , but ones of the same cost. Finley ,tho, I will defend as a good card and a *great* addition in Paladin because Paladin's Excavate reward is actually pretty solid in context of cards like Tigress Plushie 3. *Tho'grun* , *Deepminer Brann* , *Puppetmaster Dorian* and the original *Yogg-Saron, Unleashed* are to this day some of the most baffling cards ever released. I've seen *fan cards* designed with more restraint.

[@alonkob2127]

"People are expressing great dissatisfaction with our card design and balance lately so let's print a way for Mage to summon 4 water elementals with charge on turn 4 consistently!" Also I just can't understand, what the hell was the point of buffing Millhouse to 9 two weeks before printing a 5 mana version of it? that's so pathetic, what's the point???

[@180isa]

As a hearthstone player that enjoys not playing aggro for hours a day, this standard set is brutal. Mage is too oppressive and common to not play anything that cant kill on turn 4.

[@mousepoison1668]

Love the longer video style, I would love to see more of this style! Great video as always flare!

[@markcole2040]

Skyla lowkey looks like a hunter card they decided to make mage last minute

[@Squid-King]

As much as I wanted to disagree with you on how Hearthstone was not a bad game. You really hit the nail on the coffin by explaining just how bad each of the expansions were following outland. I rejoined Hearthstone pretty much near the start of United in Stormwind and I have only seen the game get progressively worse and worse as time goes on. From broken tier-zero garbage like Yogg to solitaire like gameplay... The game is pretty much just on life support, and I think the devs know that. Why else are they trying so hard to push monetization and cutting content all at the same time?

[@3takoyakis]

Because ppl like ZEDDY complaining on how broken cards are for each expansion. United in stormwind, Sunken city, Murder in Nathria, and March of the Lich King were really broken Then they started to lower the power level and ofc ppl hated it too. They make less synergy and generally just broken stuff that never had its pieces.

[@andreicecold4379]

@@3takoyakis Bro, what are you talking about? They did not "lower the power level," ever since Barrens every expansion except maybe Festival has had some of the most egregious power creep in Hearthstone histoy

[@filipvadas7602]

Deepminer Brann needs to be changed to where *only the first* Battlecry each turn is doubled. Its still an insanely strong effect but its balanced out by actually having to CARE about which one you're doubling

[@shadic303]

I’d really be interested in seeing Deepminer Brann’s effect, but for Deathrattles. Not sure what class/cost it should be, but Deathrattle as a keyword on its own has rarely felt good enough unless it’s specifically tied to a class’s identity(Death Knight) or had help from Battlecry(Yelling Yodeler). It being inherently a slower board based keyword seems like it’d be much more fun/interesting to play with/against.

[@Maxiebon1234]

Things Flare was wrong about in this video (IMO): Deepminer Brann: never had opressive winrates, and with a winrate of 43% now, sees 8% meta play, meaning reno warrior is actually a deck people enjoy. Thaddius: also never had agregious winrates? was nerfed because people didnt like losing to the decks Dungar: sees play in standard (mid winrate but playable) also some play in top 50 wild legend Replicator: sees play in odyn warrior, tier 1-3 depending on rank bracket Dorian: Mid winrates in wild, easily counterable, never had opressive winrate in standard(lower than average drawn winrate in tempo druid)

[@TheSilverwolf97]

1.- Win rates and play rates are not the entire picture 2.- Deepminer Brann was an incredibly oppressive card and the best and most popular deck in the format for a while when Brann was 6 mana, but if you ask for my opinion the issue isn't exactly Brann but Thogrunn, I just hate cards that outright destroy the enemy deck, with Battlecries even! completely uninteractive stuff. At least with good ol' mill Rogue and stuff, you ran the danger of feeding an enemy a full hand giving them resources, these stuff like Thogrunn and Tickatus just outright destroy your shit... also deck hand and battlefield? so completely choked? might as well say win the game. Astalor was an issue with Brann but that was because of Astalor too, since Rogue made a similarly busted strategy with it. So in the end it isn't really Brann but the battlecries themselves, Brann might be a value bomb but won't win you the game alone. It is bad design in that it limits future battlecries for the game tho. 3.- Thaddius has been nerfed 3 times if I am correct for a reason dude 4.- Dungar is... meh, the decks aren't exactly broken or anything, but they aren't top tier either, I don't think it's the worst card ever printed tho 5.- I've literally never seen a meta deck that runs Replicator, even less so on Odyn Warrior 6.- Dorian does allow for some nasty shit, but it's also somewhat slow, it is annoying tho that if that 2/6 drops at turn 4 you have to kill it then and there or you lose and if you are a slow matchup and Druid pairs it with one of their several tutor cards then you are pretty fucked too. It only sees play in Druid honestly for a reason too.

[@zemo8214]

@@TheSilverwolf97Thogrunn should’ve been reworked into an end of turn effect so you couldn’t combo it with Brann. Remember when Odyn’s effect used to stack when you played extra copies of him and how Blizz preemptively nerfed that niche interaction to keep Brann balanced? I don’t know why they didn’t anticipate something like that happening for Thogrunn especially when the player base has historically absolutely hated effects like Thogrunn’s

[@3takoyakis]

Thaddius nerf was outrageous They basically reworked him at this point at unplayable state Someone should sue blizzard for this behavior. Between release thaddius and current thaddius, the difference is massive

[@drtenma2112]

Do u play the same hs as me? Brann and thaddius was nuts

[@sxtars7483]

Pretty sure mida was played in shard priest

[@sheda111]

In wild theres a fringe self mill list for warlock where fanottem is cool :)

[@bartoszbryczkowski569]

I love your PowerPoint videos ❤

[@Green-rk7fs]

Is there a celestial alignement deck at the moment ?

[@patrickkwon3351]

Love the rants you go on

[@antusThul]

The purator might be my fav Paladin card

[@antusThul]

I think they could just change toyrantus's +7/+7 effect to be static so that it isn't required that you activate the battlecry

[@DoctaM364]

6 mana 14/14 elusive taunt?

[@Joaogab29]

Wasnt lady nazjdar played in some decks for the arcane effect that did some mana cheat?

[@Levi_the_Med]

I ran finley in reno shaman as a counter to miracle rouge, it was an insta win. Also, whats the background music?

[@banmonsterg.8245]

3 Mana Edwin Kingpin was so disgusting how on earth did that EVER go through

[@Fate_Ya_Man]

I think if puppet master Dorian turned the card into a 1/1 at least more decks would use it and the druid mana shenanigans wouldn’t be as impactful

[@LakeEola]

Great content Thank you

[@pederw4900]

I can’t wait for when you drop merch and it’s a line of tshirts and mugs that say “I’m gonna be so honest with you”

[@benedictward3435]

In my experience in standard edwin defias was pretty busted in standard after the buff

[@XNeswii]

Replicator is in a funny (bad) Odyn Armor Vendor OTK deck that uses the new Jepetto

[@kristophercornwell5825]

Idk I kinda like Ulthok. Never really played him in Warlock, but there were a few times I managed to generate him (I think in Rogue?) while I was ahead, and he completely locked out a few opponents. Of course, I also happened to be ahead of my opponents, but he definitely played his part well. Definitely better than Millhouse imo, but I can see why you said what you said. Very niche card, but I liked him during his end time in Standard.

[@FlareIsGone]

Ulthok would have been significantly better as a hunter card (most cards that are bad would be better as hunter cards) due to their large stats + opportunity cost of dealing a LOT of damage on turns where hunter wants to deal a lot of damage. Hunter / Paladin / DK fundamentally are better at using almost any card than most other classes due to the buff oriented / super value on board oriented minions they have that are great at both trading and playing aggressively

[@kristophercornwell5825]

@@FlareIsGone Absolutely agreed there. Just imagining this card in either Hunter or Paladin would be insane due to their sheer aggression potential as a class. Seems that Warlock keeps getting similar effects with Ulthok and Curse of Flesh, wondering if Blizzard will ever swap that up in the future.

[@brunoa.8374]

The point about the game being just kinda... bad the last couple of years really hit home. Even this standart meta (before the miniset) being really diverse, with about every class having a decent to strong deck, the game just feels weird to play. Its the first time in a while I had to take a big break since no deck feels fun to play or play against. Even Arena, the mode I used to play the most, blizzard managed to ruin with the complacency with mass reseters. Its bleak, cant imagin having to do high quality content like you. Good luck and great video as always

[@stevenscangas]

You were shittalking Dungar while I was playing him on turn 4 in standard and summoning 3 massive minions lol

[@TheClanBlade]

Replicator is good in Wild Odyn Warrior.

[@FlareIsGone]

good implies that deck doesn't suck balls, which the skipper odyn deck does. Reno warrior is just directly better as an odyn deck and gauntlet/berserker/thun (anything else) is better than odyn for skipper warriors

[@corvus2288]

I have stared at replicatorinator for so long since it was realeased and to this day i can't figure out what the fuck blizzard thinks you are supposed to do with it

[@ph1lny3]

At first I thought it was like Zilliax 3000 where you pick the version you want in your deckbuilding. I was so ready to play the 1 mana version in Ceverns Rogue in wild, only to be severely disappointed when I saw what the actual effect was.

[@atoucangirl]

that's the thing about making cards: sometimes you print random-ass cards and see what players do with them. sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, and sometimes a card you though was gonna be a meme becomes meta-breaking. honestly i don't think they should print cards with the goal of being fit into an existing meta and existing decks. new cards should be fun and push you to experiment. if they're too weak, it's the devs' fault and they should try buff them, but with cards like Replicatorinator it's more gonna be a case of "does this ever find a deck?" which eventually it might (think OG Jailer, hopefully it's not that broken).

[@יונתןשגב-נ4ל]

"lastly"

[@alextrasza9237]

Hi, i love your content, do you think you could make a video on caverns below rogue ?

[@Frank_144]

You're asking him to have an aneurysm

[@alextrasza9237]

@@Frank_144 nah bro it's an awesome deck, ive been exclusively playing this deck for the past year, easily reaching diamond 5, it's a blast, way less busted than the average wild meta deck, unique to play

[@kujojotarostandoceanman2641]

battleground card review

[@mex_I.M]

varia would be broken in dk but nope give it to a class that has no good token undead or rush undead

[@mjneverletsmedown]

I main sindragossa in my garbage rainbow wild deck. The deck aint good, but its running it

[@absoluteunit582]

Sunken city and Castle Nathria were amazing expansions, so i can't agree that hearthstone is a bad game bad since 2020. For last year hearthstone is fucked up for sure tho

[@ahmetsolgun8607]

Risa can have charge

[@ReyMercuryFGC]

Came back from not playing since 2018, and i gotta say. Holy shit this game got so much more fun! But to be fair i come from YuGiOh... and i play Druid... sooo... yeah xD Been loving your powerpoints! Specially the ones that also include current Standard! Also, im so sad i missed colossals and OG Zephrys! ToT And this last Miniset was complete bull Dung x.x

[@mousebone]

I want to suggest you rehearse these a little You are picking interesting topics, I don’t agree with every point you make and that’s something I can overlook and engage, but it’s hard when you stumble over every other sentence or ramble your points. I’m glad there’s a new voice in this community, I hope this comes across as constructive

[@FlareIsGone]

Rehearsing is the opposite of what these are about, you'd think after making well over 100 I surely wouldn't know how to do them.

[@mousebone]

I would think after you made well over 100 of these videos that you wouldn’t know how to do them? I think you know how “to do them,” but as a viewer who just listened to your video, I think it’s fair to offer suggestions about what is or is not working. You went out and bought a microphone after viewers said your audio wasn’t acceptable. Maybe that was before you had completed well over 100 videos. I digress-rants are fun, they can be cathartic, funny, insightful etc And maybe if they were rehearsed you’d lose some of the energy that people resonate with when they listen to a rant. But I would say the best rants are thoughtful and come to a conclusion. How many of the thoughts shared in this video include some version of “I don’t know what else to say” or “I don’t know what they were thinking?” Some of these you couldn’t remember the card changes on (or be bothered to look it up?) but still wanted to go after the developers for design and balance. Couldn’t you try to answer the question: What were they thinking?

[@Yodaminnesota]

I think you forgot the first mini set which was Galakrond's Awakening

[@__Pollux_214]

I think he is doing standard legendaries only

[@Crawdithe98]

Galakrond's Awakening is technically an adventure, not a mini-set.

[@desty3227]

Dk acctually has more miniset legendaries, path of arthas was a dk exclusive miniset

[@FlareIsGone]

Not the same at all as a miniset

[@Gildedbolt]

Yeah the cards came from what is effectively an adventure(end result is the same sure but they are obtained differently)

[@desty3227]

Those are the core dk cards Path of arthas was dk exclusive mini set to "compensate they being last expansion of the year" that you bought with gold

[@Gildedbolt]

@@desty3227 but to get the cards you needed to complete some cpu fights(so exactly an adventure)...

[@Gildedbolt]

Plus they are in their own set in the deck builder while ACTUAL mini sets are just included in whatever main set they belong to

[@Chimeraeateverything]

Cash cow is goated, love that card

[@samsungcalendarapp6433]

bros asking where the 2015-2019 design team went… they’re killing it at second dinner lmao “team 5” is now made of redditors that make puns first and cards second

[@Burgunderwacht]

3:40 bruh secret hunter has %61 win rate rn

[@FlareIsGone]

thats not a good thing! It shouldn't be a deck with no new cards being the best deck for a class!

[@mckinleyostvig7135]

It did 2 days ago now it's below 50%

[@Burgunderwacht]

@@mckinleyostvig7135 check hsreplay

[@alberto-falco]

I haven't faced any secret hunter in this expansion so far, it's definitely not that good

[@Burgunderwacht]

@@alberto-falco matchups depends on the class ur playing also i commented my source and my comment got deleted lol

[@Daniel-mo7bj]

I like your videos but you always get excessively mad at random shit lol, but I get that you care about this game that we all love

[@Uefeti]

There’s no reasonable way in that Skyla is the best 5 drop ever printed. For that spot it has to be better than Raza, Loatheb, Zarimi.

[@FlareIsGone]

Loatheb and Raza are billion years old and doubtfully would be good in standard currently especially into skyla decks. Zarimi is definitely up there but it's not forcing won game states on turn 5 especially in standard like Skyla is

[@Uefeti]

@@FlareIsGone I mean standard is a very specific environment with a fixed card pool. Many card were good in standart just to see absolutely no play at all after rotation, because they were only good in that specific card pool. Raza, Zarimi and Loatheb were/are good in wild for a while, while I’m not sure if Big Mage is even meta relevant there

[@electricVGC]

They just want to be Marvel Snap

[@electricVGC]

Kazakusan might be the most nerfed card ever they nerfed it's creations a lot, deleted several, and changed its activation condition several times

[@jasonturney4798]

I play battlegrounds im having a great time

[@liviustefan6365]

Hs died in 2015 when descover cards apeared

[@pederw4900]

I hate deepminer Brann, but if it was in shaman I’d defend it with my very life ❤ there is no card in Hearthstone I have played more times than Awaken the Waters and I’m so sick of it please just give me perma doubled battlecries in shaman I promise it won’t be broken I just wanna play convoluted shudderwock decks at silver 10

[@liviustefan6365]

Play another card game broo