Duels is BROKEN and it's the Boars Fault! | Brann Duels | Hearthstone

[@Dattyification]

I remember a long time ago Trump was making fun of LifeCoach for roping on turn 2. Trump is now roping literally on his draw phase.

[@riccardodellorto4267]

mm, boar deck... I need to play boars... what should I draw? A boar or another card? mm...

[@Pepe-pq3om]

"draw phase"

[@stealthyshadow567]

“Do I draw my win condition, or a bomb?” -Trump at several points in run

[@Pepe-pq3om]

@@stealthyshadow567 if you draw a bomb you draw an extra card. The value!

[@arejay9509]

He cringily misplayed numerous times frfr

[@destouche20008]

“We must get this sword to the ones proven they have no life” *Trump smiles* “The MADMAN”

[@BasicallyADiety]

Jens killing it with the Intros

[@Freekymoho]

I dont wanna badmouth jens here, but he did just put a south park clip in. thats not exactly herculean effort

[@BasicallyADiety]

@@Freekymoho Coming up for fun intros is hard. Kudos for coming up with new ideas each time

[@frankomancer]

I think it belittles his actual edits to compliment intros that are just unedited clips from a tv show

[@frankomancer]

I think it belittles his actual edits to compliment intros that are just unedited clips from a tv show

[@frankomancer]

I think it belittles his actual edits to compliment intros that are just unedited clips from a tv show

[@MrVirtual1337]

Nice to see druids struggeling at 1 mana

[@keiclera6596]

destroying 20 mana crystals, super kreygasm

[@antman7673]

It does „align“ with their style.

[@hinugundamB]

The fact that he consistently make misplay and still wins really shows how OP this deck is

[@ThomasG911]

Soooo glad that someone made a video on how braindead boars are. Having access to two classes worth of cards, a tracking every turn and an inevitable wincon that synergizes with a shitton of treasures is absurd.

[@keiclera6596]

it's actually pretty clever to make a complete meme deck OP in an unpopular format. Attracts people and content makers to the format

[@lNeml]

14:51 It's a 2014 card from Naxx lol It was Gluth's in-built weapon.

[@mica4977]

@ 49:07 They're considered two separate boars (as shown on the deck tracker) even tho they're both 3/3s because one is from the original set that was buffed by +2/2 by Warsong Wrangler while the other was made into a 3/3 copy inserted into the deck through Northshire Farmer.

[@Crumpeter1]

except he does discover two bombs later in the run. So I don't think the hero power only takes unique choices.

[@Pepe-pq3om]

Nah, the thing is because you are discovering from your deck, there are some situations where getting 3 different cards is impossible, so to deal with that they probably just made so that the "discover from a pool of 3 different cards" rule don't apply in this situation (where you discover from your deck).

[@keldone3186]

you have a wonderful name @Mica

[@flint9759]

Doesn't Warsong Wrangler only give +2/+1, meaning that they must have both been Northshire Farmer boars? The golden boar was probably from the golden Farmer.

[@SappinYourSentries]

Wrangler gives 2/1 not 2/2.

[@noidea2568]

1:14 Jens really just did Trump dirty like that. I love it.

[@kekkadakeda9468]

I completly forgot this game mode exists and I am looking foreward to forgetting it again

[@sunbleachedangel]

same, they ruined it so much it's almost unplayable unless you are a diehard duels fan

[@theendofthestart8179]

@@sunbleachedangel as opposed to the other, more balanced game modes? oh wait.

[@sunbleachedangel]

@@theendofthestart8179 good one haha

[@Karsh.]

As a Duels player: Same, but Constructed.

[@Aganie.]

​@@sunbleachedangel haha yea i tried it and i couldn't even finish a deck with my limited cards so id just get sht on lol

[@lukehall1032]

Legitimately the best intro I've ever seen. Had me in the first half

[@Igions]

@1:15 cutting to trump when they say "the ones who have no life"😭

[@Semicolon42]

"Oooops I missed taunt on my 4/7. It doesn't matter!" And you call yourself the mayor of Value Town? For shame!

[@Otuomi]

"If you pick a bomb now, you won't have to pick a bomb later." Trump is too wise.

[@dajo6725]

This talk still confuses me. It's so stupid.

[@driftwisp2797]

The idea is that there's a chance that picking the bomb now instead of later won't actually mean you take more damage, but leaving them in will clog up your discover options so you have less choices other than bomb. So if there was some reason it was better to take damage now, like if you had healing, or if the other options you could pick were bad and you wanted to roll something else, it could be correct to choose the bomb and take 5 damage just to get it out of the deck.

[@MrVirtual1337]

​@@driftwisp2797But to be clear that is not the reason why he would have done it in the first place, he thought you could discover 3 bombs at once and it would be good to minimize the chance this happening later, where more bombs are in the deck and the chance of getting one turn killed by 10 bombs in a row is higher. But because you can not discover 3 bombs (I think?) this is nonsense.

[@universalperson]

@@MrVirtual1337 1:22:48 you are wrong. Both bombs came from the same source, meaning three is possible.

[@MrVirtual1337]

@@universalperson ah okay good to know - but then it made sense, didnt it? By reducing the amount of bombs early there is a smaller chance of hitting 3 bombs in a discover later, where chances are you are getting one shot by all bombs in your deck in a row, no? I know that Drift Wisp´s points are also true, I only wanted to mention it.

[@MrMpakobec]

At game 10 I was super impressed with fight druid manage to give been at 1 mana for several turns

[@riccardodellorto4267]

21:09 there must be some Mandela's effect that convinced us that the weapon only removes mana if you attack the face. I as well thought this was the case

[@Ghozt5563]

It just makes more sense

[@Barely_Edited]

Nah it’s just cause most of the time you’ll hit the face with it so people assumed Mandela effect doesn’t real

[@devanwc23]

I exclusively play Spell Shaman, Secret/Holy Paladin, and Demon Warlock just to balance out the ratio in duels. There are so many druids and boars….something’s gotta be done

[@devanwc23]

If your opponent ever plays a Coral Keeper, its probably me cuz no one runs that card LOL

[@ZergrushEddie]

My favorite thing about Duels is that the Boar package is called Live to Win :)

[@thegoodoldays911]

I like how crowleys concede quote is "You have outplayed me" when that objectively is not what happened lmao.

[@littlej211]

I feel like duels might be more interesting if you drafted a deck at the start instead of constructing one. Then a deck like this would still be cool instead of getting so much hate. Plus it would keep things much more fresh

[@Somerandomguy524]

I think we call that arena.

[@JohnRed]

Having to construct your deck at the start sucks all the fun out of it

[@SappinYourSentries]

@@Somerandomguy524 There are no treasures in arena. There is no incremental deck changing after every match in arena. They are not the same.

[@dracomurdock6349]

The problem I have with boar is that, once you complete the 7, every single boar provides a refresh, so it's literally impossible to keep playing after they get the sword. I had a wild game where I got off Luna's Pocket Galaxy and had lots of high value 1 cost minions coming up, but I NEVER got out of 1 mana because he refreshed his sword every other turn. It should either be a 1 time thing OR require 7 per sword.

[@sirnick12]

The thing is you would have to make this change only for duels then, as getting sword #2 is sometimes necessary in the boar priest deck in standard. And that is nowhere near nerf worthy

[@dracomurdock6349]

@@sirnick12 Even if we only use cards currently available in standard, it absolutely is possible to summon more than 14 Elwin Boars in 1 game as Hunter. That's two swords- and you have multiple turns of your opponent doing jack and shit unless they're a Celestial Alignment Druid, which is it's own problem.

[@LaserfaceJones]

I started getting Regis videos in my suggestions around Barrens, he does lots of Duels content and I didn't expect to like playing as much as I do. Currently 5-1 on a fresh run with Drek'thar and have 5 C'thun in my deck.

[@belafeldbusch3397]

Imagine if that Guff would have managed to kill his own Boar for the chaddest comeback ever

[@tim_schu5850]

What if everything was the same but instead of the boar counter going to 8/7, 9/7, etc and getting a new sword for every boar the counter resets to 0/7? Still OP but not banworthy?

[@protoss5758]

A) Blizzard does not balance cards around duels. This would nerf boar priest which uses Xyrella for sword #2. B) Boars are not OP, they are a noob strategy. The skill ceiling is low so it is scarcely seen at high elo barring Brann, who has a much better strategy (rush)

[@v0iidb0w]

You lose the moment they get the first sword anyway. Boars just need to be banned. Also @protoss, that is not true at all. Boar is by far the most common deck at high elo.

[@alexcaffri9091]

@@protoss5758 delusional and churlish

[@protoss5758]

@@v0iidb0w I meant last patch when the meta was solved. Right after a patch but before a card expansion you don't even know what's currently meta, let alone what'll be meta once Nathria drops.

[@benjamincoyle5316]

@@protoss5758 I think the video proved that Rush is not the superior strategy.

[@Expozzia]

Played a mind tether priest deck the other day and had so much fun face rolling boar decks from 9-12 wins by just playing spells and watching them have no board to interact with

[@probablynotmyname8521]

“Dwarf needs food” is such an on the nose reference but its so old.

[@harryh536]

“It didn’t matter so there was no misplay” …it’s actually quite logical

[@josephjoebrown11]

1:08 him not understanding is killing me!

[@SheyD78]

What an intro, such a good SP episode.

[@codyjordan8722]

the sword of a thousand truths is my favorite meme power card

[@Nillowo]

Jens’ intros are a work of art all on their own

[@AmberSixtyFour]

this is the first time ive ever watched the south park clip despite hours of boar gameplay

[@artero06]

the first offering being "live to win" is just *chef's kiss*

[@mica4977]

This video makes me very happy as a returning player who played Boar Hunter earlier this month 🤣

[@FafliXx]

Just like the original South Park Sword, the HS Duels Sword is considered too strong to stay around, and will get removed from the game.

[@guildmasterandy3767]

Naming the Boar bucket Live to Win is even funnier than them putting it in the game in the first place

[@Poifix]

Northshire Farmer: "It aint much, but it's honest work." Me: Bullshit! Why you lyin'?!

[@meisalonowo9064]

I've lost to turn 3 sword with a guy who had Bag of Coins + Boar + Ancient Reflections + Some board clear... Was really fun :D

[@justnobody5527]

Interactive too cant forget that. FUN and INTERACTIVE.

[@dangerchrist123]

@43:30 Sometimes you would just prefer a random card over the other options.

[@austinsebben1402]

I can assure you, I’ve been Brann and gotten overwhelmed by Rattlegore making me choose between three bombs

[@reallybigcircle]

honestly the boars are not the problem. the reborn treasure being offered for this package and the fact you can discover your next draw seems to be what makes the boar broken.

[@christianloder8127]

26:42 I didn't get mummy magic playing boars with brann though I did get shadowcrafting 101 with was argueably even better

[@pascalschrick6199]

It looks like but mummy Magic is better because you can get the 4 Mana Treasure and dump that on your or your enemys boar then clear and win by turn 3-4. Shadowstep is too slow but a lot more fun i would pick shadowstep over Mummy Magic

[@protoss5758]

@@pascalschrick6199 you know the amount of space on your board is 7? how many boars does it take to get sword?

[@pascalschrick6199]

@@protoss5758 it takes seven boars to get the weapon

[@reseballisho1587]

Trump spending the entire round timer thinking about a single play 😑

[@theendofthestart8179]

a single play that is either super obvious, or completely inconsequential

[@ShowstarterMike]

Every time Trump's chair squeaks, I pause the video and look around for a mouse in my room.

[@TheBarbahaba]

epic openning trump always a smart thing to incorporate southpark :)

[@wafflerman]

fuckin lul that boar package was called "live to win"

[@ELGM429]

Editor, that intro was top notch. I see you

[@rindin1101]

1:20:05 I can't explain the amount of rage I had in my body during that game. I'll get with the times and play the boaring deck.

[@MaggotDiggo1]

Haha. Does it make you feel better now knowing that Trump was taunting you?

[@Corrupted]

I was recently googling if anyone else thought boars in duels were a little braindead and was shocked that no one else hated them lmao, yeah they started as a cute meme but it's one of the most unfun and stupid decks to play against - there's literally nothing you can do, unless you have 10 transform cards for some reason - you just hope they get bad draws and play all you can, as fast as possible

[@HappyFir3]

You must be terrible at googling because the Duels reddit is filled with boar hate

[@Corrupted]

@@HappyFir3 I guess I am lmao, it's not like I did an intense study, but I didn't find any threads complaining on the first page and just thought I was being a bitch about it haha

[@MaggotDiggo1]

I just searched 'hearthstone duels boar reddit" and it's practically all hate.

[@protoss5758]

Freeze mage/shaman stops the opponent from attacking rendering the sword worthless, burn/combo decks can just ignore the board, and any deck can take an ancient reflections to beat them at their own game. It's a good strategy to troll noobs but at higher ranks falls off hard as skill expression catches up to "me draft and play boar"

[@Corrupted]

@@protoss5758 I mean, yeah, that's one of the biggest flaws of duels lmao, most meta decks are awful

[@chriskhall]

I play Standard to get enough Gold to play Duels. Standard is work. Duels is fun. I would love to watch you craft your own Duels deck and go through the thought process.

[@Analdil]

37:00 it doenst matter if it has reborn or not right? i mean you need 7 not 8. so 1 reborn is wasted anyway. if you have 4 reborn or 3reborn + 1 without is the same outcome.

[@leeartlee915]

Nice game mechanics Blizzard. Spot on work as always.

[@TheAsianTree]

My favorite duels deck is me playing warlock and looping defile with brittle bones passive(summons volatile skeleton when u destroy minions with spells) infinitely. easy turn 3 lethal

[@chrismincey3246]

All that talk about dupelicates in discover, and he doesn't even mention getting two freezing traps at 1:31:40

[@karlbergman5678]

54:48 Bourre on the board. My favorite ost

[@wokeamerica142]

Anyone else hear that Stormwind music and instantly wanna play wow again lol . Never play it anymore but def get feeling of playing it here n there

[@remyd.s2286]

Would love some more duels!

[@Chkkk8293]

Didnt play for the while can anyone explain to me why his opponet keep revert themselve to 1 mana?

[@jamesh5179]

I really hope he starts doing more duels content

[@gwydionml6479]

With Brann boar, I got first minion gets rush, then copy your minions with rush. Pretty easy 12 wins

[@gwydionml6479]

I think it actually might be better than death rattle reborn

[@thegoodoldays911]

Man it'd be really funny if the sword of a thousand truths has to be sealed away like in the show.

[@longshot099]

Loved it! Hope you continue to make Duels content!

[@Kelrae1]

Should come with a warning, "Warning, now videos are now absolutely plagued with Adverts!"

[@ktktktktktktkt]

It's not inherently worse to be forced to pick a bomb later in the game. 2/3 bombs is the same as drawing a card which is the same as drawing a bomb not considering the 5 damage. The one reason (which you should've mentioned if this was your reasoning) is the card that doubles bombs in your deck but even then I think the effect is negligible

[@tarkamlokar9709]

if you're forced to pick bombs late when there's more bombs in your deck you could trigger a bomb chain. If you pick some bombs earlier it's less likely that you are forced to pick a bomb late risking triggering a bomb chain.

[@somebodyiusedtoknow2012]

@@tarkamlokar9709 what’s so bad about a bomb chain if it’s all damage anyway? Wouldn’t you rather worry about your win condition?

[@tarkamlokar9709]

@@somebodyiusedtoknow2012 "what’s so bad about a bomb chain if it’s all damage anyway?" What is bad about a bomb chain is that there's a risk that you take a lot of damage. "Wouldn’t you rather worry about your win condition?" I didn't argue that you should pick bombs early rather than cards that support your win condition. I argue that there's an upside to picking bombs early.

[@somebodyiusedtoknow2012]

@@tarkamlokar9709 but any bombs in that bomb chain are just damage you would have taken earlier. If you manage to always pick the bomb, you take the same amount of damage overall if you manage to leave all of them until the end. These are the two ends of the continuum. But most games don't last that long, so you usually take less damage if you manage to leave all of them until the end. You also have to consider that the more damage your hero takes, the more you have to worry that your opponent has lethal. Or another way to look at it: would you rather do five damage to the face each turn, or one hundred and fifty damage when your opponent runs out of cards? It might make a difference if you have good healing, or your opponent has bomb synergy, but how does it help you in this ideal example? Why does it make a difference if you draw bombs one at a time as opposed to all at once?

[@SappinYourSentries]

@@somebodyiusedtoknow2012 you get to control when it is, so you can better play around the amount of health you are at. You don’t know when you’re finally going to get the bomb chain.

[@LeoAndrares]

The video is out and boars are already no more lol, they nerfed the boars bucket, it's too inconsistent now, brann might still be ok with it still, not nearly as good tho

[@bloodranger1188]

Wouldn’t mind seeing some duels this rotation once classic gets stale

[@maxwang956]

Is this the fabled boar control?

[@moogleking]

The Sword of 1000 truths Man

[@avataraang2685]

zeddy was HOT RANTING about Boars decks in duels.. it's so so TOXIC . Insane

[@yeet4073]

He's right, it's awful Just ban that and change bones and duels is great

[@xVibra]

The pay off with the intro was worth it.

[@dunstonlion1342]

I feel like the best way to balance this deck would simply have the boar counter reset, instead of having EVERY BOAR give you the sword again. It's not like the deck will run out of boars if played correctly.

[@thelawmakerr7188]

Yas! More of this please :) if it does well that is.

[@meanberryy]

Woulden't you want dire frenzy in the og list?

[@lierx.agerate8230]

Must have something to do with boar worded as a copy where bombs were not

[@slim-op8bi]

I've never seen anyone play this deck worse than Trump did here, and it's still toxic.

[@yeet4073]

Tbf this is a hard deck to master, like its standard counterpart

[@Zthewise]

imagine the sword getting snatched away somehow

[@fbo717]

can anyone explain how that guy got denathrius before expansion?? wtf

[@Cuestrupaster]

Tried duels once... duels seems way too broken for me, it's a Clown Fiesta with intention... ~Highly doubt that duels ever will be in a good spot...

[@self-parternerd8661]

- Jaws > Sword - CHANGE MY MIND

[@user-tq8rp8jg6x]

i didnt even notice this was posted an hour ago. anyway, love funny duels mode

[@storm-ed9ht]

Wait, they made a card that said "it aint much, but its honest work" ??

[@Knastern]

Best intro eu.

[@dsolo9876]

I just realized that Elwyn Boar’s flavor comes directly from that South Park WoW episode. If I recall correctly, they had to kill thousands of boars in WoW to grind and level up to beat the no lifer, and then eventually were granted the sword

[@Begeru]

Did you know that the card “Leeroy Jenkins” is a reference to a video of WoW players planning a raid when one player, known as Leeroy Jenkins, went rogue and spoiled the raid? That’s why he has charge!

[@blooddragonnetwork9545]

I forgot this game mode even existed lol

[@exogod1581]

best intro ever :D

[@lucasaustin9872]

Lol so not just me. I got hit with a turn 5 sword the other day from a branm with reborn treasure...

[@keldone3186]

Jens you are Genius!

[@the2ndmask]

33:25 typical Trump can't help trying to Trump trade.

[@jestorg]

amazing vid

[@Zersetzor]

The intro is some weird cyclical meme-ception.

[@lmao_nope]

_"If you pick bomb voluntarily early you might not be FORCED to pick bomb later!"_ Ya, nah, that makes negative amount of sense, sorry.

[@protoss5758]

As bomb density goes up the "casts when drawn" part means you take a lot more than 1 bomb

[@JackZeroZ]

That's pretty broken. It's basically a 1 turn kill with easy ramp.

[@ich3730]

its the most dumb deck ever. Basically just highrolling on the treasures and if you get the combo, its a turn 4 combo deck. If you dont get it, its a pile of neutrals

[@bendjaminspocke7817]

He just doesnt care anymore. Didnt check hero power of that hunter, forgot that mummy magic triggers on play only. Sad.

[@keiclera6596]

NEW FORMAT POG KAPPA a dip in Duels could be fun now and then, til Trump gets bored of the meta

[@CosyBibi]

He had proven he has no life thus he is the chosen one 😭

[@francemaster]

This sword/boar is a meme card based upon a tv show that satirized a previous game, upon which this different game is based, and which, like the meme sword in the tv show, will have to be banned because of being too powerful

[@hugosantosa8545]

I honestly thought the boar was a priest card

[@twistedfates]

Also druid in general, they need a massive nerf in their stuff

[@Karsh.]

Already got it tho

[@twistedfates]

@@Karsh. you mean they cant summon 2 29/29s for 4 mana anymore? Technically its all their mana, but still. 2 29s is too much

[@masterplusmargarita]

@@twistedfates Non-Duels player here: I'm curious, how did they summon 2 29/29s for 4 mana?

[@twistedfates]

@@masterplusmargarita it wasnt in duels, they used that card that summons copies of any minion that costs 2 or less, then the "1" mana card that gains +2/+2 and all those other effects for every extra mana it consumes, so it just summoned another copy of it after the buffs

[@protoss5758]

@@twistedfates that's not 4 mana, it's 17 mana. if they're at 20 mana you've done something wrong. either you're meant to be the aggressor and failed, or the controller using a deck without silence/hard removal???

[@undergravitydownforce714]

:0 2 Bombs! during last warrior match